Conference Agenda

The effect of climate and agriculture on farmland biodiversity in Finland

Sarella Elisa Marjatta Arkkila

Natural History Museum of Finland, Finland

Competition between domestic and wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in sown flower strips

Oana Catalina Moldoveanu¹, Martino Maggioni^1,2,3, Daniele Vergari⁴, Francesca Romana Dani¹

¹Department of Biology, University of Firenze; ²Department of Earth and Marine Science, University of Palermo; ³NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Centre, Palermo; ⁴Consorzio di Bonifica 3 Medio Valdarno

Insect-friendly grazing to counter the negative impacts of ivermectin on grassland biodiversity and ecosystem services

Szabolcs Lengyel^1,2, Gábor Mészáros¹, Máté Tóth¹, Petra Paládi^1,3, Csaba Péter Nagy^1,4

¹Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Conservation Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary; ²University of Debrecen, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Water Management Coordination Research Centre, Debrecen, Hungary; ³University of Debrecen, Doctoral School of Animal Science, Debrecen, Hungary; ⁴University of Debrecen, Pál Juhász-Nagy Doctoral School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary

Study on the geographic origin of ringed birds from Cremona’s rubbish dump, Northern Italy, with some implications for bird conservation

Emanuele Crepet

Università Degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italia.

Role of soil-living mesofauna in conservation management indication

Norbert Flórián, Veronika Gergócs-Winkler, Miklós Dombos

Institute for Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research, HUN-REN, Hungary

Festina lente: a case study of multi-taxon diversity in Italian forests

Silvia Gisondi^1,3, Alice Lenzi^2,3,4, Francesco Chianucci⁵, Silvia Landi^2,3, Giovanni Trentanovi⁶, Pio Federico Roversi^2,3, Alessandro Campanaro^2,3

¹CREA, Council for Agricultural Research Economics, Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Rome, Italy; ²CREA, Council for Agricultural Research Economics, Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Florence, Italy; ³NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy; ⁴University of Siena, Department of Life Sciences, Siena, Italy; ⁵CREA, Council for Agricultural Research Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy; ⁶CNR IRET, National Research Council, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, Florence, Italy

20 years of monitoring in a Mediterranean nature park: long-term perspective and insights

Liat Hadar¹, Avi Perevolotsky²

¹Ramat Hanadiv Nature Park, Israel; ²Agricultural Research Organization, the Volcani Center, Israel

Nesting behaviour of Steppe Birds in Catalonia

Marina Hofer¹, Stefano Canessa¹, Helena Navalpotro², Gerard Bota², Raphaël Arlettaz¹

¹University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Science for Forest Management, Biodiversity of Bioeconomy, CTFC Catalonia

The structure and restoration implications of the vegetation of Jeju coastal sand dune

Il Won Lee, Kee Dae Kim

Korea National University of Education, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Conserving Pannonian grassland habitats: a historical overview and protected areas assessment

Dubravka Milić, Bojana Bokić, Boris Radak, Marina Janković Milosavljević, Jovana Nenić, Milica Rat

University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Serbia

Delineating species-specific targets to extend the network of protected areas in Europe using favourable reference ranges (FRRs) as benchmarks

Marco Davoli, Alessandra D'Alessio, Michela Pacifici

La Sapienza University Rome, Italy

Integrating ecological corridors connecting protected areas for conservation planning

Cinzia Podda^1,2, Maura Baroli^1,2, Daniele Grech^1,2, Elisa Serra^1,2, Erika M.D. Porporato^1,2

¹International Marine Centre, Italy; ²NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy

Demographic and behavioral responses of the roe deer to human activities and predator presence in north-western Italy

Elisa Torretta, Erika Bergantin, Eleonora Frigerio, Giulia Ruffoni, Alberto Meriggi

University of Pavia, Italy

Is herbivore’s diversity a factor of dung beetle’s diversity?

