Programme

Man and the Sea | Presenter: Anastasios Eleftheriou, HCMR

Sharing and re-using computational workflows – WorkflowHub and FAIR Workflows in Biodiversity | Presenter: Carole Goble, University of Manchester, ELIXIR-UK | Download

The Dark Matter in Biology | Presenter: Nikos Kyrpides, JGI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Priorities and challenges for ESFRI in the next programming period | Presenter: José Luis Martínez Peña, ESFRI 

The support of LifeWatch ERIC to high-mountains research | Presenter: Antonello Provenzale, CNR IGG

Shifting Baselines: Patterns and Trends Linking Ocean Productivity and Biodiversity in a Changing Climate (OEMC) | Presenter: Francesco De Leo, CNR IRET | Download

Biodiversity and ecological responses to climate change: the PLKP perspective from Holocene Palynology | Presenter: Anna Maria Mercuri, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Reconciling short- and long-term ecological predictions for assisting decision making: a challenge for LifeWatch ERIC community | Presenter: Marta Magnani, Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, CNR | Download

New tools to identify refugia for biodiversity in mountain landscapes | Presenter: Maria Begoña García, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) | Download

Tracking functional performance of Water hyacinth across aquatic ecotopes | Presenter: Leticia Brito, University of Aveiro | Download

What is the energetic cost of warming for invertebrates? | Presenter: Milad Shokri, University of Salento

Climate change stress in benthic marine invertebrates: insights from multidimensional analysis | Presenter: Thanos Dailianis, HCMR | Download

Emerging Nesting Activity of Loggerhead Sea Turtles ( Caretta caretta ) at the Northern Margins of Nesting Range in the Greek Seas: Insights from the Aegean and Ionian Seas | Presenter: Drosos Koutsoubas, University of the Aegean

LifeWatch ERIC thematic service on Biogeography | Presenter: Alessandro Chiarucci, University of Bologna | Download

Biogeographical monitoring of Europe’s islands: harnessing opportunities for multiple wins | Presenter: Richard Field, University of Nottingham | Download

BiCKL The Biodiversity Knowledge Hub traverses obstacles to FAIR and linked biodiversity data usage | Presenter: Teodor Georgiev, Pensoft Publisher

Cataloguing for findability: software tools, workflows, and learning materials for biodiversity and ecology research | Presenter: Matúš Kalaš, University of Bergen, and ELIXIR Norway | Download

The Linnean Approach to Nomenclatural Accuracy: A Framework for Enhancing Taxonomic Harmonisation in Biodiversity Records | Presenter: André Menegotto, University of Sheffield

Integrated checklist of marine annelids along the Salento Peninsula unravels gaps of knowledge in their diversity and distribution | Presenter: Joachim Langeneck, CoNISMa | Download

Global Orchid Diversity in the Mediterranean Biome: identifying hotspots and exploring automated extinction risk assessment with deep neural networks | Presenter: Michele Lussu, University of Bologna | Download

Mapping past elevation bounded biogeographic systems at continuous temporal scale | Presenter: Johannes De Groeve, University of Amsterdam

Integrating Biologging Data and Destination Earth Digital Twins for Marine Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries: The Global Fish Tracking System (GFTS) | Presenter: Tina Odaka, Ifremer | Download

Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the LIFE 4 Pollinators project | Presenter: Marta Barberis, University of Bologna | Download

LifeWatch ERIC thematic service on Taxonomy | Presenter: Leen Vandepitte, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

What is in a name? The importance of clear taxonomic communication for biodiversity science & management | Presenter: Tammy Horton, National Oceanography Centre | Download

From names to networks: marine species knowledge in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and its role in LifeWatch ERIC | Presenter: Leen Vandepitte, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

The Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Project: Europe’s drive to reverse biodiversity loss through genomics research | Presenter: Robert Waterhouse, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)

“Mere Schoolboys to Old Aristotle?” Testing Darwin’s Claim Through Taxonomic and Functional Evidence | Presenter: Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Safeguarding Greek and European biodiversity – The Biodiversity Genomics EU project | Presenter: Alexandros Triantafyllidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Download

The Italian taxonomic backbone. Cooperation and interoperability in the LifeWatch Italy community | Presenter: Stefano Martellos, University of Trieste | Download

