Tuesday, September 2nd
19:00-21:00 - Welcome Cocktail
Venue: Borgocastello3 Vineria - Enoteca (View position on Google Maps)Wednesday, September 3rd
08:30 - 09:30 - Registration
09:30 - Symposium in memory of Livio Poldini - Modern biogeography (Part I)
Chair persons: Roberto Venanzoni, Mitja Kaligarič
Invited lecture: Mitja Kaligarič (25 + 5 min) - Poldini's Inspirations for Research in the Slovenian Karst.
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Giacomo Baldesi, Fabio Palumbo, Daniela Calzoni, Giulia Ginelli, Simone Orsenigo - Phylogeography and phylogenomics of the Hieracium tomentosum group
- Andraž Čarni, Aljaž Jakob, Mateja Breg Valjavec - Dolines on Karst Plateau as an object of vegetation studies
- Federico Selvi, Roberto Canullo, Elisa Carrari, Giandiego Campetella, Stefano Chelli, Andrea Coppi, Emmanuele Farris, Alfredo Maccioni, Francesco Mascia, Nicola Postiglione, Leonardo Rosati, Camilla Wellstein, Cristina Gasperini - Leaf trait variation across Italian forest endemics: drivers and divergence from widespread congeners
- Marco Cervellini, Giandiego Campetella, Stefano Chelli, Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis, Giorgio Brunialti, Antonella Canini, Alessandro Chiarucci, Piermaria Corona, Rosa M. Di Biase, Domenico Di Martino, Lorenzo Fattorini, Arianna Ferrara, Sara Franceschi, Luisa Frati, Giovanni Jacopetti, Agnese Marcelli, Marzia Marcheselli, Walter Mattioli, Giancarlo Papitto, Caterina Pisani, Federico Selvi, Roberto Canullo - The Italian National Forest Inventory (IFNI2025): a new opportunity for plant diversity monitoring
- Luca D’Amato, Arturo Gallia, Valentina Savo - Plant biodiversity patterns and conservation challenges in Mediterranean minor islands: a comprehensive review
- Hicham El Zein, Mauro Fois, Benedetta Gori, Gianluigi Bacchetta - Endemism patterns of the vascular flora of Lebanon and ex situ conservation aspects
- Jacopo Franzoni, Giuseppe Antonelli, Marco D’Antraccoli, Lorenzo Peruzzi - Peripheral population or understudied distribution? The tale of Crepis suffreniana (Asteraceae) in Italy
10:30 - 11:00 - ☕ Coffee Break
11:00 - Symposium in memory of Livio Poldini - Modern biogeography (Part II)
Chair persons: Mitja Kaligarič, Roberto Venanzoni
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Sara Natale, Marco Canella, Garima Singh, Mariano Battistuzzi, Silvia Moschin, Anna Pasinato, Valentina Boscariol, Barbara Baldan, Francesco Dal Grande, Nicoletta La Rocca, Alessandro Alboresi - Leaf spectral properties and traits of four alpine species of butterworts (Pinguicula L.)
