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20ème année
n° 29
Année 2001
Bulletin de liaison
de la
Société internationale
de
BIOSPÉOLOGIE
N° ISSN :
MOULIS 09200
Société internationale de Biospéologie
Chers Sociétaires,
Dear Members,
Vous êtes nombreux à vous étonner de ne pas avoir de
nouvelles de la Société depuis 2 ans. Voici quelques explications.
Many of you wonder why they had no news of the Society during the last 2 years. Here are some explanations.
Lors de l’Assemblée générale de septembre 1999 à Makarska, en Croatie, la Société est devenue “internationale” : elle
compte 32 nationalités. Le nouveau bureau a élu Bernard LEBRETON secrétaire. Celui-ci a réalisé en trois mois un énorme travail
visible sur le site internet : http : // members aol. com / socdebiop
De plus il a publié -toujours sur le réseau- le Bulletin de liaison de la
Société de Biospéologie N° 28 (aujourd’hui il y a disparu, ce qui
prouve la supériorité du papier…).
During the General assembly of September, 1999 in Makarska, in Croatia, the Society became "international": it counts 32
nationalities. The new board elected Bernard LEBRETON secretary. This one realized in three months an enormous work (to be seen
on the Internet site: http: // members aol. com / socdebiop) furthermore he published - always on the network- the Bulletin de
liaison de la Société internationale de Biospéologie N ° 28 (today it
has disappeared there, what proves the superiority of the paper.).
Regrettably in 2000 the secretary did not find any
more the time to assure its responsibility. During the meeting of
the board of December, 2000 I had to supply this colleague. In
the material impossibility to resume the publishing of the Bulletin
which I created in 1981 and realized from the writing to the
stamping of envelopes during several years, I sent 4 electronic "
Newsletter ". That is why all the members devoid of electronic addresses did not receive news of Cluj ( Rumania ), and of Intervalès
( Brazil)meetings.
Malheureusement en 2000 le secrétaire ne trouva plus le
temps d’assurer sa charge. Lors de la réunion du Conseil de décembre 2000 je dus suppléer ce collègue. Dans l’impossibilité matérielle
de reprendre l’édition du Bulletin que j’ai créé en 1981 et réalisé
depuis l’écriture jusqu’au timbrage des enveloppes pendant plusieurs années, j’ai envoyé 4 “Newsletter” électroniques. C’est pourquoi tous les membres dépourvus d’adresses électroniques n’ont
pas reçu de nouvelles de la réunion de Cluj (Roumanie), de celle d’Intervalès (Brésil).
Aujourd’hui vous recevez ces quatre lettres réunies en
un Bulletin de liaison de la Société internationale de Biospéologie
n°29 . Vous y trouverez les comptes rendus des Assemblées générales, le nom des nouveaux sociétaires, les adresses électroniques,
un article de M. TERCAFS, et l’annonce de la réunion de Vérone en
septembre 2002.
Today you receive these four letters gathered in a Bulletin de liaison de la Société internationale de Biospéologie n°29 .
You will find there the reports of General assemblies, the name of
the new members, the electronic addresses, Mr . TERCAFS's article, and the announcement of Vérone's meeting in September,
2002.
Si vous ne possédez pas d’ordinateur vous-même, n’hésitez pas à nous donner l’adresse d’un de vos proches pour recevoir
les futures Newsletter : rassurez ce proche, il ne sera pas submergé par le courrier, d’autant qu’avec la naissance du nouveau site de
la Société www.SIBIOS.org toutes les informations s’afficheront
à cet endroit.
If you do not possess a computer yourself, do not hesitate to give us the address of one of your close relations to receive the upcoming Newsletters : reassure this close, he will not be
submerged by the mail, especially since with the birth of the new
site of the Society www.SIBIOS.ORG : all the information will be
displayed in this place.
Le Président Messana a tenu à impliquer les sociétaires
dans la vie de notre société en demandant à tous de lire et de publier dans les Mémoires : c’est pourquoi la cotisation inclut maintenant l’abonnement à la revue (résolution discutée à Makarska, Cluj,
votée à Intervalès). N’hésitez pas à nous (J. Gibert, trésorier, ou
M.-J. Turquin, secrétaire) informer de vos problèmes financiers si
vous trouvez l’augmentation insupportable pour votre budget.
The President Messana was anxious to involve the members in the life of our Society by asking all to read and to publish
in the Memoires: that is why subscription includes now subscription to the review (resolution discussed in Makarska, Cluj, voted in
Intervalès). Do not hesitate to inform us (J. Gibert, treasurer, or
M.-J. Turquin, secretary) about your money troubles if you find
N’oubliez pas que vous êtes l’un des 200 (environ…) membres d’un groupe et que nous attendons votre participation ; donnez
nous des nouvelles de votre région, pays : trouvailles, livres, films,
émissions de télévision, décès. A bientôt donc !
Do not forget that you are one of the (about) 200.
Members of a group and that we wait for your participation ; give
us news of your region, country : finds, books, films, broadcasts,
issues, obituary. We hope to read you soon !
this increase unbearable for your budget.
Marie-José TURQUIN
Hydrobiologie et Écologie souterraines
Bât. FOREL; 6, rue Raphaël DUBOIS
Domaine scientifique de la Doua
F - 69622 Villeurbanne cedex
[email protected]
Bulletin de liaison de la Société internationale de Biospéologie
N° 29
2002
Bulletin de liaison de la Société internationale de Biospéologie
N° 29
2002
Société Internationale de BIOSpéologie
Biospeological Newsletter : 1
<[email protected]>
E-mail Edition for Friday, March 9, 2001
http://www.glnet.edu.cn/KDL/IGCP/IGCP448/2000/448c
SIBIOS Feature
The President Giuseppe
<[email protected]> :
ircular/448circular.htm).
MESSANA
Another year has finished, it passed rapidly and
many things have happened, of which not everybody has
been, unfortunately, informed. First of all let me apolo-
Several interesting presentation by young researchers dealt with the new frontiers of research, such
as the contribution of microorgansims to the genesis of
speleothemes or the genetics of subterranean populations. The contribution of Ionel Tabacaru, a systematician of the classical school, showed how research could
be at the highest levels with little funding but great cul-
gize for that.
ture and passion.
This year the Bulletin de liaison, edited for the
first time on the Web page of the Society, could not be
opened by some of you and the paper version for several organising and professional problems of our General
The workshop, Mapping Subterranean Biodiversity organized by our colleagues Culver Deharveng and
Gibert, at the Laboratoire Souterrain du CNRS in Moulis, France, from March 18-20, 2001 is the first meeting
of the year to which most of us will participate for the
extreme interest of the argument, one of the primary
Dear Colleagues and friends,
Secretary could not be printed and sent to you.
The lack of information, vital to our society,
usually supplied by the bulletin has given an unwanted
result. Very few participated to the General Assembly,
held in the birthplace of biospeleology, Cluj in Romania.
It was a real pity because there were several reasons to
participate to the meeting "Karst Studies and Problems:
2000 and Beyond" organised by the Friends of Karst in
occasion of the 80th anniversary of the "Emil Racovita"
Speleological Institute. I would like to thank the organisers, our colleague Oana Moldovan who took care of
the biospeleological section and Bogdan Onac for the
speleological one, for the impressive organising effort
they made and the opportunities they gave the participants to see such an interesting karstic area of our
planet. I have only one complain, the climate was not as
summery as one would expect in July!!!
During the meeting our Society was requested
to participate to the UNESCO-IGCP project "World
Karst Ecosystems" whose next meeting will be in Peking
next August (details might be found at the following
Web address:
Biospeological newsletter n° 1
goals of the Society itself.
The organization of the XV International Symposium of our Society, to be held in Intervales (Sao
Paulo State, Brazil) is proceeding and I imagine you
should already have received the second circular. I hope
most of you will participate, full of good ideas and enthusiasm.
Together with the Council of the Société and
the help of any member willing to cooperate, we are
trying to develop our Society towards its better visibility and presence both at national and international level,
participating to projects and in finding out the instruments to sustain and help the young students of subterranean biology, the only guarantee for the Society's
healthy future.
A future that I wish to any of you as healthy
and peaceful as ever.
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Happy New Year
Beppe
9/03/2001
Note : Horton HOBBS et Daniel FONG were in fact accepted as members of Société de Biospéologie during
SIBIOS News
the General Assembly in Moulis ( 30 08 1995).
GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN CLUJ 16 Juillet 2000
There were 10 members including the board present :
Oana MOLDOVAN, Eleanora TRAJANO, Gheorghe RACOVITZÃ, Corneliu PLESA, Ionel TÃBÃCARU, Raymond
TERCAFS, Jakob PARZEFALL, Christian JUBERTHIE,
Guiseppe MESSANA, Jos NOTENBOOM.
