Conference
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 19 May
Venue: Aula Magna Baffi (Edificio A – Palazzo Baffi), Via Sant’Ignazio da Laconi, 74 (see map)
08:30-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Opening ceremony and institutional greetings
Intro: Annalena Cogoni and Silvia Poponessi – Gruppo di Lavoro per la Briologia of SBI
09:45-10:15 Thomas Kiebacher: ECCB matters and Irene Bisang: IUCN in brief
Session 1: Effects of environmental, including climate, changes on bryophyte diversity
10:15-10:45 KEYNOTE: Adèle Hotermans – European bryophytes under climate change: predicted decline of a lilliputian world
10:45-11:15 Coffe Break Botanic Garden
11:15- 11:35 Giulia Bacilliere – The influence of climate change on the distribution dynamics of Petalophyllum ralfsii in Europe
11:35-11:55 Ariel Bergamini – Current and future distribution of Tayloria rudolphiana in the Alps: implications for conservation
11:55-12:15 Hannah Little – Which bryophytes are most at risk from ammonia? Evidence from UK-scale distribution models
12:15-12:35 Silvia Poponessi – Monitoring environmental quality with epiphytic mosses along an urban-rural gradient in south Tyrol
12:35-12:55 Vedran Šegota – Diversity and vulnerability of bryoflora on four mountain mires (Mt Velebit, Croatia, SE Europe) in the context of climate change
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break Botanic Garden
Session 2_1: Bryophyte conservation: from redlisting to conservation actions
14:00-14:30 KEYNOTE: Irene Bisang & Ariel Bergamini. Bryophyte conservation beyond Redlisting:
Which redlisted bryophytes warrant highest conservation priority in Europe and where are they found?
14:30-14:50 Sorin Stefanut – The peatlands restoration in Romania
14:50-15:10 Erzsébet Szurdoki – The impact of nature conservation management on bryophyte layer in Kismohos bog, Kelemér, North Hungary
15:10-15:30 Hedenäs, Lars: Behind the scenes – Swedish red-listing practices
15:30-15:50 Miruna-Maria Stefanut: The conservation status of the Sphagnum species in Romania
15:50-16:20 Coffe Break Botanic Garden
Session 2_2: Bryophyte conservation: from redlisting to conservation actions
16:20-16:40 Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló – Can we correctly assess the conservation status of balearic bryophytes with the available chorological data? A critical revision
16:40-17:00 Nele Ingerpuu – Bryophyte conservation priorities in Estonia
17:00- 17:20 Līga Strazdiņa – Assessment of threat status and habitat pressures on Latvian bryophytes using IUCN criteria
17:20-17:40 Beáta Papp – Is Physcomitrium arenicola Laz. still globally endangered?
17:40-18:10 ECCB General Assembly (election result, future activities, next conference)
Wednesday 20 May
Venue: Aula Magna Bafi (Edificio A – Palazzo Baffi), Via Sant’Ignazio da Laconi, 74
Session 3_1: Bryophyte systematics, diversity and floristics
09:00-09:30 KEYNOTE: Louis Rigaud & Thomas Kiebacher: Exploring intraspecific diversity and differentiation in a conservation framework – insights from Schistidium atrofuscum and S. spinosum
09:30-09:50 Simona Strgulc Krajšek – Students’ contributions to the research of bryophyte flora in Slovenia
09:50-10:10 Anna Kartasheva – Integrating environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches for bryophyte monitoring
10:10-10:30 Kristian Hassel – The mountain bryophytes of the Scandinavian peninsula
10:30-10:50 Speed poster presentation (3 minutes / poster) Pavel Širka: New findings in the bryophyte flora of Slovakia. Rebecca Vetrani: Contribution to the submerged bryophytic flora and vegetation of the watercourses in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park. Marija Bučar: Hellish landscape – heavenly bryophytes: the bryoflora of Vražji skok (Central Croatia). Ilze Barone: Bryophyte assessment within Latvia’s national forest inventory. Alberto Aleffi: The bryophyte diversity in Mediterranean temporary ponds (Habitat 3170* MTP): a critical resource for Salento (Apulia, Italy). Maria Shorohova: Epiphyllous liverworts case studies from old-growth forests in Phia Oac – Phia Den and Kon Tu Rang in Vietnam. Silvia Poponessi: Long-term bryophyte surveys under the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol project (BMS).
