
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes
Part of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution series
15–31 Mar 2022
Animals, Plants, Microbes
- Go to the Sessions
- Event Details
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- Welcome from the Chair
- Event Chairs
- Session Chairs
- Event Speakers
- Live Session Information
- Live Session Program
- Live Session Recordings
- Call for Submissions
- Sessions
- Instructions for Authors
- List of Accepted Submissions
- Best Paper Award
- Best Presentation Award
- Sponsors and Partners
- Winner Announcement
- Editions in this series
IECD2022 is closed. Thank you for your participation.
The recordings of IECD2022 live sessions are available at:
https://sciforum.net/event/IECD2022#recordings
The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal (ISSN:2673-9976) after the conference.
After the conference, the Conference Committee will recommend manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue
The selected papers will be published in Diversity with a 20% discount of the APC.
The IECD2022 winners have been announced at https://sciforum.net/event/IECD2022#Awards.
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes, sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Diversity. The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in the field of the science of biodiversity to present their research and exchange ideas with colleagues. This is an electronic conference, removing the need to travel and eliminating participation expenses.
The conference will be focused on “New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes” and will provide a forum for presenting and discussing new results.
IECD2022 will include three sessions:
Session A : Animals Diversity
Session B : Plants Diversity
Session C : Microbes Diversity
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Marine diversity;
2. Animal diversity;
3. Plant diversity;
4. Microbial diversity and culture collections;
5. Chemical biodiversity and chemical ecology;
6. Biodiversity conservation;
7. Biogeography and macroecology;
8. Phylogeny and evolution;
9. Biodiversity loss and dynamics;
10. Mesophotic ecosystem diversity;
11. Invasive species and diversity.
This will be a virtual conference held at www.sciforum.net, a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize and provide technical support for electronic conferences.
The format of the conference is as follows: After abstract acceptance, the authors will submit a pre-recorded video presentation or a series of narrated slides that will be both accessible online and open for discussion, comments, and questions during the entire conference. In addition, this presentation will remain available after the e-conference. Authors are requested to submit a full description of their work in a conference paper that will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, probably published in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal. Paper submission is not a requirement for active conference participation.
The participation is free of charge for both authors and attendees. The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal and available online on the MDPI website. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in a Special Issue of the journal Diversity with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (ISSN 1424-2818; Diversity).
The best conference paper and presentation will receive an award of CHF 500, as well as an offer to publish an extended paper, free of charge, in the Special Issue of Diversity.
We look forward to engaging in exciting discussions and hearing new ideas and perspectives from experts in the field. All participants are welcome to join the online conference.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Caitlin Sheng
Ms. Jennifer Wang
Email: [email protected]
Event Chairs

Professor Michael Wink
Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink completed his PhD in 1980 at Technische Universität Braunschweig. He is currently a senior professor at Heidelberg University, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Visiting Professor at CEPROBI, Prince of Songkla University and Northeast Forestry University. He works in the area of natural products, chemical ecology, medicinal and poisonous plants, molecular pharmacology, biotechnology, evolution (molecular systematics, phylogeny, phylogeography of plants and animals), and ornithology. To date, he has authored or coauthored more than 1200 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in Chief of Diversity.
Event Committee

Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione
UMR UL/AgroParisTech/INRAE 1434 Silva, Université de Lorraine, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Dr. Linas Balčiauskas
Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Prof. Dr. Patricia Poeta
Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal

Dr. Ilias Travlos
Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Prof. Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema
Taxonomy and Systematics Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands,
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kriwet
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Hudson Pinheiro
Center for Marine Biology, University of São Paulo, São Sebastião, Brazil

Dr. Maria Panitsa
Division of Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Prof. Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Genecology Research Centre and the School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Dr. Magdalena Grabowska
University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

Dr. Ivan I. Vasenev
Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Gavin Maneveldt
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Dr. Laima Česonienė
Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Dr. Milena Simic
Maize Research Institute “Zemun Polje”, Slobodana Bajica 1, Zemun Polje, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr. Anatoliy A. Khapugin
Joint Directorate of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park ”Smolny”, Saransk, Russia,
Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

Dr. Laura Schejter
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Laboratorio de Bentos, Instituto Nacional de Investigación, y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Mar del Plata, Argentina

