EuBiReCo 2026
Day 1 Schedule
🗓️ Thursday, 5th November 2026
PLENARY SESSION
📍 Location: LOBBY
9 | Welcome and registration opens
10:30-11 | Official addresses and introduction to the proceedings
11-11:30 | Keynote speech by David Coomes
Life at Altitude: Mountain Ecosystems Through a Remote-Sensing Lens
Oral presentation
🕐 11.30-13.15
Bariletti E.
OP 1.1 – From diet to microbiome: High-resolution metagenomic profiling in Alpine wildlife.
Ciapponi S.
OP 1.2 – Beyond independent observers: graph-based modeling of fine-grained biodiversity occupancy dynamics in acoustic networks.
Roseo F.
Op 2.1 – Current and future threats of downhill skiing to Alpine birds.
Mensa F.S.
OP 2.2 – Quantifying the wind-borne arthropod flux on the Forni Glacier (Italian Alps) and its glacier foreland.
Assandri G.
OP 3.1 – 175 years of odonatological research in Trentino: from collections to participatory science.
Zeni T.
OP 4.1 – Polyploid plants in the Eastern Alps: insights from extensive sampling across elevational gradients.
Vanderlocht C.
OP 4.2 – Vertical and horizontal ecological pathways shape Alpine ungulate responses to wolf recolonisation and human pressure.
🍴 13:15-14:30 | Lunch break
PLENARY SESSION
📍 Location: LOBBY
14:30-15 | Keynote speech by David Roiz
Disentangling the relationships among vertebrate and mosquito diversity and emerging mosquito-borne diseases
PARALLEL SESSIONS
🕐15-16.30
📍 Lobby
Session 4 | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems
Servadei L.
OP 4.3 – Challenges and opportunities related to cross-border cooperation in the Alpine and Central European area within the framework of National Nature Restoration Plans under Regulation (EU) 2024/1991.
Ceresa F.
OP 4.4 – Uncovering nonlinear responses of mountain bird communities to climatic and vegetation gradients.
Bisi F.
OP 4.5 – From refugia to connectivity: conserving Lepus timidus while supporting biodiversity conservation and nature restoration in the changing Alps.
Mazzamuto M.
OP 4.6 – Climate-mediated bottom-up pathways in Alpine seed consumers: from forest resources to space use and population dynamics.
Tagliapietra V.
OP 4.7 – From extreme weather events to disease risk: ecological responses of small mammals and ticks in the Italian Alps.
Marconi M.
OP 4.8 – Windstorm impacts on mountain forests: a multi-taxa assessment of the Vaia event on mammal communities and forest dynamics in the Altopiano di Piné, Trentino.
📍 Conference room
Session 1 | New tools for biodiversity assessment and Big Data management
Wicklein A.
OP 1.3 – Forest tree species mapping in Trentino with Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope remotely sensed data.
Nascimbene J.
OP 1.4 – Dolichens: An Information System on the Lichens of the Dolomites.
Bresadola M.
OP 1.5 – Testing novel technologies for scalable biodiversity monitoring: insights from Biodiversa+ pilots in South Tyrol.
Cagnacci F.
OP 1.6 – Biodiversity and data challenges: from local collection to global perspectives.
Tattoni C.
OP 1.7 – Towards a quantitative criterion for Italian Alpine bird migration corridors.
Marchetti A. E.
OP 1.8 – Passive acoustic monitoring and dynamic occupancy models for tracking within-season distribution dynamics of breeding birds in South Tyrol: A framework for Euregio Biodiversity Monitoring.
📍Fossey and Anning room
Session 3 | Participatory and Collaborative Research
Cappello C.
OP 3.2 – Citizen Science for soil biodiversity assessment and stewardship.
Leonardi C.
OP 3.3 – Participatory discovery of values, conflicting perspectives, and technology opportunities related to grazing lands.
Battisti D.
OP 3.4 – Enhancing biodiversity in intensive apple orchards through participatory nature-based solutions: the Schneewinkel Project.
Gaglio M.
OP 3.5 – Ecosystem diversity and cultural ecosystem services in mountain highlands: An integrated assessment of supply, use and human pressures.
