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The Last Biotic Frontier:

Towards a Census of Canopy Life


ESF Exploratory Workshop EW04-049

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European Science Foundation - Life, Environmental and Earth Sciences (LESC)

With co-funding from

and with additional support from Biotrac sprl and Solvay S.A.

5-9 July 2005, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
Convened by: Maurice Leponce (BE) and Yves Basset (PA)

 

SolVin Bretzel in Brussels and IBISCA exhibition

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IBISCA project

Assessing where the greater proportion of biodiversity is distributed is just as vital as knowing how many species there are. Ecologists, taxonomists and theoricians have to cooperate to understand the patterns of distribution of the mega-biodiversity (arthropods) in tropical forests. The proposed workshop will capitalize on the newer and largest dataset available to date (IBISCA project) to develop innovative lines of research related to arthropod beta-diversity and vertical stratification in tropical rainforests.


participants in front of Manneken Pis, near Brussels' Grand Place, 8 July 2005

Workshop programme

 

LAST MINUTE INFORMATIONS:

Final programme & invitation (ver 5 July 2005)

Practical informations (ver 5 July 2005)

Working groups Sum Up: WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4 (ver 8 July 2005)

 

IBISCA outcomes, by Roger Kitching : IBISCA Outcomes_RK28-04-2005.doc (22KB, pw protected)

 Abstract form (Deadline 1st June 2005)

Pre-workshop events

23-29 June 2005: presentation of the SolVin-Bretzel in Parc du Cinquantenaire / Jubelpark and IBISCA exhibition on the biodiversity of tropical forests and on the IBISCA project (organized by RBINS with the support of Solvay)

1-8 July 2005: at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, IBISCA exhibition .

Tuesday 5 July 2005 -Welcome day

Arrival of participants by air (from Brussels Zaventem airport)or by train.

17:30 Welcome of participants and visit of the IBISCA exhibition (sponsored by Solvay S.A.) at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Museum, 6th level, insect hall).
19:00

Welcome. The involvement of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in biodiversity studies.
Camille Pisani, general director of the Museum.
(Main auditorium, Museum)
19:05

The involvement of Solvay in the IBISCA project.
Robert Van Geyts, communication manager, Solvay.
(Main auditorium, Museum)
19:10 Presentation of the IBISCA approach
Bruno Corbara, scientific director of the Canopy Raft Consortium.
(Main auditorium, Museum)
19:30-20:00 video "Mission: IBISCA" (Solvay, 2004)
(Main auditorium, Museum)
20:30 Dinner at Kapolino restaurant


Wednesday 6 July: Distribution of tropical mega-biodiversity: available data

Thursday 7 July 2005: Analyses of mega-biodiversity distribution in the tropics: pitfalls and remedies

Friday 8 July 2005: Discussion, integration and conclusions

Saturday 9 July

Departure of participants by air or by train.

Instruction to contributors

Presentations will need to be short (please refer to the final programme) and to the point. For sake of simplicity, please bring your presentation in a Windows PowerPoint 97 (or later) format on a CD or memory stick. Requests for additional equipment (overhead projector, slide projector) or information should be sent to the organisers at least a week in advance of the meeting.

Proceedings of the workshop

Outline of the proceedings (Ver. 22 April 2005) : ESF2005_Proceedings_28Apr2005.rtf (11KB, pw protected)

Surveys

Survey 1 results :  Compilation_Surveys1_WebVer10-05_FINAL.pdf (247KB, pw protected)

Survey 2 form, IBISCA participants only, ESF2005_Survey2_IBISCAparticipants_deadlineJune1.xls (Deadline 1st June 2005) : (22KB, pw protected)

IBISCA database

Data file for homopterans, lepidopterans, bees and termites: 400,000 specimens; 50,000 records (last update 14 March 2005)

Confirmed participants

(last update 02 July 2005)

23 invited participants

(funded by ESF)

Frode Ødegaard - Norway, Neil D. Springate - UK, Andreas Floren - Germany, Jürgen Schmidl- Germany, Yves Roisin - Belgium, Maurice Leponce - Belgium, Jérome Orivel - France, Dawn Frame - France, Henri-Pierre Aberlenc - France, Johannes Bail - Germany, Bruno Corbara - France, Gianfranco Curletti - Italy, Olivier Missa - UK, Olivier Hardy - Belgium, Jacques Delabie -France, Vojtech Novotny - Czech Republic, Owen Lewis -UK, Tomas Roslin -Finland, Andrew Mitchell -UK, Line Sorensen -DK, Jon Bridle -UK, Marc Dufrêne -BE, Olivier Pascal -France

14 participants not funded by ESF

Yves Basset -Panama (UNEP grant),  Roger Kitching -Australia (UNEP grant),  Evandro Gama de Oliveira (UNEP grant), Mirna Samaniego (UNEP grant), Aydee Cornejo -Panama (UNEP grant), Darren Bito-Papua New Guinea (UNEP grant), Thomas Lewinsohn-BR (UNEP grant), Laura Fagan (UNEP grant) & Raphael Didham -New Zealand, Christian Van Osselaer -BE, Philippe Cuenoud -CH, Sérvio Ribeiro -BR (GCP-UNEP grant), Enrique Medianero -PA (GCP-UNEP grant), Claire Ozanne-UK  (GCP grant).

ESF LESC Representative

Prof Lucien Hoffmann of the CRP Gabriel Lippmann (Luxembourg).

UNEP Representative

Dr Margaret M. Oduk. Programme Officer, Biodiversity and Biotechnology Unit, Division of Environmental Conventions, United Nations Environment Programme.

Practical information

Practical informations (ver 02 July 2005)

Workshop location: Getting to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Accomodation: Hotel Derby ; Sun Hotel

Maps : http://www.mappy.be 

Links

ESF Exploratory Workshops 
IBISCA project: official website at STRI (password protected), mirror site at RBINS (public)

 


All pictures by Maurice Leponce
© Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, last update 30 August 2005