NEW MEMBERS
1.
Daniela BORDA : Institut de Spéologie " Emile
Racovitza " Clinicilor str n°5, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, ROUMANIE (Ecologie et Protection des Chauves-souris).
Proposed by: RACOVITZA et PLESA
2.
Ruxandra RUZILA: Institut de Spéologie "
Emile Racovitza " Clinicilor str n°5, 3400
>Cluj-Napoca, ROUMANIE (Phylogenèse moléculaire Coléoptères) Proposed by : RACOVITZA et Oana MOLDOVAN
3.
Sandra IEPURE : Institut de Spéologie " Emile
Racovitza " Clinicilor str n°5, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, ROUMANIE (Taxonomie, Ecologie, Biodiversité Copépodes)
Proposed by PLESA et TABACARU.
4.
Elena MANOLACHE Université Babes-Bolyai,
Department of Plant Biology, str.Kogalniceanu n° 7, 3400
Cluj-Napocda, ROUMANIE (Microbiologie de la Grotte
de Movile) Proposed by Oana MOLDOVAN et NOTENBOOM
and a young scientist from Hambourg :
Results of elections
According to the statutes of the Society 3 posts can be
thus provided, with election with secret bulletins.
Voters 26, are elected:
CAZALS 26 votes
MALARD 26 votes
MESSOULI 26 votes.
The replacement of the 2 vacancies is put back until
Intervales's general assembly in Brazil in July, 2001.
NEW BOARD
Without change : President : G. MESSANA, secretary :
B. LEBRETON, treasurer : Mrs. CAZALS, etc
FINANCE
The accounts of the "subscriptions" and the "Mémoires
de Biospéologie" were presented by Christian JUBERTHIE and approved.
5.
Antje GARTZE : Zoologisches Institut und Muzeum, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3,
20146 Hamburg Allemagne (Comportement et adaptation
des poissons souterrains) Proposed by : PARZEFALL et
Eleanora TRAJANO
and :
6.
Thomas SAWICKI……… Proposed by : HOLSINGER et CULVER.
7.
Horton HOBBS, Wittenberg University, Department of Biology, P.O. Box
720, Springfield , Ohio 45501-0720 USA (Crustacés Décapodes). Proposed by : CULVER et HOLSINGER
8.
Daniel FONG …………. Proposed by : CULVER et
5 members are eligible for reelection, all in the French
college. The president G. MESSANA contacted all the
outgoing and received 3 candidatures: CAZALS, MALARD, MESSOULI, no answer from J. GIBERT and the
opinion that REYGROBELLET is not a candidate. (G.M.'s
note he is not eligible for reelection).
8 candidates : 4 from Romania ; 3 from USA and 1 from
Germany; Voters 18 : every elected members unanimously.
HOLSINGER
RENEWAL OF the COUNCIL
The treasurer's case. Reminder: Monique CAZALS is a
treasurer. (1) of the account « Mémoiresde Biospéologie
» and (2) of the account « subscriptions », since the retirement in 1999 of J.-P. HENRY. Mrs. CAZALS will retire in April, 2001 and thus leaves the finance..
1 - Account « Mémoires de Biospéologie » C. JUBERTHIE, assistant treasurer, will assure the holding of the
account " Mémoires de Biospéologie "
2 - Mrs. CAZALS will enclose the fiscal year 2000-2001
of the account « subscriptions » in April, 2001; C. JUBERTHIE will make the report to Intervales's General
Assembly, and will assure the transition up to this Assembly. It is thus advisable to look for and to appoint a
new treasurer, in the French college in Intervales in July, 2001
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DISCUSSION : YOUNG SCIENTISTS AND THE SOCIÉTÉ
1-Subscription and membership of the Society
To facilitate the access of Société internationale de
Biospéologie to young researchers who have no possibility of settling the amount of the subscription, on proposition of the board the General assembly in Cluj decides to distinguish a particular category of active
members: the active members " Young researchers ".
This does not require the modification of the article 5
of the statutes of the Société but will be registered in
the Internal Regulation.
The active members " Young researchers " are exempted from subscription. The " Young researchers " are
retained on the following criteria:
1. Begin research in Biospéologie;
2. Have no financial means to settle the amount of the
subscription;
3. Present or have presented one (or more) communication (s) to the Colloquiums of Société internationale de
Biospéologie ;
4. Or participate actively in the functioning of the Société by assuming a responsibility, a project.
The demands to be classified " Young researchers " will
be presented by their patrons; these demands will be individually examined by the board and approved or not by
the General Assembly. The title of " young researchers "
will be revised in General Assembly every year or every
other year.
By CLUJ's General Assembly, 5 " Young researchers "
were retained and accepted as members of the Société
after a vote of the General Assembly. - 4 are young researchers or researchers of Cluj.
-Daniela LINED (Ecology and Protection of Bats);
-Ruxandra RUZILA (molecular Phylogenesis of Beetles)Sandra IEPURE (Taxonomy, Ecology, Biovariety of Copépodes)
-Elena MANOLACHE (Microbiology of Movile's cave).
- one is young researcher of Hamburg Antje GARTZE
(Behavior and adaptation of subterranean fishes).
Note: three other young Rumanian researchers of Bucharest who did not make application and were not presented, later deposited cards which will be examined by
Intervales's General Assembly in July 20001. They are:
Victoria BOITAN,
Andrei GIURGINCA and
Liviu VANOAICA.
2-Stimulation program "young scientists"
An open discussion was held on how the Société can stimulate the scientific work of young scientist. First the
society should be an active network of people exchanging ideas on biospeology. Second young scientists should
be stimulated to attend the international conferences,
to present their work and to discuss about it. The first
point is the will be responsible of all members. The board
will think a about a policy to stimulate such a network
society (should the society be an engine for new ideas
and projects and, if so, how can that be reached?) To
be discussed further in Intervales. The second point is
the responsibility of the organizers of the two-yearly
international conferences. They can decide to reduce
congress fees for junior scientist or to grant a few
young scientist so that they can attend the conference.
The society can decide to establish an award for the
best presentation/poster by a young scientist during
the international conferences. Discussion to be continued in Intervales.
AGREEMENT PROJECT
: S I B AND THE SUBTER-
RANEAN LABORATORY (Moulis)
The General assembly gives its agreement to the principle of the signature of an Agreement between the Société de Biospéologie and Moulis's subterranean Laboratory in the purpose :
1. To assure the pursuit of publishing the Mémoires de
Biospéologie;
2. The continuation of the management of these exchanges and the consignement of the Mémoires;
3. The continuation of the access to means for the publishing (for ex. photocopier);
4. The continuation of the realization at request of
photocopies with the means of the Laboratory.
5. In reciprocity, the continuation of stocking -in the
library of the Laboratory- of reviews obtained by exchange with the Mémoires de Biospéologie.
These propositions, which are in connection with Monique CAZAL's departure, are to be discussed with the
Director of the subterranean Laboratory.
Remain of the exclusive competence of the publisher of
the Mémoires de Biospéologie
1. The management and the consignement of the Mémoires to the subscribers, the individual buyers and to
Bookshops;
2. The financial management of the Mémoires;
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3. The actions of promotions, the relations with Media,
I - INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUMS OF THE SO-
etc.
CIÉTÉ
ACCESS TO the EXCHANGES and TO the MÉMOIRES
1
DE BIOSPÉOLOGIE
1. The list of the exchanges will soon be put on the Internet site of Société
2. The requests for photocopies are to be sent to «
Jacqueline RIVES, Bibliothécaire, subterranean Laboratory 09200, Moulis »
SCIENTIFIC QUALITY MEMOIRES DE BIOSPELEOLOGIE
The editor of the Mémoires will investigate the possibility to set up a procedure for external review of manuscripts offered for publication. Also it will be investigated if the Mémoires can have an impact factor.
After the notes of Christian Juberthie & Jos Notenboom
SIBIOS Meetings
Eleonora Trajano <[email protected]> writes
"Dear colleagues,
The on-line forms will be available in our site
(www.ib.usp.br/15isb) at the beginning of March. In the
meantime, and alternatively, you may send your registration using the forms included in the Third Circular,
which have been attached to my previous message. With
- Société Internationale de Biospéologie organizes
an international Colloquium every other year. (Decision
taken in 19???? In????? under GEOFFROY's presidency)
2 - The international Colloquium is held even years. There is no Colloquium of the Society odd year during
which is held the Colloquium of the U.I.S. (Decision taken in Makarska, in September, 1999, which re-enacts
the mode of functioning of the Society from the year
of its foundation and never abolished),
3 - The choice of the place of the next international
Colloquium decides by secret vote on the General Assembly during the Colloquium which precedes, after presentation by one or several candidates of his or their
project to the Council, then to the General Assembly
(Decision taken from the year of foundation of the Society)
4 - The council attributes a sum of money taken on the
Account Contributions to the Colloquium Organizers, if
they wish it, for the first expenses, or to help young researchers.