Colzi L.
OP 3.6 – Turning Climate-Smart Forestry into action: insights from ALPFOR-CSF.
Panza R.
OP 3.7 – Mismatch between ecological evidence and public’s perception of the bark beetle outbreaks in the spruce forests of the Italian Alps.
Palazzo dele Albere, Ground floor
☕ 16:30-17 | Coffee break
Parallel session
🕐 17-18
📍 Lobby
Session 4 | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems
▶ Oral presentation
Mortelliti A.
OP 4.9 – The conservation value of disproportionately consequential individuals: individual variation shapes the dispersal of ecological interactions in Alpine forests.
Marzini S.
OP 4.10 – Influence of forest compositional naturalness on climate change vulnerability and disturbance risks in Alpine mountain landscapes.
▶ Speed talk
Bonacina L.
ST 4.1 – Unveiling Biodiversity in Lake Garda with a focus on invasive species: from morphological observations to Metabarcoding monitoring.
Wilhelm E.
ST 4.2 – Seed yield of propagated native meadow species for regional seed mixtures in South Tyrol.
Naghiero D.
ST 4.3 – Assessing meadow quality in Ledro Valley (Trentino) via carabid beetle functional traits.
Repetto E.
ST 4.4 – Orthopterans in Colour, Assessing variation in community colour traits.
Cristofolini F.
ST 4.5 – Ambrosia artemisiifolia dispersion and its threat to biodiversity: a pollen analysis approach.
Corsini M.
ST 4.6 – Bridging biodiversity monitoring gaps in the European Alps to support evidence-based conservation for pollinators, birds and mammals.
📍 Conference room
Session 1 | New tools for biodiversity assessment and Big Data management
▶ Speed talk
Morpurgo M.
ST 1.1 – First record of the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in South Tyrol: may small watercraft be the pathway for its introduction into a natural lake?
Volani S.
ST 1.2 – An AI-integrated thermal camera system to prevent wildlife-vehicle collisions: A tool for ecological data acquisition.
Polli F.
ST 1.3 – High-resolution molecular monitoring reveals hidden freshwater gastrotrich diversity.
Bonciu A.
ST 1.4 – Cultural Ecosystem Services reflect alpine landscape diversity along altitudinal patterns: a social media imagery analysis.
Scanferla J.
ST 1.5 – How passive acoustic and traditional monitoring estimate bird diversity across habitats.
Crowther P. A.
ST 1.7 – Ecological impacts and human-wildlife conflict of the expanding Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Lo Presti I.
ST 1.8 – A harmonized genotyping approach for transboundary monitoring of wolves in the Alps: The ARGEALP experience.
Di Cocco A.
ST 1.9 – Decoding air biodiversity: project AirBiD bridges urban greenery and human well-being.
Borsotti A.
ST 1.10 – High-sensitivity molecular characterization and biological role of unhatched parasitoid wasps in stink bug egg masses.
📍 Fossey and Anning room
Session 3 | Participatory and Collaborative Research
▶ Oral presentation
Larsen S.
OP 3.8 – Stakeholders’ perspectives on riparian zones across Europe: shared views and regional contrasts.
▶ Speed talk
Dagostin F.
ST 3.1 – Citizen science for tick surveillance and human exposure assessment: insights from ZeccApp, the first Italian participatory initiative.
Gibitz Lambert L.
ST 3.2 – Blumenwiesen–Prati fioriti.
Tolusso S.
ST 3.3 – Collaborative wildlife monitoring: integrating camera-trap data in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Viterbi R.
ST 3.4 – The Animal Biodiversity Monitoring Project: twenty years later.
Bonato L.
ST 3.5 – Mapping mountain biodiversity through citizen science: methodological issues and the experience of the “Neptis” project on butterflies.
Gozzi G.
ST 3.6 – Exploring information overlaps between soundscape ecology and human perception: An Assessment in the Euregio Region.
Odintsov Vaintrub M.
ST 3.7 – Integrating farmer knowledge and digital innovation to assess and communicate ecosystem services in heritage pasture systems of Val di Sole