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For detailed descriptions of the sessions, go to the dedicated Thematic Sessions and General Sessions page.

Disclaimer: Please note that the programme shown below is subject to change until the start of the conference. 
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  📍building: BEL
room: Auditorium
📍building: Herman Teirlinck
room: Auditorium

📍building: Herman Teirlinck
room: Toots Thielemans


RIPARIAS Data  


8:45-9:00


Neobiota welcome

 

 


9:00-9:50


Keynote
Laura A. MEYERSON

 

 


10:00-11:00


RIPARIAS
 SPECIAL SESSION

Morning Session Chair:
Arnaud MONTY

  • Muriel THIRION - Six Years, Three Regions, One Shared Challenge : The LIFE RIPARIAS story


GENERAL SESSION
POLICY AND GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS

  • Romeu Sardinha RIBEIRO, Sofia DUARTE, Gregory RUIZ, Paula CHAINHO - Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface for Marine Biosecurity: Insights from Transatlantic Non-indigenous species Frameworks

  • Aileen MILL, Kevin SMITH - Supporting progress towards global invasive species targets

  • Ana Cristina CARDOSA, Chiara MAGLIOZZI, Emmanuelle QUILLEROU, Giacomo Montereale GAVAZZI, Grégoire DUBOIS - EU Biodiversity Strategy: Knowledge support and monitoring for Global Biodiversity Framework Target 6

  • Margot VERMEYLEN, Diederik STRUBBE, Fleur PETERSEN, Teun EVERTS, Tim ADRIAENS - Trends and guidelines to contingency planning for invasion management
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break


11:30-12:00


RIPARIAS
SPECIAL SESSION

  • 11:30 - Marielle VAN RIEL - From rapid response to long-term resistance: Synergizing ecosystem resilience and early action in invasive alien species management

  • 11:45 - Pieter BOETS - Beyond control: ecosystem-based management of invasive alien crayfish


FLASH TALKS

  • Sven JELASKA, Damjana LEVAČIĆ - Should we pay more attention to Gazania rigens in Europe? 

  • Carmen RODRÍGUEZ-CORONADO, Néstor CARRILLO-BARRAL, Federico POMAR, Moisés CANLE, Jaime FAGÚNDEZ - Invasion mechanisms of Cortaderia selloana in relation to soil variables: is silicon uptake the key? 

  • Aysha Rizwana Jamal NASRUDDIN ABDULLA, Aysha Rizwana JAMAL - Dual effects of Karrikin 1 on invasive Solidago gigantea: suppression of clonal growth and stimulation of seed bank recruitment

  • Anna KOWALSKA, Ewa KOŁACZKOWSKA, Edyta REGULSKA, Jacek WOLSKI, Zofia JABS-SOBOCIŃSKA, Martyna Anna ZARZYCKA, Bożena OMELIAŃSKA, Piotr SIKORSKI, Mariola WROCHNA, Marta STANKIEWICZ-KOSYL, Andrzej AFFEK - A multi-faceted assessment of the condition of ecosystems affected by the invasion of North American goldenrods (Solidago spp.) 

  • Alica LIPINSKI, Ingo GRASS, Christine SHEPPARD - Specific floral traits rather than overall similarity mediate how Impatiens glandulifera invasion affects native plant fitness 

  • Noemie SHEPPARD - Are alien grasses winning the race in the Antarctic?
 


12:00-12:45


RIPARIAS
SPECIAL SESSION

  • 12:00 - Marc VENTURA - LIFE RESQUE ALPYR: Restoration of aquatic ecosystems in protected areas of the Alps and Pyrenees

  • 12:15 - Etienne BRANQUART - When does hand pulling work? Predicting eradication feasibility of invasive aquatic plant in Wallonia

  • 12:30 - Soria DELVA, Damiano OLDONI - Assessing the applicability of automated tools for early detection and monitoring of invasive alien species


GENERAL SESSION
THE ECONOMICS OF INVASIVE SPECIES

  • Pete ROBERTSON, Ben ROWLAND, John KEAN, Aileen MILL, Steven RUSHTON, Riccardo SCALERA, Orsi TOTH - Costs and Scale in Invasive Species Eradication: A Global Synthesis Across Taxa and Methods