5 - Exceptional positions can lead the Council to propose a Colloquium odd year.
II - GENERAL ASSEMBLY
my best regards,
The statutory annual General assembly is held:
1 - During the international Colloquium. (Decision taken
from the year of foundation of the Society)
Eleonora Trajano"
SIBIOS Rules : legal corner
Here you can find the internal rules written for us
by Christian Juberthie. You may add your observations. Beppe.
Internal Regulation of the
ciety, and to 19.. completed by a Round Table).
III - CATEGORIES OF MEMBERS
Société Internationale de Biospéologie
UPDATED AND REGULATION PROJECT
1. Active members
The council of the Society decided to update and to
complete gradually the internal Regulation. This regulation contains this day the following points.
2 - The years without international Colloquium, in a place decided by the Council. In that case the General Assembly can or not bee completed by a Round Table.
(Decision taken from the year of foundation of the So-
Two categories were distinguished during Cluj's general
assembly 16/07/2000.
a- The active members, who pay their subscription.
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b - The active members " young researchers "
exempted from subscription, to facilitate the access of
Société Internationale de Biospéologie to young researchers who have no possibility of settling the amount
of the subscription. This does not require the modification of the article 5 of the statutes of the Society.
The " Young researchers " are retained on the following
criteria:
- begin in the research in biospeology;
- have no financial means to settle the amount of the
subscription;
- present or make present
communication (s) to the
Colloquiums of Société Internationale de Biospéologie;
- participate actively in the functioning of the Society
by assuming a responsibility, a project.
The demands to be classified " Young researchers " are
presented by their patrons; these demands are individually examined by the Council and approved or not by
the General assembly (or by the Council?). The title of "
Young researchers " is revised in General assembly (or
by the Council?) every year or every other year.
The Council can propose to the General assembly the
name of "Honorary members".
These are appointed on the following criteria:
long career in biospeology, international recognition, to
be retired or close to be .
IV - BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY
1 - The information is passed on to all the members of
the Society by a News Bulletin . (Decision taken from
the foundation of the Society)
2 - The News Bulletin is (at least?) annual and appears
at the end of the year (?? If one decides that he should
appear before the AG one should also say how long before) before the meeting of the General assembly.
3 - It is presented under two supports:
- classic paper support;
aol. com / socdebiop
-The date and the place of the next Colloquium;
-The information about the modalities of registration,
access, the presumed cost of the registration and the
stay, presented to the General Assembly of the year
previous the Colloquium.
-Leaving members'list of the Council, those who are elegible for reelection and those who are not elegible for
reelection.
-A call to candidature for the Council.
-The list of the members, then every year its update:
new members, departures.
-The list of the exchanges and the modalities of access
to photocopies.
-The update of the payment terms of the contributions
and the orders of the publications of the Society
(Mémoires de Biospéologie, volumes of Encyclopédie
biospéologique).
- Etc. ? ? ? ?
This project of regulation is to be examined and completed.
2. Honorary members
- on the Web site of the Society:
-The place and dates of the Next General Assembly
http: // members
4 - Two copies on paper support are deposited in the
National Library, in Paris, under it N°: ISSN: 09967303.
5 - The expenses of edition and expedition are assumed
SIBIOS Elections
At the next
General Assembly we will elect 2 non
French* members (Ms PARZEFALL and
OROMI cannot be re-elected in 2001) and
Who wants to be elected or reelected?
1 one French member. If you want to be
candidate in Intervalles elections, you
have to send (by mail, please) your name to the secreta-
before June 1, 2001.
See attached document to know the names
of the elected members since 1981. The votes, when we have a list of candidates, will
be sent by snail mail.
ry or the president Messana
* Some members hate this locution -it's not my faultthe regulations differentiate two colleges for the members of French born Société de Biospéologie.
by the account "Subscription".
6-? (To discuss) The bulletin on paper support are sent
at least to all the members in due time in statutes:
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SIBIOS Obituary
Villy AELLEN [1926 - 2000]
Né le 4 décembre 1926 à Neufchâtel où il obtint
son grade de bachelier ès lettres, Villy Aellen a fait ses
études de zoologie à l'Université de Neufchâtel où il fut
d'abord assistant à l'institut de zoologie puis, conservateur du Musée Zoologique de la ville (1950-1952). En
1952, il obtint son titre de docteur ès sciences avec sa
thèse sur les chauve-souris du Cameroun et fut nommé
conservateur du Musée de la Chaux-de-Fonds en 1953 ;
qu'il devait rapidement quitter pour occuper le poste de
conservateur du département des Vertébrés au Muséum
d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève en 1954. Il en devint par
la suite sous-directeur (1965) puis directeur (1969), en
succédant à Emile Dottrens. Il devait alors largement
participer, avec René Descombes, à élaborer le concept
même du nouveau Muséum de Genève, organiser le déménagement et l'installation des collections à Malagnou
et préparer l'avenir de l'établissement dans l'attente de
ses nombreux visiteurs. Membre et responsable de nombreuses sociétés scientifiques suisses et internationales, d'académies et d'associations, figurant dans les
principaux Who's who d'Europe et du monde, il fut notamment vice-président de la Société helvétique des
sciences naturelles et associé à l'Université de Genève
où il enseigna, de 1966 à 1989, la biologie et la systématique des vertébrés. A son départ à la retraite en 1980,
le Conseil administratif de la Ville de Genève le nomma
directeur honoraire du Muséum, récompensant ainsi une
carrière administrative et scientifique hors du commun.
Il fut aussi, durant de nombreuses années, un
membre régulier du Centre International de Myriapodologie et ses visites au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris étaient toujours émaillées d'intéressantes
discussions liées à la connaissance des myriapodes du
monde.
Environ 130 publications scientifiques témoignent de l'activité intense et très assidue de Villy Aellen
et reflètent l'étendue du champ de ses recherches consacrées aux mammifères insectivores, rongeurs, chiroptères et, surtout, à l'inventaire richissime de la faune
des grottes du monde entier. Il fut en effet particulièrement actif, par ses recherches et ses explorations,
dans le domaine de la biospéologie et, pour partie, de la
myriapodologie. Constituant, avec son collègue et ami
Pierre Strinati, un tandem inoxydable totalement dévoué
à la connaissance de la faune des grottes du monde entier, ses collaborations avec les spécialistes de tous les
groupes taxinomiques furent légion, comme ce fut le
cas pour les diplopodes et les chilopodes. Qui en effet
ne reçut un jour un envoi de spécimens de Villy Aellen,
et qui ne connaît au moins un taxon parmi les très nombreux qui lui furent dédiés ? Ces recherches fructueuses lui valurent d'ailleurs plusieurs prix et certains ouvrages, publiés en plusieurs langues, demeurent très actuels dans notre approche mondiale de la biodiversité.
Cet homme discret, fort modeste, a laissé son
empreinte sur l'édification de l'actuel Muséum de Genève, sur la valeur inestimable que l'on doit accorder à ces
sources de recherches que sont les collections zoologiques bien conservées et sur l'immense intérêt que présentent les faunes cavernicoles. Myriapodes et myriapodologistes, comme bien d'autres, lui en sont reconnaissants. Avec lui disparaît un chercheur curieux, généreux, compréhensif, et un très grand Naturaliste, passionné des formes de vie et d'environnement.
Nous souhaitons présenter notre profonde sympathie à sa famille ainsi qu'à Pierre Strinati , son collègue et ami de toujours.
Jean-Jacques GEOFFROY, Brunoy, Avril 2000
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I wrote the Bulletin de liaison from the beginning : I tried to gather news of interest, typed them, duplicated, wrote the envelopes, dealt with
the postages, I could give free reign to my imagination. Then I became president and the secretary did most of the job! Now I happened unfortunatly
to be secretary! Ouch… The task is ungrateful, reproaches unfair: if nobody
answers, how can he (she) manage to do the jobs listed above??? For example
at the General Assembly one hears :"I do not receive informations" ; did you
give your written address to the secretary when you paid (?) the subscription?
etc.
So here is at last the first Newsletter, I hope I will be able to send
another soon if you get behind.
Marie-José Turquin
8/30
9/03/2001
SIBIOS
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E-mail Edition for Tuesday, May 15, 2001
SIBIOS POLL
MIND THE DATE !!
