PROGRAM
Days: Sunday, May 21st Monday, May 22nd Tuesday, May 23rd Wednesday, May 24th Thursday, May 25th
Sunday, May 21st
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16:30-19:00 Registration & Welcome Cocktail
Registration Venue: Botanical Garden of Rome. (Roma, Largo Cristina di Svezia, 24)
Monday, May 22nd
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08:00-08:45 Registration at Congress Venue
Congress Venue: Hungarian Academy in Rome (Roma, Palazzo Falconieri – Via Giulia, 1)
09:00-09:30 Session Keynote
| 09:00 | Outline of plant life in Albania (abstract) |
09:30-10:15 Session 1
Chair:
| 09:30 | On affiliation of communities with Rhynchospora fusca in Latvia (abstract) |
| 09:45 | The national vegetation check-list of France (abstract) PRESENTER: Olivier Argagnon |
| 10:00 | “Good” and “problematic” alliances of the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class in the European context (abstract) PRESENTER: Anna Kuzemko |
10:15-11:00 Session 2
Chair:
| 10:15 | Carici stantis-Dupontietea fulvae – a new class of Arctic wetland vegetation (abstract) PRESENTER: Victor Chepinoga |
| 10:30 | Can we classify plant communities from space? (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Sibikova |
| 10:45 | Syntaxonomical diversity of class Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietea minoris in Bulgaria (abstract) |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Session 3
Chair:
| 11:30 | Classification of Armenian dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities (abstract) PRESENTER: Denys Vynokurov |
| 11:45 | When will we be done with the vegetation classification? (abstract) |
12:00-12:45 Session 4
Chairs:
| 12:00 | Habitat specialist species drive fine-scale diversity-area relationships (DARs) in southern European Atlantic coastal dunes (abstract) PRESENTER: Idoia Biurrun |
| 12:15 | Potential of vegetation databases in macroecological studies – drivers of plant species richness and composition in semi-natural grasslands (abstract) PRESENTER: Małgorzata Raduła |
| 12:30 | Environmental and historical factors influencing understory community diversity of Pinus nigra forests in Europe (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessandro Bricca |
12:45-14:00Lunch Break
14:15-15:15 Session 5
Chairs:
| 14:15 | Unique microclimate and resource availability may support species persistence in microrefugia (abstract) PRESENTER: Kata Frei |
| 14:30 | Temporal changes in forest plant diversity in Europe: What species are winning and losing? (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Climate relict plants and syntaxonomical classification: a case study from Sicily (Italy) (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessandro Silvestre Gristina |
| 15:00 | Global review of woody plant encroachment: effects on plant diversity and management concerns (abstract) PRESENTER: Sara Sánchez-Carmona |
15:15-15:30 Session 6
Chair:
| 15:15 | Seed dispersal-distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora (abstract) PRESENTER: Zdenka Lososová |
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Session 6 (2)
Chair:
| 16:00 | Zelkova carpinifolia: An ancient relict tree from a phytosociological perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Pavel Novák |
| 16:15 | Environmental and socio-economic correlates of vascular plant species richness in Poland (abstract) PRESENTER: Tomasz Szymura |
16:30-17:15 Session 7
Chair:
| 16:30 | Mapping Natura 2000 Habitat distribution at regional scale (abstract) PRESENTER: Fabio Attorre |
| 16:45 | Adapting the EUNIS Expert System to regional classifications: a case study in the Cantabrian Mixed Forest ecoregion (abstract) PRESENTER: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro |
| 17:00 | National vegetation monitoring of protected biotopes using an advanced sampling design (abstract) PRESENTER: Klaus Thomas Ecker |
Tuesday, May 23rd
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09:00-09:30 Session Keynote
| 09:00 | Classification and biogeography of European forests: a complicated relationship (abstract) |
09:30-10:30 Session 1
Chair:
| 09:30 | Past projections of marcescent oaks predicts future range-shifts of vulnerable species (abstract) PRESENTER: Carlos Vila-Viçosa |
| 09:45 | Global change drivers affect the functional diversity of temperate forest understories (abstract) PRESENTER: Giandiego Campetella |
| 10:00 | Basin-scale analysis of floodplain forests: effects of mesoclimate and water regime on their diversity (abstract) PRESENTER: Irati Sanz-Zubizarreta |
| 10:15 | Fine-grain beta diversity of Basque-Navarran temperate forests (Spain) (abstract) PRESENTER: Jokin Belmonte |
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Session 2
Chair:
