🗓 THURSDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2026

9:00-9:50

Keynote Anke FISCHER

10:00-11:00

GENERAL SESSION HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF IAS

• Philip Hulme - How will global megatrends shape the future of plant invasions?
  
  
• Tamara Kovács, Agnes Zolyomi, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Helen Bayliss, Alexandra Franklin, Miia Jauni, Anna Poimala, Heidi Blom, Cristina Preda, Carla F. Gavrilescu, Laurentiu Rozylowicz, Ana Novoa, Sofie Meeus, Simon Reynaert, Laura Abraham, Quentin Groom - Public perceptions of invasive alien species and acceptance of management options: a cross-country survey with embedded framing experiment across five European countries
  
  
• Rudolf Mremi, Jane Catford - Traditional ecological knowledge of invasive plants: Implications for invasive species management in the Serengeti socio-ecological system
  
  
• Christine Horn - Hunting as public service: The role of hunting in invasive species management in Europe

GENERAL SESSION INVASION IMPACTS

• Heleen Van Ransbeeck, Jasmijn Hillaert, Rein Brys, Sabrina Neyrinck, David Halfmaerten, Nick Dillen, Charlotte Van Driessche, Axel Neukermans, Diederik Strubbe, Bram D''hondt, Tim Adriaens, Ellen Danneels, Dirk de Graaf, Dries Bonte - Metabarcoding reveals broad prey spectrum and flexible foraging in the invasive yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina)
  
  
• Seokmin Kim, Drew Hiatt, Catherine Fahey, S. Luke Flory - Invasion, drought, and fires interact to degrade native plant communities
  
  
• Margherita Abba - Trophic ecology of the invasive pond loach Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842) in NW Italy
  
  
• James Hardwick, Zarah Pattison, Christopher Hackney - How plant invasions alters river channel sediment dynamics across an invasion gradient

11:30-12:00

FLASH TALKS

• Daniele Grech - Seek and ye shall find: chronicles of a foretold detection of marine alien species in Sardinia (Italy) from the ALIEM VIGIL project
  
  
• Clara Giachetti, Nicolas Battini - Long-term changes in fouling communities in marine ports: preliminary observations from a 5-year monitoring program
  
  
• Julian W. Zeller, Gabriele Cananzi, Giacomo Meli, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Elena Tricarico - Freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in relation to the invasive alien species Myriophyllum aquaticum in Tuscany, Italy
  
  
• Luca Salomon, Dusan Jelic, Mathieu Denoël - Invasive mosquitofish shapes invertebrate communities in Mediterranean ponds
  
  
• Olga Delange, Nausicaa Noret, Iris Stiers - Seed bank dynamics of Ludwigia spp. - invaded ecosystems: a case study in invaded and managed Belgian ponds
  
  
• Marija Kovačević, Kristina Ašenbrener - When river management facilitates biological invasion: Lessons from Ludwigia peploides in the Ilova river (Croatia)

FLASH TALKS

• Jasmijn Hillaert, Heleen Van Ransbeeck, Dries Bonte, jim casaer, Bram D''hondt, Nicolas Pardon, Diederik Strubbe, Tim Adriaens - Modelling Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) population dynamics using citizen science data to inform management in Flanders
  
  
• Vânia Baptista, João Monteiro, João Encarnação, Maria Alexandra Teodósio, Joana Cruz - Blue crab fishing as an invasive control strategy
  
  
• Junya Saito, Tomoaki Konno, Nobuo Ishiyama - Refining a sterilization technique for invasive signal crayfish: removal mode influences recovery from reproductive inhibition
  
  
• Maud Segal, Teun Everts, Loïc van Doorn, Jeroen Speybroeck, Rein Brys, Tim Adriaens - Transboundary monitoring and management of the northernmost invasive population of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis): Is there still any hope?
  
  
• Lucinda Lintott, Hannah Tidbury, Paul Stebbing - From Pathways to People: Stakeholder Engagement as a Foundation for Marine Biosecurity Uptake
  
  
• Paula Gervazoni, Lehlohonolo Adams, Suneeta Bhatta, Arnau Bosch-Guiu, Lucas Borges de Lima, Susan Canavan, Lida Choursoglou, Elisa Corazza, Pablo Gonzalez-Moreno, Daniela Fuentes-Rodríguez, Theresa Henke, Eliska Hlavacova, Adrián Lázaro-Lobo, Gaia Micco, Priscila Ana Powell, Lara Sabater, Mariano Santajuliana, Ross Shackleton, Florencia A Yannelli, Ana Novoa - Translating scientific evidence into decision-support tools for invasive plant management

