Wednesday, 29.04.2026: Workshops |
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| Time | FZA conference room |
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| 10:00 | Workshops |
| 16:00 | |
Thursday, 30.04.2026: Conference |
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| Time | FZA conference room |
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| 08:00 | Check-In |
| 09:00 | Welcome Notes |
| 09:15 | Keynote: Island biogeography under global change (Dr. Anna Walentowitz) |
| 09:45 | "Thursday Morning Session" O 1.1: Damaris M. Matten et al.: Aliens in the Norwegian flora: Effects on spatial patterns of diversity |
| 10:00 | O 1.2: Melanie Tietje et al.: Large-scale bird co-occurrence stability over time |
| 10:15 | O 1.3: Dieter Thomas Tietze et al.: The impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of tits and chickadees (Paridae) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | O 1.4: Camilla Wellstein et al.: Biogeography and evolution of endemic key species of high mountain vegetation in the South-eastern Alps |
| 11:15 | O 1.5: Thomas Deola et al.: Environmental filtering toward stress-tolerant strategies in inland cliff plant communities |
| 11:30 | O 1.6: Michele Di Musciano et al.: Disentangling temporal vegetation dynamics through trait-based trajectory analysis |
| 11:45 | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 | "Thursday Afternoon Session" O 2.1: Michael Ewald et al.: Climatic niche and potential climate-driven range shifts of cushion plants in mountain regions worldwide |
| 13:15 | O 2.2: Moritz Fallgatter: Global trends in alpine plant species composition under climate change |
| 13:30 | O 2.3: Eileen Straube: Unearthing the future: Exploring implications of geographic range dynamics in the fossil record |
| 13:45 | O 2.4: Gregor Mathes et al.: Fossil-calibrated predictions of local and global extinctions |
| 14:00 | O 2.5: Phillip Jardine: How well does the plant fossil record capture vegetation phylogenetic diversity? |
| 14:15 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45 | O 2.7: Axel Ingi Einarsson et al.: Effects of Warming Climate and Land Use Change on Ecosystem Processes in Icelandic Rangelands as Mediated by Plants |
| 15:00 | O 2.8: Pia Maria Eibes et al.: Multi-scale patterns of plant co-occurrence and functional diversity in patchy vegetation across an arid biodiversity hotspot |
| 15:15 | O 2.9: Lorenzo Ricci et al.: Protected areas enhance biodiversity across Europe: a continental and national assessment |
| 15:30 | O 2.9: Severin Irl et al.: Plant size variation between quartz islands and their surroundings in a South African desert ecosystem |
| 15:45 | O 2.10: Yanchao Cheng et al.: Integrating Hydrological Extremes into Outbreak Risk Modelling for Vector Borne Diseases in Europe |
| 16:00 | Postersession |
| 17:30 | Tour Botanical Garden |
| 18:30 | Conference Dinner in the Botanical Garden |
| 22:00 | |
Friday, 01.05.2026: Conference (Friday) |
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| Time | FZA conference room |
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| 08:00 | Check-In |
| 09:00 | Keynote: Renaturalisation dynamics on Mediterranean small islands detected by plant community resurvey (Prof. Alessandro Chiarucci) |
| 09:30 | "Friday Morning Session" O 3.1: Antonello Provenzale: Wildfires in the Mediterranean: trends, patterns, drivers and impacts |
| 09:45 | O 3.2: Michael Rudner et al.: Floral resources in agricultural landscapes throughout the vegetation period |
| 10:00 | O 3.3: Juergen Kreyling: Experimental Biogeography |
| 10:15 | O 3.4: Florian Wittmann: Biogeographic differences of Amazonian floodplain forests and their contribution to gamma diversity |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | O 3.6: OLE REIDAR Vetaas: Tropical Niche Conservatism Hypothesis rejected for plant families along a tropical – alpine gradients |
| 11:15 | O 3.7: Alexandra Muellner-Riehl et al.: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in African Plant Diversity: Insights from the NaijaFLO Project |
| 11:30 | O 3.8: Christoph Locker et al.: Old-field succession of taxonomic and functional diversity in the iconic humid evergreen laurel forest of the Canary Islands |
| 11:45 | LifeWatch ERIC through the Eyes of its CEO: Advancing Biodiversity Research in the Digital Age (Christos Arvanitidis) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 | Keynote: Is science at risk? Trust and integrity in the age of AI and predatory publishing (Prof. Richard Field) |
| 14:00 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 | "Friday Afternoon Session" O 4.1: Stefan Pinkert et al.: Metabolic ecology and habitat stability explain the disproportionately high species richness in standing waters |
| 14:45 | O 4.2: Matheus Araujo et al.: A mid-domain rule of environmental niche conservatism in tetrapods |
| 15:00 | O 4.3: Franz Krah et al.: Human impacts shape global fungal diversity |
| 15:15 | O 4.4: B. Cazorla et al.: Global Ecosystem Functional Types |
| 15:30 | Plenary Meeting and Closing Notes |
| 16:00 | End of Conference | |