- Simone Orsenigo, Andrea Bianchi, Silvia Ceppi, Giacomo Baldesi - Ngezi-Vumawimbi Forest Reserve, Pemba Island, Zanzibar (Tanzania): a unique biogeographical hotspot
- Veronica Ranno, Salvatore Cambria, Pietro Minissale, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo - Diachronic analysis of Etna high-mountain plant communities
- Giulia Tomasi, Giacomo Trotta, Michael Kleih, Alessio Bertolli, Enzo Bona, Roberto Dellavedova, Alberto Selvaggi, Francesco Boscutti - Floristic and Ecological Characterization of Endemic Plants in Northern Italy: spatial patterns and environmental drivers
12:00 - 13:00 - Opening ceremony and institutional greetings
13:00 - 14:30 - 🍽️ Lunch break
Venue: Wiener Haus Gorizia (View position on Google Maps)Parallel sessions
14:30 - Forest communities: from management to conservation
Chair persons: Roberto Canullo, Giovanni Spampinato
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Iduna Arduini, Matteo Diana, Riccardo Lenci - Ellenberg Indicator Values demonstrate community shift and habitat loss in the forest of San Rossore (Nature 2000 Site ‘Selva Pisana’)
- Sara Barberini, Alberto Bernacchi, Gianni Della Rocca, Roberto Danti, Lorenzo Arcidiaco, Lorenzo Cotrozzi, Giovanni Emiliani - The mycobiome of declining holm-oak populations of the Maremma Regional Park (Italy): Insight into fungal community dynamics and potential drivers of tree decline
- Marta Elisabetta Eleonora Temporiti, Silvia Traversari, Lidia Nicola, Alessio Giovannelli, Sara Barberini, Giovanni Trentanovi, Solveig Tosi, Maria Laura Traversi, Giovanni Emiliani - Influence of the management of alpine Norway spruce forests on plant and soil mycobiomes
- Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis, Stefano Chelli, Zhengxue Zhu, Marco Cervellini, Roberto Canullo, Francesco Chianucci, Nicola Puletti, James Lee Tsakalos, Sándor Bartha, Giandiego Campetella - Multiscale assessment of understory functional diversity components and their relationships with forest structure and canopy cover
- Raffaello Resemini, Andrea Arcidiacono, Andrea De Toni, Sandra Citterio, Cinzia Panigada, Micol Rossini, Luigi Vignali, Rodolfo Gentili - Assessment of landscape, structural and biodiversity metrics of afforestation actions over the last 50 years in the Milan Metropolitan area
- Lorenzo Orzan, Antonio Tomao, Luca Cadez, Valentino Casolo, Paolo Cingano, Claire Duvaltier, Roberta Pascolo, Giacomo Trotta, Giorgio Alberti - Linking forest structure and plant diversity across secondary forest succession
- Ilaria Santi, Elisa Carrari, Pieter Sanczuk, Pieter Vangansbeke, Karen De Pauw, Thomas Vanneste, Kurt Bollmann, Jörg Brunet, Kim Calders, Sara AO Cousins, Martin Diekmann, Cristina Gasperini, Bente J Graae, Paige Heavyside, Sigrid Lindmo, Per-Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, Anna Orczewska, Quentin Ponette, Jan Plue, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Federico Selvi, Fabien Spicher, Thomas Vanneste, Hans Verbeeck, Liping Wei, Florian Zellweger, Pieter De Frenne - Shifts in understory diversity and thermophilization under climate change are modulated by canopy buffering: evidence from a 5-years re-survey study across European forests
16:00 - 16:30 - ☕ Coffee Break
16:30 - Mutualism and competition in a changing world
Chair persons: Anna Maria Mercuri, Lucia Muggia
Invited lecture: William B. Sanders (25 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion) - Lichen Symbioses: Partnerships of Contingency
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Enrico Boccato, Davide Porrelli, Claudio Gennaro Ametrano, Fabio Candotto Carniel, Mauro Tretiach - When Trebouxia swims: flagellate cells and hidden sex in the life cycle of a lichen photobiont
- Chiara Buonanno Giovanna Aronne - Detailed floral traits widen the discussion on pollination strategy of Papaver rhoeas L. (Papaveraceae)
- Alfredo Maccioni, Emmanuele Farris - Plant-plant and plant-animal interactions in the recruitment of Juniperus turbinata Guss. in Sardinian rocky coastal habitats
