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National Laboratory for Health Security

Program – Day 3

28 February 2025

Workshops

Living together with invasive species? – real world issues

The day aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss how the knowledge accumulated in practice and national and international research can help each other. In other words, the main objective, to strengthen joint knowledge co-production that can be used to more effectively manage invasive species. During the day we will work in 3-4 rounds and 4-6 groups around the issues identified in the application identified as the most important by participants during the registration process.

Workshops will be held in Hungarian, however, the formation of an English group is possible.

Moderators of the Day: Zsolt Molnár, Krisztián Katona, Ferenc Sipos, and László Darányi

8:00-9:00 Registration

8:00-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-9:30 Welcome Speech, Summary of the last two days, Introduction of groups and topics 

9:30-10:30 First Round of Group Discussions

10:30-10:50 Coffee break and switch between groups

10:50-11:50 Second Round of Group Discussions

11:50:13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:30 Group Presentations

13:30-14:30 Third Round of Group Discussions

14:30-14:50 Coffee break and switch between groups

14:50-15:50 Fourth Round of Group Discussions

16:00-16:30 Group Presentations and Closing Remarks

 

Workshop Topics (may change slightly):

  • What is considered native, neo-native, or alien?
  • The state of habitats and the effect of invasion
  • Prediction, invasion pathways, new species, examples for successful early eradication
  • Climate Change and Invasion
  • What to research, what to educate, and what to publish about invasion?
  • Long-term population dynamics of invasive species, their roles and the change of their roles in communities
  • Eradication by utilisation – i.e., use of invasive species as food in sustainable dining (“Invasivorism”)
  • How not to plant invasive species in our gardens and parks: from cultivation to regulations
  • Invasive animals and strategies to deal with them (fishes, birds, the raccoon, and alligator turtles)
  • Concrete examples for effective methods vs recognised failed attempts, and their recorded history
  • The cons of chemical control methods, glyphosate and its potential substitute products
  • Invasive mosquito species
  • When does the extermination of an invasive species become harmful?
  • Can an invasive species replace an ecological function instead of displacing it?
  • Climate Change (cont.): crops and forests in suboptimal climate, and the future of C4 plants
  • When to start managing an invasive species – and the case of the North American sand dropseed
  • The role of Government in defence, developing strategies, supporting impacted sectors (i.e., via comparing countries, such as Serbia vs Hungary)
  • Involving locals and learning from them about invasive species
  • Where to place eradication of invasive species in the list of conservation priorities