Cloé Joly^1,2,3, Freddie-Jeanne Richard¹, Sandra Barantal², Lucie De Wever³, Alix Ortega³, Pierre Jay-Robert²

¹Université de Poitiers, Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des interactions UMR CNRS 7267, équipe Ecologie Evolution Symbiose, Poitiers, France; ²Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, équipe Ecologie des Systèmes Anthropisés, Montpellier, France; ³Parc zoologique de la Réserve Africaine de Sigean, Sigean, France

The effect of boreal forest integrity on wildlife in Finland

Francesca Malcangi¹, Andreas Lindén², Janne Sundell¹, John Loehr¹

¹Lammi Biological Station, University of Helsinki; ²Natural resources institute Finland

Monitoring the reforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: from biodiversity hotspot to biodiversity "hope spot"

Paola Merelli¹, Lara Oliveira Clemente², Roberto Cazzolla Gatti¹

¹University of Bologna, Italy; ²Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil

Fifty years of dynamic process for land cover in the long-term ecological research Molise coastal area (Central Italy)

Federica Pontieri, Mirko Di Febbraro, Michele Innangi, Maria Laura Carranza

EnviXlab, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Contrada Fonte Lappone, 86090 Pesche, Italy

Native vegetation and paved surfaces favour the diversity of mediterranean urban spiders

Olivia Sanllorente¹, Anabel Reyes-Fernández¹, José Manuel Arjona¹, Eduardo Morano², Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo¹

¹University of Granada, Spain; ²Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Functional diversity of birds in response to Forest Management Intensity: a review across Europe

Mariela Cecilia Yapu Alcazar¹, Grzegorz Mikusiński², Ilse Storch¹

¹Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural University SLU, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden

Fingerprinting snow tracks of three large carnivore species: individual genotyping from eDNA to enhance wildlife non-invasive genetics

Marta De Barba¹, Frédéric Boyer², Luca Fumagalli³, Marjeta Konec¹, Elena Pazhenkova¹, Tomaž Skrbinšek¹, Pierre Taberlet²

¹Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana; DivjaLabs L.t.d., Slovenia; ²Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, France; ³Laboratory for Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Best practices for genetic indicator estimation from DNA-based data

Marie-Gabrielle Harribey¹, Joost Raeymaekers², Joachim Mergeay³, Myriam Heuertz¹, Pauline Garnier-Géré¹

¹Biogeco, INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, France; ²Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Univ., Norway; ³INBO, KU Leuven, Belgium

Temporal fluctuations in fish and phytoplankton assemblages in the coastal water of Busan, Korea: An eDNA metabarcoding approach

Yunji Go¹, Soo rin Lee², Ah ran Kim², Hyun-woo Kim^2,3

¹Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea; ²Research Center for Marine Integrated Bionics Technology, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea; ³Department of Marine Biology, Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

Bridging genetics and behaviour: A southern white rhinoceros conservation project

Damaris Riedner^1,2, Jorge Dominguez¹, Anubhab Khan³, Thomas Bøggild³, Cindy Harper⁴, Lucile Astoul¹, Romain Lefèvre¹, Marina Scheumann⁵, Rasmus Heller³, Elodie Briefer¹

¹Behavioural Ecology Group, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; ²Copenhagen Zoo, Department of Research and Conservation, Denmark; ³Wildlife Genetics Group, Section of Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁴Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa; ⁵Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Foundation, Germany

Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change in the tropical tree species Dicorynia guianensis

Julien Bonnier¹, Sylvain Schmitt², Enrique Sáez Laguna³, Valérie Troispoux¹, Saint-Omer Cazal¹, Stéphane Traissac¹, Olivier Brunaux⁴, Myriam Heuertz³, Niklas Tysklind¹

¹Ecofog, INRAE, Agroparistech, CNRS, Cirad, Université Des Antilles, Univ. de La Guyane, French Guiana; ²Forêts & Sociétés, CIRAD, France; ³Biogeco, INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, France; ⁴ONF, French Guiana

Altitudinal shifting of major forest tree species in Italian mountains under climate change

Sergio Noce^1,2, Cristina Cipriano^1,2, Monia Santini¹

¹Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) Foundation, Italy; ²National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Italy

