Opening speech by the Magnificent Rector Matteo Lorito University of Naples Federico II

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 […]

Chair Roberto Sandulli: 14:00 – 14:50 Invited talk: Gil Rilov (National Institute of Oceanography, Israel) “Tropicalization: a powerful engine of ocean change, and a conservation challenge” Tropicalisation is a marine process arising from contemporary climate change. It is characterised by range expansion or the invasion of tropical/subtropical species and the retraction of temperate species in […]