OPENING

Ingolf Kuehn, UFZ - Key-note speech: Invasion pathways, species invasion success and habitat invasibility in Europe

SESSION 1 - Patterns, mechanisms and evolution of species invasiveness

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  Mediterranean container plants and their stowaways : a potential source of invasive plant species - Ivan Hoste & Filip Verloove
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  On the occurrence of exotic mosquito species in Belgium : the tip of the icerberg ? - Veerle Versteirt et al.
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  Sources of phenotypic variation of life history traits in an invasive species, Senecio inaequidens DC. (Asteraceae) - Arnaud Monty & Grégory Mahy
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  Patterns of Prunus serotina invasion in two contrasting forests on sandy soils - Margot Vanhellemont et al.
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  Welcome to the world ? Breeding alien bird species in Flanders - Anny Anselin et al.

SESSION 2 - Impacts of invasions

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  Alien impact : 1. A project to quantify and explain biodiversity impacts of highly invasive plant species (HIPS) - Ivan Nijs et al.
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  Alien impact : 2. Patterns of impact of HIPS on native vegetation in Belgium - Iris Stiers et al.
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  Alien impact : 3. Impact of HIPS on ecosystem functioning: productivity, nutrient cycling and soil biota - Nicolas Dassonville et al.
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  Alien impact : 4. Plant-pollinator interactions: methodological approaches from the field to an experimental design - Layla Saad et al.
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  Alien impact : 5. Taking the heat: will climate warming fuel alien plant invasions and enhance impact on the native flora ? - Ivan Nijs & Maya Verlinden
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  Alien macro-crustaceans in freshwater ecosystems in Flanders - Pieter Boets et al.
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  Impact of Harmonia axyridis on native ladybird species in Belgium : 1. Niche overlap and population trends - Tim Adriaens et al.
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  Impact of Harmonia axyridis on native ladybird species in Belgium : 2. Intraguild predation revealed by exogenous alkaloid sequestration - Louis Hautier et al.

SESSION 3 - Risk assessment and management

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  ISEIA, a Belgian non-native species assessment protocol - Etienne Branquart et al.
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  Non-indigenous freshwater fishes in Flanders : status, trends and risk assessment - Hugo Verreycken et al.
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  Brussels Psittacidae : impacts, risks assessment and actions range - Anne Weiserbs
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  Management strategy of invasive plants : study cases with three species in the Walloon region : Impatiens glandulifera, Fallopia spp. and Acer rufinerve - Mathieu Halford et al.

CLOSING

Biological invasions : A Belgian perspective - Branquart Etienne & Brosens Dimitri & Gonzalez Barbara & Segers Hendrik

POSTER SESSION

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  Soil-dependent growth strategy of invasive plants : experimental evidences and model predictions using Carpobrotus edulis as target species - Eduardo de la Peña et al.
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  Water frogs in Wallonia : genetic identification of the introduced taxa (Pelophylax ssp.) and impact on indigenous water frogs (Pelophylax lessonae and P.kl.esculentus) - Christiane Percsy et al.
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  Detection of intraguild predation by Harmonia axyridis on native cocccinellids by alkaloids - Louis Hautier et al.
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  Invasion history and control of Callosciurus erythraeus in Dadizele, Belgium - Jan Stuyck et al.
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  Comparative performance between Invasive Alien Eichhornia crassipes and Native Ludwigia stolonifera under nutrient non-limiting conditions : Lake Naivasha, Kenya - Josphine Njambuya et al.
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  Growth performance of invasive alien Landoltia punctata and invasive alien Lemna minuta in monocultures and mixtures under different nutrient conditions - Joëlle Gérard et al.
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  Exotic carnivores in Flanders area expansion or repeated new input ? - Koen Van Den Berge et al.
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  Habitat preference of a new invasive species in Wallonia : the bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) - Youri Martin et al.
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  Acer rufinerve Siebold & Zucc., a new invasive tree in Belgium ? - Thomas Rafalowicz et al.
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  Impact of aquatic invasive species on native plant and benthic macro-invertebrate assemblages in Belgian ponds - Iris Stiers et al.
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  Assessing the potential impact of invasive species on native biota : a case study on the invasion of ring-necked parakeets in northern Belgium - Diederik Strubbe et al.
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  Checklist for aquatic aliens species in the Belgian part of the North Sea and adjacent estuaries - VLIZ aliens species consortium
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  Measuring invasive speed of alien plant species using data from a general mapping program in the north of Belgium - Wouter Van Landuyt
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  Soil arthropods associated to the invasive Senecio inaequidens and the native S. jacobaea - Valérie Vanparys et al.
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  Impact of Fallopia japonica on soil fauna - Sylvie Domken et al.
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  Comparing Fallopia japonica, F. sachalinensis and their hybrid F. xbohemica in Belgium: population ecology, functional traits and invasiveness - Basile Herpigny et al.
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  Alien macrobenthic species in the Sea Scheldt and its tidal tributaries (Belgium) - Frederic Piesschaert et al.
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  Trends in the distribution of the Chinese mitten crab in the Schelde estuary - Maarten Stevens et al.
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  Distribution of the Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) in Flanders (Belgium) - Jo Packet et al.
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  Distribution patterns of introduced plants differ from native plants in Lowland England - Quentin John Groom et al.
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  Occurrence and first breeding of Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis in Flanders (Belgium) - Geert Spanoghe et al.
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  Raccoon progression in the Walloon Region (Belgium) - Vinciane Schockert et al.
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  Comparative Study of Impatiens Species (Balsaminaceae). A Native Species Faces Invasive Alien Brothers From Asia. - Arnaud Vervoort et al.
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  Patterns of impacts of four highly invasive plants species on native vegetation in Belgium - Layla Saad et al.

PICTURES

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