PROPOSE TODAY
You will have to send (by post) your votes
for the General Assembly in Intervalles;
As yet only
J.-J. Geoffroy,
J. Gibert
E. Trajano,
& J. Notenboom have declared to be candidate. Please propose your candidature for
the board of the Société Internationale de
Biospéologie by mail.
Biospéologie :
Name:.........................................
Country :.......................................
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You will receive, at the beginning of June,
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Did you
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Some of the people listed above are not
members of the Society, but may be
interested…………
SIBIOS Recollection
Albert VANDEL (1894-1980)
A booklet (64 p) has been written by the
members of Groupe Franco-héllénique de
Recherches Biologiques (Toulouse) (Biologia
Gallo-hellenica) and Nature et Homme
(Athènes) to recall the accomplishments of
Pr. A. Vandel.
address : Société d'histoire naturelle de
Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier,
118 route de Narbonne, Bât.: 4R3,
31062 TOULOUSE cedex, France
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SIBIOS
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E-mail Edition for July 07, 2001
TRAJANO :
Elections :
The XVth International Symposium
of Biospeleology, to be held in July 2001 at
Intervales State Park, SE Brazil is comming fast . Members of the Société de
Biospéologie will attend the annual General
Assembly. BUT the people who will not go
to Brazil have to vote TODAY .
CAZALS,
COBOLLI-SBORDONI,
CULVER, DURAND, GENEST, GIBERT, JUBERTHIE, KLETECKI, LEBRETON, MAGNIEZ, MALARD , MARMONIER, MATHIEU, MESSANA, MESSOULI, NOTENBOOM, OROMI, PARZEFALL, TURQUIN
were the members of the 2000-2001
board.
Madame CAZALS and M. MARMONIER have resigned. MM. OROMI, PARZEFALL are at the end of their mandate (lame ducks), M. LEBRETON did not
request renewal. MM. COBOLLI-SBORDONI, DURAND, KLETECKI, MESSANA,
NOTENBOOM are outgoing reelectable.
Mme TRAJANO, MM. GEOFFROY and SKET
are candidates.
Please write the names of the people
you wish in the council of our Société (11
names are the maximum). Put your ballot in
a blank envelope, put this envelope in an
identified envelope and send it to Eleonora
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Official Candidates
:
Mrs. COBOLLI-SBORDONI
MM. DURAND
GEOFFROY
KLETECKI
MESSANA
NOTENBOOM
SKET
Mrs TRAJANO
...........
The members of the Société must
use the address below to send their votes.
Prof. Dr. Eleonora Trajano
SIB ballot
Departamento de Zoologia
Instituto de Biociências da
USP
C.P. 11461
05422-970 São Paulo Brazil
New addresses
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Essay
BIOSPEOLEOLOGY ON THE WEB
RAYMOND TERCAFS
Senior Research Associate of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research
University of Liege
Institute of Zoology - Dept. of Animal Physiology
Quai Van Beneden, 22
B-4020 Liege - Belgium
Email: [email protected]
INTRODUCTION
Tracking down relevant scientific information quickly on the Web remains an elusive quest despite the existence of several search engines. Indeed in April 2001, the publicly indexable World-Wide
Web contains about 1,300,000,000 pages, encompassing about 10 terabytes of text data on about 3,5
million servers. About 85 % of users use search engines to locate information (1), and several search
engines consistently rank among the top 10 sites accessed on the web (2). The accessibility of information has been studied by Lawrence and Giles in 1998 (3) and 1999 (4). They concluded that not only
are the search engines indexing a biased sample of the web, but new search techniques are further biasing the accessibility of information of the web. For example, the search engine Google makes extensive
use of measures of popularity to rank the relevance of pages, using the number and source of incoming
links. This increasing use of features other than those directly describing the content of pages further
biases the accessibility of information. For ranking based on popularity (incoming links), one can see a
trend where popular pages become more popular, while new, unlinked pages have an increasingly difficult time becoming visible in search engine listings. This may delay or even prevent the widespread visibility of new high-quality information as scientific sites.
TESTING BIOSPELEOLOGICAL RESSOURCES ON THE WEB
In 1997, 7 different search engines were scanned for 2 different keywords - Biospéologie and
Biospeleology. The number of found documents were registered in each case showing a large discrepancy between them (5). The same test was carrying on during 1999, 2000 and 2001 to follow the
growing of web sites. In 2000, the Google search engine was added now claiming it has the largest index
of the web. The results are given in table 1.
Search engines
ALTAVISTA
EXCITE
HOT BOT
INFOSEEK
METACRAWLER
OPEN TEXT
YAHOO!
FAST-GOOGLE
August 1997
20/40
23/90
30/125
20/108
30/42
0/2
20/89
(2)
Nb of pages for Biospéologie/Biospeleology
March 1999
March 2000
April 2001
44/305
27/190
34/204
16/6
(2)
14
47/583
-/393
5/77
14/64
35/29
17/6
74/595
67/742
35/180
63/1,300
14/97 (1)
0/12
59/4
172/1,270
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Table 1. Results from the Web, using several search engines, for the key-words « Biospéologie » and
« Biospeleology ». Nb of pages listed in August 1997, March 1999, March 2000 and April 2001.
- : not checked
(1) : powered by Goto
(2) : inactive
The results shown in the table suggest that the most efficient search engine is Google for the key-word
« Biospéologie » and is HOT BOT for « Biospeleology ». Each search engine follows the growing of
web sites.
As quoted, Google ranks the relevance of a request using the number and source of incoming links. The
« best one » is listed when the « I’am feeling lucky TM » system is used. The following results are
obtained:
For Biospeleology:
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/
The Biology of Caves, Karst, and Groundwater, sponsored by the Texas Memorial Museum, The
University of Texas at Austin and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
For Biospéologie:
http://members.aol.com/socdebiosp/
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE BIOSPÉOLOGIE, fondée en 1979, 09200 MOULIS - France
Date de création: 15 décembre 1998, Date de dernière modification: mardi 28 mars 2000 19:13:57 Paris,
Madrid (heure d'été), Site maintenu par Bernard LEBRETON
These 2 sites are indeed some of the best ways to begin a deep search in the biospeleological web sites.
The general list of sites obtained using Google is a mix of amateur and scientific sites. Several examples
are given hereafter. My opinion is given in italics.
Amateur sites
http://cds06.free.fr/commissions/com-env/5biospeleo.html (in French)
This site is entitled « L'étude des animaux cavernicoles porte le nom de biospéléologie. Notions» (The
study of the cave-dwellers is named « biospéléologie ». Introduction) but unfortunately contains many
biological and spelling mistakes.
http://www.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?init=Ecol (in English)
List of links using a search system. The keyword « cave » is not present in the index.
http://www.keyworlds.com/science_biology.html (in English)
KeyWorlds.com : Science : Biology : Biospeleology Links
Only 5 links are listed with the lost Max Moseley’s Biospeleology Page. The Keyworlds.com Page is full
of ads including Amazon.com and a link to a free Casino Game CD.
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http://live.celebz4free.com/coquettes/enter6.html (in French)
Adult site showing different pictures of young girls in XXX position. Poorly related to Biospeleology or
biospéologie. In fact, this site appears in the list because the webmaster use a well-known trick: the site
contains a list of tons of words from « Adam to Zoroastre » including the key-word « biospéléologie ».
Scientific sites
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/5771/4research.htm (in English)
List of research papers about Movile Cave published around the world. Maintained by Serban Sarbu
(PhD), The Ross School, 18 Goodfriend Park, East Hampton, New York 11937 & Cristian Lascu, Str.
Frumoasa 31, 78114Bucuresti/Romania.
One of the best site on the Movile Cave. Interesting list of scientific papers published about this unique
ecosystem.
http://members.xoom.it/bioscience/isbios/Links.htm (in English)
List of web sites as Société de Biospéologie, Biospeleology of Texas, Biospeleology of Mexico, Speleological Abstracts, The « Pesce’s Home Page », The Groundwater homepage, The Swiss Cave Spiders (in German).
Short list maintained by Isbios (Institute of Biospeleology, Italy)
http://www.multimania.com/clpa/bibliospeleokarsto/page8.html (in French)
List of several papers as Campodeides des grottes du parc naturel regional des grands causses (insecta
diplura) Memoires de biospeologie, 1997 , Vol : 24 , p. : 157 - 162; Les gravures de la grotte ornee de
bara-bahau (le bugue, dordogne), Gallia, prehistoire.
http://www.speleo.be/ubs/scientifique/ (in French)
Journée 2001 de Spéléologie Scientifique (2001 Meeting of Scientific Speleology)
Announcement for a short scientific meeting.
http://www.karstwaters.org/biobibl.htm (in English)
List of 7 books related to Biospeleology
Very short list. Must be updated.
http://www.let.ups-tlse.fr/divers/sub_fr.htm (in French and in English)
Meeting announcement: Séminaire international : Cartographie de la biodiversité souterraine Mapping
Subterranean Biodiversity, les 18, 19 et 20 Mars 2001, Laboratoire Souterrain du CNRS, Moulis
(Ariège)
Announcement for a very interesting scientific meeting.
http://members.xoom.it/bioscience/isbios/ (in English)
ISBioS Webpage, the Institute of Biospeleology. UNDERGROUND BIOLOGY
CALL FOR PAPER. Underground Biology is the official journal of the Institute of Biospeleology.
