Paulo A. V. Borges and Simone Fattorini organized in Rome the Symposium ISLAND AT THE CROSSROADS: CONSERVATION DILEMMAS UNDER GLOBAL CHANGES, as part of the Conference ECOLOGY AT INTERFACE (1-25 September, 2015).

In this event a total of 12 talks were presented on islands (see details in attachment):

Paulo A. V. Borges (CE3C, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Univ Azores) – “CROSS ARCHIPELAGOS BIODIVERSITY STUDIES: SADS AND SARS”

Simone Fattorini (CE3C, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Rome) – “INSECTS AND THE CITY: WHAT ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY TELLS US ABOUT INSECT CONSERVATION IN URBAN AREAS”

Rosalina Gabriel (CE3C, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Univ Azores) – “MOVECLIM – CROSS ARCHIPELAGO EVALUATION OF ALTITUDINAL PATTERNS IN BRYOPHYTES”

Manuel Steinbauer (Department of Biogeography, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth Germany). -“WHAT DRIVES RICHNESS AND DIVERSIFICATION ON ISLANDS - ISOLATION VS. ENVIRONMENT”

Michael K. Borregaard (Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, National Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen Denmark ) - “TOWARDS A CONSTITUTIVE THEORY OF ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY”

Jens M. Olesen (Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark) - " THE BIOTIC INTERACTION STRUCTURE OF AN ISLAND LANDSCAPE, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO LINK MULTIPLICITY "

Leonardo Dapporto , Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain“COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND COMPLETE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF BUTTERFLIES FROM WESTERN CIRCUM-SICILIAN ISLANDS REVEAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC PROCESSES AND SELECTIVE LOSS OF DIVERSITY”

Alessandro Chiarucci (BIGEA, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy) - “A CENTURY OF FLORISTIC CHANGES IN THE TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO: HUMANS AND SCALE EFFECTS

Ruben Heleno, University of Coimbra, Centre for Functional Ecology.  “DO DISPERSAL SYNDROMES MATTER? INTER-ISLAND PLANT DISPERSAL IN THE CANARIES, GALAPAGOS AND AZORES”

Sandra Nogué, Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. "PALAEOECOLOGY AND ISLANDS"

Jairo Patiño and Alain Vanderporten (Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Liège) - “APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION REVEALS THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF OCEANIC ISLANDS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF CONTINENTAL BIODIVERSITY

Giovanni Strona (European Commission, Joint Research Center, Institute for Environment and Sustainability) - "HOSTS AS ISLANDS?"