Dr. Cesar Bordehore
Department of Ecology and Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies "Ramon Margalef", University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Prof. Dr. Matthieu Chauvat
ECODIV, Univ ROUEN-NORMANDIE, 76000 Rouen, France

Dr. Marcos Rubal
Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões Av, Matosinhos, Portugal,
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Prof. Dr. Marcin W. Woch
Institute of Biology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

Dr. Martin Korňan
Department of Applied Zoology and Wildlife Management, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia

Dr. David Stanković
Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia

Dr. Márta Ladányi
Department of Applied Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Basic Science, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Dr. Mohamed A. El-Esawi
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Dr. Valentina A. Bracchi
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Terra, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Dr. Alessandra Durazzo
CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy

Prof. Dr. Massimo Lucarini
CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy

Dr. Mary Kelly-Quinn
School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University College Dublin, D04 N2E5 Dublin 4, Ireland

Dr. Fabián Casas
Dehesa de El Lobillo S.A. Alhambra (Ciudad Real), 13248 Alhambra, Spain
[email protected]
Session Chairs

Prof. Dr. Ben-Erik Van Wyk
SARChI National Research Chair in Indigenous Plant Use, Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Genecology Research Centre and the School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia

Prof. Dr. Matthieu Chauvat
ECODIV, Univ ROUEN-NORMANDIE, 76000 Rouen, France
Invited Speakers

Dr. Samantha C Karunarathna
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Prof. Dr. Ding Wang
Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kriwet
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Jiří Patoka
Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Suchdol, Czech Republic

Prof. Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Genecology Research Centre and the School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Dr. Cesar Bordehore
Department of Ecology and Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies "Ramon Margalef", University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Dr. Mohamed A. El-Esawi
Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Dr. Adán Pérez-García
Grupo de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, UNED, Paseo Senda del Rey 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Prof. Dr. Antonio Bode
Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografia (IEO-CSIC), Centro Oceanografico de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

Dr. Matjaž Kuntner
Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Prof. Dr. Nigel Barker
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, South Africa
Live Session Information
Live Session Program
Date: 16 March 2022 & 24 March 2022
Attendance to this Live Session is FREE. However, registration will be necessary, as the number of participants is limited. Click the below button to Register.
16 March 2022
Time: 10:00am (CET) |
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Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Event Chair Prof. Dr. Michael Wink |
Opening Introductory |
10:00am–10:10am |
Dr. Matjaž Kuntner |
Next Generation Biogeography: Towards a Better Estimation of Dispersal Probabilities |
10:10am–10:30am |
Nigel Barker |
The Role of Systematics in Future Foods: And African Example |
10:30am-10:50am |
Dr. Mohamed A. El-Esawi |
Molecular Genetic Diversity in Faba Bean Germplasm |
10:50am-11:00am |
Dr. Jiří Patoka |
Polypterus Senegalus in Indonesia |
11:10am-11:30am |
Dr. Ipek Kurtboke |
Culture Collections Capturing Biodiversity for Sustainable Futures. |
11:30am-11:50am |
Discussion and Q&A session |
11:50am-12:00am |
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Event Chair |
Closing |
12:00am-12:10am |
24 March 2022 |
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Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CET) |
Session chair: Dr. Samantha C Karunarathna |
Opening Introductory |
10:00am–10:10am |
Dr. Samantha C Karunarathna |
Deadly Mushrooms: No more Mr. FunGuy |
10:10am–10:30am |
Prof. Dr. Ding Wang |
Integrated Practices and Progress on Protecting the Yangtze Finless Porpoise |
10:30am-10:50am |
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kriwet |
Early Diversity Patterns of Elasmobranch Fishes (Sharks, Rays): A Deep Time Perspective |
10:50am-11:10am |
Dr. Adán Pérez-García |
The Iberian Fossil Record of Turtles: Systematic and Paleobiogeographical Implications |
11:10am-11:30am |
Prof. Dr. Antonio Bode |
Untangling the Role of Diversity in Complex Marine Food Webs: Recent Developments Using Stable Isotopes |
11:30am-11:50am |
Discussion and Q&A session |
11:50am-12:00am |
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Session Chair |
Closing |
12:00am-12:10am |
Live Session Recordings