10:50-11:20 Coffe Break Botanic Garden
Session 3_2: Bryophyte systematics, diversity and floristics
11:20-11:40 Antun Alegro – Diversity and conservation significance of forest bryophytes in Plitvice lakes national park (Croatia, SE Europe)
11:40-12:00 Kristýna Ratajová – Deadwood microhabitats as refugia for red list bryophytes in old-growth forests
12:00-12:20 Henk Siebel – How to deal with forgotten bryophyte diversity in conservation?
Workshop
12:20-13:00 Beata Papp & Irene Bisang: Conservation actions and monitoring in Europe: Exchange of best-practrice and potential coordination
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break Botanic Garden
Session 3_3: Bryophyte systematics, diversity and floristics
14:00-14:20 Martina Pöltl – Riccia and beyond: updated bryophyte records from northern Sardinia
14:20-14:40 Alix Milis – Towards the automatized identification of moss species from their spore morphology
14:40-15:00 Christian Berg – New identification keys in the book project ‘Moosflora von Österreich’ (bryophyte flora of Austria)
15:00-15:20 Speed poster presentation (3 minutes / poster) Rayna Natcheva: 20 Years later: Towards a new bryophyte Red List of Bulgaria – Preliminary reevaluation of liverworts and hornworts. Mingai Li: Arsenic tolerance in the snake liverwort, Conocephalum salebrosum. Anja Rimac: Bryophyte diversity of Mediterranean semi-natural habitats: New national records and ecological patterns from Rt Kamenjak (Croatia). Iti Jürjendal: Challenges of growing of bryophytes in artificial environment: lessons from greenhouse experiment. Beata Cykowska-Marzencka: Rediscovery of historic sites of Oreoweisia torquescensand Oreas martiana, two endangered mosses in Switzerland through the establishment of local action plans.
15:30-16:00 Coffe Break Botanic Garden
Session 4: Bryophyte experimental biology
16:00-16:20 Belén Albertos – From spores to survival: evaluating bryophyte spore longevity for effective conservation
16:20-16:40 Claudio Varotto – Development of sex-specific DNA-markers and their application to conservation of liverworts
16:40-17:00 Christina Campbell – In vitro investigation of the copper requirements of the endangered liverworts Cephaloziella nicholsonii Douin and C. massalongoi (Spruce) Müll.Frib.
17:00-17:20 Beata Zimowska – Fungal endophytes supporting bryophyte resilience and biodiversity conservation: insights from Marchantia polymorpha
17:20-17:40 Julie Steffen – Roof greening and bryophyte promotion in Geneva city, Switzerland
17:40-18:00 Introduction to the excursion
20:30 Congress Social Dinner
Thursday, May 21
Excursion to Giara and Laconi Park
Friday, May 22
Excursion to Marganai Forest
Posters
Posters (consisting of a single ‘slide’) should not be printed; they will be presented in the lecture hall. They must be in landscape format and sent to the ECCB secretariat (info@eccbmeeting.cagliari.it) in both .pdf and .jpg format by 11 May 2026. In the event of submission after this date or submission of non-compliant materials, the organisers cannot guarantee participants the opportunity to present their scientific contribution at the conference.
As the posters will be projected in the lecture theatre to support a brief description of the research carried out, we strongly recommend using a graphical abstract format with a few key images and bullet points.
Book of abstracts, oral presentations and posters
Getting there and accommodation
For further information on how to get there and for accommodation suggestions, download this file.
The bryologists interested to partecipate to the conference can submit their abstracts.