Scientific Program

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09:00

Designing multiple driver experiments

14:00

Sea Urchin Barrens Workshop

17:00

08:00

Coffee & Registration

08:30

Méridienne | 60 min | Opening Ceremony

09:30

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Melanie Bishop : Habitat by design: a toolkit for the nature repair of urbanised coasts

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Keynote Méridienne | 30 min | Kira Krumhansl : An annual blue carbon budget for kelp forests and seagrass beds in Nova Scotia, Canada Ecosystem Services

Keynote Room n°1 | 30 min | Elena Maggi : New approaches to the study of temperate reefs: night-time light pollution and the role of the microbiome Novel Approaches

Keynote Room n°2 | 30 min | Anaëlle Lemasson : Can offshore energy structures function as artificial reefs after end-of -life? Ocean Sprawl

Keynote Room n°34 | 30 min | Aurélien Boyé : A change is gonna come: predicting degradation and recovery dynamics in intertidal biogenic reefs using machine learning and spatial early warning signals Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

11:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Benjamin Neal : Fishers’ local ecological knowledge (LEK) reveals complex food web dynamics for rapidly warming waters in Maine (USA) coastal systems Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Maryann Watson : Fishing for sound: Monitoring reef communities with passive acoustics Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Nobuhle Mpanza : Weaving Indigenous Knowledge Systems with ecological engineering to enhance the functionality and biodiversity of urbanised ecosystems along the southeast coast of South Africa Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Rosa M Viejo : Grazing by fishes as drivers of regime shifts: a rising threat in intertidal temperate algal forests Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

11:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Maxine Canvin : Quantifying the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Kelp Farming in the UK Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Stephen Swearer : Quantifying exposure and community response to artificial light at night on temperate reefs Novel Approaches

Room n°2 | 15 min | Angélica Enrique-Navarro : Large-Scale Rock Pools as an Eco-Engineering Solution for Enhancing Biodiversity in Urbanized Coastal Areas Ocean Sprawl

Room n°34 | 15 min | Rosa M. Chefaoui : Understanding climate resilience and restoring declining habitat-forming macroalgal populations at the rear edge of their distribution Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Charlotte Clubley : Is ocean space shared a problem halved? Assessing multi-use potential of offshore wind with low-trophic aquaculture Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Martina Mulas : Novel approaches to monitoring light and noise pollution in subtidal coastal habitats Novel Approaches

Room n°2 | 15 min | Yan Zhi Yap : Effects of slope angle on health, growth, morphology and survival of intertidally transplanted corals Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Eli Rinde : Effects of darkening and eutrophication on rockweed communities and photosynthetic performance: Results from a 4-month mesocosm study Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Mari Deinhart : Quantifying indigenous kelp contributions to New Zealand’s Blue Carbon sinks Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Anaïs Barrera : Habitat fragmentation in marine macroalgal forest conservation: implementing remote sensing techniques for high-resolution subtidal landscape characterisation Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Francesca Rossi : Trophic connectivity between marinas and adjacent Posidonia oceanica meadows Ocean Sprawl

Room n°34 | 15 min | Lars Gamfeldt : Diversity of intertidal macroalgae as spatial insurance in the marine intertidal Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:30

Lunch Time

13:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Inga Hellige : Brown algae fucoidan sinks carbon in the ocean Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Régis Gallon Garcia : Advanced Mapping of Intertidal Macroalgae in Normandy: An Integrated Approach Based on Multi-Source Data Novel Approaches

Room n°2 | 15 min | Jessica Allen : Greening of grey infrastructure: Stakeholder and public perceptions from Britain’s Ocean City of Plymouth Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | John Bruno : Predator response diversity to warming enables ecosystem resilience in the Galápagos Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Peter Stæhr : How to identify suitable sites for restoration of boulder reefs Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Annaëlle Anquet : Influence of marine weather and coastal geomorphology on seaweed wrack dynamics along Quebec coasts Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Annie Ann Nee Chew : Enhancing biodiversity on Singapore’s seawalls: Large-scale testing of eco-engineering solutions Ocean Sprawl

Room n°34 | 15 min | Jiaxin Shi : Compound impacts of sea urchin grazing and marine heatwave thermal stress drive kelp collapse Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

14:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Lydia White : Degradation of macroalgae across multiple environmental gradients Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Yi-Fei Gu : HSC3D: A Python package to quantify three-dimensional habitat structural complexity Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Peter Almond : A resilient ecological network of shipwreck-associated communities in the North Sea Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Kyle Cavanaugh : Patterns and processes behind the recovery of bull kelp from a large-scale collapse along the coast of northern California Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Ethan Clark : Sustainable materials for kelp restoration and aquaculture Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Mark Lenz : Artificial light at night can influence the composition, diversity and biomass of early successional hard-bottom communities Novel Approaches

