[Coral-List] European Coral Reef Symposium - ECRS 2024 - Save the Date

[Massimo Ponti]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming European Coral Reef Symposium - ECRS 2024, organized under the auspices of the http://www.icrseurope.eu/ of the International Coral Reef Society (https://coralreefs.org/), which will take place in Naples, Italy, from 2 to 5 July 2024.

For this edition of ECRS, our energies will concentrate on bridging knowledge gaps between tropical, temperate, and cold-water coral reefs.

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The conference will consist of 12 thematic sessions aimed to accommodate a wide variety of oral and poster communications from around the World:

1. Lessons from the Past to Inform the Future
Keywords: geological drivers, palaeontology, paleoecology.

2. Coral Reef Structure and Functioning
Keywords: evolutionary and natural histories, biogeography, trophic chains, functional ecology, bioconstruction and bioerosion processes.

3. Biology and Ecology of Holobionts in Coral Reefs
Keywords: chemical ecology, photobiology, symbioses.

4. Global Climate Change and Environmental Stressors
Keywords: climate crisis effects, dynamics of coral reefs through climate change, relationships between environmental changes and coral disease, tropicalization, what we can learn from marginal and extreme reefs.

5. Coral Reef Anthropic Pressures, Conservation, and Restoration
Keywords: effects of tourism, overfishing, chemical pollution, plastics and other emerging contaminants, the nature-based solution to coral reef restoration, the supercoral hypothesis, coral aquaculture.

7. Community-Based Monitoring and Ecosystem-Based Management
Keywords: marine spatial planning, stakeholder engagement, citizen science, people awareness.

8. Shallow Temperate Reefs
Keywords: biodiversity, connectivity, functioning and threats, biological invasions.

9. Mesophotic and Cold-Water Coral Ecosystems
Keywords: biodiversity, connectivity, functioning, threats.

10. Technological and Methodological Innovation in Underwater Surveys and Data Analysis
Keywords: precise survey, unmanned and deep surveys, image semantic segmentation, data FAIR.

11. Coral reefs under a socio-economic perspective
Keywords: ecosystem goods and services, social sciences approaches, conservation policies, blue circular economy.

12. Global lockdown due to COVID-19: what have we learned?
Keywords: both positive and negative effects on reefs conservation and management.

13. The Ocean Decade: The Science We Need for the Coral Reefs We Want
Keywords: mid- and long-term perspectives in science development.

IMPORTANT DATES
Calls
. October 2nd, 2023 - Call for abstracts opening
. December 16th, 2024 (midnight CET) - Call for abstracts closing
. February 13th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance
. March 5th, 2024 - Authors registration deadline
Registration
. July 30th, 2023 - Early bird registration opening
. March 5th, 2024 (midnight CET) - Authors' registration deadline
. March 20th, 2024 (midnight CET) - Early bird registration closing
. March 21th, 2024 - Regular registration opening
. June 25th, 2024 (midnight CET) - Regular registration closing
. July 1st - 5th, 2024 - Onsite registration


Best regards
Massimo Ponti
Carlo Cerrano
Gert Woerheide

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Massimo Ponti, PhD

Associate Professor, Coordinator of the MSc in Marine Biology
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

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