Programme



Thursday 17th December

 

1:30-2:00         Arrival & registration

 

2:00 - 2:20      J. Römbke, J-P. Lumaret, A. Scheffczyk, & N. Adler

                       Standardised tests for antiparaciticide environmental safety evaluation

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2:20-2:40         Olwen Williams. 

                         Do cattle wormers have a long-term impact on non-target insect fauna?

 

2:40-3:00         S.L. Martin, P. Wilson, N.M.J. Crout & H.M. West,

                         Monitoring farm and regional scale effects of anthelmintics and endectocides

 

3:00-3:30         Coffee

 

3:30- 3:50        S.A. Beynon

                         Alternative approaches to parasite control: are they less environmentally harmful?

 

3:50-4:10         R. Jochmann  & W.U. Blanckenhorn

                        The effect of ivermectin on the cattle dung insect community under              

                        different environmental conditions

4:10-4:30         Richard Wall & Colin Lee

                         Aggregation in insect communities colonizing cattle-dung

 


4:30-5:00         Short talks and general discussion

                         N. Donovan, Earthworm microhabitats - projections of the drilosphere?

                         Julia Desch

 

Dinner at local restaurant (not included in registration fee)

 

 

Friday 18th December

 

9:00-9:20       Greig, J.W., Hirsch, P.R. & West, H.M.

                       Is immunity of Scathophaga stercoraria enhanced by use of veterinary     

                       pharmaceuticals?

 

9:20-9:40       Lloyd, C.E.M., Michaelides, K., Evershed, R.P., Chadwick, D. and Dungait, J.A.J.

                      Using organic biomarkers to investigate the interactions between cow slurry and

                      soil hydrological and erosion processes.

 

9:40-10:10     Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Maria J. I. Briones, Liz Dixon, Neil Donovan, Roland Bol, and

                       Richard P. Evershed

                       Earthworms and their environment: functional processes.

 

10:10-10:30   Luke Dickson, Richard P. Evershed & Richard Wall

                      Predatory activity of the "noon fly"  Mesembrina meridiana

 

Coffee

 

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