A printed copy of this program will be provided to each participant upon arrival but you can also download it on your computer.

Book of abstracts can also be downloaded. Please note that no printed copies will be provided to participants for environmental protection purposes. However, two printed copies will be freely accessible for consultation in the lobby of the building.

Keynote presentations

• KN-S1. Global changes in coastal systems: trends and predictions

Hervé Le Treut

• KN-S2. Climate driven changes in communities and processes in the coastal ocean – bridging scales through modelling approaches

Ana Queirós

• KN-S3. Joining the edges of our science: integrative approaches to the research and management of marine ecosystems

Jeffrey M. Dambacher

• KN-S4. Adaptation, habitat restoration and management

Kris Decleer

• KN-S5a. What do decision- and policy-makers for estuarine and coastal management expect from the experts

Victor N. de Jonge & Ulrike Schückel

• KN-S5b. A systems analysis approach for integrated estuarine, coastal and marine management: accommodating natural and human features

Michael Elliott, Angel Borja, Roland Cormier

Oral presentations

Session 1 - Global changes in coastal systems: trends and predictions

• S1-01. NW Iberian  Peninsula, coastal and estuarine temperature projections

 Marisela Des, M. de Castro, M.C. Sousa, M. Gómez-Gesteira

• S1-02. Evolution of physical settings in the Gironde estuary in a perspective of global change

Aldo Sottolichio, Joselyn Arriagada, Hervé Derriennic, Isabel Jalon-Rojas, Vincent Hanquiez, Katixa Lajaunie-Salla, Barend Van Maanen

•  S1-03. When is the position in the tidal frame an indicator of marsh resilience?

 Anna Hilting, Jenny Davis, Carolyn Currin

• S1-04. Prototype Oceanographic Monitoring System development for the Kalloni Bay, Lesvos, Greece

 Stamatis Petalas, Alexandros-Agisilaos Dimitrakopoulos, Ioannis Mamoutos, Aggeliki Sampatakaki, Vasilis Zervakis

• S1-05. Evolution of water quality in a large eutrophic European estuary under changing pressures: past, present and future of the Scheldt Estuary

Tom Maris, Natacha Brion, Patrick Meire

• S1-06. Endangered eels: a symbol of the effects of global change

Hilaire Drouineau, Maria Mateo, Martin Castonguay, Caroline Durif, Eric Rochard, Guy Verreault, Kazuki Youkouchi, Patrick Lambert

• S1-07. A tale of Spartina Bioinvasions in Mediterranean Marshes: Past, Present and Future

Bernardo Duarte, Patrick Reis-Santos, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Eduardo Feijão, Enrique Mateos-Naranjo, Susana Redondo Gómez, Anabela Silva, Ana Rita Matos, Rui Rosa, Isabel Caçador, Vanessa Fonseca

• S1-08. Resilience and temporal trajectories of micro-phytoplankton communities in the Bay of Seine

Angéline Lefran, Pascal Claquin, Francis Gohin, Tania Hernández Fariñas

• S1-09. Benthic habitat tool to evaluate management and/or climate scenarios in the Sea Scheldt estuary

Alexander Van Braeckel, Jeroen Speybroeck, Joost Vanoverbeke, Frank Van de Meuter, Gunther Van Ryckegem, Joris Van Lede, Yves Plancke, Erika Van den Bergh

• S1-10. The influence of local drivers on the long-term variability of the nutrients in the French marine coastal ocean: the case study of the Arcachon Lagoon

Arnaud Lheureux, Nicolas Savoye, Yolanda Del Amo, Dominique Soudant, Eric Goberville, Isabelle Auby, Florence D’Amico, Florian Ganthy, Laure Gouriou, Claire Meteigner, Hélène Oger-Jeanneret, Loïc Rigouin, Myriam Rumebe, Marie-Pierre Tournaire, Florence Trut, Gilles Trut, Valérie David

• S1-11. Linking coastal benthic communities and cumulative impacts from human activities: evaluation of the exposition and prediction of an environmental status at the bay scale

