NEOBIOTA: Towards a Synthesis

Programme

Tuesday, September 23

Registration opens at 13:00

17:00 - 18:00   Plenary: Marcel Rejmánek »Biological invasions: what we know and what we want to know

18:30 - 20:00   Welcome party & Poster session I.

Wednesday, September 24

8:10 - 8:30   Welcome

• František Pelc »Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic
• Jiří Drahoš »Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Svatopluk Matula »Vice-Dean of the Czech University of Life Sciences

Session 1: What is it out there? Invasion patterns, pathways and spread

8:30 - 9:10   Keynote: Tom Stohlgren »Invasion patterns: theory and scale

• 9:10 - 9:30   Philip E. Hulme »Relative roles of life-form, land use and climate in recent dynamics of alien plant distributions
• 9:30 - 9:50   David B. Roy, Philip E. Hulme & DAISIE partners »Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe: DAISIE as a tool for addressing biological invasions
• 9:50 - 10:10   Jonathan M. Jeschke »Across islands and continents, mammals are more successful invaders than birds
• 10:10 - 10:30   Sergej Olenin & Viktoras Didžiulis »Patterns of biological invasions in European aquatic environments: the analysis of the EU funded DAISIE and IMPASSE project results
• 10:30 - 10:50   J. Foucaud, J. Orivel, J.H.C. Delabie, B. Gerber, H. Jourdan, M. Vonshak, M. Tindo, J.-L. Mercier, J.-B. Mikissa, T. McGlynn, T. Thompson, S. Mikheyev, J. Oettler & A. Estoup »The non-paradoxical invasion of the World tropics by the little fire ant: introduction routes and evolutionary paths
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  10:50 - 11:20   Coffe break
   
• 11:20 - 11:40   Elena Tricarico, Federica Cenni, Simone Cianfanelli, Elisabetta Lori, Annamaria Nocita & Francesca Gherardi »Ecological and socio-economic correlates of animal alien species establishment in Italian inland waters
• 11:40 - 12:00   Tomáš Herben »Patterns of invasibility in neutral communities
• 12:00 - 12:20   Yu.Yu. Dgebuadze & I.Yu. Feniova »Stochastic and deterministic mechanisms structuring aquatic communities invaded by non-indigenous species
• 12:20 - 12:40   Mark Torchin & Gregory Ruiz »Past, current and future role of the Panama Canal in regional and global coastal invasions
• 12:40 - 13:00   Mark Williamson, Jon Pitchford & Calvin Dytham »Spreading to a limit
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  13:00 - 14:20   Lunch

Session 2: How does it work? Mechanisms of species invasiveness

14:20 - 15:00   Keynote: Steven Chown

• 15:00 - 15:20   Stefanie Hilmer, David Algar, David Tonkin & Elke Schleucher »“Ferals in Paradise” - Feral cat research on Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• 15:20 - 15:40   Jarosław Kobak & Tomasz Kakareko »Behavioural responses of the invasive mussel Dreissena polymorpha to the presence of potential predators
• 15:40 - 16:00   Oliver Bossdorf, Emmanuel Cuenot & Stefan Klotz »An ecologically motivated index of plant invasiveness: comparing the abundances of invasive plants in their native versus introduced ranges
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  16:00 - 16:30   Coffe break
   
• 16:30 - 16:50   Andrew Kanarek & Colleen Webb »Predicting invasion success by modeling ecological and evolutionary dynamics
• 16:50 - 17:10   Mark van Kleunen & Markus Fischer »Release from fungal pathogens cannot explain the spread of invasive plants
• 17:10 - 17:30   Chiara Ferracini, Ambra Quacchia, Simona Bonelli, Emilio Balletto & Alberto Alma »Possible shift of Cacyreus marshalli on native Geranium plants
• 17:30 - 17:50   O. Broennimann, U. A. Treier, H. Müller-Schärer & A. Guisan »Climatic niche shift hampers predictions of biological invasions? Both native and invaded ranges matter
• 17:50 - 18:10   Lorne M. Wolfe »The role of historical and contemporary forces in biological invasions

18:30 - 20:00   Poster session II.

