BES Annual Meeting
5 - 7 September 2005
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
 The Annual Meeting will run over three days from the morning of Monday 5 September to the afternoon of Wednesday 7 September 2005.
The meeting will start on Monday at 09:00 with the Tansley Lecture, given by Prof Peter Vitousek, Stanford University, USA.
Read the full programme online.
Read the Joining Instructions here.
Read the BES and Tansley Lectures here.
View the special events and Specialist Group meetings on the afternoon of Tuesday 6 September here.
THE BOOKING DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED.
The Annual Meeting is preceeded by the BES Special Symposium 'Body size and the organisation and function of aquatic ecosystems' 2-4 September at the same venue. The Annual Meeting incorporates the Freshwater Biology Association Annual Scientific Meeting in Thematic Topic 6.
The Society is planning an exciting programme. As well as the usual sessions there will be thematic topics on marine conservation, freshwater biodiversity, fungal ecology, diversity and conservation in the tropics, agri-environment schemes and individual-based modelling, all with invited keynote speakers. We have invited some major ecologists to give the BES and the Tansley Lectures. Building on the success of last year we will developing an interesting programme for the Tuesday afternoon and are organising a range of events for everyone to get directly involved in, including Special Interest Group meetings.
AWARDS CEREMONY AND AGM
The Awards Ceremony and AGM will be held together at 11:40 on Tuesday 6 September in the Auditorium. Members attending the event are invited to a drinks reception immediately afterwards. The Awards Ceremony will comprise the award of Honorary Membership, the BES Award, the Marsh Award for Ecology, the Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award, the Founders' Prize, the President's Medal and the Young Author prizes for the Society's Journals. This year we are delighted that Alastair Fitter will give a short talk at the end of the meeting as a 'swansong' to his time as president of the Society.
SOCIAL EVENTS
There are lots of opportunities for delegates to get together at this year's meeting with a range of events to suit all tastes.
Welcome Mixer
20:00 - 21:30, Sunday 4 September, Refectory Bar
After the success of our welcome mixer last year we are repeating the event. There is a free drink for all those who booked this free event in advance. Drink vouchers will be given out at the Registration Desk and there will also be a cash bar.
Pub Quiz
21:30 - 23.00, Monday 5 September, Refectory Bar
If you think you know much about the natural world come along to the pub quiz. Blackwell Publishing have kindly donated the winning team prize of £100 of book vouchers so come and join in if you think you are up to the challenge. We will make up teams on the night so you can take part even if you're on your own.
Drinks Reception for BES Members
After the Awards Ceremony and AGM prior to lunch Tuesday 6 September, the Atrium
All members attending the Awards Ceremony and AGM are invited to a drinks reception immediately afterwards.
Wine and Poster Reception
18:00 – 19:00 Tuesday 6 September, the Atrium
Thematic Topics
The Thematic Topics aim to provide a forum for the discussion of timely and/or important questions, to provide a local 'flavour' within the programme and to encourage integration between disciplines. The topics are listed with the session co-ordinators. Each session will commence with an invited 40 minute presentation; the speakers have been nominated by the session co-ordinator. Co-ordinators are expected to encourage others to submit papers for the session, but participants are also free to submit unsolicited abstracts for the sessions in the usual way. Interested parties are at liberty to contact the Topic co-ordinators beforehand, should they wish to ascertain the suitability of their presentation for the session.
Abstract submission is now CLOSED. The deadline for submission of abstracts was 6 June 2005. The deadline for Annual Meeting booking registration has been extended to 10 AUGUST 2005.
TT1. Cancelled.
TT2. Do agri-environment schemes work?
Organiser: James Bullock
TT3. Individual-based Modeling and Ecology: Linking Individual Behaviour and Patterns in Ecological Systems
Organizers: Volker Grimm, UFZ Leipzig-Halle, Germany and Uta Berger, ZMT Bremen, Germany
Key speaker: Donald L. DeAngelis, University of Miami, USA (Title: Individual-Based Modelling and Fundamental Questions of Theoretical Ecology)
Individual-based models (IBMs) are an important tool for understanding how the structure and dynamics of populations and ecosystems emerge from the traits of individuals. The session will give an overview of work to date on the problem of linking individual traits to system-level patterns and why we anticipate rapid future progress. The session is open to all speakers who would like to present cases in which IBMs have been used to address complex ecological problems both from theory and application and both from animal and plant ecology.
TT4. Interactions between Fungi and Invertebrates
Organiser: Lynne Boddy, TD Rotheray and GM Tordoff
Invertebrates interact with fungi in a multitude of situations, and these interactions can have important effects on ecosystem processes. For example, fungal grazing by collembola and oribatid mites can increase the rate of organic matter decomposition and hence affect soil fertility. Invertebrate-fungal interactions can also have agricultural consequences, such as influencing the abundance of phytopathogenic fungi in comparison to beneficial fungi such as mycorrhizas. In this session different aspects of fungal-invertebrate interactions, and their environmental and economic consequences, will be reported.
TT5. Marine Ecology and Policy
Organisers : BES Public and Policy Committee and BES Science Policy Manager Nick Dusic
There is a high probability that the UK Government will introduce a Marine Bill in the next Parliament. This thematic session will look at scientific research in order to inform the development of a future Marine Bill. Specific issues that will be covered include: marine protected areas, no-catch zones, assessing multiple impacts on the marine environment and monitoring.
TT6. Freshwater diversity: ecosystem function, invasive species and conservation
Organisers: Ronnie Edmonds-Brown, in Association with the Freshwater Biological Association
Keynote speaker : Mark Gessner (Title: Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning.)
TT7. Conservation of UK Overseas Territories
Organiser: Colin Clubbe
The 16 UK Overseas Territories collectively support a much greater diversity of species and many more endemic species across all taxa than mainland UK and also support a huge range of ecosystem types from extensive coral reef systems through tropical forests (moist and dry) to savannah grasslands and tundra. The UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum, of which the BES is a constituent member, exists to promote biodiversity conservation in the UK's Overseas Territories and comprises biodiversity institutions on mainland UK and in-Territory. Many opportunities exist for ecological research, conservation science and capacity building and this Session showcases some of the work currently being undertaken by Forum members.
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