12:00-12:45

THEMATIC SESSION INVASIONS, HEALTH, AND ECOSYSTEMS

• Jason Sckrabulis, Andrew Nisip, Henry Smith, Margaret Simon, Flávia Rogério, Claire Godineau, Philip Harmon, Maria Orive, Robert Holt, Erica Goss, Nicole Gauthier, Natalie Christian, Keith Clay, S. Luke Flory - Invasive plant drives pathogen spill over from natural to agricultural systems
  
  
• Chiara Magliozzi, Joaquín Vicente, Ana Cristina Cardoso - The interplay of drivers behind disease spillover risk from invasive alien mammals in Europe
  
  
• Riccardo Scalera, Angeliki Martinou, Quentin Groom, Jodey Peyton, Helen Roy - Toward a "WildHealth" network: a transdisciplinary framework to address the threat of alien pathogens

GENERAL SESSION INVASION IMPACTS

• Joana Cruz - Long-term dynamics and trophic impacts of the invasive hydrozoan Blackfordia virginica in a regulated estuarine ecosystem
  
  
• Rein Brys, Jelger Herder, Teun Everts - eDNA monitoring of invasive Marbled crayfish and impact assessment on native amphibians
  
  
• Rajat Rastogi - Impacts that cascade! Multi-species invasions in a dry tropical forest show signs of ecosystem collapse over a decade

14:00-14:50

Keynote Joana VICENTE

15:00-17:00

THEMATIC SESSION INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES
FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

• Sushmita Krishnan, Nica Claudia Calò, Ingolf Kühn, Christine Fürst - Weed, Waste, or Resource? Rethinking Water Hyacinth Governance in Sanapur Lake, Karnataka, India
  
  
• Jessica Bernal Borrego - Integrating roadside monitoring and agent-based modelling to support invasive plant management in Mediterranean road corridors
  
  
• Joana Vicente, Eva Malta-Pinto, Michael Pocock, Cândida G. Vale, João Gonçalves, Pedro Castro, Quentin Groom, Helen Roy, Bernd Lenzner, Lisa Tedeschi, Renato Henriques - Digital decision-support tools for invasive alien species prioritisation, management and reporting

THEMATIC SESSION PRIORITIZATION FOR
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

• Tamryn Venter, Jodey Peyton, Katie Costello, Deah Lieurance, Eva Benavides Rios, Ana Nunes - A global review of horizon scanning exercises for invasive alien species
  
  
• Olaf BOOY, Sarah DAVY, Niall MOORE, Ben ROWLAND, Aileen MILL - Evaluation of a structured approach to support non-native species management prioritisation
  
  
• Teun Everts - Hit them where it hurts: Spatial management prioritisation of pondscape invasions using graph theory
  
  
• Cristina Preda, Carla F. Gavrilescu, Daniyar Memedemin, Lucian Patrascu, Marius Skolka, Laurentiu Rozylowicz - Drivers of alien species richness in Romania's protected areas
  
  
• Federica Rossetto, Soria Delva, Diederik Strubbe, Tim Adriaens, Francisco J. Oficialdegui, Virgilio Hermoso, Belinda Gallardo - Quantifying the biodiversity costs of failed prevention of future freshwater invaders in Europe

THEMATIC SESSION DRIVERS OF INVASION SUCCESS

• Jan Čuda, Alessandra Kortz, Martin Hejda, Margherita Gioria, Maria Loreto Castillo, Ana Novoa, Jan Pergl, Pavel Pipek, Irena Axmanová, Franz Essl, Ingolf Kühn, Barbara Tokarska-Guzik, Mark van Kleunen, Marten Winter, Petr Pyšek - Habitat niche breadth drives global patterns of alien plant naturalization
  
  
• Florian Ruland, Jonathan Jeschke - Eco-Evolutionary Experience with structures of anthropogenic origin
  
  
• Eléna Manfrini, Nicolas Sauvion - Edible insect farming and the risk of biological invasions: a global trait-based assessment

THEMATIC SESSION WORKFLOWS IN SUPPORT
OF RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

• Hanno Seebens - Standards of standards: Relevance of harmonising workflows for data integration and analysis
  
  
• Tanara Renard Truong, Hanno Seebens - A reproducible workflow for standardizing first records of non-native species
  
  
• Belinda Gallardo, Alba Sevilla-Navarro - Generating a reproducible workflow to compile a global dataset of freshwater invasive and alien species (FRIAS)
  
  
• Lien Reyserhove, Sanne Govaert, Jakovos Demetriou, Angeliki (F) Kelly Martinou, Cristina Preda, Laurentiu Rozylowicz, Cândida G. Vale, Joana Vicente, Helen Roy, Quentin Groom - Towards open, transparent and scalable checklists of introduced and invasive species: a OneSTOP approach
  
  
• Nigel Taylor - A unified framework for recording invasive alien species removal projects to inform research and management