EuBiReCo 2026

🗓️ Friday, 6th November 2026

PLENARY SESSION
📍 Location: Lobby

Chair: Alessandro Gretter, Fondazione Edmund Mach & EUSALP AG6 Deputy Leader

9-9:30 | Keynote speech by Tanja Straka

Biodiversity meets human diversity – Understanding people for effective conservation

Parallel session
🕐 9.30-10.30
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats

Chair: Giulia Ferrari, Fondazione Edmund Mach

▶ Oral presentation

Zinato F.
OP 2.3 – Climate warming and alpine geomorphology interact to shape plant ranges.

Kirschner P.
OP 2.4 – Comparative evolutionary history of six high-altitude plant species endemic to the Southeastern Limestone Alps.

Szedlacsek S.
OP 2.5 – No longer undercover – An isolation-based assessment of the diversity and distribution of Mortierellaceae from calcareous Alpine glacier forefields.

Peintner U.
OP 2.6 – Tyroliella, Cryptocalciella and more: new taxa of Mortierellaceae from subalpine and alpine habitats.

Ligi O.
OP 2.7 – Bryophytes in Alpine glacial environments: insights from primary succession and functional ecology.

📍 Conference room
Session 4 | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems

Chair: Giulia Bombieri, MUSE

Paniccia C.
OP 4.11 – Urbanisation reshapes bat communities through environmental filtering and homogenisation in mountain landscapes.

Stephens S.
OP 4.12 – Partitioning human and brown bear niches: Interactive effects of biological and social drivers on movement corridors in the Alpine Region.

Salvatori M.
OP 4.13 – Recovering in isolation: Dynamics of an isolated brown bear population over two decades post-reintroduction.

Corradini A.
OP 4.14 – Integrating movement ecology and zoogeochemistry to quantify the role of large herbivores in multi-scale alpine ecosystem resilience.

Zanovello L.
OP 4.15 – Bridging landscape planning and biodiversity conservation: a case study on amphibian communities of the Province of Trento (Italy).

📍 Fossey and Anning room
Session 3 | Participatory and Collaborative Research

Chair: Alessandro Gretter, Fondazione Edmund Mach & EUSALP AG6 Deputy Leader

Lezcano M.
OP 3.9 – The role of social research in the planning and implementation of environmental studies.

Kudriashov M.
OP 3.10 – BiodiversitARB: a participatory framework for ecological assessment of nature–business interdependencies in Italian SMEs.

Capelli S.
OP 3.11 – A systematic review of the role of community science in European wildlife governance.

Tenci M.V.
OP 3.12 – The project Waterwise: co-designing suitable management solutions for resilient Alpine headwaters.

Valle B.
OP 3.13 – Scaling up glacial biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: the CollembolICE project.

Second floor
☕ 10.45-11.15 | Coffee break

Parallel session
🕐 11.15-13.20
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats

Chair: Francesco Rovero, MUSE

▶ Oral presentation

Steinwandter M.
OP 2.8 – Efficiently assessing alpine soil fauna assemblages: classical sampling or eDNA metabarcoding? Or both?

Fracasso I.
OP 2.9 – Soil biodiversity responses to grazing management in South-Tyrolean Alpine grasslands.

Bruno M. C.
OP 2.10 – Copepods coping with harsh environments: a case study in a deglaciating Alpine area.

Tolotti M.
OP 2.11 – Physical constraints drive diatom diversity and abundance in high altitude Alpine streams: evidence from a field experiment.

Puff F.
OP 2.12 – Sky Islands: Is isolation a barrier for Alpine freshwater insects?

Petri I.
OP 2.13 – Uncovering cryptic diversity in Alpine Ischyropsalis harvestmen: genetic and morphological evidence for the revalidation of Ischyropsalis tirolensis and the role of glacial refugia in shaping diversification.

Pankaj K.
OP 2.14 – Damsels in distress? Revealing historical patterns in endemicity & threats to damselflies of peninsular India.

▶ Speed talk

Peretti E.
ST 2.1 – Arthropod communities inhabiting an intact rock glacier at an unusually low altitude in the Carnic Alps.

Merlo S.
ST 2.2 – Rising up after the ice: patterns of ground beetle community establishment following a glacier’s disappearance.

Vallefuoco F.
ST 2.3 – Glacier-fed Alpine streams as climate-sensitive hotspots: temporal drivers of macroinvertebrate biodiversity.

