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This pioneering volume explores time series analysis and interpretation using a wide range of methods and examples from terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecology. The book challenges readers to discern interdisciplinary processes that can unify fields as diverse as climatology and epidemiology. The first section of the book explores the basic concepts of environmental analysis, reviews state-of-the-art techniques and methodologies, and offers innovative solutions to analytical problems of longer time series with special attention to climate change, providing the reader with the conceptual and methodological tools to analyze environmental data accurately. The second section examines a variety of time scales used to describe change, and the variability within and between different ecosystems, so that diverse systems may be studied in an integrated way. The final section of the book illustrates key concepts and themes, based on the results of major investigations in various time scales, including studies from arctic sites to human epidemiology. Investigating time series in the context of ecological functions such as population processes, community structure, and patch dynamics, this insightful volume will stimulate cross fertilization among the ecological disciplines. The broad spectrum of ideas and applications examined in this volume makes it a useful resource for all ecologists

Lake Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe and, with its surface of 17,891 km2 and volume of 837 km3, it ranks among the top fifteen of the world's freshwater bodies. The ecological condition of Lake Ladoga is of concern to several million people living in its surroundings. There is evidence of water quality degradation and gradual eutrophication of the lake during the past decades; on the other hand, pollution control measures have improved the situation in many of the most polluted sites near industrial effluent sources. The first international Lake Ladoga Symposium was held in St. Petersburg on 22-26 November, 1993. The symposium was attended by 160 scientists, and about half of the papers presented at the symposium have been edited for this book. The contributions are grouped under the following headings: Present state of Lake Ladoga; Hydrodynamics of Lake Ladoga and other large water bodies; Water quality and pollution; Ecological studies of Lake Ladoga biota; History of Lake Ladoga and rates of change in its environment; Research methods for large lakes. Besides providing up-to-date information on the state of the lake, the papers deal with studies of many other large lakes of the cold-temperature zone and the general problems and methods of large lake research. Furthermore, the book is a valuable source of reference to the voluminous Russian limnological literature

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Acknowledgements and Dedication -- OVERVIEWS OF REINVENTING FISHERIES MANAGEMENT -- Reinventing Fisheries Management: the Symposium (Tony Pitcher) -- Synopsis of the Symposium (Craig Harris) -- New contexts, New tools (Nigel Haggan) -- Reinventing the Tree (Nigel Haggan) -- THE LARKIN LECTURE -- Fisheries management after 2000: will new paradigms apply? (Abstract) (John Caddy) ABSTRACTS AND DISCUSSION THEME 1: THE PRODUCTION BASE AND ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT -- Keynote Address -- The trophic cascade and food web management (James Kitchell) -- Discussion Points of View -Theme 1 -- The control of undesirable introduced species in small freshwater lakes: what we should learn from past experiments (Pierre Magnan) Constraints on the intensity of trophic linkages in lake food webs (Bill Neill) -- Ecosystem management: the next step (Daniel Pauly & Villy Christensen) -- The understanding and prediction of marine production: considerations for the future (James Scandol) A new method to identify individual natal stream sources of salmonids and migration patterns of fish (poster) (Sam Wang & R.Brown) Using mass-balance (ECOPATH) food web models to structure dynamic (ECOSIM) simulation models (demonstration) (Carl Walters, Villy Christensen & Daniel Pauly) -- General Discussion of Theme 1 (Kathy Heise & Alida Bundy) THEME 2: ASSESSMENT, RISK AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT -- Keynote Address -- Rediscovering adaptive management: a framework linking science and decision making in a reinvented fisheries management (Keith Sainsbury) -- Discussion Points of View - Theme 2 -- An overview of tuna assessment and management world wide (Alain Fonteneau) Predictive models of