| 11:00 | How much are we stepping on the Iberian native forests? (abstract) PRESENTER: Tiago Monteiro-Henriques |
| 11:15 | It's a matter of class. The uncomfortable syntaxonomic position of the Italian thermophilous oak forests (abstract) PRESENTER: Romeo Di Pietro |
11:30-12:15 Session 3
Chair:
| 11:30 | Edaphic and topographic filtering of plant life forms in Mediterranean mountaintop communities: a case study from the Madonie Mountains, Sicily (abstract) PRESENTER: Corrado Marceno |
| 11:45 | Species sorting along succession is mediated by leaf economics, regeneration niche traits and clonality. (abstract) PRESENTER: Gonzalo Velasco Mones |
| 12:00 | Local conditions and topography shape plant functional diversity along mountain slopes (abstract) PRESENTER: Joshua Erkelenz |
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 Session 1: Poster Session - Exhibition greenhouse (Botanical Garden)
Adaptation strategies of Rhododendron ferrugineum L. in high altitude environments: An analysis of some ecophysiological traits (abstract) PRESENTER: Naim Berisha |
Phytosociological analysis of the Elyno-Seslerietea from Sharri Mts., Kosovo (abstract) PRESENTER: Naim Berisha |
Restoration approaches for steppe vegetation losses in Ukraine due to russian military aggression: a program (abstract) PRESENTER: Oksana Tyshchenko |
Vegetation restoration of military tank range in Kryvyi Rih (Central Ukraine) (abstract) |
Evaluation of the ecological and topological structure of habitats of the Dniester Canyon (Ukraine) (abstract) |
Alysso-Sedetalia order communities in the Carpathian-Pannonian region, western Ukraine, and Moldova (abstract) PRESENTER: Iuliia Vasheniak |
Phytoindicative assessment of the vegetation cover reaction in Ukraine on possible climatic changes (abstract) |
Effects of drought-induced holm oak dieback on emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds in a Mediterranean forest (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesca Alderotti |
Two new phytosociological associations from the summit plateau of Pizzo Carbonara (Madonie Mountains, Northern Sicily) (abstract) PRESENTER: Riccardo Guarino |
New data on vegetation of “Padule di Fucecchio” area, one of the largest inland marsh in Italy (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniele Viciani |
Impact of holm oak dieback on alpha diversity in a Mediterranean forest (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesca Alderotti |
Monitoring holm oak forest dieback combining tree physiological and visual assessment data with remote sensing (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesca Alderotti |
Shading vs. biomass production: maintaining scattered trees in temperate pastures brings more benefits than losses (abstract) PRESENTER: Alida Anna Hábenczyus |
Rare steppe plant communities of Ukraine (abstract) PRESENTER: Svitlana Iemelianova |
Syntaxonomy of plant communities dominated by Elaeagnus angustifolia in Ukraine (abstract) PRESENTER: Liubov Borsukevych |
New phytosociological findings in southern France (abstract) PRESENTER: Clara Gritti |
Subalpine tall-herb vegetation (class Mulgedio-Aconitetea) in Bulgaria (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Szokala |
Raised bog vegetation response to the change of site hydrology (abstract) PRESENTER: Mara Pakalne |
Mapping habitats in Nature 2000 sites through photointerpretation of images from drones and field surveys (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone Eusebio Bergò |
Forest diversity of the Cantabrian Mixed Forests ecoregion: EUNIS types and related phytosociological units (abstract) PRESENTER: Víctor González-García |
Ruderal communities Calamagrostis epigejos in Ukraine (abstract) |
Methodological approaches to assessing military damage to natural habitats in Ukraine (abstract) PRESENTER: Yakiv Didukh |
The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities (abstract) PRESENTER: Kamila Reczyńska |
Alien plants of Europe: an overview of available national and regional inventories (abstract) PRESENTER: Veronika Kalusova |
Vegetation as tool to improve grassland management in protected areas (abstract) PRESENTER: Magdalena Szymura |
Monitoring and evaluation of Malta’s coastal wetlands in a global change context: a case study using a multimethod approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Gianmarco Tavilla |
Vegetation mapping of Mt. Etna (Sicily) (abstract) PRESENTER: Veronica Ranno |
Database of floodplain forest and shrub vegetation of Ukraine (abstract) |
Changes in functional plant groups as a cause of natural ecological restoration on burned Mediterranean abandoned field (abstract) PRESENTER: Ivana Vitasović-Kosić |
