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Status and needs on genetic resources conservation across European riparian ecosystems 2019 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/1/7319 http://isrs2019.info/cms/index.php/book-of-abstracts.html P. Rodríguez-Gonzáles J. Milovanović R. Pielech G. Hinkov R. Jansson Riparian vegetation is a major element of the landscape, structuring and modulating ecological functions yet widespread river degradation across Europe is compromising role as a key ecosystem services provider. CONVERGES COST Action intends to identify research and management needs, including how riparian vegetation has been managed, and to translate scientific evidence that may be relevant to update EU policies. The assessment of riparian genetic resources across Europe can assist policy and decision making to contribute to the conservation of species and habitats, to mitigate biodiversity decline and to improve ecological status of riparian ecosystems. One working group within CONVERGES (GCWG2) is devoted to mapping who, where and what has been done in terms of riparian genetic resources conservation across Europe. The main goal of the GC-WG2 is to review the state of art in genetic conservation of riparian ecosystems/species at the European level and to identify knowledge gaps, conservation barriers and future research and management needs. For this purpose, the GC-WG2 is working on a two stage process. The first step is the identification of relevant experts in the field of genetic resources conservation of riparian ecosystems from all CONVERGES participating countries. This has been performed through the distribution of a short questionnaire, collecting information on geographical distribution of experts; research to date on the topic (literature review), target riparian species (for conservation, ecosystem functions, economics, etc) across countries, and a list of important projects at the European scale. The second stage includes the development of a structured interview addressing the identified experts with the aim of making a collection of brief country reports on genetic conservation in riparian ecosystems on the country level, to provide an assessment of the strategies implemented so far, the major barriers, the current needs and the potential solutions for improving the conservation of genetic resources across European riparian ecosystems. Preliminary results show great disparity of research efforts among species (only a few well studied taxa such as Populus nigra) and the need of conservation programmes to incorporate riparian provenances and their genetic resources if we are to preserve biodiversity of riparian vegetation and associated communities in increasingly uncertain environments. conferenceObject 242 242 Book of Abstracts