Programme & Book of Abstracts: NEOBIOTA 2018 10th International Conference on Biological Invasions New Directions in Invasion Biology www.neobiota2018.org. 3rd – 7th September 2018, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
Changing biological assemblages of the Anthropocene; Chris Thomas; Incorporating indirect interactions into invasion ecology: facilitation of exotic legumes by Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) in New Zealand; Warwick Allen; Attractiveness of alien vs. native plants for pollinators in cities: Does urbanisation modulate plant-pollinator interactions? Sascha Buchholz; Nature-lovers and city-dwellers: Differential response of native and exotic species to human impact and habitat structure; Jacintha Ellers; Himalayan balsam interacts with river restoration to modify macro-invertebrate community diversity across ecosystems; Ffion Davies; Invasive Giant rhubarb (Gunnera tinctoria) has positive effects on earthworms and contributes carbon to soil food webs; Olaf Schmidt; Defying a traditional assumption: Non-native plants species seem to have positive effects on native biodiversity in grasslands located in several Mediterranean-climate regions; Irene Martín-Forés; A Quaternary perspective on synanthropic insect introductions ; Eva Panagiotakopulu; Quantifying and monitoring pine invasions impacts and their legacies: Pinus contorta in Patagonia. Aníbal Pauchard; Leapfrogging to the Galapagos Islands: the introduced Fowler’s Snouted treefrog; Heinke Jäger; Contrasting long-term impacts of two large invasive alien plants; Margherita Gioria; What dimensions of biodiversity do we wish to preserve? Martin A. Schlaepfer; Do alien plant invasions promote criminal activity? Luke Potgieter; Allergens in the city: Effects of novel plant communities on seasonal pollen allergies in urban areas Maud Bernard-Verdier; NEOBIOTA Council meeting and NEOBIOTA Board election; Invasion into ecological networks: the integration and influence of novel interactions; Katriona Shea; The impact of the timing/duration and intensity of disturbance on network structure: how species invasion shapes network structure in a plant-pollinator community; Laura Russo; Variation in the role of microbial networks and fitness of common wasps in their native and invaded range; Monica Gruber; Roles of biotic resistance and disturbance in the establishment of an invasive invertebrate; Pauline Lenancker; Strong fitness differences impede coexistence between an alien water fern (Azolla pinnata R. Br.) and its native congener (Azolla rubra R. Br.) in New Zealand; William Godsoe; Carpobrotus edulis: what doesn't kill it makes it stronger Jonatan Rodríguez; Phylogeography of the invasive amphipod (Crustacea) Pontogammarus robustoides in native and colonized range ; Tomasz Rewicz; Quantifying and categorising the environmental impacts of alien birds; Tom Evans; Biotic resistance, range size and residence time: invader performance decreases over millennia; Christine S. Sheppard; Enhancing Natural Biocontrol: Could a Generalist Snail Control an Invasive Herb? Marju Prass; Species origin determines importance of traits for riparian plants abundance in response to environmental drivers in Central Europe ; Agnieszka Sendek; Who is the winner? – the demon vs killer shrimp under mesocosm conditions ; Karolina Bacela-Spychalska; The Alien Games: are facilitative and competitive interactions among invasive species a pathway to Invasional Meltdown? Kate Crane; Free-roaming dogs alter interactions between two endemic carnivores (the kodkod Leopardus guigna and the Darwin's fox Lycalopex fulvipes) in temperate forests of Southern Chile; Ariel A. Farías; Tracking the Global Spread of the Invasive Chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Federico Castro Monzon; Prioritising species, pathways of introduction and sites of risk: the eThekwini (Durban) municipality, South Africa as a case study; Ashlyn Levadia Padayachee; Wild Spotter: Citizen scientists reporting invasives to aid USDA Forest Service restoration programs ; Joseph LaForest; Towards a global database of alien plants in protected areas: effects of regional naturalized species richness ; Desika Moodley; The Age of Plastics meets the Age of Invasions?: How tsunamigenic Megarafting, coastal Development, and climate Change may all relate to a new ocean Vector ; James Carlton; Predicting the ecological impacts of invasive species under context-dependencies; Jaimie Dick; Adaptation and Plasticity in Biological Invasions - Eco-Evolutionary Experience and Behavioural Innovation; Florian Ruland; European anthropogenic, semi-natural and natural habitats as donors of naturalized plant species worldwide; Veronika Kalusová; Predicting past and future biological invasions: challenges and opportunities of emerging alien species; Hanno Seebens; Invasion syndromes – moving towards meaninful generalisations in invasion science; Ana Novoa; Prosopis invasions in East Africa: Species identity, ploidy and increased invasive potential; Maria L. Castillo; nvasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe’s forests; Franz Essl; Investigating the consistency of global niche shifts in invasive weeds ; Thomas Carlin; FP09: Rafting Communities of anthropogenic marine Litter in the South Pacific Gyre ; Sabine Rech; Can we link successful exotic reptile establishment to rapid climatic niche evolution? Wendy A.M. Jesse; Revealing key characteristics shaping biological invasions using high-throughput sequencing ; Steven Bourne; Global meta-analysis of native and nonindigenous trophic traits in aquatic ecosystems ; Marc Rius; A global attempt to unravel the context-dependence of the role of traits in plant naturalization ; Noëlie Maurel ; Environmental drivers of establishment and adaptation in the globally invasive Plantago lanceolata ; Annabel Smith; Colonization pressure: a second null model for biological invasions ; Tim Blackburn; Propagules are not