Initial results for a long-term grassland management experiment in the Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia (abstract) PRESENTER: Lauma Keire |
Ecological characterization of forest site types (FST) in Slovenia (abstract) |
The importance of soil pH maps for the accuracy of the plant distribution models: insights from two spatial scales (abstract) PRESENTER: Barbora Klímová |
Gradual long-term degradation of vegetation in a suburban forest (abstract) |
Identifying climatically analogue areas to future climate of Hungary from the point of view of vegetation (abstract) PRESENTER: Zoltán Botta-Dukát |
Plant diversity and invasions across habitats of Murter Island (Croatia) (abstract) PRESENTER: Magdalena Brener |
Growth of different common beech and sessile oak provenances under drought stress in relation to different soil phosphorus concentrations (abstract) PRESENTER: Željko Škvorc |
Do you have a network of plots to collect data for the Habitats directive reporting in your country? Please let us know! (abstract) PRESENTER: Maxime Burst |
Integrating Ground-Based with Remote Sensing Data and Deep Learning Algorithm to Monitor of Endangered Oak Forest Habitats (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucia Čahojová |
What do we know about the vegetation of South-European alpine fens with high endemism? (abstract) PRESENTER: Michal Hájek |
The variation of vegetation eco-physiological responses in mining areas with different scenarios of reclamation: Central Europe, Poland (abstract) PRESENTER: Edyta Sierka |
Coexistence of native and alien plant and tick species along roadsides: introduction to a project (abstract) PRESENTER: Domas Uogintas |
Spatial patterns of vascular plant species richness in Poland - a data set (abstract) PRESENTER: Grzegorz Swacha |
Immediate effects of fertilization on ground vegetation in forest stands and a deciduous tree plantation in Latvia (abstract) PRESENTER: Guna Petaja |
A Study of the Impact of Spatial Characteristics on Functional Species Diversity in Core and Edge Areas (abstract) PRESENTER: Michaela Michalková |
Grassland vegetation in urban landscape: patterns of ecosystem functions and habitat characteristics (abstract) PRESENTER: Małgorzata Raduła |
Political borders in the traditional mountain grassland management context (the case study from Ukrainian and Romanian villages of Maramures and Bukovina regions) (abstract) PRESENTER: Polina Dayneko |
How EU CAP subsidies affect species composition of mesic meadows in Slovakia, Central Europe (abstract) PRESENTER: Katarína Hegedüšová |
Snowbed vegetation of Europe (abstract) PRESENTER: Jozef Šibík |
Modelling of Sinai desert vegetation (abstract) PRESENTER: Mohamed Z. Hatim |
The impact of landscape and local land use changes on grasslands of the Czech Republic over the past 200 years (abstract) PRESENTER: Marie Vymazalová |
Dynamism and conservation of seminatural forest habitats: cork oak forests of central Italy (abstract) PRESENTER: Simona Giugliano |
Regulating ecosystem services: The role of forests in enhancing air quality (abstract) PRESENTER: Umberto Grande |
The flora diversity under taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional trait aspects of sub- and alpine semi-natural grassland habitats (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucia Doni |
Linking Lichen Biodiversity to Forest Habitats Structure: A cross-taxon approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Pierangela Angelini |
Identifying habitat types based on Sentinel-2 data in the Toolik Lake region, Alaska (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Sibikova |
Species diversity of the Ukrainian flora ferns in chasmophytic habitats of the Ukrainian Crystalline Massif (abstract) PRESENTER: Olesya Bezsmertna |
Vegetation-soil relationships on consolidated limestone of Serbia (abstract) PRESENTER: Svetlana Aćić |
National vegetation database of Montenegro (abstract) PRESENTER: Urban Šilc |
Quercus trojana forests on the Balkan and Apennine Peninsula (abstract) PRESENTER: Urban Šilc |
Combining species distribution models and palaeobotanical records to investigate the present and past distribution of Arbutus sp. pl. in the Western Paleartic region (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone De Santis |
TracEve: Tracing the evergreen broad-leaved species and their spread (abstract) PRESENTER: Giacomo Calvia |
100 years of flora and vegetation changes in the Pantano Lake (Basilicata Southern Italy) (abstract) PRESENTER: Giovanna Potenza |
Consequences of anthropogenic influence and climate changes on the vegetation of high-altitude lakes of the Ukrainian Carpathians and ways of their preservation. (abstract) |
Vegetation types in dolines on Kras plateau (SW Slovenia) (abstract) PRESENTER: Andraž Čarni |
