Thursday 24th September 2020
15:00 Registration, 16:00 Welcome excursion Villa Tugendhat
Friday 25th September 2020
Registration (B35), Conference (B35), Conference dinner
Session 1: Brief Updates on the Fauna of Socotra
9:00 Kay Van Damme, Petr Vahalik, Ahmed Saeed Suleiman et al.: The Dragonflies of Socotra
9:15 Vladimír Hula, Zdeněk Faltýnek Fric et al.: The Butterflies of Socotra – novelties, distribution and thread
9:30 Mauro Fasola, Edoardo Razzetti, Raquel Vasconcelos: Ecological preferences of the endemic reptile community of Socotra
Session 2: Socotran Plants, Impacts and Local Uses
9:45 Pavel Hanáček: Echidnopsis of Socotra
10:00 Samuel Lvončík: Taxonomic news in the genus Boswellia on Socotra
10:15 Martin Rejžek: The effect of grazing intensity on vascular plant diversity and composition in the plateaus of central Socotra
10:30 Jitka Meňházová, Ghalya Abdulrahman Ahmed Abdo: Value chain of Frankincense resin in Socotra Island
10:45 Coffee break
Session 3 – Dragon’s Blood Trees
11:00 Abdulraqeb Shamsan Al-Okaishi: Exploring historical distribution of Dracaena cinnabari tree using ethno-botanical knowledge – Socotra Island, Yemen
11:15 Petr Maděra: First model of juvenile Dragon Tree age estimation
11:30 Lucie Bauerová: Germination of Dracaena cinnabari seeds in artificial conditions
11:45 Hana Habrová: The role of Dracaena in horizontal precipitation
Session 4 – Remote Sensing
12:00 Petr Vahalík: Socotra From the Orbit
12:15 Fabio Attorre: The use of remote sensing technologies to assess land cover trends and patterns in Socotra Island
12:30-14:00 Lunch break (Era Café, Zemědělská 30)
Session 5 – Online Session – Environmental Challenges and Conservation
14:00–16:00
14:00 Paul Scholte: The Genus Boswellia (Burseraceae): The Frankincense Trees
14:05 Haifaa Abdulhalim: Socotra Conservation Status – IUCN World Heritage Outlook
14:20 Helen Lackner: Current socio-economic situation in Yemen and the position of Socotra
14:35 Anna Paolini & KVD: The Connect2Socotra Awareness Campaign by UNESCO-FoS
14:50 Mazen Mohamed Al Darhe, Jitka Fialová: A study of recreational use of the Homhil protected area in Socotra Island
15:05 Marcelo Rezende: Land Productivity in Socotra
15:20 Petr Maděra: Updating the Dragon Tree research
15:25 Salem Hamdiah: Conservation of the endangered Frankincense Trees of Socotra
15:40 Beatriz Tomé, Raquel Vasconcelos: Parasites in a hotspot: diversity and specificity patterns of apicomplexans infecting reptiles from the Socotra Archipelago
15:45 Yehya Khaled & Nashat Hamidan: Phase 2 of the Socotra UNE-GEF Project (to be confirmed)
18.00 Gala Dinner (restaurant U královny Elišky, Mendlovo náměstí 1b)
Saturday 26th September 2020
9:00–12:00 AGM (B35)
12:00 Brno guided tour with brewery visit
Sunday 27th September 2020
conference excursion (Moravian Karst, Punkva Caves)