Thursday, September 25
Session 3: Why does it happen? Evolution of species invasiveness

8:30 - 9:10   Keynote: Tim Blackburn »Invasions and extinctions in island avifaunas

• 9:10 - 9:30   Carol Eunmi Lee »Rapid evolution across independent invasions into novel environments
• 9:30 - 9:50   John Bailey »Opening Pandora’s seed packet - unpredictable outcomes in indestructible plants?
• 9:50 - 10:10   Grégory Mahy, Sonia Vanderhoeven, Marie-Solange Tiébré, Christine Krebs, John Bailey & Urs Schaffner »Evolutionary potential of the invasive Fallopia spp. complex or why the evolution of invasive species must be considered in management strategies
• 10:10 - 10:30   Heinz Müller-Schärer »Evolution in invasive plants and implications for trophic interactions and their management for biological control
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  10:30 - 11:00   Coffe break
   
• 11:00 - 11:20   Ruth A. Hufbauer, Robin A. Marrs & René Sforza »Invasion genetics of two knapweeds (Centaurea stoebe and C. diffusa): microsatellites and cpDNA reveal multiple introductions, increased heterozygosity in C. stoebe and increased population structure in C. diffusa
• 11:20 - 11:40   Robert I. Colautti & Spencer C. H. Barrett »Evolution of the invasive wetland plant Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) along a latitudinal gradient in eastern North America
• 11:40 - 12:00   Laura A. Meyerson »Intraspecific hybridization of native and introduced Phragmites australis in North America
• 12:00 - 12:20Jason J. Kolbe »Invasion history and its consequences for genetic and phenotypic variation in the invasion of the lizard, Anolis sagrei
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  12:20 - 13:40   Lunch

Session 4: What do they do? Impact of invasions

• 13:40 - 14:00   Marten Winter, Ingolf Kühn, Frank LaSorte, Oliver Schweiger, Wolfgang Nentwig & Stefan Klotz »Are we starting to face a "Homogocene"? - Homogenization patterns between Europe and North America
• 14:00 - 14:20   Elfi Kühnel, Manuel Kobelt, Sven Bacher & Wolfgang Nentwig »Ecological and economic impact of alien mammals in Europe
• 14:20 - 14:40   Pälvi Salo & Erkki Korpimäki »Alien vs. native predators and nonlethal effects of a top predator
• 14:40 - 15:00   Ronaldo Sousa, António J. A. Nogueira, Carlos Antunes & Lúcia Guilhermino »Extremely high production of the non-indigenous invasive species Corbicula fluminea: effects on ecosystem processes and functions
• 15:00 - 15:20   James E. Byers, Paul Gribben & Jeffrey Wright »Evaluating direct and indirect mediation of predation by a habitat modifying invasive species, Caulerpa taxifolia, in southeastern Australia
• 15:20 - 15:40   Heinke Jäger, Ingo Kowarik & Alan Tye »Long-term effects of ecosystem engineer on Galápagos plant communities and their underlying mechanisms
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  15:40 - 16:00   Coffe break
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  19:30   Conference dinner
   

Friday, September 26
Session 5: What can we do? Prediction, risk assessment, management & policy

8:10 - 8:50   Keynote: Piero Genovesi »How to respond to biological invasions? Key points of European policy.

• 8:50 - 9:10   Marianne Kettunen & Clare Shine »Progress towards an EU Strategy on Invasive Alien Species
• 9:10 - 9:30   S. J. Novak & J. H. Rausch »Use of plant surveys, distributional data, and genetic analyses to monitor invasive populations: Taeniatherum caput-medusae (Poaceae) as an example of the approach
• 9:30 - 9:50   Rieks D. van Klinken »Predicting the future of weed invasions at the national to landscape scale
• 9:50 - 10:10   Franz Essl, M. G. Smolik, S. Dullinger, I. Kleinbauer, M. Leitner, J. Peterseil, L.M. Stadler & G. Vogl »Modelling the spread of invasive alien plants: integrating habitat distribution models and interacting particle systems
• 10:10 - 10:30   Alain Roques »How can us the DAISIE inventory of insect species aliens to Europe help forecasting future invasions?
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  10:30 - 11:00   Coffe break
   
• 11:00 - 11:20   Marc Kenis, Renate Zindel, Laurence Golaz, René Eschen, Michael Majerus & Remy Ware »Assessing the risk posed by an invasive predator on native predators: the example of Harmonia axyridis
• 11:20 - 11:40   John D. Mumford, Richard H.A. Baker, Olaf Booy, Ray J.C. Cannon, Gordon H. Copp, Dominic Eyre & Mark Rees »Enhancing the UK non-native risk assessment scheme
• 11:40 - 12:00   Vadim Panov, Boris Alexandrov, Kestutis Arbaciauskas, Rosa Binimelis, Michal Grabowski, Frances Lucy, Rob Leuven, Stefan Nehring, Momir Paunović, Vitaliy Semenchenko & Mikhail Son »Risk assessment of invasive alien species introductions via European inland waterways
• 12:00 - 12:20   Paul O. Downey, S.A. King & Alana L. Burley »Monitoring the response of alien and native species to control measures – can we achieve a synthesis?
• 12:20 - 12:40   Uwe Starfinger »Concerted action against further spread of Ambrosia in Germany
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  12:40 - 13:00   Concluding session
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  13:00 - ...   Lunch