- Samuele Pignedoli, Daniele Calabrese, Elena Tafi, Matteo Dal Cin, Gianni Henson, Massimo Nepi - Yeast diversity in Onosma spp. floral nectar and pollinators
- Daniela Zuzolo, Gina Gizzi, Maria Tartaglia, Antonello Prigioniero, Maria Antonietta Ranauda, Maria Maisto, Monica Labella-Ortega, Emanuele Fosso, Amy Ellison, Simon Creer, Carmine Guarino - Landscape complexity shapes plants-arthropods interactions in agroecosystems: an eDNA approach
14:30 - Botanic collections in the 21st century
Chair persons: Gianni Bedini, Stefano Martellos
Invited lecture: Heimo Rainer (25 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion) - Prospects for and requirements of modern botanical collections in a global context
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Lorenzo Braga, Giacomo Vinci, Eleonora Rattighieri, Assunta Florenzano, Alessandro Fontana, Anna Maria Mercuri - Palaeobiodiversity of wetlands among buried protected biotopes and glacial relicts: preliminary palynological findings and time-based indicator species from the Teor-Campomolle palaeochannel sedge peatland (NE Italy)
- Mónica Labella-Ortega, Guido Cipriani, Rosario Schicchi, Giuseppe Bazan, Hengchi Chen, Maria Antonietta Ranauda, Maria Maisto, Daniela Zuzolo, Maria Tartaglia, Antonello Prigioniero, Carmine Guarino - The evolutionary history of the endemic palm Chamaerops humilis L. in the Mediterranean
- Elia Lipreri, Enzo Bona, Mario Ferrari, Alessio Mereu, Stefano Armiraglio - The Herbarium of Brescia: Digitization, Virtual Access and Future Perspectives
- Weiwei Liu, Jacopo Zacchigna, Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Adriano Peron, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Stefano Martellos - Application of computer vision to the automated extraction of metadata from natural history specimen labels: A case study on herbarium specimens
- Yasaman Ranjbaran, Marco Canella, Sara Natale, Anna Pasinato, Garima Singh, Sven Winter, Francesco Dal Grande - Tracking genomic shifts in alpine flora: a museomics approach to climate change assessment
16:00 - 16:30 - ☕ Coffee Break
16:30 - Botanic collections in the 21st century (continued)
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Jože Bavcon, Blanka Ravnjak - Green infrastructure as an option for ex-situ plant conservation
- Fabio Rindi, Anna Maria Mannino, Simona Armeli Minicante - Italian macroalgal herbaria in the 21st century: present uses and new roles in modern phycological research
- Linda Seggi, Lorenzo Cecchi - Historic herbaria as cultural heritage: pre-Linnaean collections in Italian institutions
17:00 - Overcoming discipline barriers: Art and plant sciences
Chair persons: Franco Palla, Lorenzo Peruzzi
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Giulia Caneva, Alessandro Lazzara, Alma Kumbaric - The hidden botanical language in the ancient Roman architecture: the example of the Adrian’s Arch at Jerash (Jordan)
- Sofia Ceseri, Ornella Salvadori, Francesco Princivalle, Barbara Salvadori, Mauro Tretiach - Occurrence of the lichen Tephromela atra on carbonate-rich rocks: what's so strange?
- Sergio E. Favero Longo, Marta Cicardi, Laura Guidorzi, Enrica Matteucci, Mariagrazia Morando, Daniele Castelli, Diego Elia - Lichen recolonization on stone heritage surfaces following cleaning interventions: Should preventive strategies already consider the ongoing climate change?
- Roberta Ranaldi, Lorenza Rugnini, Francesco Gabriele, Gerardo Pepe, Nicoletta Spreti, Patrick Di Martino, Giada Migliore, Flavia Tasso, Francesco Scuderi, Roberto Braglia, Pujia Angelica, Antonella Canini - The Colosseum in green – Can essential oils promote sustainable conservation?
- Silvia Del Vecchio, Gabriele Gheza, Juri Nascimbene, Fabrizio Buldrini - Reconstructing coastal dune flora from 400 years ago: insights from the Aldrovandi’s herbarium
18:30 - AperiWorkshop
Venue: TBDFormat: 10 minutes presentation per project proposal, followed by free discussion.