Not so cosmopolitan: What species complexes teach us about hidden diversity | Presenter: Maria Lampa, University of Crete, HCMR

Waking up from a taxonomist’s nightmare: Ophrys species delimitation meets AI in the phylogenomic era | Presenter: Elisa Addonizio, University of Naples Federico II | Download

Reconstruction of the functional anatomy of Phascolosoma stephensoni Stephen, 1942 (Annelida: Sipuncula: Phascolosomatidae) through micro-CT: a potential tool for taxonomy | Presenter: Desirée Dimichele, CoNISMa | Download

LifeWatch ERIC thematic service on Habitat mapping | Presenter: Olga Ameixa, University of Aveiro | Download

RESTORE4Cs | Presenter: Alberto Basset, LifeWatch ERIC

Predicting butterfly species presence from satellite imagery using soft contrastive learning | Presenter: Thijs van der Plas, Wageningen University & Research | Download

Climate Change: An Innovative Solution Using AI for Vineyards | Presenter: Nikos Minadakis, LifeWatch ERIC, Advance deep tech Services

ParAquaBase: a centralised resource for zoosporic parasite observations and host interactions | Presenter: Andrea Tarallo, CNR-IRET

Mapping the unknown – habitat characterisation in deep-sea environments | Presenter: Heliana Teixera, University of Aveiro

Scale matters in seagrass mapping and the needs of reporting of carbon stocks in NDCs under Paris Agreement | Presenter: Dimitris Poursanidis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

Mapping the Supply and Demand of Insect-Driven Ecosystem Services in Ria de Aveiro Saltmarshes: A Habitat-Based Approach | Presenter: Olga Ameixa, University of Aveiro

LifeWatch ERIC thematic service on Observation systems | Presenter: Andreja Ramšak, National Institute of Biology | Download

Advancing Biodiversity Monitoring through FAIR and Interoperable Research Infrastructures: The OSTrails Approach
| Presenter: Tassos Stavropoulos, OpenAIRE | Download

DTO BioFlow – Building a biodiversity component for the Digital Twin of the Ocean | Presenter: Klaas Deneudt, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BioDT´s biodiversity digital twin prototypes: examples from species distribution models to population dynamics | Presenter: Gabriela Zuquim, CSC – IT Center for Science

ANERIS: Towards a network of Operational Marine Biology | Presenter: Berta Companys, Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) | Download

Challenges in automation of monitoring and modeling in karst forest ecosystems | Presenter: Saša Šercer, Slovenian Forestry Institute | Download

Integrating Earth Observations, eDNA and Computer Vision for automated assessment of soil health | Presenter: Spyros Theodoridis, National Observatory of Athens | Download

Assessing the spillover: metabarcoding reveals contrasting non-indigenous species dynamics inside and outside a port
| Presenter: Adrià Antich González, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes | Download

Towards a Monitoring System for Agroecology in Europe: Results from Expert Consultations | Presenter: Salvador Fernandez, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

LifeWatch ERIC thematic service on Animal behaviour & Space use tracking | Presenter: David Casals, VLIZ – Flanders Marine Institute

From Coasts to Continents: Coordinated Animal Tracking for Biodiversity Monitoring in European Waters | Presenter: Sarah McLean, Loughs Agency | Download

Animal Sentinels: near real-time environmental monitoring via automated bird tracking analysis | Presenter: Eldar Rakhimberdiev, University of Amsterdam | Download

Pangeo-fish: Scalable Geolocation Modelling of Fish Movements Using Biologging and Earth Science Data in the Pangeo Ecosystem | Presenter: Tina Odaka, Ifremer | Download

Sub-surface behaviors of Hector’s dolphins could increase their risk of bycatch | Presenter: Ilias Foskolos, Aarhus University

First Documentation of Migration Dynamics of European Eels in Cyprus through Acoustic Telemetry | Presenter: Sotiris Meletiou, Bournemouth University | Download

Tracking Elasmobranch Responses to Submarine Power Cable Electromagnetic Fields in the Belgian North Sea | Presenter: David Casals, VLIZ – Flanders Marine Institute

Spatiotemporal segregation drives predator-prey coexistence in the deep sea | Presenter: Antoni Sánchez-Márquez, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM – CSIC) | Download