NOTICE:

                                ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

                                        ENTOMOLOGY '99

                                SYMPOSIUM and NATIONAL MEETING


13th - 15th SEPTEMBER 1999
                            IMPERIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Further information (registration, booking etc): The Regsitrar, Royal
Entomological Society, 41 Queen's Gate, London SW7 5HR. Tel:
+44-171-584-8361. E-mail: reg@royensoc.demon.co.uk

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                                        ENTOMOLOGY '99

Entomology '99 will be held 13th to 15th September 1999 at Imperial
College, University of London. A three-day meeting, it will start with a
two-day Symposium with the third day exclusively for specialist sessions of
the National Meeting.

The Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium: Insect Movement. It is
now a quarter of a century since the question of insect movement was
specifically addressed in a RES symposium. That was the 7th Symposium on
'Insect Flight'. At that time, apart from mobile pests such as locusts and
aphids, the central importance of an insect species' spatial mobility to
its population dynamics and ecology was still controversial and only just
beginning to be appreciated. With the advent of meta-population dynamic
theory, the development of new techniques in molecular biology and genetics
and the widespread availability of computers able to cope with more
realistic spatial models, all that has changed and the importance of insect
movement is now widely accepted in many areas of insect ecology. Also there
have been many recent advances in our knowledge of flight-related
physiology and behaviour, as well as the development of novel techniques
for studying movement (e.g. harmonic radar), that make the whole subject
area ideal for reappraisal. That will be the purpose of the Society's 20th
Symposium, which is to be called Insect Movement: mechanisms and
consequences. Six sessions are planned for the meeting; Flight Mechanisms,
Foraging Movements, Migration, Evolution of Movement Strategies, Dispersal
Rates and Population Structure, and Changes in Geographical Distribution.

National Meeting: One of the main objectives of the National Meeting is
to provide an opportunity for cross-disciplinary discussion, something
which is not provided by more specialised meetings. The following
specialist session topics have been proposed for this year's meeting:
Agriculture and Forestry, Behaviour and Physiology, Climate Change,
Conservation, Ecology, Education, Evolution, Flight, Information Science,
Insect / Plant Interactions, Medical and Veterinary, Modelling, Molecular,
Palaeo-entomology, Population Ecology, Recording Schemes, Systematics and
Phylogeny, and Technology.

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Dr Hefin Jones
Ecotron Project Leader
NERC Centre for Population Biology
Imperial College at Silwood Park
Ascot
Berkshire SL5 7PY

Tel: +44-(0)1344-294483
Fax: +44-(0)1344-873173
e-mail : t.h.jones@IC.AC.UK

http://forest.bio.ic.ac.uk/cpb/cpb/ecotron.html

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