Programme

NEOBIOTA2020 – 11^th International Conference on Biological Invasions – Final Programme

OVERVIEW

DETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME BY DAYS

Tuesday, 15^th September

8:00 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:30 Conference Opening

09:30 – 10:15 Keynote lecture #1: Franck Courchamp “The massive economic costs of biological invasions worldwide”

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:30 Session #1 – Impacts of biological invaders: from facts to perception and back

10:45 – 11:00 O1 – Guillaume Latombe

A framework for conceptualising moral values in conservation

11:00 – 11:15 O2 – Lara Volery

Adding risk of impacts to IUCN EICAT assessments improves prioritization of alien ungulates

11:15 – 11:30 O3 – Bruce Osborne

Negative, neutral and positive impacts of Gunnera tinctoria invasions

11:30 – 11:45 O4 – Anna Probert

Understanding uncertainty in S/EICAT impact assessments

11:45 – 12:00 O6 – Rubén Bernardo-Madrid

Environmental and socio-economic impacts of Pomacea spp.and Callinectes sapidus: A predator-prey interaction in the Ebro Delta (Spain)

12:00 – 12:15 O7 – Giovanni Vimercati

Introducing EBCAT, a proposed framework to classify environmental benefits of alien taxa

12:15 – 12:30 O8 – Elena Granda

Impact of non-native tree species on functional diversity of riparian ecosystems

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:45 Keynote lecture #2: Jonathan Jeschke “Towards an open and interactive atlas of invasion biology”

14:45 – 15:45 Session #2 – Invaders in biological communities and ecological networks: species interactions, food chains and beyond

14:45 – 15:00 O10 – Minoarivelo Henintsoa Onivola

Mutualism impedes community assembly and creates empty niches for invasion

15:00 – 15:15 O11 – Quentin Groom

Integrating species interactions into risk assessment

15:15 – 15:30 O12 – Wolf-Christian Saul

Fynbos ant communities after Acacia saligna invasion and vegetation restoration

15:30 – 15:45 O13 – Florencia Yannelli

Better to be naïve: Native plant community eco-evolutionary experience rather than soil conditions better explain invasion success of Senecio inaequidens in Northern Italy

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break & Poster Session

16:15 – 18:00 Session #3 – Invaders in biological communities and ecological networks: species interactions, food chains and beyond (chaired by)

16:15 – 16:30 O16 – Vasiliki Balogianni

Poor competitor but successful plant invader: how does Gunnera tinctoria do it?

16:30 – 16:45 O17 – Margherita Gioria

Seed persistence in the soil promotes naturalization and invasiveness in seed plants

16:45 – 17:00 O18 – Ana Novoa

Islands of fertility promote the invasion of Opuntia stricta in Kruger National Park

17:00 – 17:15 O19 – Maud Bernard-Verdier

Are plants adapting to novel urban ecosystems? Plant trait differentiation in response to neophyte abundance and urbanisation

17:15 – 17:30 O20 – Jan Pergl

Alien and native plants: is there an interaction between aboveground dominants and soil attributes?

17:30 – 17:45 O21 – Martin Hejda

Is the impact of invasive plants related to the traits of invaded community or to the trait distances between native species and the invader?

17:45 – 18:00 O22 – Mirjana Šipek

Impact of forest edge characteristics on alien plant species diversity in lowland forest fragments

Wednesday, 16^th September

8:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:45 Keynote lecture #3: Heinke Jäger “Humans changing the trajectory of evolution in the Galapagos Islands”

09:45 – 10:30 Session #4 – Invasive species in a changing environment)

09:45 – 10:00 O23 – Helen Roy

Predictions to inform decision-making on invasive alien species: global perspectives from expert-elicitation, spread modelling and beyond

10:00 – 10:15 O24 – Philip Hulme

The Epidemiological Framework for Biological Invasions (EFBI): a unified foundation for the assessment of biosecurity threats

10:15 – 10:30 O25 – Michelle Cleary

Converging threats to European ash: Is an invasional meltdown imminent?