The institution is associated to Museo del Sottosuolo of Latiano (Brindisi, Italy) and shares with it
both site and laboratories.
Interesting links as: The History of Isbios, Researches Program, Electronic Journal of Biospeleology,
Biospeleologists of the World.
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There is no connection available to the current version of the Electronic Journal of Biospeleology
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Biospeleology/ (in English)
Links found by the yahoo! search engine with an interesting summary but the link to Max Moseley’s
Biospeleology Page is irrelevant (this site does not exist from months).
Anchialine Caves and Cave Fauna of the World : - documents the unique species that inhabit coastal
caves flooded with seawater. Also provides information on caves, the Bahamas and Yucatan Peninsula,
and research projects.
Biospeleology : The Biology of Caves, Karst, and Groundwater : - explores a number of aspects of
cave biology, including animals, biodiversity, and conservation.
Graham Proudlove’s Cave Biology E-mail List : - discussion list for all aspects of Biospeleology.
Groundwater Biology Home Page : - learn about life inhabiting inland and coastal caves, phreatic and
hyporheic substrates, springs, and other infiltration zones.
Illinois Natural History Survey : Biospeleology : - explores cave zones, karst areas, habitats, and other
aspects of cave biology.
Max Moseley’s Biospeleology Page : - includes web resources, a bibliography, directory of biospeleologists, and more.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Speleology/Biospeleology/ (in English)
Google PageRank order
Interesting list with an other address of Max Moseley’s Biospeleology Page (but the site is not available)
Biospeleology (cave biology) : - http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/
Texas Memorial Museum's web site on Biospeleology. Information on the biota of caves, karst, and
groundwater
Max Moseley’s Biospeleology Page - http://www.cancaver.ca/bio/
The INHS Center for Annelida Resources : - http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~mjwetzel/mjw.inhsCAR.html
Biospeleology : - http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu:80/~sjtaylor/cave/biospeleol.html
Illinois Natural History Survey, Biospeleology web site, Author Steve Taylor
Biospeleology Sites on the WWW : - http://www.cancaver.ca/bio/biolink.htm
Romanian Speleological Institute : - http://www.uib.no/People/nglbn/iser.htm
Presentation of the Romanian Speleological Institute
Information of cave-dwelling fishes : - http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/grahamp/intro.htm
Google PageRank order (continued)
Cave Microbiology : - http://www.well.com/user/peter/
Internet links.
Mexico Biospeleology : - http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu:80/~sjtaylor/cave/mexico/mexico.html
Information concerning ongoing biological studies in the underwater caves of northern Mexico.
Groundwater ecology Lyon : - http://groundwater-ecology.univ-lyon1.fr/
Missouri Cave Critters : - http://www.umsl.edu/~joellaws/ozark_caving/mss/cavecrit.htm
Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia : 10.11. Caves of Oscar and Napier
Ranges :
http://kaos.erin.gov.au/life/general_info/biodivser_4/bio1011.html
Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia : 4.8 Carnavon
http://kaos.erin.gov.au/life/general_info/biodivser_4/car.html
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http://www.karstwaters.org/ (in english)
The Karst Waters Institute
The Karst Waters Institute is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit institution whose mission is to improve the fundamental understanding of karst water systems through sound scientific research and the education of
professionals and the public. The institute is governed by a Board of Directors and does not have or issue memberships.
Institute activities include the initiation, coordination, and conduct of research, the sponsorship of conferences and workshops, and occasional publication of scientific works. KWI supports these activities
by acting as a coordinating agency for funding and personnel, but does not supply direct funding or
grants to individual researchers. The Institute publishes a semiannual newsletter entitled KWI Conduit
which is available online.
Very interesting site with many resources as:
Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology by Malcom S. Field, Ph.D., National Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency
US Troglobites and Stygobites (with new additions in August 2000) by David C. Culver, American
University & Horton H. Hobbs III, Wittenberg University
http://www.gsb-usb.speleo.it/ebio.htm (in english)
Biospeleology: The Biospeleology division is conducting a series of research projects in the subterranean laboratory in Novella Cave (Farneto, Bologna). Those interested can contact Dr. G. Rivalta.
Some examples of cave fauna: name and pictures (but the Spider Meta is cited as an Insect!)
http://www.dyetracing.com/karst/ka03000.html (in English)
Interesting site with several links but some of them are unavailable :
Biospeleology
The Burren (not found, error 404)
Center for Cave and Karst Studies
The Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center (no connection)
Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy
Spelaeologia Croatica Journal (under construction since 1997)
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cave/biospeleol.html (in english)
Very interesting site with an introduction on Biospeleology, a selected literature list pertinent to Illinois
Biospeleology, Laws (links to The Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1998 and the Illinois Cave
Protection Act) and many links to other Biospeleology sites:
Cave Biology ListServ and archives
Anchialine Caves and Cave Fauna of the World
Biospeleology in Canada and on the WWW
Biospeleology : The Biology of Caves, Karst, and Groundwater
Missouri Cave Life
Missouri Bats
The Subterranean Amphipod Database
The Institute of Biospeleology
Biospeleologia
Biospeleology Abstracts
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links to other Biospeleology sites (continued):
Bat Conservation International
Florida’s Aquatic Troglobites
John Holsinger’s Aquatic Troglobites
Investigations into the biology of Cueva de Villa Luz
Movile Cave, Romania
Société de Biospéologie
Biospeologica Bibliographia
Biospeologia - Les animaux cavernicoles
Biospeleologia del Piemonte, Atlante Fotographico Sistematico
Stygobiont Crustaceans
Troglobitic Crayfishes
Groundwater Hydrobiology and Ecology
Groundwater Fauna of Italy
Croatioan Biospeleological Society
Groundwater links : many links
Links to other cave related sites in the region: many links
Caving Clubs: many links
Links to important cave sites worldwide as:
National Speleological Society
NSS Cave Conservation and Management Section
Speleo Link Page
Sherry Mayo’s Cave Pages
Cavers Digest
Caving Information on the WWW
Current INHS research on Biospeleology
http://groundwater-ecology.univ-lyon1.fr/page2.html (in French but listed with the key-word Biospeleology because this word is used in the introduction).
Very interesting site devoted to hydrobiology and subterranean ecology: Dynamique des aquifères souterrains et interactions avec les milieux de surface, Anthropisation des écosystèmes souterrains, Biodiversité: Systématique et biogéographie des hirudinés, oligochètes et crustacés, diversité des stratégies
adaptatives, biodiversité fonctionnelle, écophysiologie, génétique des populations, Equipe, Problématique, Publications,
Réserve de Hautecourt, Maroc, Worldwide bibliography of Biospeleology, Ouvrages.
http://maryland.villageworld.com/Directory/Recreation/Outdoors/Speleology/ (in English)
List of links (14 categories) including Biospeleology (25)
http://www.caver.net/megalink.htm (in English)
Interesting site with a mix of caving and scientific sites as:
Anchialine Caves and Cave Animals, Biospeleology, NSS Cave Conservation and Management Section
Home Page.
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CONCLUSION
The use the key-words « Biospeleology » and « Biospéologie » with different search engines
scanning the Web gives some interesting pages and links (around 1,300 for Biospeleology and 170 for
Biospéologie). But these numbers are poor compared with other requests (Biochemistry: 935,000; Entomology: 303,000; Cat: 8,990,900; Sex: 36,500,000). It is partly due because both the key-words are
not systematically used by the scholars who publish papers on cave life. This lack of relation is corroborated by the fact that major reference index - as Current Contents - ignore Biospeleology in their thesaurus or index. The same fact appears when the key-words « cave dwelling » are used: 5,680 pages are
listed with Google. Therefore there is a lost of available information when the key-word « Biospeleology » is used.
It is also important to underline that web pages which can be accessed from anywhere in the
world, vanish as easily as they appear. They only exist virtually through the intermediary of a connection between 2 computers, the user and the provider.
If the provider is no longer linked up, either voluntarily or involuntarily, no more data is accessible.
But the address of the lost site is still kept in the index of the search engines and appears in the answers when research is carried out. When one connects to this site, the mention « error 404 » appears,
meaning access is impossible. There is an enormous number of abandoned sites as it amounts to 4 to
5% of the entirety.