Observation of Ecosystem Changes for Action - OBSGESSION

Maria Hällfors¹, Risto K. Heikkinen¹, Margarita Huesca Martinez², Ben Smith³, Bruno Smets⁴, C.A. Mucher⁵, Wilfried Thuiller⁶, Gabriela Popova⁷, Nikola Ganchev⁷, Petra Philipson⁸, Carsten Brockmann⁹, Maria J. Santos¹⁰, Claire Brown¹¹, Petteri Vihervaara¹

¹Finnish Environment Institute, Finland; ²University of Twente, Netherlands; ³Lund University, Sweden; ⁴Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V, Belgium; ⁵Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands; ⁶Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; ⁷Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria; ⁸Brockmann Geomatics Sweden AB, Sweden; ⁹Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany; ¹⁰University of Zurich, Switzerland; ¹¹WCMC LBG, United Kingdom

Indirect effects of stream pollution on the activity and hunting behaviour of bats

Maike Huszarik¹, Alexis P Roodt¹, Annika Metz¹, Teagan Wernicke¹, Fernanda Chávez¹, Eva Lima-Fernandes¹, Moritz Link¹, Ralf Schulz^1,2, Martin H Entling¹

¹iES, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany; ²Eußerthal Ecosystem Research Station, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany

Plant–pollinator interactions vary following glacier retreat

Bao Ngan Tu^1,2, Nora Khelidj², Gianalberto Losapio^1,2

¹University of Milan, Italy; ²University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Plant-pollinator dynamics in a changing Arctic landscape

Brandon Samuel Whitley¹, Elisabeth M. Biersma¹, Nora Meriem Khelidj², Viktor Tommy Gårdman³, Zhao Li¹, Tiago Silva⁴, Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand¹, Eric Coissac⁵, Jakob Abermann⁴, Thomas Pape¹, Toke Thomas Høye⁶, Helena Wirta⁷, Laura Jones⁸, Katrine Raundrup⁹, Inger Greve Alsos¹⁰, Tomas Roslin³, Gianalberto Losapio², Natasha de Vere¹

¹Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; ²University of Lausanne, Switzerland; ³Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; ⁴Graz University, Austria; ⁵Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, France; ⁶Aarhus University, Denmark; ⁷University of Umeå, Sweden; ⁸National Botanic Garden of Wales, United Kingdom; ⁹Greenland Institute for Natural Resource, Greenland; ¹⁰UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Spatio-temporal dynamics of free-ranging cats on a subtropical oceanic island

Edie Abrahams¹, Elena Jimenez-Soto², Kane Powell¹, Eduardo Nóbrega², João Nunes², Ana Filipa Palmeirim³, Ricardo Rocha¹

¹University of Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Parque Ecológico do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; ³University of Porto, Portugal

Impacts of Bombus terrestris terrestris on endemic Bombus xanthopus on Capraia Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy)

Chiara Benedetta Boni¹, Francesca Coppola¹, Marino Quaranta², Francesca Giannini³, Antonio Felicioli¹

¹università di pisa; ²CREA-AA Bologna; ³Ente Parco Nazionale dell'Arcipelago Toscano

Alien plant species occurrence and cover in mediterranean mountains

Lucia Antonietta Santoianni¹, Michele Innangi¹, Marco Varricchione^1,4, Marta Carboni², Greta La Bella², Sylvia Haider³, Angela Stanisci^1,4

¹EnvixLab, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Termoli and Pesche, Italy; ²Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; ³Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany; ⁴National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo (PA) 90133, Italy

Mapping breeding seabird and coastal waterbird sensitivity to offshore wind farms in the central Mediterranean

Barbara Amadesi¹, Camilla Gotti¹, Marco Zenatello¹, Jacopo Cecere¹, Giacomo Dell'Omo², Nicola Baccetti¹

¹Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Italy; ²Ornis Italica, Rome, Italy

Exploring biodiversity in coastal lagoons through an integrated palynological, geochemical, and hydrological modeling approach

Federica Badino¹, Adele Bertini¹, Matteo Pili^1,2, Rossano Ciampalini¹, Cècile Vittori², Alessio Monnanni¹, Valentina Rimondi¹, Jean-Philippe Goiran³