Call for Submissions
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes will be held from 15–31 March 2022. IECD 2022 aims to promote research and communication in the field of animals, plants and microbes. All proceedings will be held online at https://sciforum.net/event/IECD2022.
IECD 2022 will include three sessions:
Session A : Animals Diversity
Session B : Plants Diversity
Session C : Microbes Diversity
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Marine diversity;
- Animal diversity;
- Plant diversity;
- Microbial diversity and culture collections;
- Chemical biodiversity and chemical ecology;
- Biodiversity conservation;
- Biogeography and macroecology;
- Phylogeny and evolution;
- Biodiversity loss and dynamics;
- Mesophotic ecosystem diversity;
- Invasive species and diversity.
The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be the possibility to submit selected papers to the journal Diversity ( ISSN 1424-2818; Impact Factor: 2.465) with a 20% discount on the APCs.
IECD 2022 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference and present your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 15 October 2021 30 November 2021 online at https://sciforum.net/user/submission. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 8 January 2022 8 February 2022. The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on Sciforum for discussion during the time of the conference (15–31 March 2022). The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. IECD 2022 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and the preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Instructions for Authors
Submission should be completed online by the authors by registering with https://sciforum.net/ and using the “Start New Submission” function once logged into the system 15 October 2021 30 November 2021.
- Scholars interested in participating in the conference can submit their abstract (approximately 200–250 words) online at this website until .
- Based on the submitted abstract, the conference committee will conduct a pre-evaluation of whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Diversity (IECD 2022)—New Insights into the Biodiversity of Plants, Animals and Microbes. All authors will be notified by 26 October 2021 10 December 2021 with regard to the acceptance status of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author will be invited to prepare a full description of their work (maximum 6 pages), optionally accompanied by a poster/video/PowerPoint presentation, until the submission deadline of 18 January 2022 8 February 2022.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available for discussion on during the time of the conference 15–31 March 2022.
- The accepted proceedings papers will probably be published as one dedicated volume in the MDPI Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal. Publication of proceedings paper is free of charge.
Note: Before publication, Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal will review accepted papers using the powerful text comparison tool: iThenticate. This procedure aims to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Submissions with a high repetition rate and lack of novelty will not be published in the conference proceedings. - The open access journal Diversity will publish a conference Special Issue, while accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. After the conference, the conference committee will select abstracts for which extended papers may be included for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Diversity (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including the peer review and application of an APC).
Proceedings Manuscripts
Manuscripts for Proceedings must conform to the following structure:
Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors’ email addresses
- Abstract (200–250 words)
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgments)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word or any other word processor and should be converted to PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least three pages (including figures, tables and references).
Microsoft Word
Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete the copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and create layout-related difficulties.
Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or a similar software, to be displayed online along with the manuscript. Slides, if available, will be directly displayed on the website using Sciforum.net’s proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online display.
Video Presentations
Authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. The video should be no longer than 5 minutes and be prepared in one of the following formats:
- MOV
- MPEG4
- MP4
- AVI
- WMV
- MPEGPS
- FLV
Microsoft Word/Presentation Slides/Video Presentations should be submitted by 18 January 2022 8 February 2022.
Presentation of Posters
Posters will be available on the conference website during and after the event. As with papers presented at conferences, participants will be able to ask questions and make comments about the posters. Posters can be presented without an accompanying Proceedings paper and will also be available online on this website during and after the e-conference.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the authors’ responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there are no conflicts, please state here that “The authors declare no conflicts of interest”. This should be conveyed in a separate “Conflicts of Interest” statement preceding the “Acknowledgments” and “References” sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under the “Acknowledgments” section.