Documentary research on the web is fundamentally different from the documentary resource
analysis in a traditional library. Indeed, the web has a great amount of data but there is no structure or
selection. Anybody can write whatever they want.
There is no screening, no checking, no censorship. This lack of structure is compensated by the
specialization of some sub-categories of several search engines (Arts, Business, Science, etc.) but without any guarantee and Biospeleology is a concept which is ignored by many index.
Also, one must not forget that the web sites are made up of pages or texts in which research is carried
out with words. If a site contains, in any place, the words being looked up, it will be considered to
correspond to the criteria. So it happens that some very long sites are cited in the results although
they have nothing to do with the query (see the caricatural example of the porno site). The use of several search engines is obligatory as none is exhaustive.
As well as the traditional publishing on paper of scientific magazines there is some E-journal.
It does not mean the transfer of one medium to another but of a new way of publishing with the same
techniques : specialized subjects, editorial constraints (number of pages, type of figures, etc.) and a
screening by the prior intervention of referees. A list is available on the www.edoc.com/ejournal site.
There are several categories (Scientific, Technical, Medical, Humanities, Others) but many journals
have already disappeared. The number of biospeleological journals is poor.
The main advantages of the web are the speed of the diffusion, the international coverage and
the low cost of the product. The major inconvenience, which is the same for all information passing
through the web, is the volatility of the medium. When there is no connection, documents are no longer available.
The use of the maximum potential of available information is always a priority in any scientific
research. With the web, a major asset is its easiness and speed in accessing information compared to
that of traditional bibliography.
Researchers’ sending of messages by E-mail has replaced the traditional mail system and has
made countries with a reduced (Eastern Europe) or uncertain (Africa, South America) postal infrastructure much less isolated. Moreover, the quasi-instantaneous speed of the messages lets countries that
are very far from each other (Europe - Japan, Europe - Australia, Europe - USA, etc.) communicate eaBiospeological newsletter n° 3
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sily.
The bringing together of users into discussion forums is, in principle, a new source of scientific
documentation. But there are very few science forums and it is necessary to use specialized search engines to find an interesting group. Fortunately, there is an interesting cave biology E-mail list maintained by Dr. Graham Proudlove, Department of Zoology, The Manchester Museum, University of
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK and the CAVE-BIOLOGY list is archived.
The web is open to everyone, for better and for worse. Luckily, available scientific information is not
affected by the excesses of certain categories of sites (misinformation, hoaxes, stupid jokes). But the
pertinence of the information obtained is never guaranteed. Not all the sources have the same credibility.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(1) Graphic, Visualisation, and Usability Center. GVU’s 10th WWW User Survey (October 1998);
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/
(2) Media Metrix (January 1999);
http:www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press_Releases/02_22_99.html
(3) Lawrence, S. & Giles, C. Science, 280, 98-100, 1998.
(4) Lawrence, S. & Giles, C. Nature, 400, 107-109, 1999.
(5) Tercafs, R. Bull. Inform. Soc. Biosp., 26, 25-28, 1998.
Raymond Tercafs, April 7, 2001
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Which logo ?
The proposed logos for the Société are presented here by date of arrival to the
secretary………VOTE for logo 1, logo 2 or logo 3
This is the sketch of my proposal of a
possible Society symbol.
1
Place for the Society name is the
belt between two circles.
Biospeological
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n° 33
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This is the sketch of my proposal of a
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SIBIOS Newsletter : 4
Biospeological News
E-mail Edition for January 23, 2002
• new web site
• the President
• the pictures of Intervales
• next meeting : Verona
• A new book by Raymond TERCAFS
• future elections : propose
• @ddresses : please help!
• legal corner :
- report of the Assembly,
- new statute,
- internal rules.
SIBIOS
<Société Internationale de Biospéologie
http://www.fi.cnr.it/Sibios/index.htm (in prep)
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in their countries.
The XV International Symposium of
Biospeleology has been a great success, many
The President :
participate with a quantity of interesting and stimulating presentations, the place was magic, alDear colleagues and friends,
though the season was not the best one, but this
Another year has passed, a terrible one for contributed to it’s charming. The organisation was
the World, I do hope we will soon recover from perfect and of this we have to thank Eleonora
the wounds and that finally peace will spread out Trajano, her staff and her determination (a ferocious one, I have defined it elsewhere) in defendall over.
ing her original proposal, I do believe she’s a preThe beginning of the year had been a very cious member for our society.
good one for our society, after a difficult period in
The General Assembly which was held in
my first year of presidency, things are now runn- Intervales has approved some changes in our rules
ing smoothly. In march there have been the inter- and new directions for our further development.
esting workshop on Mapping of Subterranean You’ll find them in the new statute, internal rules
Biodiversity, organised by Dave Culver, Luis De- and report of the Assembly somewhere else in
harveng and Janine Gibert. It was a great success this Newsletter.
and many persons from several countries partici- I would like to enlighten just a few points that
pated actively and presented the status of the art were approved by the GA and which I consider
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fundamental for an International society.
•
The Council of the society has lost what I
used to call it’s “regional” conformation and became truly international, eliminating the distinction
between French and non French members.
•
>From 2002 every member will receive,
after payment of her/his fees of association which
were duly modified, the Mémoires de Biospéologie, our journal, which we are trying to renew to
an higher international standard.
•
The web site of the society, abandoned
since a long time, has now a stable staff and is under renewal; we have the will and hope to make it
the portal for subterranean biology.
Since 2000 and in Intervales 2001, many new
members asked to join our society, this is the sign
that we are active and attractive, I am very happy
of this. Let’s hope we will continue in this direction.
2002 is the year for a new International Symposium, to be held in Verona. We have decided to go
back two even years two avoid overlapping with
the UIS congresses, I do hope to see most of you
there.
I wish you all a very fruitful future and
Happy New Year!
Beppe
SIBIOS Feature :
Have a look at
http://www.ib.usp.br/15isb/ie/gallery/pic_
official.htm to see the SIBIOS members in
action in Brazil.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Invited plenary lectures, oral communications and
posters will be included in the programme. Moreover, round tables (on biogeography of cave fauna
in the oriental region, anchyaline caves etc.), special meeting (soubterranean films and photos) will
be organized. A special session, in homage to
Sandro Ruffo, on Amphipoda biogeography, evolution and conservation is planned.
The presentations will be arranged in the following
topics:
- Alpine cave environment
- Behaviour
- Biodiversity
- Biogeography
- Conservation and observation
- Development
- Ecology
- Ethology
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Natural History
- Molecular Biology
- Monitoring
- Morphology
- Paleontology
- Phylogeny
- Physiology
- Systematics
- Tropical and sub-tropical cave environment
- Others
Official address of Symposium:
The XVIth INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF
BIOSPELEOLOGY
c/o Leonardo Latella
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale
Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9
37129 VERONA ñ ITALY
SIBIOS Meetings:
Phone: +39 045 8079419
Fax: +39 045 8035639
e-mail: HYPERLINK
mailto:[email protected]
Verona 8-15 September 2002
XVI International Symposium of
Biospeleology
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A timely book by
Raymond TERCAFS
You will receive, at the beginning of June,
the last list of the candidates .
"The protection of the subterranean environment", conservation principles and
management tools."
PSP Production Service Publishers; Luxembourg
ISBN 2-9599798-0-X
400 pages "The present synthesis is an attempt to bring a maximum of scientific elements to this approach " ( saving, stopping
destruction) " by outlining some methodological methods based on the numerous works
already carried out by the international
community, as much on the scientific level
as on that of field work".
SIBIOS @ddresses
You will read an analysis in the next letter.
SIBIOS POLL
Several members of the Council of our Société will leave in Verona : please propose
your candidature for the board of the Société Internationale de Biospéologie by
mail.
If you are not coming to Verona,You will
have to send (by post) your votes for the
General Assembly in Verona.
Biospéologie :
Name:.........................................
Country :.......................................
@ddress :......................................
Adresse :......................................
In order to keep track of our members,
look at the @dresses above and send us :
new adresses, missing names, corrections,
pictures...
SIBIOS legal corner : new statute,
internal rules and report of the Assembly
General Assembly, Societé de Biospéléologie,
13.07.01
Intervales, meeting room, 15.20 h
day-schedule.
1Rapport moral
2Approbation du CR de la réunion de Cluj
3Rapport financier
4Statut
5Renouvellement du conseil
6Nouveaux membres
7Prochains symposiums
8Le site web
9Le logo
Point 1 –
The president opens the session and expresses satisfaction for the conspicuous participation and for
the presence of so many new and young members
of the society. A short President’s report follows,
delining the events after our last meeting in Makarska. The Pesident’s report is voted and then
unanimously approved.