Elliot Dreujou, Christopher W McKindsey, Nicolas Desroy, Natalie Ban, Aurélie Foveau, Philippe Archambault

• S1-12. Predicting the benthic communities in the Hudson Bay Complex

Marie Pierrejean, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Frédéric Maps, Christian Nozais, Philippe Archambault

• S1-13. Habitat suitability for Twaite shad in the Sea Scheldt

Joost Vanoverbeke, Jan Breine, Gunther Van Ryckegem, Alexander Van Braeckel, Maarten Stevens, Erika Van den Bergh

• S1-14. Smelt in the Sea Scheldt: from complete absence to overwhelming dominance

 Jan Breine, Erika Van den Bergh

• S1-15. Magnitude ranges of heavy metals in seagrass throughout the world – evidence for heavy metal pollution in the bays of South-Eastern Australia

Yao-Han Lee, Emma J. Dear, Annett Finger, Randall W. Robinson and John D. Orbell

• S1-16. The impact of marine heat waves in the dwarf eelgrass Zostera noltii

Marco Franzitta, Bernardo Duarte, Ana Rita Matos, Isabel Caçador, Eve Otjaques, Francisco Borges, Rui Rosa, Tiago Repolho

• S1-17. Hyperbenthos in the upper reaches of the Scheldt estuary (Belgium): re-establishment of an indispensable trophic link

Liesbeth De Neve, Jeroen Speycbroeck, Joost Vanoverbeke, Alexander Van Braeckel, Jan Soors, Joram De Beukelaer, Dimitri Buerms, Nico De Regge, Olja Bezdenjesnji, Frank Van de Meutter, Erika Van den Bergh, Gunther Van Ryckegem

• S1-18. Impact of predator and environmental dynamics on prey collapse in the Gironde estuary

Mathis Cambreling, Maud Pierre, Jérémy Lobry

• S1-19. Environmental correlates of long-term changes in shallow-water fish assemblages of Patos Lagoon estuary (Brazil)

Alexandre M. Garcia, João P Vieira, Bianca Possamai, David J. Hoeinghaus, Kirk O. Winemiller

• S1-20. Biodiversity components in lagoon ecosystems: patterns, drivers, mechanisms and impacts

Alberto Basset, Mario Ciotti, Francesco Cozzoli, Vojsava Gjoni, Vanessa Marrocco, Franca Sangiorgio, Milad Shokri, Ilaria Rosati 

• S1-21. Cellular and oxidative stress response of the European glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) to ocean warming and acidification 

Ana Rita Lopes, Cátia Figueiredo, Eduardo Sampaio , Mário Diniz, Rui Rosa, Tiago F. Grilo

Session 2 - Functional ecology tools to assess global change impacts

• S2-01. Linking traits across ecological scales determines functional resilience to disturbance

Rebecca V. Gladstone-Gallagher, Conrad A. Pilditch, Fabrice Stephenson, Simon F. Thrush

• S2-02. Can we understand and predict patterns of community composition from limited site data?

Nikolaos Alexandridis, Jeffrey M. Dambacher, Fred Jean, Cédric Bacher

• S2-03. Traits distributions along environmental gradient: the Mediterranean lagoons case

Elena Stanca, Ilaria Rosati, Alberto Basset

• S2-04. An assessment of Allis shad larvae and juvenile tolerance to oxythermic stress

Loïc Baumann, Joanna Vega, Joris Philip, Fabien Polese, Fabrice Vétillard, Agnès Bardonnet, Marie-Laure Acolas, Philippe Jatteau

• S2-05. Back to the future: riverine spawning habitat suitability for a migratory fish species between 1950 and 2099 under RCP scenario

Alexis Paumier, Julien Boé, Hilaire Drouineau, Dayon Gildas, Patrick Lambert

• S2-06. Energetic constraints to colonisation of transitional water ecosystems by amphipods

Mario Ciotti, Vojsava Gjoni, Milad Shokri, Francesco Cozzoli, Alberto Basset

• S2-07. An allometric approach at potential scenarios of future coastal ecosystems