- Project proposals to be presented:
- Mauro Fois - Towards a better knowledge about the distribution of the old and notable trees of Italy: a citizen science approach
- Jacopo Franzoni, Antonio Giacò, Lorenzo Peruzzi - Estimating the biological support of species hypotheses in the Italian native flora
- Linda Seggi, Lorenzo Cecchi - Towards a national framework for historical scientific collections: mapping standardizing and digitizing Italy’s Pre-Linnaean herbaria
20:30 - 22:30 - Public event (in Italian)
Venue: Auditorium della Cultura Friulana, Via Roma 23 (View position on Google Maps)Piante, confine tra terra e cielo: Impatto dei cambiamenti climatici ai limiti della vita
- Participants:
- Antonella Canini (Italian Botanic Society, President - University of Rome, “Tor Vergata”)
- Alessandro Chiarucci (University of Bologna “Alma Mater”)
- Piero Genovesi (ISPRA, Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research)
- Luca Mercalli (Italian Meteorological Society)
- Alessandro Petraglia (University of Parma)
- Moderator:
- Marco Virgilio (Journalist)
Thursday, September 4th
09:00 – 10:30 - Poster Session 1–3
3 parallel sessions - each presentation: 2 minutes + 1 minute discussion10:30 – 11:00 - ☕ Coffee Break
11:00 - Plants overcoming barriers – native and alien plants facing global changes
Chairs: Sandra Citterio, Adriano Stinca
Invited lecture: Franz Essl (25 min + 5 min discussion) – The global re-shuffling of species- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Sarah Caronni, Nicoletta Ancona, Lara Assunta Quaglini, Chiara Montagnani, Claudia Russo, Marco Tamburini, Sandra Citterio - Temperature-driven dynamics of Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C.Agardh epiphytic bacterial community: implications for the alien alga diffusion in a changing climate
- Paolo Cingano, Elisa Pellegrini, Stefano Tomat, Edoardo Asquini, Giacomo Boscarol, Giacomo Trotta, Marco Vuerich, Francesco Boscutti - Functional traits and plant-soil feedback mechanisms contribute to the understanding of spatial pattern formation of Cymodocea nodosa meadows
- Mauro Fois, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Jennifer Nagel Boyd, Lina Podda, Gianluigi Bacchetta - Investigating habitat and functional traits of nativeness, rarity, and invasiveness in Sardinia's aquatic plants
- Fabio Mologni, Peter J. Bellingham, Ewen K. Cameron, Anthony E. Wright - Time since first naturalization is key to explaining non-native plant invasions on islands
- Chiara Montagnani, Nicole Sebesta, Emanuele Vegini, Giulia Daniele, Elena Barni, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Francesca Emili, Federica Larcher, Rodolfo Gentili, Maria Laura Carranza, Angela Stanisci, Lucia Antonietta Santoianni, Marco Varricchione, Sandra Citterio - Urban jungle: mapping the spread of invasive alien plants across Italian cities
- Carmelo Maria Musarella, Antonio Morabito, Serafino Cannavò, Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface, Ana Cano Ortiz, Sara Del Rio, Ricardo Quinto Canas, Giovanni Spampinato - Counteracting the invasion of Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone for the recovery of native vegetation: an eradication project from Calabria (southern Italy)
- Marco Vuerich, Edoardo Asquini, Giacomo Boscarol, Enrico Braidot, Michele Carbognani, Giorgio Chiari, Paolo Cingano, Arianna Del Pino, T'ai GW Forte, Filippo Grillo, Alessandro Petraglia, Giacomo Trotta, Marco Zancani, Francesco Boscutti - The role of duration and timing of induced heat waves in shaping plant community of alpine grasslands: an upscaling approach
13:00 - 14:30 - 🍽️ Lunch break
Venue: Wiener Haus Gorizia (View position on Google Maps)14:30 - Cell biology and specialized metabolites
Chairs: Barbara Baldan, Gianni Sacchetti
- Communications (10 + 2 min):