Point 2
Many members have not received the Cluj report;
Geoffroy reads the text . An important issue concerns the institution of a new members’ category:
the young members.
Another crucial issue is about J. Gibert’s re-election as Council’s member. In Cluj this had been
excluded because Gibert was not present at the
symposium and because she had not communicated her availability as a candidate. This had happened not for a lack of interest, but due to his absence from France which prevented her from responding. After a thorough discussion, the proposal of a Gibert’s re-inclusion in the Council is voted. The proposal is then approved with a large
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majority.
Point 3 financial report
C. Juberthie’s report as adjoint treasurer. Mme
Cazals has retired and J. Gibert managed to put together the participation fees of the society and the
incomes of the Encyclopedie.
Juberthie quotes the overall amount of money received and invites present members to pay the remaining due aliquots. The defections related to the
secretariat management slackened all the administrative activities. Juberthie also reminds that future
payments will be necessarily in Euros.
Juberthie further states that it will not be possible
to have the Memoires ready within August and solicitates that the works of the symposium be sent in
electronic format within November.
Encyclopedie: the third volume will be ready next
September. First and second volumes reprint will
be ready in June 2002, and Volume 1 will be possibly divided into two sections. Moreover, Juberthie reminds that the section related to fungi is
lacking because it has not been possible to find authors to deal with this topic.
E. Trajano asks whether the French texts will behopefully translated in English.
The discussion on Juberthie’s financial report is
open.
As suggested by Proudlowe, it is approved to increase the cotisation fee.
Messana invites the participants to express opinions on the eventual increase of the fee to 50 Euros, also including the costs of the journal, in order to provide a more conspicuous financing source.
A thorough discussion is started: V. Sbordoni asks
to shed more light on the real costs of the journal,
Geffroy solicitates a strictly regular periodicity of
the journal, Boutin asks to specify the price of the
journal, Trajano proposes a special fee for the
members not interested in the journal, Boutin also
asks for a special offer fee for the young members,
Holsinger, Juberthie and Dumnika express their
skepticism on how many of the members would
actually cope with an increase of the fee. Trajano,
expressing agreement with the fee increase, suggests to make the payments more facilitated (e.g.
credit cards).
The proposal of the prices of 50 Euros (with journal) and 45 Euros (without journal) is voted. The
assembly approves the proposal by 32 yes and one
abstension.
As far as publications is concerned, Juberthie asks
how to deal with the Proudlowe’s work. Boutin
and others say to publish it as part of the Encyclopedie, Sbordoni points out the importance of the
Societe in such circumstances and upholds the hyBiospeological newsletter n° 4
pothesis of presenting the paper through a publisher, in this context, the need for the valorisation of
the journal is mentioned. It is proposed to discuss
the possible fusion of the journal with the I.J.S.
Boutin solicitates the assembly’s opinion about
easing the Council’s duties.
Holsinger remarks the importance of referees; Parzefal and Humphrey mention the role of the
“subterranean biology”; Clarke reminds the distribution issue; Sket asks about the commercial interests of the journal; Culver reminds that Academic
Press was contacted in the past, with negative results, and that a suitable editor is to be found; Trajano also suggests to renew the journal’s format.
Boutin proposes to the Council to investigate on
any interested publishers. Messana synthesizes the
whole discussion. A European publisher is to be
seeked and a suitable editorial board is to be established. Holsinger reminds again of the positive
experience of the J. of Crustacean Biology; Ribeira
states again the appointment to the Council. The
discussion is then closed.
Point 4. Statute Modifications:
(see Juberthie’s notes).
articolo 2: to broaden the society’s target.
articolo 7: to eliminate the distinction between
French and non-French members.
articolo 8: procedures for the election of President
and Bureau.
Geffroy intervenes reminding the election rules. A
discussion is started about this issue. Trajano suggests to vote with the same periodicity of symposia: once every two years. The modification
implies to vote once every three years. Sbordoni
agrees with the 3 year period for the President, but
requests explanations as for the variability of the
rules applicable to the Council. Juberthie reminds
that this is due to those foreign members who were
added lately.
Sbordoni, Trajano and Juberthie intervene repeatedly.
s for the First article it is proposed to appoint duties to members of the Society.
After the discussion, the proposed modifications
are voted and the assembly gives its approval unanimously.
Point 5 – renewal of the council
31présents + 2 procurations+5 votes by mail;
6 places are free : Madame CAZALS, MARMONIER do not want to be reelected, the place of
REYGROBELLET has not been covered in the last
elections, OROMI & PARZEFALL are not reeligibles, LEBRETON has not presented his candidature
- MM. COBOLLI-SBORDONI, DURAND, KLETECKI, MESSANA, NOTENBOOM have proposed their candidature for reelection
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- M. TRAJANO, GEOFFROY, SKET et GUILLAUME are candidates
In this context, Messana calls the assembly to express opinions on the limit threshold for validating
the vote; he proposes 10% or 5% of the electors.
Sbordoni upholds the 10% threshold; Geffroy suggests one third of the presents. Trajano asks what
the minimum threshold required is, to consider the
assembly valid.
The 1/3 proposal is voted, and immediately approved to be active from the next assembly. The vote
results for council renewal: 31 voters, 2 procuration, 5 votes arrived by mail
SKET 33 COBOLLI 32 TRAJANO 32 MESSANA 31 GEOFFROY 28 KLETECKI 28 NOTENBOOM 26 DURAND 24 GUILLAUME 19
New council is thus composed by the 18 following
members: COBOLLI-SBORDONI, CULVER,
DURAND, GENEST, GEOFFROY, GIBERT,
GUILLAUME, JUBERTHIE, KLETECKI, MAGNIEZ, MALARD , MATHIEU, MESSANA,
MESSOULI, NOTENBOOM, SKET, TRAJANO,
TURQUIN
Point 6 - New members.
Juberthie quotes requests of new associates. See
attached documents. Names are written on the
board: the admission of 27 new members is voted
and approved unanimously .
Point 7 – Next symposium
Messana reminds the importance of shifting to
even years in order to prevent superimposing with
the International Congress of Speleology.
During the Makarska symposium it has been proposed Verona as the new host city. This idea was
upheld in Cluj as well. There is also Plati’s proposal for India. Latella is invited to expose the reasons why for choosing Verona: the advantages are
essentially linked to the importance of the host Institution, the Verona Natural History Museum,
whose history interplays with the history of biospeleology; in fact, in the past, very important biospeleology symposia were held in Verona, and a
subterranean biology laboratory exists in Verona,
moreover, the geographic position of the town appears very comfortable to most of the participants
and the surroundings offer many attractions, not
only biospeleology-related, this being a strong
prereequisite for the success of the symposium.
The assembly expresses a general consensus; Parzefall, Geffroy and others intervene.
Plati is invited to forward his proposal. Plati’s intervention is very articulated and is based on the
will to extend the knowledge to new far lands, to
discover the Indian caves, a wonderful touristic
destination. He also describes the staff and the
congress facilities, hypothesizes a partial support
of the expenses, and name the Indian Institutions
interested. Raipur is the candidate town, FebruaryMarch the optimal period. Plati eventually confirms Raipur’s availability for the symposium subsequent to Verona.
Messana confirms his agreement with Latella and
propose the vote for Verona. The assembly approves by far and appoint Latella as the organiser of
Verona 2002 .
The President solicitates the assembly to express
opinions on the subsequent symposium in India.
Parzefall reminds that dates are to be set in considerable advance. The assembly is unanimous in
declaring Raipur as the host town for the 2004
symposium.
Point 8 web site of the society
The President reminds that, in December 2000,
the Council proposed to open a new website, as
Lebreton cannot assure his collaboration with the
society any longer. The new website will be structured and managed by Geoffroy’s with Proudlowe, Messana and Notenboom contributions. Parzefall invites the participants to thank Proudlowe
for his collaboration.
Point 9 – Society’s logo
The discussion begins, there is no agreement on
the few proposals made, the choice is postponed,
wishing new draft logos to be soon proposed for
the Societé.
The assembly is closed at 18:00h.
This text will be approved (with modifications if necessary) in Verona. Thank you
Marina COBOLLI (she wrote it).
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STATUTS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE
BIOSPÉOLOGIE
Avec les amendements adoptés par l' Assemblée générale du 13/07/2001 à Intervales (Brésil).
I - BUT ET COMPOSITION DE l' ASSOCIATION
Article 1er
Il est fondé entre les adhérents aux présents
statuts une association régie par la loi publiée au
Journal Officiel de la République française le 1er
juillet 1901 et son décret d'application du 16 août
1901, ayant pour titre : Société Internationale de
Biospéologie. Sa durée est illimitée.