Milad Shokri, Francesco Cozzoli, Mario Ciotti, Vojsava Gjoni, Alberto Basset 

• S2-08. Drugs, diatoms and artificial intelligence: new ways to evaluate toxicity 

Bernardo Duarte, Eduardo Feijão, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Jorge Marques da Silva, Ana Rita Matos, Maria Teresa Cabrita, Rui Rosa, Andreia Figueiredo, Marta Sousa Silva, Carlos Cordeiro, Pedro Mariano, Sara Silva, João Carlos Marques, Isabel Caçador, Patrick Reis-Santos, Vanessa Fonseca

• S2-09. Knowing about the environmental and biological patterns in low salinity environments: how big is the challenge?

João Paulo Medeiros, Maria Judite Alves, Paula Chainho, José Lino Costa, Stephen B. Weisberg, Maria José Costa

• S2-10. Coastal fish community of 31 major river basins around Japan

Edouard Lavergne, Hyojin Ahn, Manabu Kume, Yuki Terashima, Masaki Miya, Yumi Henmi, Yoshiaki Kai, Akihide Kasai, Yoh Yamashita

• S2-11. Inventories of fish communities in French Guyana estuaries

Benjamin de Montgolfier, Gregory Quartarollo, Aurore Feunteun, Marion Pillet, Morjane Safi, Régis Vigouroux, Mathieu Rhone, Mario Lepage

• S2-12. Key ecological function is enhanced at a land-ocean ecotone via convergence of species assemblages

Thomas A. Schlacher, Ben L. Gilby, Andrew D. Olds, Christopher J. Henderson, Rod M. Connolly, Charles H. Peterson, Christine M. Voss; Brooke Maslo, Michael A. Weston, Melanie J. Bishop, Ashley Rowden

Session 3 - Integrative approaches to assess ecosystem functioning

• S3-01. Assessing impacts of human activities and global changes on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services – methodology for the Belgian coastal ecosystem

Katrien Van der Biest, Patrick Meire, Thomas Vanagt, Bram D’hondt, Tim Schellekens, Dries Bonte, Tom Ysebaert

• S3-02. From a bentho-terrestrial link towards a bentho-pelagic link: a changing food web in a changing estuary

Frank Van de Meutter, Olja Bezdenjesnji, Dimitri Buerms, Joram De Beukelaer, Nico De Regge, Jeroen Speybroeck, Thomas Terrie, Jan Soors, Joost Vanoverbeke, Alexander Van Braeckel, Bart Vandevoorde, Erika Van den Bergh, Gunther Van Ryckegem

• S3-03. Carbon concentration, source and flux variations over two close temperate estuarine-coastal continuums

Elise Coignot, Pierre Polsenaere, Nicolas Savoye2 Patrick Soletchnik, Olivier Le Moine, Philippe Souchu

• S3-04. Is trophic capacity spatially variable in the bay of Seine?

Louise Day, Pierre Cresson, Hervé Le Bris, Anik Brind’Amour

• S3-05. Isotopic inferences need dynamic modelling: the one of the turnover rate should not be excluded

Marine Ballutaud, Carlos Martinez Del Rio, Morgane Travers-Trolet, Sébastien Lefebvre

• S3-06. Providing trophic, bioaccumulation and isotopic-like functional indices to investigate estuarine food webs functioning from a single Bayesian mixing model

Jérémy Lobry, Xavier Chevillot, Laure Carassou, Florence Mounier, Marine Ballutaud, Nathalie Niquil, Didier Gascuel, Hélène Budzisnki, Pierre Labadie, Hilaire Drouineau

• S3-07. Sensitivity of POPs bioaccumulation to Global Change factors in nursery grounds. Application of an original mechanistic toxicokinetic model to the common sole Solea solea.