Room n°2 | 15 min | Maeva Gonzalez : Study of biocolonization of a floating offshore wind turbine prototype and influence on soft bottom benthic community Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Sara Barrientos : Quantifying herbivore-driven decline in kelp forests : implications for climate refuge resilience Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Taylor Simpkins : Blue carbon flux and decomposition from warming Australian macroalgal reefs Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Tammy Teong : Comparing the effectiveness of BioBoss2 and 3D-printed green concrete seawall enhancement tiles Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Jabulani Ndaba : Into the microscopic world: assessment of microphytobenthos on Indigenous knowledge based eco-engineered prototypes deployed along coastal urban sites Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Emil Kotta : Long-term changes in coastal seaweed communities in response to contemporary climate change across a wave exposure gradient Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

15:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Catalina Ruz : Evaluating the effects of kelp harvesting and the impact on associated communities Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Lara Denis-Roy : Harnessing eDNA for reef monitoring: a continental scale comparison with visual surveys in Australia Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Yan Le Su : Does construction material, installation depth, and topographical complexity influence the biodiversity and species assemblage of marine enhancement units? Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Eliseo Fica-Rojas : Population and community stability in the face of small – scale experimental harvesting in intertidal communities structured by the southern bull kelp, Durvillaea incurvata Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Flora Lam Kim : From Seaweed Defence to Ecosystem Services: Exploring the Antioxidant Potential of Australian Brown Seaweeds Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Kévin Planolles : Automated detection of reef fishes on underwater videos Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Orla McKibbin : Recruitment assessment of eco-engineered seawalls Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Shane Farrell : Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

16:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Lianna Gendall : A Spatially Explicit Model of Kelp Forest Biomass: Mapping Vulnerability in Western Australia’s Great Southern Reef Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Agathe Bouet : Habitat classification of temperate intertidal rocky shore with SAGA-GIS, using multispectral and topographic data from UAV-based monitoring Novel Approaches | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Jean-Charles Leclerc : Kelping may not be helping: connectivity, community assembly, carbon and nutrient fluxes associated with seaweeds on marinas Ocean Sprawl

Room n°34 | 15 min | Luca Rindi : Warming-Induced Changes in the Stability of Rocky Intertidal Microbial Communities Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

16:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Thomas Wernberg : Hotspots of climate change calamity: marine heatwaves impact kelp, kelp forests and ecosystem services Ecosystem Services

Room n°1 | 15 min | Katherine Cavanaugh : Quantifying kelp canopy traits with airborne imaging spectroscopy Novel Approaches

Room n°2 | 15 min | Mariana Mayer Pinto : The impacts of artificial light at night on urbanised coastal habitats Ocean Sprawl

Room n°34 | 15 min | Garance Perrois : Environmental drivers of coastal benthic community composition in the temperate transition zone of Jeju Island, South Korea Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

16:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Sally Henderson : Self-cleaning slipways: Harnessing species interactions for sustainable management of coastal infrastructure Ecosystem Services | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Miriam Ferretti : Changes in the trophic ecology of the crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus on man-made structures exposed to artificial light at night Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Mads Thomsen : The demise of intertidal southern bull kelp (Durvillaea spp.) following heatwaves, earthquakes and sediment stress – and the flourishing of alternative foundation species Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

16:45

Room n°2 | 15 min | Giada Riva : Exploring the taxonomic and functional homogenization in marine urban environments on regional scale Ocean Sprawl | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Hartvig Christie : Rocky shore’s Game of Thrones (a timeline of multiple regime shifts) Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

08:00

Coffee & Registration

08:30

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Gray A. Williams : Searching for enlightenment: what can we learn from watching marine gastropods?

09:30

Keynote Méridienne | 30 min | David Schiel : Using ecological science for potentially expensive short-term interventions for substantial long-term environmental, cultural and economic gain in coastal regions Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Keynote Room n°1 | 30 min | Margaux Mathieu-Resuge : Cold water coral reefs in North Atlantic: food partitioning among three species, implications for their ecophysiology Underexplored Reefs

Keynote Room n°2 | 30 min | Robin Fales : Intertidal seaweed functional traits across latitude and tidal elevation: A comparison of Pacific and Atlantic shorelines Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Lorena Cristina Cojoc : Exploring resilience and resistance mechanisms of Gongolaria barbata populations under heat stress Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

09:45

Room n°34 | 15 min | Libby Liggins : Range dynamics of tropical and subtropical fishes in temperate Aotearoa New Zealand Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

10:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Aaron M Eger : If you build it, will they come? Assessing the effectiveness of kelp forest restoration in restoring key ecosystem functions and services Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Alejandro Perez Matus : Multi-Method Approaches to Assess Fish Assemblages and Community Structure in Temperate Mesophotic Reef Ecosystems Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | Sigrid Iredell : Trait-by-environment interactions determine facilitation of rocky shore biodiversity by a habitat-forming alga Macroalgal Traits | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Anaëlle Bizien : A new approach for studying temperate rocky reef seaweed communities and their recovery potential Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

10:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Nessa O’Connor : Harnessing ecological theory to enhance kelp cultivation Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Lina Rasmusson : Quantifying the occurrence, distribution and contribution of Swedish maerl beds Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | Samuel Starko : Uncovering the genetic basis for growth rate variation in a dominant kelp species Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Breck McCollum : Which species on sublittoral rock walls in the Gulf of Maine are sensitive to increasing ocean temperatures? Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Fabio Bulleri : Degraded but not too much: the carbon metabolism of pristine and urban marine forests in the NW Mediterranean Sea Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Fernando Tempera : The distinctive circalittoral zonation of oceanic islands: The Azores reefs (central North Atlantic) compared to the nearest continental shelves Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | John Griffin : Harnessing Functional Traits to Advance Seaweed Ecology Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Alexis Savard-Drouin : Resilience and restoration potential of kelp forests in Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

11:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Franz Bauer : Quantifying the macroalgae-based carbon storage capacity of an intertidal eco-engineered seawall Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany) | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 2895 min | Bastien Taormina : Fish farms cause lethal and sublethal impacts on cold-water bamboo coral Isidella lofotensis Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | Hannah Hall : Using functional traits and photophysiology to understand the facilitative role of canopy-forming seaweeds Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Christian Pansch : Substantial Shift in Community Composition over Two Years of Simulated Warming – A Mesocosm Study on a Temperate Coastal Ecosystem Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

11:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Cristina Piñeiro-Corbeira : Quantifying species dependency on kelp forests: Insights from a large-scale assessment Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Jacques Grall : Littoral caves: unique biodiversity hotspots and potential climate refuges Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | Matthew Bracken : Seaweed traits predict the functional consequences of biodiversity changes in response to an intertidal aerial heat wave Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Julia Sobol : Tackling Centrostephanus rodgersii: Modelling Range Extension and Management Across the Eastern Great Southern Reef Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

11:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Dan Smale : Uncovering hidden forests: Examining the diversity, structure and functioning of kelp-dominated habitats in the UK Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Julie Tourolle : Novel temporal approaches for the study of cold-water coral reefs Underexplored Reefs

Room n°2 | 15 min | Ruby George : Investigating the resilience of North-East Atlantic intertidal forests to disturbance over a latitudinal gradient Macroalgal Traits | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Candela Marco-Méndez : Regional Variability in Sea Urchins Species-Specific Thresholds of Macroalgae Collapse Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Johanna Sophie Zimmerhackel : The value of recovering Norway’s kelp forests Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany)

Room n°1 | 15 min | Anaïs Sire de Vilar : Ocean warming effects across life history stages of two co-occurring cold-water octocorals from the Azores Underexplored Reefs | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Jack Duffy : Novel techniques for designing hydrodynamically scaled kelp mimics for use in laboratory wave tank experiments Macroalgal Traits | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Paul Gribben : Understanding the processes controlling larger-scale variation in facilitation cascades Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Annemie Rose Janssen : Genetic differentiation of habitat-forming kelp Ecklonia radiata across an urban estuary Macroalgae and Ecosystem Services (sponsored by Annals of Botany) | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Thomas Burel : Latitudinal vs. local drivers structuring of Fucales-dominated communities along the Northeastern Atlantic Macroalgal Traits

Room n°34 | 15 min | Martin Marzloff : Towards a trait-based modelling framework to understand and predict consequences of seascape habitat change on temperate reef communities Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

12:30

Lunch Time

13:45

Keynote Méridienne | 30 min | Albert Pessarrodona : Carbonate production and erosion on temperate reefs: overlooked but globally relevant Biogeochemical Cycling

Keynote Room n°1 | 30 min | Antony Knights : Assessing change in ecological network functioning and its incorporation into environmental policy Science to Policy

Keynote Room n°2 | 30 min | Marine Uguen : Seasonal aggregation behaviour in the reef ecosystem engineer Mytilus edulis Biogenic Reefs

Room n°34 | 15 min | Lori Berberian : From Land to Sea: The Cascading Impacts of Wildfires on California’s Kelp Forests Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

14:00

Room n°34 | 15 min | Zhengquan Zhou : Shaping physiological plasticity: the impact of thermal regimes on benthic organisms Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Océane Attlan : Diverging carbonate budgets following tropicalisation of temperate reefs Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Amelia Hesketh : Not all things to not all people: Limits to growth within kelp socioecological systems Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Alexandre Le Moal : Study of the European native oyster (Ostrea edulis) biological rhythms at behavioral level to understand their resilience and the resettlement success of flat oyster reefs in the German Bight (Helgoland) Biogenic Reefs | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Mario Minguito-Frutos : Estimating context-dependent ecological thresholds and risk of sea urchin barren formation in Mediterranean macroalgal communities Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Bianca Reis : Climate-driven Community Shifts Reshape Productivity in Marine Forests Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Owen Exeter : Large scale application of stereo baited remote underwater video systems to support monitoring of temperate marine ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic. Science to Policy | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Sonja M. Ehlers : So far unknown interactions between marine benthic invertebrates and plastic pollution Biogenic Reefs

