Programme

 TIME

MONDAY 26/09

TUESDAY 27/09

WEDNESDAY 28/09

THURSDAY 29/09

FRIDAY 30/09

8:00-9:00 REGISTRATIONS  
Indicators I Open session I Invasions I Transitional waters
Chair: Alberto Basset Chair: Jean-Pierre Feral Chair: Carlo Nike Bianchi Chair: Arturas Razinkovas
9:00-9:15 WELCOME Keynote Speaker:
Dr Angel Borja
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND NEWLY DEVELOPED INDICATORS IN RELATION TO BIODIVERSITY,FOOD WEBS AND SEAFLOOR INTEGRITY
Chryssi Mytilineou: FISH BEHAVIOUR FROM UNDERWATER OBSERVATIONS IN THE BOTTOM TRAWL CODEND FROM THE AEGEAN SEA Keynote Speaker:
Dr Argyro Zenetos
ONGOING INITIATIVES ON MARINE INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES AT PAN-EUROPEAN, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL
Keynote Speaker: Professor Angel Perez-Ruzafa
FROM ESTUARINE TO LAGOON PARADOX OR WHY COASTAL LAGOONS SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN MARITIME STRATEGIES
9:15-9:30 Maite Erauskin Extramiana: ARE LARGE-BODIED SERRANIDS POPULATIONS DECREASING IN THE PACIFIC COAST OF THE SOUTHERN BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA?
9:30-9:45 Climate change Ι

