Detailed programme (updated 14.09.2024)
Sunday, 15.09.2024
1230 Check-in for Early Career Researcher Seminar participants
1300 – 1730 Early Career Researcher Seminar
1500 Check-in registration for all participants
1530 – 1730 Lunch/ coffee
1800 – 1815 Opening of the conference
1815 – 1915 Plenary talk: A series of (mostly) fortunate events: How human presence disturbed (and saved) Białowieża Primeval Forest, Tomasz Samojlik
Monday, 16.09.2024
600 – 930 A guided walk in the Strict Reserve of the Białowieża National Park (information on assigned groups will be provided separately)
Chairs: Krzysztof Schmidt, Ewa Komar
1000 – 1100 Plenary talk: Imagining future forests in Europe – pluralistic approaches for multiple objectives? John D. C. Linnell
1100 –1115 Summer solstice orchestrates the subcontinental-scale synchrony of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) mast seeding, Jakub Szymkowiak
1115 – 1130 Responses of breeding birds to climate change under primeval conditions, Dorota Czeszczewik
1130 –1145 From abundance to contraction Heather’s climatic niche could halve by 2070, Sonia Paź-Dyderska
1145 – 1215 Coffee
1215 – 1230 The importance of ivy for maintaining heterogeneity and biodiversity in Central European forests facing climate and environmental alterations, Łukasz Kajtoch
1230 – 1245 Summer warming breaks down masting of European beech across species range, Jessie Foest
1245 – 1300 Genetic variability and forecasted range shifts in European beech (Fagus sylvatica) along a temperature gradient in SW Poland, Kamil Konowalik
1300 – 1315
1330 – 1500 Lunch
Chairs: Katarzyna Nowak, Izabela Stachowicz
1500 –1600 Plenary talk: Forests of the future: Navigating human-non-human conflict, cooperation, and geopolitics, Anwesha Dutta
1600 – 1615 A decade long wild avian population trends in rural areas reveal contrasting dynamics with socioeconomic characteristics of human societies, Beata Bramorska
1615 – 1630 The hand that feeds, the bison that breeds: Impact of management approaches on reproduction of refugee species, Nika Knez
1630 – 1700 Coffee
1700 – 1715 Forest policy responses to climate change – Implementation of the New EU Forest Strategy 2030 into the Polish forest policy, Krzysztof Niedziałkowski
1715 – 1730 Conservation significance of forest islands insights from roosting preferences of Noctule bats in Italy, Danilo Russo
1730 – 1745 Urban forests as refuges for city dwelling mammals, Dagny Krauze-Gryz
1745 – 1800 Forest management and conservation of one of the most endangered European butterfly, Marcin Sielezniew
Tuesday, 17.09.2024
600 – 930 A guided walk in the Strict Reserve of the Białowieża National Park (information on assigned groups will be provided separately)
Chairs: Ewa Zin, Maria Losada
1000 – 1100 Plenary talk: Please do not disturb? – Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbance on biodiversity, Simon Thorn
1100 – 1115 So it was man! – Tree ring reconstruction of fire extent in the Białowieża Forest over the last four centuries, Ewa Zin
1115 – 1130 Fire can have a significant effect on beetle diversity but the results are nuanced at different levels of analysis an example from Biebrza National Park, Poland, Tomasz Jaworski
1130 – 1145 Effects of climate-change induced disturbance sites on moth communities in Central European mixed mountain forests, Laura Harms
1145 – 1215 Coffee
1215 – 1230 Forest change following an outbreak of the European bark beetle Ips typographus and its influence on bats in European lowland forest, Alek Rachwald
1230 – 1245 Seasonal patterns of habitat use of resident birds in Białowieża Forest and its links to post-disturbance management, Rosanne Michielsen
1245 – 1300 Salvage logging and subsequent post-windthrow management lead to impoverished forest bird communities for two decades, Michał Walesiak
1300 – 1430 Lunch
1430 – 1800 Workshops (Mentorship and Leadership / Trapper, with coffee break)
Wednesday, 18.09.2024
600 – 930 A guided walk in the Strict Reserve of the Białowieża National Park (information on assigned groups will be provided separately)
Chairs: Grzegorz Mikusiński, Aleksandra Wróbel
1000 – 1100 Plenary talk: Integrating biodiversity consideration into production forestry – the knowledge-base and main conclusions, Lena Gustafsson
1100 – 1115 Do wild forested areas host high bird diversity? Damian Łowicki
1115 – 1130 The role of research on primary forest features in the Anthropocene – Case study of spatial niche segregation between bird species in primeval forest, Oliwia Karpińska