Room n°34 | 15 min | Teresa Alcoverro : Regional conditions determine sea urchin pressure on macroalgal forests and modify the buffer capacity of the alternative states Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

14:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Dara Yiu : Kelp forest loss rewires energy flow to predatory fishes on Northwest Atlantic rocky reefs Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Dominique Pelletier : Assessing effective protection of reef fishes and associated habitats in a long-established Mediterranean Marine Protected Area Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Iacopo Bertocci : Alternative explanatory models of the species-area relationship: an experimental test on honeycomb worm (Sabellaria alveolata) reef patches Biogenic Reefs

Room n°34 | 15 min | Katie Smith : Assessing vulnerability of habitat-forming marine macrophytes to ocean warming using experimentally-derived upper thermal limits Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

15:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Grace Edwards : Warming and coastal darkening alter nitrogen cycling by primary producers Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Rick Stuart-Smith : Why are we chasing 30% coverage of mostly ineffective MPAs? Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Rodney Forster : Decadal-scale loss of an intertidal algal bed: combining remote sensing and in situ mapping Biogenic Reefs

Room n°34 | 15 min | Anton Kovalev : High resilience of an invasive mussel to cumulative impacts of ocean warming and oil pollution Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Ethan Quah : The role of kelp-bryozoan symbiosis in the carbon cycle Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Nils Krueck : Marine conservation planning needs to account for individual movements of reef fishes Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Abel Zempléni : The epibiotic community associated to the European flat oyster: a function of the state of development of the reef Biogenic Reefs | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Cayne Layton : Interspecific competition, recruitment inhibition, and potential kelp-kelp phase shifts – implications for conservation and function in a climate change hotspot Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts

16:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Aline Gangnery : In situ trophic ecology of benthic marine suspension feeders using metabarcoding Biogeochemical Cycling

Room n°1 | 15 min | Laurent Guérin : Assessing the state of marine benthic biodiversity in the Northeast Atlantic Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Giusto Lo Bue : Bio-engineered reefs in the anthropocene: Microplastic abundance in the largest Mediterranean Sabellaria spinulosa reef system Biogenic Reefs | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Erin McCosker : The role of temperate herbivores in facilitating expansion of a novel subtropical habitat-former on warming temperate reefs Resistance, Resilience and Phase Shifts | Student presentation

16:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Stina Kolodzey : Using otolith stable isotopes to reconstruct trophic baselines in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Biogeochemical Cycling

Room n°1 | 15 min | David Jacinto : Socio-economic and ecological drivers and challenges: the sea urchin fishery of the central Portuguese coast Science to Policy

Room n°2 | 15 min | Renate Olie : Native oyster enhancement pilot in offshore wind farm Borssele III/IV; a case study for sharing knowledge through The Rich North Sea’s Toolbox Biogenic Reefs

16:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Anthony Voisin : Biomarkers of change: tracking diets along an environmental gradient in an Antarctic benthic ecosystem Biogeochemical Cycling | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Lauren Vapillon : Marine Forests in a Changing Climate: Projecting Global Trends in Extent and Biomass Distribution Science to Policy | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Katy Nicastro : Impact of Leachates from Microplastics and Novel Plastic Forms on Mussel Adaptive Behaviour and Self-Organisation Biogenic Reefs

16:45

Méridienne | 15 min | María López-Acosta : Maerl Beds as Key Drivers of the Silicon Cycle in Coastal Ecosystems: A Case Study of the Bay of Brest Biogeochemical Cycling

Room n°1 | 15 min | Martial Laurans : Kelps harvesting in Brittany, what future knowing 125 years of exploitation. Science to Policy

17:00

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Steve Hawkins : In the footsteps of giants: homage to the French founders of intertidal ecology

18:00

18:15

08:00

Coffee & Registration

08:30

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Anne Salomon : Supporting the Resilience of Canada’s Pacific Kelp Forests

09:30

Keynote Méridienne | 30 min | Christopher Harley : Spatial and interannual variation in benthic community structure is driven by salinity effects on predator-prey dynamics Reef-associated Biodiversity

Keynote Room n°1 | 30 min | Christopher Cornwall : Effects of ocean acidification on coralline algae in the context of multiple drivers of climate change Biology & Ecophysiology

Keynote Room n°2 | 30 min | Shinae Montie : Marine heatwaves: Winners, losers, and the metrics that count Extreme Events

Keynote Room n°34 | 30 min | Christopher McQuaid : Environmental constraint, biotic interactions and the spread of the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Invasion Ecology

10:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Jasmine Ramshaw : Quantifying bacterial assemblages associated with both farmed and wild populations of Saccharina latissima across the aquaculture growing season in SW England Reef-associated Biodiversity | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Daniel Liesner : Molecular control and ecological relevance of asexual reproduction in the split-fan kelp Laminaria pallida Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Imogen Bunting : Kelp in hot water? Investigating the responses of Aotearoa New Zealand’s giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) populations to simulated marine heatwaves Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Iris Preiss : Thermal Resilience and Potential Ecological Impacts of the Invasive Sea Urchin Diadema setosum on the Fast Warming Levantine Mediterranean Coast Invasion Ecology | Student presentation

10:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Trine Bekkby : Living on the edge - on intertidal rockweeds and their inhabitants facing climate change and eutrophication Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Vanessa Arranz : Strategies of echinoderms in response to ocean acificacion: An "omics" approach from a natural laboratory Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Katherine Fenton : Evaluating the response of New Zealand blackfoot abalone, Haliotis iris, to simulated marine heatwaves and climate-change induced high rainfall events, with conservation and management applications to local communities. Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Gil Rilov : Summarizing 16 years of Levant rocky shore ecological monitoring and experiments: trends, surprises and lessons learned Invasion Ecology

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Mathieu Helias : Biogeographical patterns in intertidal macroalgal communities along the coasts of Normandy (Channel Sea) Reef-associated Biodiversity | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Veronica Farrugia Drakard : Impact of climate-driven glacial melt on the early life-stages of high-latitude kelps Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Kirsty Richards : Some like it salty - examining fish assemblages across an extreme salinity gradient, Shark Bay, Western Australia Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Nerea Alvite : Kelp forest decline allows invasive turf algae to spread in NW Iberia Invasion Ecology | Student presentation

11:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Alexander Harry McGrath : Methods for the manipulation of host-associated microbes in habitat forming macroalgae Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Simone Baldanzi : Acclimation to daily fluctuations of dissolved oxygen improve oxygen regulation after stress exposure in the Kelp crab Taliepus dentatus Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Jane Edgeloe : Temporal genomic monitoring of kelp reveals subtle temporal change despite exposure to an extreme marine heatwave in Western Australia Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Alejandro Bernal-Ibáñez : Where is the control for the highly invasive macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae? Assessing the role of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus along an invasion gradient Invasion Ecology

11:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Cristina Galobart : Functional consequences of habitat fragmentation in macroalgal forests: A focus on macroinvertebrates Reef-associated Biodiversity | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Callum Hudson : Long-term ocean acidification exposure negatively impacts the structural and mechanical properties of sea urchin skeletons at a natural volcanic CO2 seep Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Steeve Comeau : A Multifaceted Approach to Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Mediterranean Ecosystems Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Clément Violet : Forecasting Marine Invasions: Climate-Induced Shifts in Environmental Suitability for European Non-Indigenous Species Invasion Ecology

11:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Fanny Noisette : Ecological dynamics of Anticosti island kelp forest: insights into subarctic rocky reef ecosystems from eastern Canada Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Benedikt Schrofner-Brunner : A mule carries the shore: Hybridisation as Ecosystem-Scale Facilitation of Ecosystem Functioning in Intertidal Seaweed Forests Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Sarah Bollina : Unveiling the Role of Endolithic Symbionts in Enhancing Mussel Resilience to Thermal Stress Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Christophe Lejeusne : Local scale environmental gradients within harbours induce strong community and physiological shifts on hard artificial substrates Invasion Ecology

12:00

Méridienne | 15 min | David Aguirre : Kelp forest thinning and fragmentation influence the number of kelp recruits but not the genetic composition of populations Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Carme Pacín : Photosynthetic performance, cell wall composition, and contaminant dynamics in intertidal Fucus vesiculosus Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Yunwei Dong : Intertidal species distribution evaluation and prediction with the consideration of physiological and genetic traits Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Natalia Aga Milovic : Abundance and Distribution of Native and Exotic Kelp Forests in Patagonia (South West Atlantic, Argentina) Invasion Ecology

12:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Kjell Magnus Norderhaug : Differences in fish communities between kelp and turf in the Skagerrak: more but smaller Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Laurent Seuront : Behavioral flexibility as an adaptation to climatic and anthropogenic stress in an era of global warming Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Ya-jie Zhu : Untangling responses of A-to-I RNA editing in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis to heat stress Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Kathleen MacGregor : Green crab (Carcinus maenas) population fluctuations and diet on the Magdalen Islands (Quebec, Canada); thermal limits in a context of global change Invasion Ecology

12:30

Lunch Time

13:45

Méridienne | 30 min | Louise Firth : The Jekyll and Hyde role of rock pools in intertidal biodiversity across latitudes Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Sofía Hernández-Chan : Evidence of adaptive local thermal resilience in marine forests, over a latitudinal gradient Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Maya Munstermann : Cross-latitude population comparisons of energetic and reproductive investment of purple sea urchins in marine heat wave conditions Extreme Events | Student presentation

