14th September (Wednesday)
afternoon, until 18:00 – Arrival to Balatonvilágos
19:00 – Evening get-together with dinner
To make this event more international we would like to ask you to bring your local food and/or drink for the get together evening to increase the diversity of choices :-).
15th September (Thursday)
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00-09:15 Opening
09:15 – 10:00 Plenary: Tibor Hartel: Nature conservation as a transdisciplinary adventure: insights from Romania
10:00 – 11:00 Student session: Water ecosystems
- Abi Mackay: A rapid method to identify and map the presence of endangered and invasive Greek freshwater fish using environmental DNA.
- Khouloud Sebteoui: The influence of bioturbation activity of Chironomus riparius on vertical transfer of microplastic particles
- Lucy P Smith: Mapping the distribution and decline of ponds at catchment scale in the UK
- Matthew Taylor: The Impact of Leaky Barriers on In-Channel Hydrology, Geomorphology, Ecology and Wider Biodiversity
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Student session: Agroecology
- Dávid Korányi: Effects of fragment size and connectivity on arthropod functional composition
- Nathalie Rodenwald: Biocontrol mediated by flower strips in a conventional farming system
- Flóra Vajna: Spillover of plants from sown wild flower fields and road edges into intensive crop fields
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Workshop: Tibor Hartel: Co-producing human-nature reconciliation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Plenary: Lorenzo Marini: Range dynamics of alien and threatened native plants in mountains under global change
16:15 – 17:00 Student session: Zoology and further topics
- Peter Kriegel: Douglas-fir promotes diversity, but alters species composition of groundbeetles in temperate Forests
- Simona-Diana Morariu: Assessing and mapping socio-cultural values in Natura 2000 sites
- Erin Connolly: Jaguars in the borderlands: Multinatural conservation for coexistence in the Anthropocene
17:00 – 17:45 Posters - the list of posters can be found here
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Beer tasting
16th September (Friday)
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary: Aveliina Helm: Ecological restoration of landscapes and habitats: challenges, opportunities and tools (online talk)
09:45 - 10:45 Student session: Pollinators I.
- Olivia Bernhardsson: The competitive impact of managed honey bees on wild bee reproductive success
- Áron Bihaly: Pollinator networks in sown wildflower fields in agricultural landscapes in Hungary
- Elena Gazzea: Recovery of plant and pollinator communities after severe wind disturbance in Alpine forests
- Toni Kasiske: Livestock density affects species richness and ecological traits of butterfliesat the national scale
10:45 -11:15: Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Student session: Pollinators II.
- Gabriella Süle: Safeguarding pollinators: creating urban bee pastures by extensive mowing benefits pollinators and wildflowers
- Tina Tuerlings: Location and host species affects microbial community in solitary bees on a continental scale
- Aleksandra Żmuda: Changes in urban bee-plant networks over the vegetation season
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Workshop: Péter Batáry: Introduction to meta-analysis in conservation biology
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Plenary: Ingo Grass: Ecological intensification and diversification approaches to promote biodiversity-friendly agriculture
16:15 – 17:45: Workshop: Ingo Grass: Introduction to ecological network analysis
17:45 – 18:30 Posters - the list of posters can be found here
18:30 – 19:30 Closing and Dinner
20:00 – Dancing & party
17th September (Saturday)
06:30 – 07:30 Breakfast
See more:
Birdlife Hungary: Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület
Homepage of the Balaton Uplands National Park: https://www.bfnp.hu/en
Details about the Kis-Balaton: https://www.bfnp.hu/en/small-balaton
Image film of the Balaton Uplands National Park with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8ardJGHZU