growth, survival and reproduction (Jarl Giske) Benefits of taking uncertainties into account when making decisions in fisheries management: example applications of Bayesian decision analysis (Randall Peterman) Intelligent fisheries assessment in an uncertain world (Laura Richards) -- Fixed exploitation rate strategies for coping with effects of climate change (Carl Walters & Ana Parma) -- General Discussion of Theme 2 (Alida Bundy & Kathy Heise) THEME 3: THE ROLE OF POLICY IN RESPONSIBLE FISHING -- Keynote Address -- People, purses and power - some features of the debate surrounding a developing fisheries policy for South Africa (Kevern Cochrane) -- Discussion Points of View - Theme 3 -- Regime formation and community participation in fisheries management (Craig K.Harris) Measuring the immeasurable: multivariate interdisciplinary method for determining the health of fisheries (Tony Pitcher, David Preikshot, Daniel Pauly & Alida Bundy) Politics and fisheries (Gert van Santen) -- Modifications of Scotian Fundy groundfish management for sustainable use (Michael Sinclair) -- A new paradigm for managing marine fisheries in the next millennium (Michael Sutton) -- First world foreign fishing and third world fisheries: impact on resources, economy and society (poster) (Alida Bundy & Tony Pitcher) -- General Discussion of Theme 3 (Dave Preikshot & Steven Mackinson) THEME 4: THE ROLE OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES -- Keynote Address -- Fisheries management: science and decision making (David Policansky) Discussion -- Points of View - Theme 4 -- For fishers or fishes?: a comment on the development of an interdisciplinary science of fisheries and fisheries management (Tony Davis) -- A bridge over troubling waters? Strategies for integrating natural and social science for sustainable fisheries (Lawrence Felt) -- Enlarging the shadow of the future - avoiding conflict and conserving fish in a novel management regime off South Devon, UK (Paul Hart) -- Fisheries management: a role for social science? (Svein Jentoft) Observations on the social science of fleet dynamics and local knowledge (Thomas McGuire) General Discussion of Theme 4 (Steven Mackinson & Dave Preikshot) THEME 5: THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC TOOLS IN REINVENTING FISHERIES MANAGEMENT -- Keynote Address -- Fisheries management, politics and markets Rogenvaldur Hannesson Discussion -- Points of View - Theme 5 -- New directions in fishery management: lessons from the collapse of Atlantic Canada's groundfish fishery (Anthony Charles) -- Natural assets and national wealth (Philip Neher) Cooperation and Quotas (Anthony Scott) Linking fish price and fishery practice through eco-certification, labelling and crediting (John Sproul) Uncertainty and the role of economics in reinventing fisheries management (Rashid Sumaila) General Discussion of Theme 5 Dave Preikshot & (Steven Mackinson) THEME 6: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS -- Keynote Address -- Aquatic resources education for developing world needs (Meryl Williams) -- Discussion -- Points of View - Theme 6 A fisheries agreement with the Nisga's people: the first step towards a sustainable fishery and fishery management system (Michael Link) ; Fisheries Centre (FC) ; Unreviewed ; Faculty

One Life-history Strategies -- 1 The life strategies of mites -- 2 Life-history evolution of spider mites -- 3 Life-cycle strategies in unpredictably varying environments: genetic adaptations in a colonizing mite -- 4 The evolutionary transformation of osmotic regulation in the life cycle of freshwater mites (Hydrachnidia) -- 5 Development and life-history strategies in mussel mites (Hydrachnellae: Unionicolidae) -- Two Reproduction -- 6 Spermatology in the Acari: systematic and functional implications -- 7 The distribution, mechanisms and evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites -- 8 Indirect sperm transfer in prostigmatic mites from a phylogenetic viewpoint -- 9 Spermatophore deposition in relation to atmospheric humidity among terrestrial Parasitengonae (Prostigmata) -- 10 The role of Adlerocystis sp. in the reproduction of argasid ticks -- 11 A scanning electron-microscopy study of spermatogenesis in Pergamasus barbarus Berl. (Gamasida -- 12 Precise sex-ratio control in the pseudo-arrhenotokous phytoseiid mite, Typhlodromus occidentalis Nesbitt -- 13 Sex ratio, fitness and capacity for population increase in Pyemotes tritici (L.