EuBiReCo 2026
Day 2 Schedule
🗓️ Friday, 6th November 2026
PLENARY SESSION
📍 Location: Lobby
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
▶ 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
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
Lezcano M.
OP 3.9 – The role of social research in the planning and implementation of environmental studies.
Scarian Monsorno S.
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.
Palazzo dele Albere, Ground floor
☕ 10.45-11.15 | Coffee break
Parallel session
🕐 11.15-13.20
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats
▶ 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
▶ 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
▶ 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.
🍴 13:20-14:30 | Lunch break
Plenary session
📍 Lobby
🕐 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
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
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
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).
Palazzo dele Albere, Ground floor
☕ 16-16:30 | Coffee break
PARALLEL SESSION
🕐 16.30-17.25
📍 Lobby
Session 2 | Alpine biodiversity hotspots and extreme habitats
▶ 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.
Anderle M.
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
▶ 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 4.20 – Do Alpine Midges Degrade Microplastics? Insights from PA6 Fibre Experiments at Presena Glacier.
Marini G.
ST 4.21 – 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
▶ 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.