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15 Session #5 – Invasive species in a changing environment

11:00 – 11:15 O27 – Montserrat Vilà Planella

Understanding the combined impacts of weeds and climate change on crops

11:15 – 11:30 O28 – Yves P. Klinger

Landscape structure affects the spatio-temporal distribution of the invasive legume L. polyphyllus.

11:30 – 11:45 O29 – Bernd Lenzner

The option space of future alien species impacts: an expert based assessment

11:45 – 12:00 O30 – Honza Čuda

Immortal reed: regeneration from stem and rhizome fragments

12:00 – 12:15 O31 – Yan Sun

Rapid evolution of a plant invader in response to biological control and global warming

12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:45 Keynote lecture #4: Bethany Bradley “Translating Science into Practice and Practice into Science – Northeast RISCC Management Network”

14:45 – 15:30 Session #6 – Management of invasive species from decision makers to practitioners: lost in translation or on the right track?

14:45 – 15:00 O33 – Spyridon Flevaris

European Union policy on invasive alien species: lessons learned and new developments

15:00 – 15:15 O35 – Kostas Tsiamis

The first EU-scale Horizon Scanning exercise on marine invasive species

15:15 – 15:30 O36 – Heinz Müller-Schärer

Fighting neobiota with neobiota: why we should do it

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break & Poster Session

16:00 – 17:15 Session #7 – Management of invasive species from decision makers to practitioners: lost in translation or on the right track?

16:00 – 16:15 O38 – Sonia Vanderhoeven

Mobilizing evidence to improve IAS decision-making: the Belgian TrIAS workflow

16:15 – 16:30 O39 – Sonja Rozman

Management of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) in Slovenia

16:30 – 16:45 O40 – Elise Buisson

Plant community recovery after Carpobrotus (iceplant) removal – results of a 10-year project

16:45 – 17:00 O41 – Giuseppe Antonio Domenico Brundu

Global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native trees to prevent and mitigate invasion risk

17:00 – 17:15 O42 – Kevin Smith

Sharing decision-making support tools to tackle biological invasions in Europe

Thursday, 17^th September

8:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:45 Keynote lecture #5: Michael Pocock “The role of citizen science as a tool for early detection, monitoring, and managing impacts of invasive species”

09:45 – 10:30 Session #8 – Citizen science, social media, and novel technologies for invasion science

09:45 – 10:00 O43 – Tim Adriaens

Citizen science for invasive alien species: a preliminary analysis for Europe

10:00 – 10:15 O44 – Simone Lioy

Management of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina in Italy: from surveillance to early warning and control strategies

10:15 – 10:30 O45 – Niki Chartosia

RELIONMED LIFE project and IUCN-MedMIS: Citizen scientists help to monitor the lionfish distribution and abundance.

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster Session

11:00 – 12:30 Session #9 – Biogeography and macroecology of invaders across spatial and temporal scales

11:00 – 11:15 O46 – Franz Essl

Range-expanding species that track human-induced environmental change: native or not?

11:15 – 11:30 O47 – Desika Moodley

Alien vascular plants in protected areas of the world – patterns of distribution and species richness

11:30 – 11:45 O48 – Ross Shackleton

What drives the differences in Robinia pseudoacacia invasions between neighbouring countries in central Europe?

11:45 – 12:00 O49 – Phillip Haubrock

Two centuries for an almost complete native to non-native community turnover in a riverine ecosystem.

12:00 – 12:15 O51 – Marija Milanovic

Changes in functional diversity of native and alien urban flora over three centuries

12:15 – 12:30 O52 – Hanno Seebens

Improving science and collaboration through standardising data and workflows in invasion ecology

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:45 Session #10 – Biogeography and macroecology of invaders across spatial and temporal scales

14:00 – 14:15 O53 – Petr Pyšek

MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context-dependence in biological invasions

14:15 – 14:30 O54 – Anna Schertler

The “Global Database of Alien Pathogenic Fungi”

14:30 – 14:45 O55 – Ingolf Kühn

The functional composition of the neophytic flora changes in response to environmental conditions along a rural-urban gradient

14:45 – 15:00 O56 – Marina Golivets

A macroecological view on functional trait distribution of native and alien plants under future environmental change in Central Europe