Chair: Herman Hummel

Emre Yemisken: COMPARISON OF TRAWL FISHERIES EFFECT ON CHONDRICHTHYANS BETWEEN GOKCEADA ISLAND (NORTH EASTERN AEGEAN SEA) AND AROUND ISKENDERUN BAY (NORTH EASTERN LEVANTINE SEA)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Torkel Gissel Nielsen
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE PELAGIC FOOD WEB WITH EMPHASIS ON THE POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE SUCCESSION AND COMPOSITION OF THE MARINE PELAGIC FOOD WEB
9:45-10:00 Lena von Nordheim: EFFECTS OF BETHIC SUBSTRATE COMPLEXITY ON EGG MORTALITY OF ATLANTIC HERRING (CLUPEA HARENGUS) IN THE BALTIC SEA
10:00-10:15 Herman Hummel: THE ROLE OF ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THE PROTECTION OF PROTECTED AREAS Stefanos Kalogirou: THE SMALL-SCALE TRAP FISHERY IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN AEGEAN SEA: SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF PLESIONIKA NARVAL (FABRICIUS, 1787) Nadescha Zwerschke: STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX NATIVE AND INVASIVE HABITAT ENGINEERS SUPPORT SIMILAR COMMUNITIES Alberto Basset: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS OF BIODIVERSITY ORGANISATION IN TRANSITIONAL WATER ECOSYSTEMS
10:15-10:30 Sophie Elliott: APPLYING ECOSYSTEM AND RISK-BASED APPROACHES, TOWARD AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF BENTHIC HABITATS COMMUNITIES AT REGIONAL SEA SCALES Aikaterini Anastasopoulou: REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF PLESIONIKA NARVAL IN THE DODECANESE ISLANDS, S.E. AEGEAN SEA Kristiina Nurkse: SEPARATE AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF NON-INDIGENOUS SPECIES ON NATIVE COMMUNITIES: THE TWO AGGRESSIVE NOVEL BENTHIC PREDATORS IN THE BALTIC SEA Yannis Cladas: RESPONSE OF PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES TO A DYSTROFIC EVENT IN PAPAS LAGOON (ARAXOS CAP, WESTERN GREECE)
10:30-10:45 Carlo Nike Bianchi: SEAWATER WARMING AT THE NORTHERN REACH FOR SOUTHERN SPECIES: APPRAISAL, MONITORING AND NEW RECORDS IN THE GULF OF GENOA Matthew Frost: ASSESSING SENSITIVITY OF MARINE AND COASTAL HABITATS: THE MARESA APPROACH Dorothee Moll: ESTIMATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF SINGLE NURSERY AREAS TO THE OVERALL HERRING (CLUPEA HARENGUS) POPULATION IN THE WESTERN BALTIC SEA BY OTOLITH CHEMISTRY Melih Ertan Çinar: MACROBENTHIC FAUNA ASSOCIATED WITH THE INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES BRACHIDONTES PHARAONIS (MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA) IN THE LEVANTINE SEA Vojsava Gjoni: CROSS-COMMUNITY SCALING RELATIONSHIPS: DESCRIBE ENERGY FLOWS ALONG BOTH VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL GUILD ORGANIZATION IN MEDITERRANEAN LAGOONS
10:45-11:00 Frithjof Kuepper: EXPLORATION OF ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC SEAWEED BIODIVERSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF POLAR CLIMATE CHANGE Nomiki Simboura: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH AND ASSESSMENT OF ECOLOGICAL STATUS IN HELLENIC COASTAL WATERS: RESULTS FROM THE ‘2012-2015’ MONITORING CYCLE Vasiliki Kousteni: MERCURY SPECIATION IN VARIOUS TISSUES OF TWO DEMERSAL PREDATORS FROM THE NORTH AEGEAN SEA: EFFECTS OF SEX, MATURITY CONDITION AND BODY LENGTH Alexey Maximov: FACTORS CONTROLLING LONG-TERM CHANGES OF MACROZOOBENTHOS: LESSONS FROM THREE MONITORING SITES IN THE EASTERN GULF OF FINLAND Francesco Cozzoli: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ASSESSMENT METRICS AND THEIR UNCERTAINTY FOR KEY INDICATORS OF THE PHYTOPLANKTON ELEMENT IN RELATION TO BIODIVERSITY AND EUTROPHICATION
11:00-11:15 Shannon White: IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE! ARE HEATWAVES A DRIVER OF CHANGE IN INTERTIDAL MUDFLAT COMMUNITIES? Panayotis Panayotidis: MAPPING OF SEAGRASS MEADOWS IN GREECE Jonne Kotta: INTRODUCED CRAB PUSHES COASTAL ECOSYSTEM FROM BOTTOM-UP TO TOP-DOWN CONTROL AND GLIDES BENTHIC AND PELAGIC BASELINES Carl Reddin: UNTANGLING THE PROCESSES SUSTAINING MICROPHYTOBENTHOS PATCHES AROUND WILD OYSTER BEDS