-F. and M.) (Pyemotidae) -- 14 Preliminary observations of ovoviviparity in the gallforming mite, Aceria caulobius (Nal.) (Eriophyidea: Eriophyidae) -- 15 Laboratory observations on duration of copulation and egg production of three phytoseiid species fed on pollen -- 16 Precopulatory mate guarding in the spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisd.) (Tetranychidae) -- Three Diapause, Development and Trophic Relations -- 17 Physiological aspects of diapause in plant-inhabiting mites -- 18 Repeated induction and termination of diapause in the predacious mite, Amblyseius potentillae (Garman) (Phytoseiidae) -- 19 Inheritance of photoperiodic responses controlling diapause in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch -- 20 Some observations on diapause in winter eggs of Panonychus ulmi (Koch) (Tetranychidae) -- 21 Reproduction, embryonic and postembryonic development of Trichouropoda obscurasimilis Hirschmann and Zirngiebl-Nicol 1961 (Anactinotrichida: Uropodina) -- 22 Resource allocation and utilization contrasts in Hypoaspis aculeifer (Can.) and Alliphis halleri (G. and R. Can.) (Mesostigmata) with emphasis on food source -- 23 The influence of different host plants on the reproductive potential of Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) and Tyrophagus neiswanderi Johnston and Bruce (Acaridae) -- 24 The relationship between house-dust mites and fungi -- 25 How plants maintain body-guards: plant exudate as a food source for phytoseiid mites -- Four Systematic, Morphology, Physiology and Behaviour -- 26 Distribution of characters and phylogenetic age — systematic problems in the higher taxa of the Oribatida -- 27 A new approach to the systematics of the genus Steganacarus (Oribatida) -- 28 The morphology of the immature stages of Phthiracaroidea (Oribatida) -- 29 A new interpretation of the epimeral theory of Grandjean -- 30 A comparison of the sclerotized parts of the reproductive organs of house-dust mites of the genus Dermatophagoides using scanning electron microscopy -- 31 Reproductive systems in Acaridida — some peculiar features -- 32 A respiratory apparatus in eggs of certain mites -- 33 Fine structure and functions of the mouthparts involved in the feeding mechanisms in Cenopalpus pulcher (Canestrini and Fanzago) (Tetranychoidea: Tenuipalpidae) -- 34 The alveolar salivary glands of the active phases of trombiculid mites (Trombiculidae) -- 35 Pigmentation in water mites of the genera Limnochares Latr. and Hydrodroma Koch (Hydrachnidia) -- 36 Biomass studies of water mites of the genera Limnochares Latr. and Hydrodroma Koch (Hydrachnidia) -- 37 The saltatory capacity of an oribatid mite -- 38 Thanatosis or feigning death in mites of the family Scutacaridae -- Five Field Studies and Applied Aspects -- 39 The effects of spider-mite feeding on plant performance in relation to biological control -- 40 Dispersion indices and constant precision sampling programmes for Panonychus ulmi (Koch) and Amblyseius andersoni (Chant) in Spanish apple orchards -- 41 Herbicides and the reproduction of Tetranychus urticae Koch -- 42 Phytoseiid mites associated with vines in Sicilian vineyards -- 43 Studies on mites associated with lucerne in Greece -- 44 Vertical distribution and life stages of oribatid communities on beech trees -- 45 Histiostoma murchiei Hughes and Jackson (Anoetidae) as a parasite in the cocoons of some Danish earthworms -- 46 Rearing deutonymphs of Iphidosoma fimetarium (J. Müller), a mesostigmatic mite associated with carabid beetles -- 47 Mites of the House mouse, Mus musculus L., in the north-eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula in Spain -- 48 Records of Ixodoidea from the Trentino-Alto Adige region in northern Italy -- 49 Seasonal and spatial variation in food intake by the oribatid mites of beech woodland soil -- 50 The effects of ploughing and rotary cultivation on soil mites with particular reference to the Mesostigmata -- 51 The influence of soil cultivation methods on the edaphic fauna, and especially the Gamasina (Mesostigmata), in two southern German vineyards with different cultural treatments -- 52 The density of Tarsonemida in cropped arable soil in relation to fertilizer and crop-protection treatments -- 53 Soil mites and acidification: a comparative study of four forest stands near Heidelberg -- 54 Reactions of mite populations to the influence of environmental chemicals in a beech-wood floor -- 55 Population studies on the house-dust mite. Euroglyphus maynei (Cooreman 1950) (Pyroglyphidae) -- 56 Management of mite development in the home -- 57 An indirect effect of cleaning on house-dust mites. (Dermatophagoides spp.) in carpets -- 58 Astigmatic and prostigmatic mites of grain stores, mills and sawmills in Finland -- Index to plant genera and species -- Index to animal genera and species -- Author index.