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a communications paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, however, you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to] its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of accepted submissions (57)
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sciforum-055786 | The species composition of microorganisms of the Triticum aestivum L., 1753 |
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Elena Glinskaya
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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L., 1753) of the «Kalach-60» variety is one of the most stable and high-yielding zoned objects. A comprehensive study of the species composition of microorganisms was conducted using standard microbiological techniques. 120 samples of stems, leaves and soil collected during such phenological phases of plant development as tillering, stalking, grain filling and ripeness were examined. We isolated 18 strains of microorganisms that were assigned to 6 genera of fungi and bacterium (Aphanocladium, Alternaria, Fusarium, Bacillus, Listeria, Staphyloccocus,) and 15 species, of which 1 are gram–positive rods, 9 are gram–positive spore rods, 1 is gram–positive cocci and 3 species of fungi. Based on the data obtained, it can be concluded that in various phenological phases, the greatest contamination of the wheat plants of the « Kalach-60» variety is observed by such bacterial species as: Bacillus drentensis, B. horikoshii, B. psychrodurans, B. halodurans, B. okuhidensis, B. oleronius (with an occurrence index from 70 to 100 %). Fungi Aphanocladium album, Alternaria altenata, Fusarium oxysporum prevails at various phenological phases with an occurrence index from 70 to 100%. |
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sciforum-053840 | Genetic diversity and population structure assessed by SSR in a Peruvian germplasm collection of loche squash (Cucurbita moschata, Cucurbitaceae) |
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Raul Blas ,
Roberto Ugás
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Loche is an ancient landrace of squash from Northern Peru, notable for its vegetative reproduction and lack of seeds in fruits. Studies on this crop have been focused mainly on its nutritional properties and agronomic management. However, very little is known about its genetics. Here, we used 21 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) to assess the genetic diversity and population structure of a collection of 100 samples of loche from three localities in Peru, and 10 samples of related species, C. pepo and C. maxima (110 accessions in total). A total 85 bands were manually scored, obtaining an average of 4.05 alleles per locus. UPGMA clustering method was used to generate a dendrogram, and similar to the principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), it showed a clear identification between the three species of Cucurbita. Discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC) clustered the 110 accessions into four populations: (i) two of loche, (ii) one of C. pepo, and (iii) one of C. maxima. Genetic diversity (i.e. expected heterozigosity) estimation was conducted considering only the two groups (populations) of loche identified by DAPC algorithm, which was 0.03 as an average. The standardized index of association was greater than zero demonstrating that loche is a clonal population. AMOVA revealed the greatest variation between populations (74.58%) and indicated that variability within populations is 25.42%. Vegetative propagation by means of stem cuttings and cultivation in a very restricted geographical area would explain the rather low diversity of loche. This in turn would suggest that the apparent variation observed in fruit shape may be explained by somatic mutation and/or environmental factors. Our next step is to employ NGS tools on this landrace to develop molecular tools that will promote its modern genetic improvement and sustainable management. However, further studies are needed for a more accurate evaluation of phenotypic traits of this precious crop. |
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sciforum-053513 |
Carnivore carcasses as a source of hair for vertebrates
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Lidia Rosell ,
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Pablo Jiménez-Nájar ,
José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata ,
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Moisés Gonzálvez ,
Lidia Rosell ,
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Pablo Jiménez-Nájar ,
José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata ,
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Carrion is more than food for scavengers and decomposers, as many non-trophic ecological functions are associated with this resource. For instance, a growing body of research highlights the important role of carcasses in disease dynamics. However, how carrion may provide other materials such as hair, feathers, bones, and skin for purposes other than food (e.g., nest construction) is greatly unknown. Carcasses of carnivorous animals may represent an outstanding source of these materials, as such carcasses persist longer in ecosystems than herbivore carcasses. In this study, we aimed to characterize the hair-taking behaviour of vertebrate species at carnivore carcasses in south-eastern Spain. Between 2017 and 2021, we deployed c. 100 carcasses of five mammalian carnivore species (mainly red foxes Vulpes vulpes) in three Mediterranean study areas between January and May. We monitored their entire decomposition process by using motion-triggered cameras with video recording. We detected hair-taking behaviour by several bird and mammal species, especially the carrion crow Corvus corone, the common raven Corvus corax, the great tit Parus major, the coal tit Periparus ater and the garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus. Hair was taken from different parts of the carcasses, but mostly from the tail. The peaks for this hair-taking behaviour varied throughout the entire study according to the different visitor species, suggesting a relationship with their breeding phenology. Our findings confirm that carcasses from mammalian carnivores are a highly persistent source of hair that is frequently used by several vertebrate species, probably for nest building. This is an example of the fruitful research avenues that may arise from the non-trophic uses of carrion. |
