9th SCCS Europe
10-14 September 2024, Balatonvilágos, Hungary
Detailed program:
10th September (Tuesday):
afternoon, until 17:30 – Arrival at Balatonvilágos, Hungary
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Evening get-together: to make this event more international, we would like to ask you to bring your local food and/or drink specialty for the get–together evening to increase the diversity of choices :)
11th September (Wednesday): Safeguard day
07:45 – 08:30 Breakfast
08:45 – 09:00 Opening ceremony
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary
- Yann Clough: Pollinator-mediated effects of landscape-scale land use on plant communities
09:45 – 10:15 Student session: Animal Ecology I – Arthropods
- Tomáš Hamřík: Both local and landscape factors affect ground-dwelling spider assemblages of Eurasian forest steppes
- Márk László: Key factors in the conservation of a mountainous grasshopper’s declining populations in Central Europe
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Workshop
- Costanza Geppert: Perspectives on biodiversity conservation priorities with a focus on pollinators
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00 Student session: Animal Ecology II – Pollinators
- Virág Németh: Comparison of pollinator communities between semi-natural grasslands and newly restored grassland parcels in an agricultural landscape
- Edoardo Lincetto: Effect of habitat type on pollinators in a protected area
- Ahlam Sentil: The critical role of maintaining the native wild vegetation for pollinator conservation despite the use of habitat plants
- Tea Skendžić: Functional traits insights: how landscape and transect factors influence pollinator responses
- Aleksandra Đorđević: The influence of linear landscape elements on the diversity and abundance of pollinators in Serbia
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Workshop
- Deepa Senepathi: Translating scientific evidence into policy and practice
17:00 – 18:00 Poster session
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Beer tasting at the local brewery (free and optional)
12th September (Thursday): ProBioTIC day
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary
- Costanza Geppert: Wild pollinator conservation in cities – strategies to success
09:45 – 10:30 Student session: Plant Ecology
- Anna Cseperke Csonka: Effects of propagule pressure, priority effect and trait similarity to control Conyza canadensis by seeding native species
- Faisal Anggi Pradita: Assessment of germination strategies of lowland hay meadow species to optimize locally sourced seeds for ecosystem resilience
- Benedek Tóth: Short-term effects of organic fertilization in species-rich mown grasslands
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Student session: Animal Ecology III – Vertebrates
- Mátyás Budai: Influence of vegetation structure on occupancy of the Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis)
- Gergő Rák: Plant community driven habitat choice of a grassland specialist: the Hungarian meadow viper prefers community transitions
- Andra - Claudia Neagu: Insufficient scientific evidence hinders large carnivore management in Romania
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop
- Tamara Mitrofanenko: The Carpathian Convention and Sustainable Development: Interdisciplinary Systems Approaches to Explore Connections
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 16:15 Workshop
- Agnieszka Wypych & Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska: Problem or Solution? The Impacts of Consumption and Production on Biodiversity
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Workshop
- Daniel Fischer: Promoting Biodiversity through Education for Sustainable Development and Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
13th September (Friday):
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary
- Deepa Senepathi: Can biodiversity conservation and food security needs be balanced in the face of changing environment?
09:45 – 10:15 Student session: Restoration Ecology
- Parnika Gupta: Restoring soils with organic soil amendments; A case study in South Iceland
- Roi Hendler: How understanding movement patterns of mobile links can promote habitat restoration in grasslands
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Workshop
- Péter Batáry: Introduction to meta-analysis in conservation biology
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:00 Student session: Animal Ecology IV – Birds
- Zoltán Schneider: Effects of climate change and nest site competition on the reproduction of the barn owl (Tyto alba) and tawny owl (Strix aluco)
- Réka Szilágyi: Social-ecological integration of corncrake (Crex crex) conservation in a Transylvanian cultural landscape
- Ádám Tisza: Genetic structure and diversity of eastern imperial eagle populations across Eurasia
- Gyula Szabó: Increased habitat diversity in agricultural landscapes attract birds, but do not change bird community composition
- Saltanat Saduakas: The impact of grazing livestock on grassland shorebirds in Hortobágy National Park
15:00 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Student session: Aquatic Ecology
- Dorina Nagy: Acclimative/adaptive mechanisms of Vallisneria americana in the outflows of Lake Hévíz and implications for ecosystem expansion
- Nguyễn Vũ Đức Thịnh: Connecting pelagic biodiversity – ecosystem functioning research to river restoration
- Álmos Becz: Connecting protist to conservation ecology: rare ciliates from a highly human-impacted side-arm of the Danube River
- Márton Uhrin: Urban and garden ponds as amphibian habitats in a European city (Budapest, Hungary)
16:45 – 18:00 Poster session
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:15 – Closing and award ceremony
19:30 – Dance party
14th September (Saturday):
06:30 – 07:30 Breakfast
07:30 –14:00 Optional field trip to the Kis-Balaton in the area of the Balaton Uplands National Park
The field trip starts after breakfast at 7:30 and ends around 14:00 (exact details can be arranged during previous days) with a return to Balatonvilágos. Lunch is provided as lunch boxes. The impressive area of the Kis-Balaton is part of the Balaton Uplands National Park, where wetland reconstruction was conducted which led to a rich avifauna. It is a 14 745 hectares Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), with the following bird species: Ixobrychus minutus; Nycticorax nycticorax; Ardeola ralloides; Egretta alba; Ardea purpurea; Platalea leucorodia; Anser fabalis; Anser albifrons; Anser anser etc.; See more: https://www.bfnp.hu/en/latogatohely/dias–island–fenekpuszta)
Recommended clothing: comfortable urban clothes and shoes for walking, rainy weather may occur.
See more:
Birdlife Hungary – Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület: https://www.mme.hu/en
Homepage of the Balaton Uplands National Park: https://www.bfnp.hu/en
Details about the Kis-Balaton: https://www.bfnp.hu/en/tajegyseg/kis–balaton–en
Image film of the Balaton Uplands National Park with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8ardJGHZU