In addition to the Action Plan of the National Board of Fisheries, this summary is based on the document "Biological Diversity in Sweden. A Country Study" (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Monitor 14) and the report "Fiske och vattenbruk. Ekologiska effekter" (Naturvårdsverket, Rapport 4297). The catch statistics of the Action Plan have been updated to include the figures for1996. The Convention on Biological Diversity In June 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, a total of 153 states, together with the European Union, signed the Conventionon Biological Diversity. Since then, a number of states have signed or acceded the Convention, making it one of the most widely supported international agreements ever. The Convention came into force on 29 December 1993 and, with its broad approach, has the potential to play a coordinating and leading role in international nature conservation efforts. The objectives of the Biodiversity Convention are "the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of geneticresources". The last-mentioned of these aims concerns the relationship between countries providing genetic resources and those which use their technology and know-how to develop products from them. Terms of reference for the action plan In the autumn of 1993, the Swedish Government presented a bill intitled Strategy for Biological Diversity (Government Bill 1993/94:30). The bill was subsequently approvedby the Parliament and thus constitutes a political platform and strategy for the promotion of biodiversity in Sweden. This document sets out broad principles for the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of biological resources. In August 1994 the Board of Fisheries was commissioned by the Government to draw up a plan on the environmental aspects of fisheries. The work should be carried out on the basis of the objectives for the fishery and the environment approved by the Swedish Parliament. The plan should indicate measures aiming at a conservation of biological diversity and a sustainable use of the fish resources. An important basis for the work was the country study Biological Diversity in Sweden. The Board's work with the action plan should be coordinated with corresponding work carried out by the Swedish Environmental Agency. This agency was asked by the Government to undertake "an overall assessment of the sectorial action plans" of the Swedish Board of Agriculture, the National Board of Forestry, the national Board of Fisheries and the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning. The work with the action plan has been carried out by a Steering Group headed by Mr K.-E. Berntsson and with Mr I. Olsson (secretary) at the Board of Fisheries. Other members of the group were Mr B. Sjöstrand, Institute of Marine Research, Mr M. Appelberg, Institute of Freshwater Research and Mr J. Andersson, Institute of Coastal Research. ; This document is a summary of the main part of a report submitted to the Swedish Government in September 1995

WORLD FEDERATION FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS NEWSLETTER No. 26 (WFCC) July 1977 Code Number:NL97010 Sizes of Files: Text: 73.4K Graphics: No associated graphics files WFCC EXECUTIVE BOARD Officers and members WFCC COMMITTEES Committee on Biodiversity: Committee on Education and Capacity Building: Committee on Endangered Culture Collections: Committee on Patents: Committee on Postal, Quarantine and Safety Regulations: Committee on Publications and Publicity: Committee on World Data Centre for Microorganisms: WFCC REPORTS Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Board, August 28, 1996, Veldhoven, Netherlands Minute 1. Call to order. Minute 2. Record of attendance. Minute 3. Committees. The composition of the newly agreed upon committees - World Data Centre on Microorganisms Committee: - Postal, Quarantine and Safety Regulations Committee: - Endangered Collections Committee: - Patents Committee: Minute 4. Adjournment. Minute 5. Meeting reconvened on 29 August 1996 at 8:00 am. Minute 6. Committees - Biodiversity Committee: - Publications and Publicity Committee: - Education and Capacity Building Committee: Minute 7. Resolutions. Minute 8. General Business. - Skerman Prize. - Revision of Guidelines/Standards. - Statutes Revision. - WFCC Business Plan. - Technical Information Sheets (TIS). Minute 9. Future Meetings. Minute 10. Close of Meeting. WFCC EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING COMMITTEE (EBB) GOALS 1. Assessment of the needs for the establishment of new culture collections and of the training and capacity building needs of microbial culture collections on a global and regional basis. 2. Development and continued promotion of capacity building and education programmes for CCs on a global and regional basis, with the main emphasis being on taxonomy and electronic communication systems (at least e-mail, information about holdings on www). 