📍 Conference room
Session 4b | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems

Chair: Costantino Bonomi, MUSE

▶ Oral presentation

Galla G.
OP 4.16 – Multi-scale connectivity of Alpine pasture microbiotas along an elevational gradient.

Tabet D. H.
OP 4.18 – Chestnut blight reshapes bark-associated bacterial communities in European chestnut.

Guariento E.
OP 4.20 – Ants as Bioindicators: Feasibility and ecological value in multi-taxon biodiversity monitoring of Alpine forests.

Nalini E.
OP 4.22 – Threatened yet adaptable: phenotypic plasticity in red wood ants along altitudinal gradients.

Boselli E.
OP 4.24 – Genomic structure and diversity of European beech highlight contrasting demographic histories across the Italian Peninsula.

Widmann M.
OP 4.26 – Airborne pollen trends over three decades in Bolzano (South Tyrol): Long term changes in seasonality and abundance.

▶ Speed talk

Ferrari A.
ST 4.7 – Ski slope management reshapes soil quality and pedofauna composition without reducing taxonomic richness.

Heurman M.
ST 4.8 – Resort life: How winter tourism impacts mountain ungulate behaviour in the Italian Alps.

Toscano V.
ST 4.9 – Parasites at the edge: first records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from glacial and proglacial environments.

Lackinger U.
ST 4.13 – From fungi to function: Plant growth responses to Mortierella–Pseudomonas interactions.

Huymann L.
ST 4.15 – Resolving hidden fungal diversity: an integrative taxonomic revision of dermocyboid Cortinarius sect. Olivaceofusci.

Lukasser S.
ST 4.17 – Growth Responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to Mortierellaceae fungi and a root-associated Pseudomonas sp.

Obertegger U.
ST 4.19 – Weather patterns explain fungal diversity in a mountain lake.

📍 Fossey and Anning room
Session 4a | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems

Chair: Alessandro Franzoi, MUSE

▶ Oral presentation

Angelini L.
OP 4.17 – Biocultural refugia in a changing world: first ecological evidence from traditional chestnut orchards in the Italian Alps.

Vitangeli V.
OP 4.19 – Revitalizing traditional orchard meadows as a nature-based solution under global change.

Alessandrini C.
OP 4.21 – Heterogeneous orchard configurations support abundant breeding bird populations and diverse communities in intensive apple orchards.

Granata E.
OP 4.23 – Management, topography and landscape contribute to shape avian communities in Alpine semi-natural grasslands and fine-scale habitat selection of declining species.

Villa S.
OP 4.25 – Habitat restoration as part of the LIFE SeedForce project.

▶ Speed talk

Ossi F.
ST 4.10 – A good neighbourly relationship? Interactions between livestock and wild ungulates in an Alpine agroecosystem.

De Vivo M.
ST 4.11 – Population genomics of the woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum).

Tiziani R.
ST 4.12 – Impact of two cover crops mixtures on soil taxonomic diversity and functionality in alpine apple orchards.

Neurauter M.
ST 4.14 – Recurring drought and recovery dynamics of Subalpine forest microbiomes.

Mair P.
ST 4.16 – The conservation status of bryophytes in South Tyrol – a regional Red List.

Kovacs K.
ST 4.18 – Green roofs as ecological stepping stones for urban biodiversity and ecological connectivity in the Alps.

Ricaldone D.
ST 4.20 – Freshwater Ecosystems Under Observation: River Monitoring within an Alpine territory (South Tyrol, Italy)

🍴 13:20-14:30 | Lunch break

Plenary session
📍 Lobby

Chair: Mauro Gobbi, MUSE

🕐 14.30-15 | Keynote speech by Gentile Francesco Ficetola

The effects of glacier retreat on biodiversity

PARALLEL SESSION
🕐 15-16
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats

Chair: Mauro Gobbi, MUSE

Centomo E.
OP 2.15 – Behavioral response and latent heterogeneity shape abundance estimates in the unique population of Triturus carnifex in Trentino.

Roner L.
OP 2.16 – Beyond habitat characterization: using vegetation-derived ecological indicator values (EIV) to inform forest management and conservation of Salamandra atra aurorae.

Rigo M. C.
OP 2.17 – From genes to species to ecosystems: the Alpine newt as a biological indicator of wetlands vulnerability to environmental and climate changes.

