Program – Day 2
27 February 2025
8:00-9:00 Registration
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk by Petr Pyšek: Macroecology and biogeography of plant invasions: what have we learned from large databases?
10:00-11:00 – Session 1 – chair: Zoltán Botta-Dukát
Regular talks
Patrícia Elisabeth Diaz-Cando: Enemy behind the gates? Predicted climate change might facilitate C4 grass invasion in European grasslands
György Kröel-Dulay: The invasion of sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), a C 4 perennial bunchgrass, in sand grasslands of Central Europe
Péter Török: Soil seed bank of the invasive sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) poses a future challenge for its suppression
Anikó Csecserits: Estimating the dispersal potential and impact of Opuntia humifusa, a new alien plant: the basis of early warning and management
Speed talks
András Kelemen: Mapping cacti that have escaped human control in Hungary
Dávid Schmidt: A strong invasion wave of mediterranean grass species has reached the Carpathian Basin
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 – Session 2 – chair: Péter Ódor
Regular talks
Richard Mally: Historical invasion rates vary among insect trophic groups
Gergely Shally: Changes in population size and distribution areas of game species in Hungary between 1997–2022
Attila Rigó: Non-native and potentially invasive plants in Budapest
Nathanael J. Litlekalsoy: Hungry Hungry Harmonia – Using Functional Genomics to Measure the Predatory Impact of Invasive Ladybirds Harmonia axyridis
Péter Szilassi: Artificial intelligence-based methods in invasion biology research: case studies from Hungary
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Plenary talk by Piero Genovesi: Management of invasive alien species: challenges and opportunities to mitigate the impacts of biological invasions
15:00-16:00 – Session 3 – chair: Zoltán Botta-Dukát
Regular talks
Fabio Mologni: Time since first naturalization is key to explaining non-native plant invasions on islands
Zsombor Márk Bányai: The signal and the red swamp crayfish in the Carpathian Basin: present status, distribution and the impacts of the colonised ecosystems
András Weiperth: Are we really able to do anything, or are we just sitting back and watching? The present status and real effects of non-native decapod, fish, amphibian and reptile species in Hungary
Eszter Fodor: Traditional ecological knowledge and local value categorization of invasive alien plant species of herders and farmers in the Kiskunság
Erika Juhász: Short-term response of an invasive fish species on the beaver-made landscape alterations
Róbert Gallé: Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) invasion, forest-steppe fragment size and isolation jointly constrain arthropod communities and their functional traits
Speed talks
Éva Szita: Dispersal of the invasive Indian wax scale (Coccomorpha, Coccidae, Ceroplastes ceriferus) in Hungary
Orsolya Kiss: The threats of the colonization of an alien perennial grass, Paspalum distichum L. to the native floodplain vegetation in Hungary
Viktor Ulicsni: Everything can be useful – invasive and alien animal species in local ecological knowledge in the Pannonian Biogeographic Region
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:45 – Session 4 – chair: Róbert Gallé
Regular talks
Anna Cseperke Csonka: Invasion control by sowing native species – effects of propagule pressure, priority effect and trait similarity
Csaba Tölgyesi: Perspectives in the application of hemiparasites to control invasive plants in Hungary
Jean-Marc Dufour-Dror: Controlling Ailanthus altissima with the hack & squirt technique in Israel
Arnold Erdélyi: Chances of controlling Hungary’s worst invasive tree species in forest-steppe forests: from planning to setting up defenses
Speed talks
Csaba Vadász: Control and containment of woody invasive species in The Peszér-forest
Ágnes Tóth: Laundry washing can support plant invasion by influencing the germination potential of cloth-dispersed seeds
Orsolya Valkó: Human-vectored seed dispersal on clothing can contribute to the spread of invasive and weedy species
Balázs Bócsi: Nutria (Myocastor coypus) eradication program in Northern Hungary
László Szabó: The diet composition of two invasive carnivores, the raccoon (Procyon lotor) and the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) based on stomach analysis
Katalin Török: Multi-species seeding may improve resistance against invasion in a sandy habitat
Miklós Kertész: Frequency of biological invasion in different habitat types in Hungary
Georgina Visztra: Usability of citizen science data for research on invasive plant species in urban cores and fringes: A Hungarian case study
Márton J Paulin: Erythmelus klopomor – A promising candidate for classical biological control against the invasive oak lace bug
Jakab Máté Scherman: Habitat-driven differences in pollen-spore interactions: preliminary results of an invasive weed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)
Alen Kiš: Example of transnational cooperation for efficient IAS management
18:45- Dinner