Article 2 - Buts
Article 4 - Admission
Pour faire partie de l' Association il faut
être parrainé par deux membres actifs, et être proposé par le Conseil à l' Assemblée Générale ; le
candidat devra obtenir les deux tiers des suffrages
exprimés pour être admis.
Article 5 - Membres
l' Association se compose de membres actifs, faisant des recherches dans le champ défini à
l' article 2 des présents statuts, de membres associés (personnes physiques ou morales), de membres d'honneur, de membres bienfaiteurs.
Article 6 - Démission, radiation
La qualité de membre se perd par la démission ou la radiation prononcée, pour non paiement
de la cotisation ou pour motif grave, par le Conseil; avant sa radiation, le Membre en cause sera
averti par le Conseil et il pourra être entendu par le
Conseil sur sa demande.
La Société Internationale de Biospéologie a
pour buts :
• de favoriser les études de Biologie et d'Ecologie
souterraines dans leur sens le plus large,
• de provoquer et d'organiser des réunions de travail entre les chercheurs des différentes branches
de la Biospéologie,
• de publier les travaux des Colloques qu'elle organise, les Mémoires de Biospéologie, des ouvrages, des rapports, et un Bulletin de liaison,
• d'oeuvrer pour la protection des espèces et des
habitats souterrains, en faisant des propositions
aux structures administratives responsables de la
protection du patrimoine naturel,
• d'oeuvrer dans le champ de l' information et de
l' éducation sur le domaine souterrain,
• de soutenir et de manager des projets dans son
champ d'activité.
Article 3 - Siège
Le siège social de l' Association est à la
Mairie de Moulis, Ariège (France).
II - ADMINISTRATION ET FONCTIONNEMENT
Article 7 - Le Conseil
L' Association est administrée par un Conseil dont le nombre des membres, fixé par délibération de l' Assemblée Générale, est compris entre
10 au moins et 20 au plus.
Les membres du Conseil sont élus au bulletin secret pour 3 ans par l' Assemblée Générale,
et choisis parmi les membres actifs de l' Association. Ils ne sont éligibles que trois fois consécutives ; ils peuvent être élus de nouveau après un intervalle de 3 ans. Le renouvellement du Conseil a
lieu par tiers.
Un appel à candidature est effectué par le
Conseil deux mois avant l' Assemblée Générale.
En cas de vacance, le Conseil se complète à
la prochaine Assemblée générale. Les pouvoirs du
ou des membres ainsi élus prennent fin à l' époque
où devrait normalement expirer le mandat du ou
des membres remplacés.
Le Conseil se réunit au moins une fois par
an, sur convocation, annoncée un mois à l' avance, du Président ou du Secrétaire Général (ou sur
demande de la moitié de ses membres). Le vote de
la moitié au moins des membres du Conseil est nécessaire pour la validité des délibérations ; des pro28
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curations peuvent être données. Le décisions sont
prises à la majorité des voix ; en cas de partage, la
voix du Président est prépondérante.
Sur décision du bureau signée du Président
et du Secrétaire, les membres du conseil peuvent
être consultés et peuvent voter par correspondance.
Il est tenu un procès-verbal des séances par
le ou les secrétaires. Les procès-verbaux sont signés par le Président et le Secrétaire Général ou un
membre du Conseil remplaçant le Secrétaire Général en cas d'absence. Ils sont transmis sans blanc
ni rature sur un registre coté et paraphé par le
Sous-Préfet de Saint-Girons en Ariège (France) ou
son délégué.
Article 8 - Les organes de fonctionnement du Conseil
Le Conseil choisit, au scrutin secret, un
bureau composé d'un Président, de deux VicePrésidents, d'un Secrétaire Général, d'un Secrétaire adjoint, d'un Trésorier et d'un Trésorier adjoint.
Le Trésorier et le Trésorier adjoint sont
choisis parmi les membres français.
Le bureau est élu pour 1 an, et ses membres sont rééligibles pendant la durée de leur mandat au Conseil.
Le Conseil peut demander à l' un ou plusieurs des membres actifs de la Société de l' assister à titre consultatif pour un problème particulier.
Le Conseil peut confier une mission technique ou la gestion d'une activité à un ou plusieurs
membres actifs, ceux-ci devront lui rendre compte
à chacune de ses demandes.
Article 9 - Moyens d'action
Les moyens d'action consistent en réunions, Colloques, Symposiums, publications, prix, aide à de
jeunes chercheurs, rapports, soutien à des projets.
Article 10 - Ressources
Les membres de la Sociétés ont redevables
d'une cotisation annuelle, dont le montant est fixé
par l' Assemblée Générale.
D'autres ressources ne sont pas exclues.
Article 11 - Assemblée Générale
L' Assemblée générale se réunit chaque année au moins une fois. l' Assemblée générale
comprend tous les membres actifs. Les personnes
morales, régulièrement constituées, peuvent être
représentées, chacune par un seul délégué.
Un mois avant la date fixée, les membres
de l' Association sont convoqués par les soins du
Secrétaire général. l' ordre du jour est porté sur
les convocations : seules les questions qui y figurent peuvent faire l' objet d'un vote de l' Assemblée générale. Les question que l' on désire voir
figurer seront soumises au Conseil de la Société
avant l' envoi de l' ordre du jour.
Le Bureau de l' Assemblée générale est celui du Conseil.
L' assemblée générale entend les rapports
sur la situation morale et financière de l' Association et sur la gestion du Conseil d'administration.
Elle examine les comptes de l' exercice clos
et elle donne quitus au(x) Trésorier(s) pour la gestion du (ou des) comptes.
Elle vote le budget de l' exercice suivant et
délibère sur les questions mises à l' ordre du jour.
Elle vote sur les personnes physiques ou
morales candidates pour devenir membres de la
Société et présentées par deux parrains.
Après épuisement de l' ordre du jour, l'
Assemblée procède au remplacement, au scrutin
secret, des membres sortants ou renouvelables du
Conseil. Chacun doit obtenir au moins un tiers des
suffrages exprimés pour être élu.
L' Assemblée générale ne peut délibérer
valablement que si un quart au moins des membres
actifs sont présents ou participent par correspondance ou par procuration, aux votes.
Chaque membres ne peut détenir plus de
trois pouvoirs de représentation et de vote.
Le rapport annuel est adressé chaque année
à tous les membres de l' Association sur support
papier ou informatique.
Article 12
Les dépenses sont ordonnancées par le
Président et le (les) trésorier (s).
L' Association est représentée en justice et
dans tous les actes de la vie civile par le Président,
le Secrétaire Général ou à défaut l' un des membres du bureau choisi par le Conseil
d'Administration.
Le représentant de l' Association doit jouir
du plein exercice de ses droits civiques.
Article 13
Le Président doit faire connaître dans les
trois mois à la Sous-Préfecture de Saint-Girons,
arrondissement où l' Association a son siège so29
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cial, tous les changements survenus dans l' administration ou la direction de l' Association ainsi que
toutes les modifications apportées à leurs statuts.
Ces modifications sont en outre consignées
sur un registre spécial, coté et paraphé par la personne habilitée à représenter l' Association, et tenu
au siège de l' Association.
Le registre de l' Association devra être présenté aux autorités administratives, Sous-Préfet ou
son représentant ou tout fonctionnaire accrédité par
lui , chaque fois qu'elles en feront la demande.
Conformément à l'article 34 de la loi Informatique et Liberté du 6 janvier 1978, vous disposez d'un droit d'accès, de
modification, de rectification et de suppression des données vous concernant.
Pour l'exercer :
[email protected]
Article 14
Les statuts peuvent être modifiés à la majorité des deux tiers des membres actifs présents à l'
Assemblée Générale ou de l' ensemble des membres si un vote par correspondance a été organisé.
III - DISSOLUTION
Article 15
La dissolution de l' Association ne peut
être prononcée que par l'Assemblée Générale convoquée spécialement à cet effet ; la présence ou la
représentation des 2/3 des membres est nécessaire,
la dissolution étant acquise à la majorité des 3/4
des membres présents et représentés.
abstracts' cover sheet : XV I.S.B.th
l' Assemblée Générale désigne un ou plusieurs commissaires chargés de la liquidation des
biens de l' Association.
Elle attribue l' actif conformément à la loi
.
La dissolution doit faire l' objet d'une déclaration à la Sous-Préfecture du siège social.
Le Trésorier adjoint
Christian JUBERTHIE.
_______
Le Président
Giuseppe MESSANA
Voté par l' Assemblée Générale à Intervales
(Brésil) le 13 juillet 2001 à l' unanimité des présents + 2 pouvoirs.
internal rules
see SIBIOS ; ref. 2001/1
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