Keynote Room n°34 | 30 min | Fernando P. Lima : CCTBON: Temperature and biodiversity monitoring on rocky shores across the entire Atlantic Ocean Climate Change Refugia

14:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Tristan da Silva e Ornelas : Benthic & ichthyofaunal diversity of Black Coral Forests in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Solène Cazalis-Henry : Foaming at the mouth: direct and indirect exposure to seafoam affects the behaviour of the periwinkle Littorina littorea Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Gerardo Zardi : Microbial symbionts enhance thermal tolerance in the Pacific Oyster Extreme Events

14:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Elizabeth Oh : Scaling up our understanding of fish-habitat associations on shallow reef Reef-associated Biodiversity | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Lorenzo Cozzolino : The role of intraspecific diversity in modulating microplastic impacts on biogenic habitats Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Ben Harvey : Ocean warming and marine heatwaves are causing the collapse and tropicalisation of kelp forests in the Japanese Izu Peninsula Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Rita da Silva : Rockpools as Thermal Refuges: Insights from Thermal Records and Heartbeat Monitoring of Intertidal Species Climate Change Refugia

14:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Jeffrey Shima : Larval developmental histories shape stage-specific fitness of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in a temperate reef fish Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Joëlle Robbe : Effects of water temperature and pH on skeletal growth and micro-anatomy of cold-water coral holobiont of one of the main reef-building species Desmophyllum pertusum Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | François Thoral : “Marine Darkwaves”: an event-based framework to assess frequency, duration and intensity of extreme periods of reduced underwater light availability Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Antoine Minne : Deep refuges and warm adaptation at range edges: genomic insights from kelp forests Climate Change Refugia

14:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Harry Catherall : Bacteria on Laminaria hyperborea: Spatial Patterns and Tissue-Specific Assemblages Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Laura Falkenberg : Seagrass ecosystems under stress: the impact of marine heatwaves on trophic pressure and seagrass persistence Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Leigh Tait : Thresholds of light drive kelp dominated ecosystems across depths and exposure to suspended sediments Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Johanna Vega-Sequeda : Coralline algae growth under contrasted natural regimes of pH in a subarctic area Climate Change Refugia | Student presentation

15:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Jesús Pineda : Small-scale coastal surface convergences: concentration and condition of lobster larvae and other benthic and pelagic organisms Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Nuria Viladrich : Global warming drives phenological shifts and hinders reproductive success in a temperate octocoral Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Maike Kaffenberger : Differential photophysiological responses of intertidal seaweeds to increasing thermal and desiccation stress Extreme Events | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Ze Hoe Lee : Survival of the Coolest: How habitat-forming species convey temporal stability of microclimates and communities Climate Change Refugia | Student presentation

15:15

Coffee Break

15:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Sidsel Pedersen : Kelp forest diversity and stability at warming and under-explored northern limits Reef-associated Biodiversity | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Abby Gilson : Down-regulation of carbon concentrating mechanisms and adjustments in fatty acid composition in response to ocean acidification and warming cannot compensate for negative effects of multiple stressors in a habitat-forming kelp Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Shawn Gerrity : Long-term recovery dynamics of endemic New Zealand blackfoot abalone (Haliotis iris) populations affected by co-seismic coastal uplift and recreational overfishing Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Francisco Arenas : Preserving the Last Stop of the Boreal: Kelp Forest Vulnerability in a Changing Ocean Climate Change Refugia

16:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Markus Molis : Undercover interactions – how beneficial are seaweed canopies at high latitude? Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Flavia Nunes : The Honeycomb Worm Genome: Expanded Protein Kinase Repertoire and other Key Features Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Rhian Evans : The effects of summer and winter marine heatwaves on growth is determined by latitude and species traits Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Gestoso Ignacio : Macroalgal canopies as thermal refuges in coastal systems of the NW Iberian Peninsula Climate Change Refugia

16:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Mathieu Cusson : Functional responses of intertidal communities to environmental stress gradients Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Simone Baldanzi : The influence of body size, temperature and hypoxia in brooding behavior and costs in Brachyuran crabs Biology & Ecophysiology

Room n°2 | 15 min | Daniel Okamoto : Marine heatwaves effects on urchin reproduction, larval survival, and oceanographic dispersal drive historical collapses in recruitment Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Cátia Monteiro : Biotic interactions in a changing world – how canopy-forming species modulate biodiversity and temperature from micro to latitudinal scales Climate Change Refugia

16:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Pippa Moore : The structure, function and resilience of Laminaria hyperborea forests along the northern North Sea coast of the United Kingdom Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°1 | 15 min | Florian Stahl : Physiological and biochemical response to increasing temperatures of the kelp Laminaria hyperborea along its European distribution gradient Biology & Ecophysiology | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Frank Melzner : Projected heat waves reshape Baltic Sea reef communities: a mesocosm study Extreme Events

Room n°34 | 15 min | Chris Battershill : Love thy neighbour? Depends on the neighbours and outside threats: diversity and patch dynamics of iconic encrusting species in (former?) cave and archway refugia Climate Change Refugia

16:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Rocío Vilela : Exploring the intertidal biodiversity of the Selvagens islands: a window into an intact marine ecosystem in the eastern Atlantic Reef-associated Biodiversity

Room n°34 | 15 min | Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi : The need for microclimate research in rocky reef ecology Climate Change Refugia

17:00

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Louise Firth & Pippa Moore : International Temperate Reefs Symposium: Genesis, Ethos and Evolution

18:00

Stuff Up Night (For Students only)

08:00

Coffee & Registration

08:30

Plenary Méridienne | 60 min | Brian Helmuth : Thinking like a non-human: Escaping anthropocentric constraints to better understand and predict the impacts of environmental change in coastal ecosystems

09:30

Keynote Méridienne | 30 min | Jordi Boada : Adventures and misadventures monitoring sea urchin barrens - managing sea urchin fisheries to conserve and restore macoralgal forests Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Keynote Room n°1 | 30 min | Rui Seabra : The anatomy of the intertidal thermal profile (from the usual to the extreme and the odd) Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Keynote Room n°2 | 30 min | Bayden Russell : Major loss in algal species across 150 years of data: is ocean heating driving species loss in a biodiversity hotspot in southern China? Long-term Temporal Trends

Keynote Room n°34 | 30 min | Craig Johnson : Phase shift on temperate reefs Macroecology

10:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Jon Dickson : Who lives in a pear tree under the sea? Tree-reefs as a mimic of historical substrate. Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Thomas Davies : Changing Marine Lightscapes Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Loren McClenachan : Sea otter recovery buffers century-scale declines in California kelp forests Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Billie Beckley : Drivers of kelp recruitment across a reef landscape Macroecology | Student presentation

10:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Sean Connell : Scaling restoration: habitat interdependencies at seascape scales Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Jane Weinstock : Latitudinal differences in temperature mediate embryonic development and larval release, with implications for regional dispersal Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Max Castorani : Kelp synchrony: a synthesis Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Nina Prasil-Delaval : Combining fish visual census and eDNA metabarcoding to identify the main environmental and human drivers of fish functional structure on temperate rocky reefs Macroecology | Student presentation

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Prue Francis : Kelping the Bay: cultivating Ecklonia radiata for restoration success Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Jonathan Monsinjon : Predicting the Probability of Microbial Endolithic Symbiosis in Temperate Intertidal Mussels Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Peter Petraitis : Long-term declines and collapse of an intertidal food web Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Lynette Loke : Dispersal limitation in fragmented intertidal landscapes Macroecology

11:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Kaylah Gawne : Restoration Genetics of Ecklonia radiata: A Foundation for Kelp Recovery in Victoria Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Tommy Tin Yan Hui : Species distribution across environmental gradients on tropical rocky shores: how well does physiology explain distribution patterns? Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Ethan Kadiyala : Sand dynamics drive kelp forest biodiversity and community structure Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Tom Fairchild : Scaling-Up Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships: Using Rocky Shores as a Model System Macroecology

11:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Catherine Wilding : Developing approaches for kelp restoration in the UK: a precautionary approach Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Dina-Leigh Simons : Characterising rocky reef biodiversity using environmental DNA from local to national scales Broad-scale Spatial Patterns | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Scott Bennett : Vulnerability of Australian kelp forests to warming and implications for ecosystem function Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Luka Wright : The role of sea urchins in the kelp carbon cycle Macroecology | Student presentation

11:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Francisco Martínez-Baena : Project Restore: Restoring Sydney Harbour’ Seascapes Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Kyle Emery : Spatial scales of connectivity in subsidy-dependent coastal ecosystems Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Brian Timmer : Historical data reveal a half-century of kelp forest extirpation and community deborealization in a geographically isolated microclimate Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Isabel Silva : Top-Down and Bottom-up Control in the Galapagos Upwelling System Macroecology | Student presentation

12:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Alexandria Marquardt : Oyster reef recovery: Impacts of rotational management and restoration efforts on public fishing grounds Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Claire Butler : Comparative effects of ocean warming on kelp-herbivore interactions across Australian temperate reefs Broad-scale Spatial Patterns | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Nestor E. Bosch : Biodiversity ecosystem functioning relationships in threatened kelp forests of Australia’s Great Southern Reef Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Matthew Csordas : Some just like rock, some like it cold: Examining the influence of environment on northeast Pacific kelp forest distribution and composition Macroecology | Student presentation

12:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Abel Zempleni : Developing Standards for Marine Ecosystem Restoration Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Uxue Moreda : Distribution and vulnerability of the endemic deep-water kelp Laminaria rodriguezii in a warming Mediterranean Sea Broad-scale Spatial Patterns | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Ana Sinde-Mano : Tracking biodiversity shifts in temperate rocky assemblages: retracing Fischer-Piette’s historical surveys on the European coast Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Spencer Virgin : Poleward range contraction of a subantarctic limpet: weak larvae and strong adults Macroecology