- Gaia Cusumano, Giancarlo Angeles Flores, Mehmet Veysi Cetiz, Umran Kurt, Gunes Ak, Enver Saka, Shaza H. Aly, Omayma A. Eldahshan, Abdel Nasser Singab, Gokhan Zengin, Ismail Senkardes, Maria J. Rodrigues, Luisa Custodio, Carla Emiliani, Paola Angelini - From Folk Medicine to Functional Applications: Phenolic Composition and Bioactivity of Stellaria media
- Paola Frazzetto, Elena Bombaci, George W Bassel, Antonia Cristaudo, Giuseppe Diego Puglia - Molecular mechanisms underlying seed germination ecophysiology of Cardamine occulta Hornem. (Brassicaceae) in relation to ROS production
- Giulia Giorgi, Aylin Sahin, Adriano Patriarca, Emanuele Zannini, Elisa Brasili - Nutritional properties, chemical characterization and techno-functional analysis of Cyperus rotundus L. tubers
- Aurora Kupe, Maria Eleonora Foletti, Gianni Sacchetti, Massimo Tacchini - From Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabaceae) by-products to bioactive agents: extraction and biological potential
- Eileen Mac Sweeney, Vlad Sebastian Popescu, Gianluca Angius, Ylenia Pieracci, Guido Flamini, Maurizio Memo, Luisa Pistelli, Andrea Mastinu - Antioxidant properties of three Lavandula genus essential oils compared to a commercial essential oil
- Katja Malovrh, Mitja Križman, Blanka Ravnjak, Jože Bavcon - Analysis of sugars, amino acids and phenolic compounds in nectar of selected melliferous native species in Slovenia
- Elisabetta Offer, Silvia Moschin, Emanuela Talarico, Leonardo Bruno, Barbara Baldan - Reproductive mechanisms in Ginkgo biloba: male cone development, pollen formation, and the intricate crosstalk between male and female gametophytes
- Alice Peduzzi, Diego Piacentini, Elisabetta Speranza, Tiziano Napoleoni, Federica Della Rovere, Simone D'Angeli, Nitin Pawar, Peter Nick, Maria Maddalena Altamura, Giuseppina Falasca - Brassinosteroids seed-priming to enhance Sorghum bicolor salt tolerance
- Francesca Rapparini, Gabriella Vinci, Alessio Tei, Gergana Mihailova, Katya Georgieva - Resurrection Plants and their Volatilome: the unresolved mystery of BVOC emissions under extreme desiccation
- Sara Vitalini, Orlando Innaurato, Shadab Faramarzi, Alessandro Palmioli, Stefania Garzoli, Valentina Vaglia, Cristina Airoldi, Marcello Iriti - Phytotoxicity of Zingiber officinale Roscoe aerial biomass: Bioactive potential for sustainable weed suppression
16:00 - 16:30 - ☕ Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30 - General Meeting of the Italian Botanical Society (members only)
18:30 – 20:00 - 🏛 Guided City Tour
Exploring the historic and societal relevance of Gorizia20:30 - 🎉 Congress Social Dinner
Venue: Wiener Haus Gorizia (View position on Google Maps)Friday, September 5th
09:00 – 10:30 - Poster Session 1–3
3 parallel sessions - each presentation: 2 minutes + 1 minute discussion10:30 – 11:00 - ☕ Coffee Break
11:00 - Photoautotrophs under shifting water regimens; what’s new?
Chair persons: Giuseppina Alongi, Lorenzo Ferroni
Invited lecture: Nate McDowell (25 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion) - The future of critical transitions at leaf to community scales- Communications (10 minutes + 2 minutes for discussion):
- Mario Di Stefano, Cristina Blandino, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Giuseppe Diego Puglia, Antonia Cristaudo - Differentiation of seed germination traits along a small-scale hydroperiod zonation in Mediterranean temporary ponds
- Riccardo Fedeli, Stefano Loppi - Wood distillate as a biostimulant for mitigating drought stress in basil: effects on growth, physiology, and nutrient balance
- Andrea Morettini, Sanchez Sergio, Sergi Garcia Barreda, Mara Rondolini, Leonardo Baciarelli Falini, Andreea Daniela Dam, Diletta Bisonni, Domizia Donnini - Comparison of morphological and molecular analysis method for truffle plants used in Spain, France and Italy
- Alberto Danieli, Peter Beatrice, Tsvetana Masante, Chiara Pezzuto, Angela Balzano, Gabriella Stefania Scippa, Antonio Montagnoli - Effect of Heat, Drought, and their interplay on Stem and Root Cambium cell activity in Populus nigra L.
