Dear listmembers

In August I am co-convening a symposium at the International Congress of
Entomology in Brisbane (Australia), on 'insect biodiversity and dead wood' (see
the website at http://www.ccm.com.au/icoe/home/default.htm). Papers from the
symposium will be published together by the USDA Forest Service Southern
Research Station.

I intend to present a paper (the last one in the symposium) on 'a research
agenda for insects and dead wood'. I have some ideas on what I would include in
such a paper, having been working in this area for a few years. But I felt it
might be a fresher paper if I sought input from others with an interest in this
field, hence this email. If you have any bright ideas on what are important but
perhaps neglected research areas that really need addressing if we are to
progress our understanding of saproxylic insects and their management, anywhere
in the world, then I would be very pleased to hear from you. If you come up
with ideas that I hadn't considered, and I end up including them in the paper,
then you will of course be duly acknowledged.

Other list members may also be interested in research ideas, so I suggest
posting responses to the list rather than just to me.

Thanks for your anticipated input!

Simon Grove





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Dr Simon J Grove, Conservation Biologist,
Biology and Conservation Branch,
Division of Forest Research and Development
Forestry Tasmania, GPO Box 207, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
Tel. 61 3 6233 8141. Fax 61 3 6233 8292.
Email: simon.grove@....
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