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Programme

Thursday 27th June

8h00 – 9h00                    Registration & Poster placement

 

9h - 9h30                       Opening Session

 

Session 1: Ecosystem Ecology

Session Chair: Miguel A. Carretero

 

9h30 - 10h30                  Keynote speaker

                                      The ecological role of lizards on oceanic islands: their functions such as seed                                                        dispersers and derived implications.

                                           Manuel Nogales (Spanish National Research Council)

 

10h30 – 10h45               DNA metabarcoding reveals the trophic responses of wall lizards to agroecosystems

                                       Ana Ramos (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)

 

10h45 – 11h                    An integrative approach to assess the diet of the critically endangered Aeolian                                                   lizard Podarcis raffonei: preliminary results

                                      Emanuele Berrilli (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

 

11h – 11h15                      The effects of Lacertid lizards as top predators on the ecology of small island                                                        systems

                                       Johannes Foufopoulos (University of Michigan, USA)

 

11h15 – 11h30                   Unveiling trophic dynamics of the introduced Madeira Wall Lizard Teira dugesii across                                        Azores archipelago

                                       Sara F. Nunes (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)

 

11h30 – 12h                    Coffee Break

 

Session Chair: D. James Harris

 

12h-12h15                      Climate, population density and the body condition of the Balearic wall lizard                                                       populations (Podarcis lilfordi).

                                      Andreu Rotger (GEDA-IMEDEA, CSIC -UIB, Spain)

 

12h15 – 12h30               The impact of increased day-time and night-time temperature on the phenotype of                                         a vertebrate ectotherm (Podarcis muralis)

                                      Constant Perry (CNRS–UAR 2029, France)

 

12h30-12h45                 Environmental modelling of blood parasite infections in Iberian lacertids

                                      Rodrigo Megía-Palma (UAH, Spain)

 

12h45-13h                     The role of Iberian green lizards in the spread of tick-borne pathogens

                                       Renáta Kopena (HUN-REN, Hungary)

 

13h - 14h30                      Lunch

 

 

Session 2: Conservation & Management

Session Chair: Giulia Simbula

 

14h30 - 15h30                  Keynote speaker

                                        Lizards in agro-environments: how much of our knowledge can be applied to                                                       conservation

                                        Marta Biaggini (University of Florence)

 

15h30 – 15h45                The European conservation project LIFE EOLIZARD: a multidisciplinary framework for                                              sounding conservation actions for the Critically Endangered Aeolian                                                                      lizard Podarcis raffonei

                                         Daniele Salvi (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

 

15h45 – 16h                     Agrolizards+ unveiling the ecological role of lizards in agricultural environments

                                         Giulia Simbula (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)

 

16h – 16h15                      Burnt dinner: how wildfires impact the diet of lizards

                                         Catarina Simões (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)

 

 

16h15 - 16h45                       Coffee break

 

Session Chair: Klaus Henle

 

16h45 – 17h                    Conservation implications of riparian disturbance on Lacerta schreiberi: a fine scale                                           occupancy modelling study

                                        Francisco Aguilar (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)

                  

17h – 17h15                      Investigating climate change impact on island endemic Mediterranean Lacertids

                                        Marilena Stamatiou (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

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17h15 - 19h                     "Madeira de Honra" (Madeira wine tasting and local pastries)

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Faraham Ahmadzadeh

Salvador Carranza

Miguel A. Carretero

Claudia Corti

Pierre-André Crochet

Thomas Dellinger

Enrique Font

D. James Harris

Anthony Herrel

José Jesus

Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

Marta López-Darias

Petros Lymberakis

Shai Meiri

Panayiotis Pafilis

Valentín Pérez-Mellado

Catarina Rato

Daniele Salvi

Neftalí Sillero

Giulia Simbula

Tahar Slimani

Raoul Van Damme

Anamarija Žagar

Savvas Zotos

Contacts

Organising Committee

Scientific Committee

Miguel A. Carretero

Catarina Rato

Giulia Simbula

Thomas Dellinger

José Jesus

Frederico Barroso

Sara Nunes

Ana Luísa Ramos

Anastasios Limnios

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CIBIO

Campus de Vairão

Rua Padre Armando Quintas 7

4485-661 Vairão

Portugal

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