15:00 – 15:15 O58 – Fiona Rickowski

Nesting behaviour shifts in common eider populations of western Iceland as a response to the invasive American mink

15:15 – 15:30 O59 – Marc Riera

Impact of introduction pathways on the spread and geographical distribution of alien species: implications for preventive management in Mediterranean ecosystems

15:30 – 15:45 O60 – Ross Cuthbert

Salinity and geographic origin mediate global alien amphipod invasions

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Session #11 – – Biogeography and macroecology of invaders across spatial and temporal scales & Invaders in biological communities and ecological networks: species interactions, food chains and beyond

16:15 – 16:30 O61 – Panayotis Dimopoulos

Exploring the environmental drivers of alien plant diversity patterns in Greece

16:30 – 16:45 O62 – Marta López Darias

Highlighting the severe impacts of invasive ophidians on islands: 20 years of an invasive snake in one of the most biodiverse European archipelagos

16:45 – 17:00 O63 – Jose Postigo

Disentangling the mechanism behind the invasive monk parakeet crop damage using a long term diet study. What if the risk is much higher than calibrated?

17:00 – 17:15 O65 – Jonatan Rodríguez

Biogeographical variation in plant defence and performance of Carpobrotus edulis against generalist and specialist herbivores

17:15 – 17:30 O66 – Julie Braschi

Removal of invasive iceplant Carpobrotus on a Mediterranean island: 10-year monitoring results on the beetle and spider assemblage dynamics

17:30 – 17:45 O67 – Cristina Maguas

When fire does not stop symbiosis: Acacia longifolia and its partners

Friday, 18^th September

Excursion

– Krka National Park

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

(sorted by topics with presenting author indicated)

Impacts of biological invaders: from facts to perception and back

P1 Rumen Tomov

Current distribution of alien crop pests (Insecta) detected during the period 2016-2019 in Bulgaria

P2 Konstantinos Tsirintanis

The impact of native and alien herbivores on the invasion of the chlorophyte Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder

P3 Olena Miskova

Invasive species of the Seymskiy Regional Landscape Park (Ukraine)

P4 Margherita Gioria

Regeneration potential of coastal and riparian communities invaded by large herbaceous plant species

P5 Vasiliki Balogianni

Contrasting effects of two major herbaceous invasive species on community and ecosystem processes

P6 Giorgi Kavtaradze

Invasive woody species and their potential environmental impact on natural riparian and lowland forests of Eastern Georgia (case study of the Gardabani managed reserve)

Invaders in biological communities and ecological networks: species interactions, food chains and beyond

P8 Andrea Budiša

Microbial response to the presence of invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the coastal waters of the northern Adriatic

P9 Jan Divíšek

Functional trait differences between native and alien plant species in local communities of different habitat types

P11 Nina Šajna

Studying invasive plants in their native habitats improves understanding of their invasiveness: Alliaria petiolata and Glechoma hederacea as case studies

P13 Niki Chartosia

Feeding habits of the alien Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé, 1976) (Actinopterygii, Mullidae) from Cyprus

P14 Niki Chartosia

Diet composition of the lionfish Pterois miles (J. W. Bennett, 1828) (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) in the sea of Cyprus

P16 Damjana Levacic

Consistent CSR strategy of daisy fleabane Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers. despite its high morphological variability – a case study from Zagreb and Medvednica Mt., Croatia

P17 Eva Horvat

When a non-native herbivore finds a non-native host

P18 Mirela Uzelac

Tree of Heaven leaf extract: A new generation of bioherbicides

P19 Lenka Moravcova

Soil seed-bank dynamics of the closely related alien and native species

P20 Hana Skálova

Transient effect of competitors of performance of Ambrosia artemisiifolia

P21 Marina Piria

Feeding habits of predatory thermophilic fish species from recently extended distributional range in northeast Adriatic Sea, Croatia

P22 Elena Tricarico

Combining heavy metal and stable isotope analysis to disentangle contaminant transfer in a freshwater community dominated by alien species

P23 Kathrin Holenstein

Permeability of Protected Areas to Non-Native Species

P25 Olja Vidjak

Spreading of non-indigenous Indo-Pacific copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 in eastern Adriatic coastal and transitional waters