¹Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, via G. La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy; ²University of Lyon (UDL- ComUE) / CNRS, France; ³Archéorient, UMR 5133, University of Lyon 2-CNRS, 7 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, France

Bat incidents due to the use of mist nets, handling, and mark-recapture with collars in a long-term sampling database from Brazil

Guilherme Wince de Moura¹, Luciana de Moraes Costa², Karen Mustin^3,4, Bruna da Silva Xavier⁵, Alexeia Barufatti¹, Carlos Eduardo L. Esbérard⁶, William Douglas Carvalho^4,7,8

¹Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Brazil.; ²Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; ³Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.; ⁴Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Tropical, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Brazil.; ⁵Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; ⁶Laboratório de Diversidade de Morcegos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; ⁷Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; ⁸Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Assessing landscape connectivity and potential range expansion for the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Italy

Livia Chavko¹, Pushpinder Singh Jamwal², Simone Giovacchini², Mirko Di Febbraro², Anna Loy^2,3

¹Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; ²Environmetrix and Zoo Lab, Dept Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche (IS), Italy; ³CNR-IRET, Porano, Italy

Citizen Science and alien species detection and monitoring. An insight on the Central Adriatic coast

Federica Compagnone¹, Marco Varricchione^1,2, Angela Stanisci^1,2, Anna Loy^1,2, Giorgio Matteucci^2,3, Maria Laura Carranza^1,2

¹EnviXLab, Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche (Is), Italy; ²National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo (PA), Italy; ³Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council of Italy, v. Madonna del Piano 10, I-80056 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy

Macroecological modelling of small-scale phytodiversity patterns to help conserve Palaearctic grasslands

Iwona Dembicz¹, Jürgen Dengler^2,3, Idoia Biurrun⁴, Sabina Burrascano⁵, Riccardo Guarino⁶, Remigiusz Pielech⁷, Denys Vynokurov^4,8, Consortium & the GrassPlot⁹

¹Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ²Vegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland; ³Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; ⁴Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain; ⁵Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale - Istituto di Botanica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy; ⁶Dipartimento STEBICEF - Sezione Botanica, Palermo, Italy; ⁷Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow, Poland; ⁸Department of Geobotany and Ecology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; ⁹

Conservation museomics applied on intensively managed game species: opening Pandora’s box? The case of the red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa)

Giovanni Forcina¹, Qian Tang², Kritika Garg³, Balaji Chattopadhyay³, Fabián Casas⁴, Frank E Rheindt², José Antonio Dávila García⁵

¹Universidad de Alcalá, Global Change Ecology and Evolution Research Group (GloCEE), Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain; ²Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore; ³Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, Sonipat 131029, Haryana, India; ⁴Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.; ⁵Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Stronger and more positive effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy in landscapes with higher matrix quality and lower matrix heterogeneity

Carmen Galán Acedo, Lenore Fahrig

Carleton University, Canada

The role of tri-trophic interactions on resource diversity at the patch and landscape level: studies on a predator-rodent-seed system

Molly Gilmour, Jana Eccard

University of Potsdam, Germany

Quantifying biodiversity impacts in Life Cycle Assessments of agricultural products using multi-source data

Lindsay Holsen, Elin Röös, Rasmus Einarsson, Erik Öckinger, Mattias Jonsson, Anders Glimskär, Astrid Taylor

Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Sweden

Spatial scale matters for predicting plant invasions along roads

Dorota Kotowska^1,2, Piotr Skórka¹, Tomas Pärt³, Alistair G. Auffret³, Michał Żmihorski⁴

¹Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; ²‘Lendület’ Landscape and Conservation Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary; ³Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; ⁴Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Coupling species distribution and connectivity modelling at the population level in a dynamic industrial environment for conservation planning

Johan Ludot^1,2,3, Benoit Charrasse¹, Aurélie Coulon^2,3

¹LMTE, CEA Cadarache, France; ²CESCO, MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris, Concarneau, France; ³CEFE, CNRS, University of Montpellier, EPHE, Montpellier, France

