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CHIRONOMUS Is Re-Established and Tll 11111 Lsl Ol'a1)T of Temperate Lake Macroinvertebrate Com- +.-L H------D NEWSLETTER OF CHIRONOMID RESEARCH Editor: Ulrike Nolte Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Production editor: Richard K. Johnson University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden ,surer: Trond AI fersity of Bergen, P ISSN 0172-1941 No. 9 April, 1996 Nordic Benthological Meeting 1995 by a number of invited speakers: John by R.K. Johnson Wright (Institute of Freshwater Ecology) presented a paper on the development and On May 15 and 16 the Department of use of RIVPACS in the UK, Giinter Friedrich Icnvironmental Assessment at the University (Landesumweltamt Nordrhein-Westfalen) of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden lectured on the use of the Saprobien index organised the first Nordic Benthological and new approaches for ecological assess- Meeting. Registration was on Sunday, May ment of rivers in Germany, and Steven 14, followed by an informal get together. I Omnerod (University of Wales) spoke of could not help comparing and reflecting on challenges to the use of benthic organisms noticeable contrast between the informal in surveillance and monitoring. In the after- get together held in Uppsala and the noon, lake biodiversity session, Peter Dall barbecue following registration at the last Chironomidae meeting in Canberra. We had planned to have beer and sandwiches in the garden behind the institute. Un- fortunately, we were not able to plan the weather - the middle of May is usually quite predictable, nice weather - on Sunday we were confronted with winds of storm class and lots of snow!! However, in spite of the poor weather, some 95 participants, from 11 countries - I thought there were only 5 Nordic countries? - showed up for the meeting. The theme of this meeting was "The use of macroinvertebrates jn sur- veillance and monitoring of aquatic bio- diversity". In the stream session, Bjorn Soderback (Dept. of Environmental Assess- ment) opened the meeting with a short, historical review of the use of macroinver- tebrates as ecological indicators of aquatic habitat integrity. This lecture was followed This issue was produced with the support of the Entomological Division of the CSIRO, to which I am verv" mateful. In particular the communication systems CSIRO made available to the newsletter, made it possible to me to accomplish the editorial work, despite having been on the move from Brazil to Australia via Germany. I thank especially Dr Peter (University of Copenhagen) spoke about Cranston who looked after improving English texts of non-native writers on many factors affecting the cornposition of littoral, occasions, and kept cool when CHIRONOM17,q 111-1 t,tc.rs .,~us~dc~ongestion in his c-m-~il surf-zone communities, Goran Milbrink server. I would like to thank also Dr Ebbe Nic~lsen,I'rol:r 1111 I, ~n~l~~r.ol'"N;~t~~r;~l l< lscs~~~.c~cls (Uppsala University) gave a lecture on the \-c.,Y.-*~- --a use of oligochaete communities in pollution and Biodiversity", for his generous hospital I ty. :-&!F biology, and I finished off the day (trying l1. my best not to put too many to sleep) with This time, my editor job was also ensit3r t Ii~itiit1 1111. I)r cl, b1d;- contributions were carefully prepared and su t)rliit.lotl wcbl l i II ti a lecture on how spatio-temporal variability that CHIRONOMUS is re-established and tll 11 111 lsl ol'A1)t of temperate lake macroinvertebrate com- +.-l h---- ---d. mind of chironomid workers. I munities affects the detection of impact, effect size and statistical power. Positive developments might even Increase 1)y the: thfit ths nowrte1,Ler LIOW k~n~ari On Monday evening, the conference banquet Council of Ministers; "Methods for biolo- ISSN number 0172-1941. Strictly spealung, ('FTIJ2CXVOMUS 51ud t,hia irrtsr.nt~tiond consisted of a lake cruise and dinner aboard gical monitoring of streams in the Nordic register since 1979 (when edited by E. J. Fittk;~t~,l', Rei~~l 1Pt sf. K, E;~rhl$bt~t),b~rt it v:\aiJled Kung Car1 Gustaf. We even managed to countries based on macroinvertebrates". somehow in the time when publicatton ceasclcl 'I'hnnk~tcl inqw.iriee mnds liy DI*CHwin see the sun between snow and hale storms! Finally, the last session of the meeting Hoffrichter, the ISSN emerged from the li1t.s an3 klbf+ %@an confillmecl la L& vu'lid by the After the cruise, a number of conference consisted of a discussion of the need for a proper authority. participants wandered over to a nearby Nordic Benthological Society. Concluding Irish pub - topping-off the first days activi- that there was a need for a such a society; For the present we shall stay with publisti~tigthe ~newr)ettbrin 118 trdditiun~r'lfor.nn once a ties with a Guinness is a highly recommen- to facilitate the exchange of information year. However, it would be as well if thi~lgsliko