all equal: traits of vegetative fragments and disturbance regulate invasion success; Marc Uyà; Mutualisms: drivers, and in turn victims, of biological invasions; Anna Travasett; Biogeographical comparison of invaded insect-flower interaction networks: conserved structural role but shifts in mutualist-antagonist ratios ; Jane Stout ; Contrasting patterns of managed and native bumblebees in natural habitats ; Montserrat Vilà ; Phylogenetic distance and floral trait dissimilarity between alien and native plant species as drivers of novel pollination mutualisms; Mialy Razanajatovo; Examining the spread of non-indigenous species across marine ecoregions using environmental DANN; Luke Holman; Reduced impacts of natural enemies of invasive plants at high latitudes; Peter Kotanen; Monitoring ballast water mediated introduction of Non-Indigenous Species through metabarcoding; Anaïs Rey; Addressing uncertainty in S/EICAT assessments; Lara Volery; Invasive small mammals: trophic dynamism and modified food webs in Irish hedgerows; Ian Montgomery; Invasive alliance: the presence of zebra mussel can facilitate the survival and dispersal of killer shrimp; Matteo Rolla; Enhanced attractiveness in the invasive Impatiens glandulifera? Stephanie Coakley; Reconstructing the spread of a global invader: a genetic study of red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii; Francisco Javier Oficialdegui; Extrafloral néctar in phyllodes from invasive Acacia longifolia: why, how, when; Manuela Giovanetti; Lineage overwhelms environmental conditions in determining rhizosphere bacterial community structure in a cosmopolitan invasive plant; Laura Meyerson; Developing risk assessments for invasive alien plants within the remit of the IAS Regulation: outcomes and issues; Rob Tanner; Preliminary results of negative impact risk assessment for selected invasive and potentially invasive alien species in Polan+C80:C81d; Barbara Tokarska-Guzik; First Experiences from the Implementation of the EU Regulation on Invasive Alien Species; Spyridon Flevaris; International Health Regulations, national biodefense policies, and threats from invasive disease vectors, hosts, and pathogens: a One Health analysis and call for action; David Bruce Conn; Ecosystem responses to exotic earthworm invasion; Nico Eisenhauer; Regional forest carbon loss resulting from insect and disease invasions; Andrew Liebhold; Functional responses reveal temperature-dependent predatory impacts of highly invasive fishes; Dumisani Khosa; Horizon scanning for invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity in the European Union; Helen Roy; Effects of experimental drought and invasion on fuel loads and fire intensity; S. Luke Flory; Socio-Economic Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (SEICAT); Sven Bacher; Integrating the impacts of non-native species on ecosystem services into environmental policy; Philip Hulme; Impacts of Gunnera tinctoria on soil carbon and nitrogen and its reduction effect on greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland; Mauricio Mantoani; How does restoration impact native ant communities? The case of Acacia saligna invasions in South Africa's fynbos; Wolf-Christian Saul; Impact assessment of invasive fishes using the Relative Impact Potential (RIP) metric under a seasonal temperature gradient; Lubabalo Mofu; The impact of invasive plants relates to geography and characteristics of native communities: Eurasian invaders outcompete clonal perennials in North America; Martin Hejda; Disentangling direct and indirect effects of Prosopis on Eastern African dryland ecosystems; Theo Linders; The effect of invasive hybrid taxa on the ecological succession of coastal marshes; Blanca Gallego-Tévar; Soil legacy effects of Acacia invasions and their implications for restoration in South Africa's Cape Floristic Region; Florencia A. Yannelli; Direct and indirect effects of the invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus on leaf decomposition and invertebrate communities; Francisco Carvalho; Impacts of global change on freshwater plant species; Guyo Gufu; Integrating local knowledge and science to assess the impacts of an invasive plant species and develop locally meaningful control strategies; Jennifer Firn; The European pine marten’s role in reversing native red squirrel replacement by invasive grey
squirrels: differential predation and landscape of fear; Joshua Twining; The harmonic radar to track the invasive hornet Vespa velutina: a tool to improve the Early Warning and Rapid Response System for the species; Simone Lioy; Soil solarization as a tool for restoration of invaded habitat: advantages and limitations; Oded Cohen; The European trade ban on wild birds drastically reduced invasion risks ; Laura Cardador; Effects of River Engineering and Restoration Measures on Invasive Fish Species in the Main Stem of a Free-Flowing Section of the River Danube, Austria.David Ramler; Learning from experience: Spatial and temporal scaling in Invasive Alien Species management; Aileen Mill; Cold as Ice: a novel eradication and control method for invasive Asian clam, Corbicula
fluminea, using pelleted dry ice ; Neil Coughlan; Remote sensing approach to study the spread of invasive species ; Jana Müllerová; Management options for IAS of Union concern: what’s feasible? Tim Adriaens; Can we make use of remote sensing data to manage invasive species? - The potential of detecting invasive species in Germany from above ; Sandra Skowronek; Reconstructing biological invasions using public surveys: a new approach to retrospectively assess spatio-temporal changes in invasive spread ; Nitya Prakash Mohanty; The Centre for Invasion Biology: An experiment in research, capability building, and service provision for invasion science and management ; David Richardson; Mortality and regrowth of the invasive exotic fern Lygodium microphyllum in response to prescribed fire in southern Florida, USA ; Nicole Sebesta;