Alberto A.
OP 2.18 – Temperature drives seed germination in the Alpine endemic Sanguisorba dodecandra Moretti: first insights into its reproductive ecology.

📍 Conference room
Session 4 | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems

Chair: Marco Salvatori, MUSE

Bonari G.
OP 4.27 – Effects of non-native species on riparian forest communities.

Poponessi S.
OP 4.28 – Assessing atmospheric pollution along urban–rural gradients in South Tyrol using bryophytes.

Francesconi L.
OP 4.29 – Protected areas unevenly contribute to lichens conservation in the Alps.

Favargiotti S.
OP 4.30 – Paesaggi Forti. Imaginaries and narratives on ecologies in motion for abandoned places.

📍 Fossey and Anning room
Session 1 | New tools for biodiversity assessment and Big Data management

Chair: Philipp Kirschner, Innsbruck University

Cristofori A.
OP 1.9 – Air biodiversity and environmental DNA: a curated pipeline for enhancing taxonomic resolution.

Gottardini E.
OP 1.10 – Airborne pollen as a proxy for alpine plant biodiversity: a combined optical microscopy and environmental DNA metabarcoding approach.

Widmann M.
OP 1.11 – Project CATS: monitoring in real-time aerobiological biodiversity in Trentino – Südtirol.

Tenci M. V.
OP 1.12 – Diversity of microbial eukaryotes in Alpine proglacial lakes (Cevedale glacier, Italy).

Second floor
☕ 16-16:30 | Coffee break

PARALLEL SESSION
🕐 16.30-17.25
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats

Chair: Emiliano Peretti, MUSE

▶ Oral presentation

Brambilla G.
OP 2.19 – Listening to the mountains: innovative approaches for monitoring threatened Alpine birds.

Bettega C.
OP 2.20 – Functional distinctiveness and rarity of Holarctic mountain birds and their vulnerability to climate.

▶ Speed talk

Gattei A.
ST 2.4 – Metagenomics identifies distinct functional and taxonomic profiles between freshwaters and associated sediments in alpine habitats.

Paoli F.
ST 2.5 – Integrated ecosystem assessment of two Alpine lakes in the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park.

Scaravelli D.
ST 2.6 – Predation of bat bugs by synanthropic spiders in church roofs hosting large bat colonies in South Tyrol.

Franzoi A.
ST 2.7 – Ten years of standardized bird monitoring in the Caldaro wetland: assessing the role of an Alpine biodiversity hotspot for migratory and breeding birds.

Giongo V.
ST 2.8 – High-altitude survival in a warming world: the case of the White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis).

📍 Conference room
Session 4 | Biodiversity patterns and interactions: from genes to ecosystems

Chair: Heidi Hauffe, Fondazione Edmund Mach

▶ Oral presentation

Sbarberi R.
OP 4.31 – Responses of benthic freshwater organism, Chironomus riparius to regenerated and fossil PA6 produced in an Alpine region.

Cristini D.
OP 4.32 – Changes in phytoplankton species abundance distributions along environmental gradients.

Ragionieri L.
OP 4.33 – Evolutionary consequences of host plant association in Cacopsylla melanoneura: evidence from comparative genomics with co-generic species.

▶ Speed talk

Sbarberi R.
ST 4.21 – Do Alpine Midges Degrade Microplastics? Insights from PA6 Fibre Experiments at Presena Glacier.

Marini G.
ST 4.22 – Mosquito biodiversity and surveillance along altitudinal gradients in Trento Province.

📍Fossey and Anning room
Session 1 | New tools for biodiversity assessment and Big Data management

Chair: Philipp Kirschner, Innsbruck University

▶ Oral presentation

Volani S.
OP 1.13 – Improving population estimates of the Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) at the edge of its range: integrating non-invasive genetics and spatial capture-recapture models.

Zanfei G.
OP 1.14 – Mapping the landscape of fear in forest rodents using integrated automated monitoring and behavioural experiments.

▶ Speed talk

Salvatori M.
ST 1.11 – Can we estimate population trends from cameratrapping data? Insights from multiple European long-term monitoring projects.

Viviani L.
ST 1.12 – Which tool now? A user-oriented perspective on AI tools for camera trap data.

 📍 Location: Lobby
17:30 Concluding remarks