54th EUROPEAN MARINE BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM DUBLIN, IRELAND | 25-29 AUGUST 2019 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS SPONSORS EMBS54 would like to acknowledge and thank our symposium sponsors for their generous support. Contents Plenary presentations 9 Armstrong, It’s the ecology, stupid – Willingness to pay to protect cold-water coral 10 Johnston et al, The Great Speeding Up of our Coasts and Oceans 11 Poloczanska, Biodiversity redistribution in a changing climate 12 Webb, Traits in Space: Enriching species occurrence data with species attributes for traits- based marine macroecology 13 Whelan, Atlantic Salmon lost at sea 14 Rapid Change 15 Rilov, Two opposing climate change threats: sea level rise and extreme desiccation events threaten Mediterranean vermetid reef communities 16 Gorska et al, Influence of melting glaciers on size spectra and functioning of zoobenthic communities in Arctic fjords 17 Vascotto et al, Deciphering long-term variability of the phytoplankton community in a highly variable coastal sea (Gulf of Trieste) 18 Capdevila et al, Are marine species more resilient to global change than terrestrial ones? 19 Bonzi et al, From desert to sea: mechanisms Arabian pupfish use to acclimate to high salinities in the Red Sea 20 White et al, Multiple stressors and the stability of marine ecosystems 21 Farina et al, Ocean acidification effects on top-down control of the functional species Paracentrotus lividus in marine benthic ecosystems 22 Ferrario et al, A fuzzy model to detect Mediterranean marinas at high-risk of marine bioinvasion 23 Ferreira et al, Combining 10-years in-situ data with a satellite remote sensing dataset to help evaluate climate change effects on Antarctic phytoplankton communities 24 Kotta et al, Assessing effects of cumulative impacts of human pressures on nature assets 25 Murase et al, Counter-directional body size clines within a Japanese amphidromous fish inferred from otolith analysis 26 Navarro et al, Local environmental conditions experienced by marine bivalves determine their physiological response to warming and high levels of pCO2. 27 Pack et al, Long-term physiological tolerance of a non-indigenous species to near-future warming and ocean acidification 28 Pyko et al, Microplastic pollution as a possible threat for an arctic reef system and its association of ecosystem engineers 29 1 Reddin et al, From short-term experiments to ancient hyperthermal events: marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across time scales 30 Talijančić et al, Human-mediated marine environments induce rapid phenotypic changes in wild fishes 31 Turicchia et al, How is the increasing frequency of thermal anomalies change the extent and functioning of gorgonian forests in the Mediterranean Sea? 32 Van Colen et al, Clam feeding plasticity alleviate herbivore sensitivity to ocean warming and acidification 33 White et al, The multifaceted contributions of individual species to the stability of ecosystems 34 Detree et al, Effect of temperature and food limitation on the energy metabolism of two species of sea urchins from high lattitude. 35 Mangan et al, Shining light on the importance of intertidal benthic primary productivity to estuarine ecosystem function 36 Pilditch et al, Can biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships predict tipping points in soft sediments? Insights from a multi-stressor national field experiment 37 Hadjioannou et al, Cladocora caespitosa in a rapidly changing environment: effects from eutrophication, windstorm and warming event 38 Zalota et al, Observing an ongoing aggressive invasion of a large predatory crab in the pristine Arctic Kara Sea. 39 Wiltshire et al, Phytoplankton and Warming of the North Sea: a summary 40 Cunningham et al, Microplastics in aquatic systems – genuine threat or over exaggeration? 41 Ferrario et al, High occurrence of non-indigenous species travelling in the Mediterranean Sea by recreational boats 42 Kolyuchkina et al, Long-term changes of the northeastern Black Sea coastal macrozoobenthos in the XXI century 43 Lopez et al, Warming effects on biogeochemical cycling of algal wrack subsidies in Antarctic shores 44 White et al, Heat waves as a driver of change in mudflat macroinvertebrate communities 45 Movement and redistribution of species 46 Leclerc et al, Age of recipient assemblages determines bio-invasion under realistic assembly rules 47 Basset et al, Space use behaviour, spatial distribution of populations and organisation models in marine guilds 48 Coleman et al, Limpets in the rough: Manipulating habitat topography to understand animal orientation decisions 49 Dawson et al, Population connectivity of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) recorded in the breeding grounds of the Pitcairn Islands, central South Pacific. 