Programme
Friday 7th December
15:00 Official Opening by The Honourable Professor John Cortes MBE MP JP
Minister for Education, Heritage, Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar
15:20 Opening statements by Dr Juan Tomás Alcalde
President of SECEMU – Spanish Association for Bat Research and Conservation, (Spain)
15:35 Tyson Lee Holmes: Bats on the Rock: A History of bat research and conservation in Gibraltar.
Gibraltar National Museum & University of Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
16:00 Elena Tena López: Mind the gap: Effects of canopy openings on temperate pine forest bat assemblages.
Department of Biodiversity, Ecology & Evolution, Complutense University, Madrid (Spain)
16:25 Andreia Correia da Costa: Bat Conservation Trust: Who we are and our role in bat conservation in the United Kingdom.
Bat Conservation Trust, London (United Kingdom)
16:50 David Guixé: Dinámica metapoblacional de una especie de murciélago cavernícola amenazado, el caso de Myotis capaccinii en el NE de España.
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona (Spain)
17:15 Ana Rainho: Bats of the Bijagós Islands (Guinea-Bissau, West Africa): understanding the long-term consequences of fragmentation on bat assemblages.
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
17:40 Raquel Vivar González: Factores que influyen en la hora de emergencia del Nóctulo grande (Nyctalus lasiopterus) en la Reserva Biológica de Doñana.
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain)
18:05 Coffee break, poster session & exhibitors
18:30 Keynote Public Lecture:
Rodrigo Medellín: Ecosystem services provided by bats: What and how to value.
Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico)
Saturday 8th December
09:00 Dailos Hernández Brito: El nóctulo gigante amenazado por una especie invasora: una competencia desigual por los nidos y el carisma de la sociedad.
Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), Seville (Spain)
10:00 Constance Tremlett: Bat pollination enhances production and quality of a crop of socio-economic importance in Mexico.
University of Southampton, Southampton (United Kingdom)
10:25 Federica Rossetto: Traits determining prevalence of Adenovirus in European bats at species
and individual levels.
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain)
10:50 Coffee break, poster session & exhibitors
11:20 Jordi Camprodon: Breve presentación del Manual de conservación y seguimiento de los
quirópteros forestales.
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona (Spain)
11:25 Anita Glover: Application of a novel molecular method to age free-living Bechstein’s bats.
Vincent Wildlife Trust, Ledbury (United Kingdom)
11:50 Juan Tomás Alcalde: Importancia de los puentes como refugio para murciélagos. Propuestas
de conservación.
SECEMU – Spanish Association for Bat Research and Conservation, (Spain)
12:15 Ricardo Rocha: Synanthropic bats as potential suppressors of multiple agricultural pests: A
case study from Madagascar.
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
12:40 Anabel Díaz Suárez: Composición y estructura de la colonia del nóctulo grande (Nyctalus
lasiopterus) en la Reserva Biológica de Doñana durante los tres eventos principales de su
fenología: cría, apareamiento e hibernación.
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain)
13:05 María del Mar Salguero Pérez: Análisis espacial de la mortalidad de quirópteros en los parques
eólicos de la provincia de Cádiz.
Department of Biology, University of Cadiz, Cadiz (Spain)
13:30 Lunch at Bistro Point, University of Gibraltar, Europa Point Campus (pre-bookings only)
15:00 Sponsored Workshop: Overview of Wildlife Acoustics Hardware & Software.
15:45 Laura Torrent: What role can underground galleries of hydroelectric plants play for bats?
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona (Spain)
16:10 Garazi Martin: Bat boxes and climate change: testing the risk of over-heating in the
Mediterranean region.
Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, Granollers (Spain)
16:35 Coffee break, poster session & exhibitors
17:10 Jorge Palmeirim: Linking research and conservation: our experience in Portugal.
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