1130 – 1145 Dream TreM – how criterion of Tree related Microhabitats affects ecosystem services for vertebrates? Katarzyna Kamionka-Kanclerska
1145 – 1215 Coffee
1215 – 1230 Assessment of the post-agricultural forest regeneration in the NE Carpathians, Zofia Jabs-Sobocińska
1230 – 1245 A meta-analysis about the effects of ground-based logging on seedling growth, Francesco Latterini
1245 – 1300 The Relationship between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size from Tropical to Boreal Climates, Valentin Journé
1300 – 1315 How do phorophytes shape the diversity of dependent epiphytic species? Sylwia Wierzcholska
1330 – 1500 Lunch
1500 – 1630 Poster session
1630 – 1700 Coffee
1700 – 1800 Open discussion session
Thursday, 19.09.2024
600 – 930 A guided walk in the Strict Reserve of the Białowieża National Park (information on assigned groups will be provided separately)
Chairs: Tomasz Borowik, Patryk Czortek
1000 – 1100 Plenary talk: Woody plants invasion in temperate forests drivers and impacts, Marcin Dyderski
1100 – 1115 Invasive Prunus cerasifera is as specific tree host for epiphytic lichens in the initial stages of oak-hornbeam forest succession, Patryk Czortek
1115 – 1130 The impact of Prunus serotina Ehrh. and Robinia pseudoacacia L. invasion on temperate forest understory, Sebastian Bury
1130 – 1145 How the invasive trees alter the leaf-litter decomposition process? Paweł Horodecki
1145 – 1215 Coffee
1215 – 1230 Phenological gap in fruiting period and dispersal of seeds from alien fleshy-fruited plants by medium-sized carnivores in temperate forests of Central Europe, Przemysław Kurek
1230 – 1245 Native helpers? How rodents disperse introduced trees in different habitats, Aleksandra Wróbel
1300 – 1430 Lunch
1430 – 1800 Workshops (Navigating Science, Advocacy and Activism for Conservation Action/ Ordination methods in vegetation data analyses using R/ Automatic analysis of soundscape data, with cofee break)
1900 – 2300 Bonfire Banquet (in Białowieski Hotel)
Friday, 20.09.2024
Chairs: Dries Kuijper, Paulina Szafrańska
1000 – 1100 Plenary talk: Predator-prey dynamics and trophic cascades in intensively managed boreal ecosystems, Camilla Wikenros
1100 – 1115 Hunting and large predators can similarly affect deer foraging and browsing pressure on young trees, Zbigniew Borowski
1115 –1130 Influence of large predators’ olfactory cues on deer behaviour and consequences for the browsing pressure on a fine-spatial scale in a temperate forest, Walter Di Nicola
1130 –1145 The impact of the reappearing wolves on the non-native chamois population in the Lusatian Mountains, Vojtěch Kasič
1145 – 1215 Coffee
1215 – 1230 Recreation creates cascading effects on ecosystems through modifying deer behavior, but wolves have additional effects, Bjorn Mols
1230 – 1245 Red deer and Bison fear the human “super predator” more than they fear wolves and lynx, Elise Say-Sallaz
1245 – 1300 Impact of recolonizing predators on ungulate browsing pressure exploring trophic cascades in human-influenced landscapes and their potential implications for Swiss forests, Jon Went
1300 – 1315 Spirit of the Forest: Spatiotemporal partitioning and predator-prey dynamics under changing moonlight, Michał Śmielak
1330 – 1500 Lunch
Chairs: Sylwia Wierzcholska, Elise Say-Sallaz
1500 –1515 Indestructible animals vs. irresistible changes anthropogenic impact on microscopic invertebrates, Bartłomiej Surmacz
1515 – 1530 Lynx in the eye of the camera a longitudinal camera trapping study of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Gorce Mountains, southern Poland, Ekaterina Rostovskaya
1530 – 1545 Protected wolves in human-dominated landscapes still fear humans, Katharina Kasper
1545 – 1615 Coffee
1615 –1630 Inter-individual variability and repeatability in movement traits shape the wild boar movement syndrome, Michaela Masilkova
1630 – 1645 Plasticity in resource selection along anthropogenic gradients, Manisha Bhardwaj
1645 – 1700 Microplastic and artificial cellulose microfibers ingestion by forest-dwelling passerines, Krzysztof Deoniziak
1700– 1800 Plenary talk: The tree diversity – human health relationship a win–win to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests, Bart Muys
1800 –1830 Closing, awards for the best student presentations
Saturday, 21.09.2024
Post–conference trip to Biebrza National Park. Details will be delivered separately. Meeting point for those going on the trip is at 7:10 AM in front of the MRI PAS, Stoczek 1, Białowieża. The expected return to Białowieża is around 8:00 PM.
