May 1^st

18.00-20.00   Registration and cocktail

May 2^nd

08.00-08.30   Registration

08.30-09.00   Welcome session

09.00-10.00   Carl Sawyer "Time-travelling to inform the future: Reconstructing and resurrecting the past using pond sediments" - Chairperson Margarida Cristo

10.00-10.30   Poster session 1 - Chairperson José Paulo Monteiro

10.30-11.00   Coffee Break

11.00-13.00   Oral session 1 - Chairperson Dani Boix

• • Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M. - Hydrological modelling of three sand-dune ponds located on Doñana National Park (Andalusia, Spain)
  • Gallego, I. - Using ponds to predict shifts  from chlorophycean to cyanobacterial dominance in semi-arid temperate climates
  • Golus, W. - Seasonal nature of the river network linking ponds located in the moraine plateaus of Northern Poland: a postglacial or Mediterranean landscape?
  • Pätzig, M. - A survey of kettle holes in the young moraine landscapes of Eastern Germany and Western Poland
  • Jeffries, M. - How much organic carbon is buried in Britain’s ponds?
  • Van Onsem, S. - Factors shaping macrophyte communities in peri-urban ponds: the influence of propagule banks and waterfowl

13.00-14.00   Lunch

14.00-15.00   Stephanie Gascón "Organisms, from populations to communities" - Chairperson Margarida Cristo

15.00-15.30   Poster session 2 - Chairperson Anabela Belo

15.30-16.45   Oral session 2 - Chairperson Zsófia Horváth

• • García-Girón, J. - Effects of ecological drivers to a spatial and temporal scale on macrophyte assemblages in a Mediterranean shallow lake
  • Fernández-Zamudio,  R.  -  Effect  of  the  filling  season  on  aquatic plants  in Mediterranean temporary ponds
  • Bosman, W. - Identifying habitat preferences of the Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) to establish viable (meta)populations
  • Cunha,  R.L.  - Genetic  cleavage in the  fairy shrimp  Tanymaxtix stagnalis from southwestern Portuguese temporary ponds
  • Lukića, D. - Turbidity mediates the relative importance of herbivory and carnivory in a fairy shrimp

16.45-17.15   Coffee

17.15-18.30   Oral session 3 - Chairperson Sandro Lanfranco

• • Cunillera-Montcusí, D. - Interaction between temporary pond isolation and faunal dispersal ability
  • Horváth, Z. - Active and dormant zooplankton metacommunities in temporary waters
  • Ortells, R. - Zooplankton diapause trade off between survival and hatching through the storage of lipids
  • Onandia, G. - Modelling nutrient and primary producers´ dynamics in a kettle hole in an agricultural landscape

18.30-20.00   GOBIUS   workshop    "Introduction   to   Visual   Design    for Scientists   and   Science Communicators"

May 3^rd

08.00-09.00   Registration

09.00-10.00   Patrick Grillas "Challenges in pond conservation management in the Mediterranean region" Chairperson Margarida Cristo

10.00-10.30   Poster session 3 - Chairperson Paulo Sá-Sousa

10.30-11.00   Coffee

11.00-13.00 - Oral session 4 - Chairperson Carla Pinto-Cruz

• • Vad,  C.F.  -  Drivers  of  invertebrate  communities  in  bomb  crater ponds of the Pannonian Plain
  • Sá-Sousa, P. - Amphibians as indicators of favorable Mediterranean temporary ponds (SW Portugal)
  • Oertli, B. - Restoration of alpine ponds for conserving a biodiversity threatened by warming
  • Lorenz, S. - Exposure and vulnerability of ponds and small lakes to pesticides
  • Kuczyńska-Kippen, N. - The type of human-induced transformation in the catchment area determines the diversity of crustaceans in small water bodies
  • Couto, A.P. - Building a pond network for biodiversity in Lousada
  • Denoël, M. - Montenegrin ponds and lakes under threat: multiple stressors caused large-scale amphibian decline
  • Gazaix,  A. - Is  Lythrum thesioides  a Mediterranean species? Consequences  for conservation