Marine Biodiversity loss

Chair Roberto Danovaro:

• 10:00 – 10:50 Invited talk: Paul Snelgrove (University of Newfoundland, Canada) “Marine Biodiversity Takes Center Stage: Sustaining Biodiversity in the 21st Century”
  Despite expanding pressures on ocean resources and associated new challenges for ocean sustainability, rapid scientific tool development creates new opportunities to advance our understanding of marine biodiversity and its importance to our planet’s life support system. The growing alphabet soup of conservation aspirations, from CBD to IUCN to IPBES to SDGs, illustrate society’s growing recognition of biodiversity, the science that informs it, and the desire to improve sustainability. Examples from seafloor studies of biodiversity drivers, ecosystem functioning, and population connectivity illustrate how expansion of the toolbox available to support biodiversity research in recent decades has enabled more comprehensive analyses to address the daunting spatial and temporal scales of marine ecosystems to consider when providing science advice to inform policy. Simultaneously, new approaches provide process measurements and considerations that policy makers can consider in prioritizing the where, when and how of management efforts.  Effective translation of our science to policy makers and the public will help to ensure that the 21^st century achieves its full potential as a golden age for sustainable marine biodiversity.
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• 10:50 – 11:00 Speaker: Cristina Galobart “Habitat fragmentation in Mediterranean marine forests: Effects on structural species, associated macroalgal and macroinvertebrate communities, and their functioning.”
  Authors: C. Galobart, D. Martin, S. de Caralt, M. P. Mura, A. Vergés, J. Santamaría, J. Boada, C. Sitjà, E. Cebrian.
• 11:00 – 11:10 Speaker: Anaïs Barrera Montoro “The future of interactions in marine forests: a meta-analysis on global patterns of anthropogenic-induced changes on grazing rates.”
  Authors: A. Barrera, M. Minguito-Frutos, A. G. B. Poore, T. Alcoverro, A. Vergés, J. Boada.
• 11:10 – 11:20 Speaker: Luca Rindi “Intertidal foundation species regulate biodiversity via amelioration and homogenization of environmental conditions.”
  Authors: L. Rindi, L. Pedicini, I. Bertocci, L. Benedetti-Cecchi, F. Bulleri.
• 11.20 – 11.40 Coffee Break
  
• 11:40 – 11:50 Speaker: Davide Agnetta “Environmental variables and bottom trawling drive beta diversity of Mediterranean demersal assemblages.”
  Authors: D. Agnetta, I. Vascotto, D. Panzeri, C. Solidoro, T. Fortibuoni, S. Raicevich, S. Libralato.
• 11:50 – 12:00 Speaker: Francesco Enrichetti “Species loss in a Mediterranean hydroid assemblage (cnidaria, hydrozoa).”
  Authors: S. Moggia, G. Bavestrello, F. Enrichetti, C. G. Di Camillo, S. Puce, F. Boero.
• 12:00 – 12:10 Speaker: Romina Kraus “Impact of an invasive species on the population of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus, an important fishery resource in the Adriatic Sea.”
  Authors: R. Kraus, N. Supić.
• 12:10 – 12:20 Speaker: Małgorzata Dembek “Impact of environmental conditions on Baltic cod spawning success: A study on egg and larvae abundance and factors limiting their survival.”
  Authors: M. Dembek, P. Margoński.
• 12:20 – 12:30 Speaker: Iris Sampaio “Tackling biodiversity loss with a national marine collection: the Portuguese Blue Biobank.”
  Authors: I. Sampaio, R. Calado, F. Carvalho, R. Costa, A. Cristas, T. Keller-Costa, R. Leite, C. Marques, N. Martins, A. Mucha, I. Silva, A. Ramos, J. R. Xavier, V. Vasconcelos.
• 12:30 – 12.40 Speaker: Tjitske J. Kooistra “SANDsitivity of Wadden Sea benthos – species and community tolerance to changing coastal sediments.”
  Authors: T. J. Kooistra, R. Witbaard, T. J. Bouma, S. G. Pearson, A. I. Bijleveld, T. van der Heide, K. Soetaert.