Sunday, 22nd September
17:00 – 21:00 Registration desk open in the hotel Krystal
Monday, 23rd September
8:00 – 10:00 Registration desk open in the hotel Krystal
10:00 – 10:30 Opening ceremony
10:30 – 11:15 Invited lecture: Jonathan Lundgren – Complex interactions among seeds and the carabids that eat them
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:50 Session 1 – POPULATION GENETICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY (chaired by Claudia Drees)
11:30 – 11:50 Spatial genetic structure of a dominant carabid beetle, Poecilus cupreus, in an agricultural landscape – Gauffre B., Badenhausser I., Litrico I., Ribout C., Marrec R.
11:50 – 12:10 Excessive gene flow despite differences in male genitalia: A contribution to the lock and key hypothesis in Carabidae – Boutaud E., Drees C., Eisenacher D., Matern A., Assmann T.
12:10 – 12:30 Did sea level changes shape phylogeography of Calomera littoralis inMediterranean? – Jaskuła R., Rewicz T., Grabowski M.
12:30 – 12:50 Multiple glacial refugia for two European Carabus species of cool montane habitats – Drees C., Homburg K., Brandt P., Husemann M., Assmann T.
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:40 Session 2 – DIETARY STUDIES ON CARABIDS (chaired by Jonathan Lundgren)
14:00 – 14:20 What do carabids have for dinner? – revealing the menu list using molecular analyses – Šerić Jelaska L., Vaughan I., Brown D., Symondson W.O.C.
14:20 – 14:40 Difference in trophic position and resource use between con-specific carabids: Isotopic study of seven common ground beetles on lake islands – Zalewski M., Dudek D., Godeau J.F., Kujawa K., Sienkiewicz P., Tiunov A., Ulrich W.
14:40 – 15:00 Influence of diet composition on the dynamics of stable isotopes in different tissues of ground beetles – Makarov K.V., Matalin A.V., Goncharov A.A., Tiunov A.V.
15:00 – 15:20 Seed predator carabids of the italian fauna and evaluation for conservation of their life traits – Brandmayr P., Giglio A., Talarico F.
15:20 – 15:40 Predation of seeds and seedlings in Atriplex sagittata, a species with a distinctive seed polymorphism – Koprdová S., Martinková Z., Saska P., Honěk A.
15:40 – 15:45 Information about the excursion to the Divoká Šárka NPR and welcome drink
16:45 Excursion to the Divoká Šárka Natural Protected Reserve (optional) and welcome drink
Tuesday, 24th September
9:00 – 9:45 Invited lecture: John Holland – The spatial dynamics of carabid beetles from field to landscape and the implications for biocontrol of crop pests
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 11:40 Session 3: AGROECOLOGY OF CARABID BEETLES (chaired by John Holland)
10:00 – 10:20 Effect of land-use and tillage on the dynamics of a dominant carabid beetle Poecilus cupreus (L.) in Western France agricultural landscapes – Marrec R.,BadenhausserI., Börger L., Gauffre B.
10:20 – 10:40 The spatial and temporal distribution of carabid beetles and weed seed predation in winter wheat: a comparison between conventional and conservation agricultural systems – Petit S., Trichard A., Ducourtieux C., Ricci B.
10:40 – 11:00 The effects of changing landscape and arable field management on the diversity of carabid beetles and their links with invertebrate crop pests – Brooks D.R., Bohan D.A.,Chapman J.W., Firbank L.G., Kunin W.E.
11:00 – 11:20 Do differences in grazing pressure affect upland ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages? – Pozsgai G., Littlewood N.A., Pakeman R.J.
11:20 – 11:40 Effects of large grazers on ground-beetle communities in productive, man-made ecosystems – van Klink R., Vermeulen R., Smit C.
11:40 – 12:45 Poster Session
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 4: CARABID ASSEMBLAGES IN FORESTS (chaired by Emmanuelle Dauffy-Richard)
14:00 – 14:20 Do recover diversity and composition of indigenous ground-dwelling assemblages after fifty years of afforestation with native oak? – Tóthmérész B., Bogyó D., Mizser S., Nagy D., Magura T.
14:20 – 14:40 Carabid assemblages in pine stands disturbed by a hurricane in 2002: ten-years responses to hurricane impact (Piska Forest,Poland) – Skłodowski J.
14:40 – 15:00 Species composition and structure of carabid assemblages along the clear-cut originated succession gradient in pine forests – Aleksandrowicz O., Marczak D.
15:00 – 15:20 Changing climate associated with homogenization of forest assemblages of boreal ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) – Spence J.R., Bourassa S.
15:20 – 15:40 Restoration as a forest-management tool inNorthern Europe: effects on carabid beetles – Koivula M., Toivanen T., Heikkila T.
15:40 – 16:00 Ancient forest species: does the concept apply on carabids? An example in pine and oak forests in French lowlands – Dauffy-Richard E., Fleury J., Martin H., Bergès L., Dupouey, J.L.
