Thematic symposia (6)
The worldwide demand for strategies to control molluscs as pests in horticulture, agriculture and aquaculture necessitates an integrated approach amalgamating knowledge from the ecology and biology of molluscs, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and also from economy. The symposium "Molluscs and pest control" shall, therefore, cover a wide field of research activities including those related to refinements of existing methods to control molluscs, studies on new regulation methods and strategies, work on techniques to detect effects and side-effects of molluscicide agents, and studies on distinct responses of molluscs to (potential) molluscicides at different biological levels (e.g. behaviour, physiological, cellular or molecular reactions) by which distinct modes of action can be elucidated. Also contributions on fundamental research in biology of molluscs aimed at finding new, and possibly more specific instruments for pest control are welcome.
Contact:
Dr. Rita Triebskorn, Steinbeis-Transferzentrum für Ökotoxikologie und Ökophysiologie, Blumenstrasse 13, D-72108 Rottenburg, Germany
Dr. Bill Bailey, Faculty of Life Sciences, 3.614 Stopford Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