Florence Mounier, Véronique Loizeau, Laure Pecquerie, Hilaire Drouineau, Pierre Labadie, Hélène Budzinski, Mathilde Lauzent, Gabriel Munoz, Jérémy Lobry

• S3-08. Mathematical Linkage of Active and Passive Samplers for the Determination of Anthropogenic Impacts on the Coastal Areas of Turkey

Sevil Deniz Yakan

• S3-09. Foraging of Japanese eel between salinity zones revealed by stable isotope analyses

Alisa Kutzer, Edouard Lavergne, Manabu Kume, Toshihiro Wada, Yuki Terashima, Yoh Yamashita

• S3-10. Does estuarine morphology influence the connectivity with coastal area? A case study of energy fluxes exchange between habitats in Northeastern Brazil.

Latifa Pelage, Júlio Guazzelli Gonzalez, François Le Loc'h, Valdimere Ferreira , Jean-Marie Munaron, Flávia Lucena Frédou,Thierry Frédou

• S3-11. Characterization of current and future habitat suitability for 4 club rush species within the Belgian Sea Scheldt Estuary

Ruben Elsen, Alexander Van Braeckel, Joost Vanoverbeke, Bart Vandevoorde, Erika Van den Bergh

• S3-12. Ecosystem approach for Marine Renewable Energy: What recommendations can be made from the Courseulles-sur-mer offshore windfarm case study?

Emma Araignous, Frida Ben Rais Lasram, Pierre Bourdaud, Juliette Champagnat, Karine Grangeré, Ghassen Halouani, Matilda Haraldsson, Tarek Hattab, François Le Loc’h, Boris Leroy, Quentin Noguès, Aurore Raoux, Georges Safi,4, Ching-Maria Villanueva, Jean-Claude Dauvin, Nathalie Niquil

• S3-13. Effect of belowground structure on coastal wetland ecosystem functioning and erosion resistance using X-Ray Computed Tomography

Clementine Chirol, Helen Brooks, Simon Carr, Elizabeth Christie, Ben Evans, Jason Lynch, Iris Möller, Kate Royse, Kate Spencer, Tom Spencer

• S3-14.  Development of a new fish index of ecological quality for French Guiana transitional water bodies

Lucas Mignien, Mario Lepage, Maud Pierre

Session 4 - Adaptation, habitat restoration and management

• S4-01. Climate change in estuaries: sensitivity analysis and adaptation strategies for biodiversity in the Scheldt estuary (Belgium)

Gunther Van Ryckegem, Erika Van den Bergh, Alexander Van Braeckel, Wim Mertens, Joost Vanoverbeke, Frank Van de Meutter, Veerle Campens

• S4-02. Lanthanum accumulation, elimination and Lipid and DNA damage in glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) under a warming scenario

Cátia Figueiredo, Ana Rita Lopes, Francisco Carvalho, Eduarda Pinto, Clara Lopes, Mário Diniz, Miguel Caetano, Tiago F. Grilo, Joana Raimundo

• S4-03. Effects of pharmaceuticals in estuaries: the Biopharma project

Vanessa F. Fonseca

• S4-04. Ecological restoration in estuaries : from global perception to nearly operational tools

Cécile Capderrey, Olivier Brivois, Maïa Akopian

• S4-05. Towards science-based environmental engineering: design and evolution of creek networks in restored coastal wetlands

Clementine Chirol, Ivan D. Haigh, Nigel Pontee, Shari Gallop, Charlie E. L. Thompson

• S4-06. SMARTSEDIMENT: ready-to-use and tested spatially explicit GIS tool to estimate effects of smart sediment management strategies on ecosystem services

Annelies Boerema, Dirk Vrebos, Katrien Van der Biest, Kerst Buis, Patrick Meire, Marcel Taal, Gijsbert van Holland, Sebastiaan Mestdagh, Tom Ysebaert, Frederik Roose

• S4-07. Phyto-and zooplankton in a recovering estuary: expected and non - expected changes

Luz Amadei Martinez, Wim Vijverman, Michèle Tackx, Koen Sabbe, Tom Maris, Patrick Meire

• S4-08. The level of enforcement and fishing effort displacement by the management areas network in central Chile are key drivers of benthic resources status

Silvia de Juan, Maria Dulce Subida, Ainara Aguilar, Miriam Fernandez

• S4-09. Why coastal lagoons are so productive?

