A fowl walk in the next morning launched the participants to the avian life of the dry dipterocarp forest with Burmese shrike and Red-breasted Parakeet as highlights. After a five hour bus experience the individuals came from the mega-city of Bangkok to the nearly pristine dry dipterocarp forests and dry evergreen forests of the Khorat plateau. After that, it was already time to leave this excellent place and to return by coach to Bangkok. Since the first ANeT Conference took place 20 years ago, Prof. em. After lunch and a some data on this place, the convention individuals had the chance to attend several occasions. Beside the plenary periods, this meeting had some very attention-grabbing supporting occasions. The ANeT committee assembly discussed about the placement of the ANeT convention in 2021. On the time of the writing of this report, the precise location was not decided but. One among their analysis assistants knew a location to observe these birds and was in a position to mimic the mating call of the male, By doing this, he was able to draw a minimum of 5 individuals of each sexes of this gorgeous chook species. ANeT 2019 additionally supplied two glorious area journeys: One the primary day, the convention participants had been invited to visit the brand new built Rama IX Museum.
After that, all conference participants were invited to join the Loy Kra Tong Festival on the campus of Kasetsart University. Greater than 83 members from no less than 17 international locations attended this conference which was held from eleventh to 15th November 2019 on the Faculty of Forestry at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. At this research station, the sphere trip individuals received a prime introduction to the forest ecosystems of central Thailand. The first half was a stroll by way of the forests where several ant genera typical for Thailand’s forest ecosystems were recorded: Aphaenogaster, Carebara or Pheidole. The highlight of this half was a presentation of Jan Kofahl on how to start a career with ants whereas not being a scientist, however finding out enterprise administration and turning into a CEO in a company advertising weaver ants each as natural pest control and protein useful resource. Researchers working in pest management offered various elements of ants dwelling in domestic environments trigger hygienic issues, particularly in tropical areas, what will be achieved to manage them and the way chemical pest control merchandise are tested before registration.
Invasive species are always a scorching topic on ANeT-meetings : many presentations handled their influence on native arthropod communities, interception of exotic ant species on markets and ports and novel ways to regulate them. This matter was additionally lined by other plenary talks, Dr. Dr. Mezger presented his research on the influence of climate change on the ant communities of two mountains of Borneo. Dr. Weeyawat Jaitrong offered a colony of Cladomyrma sirindhornae residing contained in the stems of a certain climbing plant. From nesting ecology of Polyrhachis ants in Thailand’s dry evergreen forests, the secret live of Rhopalomastix inside the tree bark, ants along an elevational gradient in New Guinea, DNA barcoding of ants from the Philipinnes to the outline of recent Platythyrea species: the 12th ANeT meeting lined a large array of various trending myrmecological matters. For the first time, the economic difficulty of ants was mentioned broadly at an ANeT convention. In any case, it’s alleged to be another exciting conference with many new impressions!
Thanks very a lot to Prof. Decha Wiwatwittaya and all others who assist with this glorious and inspiring convention with plenty of thrilling impressions and new connections! The excursion to the Sakaerat Environmental Research Station the final spotlight of this conference. Also the social program of this conference was very impressive: It began with the welcome get together at the primary evening with a traditional Thai Dance efficiency and an large fire show. He presented a novel technique to make use of Wasabi to fight the invasion of hearth ants in Japan. A life ant exhibition presented some colonies of cryptic leaf litter species like Strumigenys or Discothyrea. This tour included also a go to to the knowledge know-how museum and a behind the scenes tour to the ant collection of the pure history part of this museum advanced. This brand new museum is the largest world ecosystem museum in Southeast Asia. A presentation of Dr. Jochen Drescher was on the affect of oil palm plantations in Indonesia on the phylogenetic composition of ant communities and their practical ecology.