50 2 Doogan et al, Early migration behaviour and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from the Burrishoole River, western Ireland 51 Doogan et al, Early migration behaviour and mortality of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from the Burrishoole River, western Ireland 52 Juanes et al, Database of macroalgae presence data: OCLE 53 Loher, Connectivity of Pacific halibut in North American waters: scales of movement and relevance to fishery management 54 Mancinelli et al, Predicting the potential distribution of the Lessepsian blue swimmer crab Portunus segnis in the Mediterranean Sea 55 McGinty et al, Projected copepod community changes and trait re-structuring in the North Atlantic due to changing climate 56 McInturf et al, Use of a hydrodynamic model to examine behavioral response of broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) to an estuarine energy landscape 57 Norrie et al, Larval subsidies from bivalve aquaculture may assist with restoration programmes. 58 Ponti et al, Can environmental gradients promote non-indigenous species recruitment? The case study of the Ravenna channel-port 59 Rodriguez-Perez et al, Open or closed populations? The larval behaviour of the European oyster and why it matters 60 Roman-Torres et al, Effects of climate change on the sea turtles feeding ecology 61 Sinopoli et al, The role of FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices) in the dispersal of fish in Sicilian coast 62 Strickler et al, Ciliate epibionts - a symbiotic solution to nutrient diffusion limitation in large diatoms 63 Tray et al, Investigating scale trace element microchemistry as a tool to track adult North Atlantic salmon populations. 64 Wichmann et al, Distribution & growth of stocked European glass eels released in the eastern German Baltic Sea 65 Jackson et al, Can changing distributions of benthic species be tracked using long-term datasets from volunteer divers? 66 McIlroy et al, Subtropical thermal variation supports persistence of corals but limits productivity of coral reefs 67 Vandepitte et al, 15 years of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS) 68 Allegra et al, A method for assessing the distribution of the alien jellyfish Cassiopea andromeda (Forsskal, 1775) in areas of difficult access. 69 Ellrich et al, Mechanisms underlying predator-driven biotic resistance against introduced barnacles on the Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan 70 Ponti et al, A baseline of epibenthic species distribution on the northern Adriatic mesophotic biogenic reefs 71 3 Reddin et al, Marine invertebrate distributions trace climate change over 450 million years 72 Srinivasan et al, A Tool to Rapidly Assess Spatiotemporal Changes in Species Distributions 73 Irie, Dispersal footprint on water: Availability of Sr concentration of larval shells in widely distributed gastropods 74 Andrews et al, Boreal marine fauna from the Barents Sea disperse to Arctic Northeast Greenland 75 Fundamental Biological Traits 76 Dekeyzer et al, Marine species traits in the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone 77 Hammock et al, Aggregated trait data for global questions: coverage and fitness for use 78 Lockley et al, Maternal effects buffer biased sex ratios in species with temperature dependent sex determination – the case of the loggerhead turtle 79 Barker et al, Securing the future of the Critically Endangered Angelshark (Squatina squatina) through multidisciplinary approaches to study this rare, cryptic elasmobranch 80 Sealey et al, Investigation of juvenile Angelshark (Squatina squatina) habitat in the Canary Islands to inform protection of this Critically Endangered species 81 Vesal et al, Effects of sewage discharge on macrofaunal communities nearby the underwater sewage duct of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea) on temporal scale 82 Lobov et al, Gametic isolation proteins in the model of intertidal snails sibling species. 83 Vargas et al, Have we underestimated the effects of ocean acidification on different biological traits? 84 Käß et al, Functional patterns of macrofauna at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN 85 Maltseva et al, Littorina snails and environmental stress: the first to measure the second. 86 Skinner et al, Prevalence of pelagic dependence among coral reef predators across an atoll seascape. 87 Žužul et al, Combination of molecular and morphological characteristics to assess different origins 88 Mavraki et al, Feeding preferences of seven dominant fouling species: trophic specialists or generalists? 89 Gladstone-Gallagher et al, Linking traits across ecological scales determines functional resilience to disturbance 90 Mancinelli et al, The tufted ghost crab Ocypode cursor in the Mediterranean Sea: an updated overview of its distribution 91 Campos et al, The ecology of yellow gurnard Trigla lucerna in a temperate estuary 92 Cilenti et al, Impacts of the invasive