12:30

Lunch Time

13:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Jacqui Pocklington : Optimizing Marine Forest Restoration in Southern Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Svenja Tidau : Understanding the impacts and trajectories of global change on temperate reefs through the lens of sensory ecology: Light cycles and light pollution Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Bruno Salonen : 40 Years of Climate-Induced Shifts in the Reproductive Phenology of Keystone Species Across a Biogeographic Gradient Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Dan Reed : A 20-year perspective on patterns and causes of spatiotemporal dynamics in macroalgal production in giant kelp forests Macroecology

14:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Ziggy Marzinelli : Using “tree islands” to restore seaweed forests Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Jade Sourisse : Geographical variations of fish cleaning services Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Nova Mieszkowska : Climate-driven tropicalization of European marine communities Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Thomas Benoit : Habitat-mediated interactions: how marine foundation species structure Australian marine ecosystems Macroecology | Student presentation

14:15

Méridienne | 15 min | Peter A. Todd : Meandering artificial shorelines and their potential to enhance biodiversity Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Jarrett Byrnes : Environmental Change Drives Declines in Kelp Abundance Across the Northwest Atlantic Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Hunter Forbes : A historical review of giant kelp harvesting in Tasmania Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Karen Filbee-Dexter : Drivers of kelp forest productivity from warm to cool range edges Macroecology

14:30

Méridienne | 15 min | Ashley D Hemraj : Rebuilding self-sustaining marine ecosystems through coastal restoration Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Linxuan Ma : Mapping the global thermal risk of intertidal mussels Broad-scale Spatial Patterns | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Cam Ly Rintz : Monitoring long-term effects of climate change on intertidal rocky shores through citizen science Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Romina Barbosa : Predicting the effect of short and long-term thermal body temperature on the energy balance of intertidal species Macroecology

14:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Jurgen Valckenaere : Optimizing scalability of seeding-based restoration: survival and resettlement of juvenile kelp Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement | Student presentation

Room n°1 | 15 min | Antonio Calò : Effective full protection and increasing temperatures make thermophilic native species future conservation winners in the Mediterranean Sea Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Inez Mangino : Drivers of macroalgal-epifaunal community structure on temperate rocky reefs in California, USA Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Bernardo R. Broitman : A marine biogeographical transition zone is maintained by an eco-evolutionary driver Macroecology

15:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Ohad Peleg : Identifying Barriers to Kelp Forest Recovery in the Wellington Harbour: The Role of Sea Urchin Grazing and Environmental Conditions Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Laura Bachmaier : Advancing Insights into Marine Metacommunity Connectivity using a Community Connectivity Model: A Case Study of Temperate Intertidal Rocky Shores Broad-scale Spatial Patterns | Student presentation

Room n°2 | 15 min | Lucas Greiner : Quantifying biotic and abiotic drivers of functionally key taxa abundances in intertidal rocky reefs of the English Channel. Long-term Temporal Trends | Student presentation

Room n°34 | 15 min | Michael Cornish : Investigating climate-induced bivalve growth synchrony across coastal ecosystems: a sclerochronological approach Macroecology | Student presentation

15:15

Coffee break

15:45

Méridienne | 15 min | Ljiljana Iveša : Remnants of Gongolaria barbata forests in the northern Adriatic Sea: Ecological characteristics and restoration potential Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Nora Salland : Shifts in kelp forest structure, species performance and rise of the community temperature index (CTI) under ocean warming in the NE Atlantic Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Mauricio Oróstica : Twenty-three years of convergence in complex marine community responses along a large geographic gradient Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Robin P.M. Gauff : Biogeography of marine urban habitats - islands for hard bottom fauna and flora Macroecology

16:00

Méridienne | 15 min | Philippe Potin : Citizen-driven science to restore a kelp forest habitat on a rocky reef in the Loire estuary (France) Habitat Restoration, Rehabilitation & Enhancement

Room n°1 | 15 min | Federico Quattrocchi : The spread of the fireworm: Identifying the driving force behind its ongoing expansion in the Mediterranean Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Federico Pinna : Characterising ecological drivers of 30-year trends and interannual variability in sea urchin densities in the Western Mediterannean Long-term Temporal Trends

Room n°34 | 15 min | Ladd Johnson : Kelp-forest dynamics across broad spatiotemporal scales: Stability and drivers of kelp distribution in the Mingan Archipelago (Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada) Macroecology

16:15

Room n°1 | 15 min | Michael Burrows : Marine biodiversity and climate change: twenty-five years of changes in abundance and distribution of rocky intertidal species in the UK Broad-scale Spatial Patterns

Room n°2 | 15 min | Andrew Want : Rocky shore community responses to wave energy extraction and climate-related changes in wave exposure Long-term Temporal Trends

16:30

Méridienne | 60 min | Closing Ceremony

18:30