cor~,bscLadclrameo, pubfication Ilsts, etc. ded way of relaxing and shaking-off the and provide focus and continuity in our were updated more frequently. Thus, I wo~lldlika I;(, tk~wy6'ur ~~tl;~n&ibrr.to the ctilronomid "chills" of the Uppsala spring. environmental work both within and among homepage on the world wide web, which ha8 been csttnb'lishrd nnd in mtiintairletl by Dr Luc The second day of the meeting consisted the Nordic countries and within the European Int Panis since 1995: http://www.uia.ac.b~/r,dintpkl rzinlladw.ht.ai1. of' speakers from the five Nordic countries community, the participants agreed that presenting examples on the use of macro- the first board of officers should consist of: Last but not least, I want yo~ito noCicc, i,l~iitlhe I~~~TOLSYoFL~u CI=IBC)NOMZJS' editorial invertebrates in Nordic monitoring and sur- Torgny Wiederholm as president, Claus office remains at the Entomologic.i~lr)iviuitrtl of' th@CSJR0 In C:an'bst.ra ~11lt:il I have a veillance programs. During the morning Lindegaard as treasurer, and Kaare Aagaard permanent address again. coffeeltea break there was a 2h poster as secretary. The meeting was adjourned, session. Poster contributions were highly and we hope to meet again in two years diverse, covering virtually all aspects of with members from the Danish National benthic communities. After lunch, Torben Environmental Research Institute in Silkeborg Moth Iversen (Danish National Environ- acting as our hosts. mental Research Institute) presented the results of a project funded by the Nordic Richard K. Johnson Ur Lllrik~:Nolte 40 Dr Pstor. S. Crvnston Biviuiorl of Ei~I.orr!c!logy,CS1 R0 l! C). Uox '1.700 Our bank has changed loc;ilii:ics. C;~r,l:~t:l.r.;~,AC'I' 260'1, A,US'I'I1AI,IA The new address is: s-mc~il:pute~.crQent..o.csiro.au Union Bank, P. 0. Box 653 I:.:ix: +fi:l fi 246 4000 N-5001 Bergen, Norway Account No. remains: 8225.40.82518 Deadline for the next CHlRONOMUS is the 1st of April 1997 Shuisky V.F. & Evdokimov 1.1 Quanti- For more details on the proceedings please contact: Dr. Tatiana D. Zinchenko, Institute of tative estimation ofmulti-factofial limitation Ecology of the Volga River Basin, R A S, 10 of macrobenthic communities. [135-1411 Komzinastr., Togliatti, 445003 Russia. e-mail: Shuisky V.F. Choice of adequate parame- [email protected]; fax: ++B 846 9489504 ters to assess the influence of primary pro- duction on the production rate of chiro- Nikolay Shobanov 'I'hr 10th ltitssiiln Symposium on Chirot~omida~o nomid pseudo-populations. [142-1481 Institute of the Biologyof Inland Waters Borok, Nekouz rayon, Yaroslavl region Zinchenko T.D. & Alexevnina M.S. 152742 (Russia) wt1.q 'Ilc'ltl in fiaoni the 10th to 13th of October 1995 at the Institute of Biology of Inland Changes of the chironomid fauna in the W,II(TS01' the! IZussian Academy of Sciences at Borok, Yaroslavl region. The meeting was lower Volga delta and Caspian Sea in con- lot, exactly c~mowded.Unfortunately, due to the financial problems of many of the scientific nection with sea level rise. [149-1601 institutions of the former republics of the USSR, not all colleagues who wished to give a Shcherbina G.K. Community composition It~cturecould participate in the meeting. Nine guests from Russia and two from Germany and role of chironomids in the macrobenthos came to Borok. Altogether 19 lectures by researchers from Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan of experimental mesocosmos at varying and Bulgaria were presented in five sessions. The last day of the symposium was devoted densities of Dreissena polymorpha and young to discussions on organisational questions of the Russian Association of Chironomid- fish. [l6l-1741 ologists, and the joint projects on "The Chironomus species of the plumosus group" and "The genus Glyptotendipes". The proceedings will be published as a monograph in May 1996 (in Russian): Ecology, Evolution and Systematics of Chironomids (Proceedings of the 10th Russian Symposium on Chironomidae). Contents [pages]: IN MEMORY OF Prof. Dr. N. Yu. Sokolova [3-51 (see page 26 of this issue) Balbani Ring Workshop in Cdrdoba Altogether 33 papers were presented in --.1. Taxonomy and svstematics Polukonova N.V., I3elyilnina 8.1. & six sessions as follows [number of presen- Dournova N.A. DifTerer.cwl,icil dingg1osis of the The readers of CHIRONOMUS know about tations]: Uyinska.yaN.B. & Petrova N.A. Regularities homosequential species C'ltir.o~tx)nt,uspiger the periodic international symposia on Chiro- in inversion variability in the centre and on Strenzke and C. ripnrius Mcig(hr1. [ 105-1111 nomidae, but not all might be aware of ano- Balbani rings: genes and products [71 borders of the Chironomus plumosus area. Belyanina S.I. & Polukonova N.V. Similari- her series of regular meetings: the Balbani Chromosome structure, centromeres and [6-151 ties and distinctions br!twocrl Chir.onomus Ring Workshops.
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