Angel Pérez-Ruzafa, Gregorio José Molina Cuberos, Miriam García-Oliva, Georg Umgiesser, Concepción Marcos

• S4.10. Estuarine restoration in the Schelde: the concept of controlled reduced tide

Tom Maris, Patrick Meire

• S4.11. From diversity of drugs consumption to relevant instruments to reduce micropollutant pollution: a study applied to Arcachon Bay

Clarisse Cazals, Sandrine Lyser

Session 5 - What do we expect from decision- and policy-makers for estuarine and coastal management?

• S5-01. A pluridisciplinary approach associating stakeholders to better understand a bivalve population functioning

Nathalie Caill-Milly, Florence Sanchez, Muriel Lissardy, Xavier de Montaudouin, Claire Kermorvant, Florian Ganthy

• S5-02. Participatory system dynamics to improve synergies between rural and coastal areas

Caïtriona Carter, Jean-Marie Lescot, Kevin Petit, Odile Phelpin-Leccia, Olivier Piller, Sandrine Sabatie, Jean-Philippe Terreaux, Françoise Vernier

• S5-03. Circular economy as an opportunity to provide new tools to reconcile socio-economic development and coastal ecosystem management

Raphaëla Le Gouvello, Denis Bailly, Pascal Le Floc'h

• S5-04. Illegal fishing as a side-effect of co-management of benthic fisheries in Chile

Maria Dulce Subida, Vladimir Garmendia, Michael Kriegl, Ainara Aguilar, Miriam Fernández

• S5-05.  Inter-estuary mission: how to establish research-management dialogue?

Maïa Akopian, Valérie Foussard, Mario Lepage, Maud Berlincourt

• S5-06. Shaping adaptive governance in estuarine cities: Bordeaux Metropole and Gironde estuary facing global change

Charles De Godoy Leski, Glenn Mainguy, Philippe Boët, Jeanne Dachary-Bernard, Alain Dupuy, Mario Lepage, Daniel Uny, Benoit Sautour, Aude Vincent, Denis Salles

• S5-07. Building a Trust for estuarine science

Faith Coleman

• S5-08. Analysis of water-related rules in Local Master Plans around Portuguese estuarines areas – assessing the prospects for water-wise territories

Teresa Fidélis, Carla Rodrigues 

• S5-09. From Management Practice to a Vision for estuary resilience, case of the Upper Sea Scheldt (Flanders, Belgium) 

Roeland Adams, Michael De Beukelaer-Dossche, De Vlaamse Waterweg, Gunther Van Ryckegem, Kerst Buis, Joris Vanlede

• S5-10. Adapting to coastal risks by managed retreat: insights from French case studies

Nicolas Rocle, Jeanne Dachary-Bernard

Poster presentations

*** Poster size should be A0 (portrait) ***

• P1. Mapping Resilience, the Morpho Sedimentological Map of San Vincenzo (Tuscany, Italy).

F. Bianco, E. Pranzini, F. Bonciani, I. Cinelli, C. Lanciano, M. Morandotti, D. Simoncini, A. Baldetti, L.-E. Cipriani

• P2. The project LESSisMORE: LESS discards and LESS fishing effort for BETTER efficiency on the small-scale fisheries

Célia M. Teixeira, Priscila Silva, Sandra Amoroso, Cristina Pita, Henrique N. Cabral

•  P3. RShiny as a tool for interactive visualization of nutrients in the Scheldt estuary

Jelle Rondelez, Nick Dille, Elien Dewitte, Carolien Knockaert, Lennert Tyberghein

• P4. Fatty acids as biomarkers of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) toxicity in the model diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Ana Rita Matos, Eduardo Feijão, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Irina Duarte, Maria Teresa Cabrita, Isabel Caçador, Patrick Reis-Santos, Vanessa Fonseca and Bernardo Duarte

• P5. Lagoon micro-habitats and spatio-temporal distribution of the associated juvenile fish population in a mediterranean lagoon.