16:00 – 16:30 presentation of the České středohoří Landscape Protected Area
16:30 – 16:35 Information about the excursion on Wednesday
Wednesday, 25th September
Full day (ca. 8:30 – 18:00) excursion to the České Středohoří Landscape Protected Area and the town of Žatec, the capital of hop
Thursday, 26th September
9:00 – 10:40 Session 5: WHAT DRIVES THE VARIABILITY IN CARABID LIFE HISTORY TRAITS? (chaired by Roberto Pizzolotto)
9:00 – 9:20 Functional diversity and life-history traits of carabid beetles in agricultural systems – Stockan J.A., Pakeman R.J., Baird J., Young M.R., Iason G.R.
9:20 – 9:40 Influence of the production system on life history traits of carabid beetles – Marie A., Plantegenest M.
9:40 – 10:00 The effect of abandonment of mountain meadows on assemblage structure and life traits of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) – Skalski T., Armatys P., Kędzior R.
10:00 – 10:20 Responses of ground beetle assemblages to forest management in Japan – a study on beetle ecological traits – Shibuya S., Kikvidze Z., Toki W., Kanazawa Y., Suizu T., Yajima T., Fujimori T., Mansournia M., Abdelrahman S., Kubota K., Fukuda K.
10:20 – 10:40 Carabid species traits along an altitudinal gradient in the Dolomites (Italy) – Pizzolotto R., Albertini A., Gobbi M., Brandmayr P.
10:40 – 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 – 11:40 Invited lecture: Andrea Di Giulio – Morpho-functional and behavioral studies on the flanged bombardier beetles (Carabidae: Paussinae)
11:40 – 12:45 Poster Session
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Session 6: FASCINATING CARABIDS (chaired by Andrea Di Giulio)
14:00 – 14:20 The influence of Humulus lupulus on some physiological indicators of carabid beetle Platynus assimilis – Kivimägi I., Ploomi A., Jõgar K., Sibul I.
14:20 – 14:40 Integrative taxonomy in the subgenus Mesocarabus (Carabidae, Carabus) – Serrano J., Gómez-Zurita J., Andújar C.
14:40 – 15:00 The genus Notiophilus Dumeril, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in fauna ofCentral Asia – Barševskis A.
15:00 – 15:20 Elytral surface structure in Poecilus lepidus: What about inheritance? – Mossakowski D., Paarmann W.
15:20 – 15:40 Effects of pitfall trap lid transparency and habitat structure on the catches of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in tame pasture – Bell A.J., Phillips I.D., Floate K.D., Hoemsen B.M., Phillips C.E.
15:40 – 16:00 The explosive defensive system of paussine and brachinine bombardier beetles (Coleoptera Carabidae): comparative morphology and ultrastructure – Di Giulio A., Muzzi M., Romani R.
16:00 – 16:05 Information about the evening reception
19:00 – 22:00 Reception at theValenciaboat, with pleasure cruising on theVltavariver
Friday, 27th September
9:00 – 10:20 Session 7: SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN CARABID ASSEMBLAGES (chaired by Lucija Šerić Jelaska)
9:00 – 9:20 High concordance in the dispersal abilities of distant Carabus hungaricus populations in Central Europe – Elek Z., Bérces S., Drag L., Pokluda P., Čížek L.
9:20 – 9:40 Carabid beetle assemblages above and below the treeline in the Dolomites (Italy) after thirty years (1980 – 2009) – Pizzolotto R., Gobbi M., Brandmayr P.
9:40 – 10:00 Impact of climate change on suitable habitats for ground beetles in beech forests on karst -JelaskaS.D., Vujčić-Karlo S., Šerić Jelaska L.
10:00 – 10:20 Edge effects on carabid beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae) across forest-meadow ecotones of Dinaric beech-fir forests – Brigić A., Starčević M., Vujčić-Karlo S., Hrašovec B.
10:20 – 10:35 Coffee break
10:35 – 12:15 Session 8: ANTROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON CARABID FAUNA (chaired by Axel Schwerk)
10:35 – 10:55 The habitat-specific effects of highway proximity on ground beetles: implications for biodiversity conservation – Knapp M., Saska P., Knappová J., Vonička P., Moravec P., Kůrka A., Anděl P.
10:55 – 11:15 The impact of the construction and renovation of the Skępe bypass on the carabid beetles fauna – Dymitryszyn I.
11:15 – 11:35 Quantifying predation pressure by using artificial caterpillars along an urbanisation gradient in Denmark – Ferrante M., Lo Cacciato A., Lövei G.L.
11:35 – 11:55 Carabid Assemblages of Semi-Natural Grassland Habitats inHelsinki- Venn S.J.
11:55 – 12:15 Changes in carabid beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae) along a successional gradient on post-industrial areas inCentral Poland – Schwerk A.
12:15 – 13:00 Closing ceremony
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Saturday, 28th September – Sunday, 29th September
post-meeting tour (optional)
Saturday – trip to the Czech Karst Landscape Protected Area, visit of Karlštejn castle andKoněprusyCave
Sunday – trip to the Kokořínsko Landscape Protected Area
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