11:15-11:30 Evgeny Genelt-Yanovskiy: SIGNS OF POPULATION EXPLOSION IN THE BALTIC CLAM MACOMA BALTHICA FROM NORTH-WESTERN WHITE SEA Demetris Kletou: THE SEAGRASS OF VASILIKO BAY, A LOST CASE? Christoffer Boström: INTERMEDIATE PREDATORS AND EUTROPHICATION: ARE STICKLEBACKS TOP-DOWN DRIVERS OR BOTTOM-UP PASSENGERS? Benedetta Trabucco: BALMAS (BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ADRIATIC SEA PROTECTION) IPA PROJECT: DATA ON MACROZOOBENTHOS COMMUNITY OF BARI HARBOUR (ADRIATIC SEA, ITALY)
11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK
Climate change ΙΙ Indicators II Open session II Invasions II Open session III
Chair: Matthew Frost Chair: Tasman Crowe Chair: Christos Arvanitidis Chair: Christoffer Boström Chair: Jonne Kotta
12:00-12:15 Salvatrice Vizzini: STRUCTURAL AND TROPHIC RESPONSE OF BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY TO LOW pH IN A NATURALLY ACIDIFIED SHALLOW ECOSYSTEM Sebastian Valanko: REGIONAL GUIDANCE ON HOW PRESSURE MAPS OF FISHING INTENSITY CONTRIBUTE TO AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF SEABED HABITATS: AN ICES WORKSHOP AND ADVICE TO THE EU Iván Rodil: METACOMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF BEACH MACROINVERTEBRATES: CONTRASTS BETWEEN DISPERSAL MODE AND HABITAT SPECIALIZATION Elsa Vásquez-Otero: PLASTIC TRAITS OF THE INVASIVE MUSSEL XENOSTROBUS SECURIS IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESENCE OF THE PREDATORY DOGWHELK NUCELLA LAPILLUS Marie Järnström: SEASONAL CHANGES IN MACROZOOBENTHIC COMMUNITIES IN SHALLOW COASTAL HABITATS
12:15-12:30 Mikołaj Mazurkiewicz: ASSESSEMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON SIZE STRUCTURE OF BENTHIC COMMUNITIES Claudia Kruschel: INCREASES IN SMALL PREDATORY FISH: PROOF OF EFFECTIVE FISHING REGULATIONS OR ENHANCED PREDATOR RELEASE? A CASE STUDY IN THE MPA KORNATI NATIONAL PARK, CROATIA Isidora Katara: ASSESSMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: INTRODUCING A FISHERIES PERSPECTIVE Janja France: IS REGIONAL MARINE TRAFFIC A THREAT FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW SPECIES VIA BALLAST WATER DISCHARGE? Johanna Gammal: CROSS HABITAT INVESTIGATION OF BENTHIC MACROFAUNAL COMMUNITIES AND NUTRIENT RECYCLING
12:30-12:45 Didier Aurelle: THE EVOLUTIONARY CHALLENGE OF RED CORAL FACING CLIMATE CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM GENOMIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC DATA Irini Tsikopoulou: LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF AQUACULTURE ON A REFERENCE MACROFAUNAL COMMUNITY (CEPHALONIA, IONIAN SEA) Special lecture: Professor Eleni Voultsiadou
ARISTOTLE AS A MARINE BIOLOGIST: AEGEAN BIODIVERSITY 2400 YEARS AGO
Ivo Gallmetzer: USING MOLLUSCAN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES TO UNCOVER THE ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF MARINE HABITATS – A CASE STUDY FROM THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA
12:45-1:00 Tasman Crowe: EFFECTS OF STORMWATER PULSES ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IN CURRENT AND PROJECTED CLIMATES Karin Boos: STEREOM MICROSTRUCTURE OF TEETH IN BRITTLE STARS: 3D RECONSTRUCTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS USING SYNCHROTRON MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA Maria Corsini-Foka: ALIEN AND NATIVE FISH IN GILL NETS AT RHODES, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (2014-2015) Pieternella Luttikhuizen: USING POPULATION GENETIC DATA TO ESTIMATE POPULATION CONNECTIVITY AND COLONISATION HISTORY. THE CASE OF SEA BELT KELP SACCHARINA LATISSIMA
1:00-1:15 Guilherme Corte: EFFECTS OF STORMS ON HABITAT HETEROGENEITY AND BETA DIVERSITY IN MARINE SOFT-SEDIMENTS Leen Vandepitte: EMODnet BIOLOGY: ALLOWING EASY COUPLING AND VISUALISATION OF INDICATOR SPECIES AND THEIR DOCUMENTED DISTRIBUTION Vesna Flander-Putrle: BALLAST WATERS AS AN IMPORTANT VECTOR FOR THE TRANSFER OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS Stewart Schultz: FISH POPULATION ASSESSMENT IN THE EASTERN ADRIATIC SEA: BAITED, REMOTE, UNDERWATER VIDEO VERSUS TRAMMEL NET SAMPLING
1:15-1:30 Sergei Aleksandrov: EFFECT OF MOLLUSC INVASION AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON LONG-TERM CHANGES OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE LAGOONS OF THE BALTIC SEA Piotr Margonski: TESTING OF THE ZOOPLANKTON MEAN SIZE AND TOTAL STOCK (MSTS) INDICATOR IN THE SOUTHERN BALTIC SEA Per Carlsson: EFFECTS ON THE MARINE PLANKTONIC FOOD WEB BY THE INVASIVE CLADOCERAN PENILIA AVIROSTRIS Stefano Schiaparelli: LONG-TERM MONITORING OF THE ANTARCTIC COASTAL BENTHOS WITH NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES: THE ICE-LAPSE PROJECT AT TERRA NOVA BAY (ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA)