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sciforum-052962 | Invasive raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and raccoon (Procyon lotor) monitoring in Lithuania based on camera traps data | , , | N/A |
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Invasive mammal species outside their natural range are causing damage to the native ecosystems. Raccoon dogs were first observed in Lithuania in 1948 and since then spread across the country. Surveys of this species stopped in 1997, therefore numbers and trends currently are unknown. Raccoons were first observed in 2012, with only a few sporadical reports over the decade. Both species are listed as an EU species of concern. Between September 2019 and July 2021 we evaluated distribution and densities of these animals using camera traps (system with a motion trigger/sensor that activates a camera to take a photograph when an animal is present) at 85 locations with a total sampling effort of 11501 camera trap days. Raccoon dog was identified in 57 locations (67.1 % of all surveyed) and raccoon 1 location (1.2 %). The average relative shooting frequency of raccoon dogs was 5.12 photos/100 days and that of raccoons was 0.18 photos/100 days. The abundance of raccoon dog was not uniform. In northeastern part of Lithuania their relative shooting frequency was significantly higher than in western part (6.26 and 2.31 photos/100 days, respectively; p < 0.05). Raccoons were present in only one location, however, during the study period they were registered 21 times. This indicates that a viable population has developed and it can become a source of further invasion in the nearest future, requiring immediate control actions. Research was funded by contract No. 05.5.1-APVA-V-018-01-0012. |
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sciforum-055180 | Diversity patterns of benthic assemblages on intertidal estuarine seagrass beds in Aveiro (Portugal) |
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Seagrass meadows are very productive ecosystems and many animal species are dependent of these meadows, including a wide diversity of invertebrates. This study aims to explore spatial diversity patterns of benthic invertebrates associated to Zostera noltei Hornemann, 1832 meadows. Three meadows (A, B, C) were sampled along the salinity gradient of Ria de Aveiro. At each meadow two sites were selected and four core were taken at each site. Fauna was sorted, counted and identified to the lowest taxonomical level. ANOVA tests showed significant differences of taxa number and abundance among meadows. Highest values of species and individuals were found in meadow A (31 taxa and 3342 individuals). Lowest values of individuals were found in B (970) and lowest values of taxa in B and C (20). PERMANOVA allowed to identify significant differences among meadows, being the meadow B similar to C and both distinct from A. Simper analyses showed the main taxa responsible of the differences. These taxa included annelids (Oligochaetes, Hediste diversicolor (O.F. Müller, 1776) and Notomastus latericeus Sars, 1851), molluscs (Peringia ulvae (Pennant, 1777) and Scrobicularia plana (da Costa, 1778)), crustaceans (Cyathura carinata (Krøyer, 1847)) and nematodes. It was also observed that some annelids as N. latericeus and oligochaete and the gastropod P. ulvae presented density gradient of abundance along the lagoon from the inner side to the outer. Acknowledgements: This research was developed under Project No. 029818, co-financed by COMPETE 2020, Portugal 2020 and the European Union through the ERDF, and by FCT through national funds. |
Best Paper Award
To acknowledge the support that esteemed authors have given the journal, and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the Best Paper Award. One winner will be selected and receive a cash award of CHF 500 and a certificate.
The winner will be announced after the conference.
Terms and Conditions:
- Submit full paper (3-8 pages) to our conference
- Originality/novelty of the paper
- Significance of content
- Scientific soundness
- Interest to the readers
- English language and style
Best Presentation Award
To acknowledge the support that esteemed authors have given the conference, and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the Best Presentation Award. One winner will be selected and receive a cash award of CHF 500 and a certificate.
The winner will be announced after the conference.
Terms and Conditions:
- Submit full files (eg. video/ppt/poster) after short abstract is accepted
- Originality / Novelty of the submitted file
- Significance of Content
- Scientific Soundness
- Interest to the readers
- English language and style
Winner Announcement
We are so pleased to announce that the winners of IECD2022 Best Paper Award & Best Presentation Award have been selected by the Conference Committee. A total of two papers stand out, and the winner will receive a 500 CHF bonus and award certificate. Come join us and congratulate them!
Best Paper Award
-Characterization of the trophic niche for a Rockfish community in southeast Alaska
by Andrew Suchomel, Nathan St. Andre and Mark Belk
Best Presentation Award
Live Session 1: Next Generation Biogeography: towards a better estimation of dispersal probabilities
by Matjaž Kuntner