  • Michele MUGNAI, Paride BALZANI, Ismael SOTO, Danish AHMED, Ross Cuthbert, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Enrico TORDONI, Ellen DOLAN, Lais CARNEIRO, Giuseppe Brundu, Jane Catford, Franz Essl, Romina Fernandez, Junichi Fujinuma, Gustavo Heringer, Philip HULME, Ganna Kolomiiets, Melina Kourantidou, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Irene Martín-Forés, Alice Misuri, Ana NOVOA, Martín Nuñez, Jan PERGL, Petr Pyšek, Eugenia Siccardi, Peter van Bodegom, Montserrat Vilà, Bruce WEBBER, Rafael Xavier, Shilu ZHENG, Franck COURCHAMP - Global economic costs of invasive plants

  • Morgane HENRY - Ecological and economic impacts of invasive species in Canada
 
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break


14:00-15:30


THEMATIC SESSION
 AQUATIC PLANT INVASIONS: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

Afternoon Session Chair:
Nynke STRAATSMA

  • Wayne DAWSON - Freshwater plant invasions: a global, basin-scale overview

  • Johan VAN VALKENBURG - Cabomba caroliniana from a goldfish favourite to a public threat in 20 years’ time

  • Luca VAN DER HOEVEN, Lars REBEL - CWA 17916:2022: The European Standard for Removing Nuisance Rooting (Alien) Aquatic Plants with The Rake Method

  • Leon STERK - Integrating AI-Based Species Recognition and Drone Monitoring for Scalable Invasive Aquatic Plant Management

  • René TANK - Practical example LIFE Wieden-Weerribben

RIPARIAS Closing remarks
Ana KLENOVSEK


THEMATIC SESSION TRANSFORMING INVASION SCIENCE WITH BIG DATA

  • Theresa HENKE, Maria Loreto CASTILLO, Cândida G. VALE, Pavel PIPEK, Simon REYNAERT, Reut VARDI, Ana NOVOA - Out of place but in your search history -Identifying drivers of public interest in invasive alien species

  • Maria Loreto CASTILLO, Petr Pyšek - People, plant invaders and protection: understanding the human and social dimensions of plant invasions in protected areas

  • Pavel PIPEK, Susan CANAVAN, Ana NOVOA - Can iEcology address Wallacean shortfalls in biodiversity data?

THEMATIC SESSION TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL IMPACT METRIC

  • Sebastian GOMEZ-MALDONADO, Morelia CAMACHO-CERVANTES - Patterns of invasion impacts across North America: a continental synthesis across biomes

  • Fengzhi HE, Tao WANG, Xing CHEN - Multifaceted impacts of alien megafauna on ecosystems
  • Franck COURCHAMP, Corey BRADSHAW, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano, Ross CUTHBERT, Sonia TIEO, Shengyu Wang, Chunlong LIU, Uog Arbieu, Arman PILI, Andrea Desiderato, Steven COOKE, Jonathan TONKIN, Josie SOUTH, Josh Firth, Tad DALLAS, Laís Carneiro - InvaPact: a metric to quantify the ecological impacts of biological invasions

  • Laís CARNEIRO - Quantifying the global ecological impacts of biological invasions

  • Xing CHEN, Tao WANG, Fengzhi HE - Global introduction and impacts of alien freshwater fish


THEMATIC SESSION
REPTILE INVASIONS: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

  • Marta López-Darias, Borja Maestresalas - Towards the design of a selective trap for an invasive snake

  • Haldre ROGERS - Cascading Ecological Impacts of the Invasive Brown Treesnake Alberto Puente-Rolón Establishment and Ecological Impact of the InvasiveRed-Tailed Boa (Boa constrictor) in Puerto Rico

  • Jairo Mendoza Roldan, Gianpaolo MONTINARO, Mario ALVES, Otranto DOMENICO - Health and zoonotic pathogens surveillance of invasive snakes: A One-Health approach

  • Loïc VAN DOORN, Jeroen SPEYBROECK - Beauty and the beast - assessing the 20-year invasion history of the beauty rat snake in Belgium

  • Alberto Puente-Rolón - Establishment and Ecological Impact of the InvasiveRed-Tailed Boa (Boa constrictor) in Puerto Rico

  • João RATO, Raquel XAVIER, D. James HARRIS, Filipe BANHA, Pedro ANASTACIO - Beyond competition: Non-native turtles reshape microbiomes and mediate microbial exchange in invaded communities


15:30-18:00


POSTER SESSION
including networking over Belgian specialties

16:00 Pensoft Neobiota Editorial meeting