1:30-2:30 LUNCH BREAK
Climate change ΙΙΙ Indicators III   Invasions III Open session IV
Chair: Soultana Zervoudaki Chair: Salvatrice Vizzini Chair: Kalliopi Pagou Chair: Catherine Tsangaris
2:30-2:45 Alexander Mikaelyan: REGIONAL CLIMATE AND PATTERNS OF PHYTOPLANKTON SUCCESSION IN THE OPEN BLACK SEA Nikolaos Katsiaras: BENTHIC HABITAT HOMOGENIZATION AND COMMUNITIES’ CONDITION INDICATORS OF ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURE EXCURSION Anna Zalota: THE ENIGMA OF SMALL CRAB BRACHYNOTUS SEXDENTATUS RISSO, 1827 (CRUSTACEA BRACHYURA VARUNIDAE) IN THE BLACK SEA – AZOV BASIN Romain David: PROJECT INDEXMED: ORIGINAL SOLUTIONS TO MANAGE THE HETEROGENEITY OF MARINE ECOLOGY DATA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
2:45-3:00 Johannes Rick: SEA TEMPERATURE RISE AND PHYTOPLANKTON COMPOSITION (1987-2013) IN THE SYLT-RøMø BIGHT, NORTH SEA; GERMANY Szymon Smoliński: CURRENT DEVELOPMENT ON MULTIMETRIC FISH INDEX FOR ASSESSING ECOLOGICAL QUALITY OF POLISH COASTAL AND TRANSITIONAL WATERS Sophie Steinhagen: THE MANY FACES OF ULVA COMPRESSA Jean-Pierre Feral: CIGESMED PROJECT: EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT FOR CORALLIGENOUS HABITATS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
3:00-3:15 Philipp Neitzel: THE IMPACT OF THE OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE ON VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF GELATINOUS MACROZOOPLANKTON IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC Giulia Gatti: A COMPARISON AMONG CORALLIGENOUS-BASED INDICES FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE MARINE ECOLOGICAL QUALITY Ivan Kuprijanov: ECOLOGICAL NICHE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN NATIVE AND ALIEN CARIDEAN SHRIMPS IN THE NORTHERN BALTIC SEA CLOSING
3:15-3:30 Kajetan Deja: BOTTOM LIFE OF PLANKTON IN TWO ARCTIC FJORDS Sotiris Orfanidis: USE OF BENTHIC MACROPHYTE METRICS TO ASSESS COASTAL LAGOONS DEGREE OF CONSERVATION: A CASE STUDY OF EAST MACEDONIA & THRACE NATIONAL PARK, GREECE Nadezhda Berezina: PHOSPHORUS EXCRETION BY NEWLY ESTABLISHED BENTHIC SPECIES: POTENTIAL IMPACTS FOR NUTRIENT FLUX IN THE EASTERN GULF OF FINLAND
3:30-3:45 James Taylor: TEMPORAL VARIATIONS (2004-2015) IN EPIBENTHIC MEGAFAUNAL COMMUNITIES FROM THE ARCTIC DEEP-SEA OBSERVATORY HAUSGARTEN Maria Rousou: ECOLOGICAL QUALITY STATUS OF VASILIKO BAY (CYPRUS, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA), AN AREA INFLUENCED BY VARIOUS ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES Alan Deidun: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE ATLANTIC PRESENCE IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN OF ACANTHURUS MONROVIAE AND OF ABUDEFDUF HOEFLERI WITHIN MALTESE COASTAL WATERS
3:45-4:15 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
Climate change IV Indicators IV   Invasions IV  
Chair: Nomiki Simboura Chair: Sotiris Orfanidis   Chair: Kalliopi Pagou
4:15-4:30 Kanchana Bandara: SEASONAL VERTICAL STRATEGIES IN A HIGH ARCTIC COASTAL ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITY Christos Arvanitidis: TAXONOMIC VS FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS ACROSS EUROPEAN MARINE BENTHIC HABITATS : USING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES (LIFEWATCH, ESFRI) IN LARGE-SCALE ECOLOGY   Simon Jungblut: ENERGETIC DEMAND OF THE INVASIVE CRAB HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS AND THE NATIVE CARCINUS MAENAS AT HELGOLAND, NORTH SEA  
4:30-4:45 Katarzyna Zmudczyńska-Skarbek: AN ASSESSMENT OF SEABIRD INFLUENCE ON ARCTIC COASTAL BENTHIC COMMUNITIES Evangelos Boltsis: CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF ALIEN SPECIES ON THE MARINE NATURA SITES OF GREECE
4:45-5:00 Véronique Merten: TROPHIC ECOLOGY OF THE ORANGEBACK FLYING SQUID STHENOTEUTHIS PTEROPUS (STEENSTRUP, 1855) (CEPHALOPODA: OMMASTREPHIDAE) IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC

POSTERS II

4:45-6:30

5:00-6:15

POSTERS I

5:00-6:15

YELLOW SUBMARINE

5:00-6:30

6:15-6:30