🌱 Oral Presentation | Friday 12:00–12:15
🌳 Hassan Awada (Univ. of Sassari) — Soil–Vegetation Interactions and Water Dynamics in Mediterranean Silvo-Pastoral Landscapes
#NBFC2025 | #SilvopastoralSystems | #WaterResources | #MediterraneanLandscapes

— Combined Effect of Fire and Forest Plant Community on Soil Diversity Related to C and N Cycling
🧪 Silvia Macis (Univ. of Cagliari) — Native Soil Microbes as Nature-Based Solutions to Enhance Plants under Salinity in Mediterranean Wetlands
#NBFC2025 | #Agroecology | #SoilBiodiversity |

🚜 Oral Presentations | Friday 10:00–10:45
🌾 Gabriela Alandia (Univ. of Udine) — The Potential of Gene Banks in the Promotion of Local Agroecological Practices and Systems

🔥 Simona Castaldi (Univ. of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)

Agrobiodiversity for resilient food systems 🌾

Eleonora De Falcis (Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT) explores how biodiversity supports sustainable agriculture.
#NBFC2025 #Agrobiodiversity #FoodSystems #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 www.algherosymposium.it

@nbfc_italy
#AlgheroSymposium2025 #NBFC #PortoConte #Biodiversity #EcosystemFunctions #FieldExcursion #scienceinthefield

Science meets landscape

After closing the sessions, we moved from the conference room to the field. 🌿
Guided excursion in the Porto Conte Regional Park to see, on the ground, the landscapes and biodiversity we’ve been discussing all day.

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🌾 Agroecology and Nature-Based Solutions
From experiments to treescapes 🌳
TODAY at 09.00 CEST!!!! Don't miss Prof. Bart Muys (KU Leuven & EFIMED) who sets the stage for our final day with a keynote on Biodiversity Functions of Agroforestry Systems.
#NBFC2025 #Agroforestry #NatureBasedSolutions

🌿 André Große-Stoltenberg (Justus Liebig Univ. Gießen) — Invasive Plants from Space to Field: Advancing Impact Assessment through Remote Sensing
#NBFC2025 | #InvasiveSpecies | #Biosecurity | #RemoteSensing

🌊 Oral Presentations | Thursday 17:00–17:30
🛡️ Daniele Grech (IMC, Oristano) — Protecting the Biodiversity of Mediterranean Ecosystems from Invasive Alien Species: The Project ALIEM Vigil

Unraveling forest coexistence 🌳

Prof. Matteo Detto (Princeton University) presents a theory of functional diversity in forest dynamics models.
#NBFC2025 #FunctionalDiversity #ForestEcology #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 www.algherosymposium.it

How do we measure true restoration? 🌱
Don't miss Dr. Marcello De Vitis (BGCI & The Global Biodiversity Standard, UK) introducing The Global Biodiversity Standard for assessing restoration outcomes.
#NBFC2025 #EcosystemRestoration #BiodiversityStandard #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 www.algherosymposium.it

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🌍 Global Boundaries and Biodiversity
Global insights from 20 years of data 📊
Today at # ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025,14.00 CEST, Keynote talk by Dr. Robert Zomer (Kunming Institute of Botany & CMCC) exploring tree cover gains and demographic trends in agricultural landscapes.

#NBFC2025 #Agroecology

🌳 Simone Mereu (CNR–IBE & CMCC) — The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function Network (BioFUNet): Linking Stand Structure and Composition with Biodiversity and Soil Processes
#NBFC2025 | #Conservation | #MammalDiversity | #MountainEcology | #ForestMonitoring

🌿 Oral Presentations | Thursday 12:00–12:30
🐾 Carlo Rondinini (Sapienza Univ. of Rome) — The Conservation of Terrestrial Mammals through the Global Protected Area Network
⛰️ Rudy Brogi (Uniss) — Caught in the Crossfire: Sex-Specific Responses of Alpine Chamois to Heat Stress and Predator Return

Towards a European biodiversity monitoring framework 
Dr. Joana Santana (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, Portugal) highlights the gaps and opportunities in transnational field data collection.
#NBFC2025 #BiodiversityMonitoring #Europe #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 www.algherosymposium.it

#NBFC2025 | #Macroecology | #Wildfire | #RemoteSensing | #WildlifeMonitoring

Mediterranean Ecosystems under Climate Change
🌊 Erica Nocerino (Univ. of Sassari) — Digitizing the Seascape: Underwater Photogrammetry for Quantitative Monitoring of Marine Habitats
🦌 Marco Musiani (Univ of Bologna) — Automated Wildlife Monitoring Systems in Italian Protected and Unprotected Areas

🌍 Oral Presentations | Thursday 9:30–10:30
🌱 Alessandro Chiarucci (Univ. of Bologna) — Understanding Macroecological Patterns of Plant Diversity for Conservation Purposes
🔥 Paolo Fiorucci (CIMA Research Foundation) — Long-term Simulations of Wildfire and Vegetation in

Digital twins for nature 🌍
TODAY at 09.00 CEST!!!! Don't miss Thomas Geenen (ECMWF, UK) presenting Destination Earth: Interoperability with Biodiversity Digital Twins.
#NBFC2025 #DigitalTwin #BiodiversityData #ALGHEROSYMPOSIUM2025 www.algherosymposium.it

Pass by the poster area, meet the authors, ask questions and discover new ideas, methods and collaborations 🤝✨
#AlgheroSymposium2025 #NBFC #PosterSession #Biodiversity #EcosystemFunctions #GlobalChange

🔹 Biodiversity Monitoring Networks
🔹 Biodiversity Goes Digital
🔹 Global Boundaries and Biodiversity
🔹 Agroecology, Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS)

Come and explore our poster sessions at the Second International Symposium on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions in the Context of Global Change 🌿📊
Researchers and students are presenting their work across four main themes:

#NBFC2025 | #BiodiversityData | #DigitalPlatform | #OpenScience

nd Ecosystem Function Management🧬 Jessica Frigerio (Univ. Milano-Bicocca) — NBFC Platform: Enabling Global Access to Italian Biodiversity Genomics
🏛️ Elena Canadelli (Univ. of Padua) — Digitizing and Mapping Italian Natural History Collections: The Actions of NBFC

💻 Oral Presentations | 15:30–16:30 – NBFC Digital Platform
🛰️ Gabriella Scipione (CINECA) — NBFC Platform: Towards a Digital Governance of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Italy
🌐 Donatella Spano (Univ. of Sassari & CMCC) — NBFC Digital Platform: Advanced Modeling for Biodiversity a

#FacesBehindTheSymposium #Biodiversity #EcosystemFunctions #GlobalChange #UniSassari #NBFC #Research #Organisers #Brainstorming #Collaboration #Alghero #Symposium2025 @nbfc_italy

From emails and meetings to brainstorming and coordination, their work helps make the 2nd International Symposium in Alghero a reality and a place for true scientific exchange 💚

Faces behind the Symposium 💚 – Vanessa Lozano & Tony Chahine

Two of the researchers and organizers from the University of Sassari, working behind the scenes to bring people, ideas and data together for biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a changing world 🌿