Changes in diversity of grassland vegetation in Veľká Fatra Mts (Slovakia) during the last decades (abstract) PRESENTER: Iveta Škodová |
Management of Spreading Pasqueflower Pulsatilla patens (L.) Mill. habitat in microreserve located in Eastern part of Latvia (abstract) |
Response of herbaceous vegetation in pro senescence forest management of “Cansiglio Orientale” Natural Reserve (Pordenone, Italy) (abstract) PRESENTER: Flavia Sicuriello |
Which alien plant species are invading the Mediterranean mountains habitats? A case study in Gran Sasso massif (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucia Antonietta Santoianni |
Monitoring coastal dune vegetation in Abruzzo Region for nature conservation and management actions (abstract) PRESENTER: Marco Varricchione |
Mapping urban ecosystems in a small city of an Italian inner area (abstract) PRESENTER: Chiara D'Angeli |
Plant functional types of Mediterranean temporary ponds – towards a standardized assessment (abstract) PRESENTER: Carla Pinto-Cruz |
Wednesday, May 24th
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09:00-09:45 Session 1
Chair:
| 09:00 | Significant decline in habitat specialists in dry grasslands of South Moravia over four decades (abstract) PRESENTER: Klára Klinkovská |
| 09:15 | ReSurveyEurope: a database of resampled vegetation plots in Europe (abstract) PRESENTER: Milan Chytrý |
| 09:30 | Acceleration of understorey vegetation changes in the Western Carpathians forests during the last 60 years (abstract) PRESENTER: Karol Ujházy |
09:45-10:30 Session 2
Chairs:
| 09:45 | Introducing VegTrends: an EU-funded project to assess long-term trends in European vegetation and evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas (abstract) PRESENTER: Marta Gaia Sperandii |
| 10:00 | Go north: Do mountain plant species shift their ranges towards northern aspects in response to climate change? (abstract) PRESENTER: Manuela Winkler |
| 10:15 | Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution (abstract) PRESENTER: Kryštof Chytrý |
10:30-11:00 Session 3
Chair:
| 10:30 | Have agriculturally semi-improved lowland grasslands the ability to revert back to their semi-natural state with appropriate management based on solely their seed-bank? (abstract) PRESENTER: Sally O'Rourke-Griffin |
| 10:45 | Safeguarding plant species diversity in a crowded country – challenges and solutions (abstract) PRESENTER: Joop Schaminée |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 Session 4
Chairs:
| 11:30 | Synthesis of litter raking experiments in Europe: the impact on forest understories (abstract) PRESENTER: Ondřej Vild |
| 11:45 | Successfull grasslands restoration on site invaded by Solidago (abstract) PRESENTER: Magdalena Szymura |
| 12:00 | Miyawaki Mini-Forests based on Vegetation Science (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Miyawaki method of afforestation and vegetation science (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesco Spada |
12:15-13:00 Session 5
Chair:
| 12:15 | Effectiveness of methods used to Solidago stands reclamation –preliminary results (abstract) PRESENTER: Peliyagodage Chathura Dineth Perera |
| 12:30 | Harmonized lists of alien floras for European countries (abstract) PRESENTER: Irena Axmanová |
13:00-14:15Lunch Break
14:15-15:00 Session 6
Chair:
| 14:15 | Ellenberg ecological indicators for the Iberian Peninsula flora (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucia Herguido |
| 14:30 | Using ecological indicator values for vegetation classification. Why not? (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE): overview, aims and next steps (abstract) PRESENTER: Olha Chusova |
15:15-16:00 Session 7
Chair:
| 15:15 | Forest bryophyte patterns along the north-western Dinaric altitudinal gradients (Croatia) (abstract) PRESENTER: Vedran Šegota |
| 15:30 | Bryophyte diversity in relation to substrate characteristics in aspen (Populus tremula) forests along forest age chronosequence (abstract) PRESENTER: Evita Oļehnoviča |
| 15:45 | Ecological preferences of aquatic bryophytes and their communities – insights from Croatian watercourses (abstract) PRESENTER: Anja Rimac |
16:00-16:30Farewell Coffee
Thursday, May 25th
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07:15-19:00 Field Excursion - Vico Lake and turkey oak forest of Cura di Vetralla (led by Giuliano Fanelli)
Meeting point: 7:15 am – Accademia di Ungheria – Via Giulia, 1
Departure time: 08:00 - Return time: 19:00
(Box-lunch and transport by private bus included in the excursion)
07:15-19:00 Field Excursion - Cerveteri Waterfalls (led by Riccardo Guarino & Francesco Spada)
Meeting point: 7:15 am – Accademia di Ungheria – Via Giulia, 1
Departure time: 08:00 - Return time: 19:00
(Box-lunch and transport by private bus included in the excursion)