Urban butterflies
Our colleague Dr. Dong Hui at Fairy Lake
Botanical Garden, Shenzhen has produced a beautiful book on butterflies. It is a great
achievement for her, and features some notes on our Butterfly Count Day held
in Peninsular Malaysia in 2015.
More urban butterflies
Together with Dr. Dong Hui, we will be
holding a symposium at the XIX International
Botanical Congress in Shenzhen in July 2017. Our symposium under the theme
Biodiversity, Resources and Conservation is T1-07: Urban parks: effects of management
and planting schemes on insect diversity. The symposium now has presenters
from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and Mexico, so there
should be good chance for exchange of ideas and collaborations in this area of
urban insect diversity.
More papers submitted
Myself and colleagues have been rushing to
submit our papers before the Chinese New Year vacation.
New year advice
This blogpost
has some good advice for starting the new year.