From aceska@cue.bc.caThu Jan 5 12:24:48 1995 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 06:14:41 -0800 From: Adolf Ceska To: ben@cue.bc.ca Subject: BEN # 87 BBBBB EEEEEE NN N ISSN 1188-603X BB B EE NNN N BBBBB EEEEE NN N N BOTANICAL BB B EE NN NN ELECTRONIC BBBBB EEEEEE NN N NEWS No. 87 January 5, 1995 aceska@freenet.victoria.bc.ca Victoria, B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr. A. Ceska, P.O.Box 8546, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3S2 ----------------------------------------------------------- AQUATIC PLANT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (APIRS) From: Vic Ramey [For BEN, and thanks very much for thinking of us:] For almost 15 years, the Center for Aquatic Plants (IFAS, University of Florida) has been building a computerized library and database about freshwater aquatic plants: the Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System (APIRS). The APIRS database con- tains more than 40,000 articles and reports from hundreds of journals and research institutions around the world. APIRS can be searched by topics, species, authors, keywords, and any combinations thereof. Use of APIRS is free of charge to anyone, in exchange for contributions of articles, reports and other items to the database. As of now the APIRS database is not on-line. We are working toward that end and expect to make an announcement within the year. APIRS also produces the newsletter AQUAPHYTE, a semi-technical 16-pager which informs of meetings, research projects and other topics of interest to more than 5,000 researchers, institutions and government personnel in more than 80 countries. It is free of charge for the asking. In addition, the APIRS office produces various products having to do with aquatic plants including a full-color 2' X 3' poster and copyright-free line drawings for educational and research purposes. APIRS also maintains an educational videotape production unit. We have produced about 30 programs on various aspects of aquatic ecosystem functioning and management. Some videos are more for aquatics manager training, and some are more for public educa- tion purposes (such as lakeside homeowners associations). Among the videos are seven tapes which comprise the aquatic plant identification series. In ordinary (non-botanical) lan- guage, 115 plants are treated in 2-minute identification seg- ments. These, and all of our videotape programs, are available for sale or for borrowing. For more information about APIRS, the database, newsletter, drawings and videotapes, contact Victor Ramey or Karen Brown at: Information Office, Center for Aquatic Plants, University of Florida, 7922 NW 71 ST, Gainesville, FL 32653. Voice: 904/392- 1799 Fax: 904/392-3462 E-mail: varamey@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu PACIFIC MADRONE (ARBUTUS MENZIESII) SYMPOSIUM - CALL FOR PAPERS From: Paul West via bionet.plants Unravelling the Mystery of Pacific Madrone Why is pacific madrone declining around Seattle? Can it be resurrected in the urban landscape? A day-long symposium en- titled "The Decline of Pacific Madrone: current theories and research directions" will be held Friday, April 28th, 1995 at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture. The Symposium is intended to galvanize new research on the topic of madrones (Arbutus menziesii). Topics to be addressed include: natural ecology, pathology, soil and hydrologic factors, landscape performance, and propagation. For more information, contact Paul West at the Seattle Depart- ment of Parks and Recreation at phone 206-684- 4122, fax 206- 684-4126, or e-mail pwest@eskimo.com. Valerie Cholvin of Save Magnolia's Madrones can be contacted at 206-283-8643 or vpchol@aol.com. Those interested in presenting a topic with a paper for publica- tion in symposium proceedings should contact Dr. Clem Hamilton at the Center for Urban Horticulture at 206-543-8616, fax 206- 685-2692, or e-mail cwh@u.washington.edu by March 15, 1995. CHEMICAL ECOLOGY DISCUSSION LIST From: Clecio Fernando Klitzke via ECOLOG-L To attend people interested in CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, we created CHEMECOL, a discussion list in this area. To subscribe this list send a mail to listserv@iqm.unicamp.br with the message: subscribe chemecol your name After this any mail to CHEMECOL list should be sent to chemecol@iqm.unicamp.br Thanks, Clecio Fernando Klitzke chemecol list owner clecio@iqm.unicamp.br KOELTZ SCIENTIFIC BOOKS ON INTERNET From: "Pamela E. Burns-Balogh" Koeltz Scientific Books is now on the internet telnet to prairienet.org sign in as "visitor" (no apostrophes) at command prompt type "go koeltz" (no apostrophes)