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 […]

Chair Antonio Terlizzi: 08:30 – 09:20 Invited talk: Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi (University of Pisa, Italy) “From large to small and back to large again: embracing multiple scales to understand resilience and stability of reef assemblages” Scale in ecology is a multidimensional concept, referring both to the hierarchical levels of biological organization and to the spatial and […]

Chair Marco Munari: 14:00 – 14:50 Invited talk: Sam Dupont (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) "The order of time – Bridging chemical changes with biological response to address ocean acidification" Addressing and minimizing the impact of ocean acidification require an understanding of how the changes in the carbonate chemistry drives the biological responses. While significant progress […]

It would be great if participants would provide one/two representatives for each country, if possible.