Firenze, Italy, 14-16 May 2025
Organisers: Alessandro Campanaro, Silvia Gisondi, Alice Lenzi,
Emanuela Maurizi, Fabio Mosconi
Scientific Committee: Tone Birkemoe, Alessandro Campanaro, Lukas Cizek, Lisa Fagerli Lunde, Marcos Méndez Iglesias, Estefanía Micó, Dmitry Telnov, Livia Zapponi
Presentations: 46
Posters: 27
Participants: 95
Group picture
Programme
Abstracts - Participants
Thibault Lachat | Effects of forest reserves on the conservation of saproxylic species: 8-years monitoring of saproxylic beetles and fungi in Swiss forest reserves
Gerard Devesa | Saproxylic insect community diversity in Quercus suber forests: A functional approach
Graf Roman | How small can it be - Interesting xylobiont fauna in a tiny old-growth stand
Gioele Moro | Life after fire: How saproxylic beetles thrive in burnt forests
Lukas Drag | The first insight in the phylogeographic structure of the endangered saproxylic beetle Cerambyx cerdo (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in the Western Palearctic
Keith Alexander | Studies of the British population of Cosnard's Net-winged Beetle Erotides cosnardi (Lycidae)
Vincenzo Buono | A genomic approach for the conservation of threatened saproxylic beetles in Italy
Jiri Schlaghamersky | Call for an European population assessment of the saproxylic, behaviourally and ecologically dominant ant Liometopum microcephalum (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae)
Arno Thomaes | A fine-scale habitat model explaining European stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) distribution as conservation management tool
Silvia Gisondi | Black spots in the blue: is there any elytral pattern in the italian populations of the protected beetle Rosalia alpina?
Alenka Žunič Kosi | Beyond species-specific attraction: the role of pheromones in saproxylic beetle communities
Stefanie Weigelmeier | Sonic tomography as a method of recognising the volume of tree cavities
Aoife Crowe | Sampling for woodland using beetles, including saproxylic species, in one of Ireland’s largest surviving ancient woodlands
Pietro Milanesi | High-resolution forest related features and citizen science data, improve species distribution models for the conservation of saproxylic beetles
Matic Gabor | Uncovering Pheromone Use in Capricorn Beetles (Cerambycidae: Cerambyx)
Laura Rita Besana | Effective monitoring of longhorn beetles through the use of multicolored intercept panel traps
Fabio Mosconi | Can a dog be a beetle's best friend? Assessing the field performance of a detection dog trained to the search for Osmoderma eremita
Calvin Leung | Comparison in species coverage and efficiency of systematic exhaustive wood dissection and ethanol-baited flight interception traps for sampling saproxylic insect communities in tropical rainforests
Joern Buse | Fungal Backpackers - The core mycobiome of Ips typographus after more than 80 years of knowledge
Andrzej Oleksa | Exploring honeybee Apis mellifera as a saproxylic organism
Ludwig Lettenmaier | Shifts in abundance, diversity and assembly processes of saproxylic beetles during a 12-year succession experiment
Claudio Sbaraglia | Following the scent of decay: VOCs and saproxylic beetle assemblages
Ronja Hausmann | Drivers of saproxylic beetle species richness across European tree species
Radomir Jaskuła | From single records to climate change: the power of citizen science in ecological studies on saproxylic beetles with Cucujidae and Cupedidae as model groups
Kristina Svobodova | The importance of coarse woody debris and beech trees for land snail diversity in managed spruce forests
Anne-Maarit Hekkala | Supporting saproxylic beetle functional and taxonomic diversity: The role of multifunctional forests and structural habitat diversity
Nicklas Jansson | What have we learnt from 25 years with wood mould boxes?
Alessandro Marmugi | Effects of forest structure on beetle community assemblages in a large-scale experiment, connecting Natura2000 and managed forest stands in Italy and Germany
Marcos Méndez | Diversity of saproxylic beetles along a gradient of pine forest restoration in Central Spain
Dmitry Telnov | Are Osmoderma (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) species in Europe threatened? Lessons from the recent IUCN Red List update
Torbjörn Blixt | Monitoring the European stag beetle through citizen science in Sweden
Cristina Castracani | The BOB project: Enhancing beetle behavioral observations through citizen science
Umberto Maritano | A new ad hoc protocol for detecting the saproxilic hoverfly Mallota fuciformis and its implications as a flag species
Al Vrezec | Distribution and habitat selection of Western (Osmoderma eremita) and Eastern hermit beetle (O. barnabita) in the contact area in Slovenia
Livia Zapponi | Exploring dead wood diversity and its role in the conservation of saproxylic organisms
Nicolas Roth | Comparative analysis of saproxylic beetle communities using two deadwood measurement methods in Swiss forests
Ekaterina Shorohova | Prescribed burning and deadwood enrichment influence wood-inhabiting communities in spruce forests over decades
Javier Quinto | Interaction network analysis to assess the vulnerability of Mediterranean saproxylic assemblages
Lisa Fagerli Lunde | Increased dead wood respiration rates in mature managed forests: the role of fungal communities
Tone Birkemoe | Does forestry affect dead wood decomposition through insects?