Determining favourable reference areas of ten EU-importance forest habitat types in Latvia

Jānis Ozols, Sandra Ikauniece

Nature Conservation Agency, Latvia

Forest orchids under future climate scenarios: habitat suitability modelling as a conservation strategy

Antonio Pica, Sara Magrini

University of Tuscia, Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Italy

TetraDENSITY 2.0 – A database of population density estimates in tetrapods

Luca Santini

Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Rome, Sapienza University, Italy

Drones and citizen science to monitor the endangered Galápagos marine iguanas

Andrea Varela-Jaramillo¹, Gonzalo Rivas-Torres², Sebastian Steinfartz¹, Juan Manuel Guayasamin², Amy MacLeod¹

¹University of Leipzig, Germany; ²Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Predicting maximum dispersal distances and quantifying energetic costs of dispersal from species traits

Caitlin Wilkinson^1,2, Myriam Hirt^1,2, Remo Ryser^1,2, Ulrich Brose^1,2

¹German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany; ²Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Dependency of people on land influences invasive plant cover in rural Galapagos

Nicole Acosta-Vasconez¹, Heinke Jäger², Uwe Schneider¹, Fabian Santos³, Khondokar Kabir^4,5, Kerstin Jantke¹

¹Universität Hamburg, Germany; ²Charles Darwin Research Station; ³Universidad Indoamerica; ⁴Bangladesh Agricultural University; ⁵University of Guelph

Impact of social information broadcasting on forest fragmentation and avian biodiversity

Michał Bełcik, Magdalena Lenda, Piotr Skórka

Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Widespread wind energy development conflicts with biodiversity hotspots in Sardinia

Chiara Concetta Costantino¹, Mauro Aresu², Jacopo Cerri¹, Davide De Rosa¹, Ilaria Fozzi¹, Giuliano Urgeghe³, Fiammetta Berlinguer¹

¹Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy; ²Via Crispi 5, 08015 Macomer, Italy; ³Piazza Monsignor Pola 5, 07048 Torralba, Italy

The people-biodiversity relationship: how affective response, cognitive response, and norms influence human preferences for bird diversity

Whitney Lynn Fleming¹, Tyler Hallman¹, Romain Julliard², Anne-Caroline Prevot-Julliard², Assaf Shwartz³

¹Bangor University; ²Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Campus Buffon; ³Technion - Israel Institute For Technology

Wildfires increase animal-vehicle collisions

Kasim Rafiq¹, Christopher Adolph¹, Deqiang Ma², Calum Cunningham³, Laura Prugh¹, Christopher Schell⁴, Brian Harvey¹, Michele Buonanduci¹, Briana Abrahms¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, US; ²University of Michigan, Michigan, US; ³University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; ⁴University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, US

Indigenous-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano

Daniel Villar

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

The true scale of the impact of construction mineral mining on biodiversity

Katie Curtis-Smith¹, Aurora Torres², Sophus O.S.E. zu Ermgassen¹, Joseph W Bull¹

¹Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

Decisive conservation action in areas beyond national jurisdiction is urgently required for seabird recovery in the face of global change

Moses F Gee^1,2, Caio F Kenup², Igor Debski³, Alexandra Macdonald⁴, Graeme A Taylor³, Rohan H Clarke⁵, Stefano Canessa⁶, John G Ewen², Johannes H Fischer³

¹Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK; ³Department of Conservation, Biodiversity Systems and Aquatic Unit, Wellington, Aotearoa; ⁴Department of Conservation, Strategy and Policy Unit, Wellington, Aotearoa; ⁵School of Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; ⁶Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Policy brief – Introducing agro-environmental measures in Serbia

Tijana Nikolic Lugonja, Sonja Tarčak, Miljana Marković, Predrag Lugonja, Nastasija Grujić, Sanja Brdar

BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Protecting British ancient woodlands from development-related pressures: research priorities and knowledge gaps