P26 Paulina Anastasiu

An updated inventory of neophytes reported for Romania

P27 Gerhard Karrer

Eastward spread of the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa towards the Pannonian plain and the Balkans

Invasive species in a changing environment

P29 María Bernardos Hernández

Road: an oasis for opportunistic species in an arid environment

P31 Roser Rotchés-Ribalta

Environmental filtering of alien plant invasion in metropolitan forests. The role of vertebrate dispersion

P32 Barbara Tokarska-Guzik

Comparing populations of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in Ukraine and Poland depending on local habitat conditions

P33 Michael Glaser

WeedClim: Identifying Emerging Weeds

P34 Mirjana Šipek

Factors driving invasion of alien Prunus serotina Her., Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf and Impatiens parviflora DC. into lowland forest fragments in NE Slovenia

P35 Martin Vojík

Two faces of a park: the source of invasions and habitats for threatened native plants

P36 Cristina Maguas

Using invasive species biomass for post-fire recovery: Reuse, Regenerate and Reforest

P37 Robert T. Hanczaruk

Do the landscape metrics explain the invasion level in urban river valley? Case study on plant invasions from southern Poland

P38 Robert T. Hanczaruk

Escapes from allotment gardens – the threat for urban rivers vegetation? Case study from the Kłodnica valley (southern Poland)

P39 Klára Pyšková

Early stages of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis) invasion in Kruger National Park

P40 Martina Kadlecová

Cytological variability and seed germination of hybrid Fallopia ×bohemica in Europe

P42 Elena Tricarico

The invasion of Cyprus water bodies by the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii): a pressure exerted to fragile aquatic bodies

P44 Lado Basilidze

Distribution Pattern of Invasive Alien Woody Species in Protected Areas of Eastern Georgia (South Caucasus)

P45 Leona Lovrenčić

What is the future of native freshwater crayfish in Croatia?

P47 Ante Zunec

First record of polychaete Nereis funchalensis (Langerhans, 1980) in the Adriatic sea

P48 Quadri Anibaba

Native and Introduced Species Abundance Differ Across Growth Habit and Land – use Types in Central Nigeria

Management of invasive species from decision makers to practitioners: lost in translation or on the right track?

P49 Yan Sun

Recent advances in predicting impact of a biological control agent

P51 Marjaana Hassani

Utilizing wasteland and roadside grasses – A risk of spreading invasive plant species?

P52 Magdalena Szymura

How to create grassland valuable for livestock production on the site invaded by Solidago species?

P53 Tim Adriaens

Power to the people, break down the silo: an open checklist recipe to create GRIIS Belgium

P54 Tim Adriaens

A pipeline for feeding headline indicators on the state of invasions and to prioritize emerging alien species

P55 Amy Davis

Open occurrence data for IAS risk mapping in Belgium

P56 Uwe Starfinger

International Year of Plant Health – of interest for invasion science?

P57 Michael Bald

Biosecurity: the true cost of failure and landscape mis-management.

P58 Barbara Tokarska-Guzik

Geostatistical modelling for invasive plant species distribution mapping and visualisation using spatio-temporal data

P60 Valentina La Morgia

ALIENS, an Italian network to share experiences and solutions

P61 Barbara Tokarska-Guzik

Identifying and assessing pathways of unintentional introduction and spread of invasive alien species – a case study for Poland

P62 Luka Basrek

Preserving Sava River Basin Habitats through Transnational Management of Invasive Alien Species – Sava TIES project, Interreg Danube Transnational Programme

P63 Florian Ruland

Managing invaded food webs: a case study from Iceland on different ethical perspectives of key stakeholders

P64 Tomáš Görner

Invasive alien species of Union Concern in the Czech Republic

P65 Gemma Martinez Laiz

Scientific collaboration for early detection of hidden-invaders: lessons from Stenothoe georgiana Bynum & Fox 1977

P66 Arnaud Albert

National management strategies of widespread IAP of EU concern in France

P67 Kateřina Berchová

Geoinformation portal for invasive species GEOPINS

P68 Kateřina Knotková

Fighting plant invasions by native parasitic plants?