Marie Iotti, Vincent Ouisse, Alizé Bouriat, T. Carpaye-Thailamée, Audrey Darnaude

• P6. Salt marsh sediment metal speciation and bioavailability changes induced by S. patens bioinvasion

Lucienne Human, Eduardo Feijão, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Isabel Caçador, Patrick Reis-Santos, Vanessa Fonseca, Bernardo Duarte

• P7. Chemodiversity and phylogenetic diversity of Zostera noltii seagrass prairies with different collapsing histories

Marco Franzitta, Tiago Repolho, Ana Rita Matos, Andreia Figueiredo, Filipa Monteiro, Isabel Caçador, Rui Rosa, Bernardo Duarte

• P8. Quantification of land-sea nutrient fluxes operated by migratory fishes in a climate change context: how a mechanistic species distribution model can be useful?

Camille Poulet, Patrick Lambert, Géraldine Lassalle

• P9. Interannual variability in food-chain length of a shallow-water estuarine assemblage and its relationships with climatic perturbations

Bianca Possamai, David J Hoeinghaus, Alexandre M. Garcia

• P10. Governance scenarios in the management of the Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) fisheries in Portugal

Pedro Coelho, Francisco Carvalho, Paula Chainho, J. A. Guerreiro

• P11. Fatty acid composition as natural tracers of estuarine habitat use

Vanessa F. Fonseca, Irina A. Duarte, Eduardo Feijão, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Ana Rita Matos, M. Isabel Caçador, Bernardo Duarte, Patrick Reis-Santos

• P12. Long-term effects of exposure to pharmaceuticals in a top predator fish

Irina A. Duarte, Patrick Reis-Santos, Henrique N. Cabral, Bernardo Duarte, Lénia D. Rato, Sara C. Novais, Marco F. L. Lemos, Marta S. Silva, Carlos Cordeiro, Vanessa F. Fonseca

• P13. Preserving landscape connectivity facing urbanization in the estuarine metropolitan area of Bordeaux: a participatory modelling approach for improving relations between scientists and stakeholders.

Yohan Sahraoui, Charles de Godoy Leski, Marie-Lise Benot, Frédéric Revers, Inge Van Halder, Denis Salles, Marie Barneix, Laure Carassou

•  P14. Non-model fish species embryogenesis table: application to description of Alosa alosa embryonic development

Marion Blaya, Eric Rochard, Olivier Geffard

• P15. A numerical modelling tool for management connectivity, fishing yields and conservation in regional MPA networks

Pilar Baixauli, Gregorio Molina-Cuberos, Concepción Marcos, Stephanie Manel, Ángel Pérez-Ruzafa

• P16. Monitoring to assess climate change impacts on the structure and functioning of a sandy coastal 
  marine fish assemblage

Priscila Silva, Célia M. Teixeira, Sandra Amoroso, Nuno Lopes, Catarina Freitas, Henrique N. Cabral, José L. Costa

• P17. Governing the ecological transition of maritime activities: what importance for coastal-rural interdependencies?

Caitriona Carter, Florian Drouaud

• P18. Estuarine marshes restoration through ‘depolderisation’ : ecological, social and economical perspectives on the Ile Nouvelle case study  (Gironde estuary, southwest France)

Laure Carassou, Tina Rambonilaza, Anne Gassiat, Alain Lechêne

• P19. Differential tissue accumulation, elimination and oxidative stress response of the European glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) under carbamazepine exposure at different salinity regimes

 Ana R. Lopes, Cátia Figueiredo, Eduarda Pinto, Francisco Carvalho, Mário Diniz, Rui Rosa, Tiago F. Grilo

• P20. Improving distribution models accuracy of estuarine fish species: do sampling bias, species ecology and threshold selection play a role?

 Susana França, Henrique N. Cabral

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