17 August 2026 – Day 1
08:00–09:45 – Registration & Coffee
09:45–10:05 – Welcome (EMU), Opening Words by Aret Vooremäe and Organizing Committee
10:05–10:45 – Keynote Lecture
Understanding carabid beetles across scales
Dr. Fabian A. Boetzl
10:45–11:30 – Coffee Break
Session 1: Large-scale patterns | 11:30–12:30
Moderator: Eve Veromann
11:30–11:50
Twelve years of monitoring carabid communities in the Dolomites: assessing long-term impacts of climate change on high-altitude specialists (2013–2025)
Roberto Pizzolotto
11:50–12:10
Population developments of Carabid beetles in the northern Netherlands in an international comparison
Roel van Klink
12:10–12:30
Trait-mediated responses of carabid beetles to historically fragmented forest patches
Johan Kotze
12:30–14:00 – Lunch
Session 2: Landscapes & communities | 14:00–15:20
Moderator: Gabor L. Lövei
14:00–14:20
Carabid beetle community structure and seed predation across an urban–rural gradient in the Prairie Provinces
Nathan Gyan
14:20–14:40
Water proximity structures diversity and composition of ground beetle assemblages in an urban floodplain forest of Kyiv
Ruslan Nerush
14:40–15:00
Spatiotemporal dynamics of carabid communities in agricultural landscapes after flower field establishment
Marco Ferrante
15:00–15:20
Linking landscape indicators to natural pest control and pesticide-use reduction in agricultural ecosystems
Eve Veromann
15:20–16:05 – Coffee Break
Session 3: Behaviour & trophic ecology | 16:05–17:15
Moderator: Riina Kaasik
16:05–16:25
Personality differences in rural vs. urban-living ground beetles
Gábor L. Lövei
16:25–16:45
Species-specific movement of large forest carabids in small canopy gaps
Jana Růžičková
16:45–17:05
Trophic niches of ground beetles in woodland habitats are shaped by surrounding agricultural context
Estève Boutaud
17:05–17:15
End of day and information about the field trip
18 August 2026 – Day 2
Session 4: Agriculture & biocontrol | 09:00–10:20
Moderaor: Fabian A. Boetzl
09:00–09:20
Field-boundary habitats and prey availability shape carabid and staphylinid assemblages in diverse agricultural landscapes
Riina Kaasik
09:20–09:40
Not all carabids are equal: establishment method drives trait-specific community shifts in wildflower strips
Alfredo Venturo
09:40–10:00
Integrated seedbank management to augment long-term weed control
Danielle J. Koole
10:00–10:20
Long-term and synergistic pesticide effects on the ground beetle Platynus assimilis
Anne Mürk
10:20–11:05 – Coffee Break & Networking
Field trip to Emajõe Suursoo & lunch | 12:00–18:00
19:00 – Conference dinner
19 August 2026 – Day 3
Session 5: Functional ecology & traits | 09:30–14:15
Moderator: Wouter Dekoninck
09:30–09:50
Predicting seed choice by carabid beetles through macronutrient regulation in choice feeding bioassays using different types of synthetic diets
Khaldoun A. Ali
09:50–10:10
Linking habitat type, nutritional balance, and overwintering survival for carabids
Marleen Krämer
10:10–11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00–11:20
The influence of semi-natural habitats on carabid populations in apple orchards and their biocontrol potential of Cydia pomonella (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Åsta Dimmen Mong
11:20–11:40
Carabid beetles as predators on slug pests in small-scale horticultures in Norway
Bjørn Arild Hatteland
11:40–13:35 – Lunch
13:35–13:55
Carabid beetles from species list to structured information through nanopublication
Roberto Pizzolotto
13:55–14:45
Open discussion on „Carabid beetles from species list to structured information through nanopublication“
14:45–15:30 – Coffee Break
Poster Session & Flash Talks | 15:30–16:30
Moderator: Johan Kotze
15:30–15:40
Population genomic insights into ecotype divergence of the Taiwanese endemic ground beetle Carabus nankotaizanus
Lan-Wei Yeh
15:40–15:50
The effects of farmland abandonment on ground beetles and natural pest control
Silva Vilumets
15:50–16:00
New carabid species in Estonian nature
Uno Roosileht
16:00–16:10
Dietary diversity and trophic interactions of semi-arboreal Therates tiger beetles facilitate species coexistence in a biodiversity hotspot
Lucija Šerić Jelaska
16:10–16:30 – Final words and prize draw
