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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 14:02:18 EST
From: Allan Watt <ADW@wpo.nerc.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list <biodiv-l@ftpt.br>
Subject: FORESTS & INSECTS SYMPOSIUM
FORESTS and INSECTS
The next Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society will be held in
London 14-15 September 1995, and will be on the biology, population
dynalics and diversity of insects on trees. As well as providing a formal
scientific programme, the Symposium will end with visits to forest sites in
the UK. Anyone interested in attending and presenting a poster should
contact the conveners (see below) and, to register, Greg Bentley at the
Society: Fax UK+ (0)171 581 8505.
See WWW page: http:/www.nmw.ac.uk/ite/watt.html
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PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1995
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BIOLOGY OF FOREST INSECTS
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Tony Dixon (University of East Anglia)
Adaptations of herbivorous insects to life on trees.
Simon Fraser & Kevin Gaston (Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College)
Host specificity in forest insects: the effects of diet and geography.
POPULATION ECOLOGY OF FOREST INSECTS
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Erkki Haukioja (University of Turku, Finland)
Herbivore-induced responses in trees: internal vs external
explanations
Neil Kidd & Mark Jervis (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Impact of natural enemies on insects in forests.
Tom Royama (Canadian Forestry Service, New Brunswick)
Forest insect population dynamics: are they driven by
single or multiple factors.
Jens Roland (University of Alberta)
Effect of forest fragmentation on insect population dynamics
INSECTS AND FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
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Meg Lowman (Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Florida)
Herbivory on forest trees.
Yves Basset (Christensen Research Institute, Papua new Guinea)
Insect herbivores associated with Ficus spp in Papua New Guinea:
keystone tree species and the organization of tropical forest
communities.
Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum, London)
Invertebrate-mediated carbon fluxes in tropical forests.
FOREST INSECT PESTS
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Pedro Barbosa & Paul Schaefer (University of Maryland & USDA,
ARS, Delaware, USA)
Lymantriid life history strategies and population success:
a comparison of invading species.
Maureen Docherty, Jarmo Holopainen & David Salt (Lancaster University
& University of Kuopio, Finland)
Impacts of climate change and pollution on forest pests.
FRIDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 1995
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FOREST INSECT PESTS (Contd.)
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Keith Day & Simon Leather (University of Ulster & Imperial College,
Silwood Park)
Threats to forestry by insect pests in Europe.
Martin Speight (University of Oxford)
Forest pests in the tropics: current status and future threats.
DIVERSITY OF INSECTS IN FORESTS
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Peter Hammond (Natural History Museum, London)
Insects in ancient temperate woodlands.
Peter Dennis (Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen)
Impact of forest and woodland structure on insect abundance and
diversity.
Mark Hunter (University of Georgia)
Chemical diversity and insect community structure.
Ian Gauld & Dan Janzen (Natural History Museum, London & University
of Pennsylvania)
Parasitoid diversity in forests.
Nigel Stork (Natural History Museum, London)
Diversity of different insect guilds in different forest habitats.
CONSERVATION OF INSECTS IN FORESTS
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Allan Watt, Nigel Stork, & Paul Eggleton (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology,
Edinburgh & Natural History Museum, London)
Impact of forest loss and regeneration on insect abundance and
diversity.
Neville Winchester (University of Victoria, Vancouver Island)
Arthropods of coastal old-growth Sitka spruce forests:
conservation of biodiversity
Martin Warren (Butterfly Conservation, Dorset)
Conservation of woodland Lepidotera
Raphael Didham (Natural History Museum, London)
Fragmentation of tropical forests and insect diversity.
Tom Lovejoy (Smithsonian Institute, Washington)
Insect conservation.
FORESTS AND INSECTS: POSTERS
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Martin Birch & Tristram Wyatt
- Wood boring beetles.
Stefan Van Dongen (Belgium)
- Synchronization between larval hatching and individual
oak tree budburst in the winter moth (Operophtera brumata).
Eldon Eveleigh et al. (Canada)
- The implications of the primary parasitoid - hyperparasitoid
interaction web in the dynamics of spruce budworm populations.
Roger Farrow and Rob Floyd (Australia)
- Susceptibility of Eucalyptus to pests in plantations and
natural stands.
Boris Hrasovec (Croatia)
- Spatio-temporal distribution of acorn weevil
populations in lowland forests of pedunculate oak.
Wolfgang Jank (Germany)
- Carabid beetles as bioindicators in Austrian riverine forests.
Pekka Kaitaniemi, Kai Ruohomki and Erkki Haukioja (Finland)
- Inducible responses of the host plant during an insect outbreak.
Miroslav Kulfan (Slovakia)
- Species composition, seasonal dynamics and niche breath of
Lepidoptera larvae on beech, Prunus and Crataegus in Slovakia.
Ferenc Lakatos and Ch. Stauffer (Austria)
- Ecological and genetic aspects of the disposition in native and
planted Norway spruce stands in West-Hungary.
Ruth Levy (Oxford)
- Ant community structure in a tropical rain forest, Brunei.
John McLean (Canada)
- Ambrosia beetles of coastal British Columbia.
Melodie McGeoch and S.L. Chown (South Africa)
- Monitoring insect communities as indicators of environmental
change: moths on Acacia.
Zvi Mendel (Israel)
- Pest status of pine bast scales as related to their
association with ancient and new pine hosts.
Vince Nealis (Canada)
- Jack pine: budworms, trees, and forests.
Richard Ring (Canada)
- Insects, canopies and coastal, old-growth rainforests
in B.C., Canada.
Luis Silva (Portugal)
- Insects associated with the native vegetation of the Azores.
J. R. Spence, D. W. Langor, H. E. J. Hammond and G. R. Pohl (Canada)
- Beetle Abundance and Diversity in the Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem.
Nicki Whitehouse (Sheffield)
- Sub-fossil pine-bark Coleoptera.
Conveners:
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Allan Watt ,Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh
adw@ite.ac.uk
Nigel Stork, Natural History Museum, London
nes@nhm.ac.uk
Mark Hunter, University of Georgia
cmsmarkh@uga.cc.uga.edu
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