2nd Symposium and Workshop on the Conservation of Saproxylic Beetles in Ancient Trees
With Special Attention to Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus, Violet Click Beetle Limoniscus violaceus, Noble Chafer Gnorimus nobilis and Variable Chafer Gnorimus variabilis.
Royal Holloway, University of London, 25th- 27th June
Provisional Agenda
Day 1: 25/06/2002
Registration 12.00
13.30 Welcome
Roger Key, English Nature14.00 The status of saproxylic beetles in Britain
Matt Smith
- The biology and ecology of the Stag Beetle
Deborah Harvey
15.00 Conservation of Lucanus cervus in Spain: An amateurs perspective
Marcos Mendez15.30 Tea
16.00 The 1998 British National Stag Beetle Survey
Doug Napier16.30 Chemical ecology and conservation of the Stag Beetle
Jason Chapman
- The status of Lucanus cervus in Switzerland
Eva Sprecher
Dinner
9.30 The British saproxylic invertebrate fauna
Keith Alexander10.00 The Violet Click Beetle Limoniscus violaceus in Britain
Paul Whitehead
- Tea
11.00 Subcortical space as and environment for palaeoendemic and young groups of coleoptera, including examples from saproxylic beetles (Nitidulidae, Coleoptera)
Alexander Kirejtshuk
11.30 An ecological history of woodland habitat in the New Forest and its impact on the forests present day assemblage of saproxylic insects
Jonathan Spencer
12.00 Lunch
13.00 TRIP TO NEW FOREST
Led by Jonathan Spencer
7.00 Banquet Dinner
Day 3 27/06/2002
9.30 Saproxylic Latvia The situation, species diversity and possibilities
Dmitry Telnov
- The Noble Chafer Gnorimus nobilis in Britain
Paul Whitehead10.30 The occurrence and conservation status of Limoniscus violaceus and Ampedus quadrisignatus in central Slovakia
Peter Zach11.00 Tea
11.30 Population ecology and the conservation of saproxylic beetles living in hollow oaks in Sweden
Thomas Ranius
- Exploring of bocages in the west of France for the conservation of saproxylic beetles (Osmoderma eremitum, Gnorimus variabilis, Cerambyx cerdo, Lucanus cervus).
Vincent Vignon12.30 Subcortical space as and environment for palaeoendemic and young groups of coleoptera, including examples from saproxylic beetles (Nitidulidae, Coleoptera)
Alexander Kirejtshuk
12.30 Lunch
14.00 TRIP TO WINDSOR GREAT PARK
Led by Ted Green
DISPERSE
Stag Beetles in British gardens Aspects of this remarkable ecological niche and appropriate conservation strategy
Maria Fremlin
Use of GPS in mapping ancient trees
John P Smith
British species of saprosites (Scarabaeidae/Aphodiidae)
Robert Angus
Some of the highlights on saproxylic beetles preservation in Navarra (North Spain) i) as a region and ii) as due to its border position between Eurosiberian and Mediterranean region
Inaki Recalde
Lucanus cervus in Bromley, UK
Alister Hayes, Bromley Borough Council
Gnorimus nobilis, Gnorimus variablis and Lucanus cervus in Sweden
Thomas Ranius and Niklas Jansson
Protected saproxylic Scarabaeidae in the Baltic States: Osmoderma eremita, Gnorimus nobilis, G. variabilis
Salmane I, Telnov D