16 <p> Daniel Janzen, an internationally known expert in tropical ecology, biodiversity, and conservation, will be the keynote speaker at the Ecology Group's Sixth Annual Ecology Symposium Oct. 5-6 at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Auditorium. </p> <p> Janzen, distinguished professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, opens the event at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, with a free public lecture, "Costa Rica's Area de Conservacion Guanacaste: A Long March to Survival Through Non-Damaging Biodiversity Development." He will address the significance of biodiversity, the difficulty of managing conserved wildlands, and human impacts on wildlife in this area. </p> <p> On Friday, Oct. 6, six UW-Madison professors will outline their ecological research in brief presentations, 1-3 p.m. Friday's program also is free and open to the public: </p> <ul> <li>Eric Kruger, Forest Ecology &amp; Management, "How Will Wisconsin's Forests Respond to Anticipated Changes in Atmospheric Chemistry?" </li> <li>Lisa Naughton, Geography, "Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon." </li> <li>Paul Berry, Botany, "Interpreting Diversity in Neotropical Lowland Forests."<br /> -- Warren Porter, Zoology, "Physiology on a Landscape Scale." </li> <li>Christine Ribic, Wildlife Ecology, "Life's a Beach: The Dynamics of Adelie Penguin Colonies in the Antarctic." </li> <li>Kenneth Raffa, Entomology, "Chemical Signaling Among Trees, Insect Herbivores, and Predators: Landscape-Level Consequences and Management Implications." </li> </ul>Janzen will close the symposium with a second lecture, "Host Specificity of Costa Rican Caterpillars and Their Parasites," beginning at 3:30 p.m. For more information, contact Emily Steel, (608) 265-6712; <a href="mailto:ecsteel@students.wisc.edu">ecsteel@students.wisc.edu</a> Daniel Janzen, an internationally known expert in tropical ecology, biodiversity, and conservation, will be the keynote speaker at the Ecology Group's Sixth Annual Ecology Symposium Oct. 5-6 at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Auditorium. Symposium to showcase ecology research 5332 2000-10-07T00:00:00-05:00 2000-09-25T00:00:00-05:00 5332 true tksincla@facstaff.wisc.edu Tom 16 Sinclair 7517 false