Melanie Jemma Roach¹, Chloe Bellamy², Jen Clements², Gillian Petrokovsky³, Stephanie Wood², Nadia Barsoum², Alice Broome², Bianca Ambrose-Oji², Marion Bryant⁴, Emma Dear⁴, Jay Doyle⁵, Matt Guy², Susan Murray², Clare Williams⁶, Rebecca Spake¹

¹University of Reading, United Kingdom; ²Forestry Commission, Forest Research, United Kingdom; ³University of Oxford, Unkted Kingdom; ⁴Natural England, United Kingdom; ⁵Forestry Commision, Forestry England, United Kingdom; ⁶Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom

Few data, big questions. The challenge of wildlife research in a conflict-affected region of Venezuela

Izabela Stachowicz^1,2,3, José Rafael Ferrer-Paris^4,5, Ada Sánchez-Mercado^4,6

¹Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 1/3, 90-237 Łódź, Poland.; ²Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Ecología, Laboratorio de Biología de Organismos, Apartado 20632, Caracas 1020-A Venezuela.; ³Open Science Conservation Fund, Stoczek 1, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland; ⁴University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, NSW, Kensington 2052, Australia.; ⁵University of New South Wales, UNSW Data Science Hub, NSW, Kensington 2052, Australia.; ⁶Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón 092301, Ecuador

Diversity of foraging niches of the Galápagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

Denisse Dalgo¹, Sten Anslan², Juan Manuel Guayasamín³, Sebastian Steinfartz¹

¹University of Leipzig, Germany; ²University of Tartu, Estonia; ³Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Habitat adaptation strategies of a protected species: diet assessment of the mountain hare in Scotland

Michelle Henley¹, Fiona Houston¹, Scott Newey², Laura Glendinning¹, Sílvia Pérez-Espona¹

¹University of Edinburgh, UK; ²Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Protecting nest sites of European Pond Turtle (Emys orbicularis) in Ljubljana Moor in 2022 and 2023

Katja Konc^1,2, Ana Skledar², Blaž Kekec², Meta Valenčič²

¹Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; ²Herpetological Society - Societas herpetologica slovenica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Distribution and ecological requirements of the native pond turtles (Emys orbicularis, E. trinacris) in Italy

Mirko Liuzzo¹, Erika M.D. Porporato², Stefano Malavasi¹

¹Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy; ²IMC International Marine Centre

Conservation status of the endemic blind mole rat species of the Pannonian region

Orsolya Moldován¹, Gábor Csorba², Viktor Schneider³, Attila Németh⁴

¹Doctoral School of Animal Science, University of Debrecen; Hortobágy National Park Directorate; ²Hungarian Nature History Museum; ³Kiskunság National Park Directorate; ⁴Department of Nature Conservation, Zoology and Game Management, University of Debrecen; BirdLife Hungary – Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society,

Maternal effect reduces interspecific trait variability in Festuca vaginata, used for ecological restoration

Hilda Meso Odongo¹, Anna Mária Csergő¹, Gábor Sramkó², Katalin Török³

¹Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Botany, Budapest, Hungary; ²University of Debrecen, Department of Botany, Debrecen, Hungary; ³Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary

Rediscovery of Paracoenia beckeri in the Acque Albule plain, Italy: implications for conservation and ecosystem restoration

Edoardo Pulvirenti^1,2, Francesco Cervoni^1,2, Marco Giardini^1,2, Maurizio Mei¹, Pierfilippo Cerretti¹

¹University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy; ²ANVA – Associazione Naturalistica Valle dell’Aniene

Is marine debris accumulating where loggerhead turtles are nesting?

Diana Sousa Guedes^1,2,3,4, Adolfo Marco^2,3, Filipa Bessa⁴, Neftalí Sillero¹

¹CICGE - University of Porto, Portugal; ²BIOS Cabo Verde; ³CSIC - Estación Biológica de Doñana; ⁴CFE, University of Coimbra

Seven years of Italian hare, Lepus corsicanus, monitoring in Sicily

Valter Trocchi¹, Daniel Tramontana¹, Mario Lo Valvo²

¹Federazione Italiana della Caccia, Ufficio Studi e Ricerche Faunistiche e Agro-Ambientali; ²Università di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche

Observing parental care behavior of the critically endangered Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) for conservation purposes

Miriam Vadalà¹, Caterina Spiezio², Alessandro Alvaro¹, Giorgio Ottolini², Claudio Bandi¹, Camillo Sandri²

¹Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; ²Parco Natura Viva—Garda Zoological Park, Bussolengo, Italy

Are urban forests connected for viable vertebrate populations? A case-study in Helsinki, Finland

Julia Hämäläinen¹, Alex Lechner², Johan Ekroos¹, Susanna Lehvävirta¹

¹University of Helsinki, Finland; ²Monash University

Urbanisation impoverishes the gut bacterial microbiome of the protected ground beetle Carabus convexus

Tibor Magura^1,2, Gábor L. Lövei^2,3

¹Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, Hungary; ²HUN-REN–UD Anthropocene Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen, Hungary; ³Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg Research Centre, Denmark

Multi-taxon biodiversity and ecological indicators in urban and peri-urban forests. A preliminary approach in central Italy

Francesco Parisi^1,2, Davide Travaglini³, Roberto Tognetti⁴, Gherardo Chirici³, Giovanni Santopuoli¹, Bruno Lasserre^1,2, Marco Ottaviano^1,2, Guglielmo Londi⁵, Giovanni Capobianco⁶, Marco Marchetti^1,2

¹University of Molise, Italy; ²NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy; ³University of Florence, Italy; ⁴Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy; ⁵Dream Italia, Arezzo, Italy; ⁶ARDEA, Napoli, Italy

"Bioversity" case: preliminary results

Irene Tatini¹, Antonio Giacò¹, Gabriele Cananzi¹, Jacopo Franzoni¹, Thianshi Li^1,2, Andrea Chemello³, Lorenzo Peruzzi¹, Daniele Antichi⁴, Giulio Petroni¹

¹Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; ²Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019, Italy; ³Via Enzo Bui 57, Monteroni d'Arbia, Siena, Italy; ⁴University of Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali, Pisa, Italia.

Biochemical and genomic characterization of a Silybum marianum L. germplasm collection

Marianna Pasquariello¹, Damiano Puglisi², Salvatore Esposito², Roberta Paris¹, Tommaso Martinelli³, Stefano Scalercio⁴, Nino Virzì⁵, Roberto Colombo⁶, Nicola Pecchioni², Pasquale De Vita², Laura Bassolino¹

¹Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops (CREA-CI), via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy; ²Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops (CREA-CI), SS 673 Meters 25200, 71122, Foggia, Italy.; ³Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC), Loc. Cascine del Riccio, Via di Lanciola 12/A, 50125 Firenze, Italy; ⁴Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Via Settimio Severo 83, I-87036 Rende, Italy; ⁵Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops (CREA-CI), C.so Savoia 190, 95024, Acireale, CT, Italy; ⁶Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA) via di Corticella 133, 40128, Bologna, Italy

Small-mammals community analysis to guide nature-based solutions (NBS) in functional urban ecosystems

Olivia Dondina^1,2, Valerio Orioli^1,2, Emiliano Mori^2,3, Pietro Tirozzi^1,2, Luciano Bani^1,2, Leonardo Ancillotto^2,3

¹Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy; ²NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133, Italy; ³Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri IRET, National Research Council, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

The climate exposure of European protected areas: temporal trends and biodiversity implications

Valerio Mezzanotte, Marta Cimatti, Moreno Di Marco

Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

Areas of high risk for mammalian biodiversity and Nature’s Contributions to People under global warming

Marta Cimatti, Andrea Sacchi, Moreno Di Marco

La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Land-based protection affects Red Sea coral reef communities over 8 years of monitoring

Chloe Alexandra Lee¹, Francesca De Witt¹, Mariana Machada Toffolo^1,2, Arianna Mancuso^1,2, Erik Caroselli^1,2, Stefano Goffredo^1,2

¹Marine Science Group, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna (Italy); ²Fano Marine Center, The Inter-Institute Center for Research on Marine Biodiversity, Resources and Biotechnologies, Viale Adriatico 1/N, 61032 Fano, Italy