Rick Buesink | How to fell a pine-tree for saproxylic biodiversity
Romain Angeleri | Studying the vertical stratification of saproxylic beetle communities across the European distribution of the White-backed woodpecker
Lukas Cizek | Artificial tree microhabitats: Reaction of saproxylic beetles to tree veteranisation
Adrienne Frei | Saproxylic Beetles in Open Forests in Canton Zürich – Switzerland ; Success Control of the "Open Forest" Conservation Plan.
Monika Kolényová | Long-standing deadwood: the impact of substrate origin on wood-inhabiting fungal communities
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson | Why should we tell the general public about the wealth and the importance of wood-living organisms and how shoud we do it?
Giovanni Altadonna | Saproxylic beetles endemic of Sicily and Italy sampled in the eastern peloritani mountains (north-eastern Sicily, Italy) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Elateridae, Scarabaeidae Cetoniinae)
Špela Ambrožič Ergaver | Alpine Longhorn (Rosalia alpina) and Hermit Beetle (Osmoderma eremita) in submediterranean oak forests in Slovenia and Italy
Matteo Bracalini | The Role of Sanitary Logging in Saproxylic Insect Conservation: A Case Study on Chalcophora detrita (Klug) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
Serena Carloni | Preliminary observations on arthropods biodiversity in artificial tree-holes in the Cansiglio Orientale Forest (Italy).
Daria Congia | Saproxylic beetle diversity in chestnut forests: comparison of sampling methods and forest management
Gaute Eiterjord | How is boreal beetle diversity affected by forest age, productivity and naturalness?
Andrej Kapla | Implication of mitigation measures of habitat improvement in four saproxylic beetles of European conservation concern
Rumyana Kostova | Exploring data collected over a period of 20 years of research and citizen science for the European protected saproxylic beetle species Lucanus cervus, Morimus asper funereus and Rosalia alpina in Bulgaria
Petr Kozel | Impact of wildfire on saproxylic beetles in Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland National Parks
Sara La Cava | DNA Barcoding reveals new insights into the saproxylic Tineidae Latreille, 1810 of Italy
Umberto Maritano | Well-preserved arboreal microhabitats in a highly urbanized landscape can support populations of specialized saproxylic hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Gerard Devasa | Temporal Shifts in Intra-annual Activity Patterns of Saproxylic Insects in Mediterranean Oak Forests
Emanuela Maurizi | Monitoring and Citizen Science to study the saproxylic beetles biodiversity in Natural Reserves managed by “Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale” – MonLeSa project
Emanuela Maurizi | New approach to identify two closely related stag beetle species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in Italy
Marco Montella | Deadwood, diversity, and decline: saproxylic beetles as bioindicators in italian forests
Marco Montella | Saproxylic beetles in the urban green areas of Rome: a conservation perspective
Fabio Mosconi | Visitor or pest? Presence of Callopistromyia annulipes (Diptera: Ulidiidae) in Italy
Ruth Pickert | The EU Life Span Project
Monika Staniaszek | Dynamics of epixylic mosses and liverworts in selected forest communities
Antonella Stravisi | Osmoderma eremita in Friuli Venezia Giulia region, North-Eastern Italy
Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi | Morpho-functional traits of parasitoid Hymenoptera of saproxylic insects
Orlando Vezzoli | Testing the acute thermal sensivity of Ips typographus (L.) along an altitudinal gradient.
Vincent Vignon | Decaying wood habitat in artificial cavities : contribution for the conservation of Osmoderma eremita and associated species
Maria Voigt Sonnichsen | LIFE Open Woods - Implementing measures for moving towards more untouched old-growth deciduous forests and conserving Osmoderma eremita
Bruno Meriguet | 2011-2024 review and outlook for the participatory science survey on the European stag beetle in France - Lucanus cervus