3. Support of WDCM activities through collection and update of information on a regional basis. GENERAL OUTLINE Many of the activities of the EBB Committee will be carried out regionally. The initial effort of the members will be towards building an assessment on the needs for establishment of CCs, status of capacity building, education and training needs of the existing CCs in their area of representation. The proposal for regional development should be analysed in regional workshops, organised by EBB representatives of the region. Funds for doing the workshops should be sought on a regional basis and complemented with funds from international agencies. ACTION PLAN Activity 1. Assessment of CCs status and needs on a global and regional basis. An inventory of existing CCs in different regions of the world will be conducted, mainly using data obtained from WDCM, supplemented with regional contacts. Activity 2 - Support to WDCM activities Activity 3 - Proposal for Education and Capacity Building activities Activity 4. Strengthening existing activities of CCs MEMBERSHIP A core committee was agreed during ICCC8 in Veldhoven. The Policy for membership was to include 2 representatives from 6 geographical regions and to establish working links with the WFCC Biodiversity Committee The immediate action that will be taken by EBB is the distribution of a questionnaire, developed together with the Biodiversity Committee and WDCM, for the assessment of CC needs in training and education. The questionnaire will be added to the WFCC Newsletter, as well as to the ECCO Newsletter. Readers are kindly asked to help in circulating it to the CC people in their regions, hoping that with the assessment of the needs EBB will be more able to make the right steps and help to overcome deficiencies. WFCC ENDANGERED COLLECTIONS COMMITTEE GOALS 1. To act as first port of call for any collection (industrial/private/academic) which considers itself to be endangered. 2. To assess the requirements of the Endangered Collections and provide any supportive or lobbying assistance it can. 3. In the event of a culture collection being in imminent danger of being lost, to visit or by means of correspondence assess its sector of expertise and interest (i.e. industrial/medical/fungal/algal etc) and solicit possible alternative sites. 4. To seek a source funding for this exercise; or if a "pot" already exists to allocate appropriate funds for the task to be carried out. MEMBERSHIP NEW WFCC MEMBERS, NEW ADDRESSES AND OTHER CHANGES Relocation of the National Collection of Food Bacteria (NCFB) Address correction OBITUARIES ROWLAND HILL 1935-1996 In memoriam Professor Bela Lanyi (1927-1997) RETIREMENT Retirement of Dr. Ivan J. Bousfield FOCUS ON CULTURE COLLECTIONS Future prospects for the UK National Culture Collections For some considerable time now the UK Culture Collection network has existed as a loosely affiliated federal system comprising eleven separate specialist entities. These collections have been supported by eight sources of Government funding emanating from five Government departments and are all maintained on separate sites by nine different parent organisations. Also, in more recent years, continued funding for several of the collections has been a major worry. Consequently a review on the whole UK system of operating service collections has been long overdue. Co-ordinated Marketing Policy This will involve the development of a unified house style (UKNCC) and the production of advertising materials around three sectoral nodes - an industrial node at NCIMB, a medical node at ECACC/CAMR and an agricultural/mycological node at IMI. Co-ordinated Database Construction This will provide a single electronic contact point for the UKNCC allowing access to a range of information such as strain dam, culture availability, uses and applications, services and expertise available, as well as providing a central ordering point. This initiative is also aimed at updating and harmonising data storage and retrieval facilities at UKNCC member collections as well as providing the facility for combined/specialist hard copy catalogue production. The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP) The Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa functions as the national service collection for algae and protozoa in the UK, acting as a depository for strains of prokaryotic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), eukaryotic microalgae, small seaweeds and free-living non-pathogenic protozoa. Freshwater algae and all protozoa are maintained at the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Institute of Freshwater Ecology (IFE) Windermere Laboratory. Marine algae are kept at the NERC, Centre for Coastal and Marine Science (CCMS) Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (DML). NEWS FROM AND FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS Journal of Culture Collections New Settlement of the Spanish Type Culture Collection (CECT) Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections Established National Collection of Dairy Cultures (NCDC), Karnal, India News on Cuban Culture Collections NEW CATALOGUES AND DATABASES OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 208521776, USA. Filamentoas Fungi Reference Guide. The first edition of ATCC Quality Control and Reference Strains has been published. Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes Institut Pasteur. Fungi Culture Collection, Catalogue of Strains 1997, Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP) 1995 DSMZ Catalogue of Strains 1997. Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO). Catalogue of newly accepted strains. WORLD WIDE WEB International Course: Biochemical Engineering Applications in Environmental Biotechnology and Cleaner Production (Workshops and Roundtables), The List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature Bacterial Nomenclature Up to Date The Microbe Files RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST TO CULTURE COLLECTIONS NEW BOOKS RELEVANT TO CULTURE COLLECTION WORK EURACHEM Gives Guidance towards Accreditation EURACHEM has recently published a guide entitled "Accreditation for Laboratories Performing Microbiological Testing". WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING COURSES Details of events from September 8 1997 to December 5 1997 CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS Details of events from 4 September 1997 to 22 January 1998.