Program

Opening speech

Zoltán Elek and László Ózsvári (University of Veterinary Medicine)

Plenary talk

• Wouter Dekoninck et al.: The importance of natural history collections in advancing taxonomic, faunistic, conservation, evolutionary and genomic research: case studies featuring carabids from the RBINS collection

Coffee break

Morning session - Community ecology of carabids I (chair: Roberto Pizzolotto)

• Basile Finand et al.: Rapid change in community composition of carabid beetles in urban remnant forests of Helsinki

• Stephen Venn et al.: Functional traits determine species composition under different levels of disturbance in the urban green infrastructure of Warsaw, Poland

• Riccardo Panza* et al.: Responses of carabids and dung beetles to the windstorm “Vaia”: susceptibility versus resilience to disturbance

Lunch break

Afternoon session - Hungry carabids in agroecosystems (chair: Gábor L. Lövei)

• Khaldoun A. Ali et al.: Carabids employ a comparative mechanism for guiding their seed selection decisions

• Christian J. Willenborg et al.: Exploring the relationship between carabid assemblage, seed predation, and vegetation structure in a remnant native prairie patch

• Norbertas Noreika: Pesticide-induced food and macronutrient limitation in beneficial carabid beetles in agroecosystems

• Ambre Sacco--Martret de Preville et al.: Contribution of non-dominant carabid species to the predation of animal prey in agroecosystems across gradients of management intensity and landscape heterogeneity

• Pavel Saska et al.: Field management effects on carabid beetles: a meta-analysis

Coffee break

Evening session - Phylodiversity (chair: Lucija Šerić Jelaska)

• Wiktoria Cechowicz* et al.: Towards comprehensive conservation in the mega-biodiversity hotspot: establishing a DNA barcode library for epigeic Philippine tiger beetles

• Dale Ann P. Acal* et al.: First insight into molecular diversity of Therates tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in the Philippines

• Cody Raul Cardenas* et al.: HyRAD-X phylogeography of the Ethiopian high-plateau mountain endemic and flightless Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi

Poster session starting with one-minute speed talks (in alphabetical order of presenting authors) 

1. Sándor Bérces et al.: Do carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) response to nature conservation management increasing structural diversity in two Hungarian Oak forests?

2. Linda Bouguessa-Cheriak et al: Impact of urbanization on the diversity and abundance of the carabid population in the feeding environments of the white stork (Ciconia ciconia L., 1758) in the Extrem east of Algeria (Period 2000-2021)

3. Cody Raul Cardenas* et al.: Integrative phylogenomics reveal the most comprehensive phylogeny of Carabidae through sequence curation of available Adephagan data

4. Wouter Dekoninck et al.: Can carabids be used to evaluate the restoration of heathland and dry grassland in the northwest of Belgium?

5. Renata Kędzior et al.: Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as indicators of postfire ecosystem recovery under different forest restoration techniques

6. Agnieszka Kosewska et al.: Influence of various meadow management on the ground beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) assemblages

7. Tibor Magura et al.: Increased exploratory behaviour during the breeding season in a ground beetle, Carabus convexus

8. Austėja Oržekauskaitė et al.: The influence of body size on the sensitivity of ground beetles (Carabidae) and rove beetles (Staphylinidae) to pyrethroid insecticides

9. Nadia Ouchtati et al.: Preliminary data on the carabid fauna in three different forest ecosystems of the Benisaleh reserve in Bouchegouf (Guelma, Algeria)

10. Brogan L. Pett* et al.: Movement ecology of the Blue ground beetle (Carabus intricatus) assessed through radio-telemetry in an ancient temperate Atlantic rainforest fragment in the U.K.

11. Roberto Pizzolotto et al.: Carabid Beetles in the high-altitude alpine environment of "Parco di Paneveggio" (Italy): Nebria germari and its trophic network

12. Gábor Pozsgai: How does AI see carabids? The morphological accuracy of image-generating models on realistic ground beetle images

13. Yasmina Saouache et al.: Preliminary study of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a forest environment in northeastern Algeria

14. Lucija Šerić Jelaska et al.: Prey detected in carabids (Carabidae) in Mediterranean agriculture and their potential in biocontrol

15. Jack R. Walker* et al.: What makes an urban beetle? Carabid functional traits along an urban-rural gradient in two nearby cities

16. Rikjan Vermeulen et al.: Celebrating 65 years of ground beetle trapping in Drenthe (The Netherlands)

The Icebreaker (Building P)

Opening of the day

Plenary talk

• Norbertas Noreika: Carabid beetles in ecosystem restoration

Coffee break

Morning session - Community ecology of carabids II (chair: Radomir Jaskuła)

• José Serrano et al.: Seasonal changes in carabid assemblages of Northwestern Algeria (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

• Estève Boutaud et al.: Effect of traditional lowland heathland management methods – mowing, burning, and choppering – on ground beetle assemblages

• D. Johan Kotze et al.: Inside-out; how habitat quality within the patch and the surrounding matrix affect carabid beetle communities and populations

Lunch break

Afternoon session - From communities to species (chair: Jana Růžičková)

• Mishkat Ullah et al.: Exploring new frontiers: First records of ground beetles (Carabidae) from Pakistan

• Sándor Bérces et al.: Almost everything you want to know about Carabus hungaricus Fabr.

• Virág T. Nyíri* et al.: Evolutionary and conservation genomics of Carabus hungaricus in Central-Eastern Europe

• Arvīds Barševskis et al.: Fauna and biogeography of the genus Notiophilus Dumeril, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in North - West Himalaya

Coffee break

Evening session - Perspectives in carabidology (chair: Zoltán Elek)

• Virginia Toscano Rivalta* et al.: Glacial and periglacial carabid beetles, spiders, and centipedes in an Alpine area deeply affected by climate warming (Breuil basin, Western Italian Alps) 

• Roberto Pizzolotto: Carabid communities for monitoring the effects of climate change at high altitudes

• Radomir Jaskuła: What can we learn about ecology of tiger beetles from citizen science? Preliminary results, future perspectives and gaps based on global data

• Gábor L. Lövei et al.: Non-lethal methods in carabidology: possibilities and challenges

Poster session

Pint of Science: Non-lethal methods in carabidology (Building P)

Warm up talks by Jana Růžičková and Gábor L. Lövei

Announcing the winners of the students' competition, closing remarks

Coffee break

Field trip to the Pilis Mountains near Pilisszentkereszt

Guided by Zoltán Elek, Bence Kovács and Jana Růžičková

Dinner in the forest

Pilisszentkereszt, a pasture near the Som-hegy summit house

Return to Budapest