Recently the drastic increase and expansion of the global exchange of people and materials has caused a growing influx of alien species, such as plants, animals, and microbes. This is now a serious threat for world people, as invasive alien organism can seriously affect agricultural products and ecosystems.
Controlling invasive alien species has become an urgent challenge all over the world. In order to establish ways to prevent their invasion and spread, and to minimize the economic and environmental damages caused by invasive alien species, it is very important to share up-to-date information with neighboring countries, and to accelerate data-inputting into APASD, Asian-Pacific Alien Species Database.
So we will open International Symposium for Invasive Alien Species in Monsoon Asia: Status and Control, under the Monsoon Asia Agro-Environmental Research Consortium (MARCO): toward International Research Collaboration
Date: October 22 – 23, 2007
Venue: Conference Room 102, Epochal Tsukuba, Japan
Registration: Oct. 22 9:00 –
For further information, please contact:
Kazuo Hirai
Director of Biodiversity Research Division
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES)
3-1-3, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
Tel: +81-298-38-8251 Fax: +81-298-38-8251
E-mail: sec@marco-ias-sympo.com
PROGRAM
October 22 (Monday)
chair by Hirai
9:30 Opening Address
NIAES President, Dr. Yohei Sato
9:40 Biology and ecology of invasive species
Prof. John Silander, Connecticut Univ. USA
chair by Fujii
10:30 Invasive plants in Malaysia
Prof. Baki Hj Bakar, Univ. of Malaya, Malaysia
11:10 Invasive alien species in China
Dr. Sheng Qiang, Nanjing Agric. Univ., China
11:50 Break, Poster session
chair by Nishida
13:15 Recent researches on invasive alien plants
Dr. Yoshiharu Fujii, NIAES, Japan
13:45 Researches on alien plants in Tropical Asia
Dr. Siriporn Zungsontiporn DOA, Thailand
chair by Ikeda
14:25 Rural Landscape Information System
Dr. Yoshinobu Kusumoto, NIAES, Japan
14:55 Invasive plants in UK
Prof. Owen Smith, Univ. of Plymouth, UK
15:35 Questions and Answers
chair by Konuma, Horita, and Mochizuki
15:50 – 18:00 Poster session, Workshop for APASD, with Mixer
October 23 (Tuesday)
chair by Tanaka
9:00 Invasive insects in Japan — their current status and the risk assessment —
Dr. Atsushi Mochizuki, NIAES, Japan
9:30 Ecological aspects of biological invasion in agriculture and forest
Prof. Run Jie Zhang, Zhongshan Univ., China
10:10 Occurrence of Opogona sacchari in Japan
Dr. Shin-ichi Yoshimatsu, NIAES, Japan
10:40 Break, Poster session
chair by Yamamoto
11:00 Utilization of native predatory fly, Coenosia exigua (Diptera: Muscidae), for biocontrol of Liriomyza huidobrensis
Dr. Amporn Winotai, DOA, Thailand
11:40 Biological control: An ecological approach to manage invasive pest insects
Dr. Takatoshi Ueno, Kyushu Univ., Japan
12:20 Break, Poster session
chair by Mochizuki
13:30 Invasive alien species in Vietnam
Dr. Dang. Thi Dung, Hanoi Agric. Univ., Vietnam
14:10 Recent invasion of the coconut hispine beetle in the SA
Dr. S. Nakamura, JIRCAS, Japan
14:40 What is the situation now with the invading fire ants in Taiwan?
Dr. Ker-Chung Kuo, BAPHIQ, Taiwan
15:20 Break, Poster session
chair by Hirai
15:40 Expansion of the invasive freshwater mussel, Limnoperna fortunei (Mytilidae) in Japan
Dr. Kenji Ito, NIAES, Japan
16:10 Pomacea canaliculata and Rice Black Bug in the SE Asia
Dr. R. C. Joshi, Philrice Philippines
16:50 General Remarks: Research network for IAS in Monsoon Asia
Dr. Kazuo Hirai, NIAES, Japan
Dr. Tetsukazu Yahara, Kyushu Univ., Japan
Dr. Takashi Wada, Kyushu/Okinawa Agric. Res. Center, Japan
17:30 Closing address
NIAES Vice President, Dr. Masako Ueji