- Alessio Tei, Lucía Martín-Cacheda, Xoaquín Moreira, Sergio Rasmann, Gregory Röder, Irene Martínez-Virseda, Carla Vázquez-González - Precipitation-driven variability in VOC and SVOC emissions in the carnivorous plant Drosera rotundifolia L. (Droseraceae)
13:00 - 14:30 - 🍽️ Lunch break
Venue: Wiener Haus Gorizia (View position on Google Maps)14:30 - Overcoming barriers and borders in plant monitoring, conservation, and ecological restoration
Chair persons: Gianluigi Bacchetta, Simone Orsenigo
- Communications (10 minutes + 2 minutes for discussion):
- Sonia Ravera, Renato Benesperi, Juri Nascimbene, Marta Agostini, Luca Di Nuzzo, Elisabetta Bianchi, Patrizia Campisi, Silvia Del Vecchio, Giovanna Pezzi, Monica Ruffini Castiglione, Luigi Sanità di Toppi, Luca Paoli - Integrating seasonal translocation strategies for the conservation of Lobaria pulmonaria in mediterranean woodlands: insights from the BioConLobaria project
- Valentino Casolo, Paloma Perez-Bello, Fabio Marroni, Emanuele De Paoli, Giuseppe Fabrini, Lara Dixon, Roberta M. Ceriani, Luciano di Martino, Blanka Ravnjak, Joseph Buhagiar, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Antonia Cristaudo, Gabriele Casazza, Cristina Salmeri, Mariacristina Villani, Sara Magrini, Costantino Bonomi - ddRAD sequencing: a valuable method for assessing genetic diversity in plant conservation projects
- Emma Cocco, Ivan Blečić, Eleonora Buoio, Annalena Cogoni, Paolo Colleo, Antonio De Agostini, Ferdinando Fornara, Giulia Giliberto, Andrea Manunza, Oriana Mosca, Emanuel Muroni, Giulia Nuscis, Pierluigi Cortis - TERSICORE Project: a multidimensional approach to urban greening, environmental monitoring, and community engagement for Urban Regeneration
- Diana María Cruz-Tejada, Efisio Mattana, Angelino Carta - Modelling seed germination data to meet conservation needs in Mediterranean habitats
- Azzurra Di Bonaventura, Paolo Cingano, Francesco Boscutti, Michele Parioli, Behixhe Ajdini, Stefano Accoroni, Anna Annibaldi, Edi Gljušćić, Andrea Bilajac, Ljiljana Iveša, Mirta Smodlaka Tankovic, Luca Gemolotto, Francesco Trevisan, Ivan Scagnetto, Monica Ortega Mosquera, Sabina Susmel, Fabio Rindi - The BRIGANTINE project: a new sustainable approach for monitor the health status of seaweeds and seagrasses in the North Adriatic Sea
- Giovanni Emiliani, Sara Barberini, Gianni Della Rocca, Rosario Schicchi, Roberto Danti - The mycobiome of the critically endangered Abies nebrodensis: environmental conditions are the drivers of fungal diversity
- Jana Gerstmayr, Gerald M Schneeweiss, Jalil Noroozi - Hotspots of alpine vascular plants in the Andes and their conservation status
- Stefano Martellos, Linda Seggi, Raffaella Trabucco, Annalisa Falace, Alessandra Metalli, Riccardo Fedeli, Stefano Loppi - Biomonitoring of potentially toxic elements in the Venice Lagoon (Italy): a 100-year comparison using museum specimens
- Staš Miljuš, Polona Božič, Aleksander Kozina, Blaž Blažič, Katarina Denac - Decline of high nature value grassland habitats within natura 2000 sites in Slovenia
- Elisabetta Sgarbi, Aya Mortada, Gioele Toselli, Niccolò Patelli, Lara Maistrello - Monitoring of wild orchids in urban and natural ecosystems and their potential pollinators
- Maria Tartaglia, Monica Labella Ortega, Antonello Prigioniero, Daniela Zuzolo, Carmine Guarino - Advanced monitoring of phytoremediation effectiveness in multi-contaminated sites through metaproteomic approach
16:30 - Introduction to the excursion
17:00 - Congress Closure
18:00 - Progettiamo insieme la città biodiversa del futuro! Evento pubblico di comunicazione sulla biodiversità urbana e peri-urbana
(in Italiano).
Venue: Piazza Vittoria/Travnik Forum