Icelandic Ecological Society meeting 2024

 Dagskrá / Meeting agenda

09:30 HÚS OPNAR / HOUSE OPENS  

10:00 SETNING OG ÁVARP FORSETA VISTFRÆÐIFÉLAGS ÍSLANDS / CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME WORDS FROM VISTFRÆÐIFÉLAG'S CHAIR – Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir  

10:15 ÁVARP STOFNUNAR RANNSÓKNASETRA HÍ / WELCOME WORDS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND'S RESEARCH CENTERS – Sæunn Stefánsdóttir, forstöðumaður Stofnana Rannsóknasetra HÍ

10:40 TILKYNNINGAR OG UPPHAF MÁLSTOFA / GENERAL HOUSKEEPING AND START OF SESSIONS - VISTÍS BOARD

10:45 MÁLSTOFA I / SESSION I –– LÍFFRÆÐILEG FJÖLBREYTNI OG VERNDARLÍFFRÆÐI / BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

10:45 Tröllasmiðurinn í Hornafirði

Hólmfríður Jakobsdóttir, Kristín Hermannsdóttir, Lilja Jóhannesdóttir

11:00 Relationship between Patch Size and Avifauna in Icelandic Wetlands

Aron Alexander Þorvarðarson, Tómas Grétar Gunnarsson, Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson

11:15 Who is hiding within the moss? A small dive into the bryosphere in a changing tundra

Bastien Papinot, Snæbjörn Pálsson, Ingibörg Svala Jónsdóttir

11:30 Fjölbreytileiki sveppa í framvindustigum birkiskóga á Íslandi.

Hilmar Njáll Þórðarson, Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir, Snæbjörn Pálsson

11.45 The Nordic Biodiversity Framework – a new BIODICE project

Skúli Skúlason, Ole Sandberg, Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir, Rannveig Magnúsdóttir

12:00 HÁDEGISVERÐUR / LUNCH

13:00 MÁLSTOFA II / SESSION II – SJÁVARVISTFRÆÐI / MARINE ECOLOGY

13:00 Meta-analysis of the Cetacea gut microbiome: diversity, co-evolution and interaction with the anthropogenic pathobiome

Elena Radaelli, Giorgia Palladino, Enrico Nanetti, Daniel Scicchitano, Simone Rampelli, Sabina Airoldi, Marco Candel, Marianna Marangi

13:15 Do micronutrient profiles of parasites match those of their hosts?: A case study of elasmobranchs and their tapeworms.

Haseeb S Randhawa

13:30 Rockling Roulette: Unveiling cryptic species misidentification

Charlotte S. Matthews, Haseeb S. Randhawa, James Kennedy, Anna H. Ólafsdóttir, Christophe Pampoulie

13:45 Einstakt botndýrasamfélag við suðurströnd Íslands

Þorleifur Eiríksson, Sigurður Ívar Jónsson, Halldór Pálmar Halldórsson og Þorleifur Ágústsson.

14:00 MÁLSTOFA III / SESSION III – ÞURRLENDIS VISTFRÆÐI / TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

 14:00 The carbon flux balance in Icelandic grasslands under grazing and long-term grazing exclusion

Christian Klopsch, Anna Gudrun Thorhallsdottir, Aslaug Geirsdottir, Björn Thorsteinsson, Richard Bardgett, Rene van der Wal

14:15 CANCELLED

14:30 Predicting dung nutrient dynamics of Icelandic tundra herbivores using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)

Mathilde Defourneaux, Laura Barbero-Palacios, Jonas Schoelynck, James D.M. Speed, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, Isabel C. Barrio

14:45 Population structure, viability, and dynamics of an Arctic predator under combined impacts of intense harvesting and climate change

Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir, Bruce McAdam, Nicolas Lecomte, Anna Bára Másdóttir and Snæbjörn Pálsson

15:00 KAFFIHLÉ / COFFEE BREAK

 15:15 MÁLSTOFA IV / SESSION IV – FISKAVISTFRÆÐI / FISH ECOLOGY

 15:15 Personality traits as indicators of welfare in farmed fish.

David Benhaïm

15:30 Local movement patterns in three sympatric stream-dwelling salmonids

Gabrielle Ladurée, Marie Delbasty, Anna-Maria Molls, Jordi Braz Aznar, Laura K. Weir, Stefán Ó. Steingrímsson

15:45 Spatial overlap of alien European flounder (Platichthys flesus) and native Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) in near-shore waters

Michelle Lorraine Valliant, Theresa Henke, Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir

16:00 Combined effects of temperature and diet on performance and differential gene expression in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Alessandra Schnider, Bjarni K. Kristjánsson, Katja Räsänen, Zophonías O. Jónsson

16:15 Flash talk  Stalking fish: a yearlong look into habitat utilisation of Arctic charr in Thingvallavatn

Lieke Ponsioen, Fia Finn, Gustav Hellström, Haraldur R. Ingvason, Benjamin D. Hennig, Zophonías O. Jónsson, Finnur Ingimarsson, Kalina H. Kapralova

16:20 Flash talk Teeth traits variation in ecologically specialized and sympatric Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) ectomorphs.

Guðbjörg Ósk Jónsdóttir, Anthony Curtat, Finnur Ingimarsson, Sigurður Sveinn Snorrason, Sarah Elizabeth Steele, Arnar Pálsson

 16:30 MÁLSTOFA V / SESSION V ATFERLISVISTFRÆÐI FUGLA / BEHAVIOUR ECOLOGY OF BIRDS

 16:30 Dietary preferences of Icelandic short-eared owls (Asio flammeus) in different ecotypes

Viktor Árnason, Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson

16:45 Home range size and habitat use of a recently established long-eared owl (Asio otus) population in Iceland

Moira Aileen Brennan, John Calladine, Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson

17:00 Wintering and migration strategies of Horned Grebes Podiceps auritus breeding in Iceland

Þorkell Lindberg Þórarinsson, Benjamin Merkel, Aðalsteinn Örn Snæþórsson, Yann Kolbeinsson

17:15 Rapidly changing population numbers of ground-nesting birds in South Iceland

Aldís E. Pálsdóttir, Böðvar Þórisson and Tómas G. Gunnarsson

17:30 VEGGSPJÖLD OG VEITINGAR / POSTERS AND REFRESHMENTS 

17:45 AÐALFUNDUR / ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING