International Conference On Temperate Orchids Research & Conservation TORC ‘15

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International Conference on

Temperate OrchidsResearch & Conservation

Samos Island, Greece

13-19 April 2015

Organized bySails For Science Foundation

Under the Auspices of the

Hellenic Society for theProtection of Nature

This event will bring to bear leading-edge science and

field findings from the vantage point of diverse hencespecific disciplines for its application to the researchand conservation of temperate orchids worldwide.

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contents

Introduction 09Sponsors & Supporters 13

Organizing Committee 15

Scientic Committee 17

Sessions Overview 24

Meeting Programme 27

Useful Information 41


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Introduction


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Orchids impress us with their ability to exploit diverse and challeng-ing habitats, even in temperate climates. Their evolutionary adaptionevolved into astonishing relationships with their surroundings. Yet, the

fate of many wild temperate orchids is at imminent risk with the rap-

idly increasing anthropogenic impacts. Before they may disapear, weare just starting to understand the extent of this group of plants andtheir complex biological adaptations.

The international conference on Temperate Orchid Research & Conservation (TORC’15)will be held on April 13-19 on the island of Samos, Greece. TORC’15 aims to provide astimulating event for the topics

Session A - Orchid Flora of Greek Islands / World Orchid Flora

Session B - Systematics / Population GeneticsSession C - Mycorrhizal Studies

Session D - Pollination / Floral Deception / Reproductive Success

Session E - Ethnobotany / Propagation of Native Orchids

Session F - Population Dynamics & Determinants

Session G - Conservation.

TORC’15 is bringing together rst-in-class scientists and eld practitioners fromaround the world across dierent disciplines as biology, chemistry, phylogenetics,

agronomy, pharmacy, ecology and conservation. With its cutting edge speakers andnumerous participants, TORC’15 is to be augured taking the eld forward by establish-ing collaborations across all regions through multidisciplinary networks and bringingtemperate orchid conservation eorts therefore even closer to the communities on ev-ery continent.

Each contribution will appear in one of the following journals

i) Acta Botanica Gallica - Botany Letters

ii) European Journal of Environmental Sciences

iii) Entomologia Generalisiv) Journal Europäischer Orchideen, or

v) New Phytologist

The conference venue will be held in the beautiful historical setting of the capital ofSamos, Vathi, at the turquoise Aegean Sea. Due to the unique environmental conditionsof Samos, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a green mountainous island all yeararound with unique thriving ecosystems shaping its fauna and ora, and an abundanceof wild orchid habitats, as e.g. the genus Ophrys. TORC’15 will take place during thehigh blooming season of these wild orchids.

The conference includes a one eld day trip to dierent wild orchid habitats where localorchidologists will be available as guides. In addition, a pre-conference workshop anda post-conference eld trip are oered. The TORC’15 eld guide book will be provided


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to the schools of Samos for their environmental education to foster the conservation ofthe orchids with the next generation on Samos.

We are looking forward to welcome you on Samos.

Dr. Sven WagnerChairman

On behalf of the Organizing and Scientic Committees

SAILS-FOR-SCIENCE FOUNDATION is a non-prot foundation based in Germany.The European founders observed all over the planet from the sea as sailors, on land asenvironmental activists and simply as alert citizens of the world the rapidly happeningchanges on islands from their traditional stable way of life. These dierent Europeanperspectives shaped the roots and vision of the foundation, to nd a citizen answer for

these global issues. SAILS-FOR-SCIENCE FOUNDATION strives for a sustainable bal-ance between Nature and Society for the Island Community.

Right now the world experiences tremendous globalization pressure on Small Islandsaround the world. These challenges are universal and include developing countries aswell as developed countries in Europe: Depletion of island resources, increasing threatsfrom the outside, preserving the society’s heritage, communicating through an islandvoice of the XXI. century, developing inter-island and mainland connections, securingthe future of an island. The remoteness and vulnerability of the islanders makes it verychallenging to tackle these problems just by themselves and need urgently our help.

Our goal is taking global responsibility of islands to another level by exchanging withthem knowledge through our science platform. We built bridges for meaningful and in-novative actions between island citizens and scientists, as the sustainable well-being ofislands deserves to be explored, preserved and developed. For us, the needed innovationmay be provided by objective scientic applied research. But we believe as well in pro-moting the results by an inclusive chain, gathering all the links as education organismand authorities that will make the island communities new sustainable steps.


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Thank you Sponsors

and Supporters


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Organizing Committee

Dr. Sven WagnerSails-For-Science Foundation, Germany

Mrs. Stella DaidouSails-For-Science Foundation, Greece

Mr. Vasilis LouizosSCS Samos Conference Series, Greece

Dr. Spyros TsisisAristotle University, Greece

Mr. Nikos PetrouHellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN), Greece

Mr. Nikos & Mrs. Elena SkapetisFactorSigma, Greece

Emmanouil Tritsiniotis

FactorSigma, Greece

Mr. Michalis FolasUnion of Municipalities, Greece

Mr. Dimitris KourouvakalisObi Orange, Greece

Mr. Giorgos FakasGreece

Mrs. Rachel DebricatSails-For-Science Foundation, France


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Scientific Committee


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Kingsley DIXON is Director of Science at the State botan-ic garden, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, and a VisitingProfessor at the University of Western Australia.

The conservation and restoration research facility op-erates programs in species reintroductions and ecology

that includes orchids both as part of ecological resto-ration programs and rare and endangered orchid conser-vation. The orchid program is the largest of its type inAustralia and involves conservation genetics, pollinationecology, mycorrhizal ecology, reintroduction programsand ex situ conservation of seed, mycorrhiza as well ascryoconservation of somatic tissues.

scientic publications at:https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Sta/StaProle.aspx-?Person=KingsleyDixon&tab=publicationsl

Mike F. FAY is Head of Genetics, Jodrell Dept. at the RoyalBotanic Gardens Kew and Chair IUCN-SSC Orchid Spe-cialist Group, Reintroduction Specialist Group.

His extensive research encompasses the overlap betweengenetics, systematics and conservation eorts where or-chids form the major focus of these studies. He is alsoVice President of the Linnean Society of London and onseveral editorial boards, namely Editor-in-Chief of theBotanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

scientic publications at:http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/directory/people/Fay_Mike.htm

Prof. Dr.KingsleyDixonAustralia, School ofPlant Biology, The

University of West-ern Australia, KingsPark and BotanicGarden

Dr. MichaelF. FayUnited Kingdom,Royal BotanicalGarden Kew, IUCN


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Pavel KINDLMANN is Professor of Ecology at the Fac-ulty of Natural Sciences, Charles University and Headof Department of Biodiversity Research at Czechglobe,Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.

His research is focused on modeling population and

metapopulation dynamics, evolution of life histories andnature protection. Orchids are one of the major modelgroups in his team and their research includes mainly or-chid pollination strategies, energy partitioning betweengrowth and reproduction, chaotic owering regimes.At present he works on the factors determining orchidspecies diversity in the world. Scientic eld studies ledhim to Nepal, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Papua New Guineaand many other countries. He is editor-in-chief of theEuropean Journal of Environmental Sciences and asso-ciate editor of Acta Oecologica, Journal of Applied Ento-

mology and of Frontiers in Population Dynamics. He haspublished more than one hundred papers in prominentscientic journals and several books.

scientic publications at:https://www.natur.cuni.cz/fakulta/zivotni-prostredi/lide/zamestnanci/pavel-kindlmann

Hannes PAULUS is Professor Emeritus in Zoology, Headof the Dept. of Evolutionary Biology at the Universityof Vienna in Austria, aer heading electron microscopyand holding professorship in zoology at the University ofFreiburg, Germany.

Scientic eld studies led him to Columbia, Nigeria,Kenya (bat pollination) and for many years to the Medi-terranean areas of Greece, Italy, Spain, Tunesia, Cyprus,Turkey, Israel (pollination biology, systematics, bioge-

ography, and visual ecology studies of the orchid genusOphrys, and other orchids; ecology and systematics ofbees and beetles). He worked also on functional morphol-ogy, neurobiology and phylogeny of the arthropod eye;as well as on the evolution of the mimicry system in thesexually deceptive orchid genus Ophrys.

scientic publications at:http://zoology.univie.ac.at/people/associates/hannes-paulus/

Prof. Dr.PavelKindmannInst. for Environmen-tal Sciences, Faculty

of Natural Sciences,Charles University,Prague and Dept. ofBiodiversity Re-search, Czechglobe,Academy of Sciences,Brno, Czech Republic

Prof. Dr.

HannesPaulusAustria, University ofVienna


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Theodora PETANIDOU is teaching biogeography, ecolo-gy and environmental sciences at the University of theAegean, a unique university with campuses over six is-lands, with the oldest geography department in Greece.

Her Biogeography & Ecology Laboratory facilitates far

reaching research in the Aegean in the elds of pollina-tion ecology, ecogeography, natural resources conserva-tion, and cultural ecology, particular with emphasis onsystems in extreme conditions as island habitats, xericexpansions, deserts, incl. heat loving animals, salinas,and terraces. The institute maintains also a referencecollection of 150,000 pollinating insects of the widerAegean, called the Melissotheque. She is also a formerFulbright scholar and was a visiting scientist at severalinstitutes in Europe and the Americas.

scientic publications at:http://bioecolab-aegean.blogspot.gr/p/welcome.html

Marc-André SELOSSE is professor at Muséum Nationald’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is teaching biology ofinteractions and evolution at Ecole Normale Supérieureand diverse French universities.

His research focuses on mycorrhizal symbiosis, especial-ly in orchids and heterotrophic plants. Devoted to out-reach, he wrote +90 papers in French. As President of theSociété botanique de France and scientic advisor to theSociété Française d’Orchidophilie, he organized several

international meetings, including “Orchid Symbioses:Models for Evolutionary Ecology” (Cosenza, Italy, May2013). He is an editor of the New Phytologist, Symbiosisand ABG – Botany Letters.

scientic publications at:http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/Marc-Andre-SELOSSE

Prof. Dr.TheodoraPetanidouGreece, University ofthe Aegean, Lesvos

Prof. Dr.

Marc -AndréSelosse

France, DépartementSystématique et Evo-lution, Muséum na-

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Ekrem SEZIK’s research spans from pharmacognosticalstudies on phytopharmaceuticals, particular for volatileoil-containing plants, to ethnopharmacology of Turk-ish folk medicines and as well as for the last decadeson investigations on Turkish orchids and their naturalproduct Salep, which is made from the tubers of orchids,

a traditional beverage in the Mediterranean originatedfrom Turkey.

He wrote more than 200 original papers, the rst bookon Turkish Orchids (1984), has been awarded the ScienceAward in Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Turkish Acade-my of Pharmacy (2008) and is the Chairman of the Turk-ish Phytotherapy Association.

scientic publications at:http://www.researchgate.net/prole/Ekrem_Sezik/

Spyros TSIFTSIS’s interests are focused chiey on orchidtaxonomy, chorology, orchid ecology and conservationthrough networks of protected areas, as well as on theprediction of the potential distribution of the orchids indierent geographical areas of Greece while utilizingspecies distribution models.

His concurrent work is devoted towards transformingthe knowledge of orchid distribution in Greece into pre-diction models of their distribution patterns under the

constraints of future climate change scenarios. In theemerging eld of orchid research in Greece, he publishedin numerous peer-reviewed international journals andco-authored several book chapters about the richness ofGreek wild orchids and their challenges.

Prof. Dr.EkremSezikTurkey, Yeditepe Uni-versity, Istanbul

Dr.

SpyrosTsisisGreece, Independent,Thessaloniki


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Daniel TYTECA is an engineer in applied mathematicsand doctor of applied natural science of UCL (Universitécatholique de Louvain). Now, extraordinary Professor andresearch associate of UCL, he is a member of the LouvainSchool of Management and the Earth and Life Institute,Biodiversity Research Centre.

He teaches in environmental management, both at UCLand in a European faculty group (Global Alliance in Man-agement Education). He performs for many decades re-search activities in the elds of systematics, ecology andevolution of European and Mediterranean orchids, bothat UCL and with colleagues across Europe. He is also anactive member of several organisations for nature con-servation and botany.

scientic publications at:http://www.uclouvain.be/en-279520.html

Dennis WHIGHAM is a Senior Botanist at the Smithso-nian Environmental Research Center.His research is fo-cused on native orchids, vines, wetland species, invasivespecies and forests around the world.

He is the founding Director of the North American Or-chid Conservation Center, which has recently launchedthe interactive web site Go Orchids..

scientic publications at:http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/plant_ecology/index.aspx

See NAOCC at http://northamericanorchidcenter.org/

See Go Orchids at http://goorchids.northamericanorchid-center.org/

Prof. Dr.DanielTytecaBelgium, UC Louvain

Dr.

DennisWhighamUSA, SmithsonianEnvironmental Re-search Center (SERC),Edgewater, MD


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Sessions Overview

Session A

Orchid Flora of Greek Islands / World Orchid FloraOrchids of Greece & Samos, more species to discover?

Identication of new species and subspecies of temperate wild orchids globally

Recent data on distribution, biotopes and their challenges, of native temperate orchids

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Systematics / Population GeneticsTaxonomic challenges (From Linneaus to the age of phylogenomics)

Red List update

New concepts and identication techniques

Session CMycorrhizal StudiesOrchid - Soil Interactions: Carbon sequestration, feedbacks, new secrets from under-ground on mycorrhizae and orchid symbiosis

Plant community structure and orchid symbionts

Molecular & other techniques developed herein (HTS, stable isotopes, etc.)

Session DPollination / Floral Deception / ReproductiveSuccessOrchid – Animal Interactions: Pollination biology of orchids, insights into the intimatelife of orchids, including other than insect orchid relationships

Orchid Invasions & Physiology: Diseases and disease mechanisms in wild temperate orchids

Biological Signaling Beyond: Further vital communications of orchids within theirhabitat; olfactory, tactile, optical and other modes of signaling


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Session E

Ethnobotany / Propagation of Native OrchidsNatural compound identication from orchids, secondary metabolites

Medicinal chemistry and traditional knowledge research regarding pharmaceuticalapplications derived from orchids

Nutritional sciences and agronomy in respect to orchids (Salep)

Micropropagation (in vitro, in vivo techniques) of wild orchids

Fruit formation observations

Other utilities of wild orchids, aspects of legislation

Session F

Population Dynamics & DeterminantsBiotic and abiotic factors that govern orchid thrive

Population biology of orchids

Orchid population dynamics, biodiversity

Climate change and wild orchids (Drought scenario data / prediction, etc.)

Pathogen paradigm shis for wild orchidsNatural defense systems of wild orchids in their habitats, evolutionary lessons

Session G

ConservationAnthropogenic challenges to temperate orchids – alert indicators (Derived from

wildres, droughts, urban zoning, grazing/land use challenges, commercial exploitation/ destruction

Ecological concepts and conservation of wild orchids, incl. respective pollinator insects,soil microbiology, plant community and other crucial lifelines for orchids impeding ontheir vitality

Current legal frameworks of protection, legislation

Seedbanks, propagation / horticulture, botanical gardens, and other preservation measures

Fostering harmony between humans and wild orchids (community involvement,

ecotourism, commercial use of orchids, orchid societies, reach-out education, biospehres)

Possible bio-indicators for future assessment of ecological health of wild temperate orchid


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Sunday, 12 AprilArrival of delegates to Samos,Pick-up from airport SMI & check-in at accommodations

Monday, 13 AprilWORKSHOP ‘Keys to Orchid Observation’

09:00 Part I “Orchids under the Lens” Nikos PetrouHellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (ΕΕΠΦ)

11:00 Coee Break

11:30 Part II Keys to Orchid Biotope Identication with Mini Field TripLunch included

15:00 Closure

19:00 Conference Registration & Reception at Samos Hotel

Tuesday, 14 AprilLECTURE PROGRAMME

08:00 Registration at VenueMayor’s Hall, Samos

09:00 Conference OpeningWelcome Addresses byMr. Nikolaos KatrakazosDeputy Governor, North Aegean RegionMr. Michalis A. AngelopoulosMayor of SamosMr. Nikos Petrou

President Hellenic Society for the Protection of NatureProf. Marc-André SelossePrésident de la Société Botanique de France

Session

A.a Orchid Flora of Greek Islands09:30 A1

KeynoteChristian KörnerInstitute of Botany, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland“Climate change and vegetation of the Eastern Aegean”

10:00 A2 Spyros TsisisSchool of Biology, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki“Biogeographical aspects of orchid diversity on Greek islands”


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10:20 A3 Monika HirthAHO Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany“Can we see evolution at work? Long-term survey on the smallGreek Island of Agathonisi from 1994 to 2013”

10:40 A4 Theodora Petanidou

Univ. of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece“Creating facilities for pollination studies in the Aegean”

11:00 Break

Session A.b World Orchid Flora11:30 A5 Alexander Kocyan

Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochem-

istry and Biology, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany & Institute ofIntegrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zürich, Switzerland“The orchid genus Luisia disentangled: the need for multidisci-plinary studies to understand oral evolution of orchids”

11:50 A6 Daniel TytecaUniversité catholique de Louvain, Biodiversity Research Centre,Belgium“Recent contributions to the orchid ora of Portugal(new species, critical taxa, and new distribution data)”

12:10 A7 Mike F. Fay Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom “British and Irish orchids in the face of climate change”

12:30 A8 Ekaterina ZheleznayaTimiryazev State Biology Museum, Moscow, Russia“The investigation of rare species Cypripedium in some areas ofSiberia (Russia)”

12:50 POSTER SESSION & LunchA1P1 Giorgos Fakas

Greece“Plant records of the orchid oraof the Island of Samos, Greece”

A2P1 Asaf ShifmanIshi TalmonIsrael

“Reclassication of several orchidsof Israel”

A2P2 Juliene ViglioneErrol VelaFrance

“Recent input to Lebanese orchidora and tentative of a nationalchecklist integrating synonymies”

A2P3 Argyrios GerakisXenophon HaldasMarios GiannakouliasGreece

“Anacamptis palustris subsp. robus-ta (Orchidaceae): a new record tothe ora of Cephalonia, Greece”


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A2P4 Roland MartinErrol VelaRidha OuniFrance, Tunisia

“Ophrys pseudomigoutiana , a neworchid species from Tunisia”

A2P5 Éva Biró

Judit BódisV.A. MolnárHungary

“Why is hybridization so rare

between the species of genusHimantoglossum?”

A2P6 Sami Youssef Kurdistan Region, Iraq

“New data on orchids (Orchidace-ae) of the Duhok Province in theKurdistan Region (N-Iraq): 2013-2014 surveys”

B1P1 Pierluigi CortisPier Luigi Nimis

Annalena CogoniAndrea AmbusStefano MartellosItaly

“Digital key for the identicationof Sardinian orchids”

B2P1 Natalia PeltekiSpyros TsisisNicoleta KaraiskouAlexandros TriantafyllidisAndreas D. DrouzasGreece

“Low genetic dierentiationamong 21 dierent species andsubspecies of the genus Epipactis native to Greece”

B2P2 Martha CharitonidouSpyros TsisisAndreas D. DrouzasGreece

“Lack of PCR-RFLP variation inEpipactis atrorubens populationsfrom northern Greece”

CP1 Julienne M. - I. SchieboldGermany

“Is a switch of carbon sourcesunder light-limitation a generalfeature of partially mycohetero-trophic orchids?”

CP2 Ibrahim OzkocYasemin Özdener KömpeSerdar BozkurtVildan Akin MutluTurkey

“IIsolation and molecular char-acterization endosymbionts fromSpiranthes spiralis plants in dif-ferent growing periods in Turkeycharacterization”

CP3 Yasemin Özdener KömpeVildan Akin MutluIbrahim OzkocEmre YuksulTurkey

“Tulasnella spp. diversity of theroots of Spiranthes spiralis / invitro & in situ germination of itsseeds”


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CP4 María Isabel MujicaChile

High mycorrhizal specializationin the rare orchids Bipinnulavolckmanni Kraenzl. and Bipinnulaapinnula Gosewijn

Session

B.a Systematics14:10 B1

KeynoteMike F. Fay Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom“Phylogenetics of Slipper Orchids”

14:40 B2 Pavel TrávníčekFaculty of Agriculture, Univ. of South Bohemia, České Budějovice,Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Charles Univ. Prague,Czech Republic“Nuclear genome size estimation in orchids – challenging taskwith respect to progressively partial endoreplication”

15:00 B3 Daniel TytecaUniversité catholique de Louvain, Biodiversity Research Centre,Belgium“Ophrys systematics - when molecular phylogenetics, morphologyand biology reconcile”

15:20 B4 Andreas D. DrouzasSchool of Biology, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece“Genetic relationships of Greek Epipactis species revealed by DNAbarcoding”

15:40 B5 Errol VelaUniv. of Montpellier, Montpellier, France“Toward an operational on-the-eld taxonomy: back to morpholo-gy? Example of Pseudophrys from France, Algeria and Tunisia”

16:00 B6 Fabiana EspositoBiodiversity Research Centre, Université catholique de Louvain,Belgium“Mixed Platanthera populations: the case for introgression orselection pressure”

16:20 B7 Roberto GamarraDepartamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,Spain“Seed micromorphology in “the Platanthera clade” (Orchidaceae,Orchideae): taxonomic signicance”

16:40 Break


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B.b Population Genetics17:10 B8 Dr. Alexander Kocyan

Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochemis-

try & Biology, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany“Low genetic dierentiation along a North-South Transect inEurope of Liparis loeselii (Little Fen Orchid)”

17:30 B9 Edyta JermakowiczInstitute of Botany, Univ. of Białystok, Poland“Dierentiation of genetic structure of the boreal-mountain or-chid Malaxis monophyllos (L.) Sw. in its European part of range”

17:50 B10 Aigi IlvesInstitute of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Estonian

Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia“Genetic diversity of Anacamptis pyramidalis at the edges andcenter of its distribution range”

18:10 B11 Kaan HürkanGraduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Biology Dept.,Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Univ, Çanakkale, Turkey“Phylogeographic structure within the closely related orchids:N. tridentata and N. ustulata ”

18:30 B12 Julita Minasiewicz

Dept. of Plant Taxonomy & Nature Conservation, Univ. of Gdansk,Poland“Population genetic structure of the mycoheterotrophic Epipogiumaphyllum Sw. in Europe”

18:50 Conclusion

Wednesday, 15 AprilSession

C Mycorrhizal Studies09:00 C1

KeynoteMarc-André SelosseMuséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France“Evolution to partial and full mycoheterotrophy in orchids”

09:30 C2 Gerhard GebauerLaboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry (BayCEER),University of Bayreuth, Germany“How many green orchids are partially mycoheterotrophic?”


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09:50 C3 Julienne M. - I. SchieboldLaboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry (BayCEER),University of Bayreuth, Germany“From rags to riches: Partial mycoheterotrophy in the genusEpipactis Zinn”

10:10 C4 Félix LallemandMuséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France“Full and partial mycoheterotrophy in orchids based on saprobicfungi”

10:30 C5 Jan PonertDept. of Experimental Plant Biology, Charles University,Prague, Czech Republic“Orchids utilize trehalose from mycorrhizal fungi by the action oftrehalase”

10:50 C6 Nina V. ShekhovtsovaDemidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia“The microbial complexes associated with tubers of temperateorchids from Russia”

11:10 Break

11:40 C7 Irina TatarenkoMoscow Pedagogical State University, Russia; Open University,United Kingdom“Modular growth in orchids and its implication in species popula-

tion biology”Session

D.a Pollination & Floral Deception12:00 D1

Keynote Jana JersákováFaculty of Science, Univ. of South Bohemia, Czech Republic“Evolution of Batesian food-based oral mimicry – how to cheaton but not turn o pollinators”

12:30 D2 Nina JofardCentre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), CNRS –Université de Montpellier – Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier,France“What we can learn from orchid-pollinator interactions networks?”

12:50 D3 Hannes PaulusDept. of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna“Which is the true Ophrys leucadica ? Pollination biology investiga-tions in Kefalonia and the eastern Mediterranean area”

13:10 D4 Manfred AyasseInstitute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Germany“Pollinator attraction in the deceptive orchid Cephalanthera rubra (Orchidaceae)”


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13:30 POSTER SESSION & Lunch

DP1 Aphrodite Kantsa Jelle DevalezThomas Tscheulin

Theodora PetanidouGreece

“The POL-AEGIS database as a

basis to study orchid reproduc-

tive ecology at community level

in the eastern Mediterranean”

DP2 Hannes PaulusAustria

“How to nd Ophrys pollinators?Where to search andhow to make bio-tests?”

DP3 Hannes PaulusMonika HirthAustria

“Pollination biology in theOphrys mammosa group”

DP4 Demetras RakosyYannick StadlerHannes PaulusManfred AyasseGermany, Austria

“Pollinator mediation vs. geo-graphic variation of oral traitsin a group of sexually deceptiveorchids”

DP5 Izabela TałałajAgata KostroAda WróblewskaEmilia BrzoskoBeata OstrowieckaCezary BystrowskiPoland

“Pollination syndrome of decep-tive orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii(Druce) Soó under conditions ofnatural forests in NE Poland”

DP6 Kadri TaliMarilin MõtlepTiiu KullEstonia

“Comparing spurs and proboscisof the pollinators in Platanthera species of Estonia”

DP7 Şenay Süngü ŞekerMustafa Kemal AkbulutGülcan ŞenelTurkey

“Labellum micromorphology ofsome orchid genera distributedin the Black Sea Region”

DP8 Mustafa Kemal AkbulutŞenay Süngü ŞekerGülcan ŞenelÖznur Ergen AkçinTurkey

“A comparative study based onlabellum color analysis of certainOphrys (Orchidaceae) species”

EP1 Irena MinchevaMihaela JordanovaEkaterina KozuharovaBulgaria

“On the traditional use of Salepin the Rhodopes, Bulgaria”


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EP2 Bo LongWenjin SuChina

“Ecient in vitro propagationmethod with increased shootorganogenesis of endangeredPaphiopedilum parishii”

EP3 Yasemin Kemeç

Turkey

“In vitro granular pollen and

pollinium germination attemptson some orchid taxa distributedin Çanakkale (NW Turkey)”

FP1 Judit BódisÉva BiróT. NagyL. MenyhártHungary

“The size and characteristicsof Himantoglossum adriaticum populations in Hungary”

FP2 Milan Kotilínek

T. TěšitelováP. FibichZ. IpserZ. Münzbergová

J. JersákováCzech Republic

“Seed dispersal curves of

Epipactis atrorubens in twoforest types”

FP3 Yusuf AbbasM. JadeyegowdaR. SujathaM.N. RameshIndia

“Orchid diversity at KodaguDistrict of the Western Ghats inIndia”

GP1 Hélène Vogt-SchilbFrançois MunozFranck RichardBertrand SchatzFrance

“Decline and range shi oforchids in Western Europe(France, Belgium and Luxem-bourg) over 20 years: a studybased on a large-scale participa-tory survey”

GP2 Bertrand SchatzFrance

“Analysis of the current protec-tion of orchid species in France:evidence of biases and proposalfor improvements by articulat-ing priorities on regional andnational scales”

GP3 Errol VelaRoland MartinFrance

“Rapid preliminary assessmentfor national red-listing orchidtaxa in Tunisia”

GP4 Kingsley DixonAustralia

“Evolution at the end of theearth – orchid conservation inthe southwest Australianhotspot”


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GP5 Rafael SchneiderBertil KrüsiMarilena PalmisanoYasmina Bounaâja

Joël WieserPhilipp Rüegg

Lukas WeidmannSwitzerland

“Report on an eective ex-situevaluation tool for determiningpotential orchidareas”

GP6 Aphrodite KantsaGreece

“Red data orchids in Greece: dotraits predict vulnerability?”

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D.b Pollination & Reproductive Success15:00 D5 Hannes Paulus

Dept. of Integrative Zoology, Univ. of Vienna, Austria &Monika Hirth, AHO Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany“Ophrys phaseliana-parosica-theophrasti-merope or how manyspecies are there? Pollination biological investigation of this highvariable fusca group”

15:20 D6 Jennifer DietelInstitute of Experimental Ecology, Univ. of Ulm, Germany“Speciation and pollination ecology of the orchid Epipactishelleborine”

15:40 D7 Éva BiróGeorgikon Faculty, Pannon Univ., Keszthely, Hungary“Reproductive success of Himantoglossum species”

16:00 D8 Bertrand SchatzCentre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), CNRS –Université de Montpellier – Université Paul Valéry Montpellier,France“A global viewpoint of intraspecic variation of scent emitted bythe orchid Orchis mascula ”

16:20 Break

16:50 D9 Kristi Sootla Dept. of Chemistry, Institute of Mathematics & Natural Sciences,Tallinn Univ., Tallin, Estonia“Flower scent - ower colour associations in Gymnadeniaconopsea s.l.”

17:10 D10 Pieter GijbelsPlant Conservation & Population Biology, Biology Dept., Univ. ofLeuven, Belgium

“Experimental manipulation of nectar amino acid content aectspollinia removal, fruit set and selng in the orchid GymnadeniaConopsea ”


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09:50 E4 Luicita Lagunez-RiveraInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de In-vestigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional unidad Oaxaca,Mexico“Prosthechea karwinskii, an endemic Mexican orchid and theirantioxidant compounds”

10:10 E5 Rodolfo Solano-GómezInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de In-vestigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional unidad Oaxaca,Mexico“Characzterization of the volatile compounds of the orchidProsthechea varicose”

10:30 E5 Cofee Break

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F Population Dynamic & Determinants11:00 F1

KeynotePavel KindlmannDept. of Theoretical Ecology, Global Change Research Centre,Brno, and Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles Univ.,Prague, Czech Republic“Is orchid geographical distribution determined by their metapop-ulation dynamics?”

11:20 F2 Michael J. HutchingsSchool of Life Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, UK“Weather, climate and Ophrys sphegodes: the present, the past anda disturbing glimpse into the future”

11:40 F3 Hélène Vogt-SchilbCentre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), CNRS,Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier &Biotope, Mèze, France“Temporal dynamics of orchids in a 27-year long interval inCorsica, a study based on a Bayesian multispecies site-occupancy

model”

12:10 F4 Zuzana ŠtípkováGlobal Change Research Centre, Brno, and Institute for Environ-mental Studies, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic“Determinants of orchid species diversity”

12:30 Lunch

14:00 F5 Dennis F. WhighamSmithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA

“Isotria medeoloides (Small whorled Pogonia) – understanding thefactors responsible for the performance of plants in declining pop-ulations of a species that is listed as Threatened in the U.S.”


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14:20 F6 Zdeněk IpserFaculty of Science, Univ. of South Bohemia, Czech Republic“The eect of climate conditions on the population dynamics ofDactylorhiza sambucina ”

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G Conservation14:40 G1

KeynoteDennis F. WhighamSmithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA“Conserving native orchids at the scale of the U.S. and Canada– Lessons learned thus far within the North American OrchidConservation Center”

15:10 G2 Mike F. Fay

Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom“Orchid conservation genetics in the age of next-generationsequencing”

16:40 Break

17:10 G3 Tiiu KullEstonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural & Envi-ronmental Sciences, Tartu, Estonia“Factors inuencing threat levels to orchids across Europe”

17:40 G4 Jørn Erik Bjørndalen

Oslo, Norway“Conservation of Norwegian orchids - achievements andchallenges”

18:00 G5 Rafael SchneiderDepartment Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zurich Uni-versity of Applied Sciences, Switzerland“Establishment of native orchids on green roofs”