P69 Johan van Valkenburg

Pennisetum setaceum or Pennisetum advena cultivars, what ornamental do we have in our garden.

P71 Petra Kutlesa

Project: Establishment of the National Monitoring System for Invasive Alien Species (KK.06.5.1.01.0001)

P73 Jodey Peyton

Expert-elicitation approaches to horizon scanning for Invasive Alien Species: assessing new arrivals over time to inform predictions.

P74 Sonja Rozman

Promising results of manual eradication of kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) in Slovenia

P75 Biljana Panjković

IAS mapping and monitoring in Sava River Basin – a harmonized transnational platform for successful IAS management

Citizen science, social media, and novel technologies for invasion science

P76 Viola Jani

Biological surveillance of Aedes albopictus (Skuse 1895, Diptera: Culicidae) eggs in Albania during 2017

P77 Jurga Motiejūnaitė

Monitoring of potentially invasive macrofungi – novel versus traditional methods

P78 Tomos Jones

Ornamental plants: our future invaders?

P79 Erika Mioni

“First record of the invasive crab Percnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) at Pianosa Island: the second goal reached by the innovative Marine Citizen Science Literacy Project “PERCORSI NEL BLU” (“BLUE PATHS”)

P80 Erika Mioni

Is Citizen Science a valid tool for monitoring alien species in Marine Protected Areas?

P81 Rumen Tomov

The current state of citizen science for invasive alien species in Bulgaria

P82 Michael Bald

Solarizing and Heat Treatments

P83 Sofie Meeus

Improving community knowledge of invasive plants in Belgium

P85 Cristina Preda

Citizen science contribution to the inventory of alien birds in Belgium

P87 Jirislav Skuhrovec

The European ladybird App: a new tool for Citizen Science

Biogeography and macroecology of invaders across spatial and temporal scales

P88 Marina Orlova-Bienkowskaja

Six-legged invaders coming from the east! Agrilus planipennis and five other alien beetle pest species entering Europe through European Russia

P89 Charly Géron

Alien plants on a city trip: Urban invaders originate from warmer native ranges

P90 Jean-Francois Maillard

Distribution and genetic diversity of Raccoon (Procyon lotor) in France

P92 Jan Pergl

From West to East and back again: Trans-Siberian Railway as a continental pathway of plant invasions

P93 Josef Kutlvašr

Pathways of alien plants within Central Europe: spread and persistence of unintentionally introduced aliens

P94 Veronika Kalusová

Phylogenetic relatedness of alien plants depends on their donor habitats

P95 Gemma Martinez Laiz

Genetic variation of the invader Caprella scaura: introduction events and 7-year monitoring at local scale

P96 Lucija Rajčić

To what extent spatial precision of chorological data affects our perception of the preferred environmental conditions of invasive species – a case study of Ailanthus altissima in Croatia

P97 Pavel Pipek

Lasting the distance: The survival of alien birds shipped to New Zealand in the 19th century

P98 Julien Piquet

Contributing to understand the influence of climate change on biological invasions: the case of the invasive California kingsnake in the Canary islands

P100 Teodora Trichkova

JDS4 monitoring of invasive alien species in the Bulgarian sector of the Danube River using standard and citizen science technologies

P101 Teodora Trichkova

First record of Pectinatella magnifica (Leidy, 1851) in the Bulgarian shoreline zone of the Danube River

P102 Ana Dobrović

The effect of crayfish plague pathogen infection on growth of juvenile marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis (Lyko, 2017)

P103 Paula Dragičević

Changes in the immune response during range expansion of the invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus

P105 Lara Volery

Understanding temporal trends in alien species’ impacts

P107 Ante Žuljević

In situ experiment confirmed a hypothesis that sea currents are the main spreading vector of marine alga Caulerpa cylindracea

P108 Petra Lučić

Spreading of marine red alga Lophocladia lallemandii in the Adriatic Sea

P109 Marta López Darias

Morphological changes during an invasion event: the California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae) in Gran Canaria island

P110 Jerzy Romanowski

Alien ladybirds Coccinellidae from Canary Islands