18:20 Panel Discussion & Closing of Lectures

21:00 GALA DINNER with Greek Cultural Programme

Saturday, 18 AprilPost-Conference Field Excursion & Cultural Highlights

09:30 Departure

13:00 Picnic Lunch

14:30 Eastern Field Excursion & Cultural Highlights19:00 Arrival at Vathi


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Map of Samos Island

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The conference will take place in the heart of the beautiful historical capital Vathi ofthe island of Samos at the eastern Aegean Sea. The island is embedded in beautifulnature which surrounds signicant sites in human history (UNESCO World HeritageSite). Samos is the birthplace of well-known mathematician Pythagoras and astronomerAristarchus, the rst known to propose that the earth revolves around the sun, 2200years ago. It is also the place of the oldest known tunnel built in its length, the Eupal-inian Aqueduct, with more than 1km in length, a marvel of engineering to bring waterto the people 2500 years ago. The beautiful tranquil villages and towns with noblemansions from the past, always fresh panoramas, with its many beaches, the sea andgreen mountains, embraced by the cheerful hospitality of the Samians, make Samos an

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Vathihighlights

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The town of Samos was built as the port of Vathy aer raids of pirates diminishedin the 18th century. As an important trade center it gained in the 19th century evenmore a special status as the administrative center of the island with its tributary to theOttoman Empire. Unusually, at the time Samos was governed by a Christian of Greekdescent who carried the title “Prince”. This history is today reected in the architectureof Samos / Vathy. The town’s history is interwoven with the War of Independence inGreece and Samos became a semi-independent state in 1834.

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During the autonomous status of Samos (1834-1912), Agios Konstantinos was one ofthe six feature settlements known as the municipality of Exi Geitonies or “Six Neigh-borhoods”. Agios Konstantinos retains a healthy character of purity: Its architecturehas still many historical cohesive elements interrupted by neat gardens, at the foot ofsplendid thick mountain nature and breaking waves with fresh salty air at its main stripdotted with friendly tavernas and cafes from where the coast of Minor Asia can be seen.Even the village’s bakery is known to be the best on the island. Agios Konstantinos isan excellent base for exploring the nature and traditional culture of Samos.

The origin of Agios Konstantinos (St. Konstantin) is obscure, even old maps were notrevealing the village. Merciless raids by pirates and being a seaside village are thereasons that Agios Konstantinos ourished later than the nearby mountain villages

Vourliotes and Manolates. The settlement can be better traced back to the 19th century.

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For a true experience of the old quaint character of the town a walk on a shoestringthrough Ano Vathi, 15 min from the town center, is recommended. A maze of alleyways

makes it easy to get lost. The accomplished visitor will admire the stamina of the res-idents who built and live Ano Vathi on its steep slope. Panoramic views and forgettingtime at a tavern are all rewarding.Neat beaches along the road from Agios Konstantinos to Samos / Vathy. TsamadouBeach is one of them. Sand beaches with mopuntain clis dropping into crystal clearturquoise water surrounded by saturated green foliage of pine and olive trees. A shortwalk from the younger seaside part of the village uphill to the old village center, PaleoKonstantinos, reveal still the intact architecture of the traditional village.

In contrast, a more busy life can be observed from the main plaza of Samos with itsmonument of a lion from one of the numerous surrounding cafés. From there pan-oramic views over the bay of Samos all the way to the island’s second highest summit,Karvounis 1160 m, on the Ambelos massif, are possible. From this central place in townlocal shops and daily life of Samos can be explored.The area surrounding Agios Konstantinos is famous for its wine growing, the Samos

Wine, due to the microclimate and soil conditions in this region. Highly recommendedis a nature walk to the mountain villages Manolates or Vourliotes. The vegetation inthe valley uphill from Agios Konstantinos to Manolates is as lush as it can be on Samoswith many interesting botanical encounters. Well marked hikes can be easily followed.

A Must to visit is the Archaeological Museum of Samos. It is adjacent to the venueof the conference, the Mayor’s House. Despite its obscurity, the museum is one of themost important one’s in Greece of its kind. It exhibits for e.g. the largest Kouros statuein Greece. Important relicts of the cult to the goddess Hera, with Samos central to inantiquity, are on display, mainly from around the 6th century BC.One can either walk or drive to the Must-See mountain village Manolates starting fromAgios Konstantinos. The same is true for the mountain village Vourliotes. In relativeshort distance an obvious dierence in climate can be felt. From Manolates spectacularviews over the Aegean Seas can be enjoyed. The village itself maintains a rigorous tra-ditional lifestyle harmonized with amenities for the visitor. Traditional tavernas, shops

which oer locally produced handcra with artistic creativity reecting the spirit ofthis rather high altitude village. The surrounding backdrop views into the mountainvalleys reveal that there is more to discover for the adventurer to the summit. All above,meeting the Greek hospitality is here most true.

Don’t Forget to see

Don’t Forget to do

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