Abstract
Our scientific community has lost one of its prominent members: Prof. Michael R. Warburg (MRW) who passed away on the 9th of February, 2014 in Haifa. The organisers of the 9th Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, held in Poitiers, France, decided to dedicate the meeting and this special issue to his memory. Prof. Warburg was a highly regarded member of our community, a ‘spiritual sponsor’ of isopod research, a passionate isopodologist himself, and a mentor to many students and young researchers.
Highlights
Michael R. Warburg (MRW) initiated a meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in 1992
MRW lent his support to a smaller workshop in Hungary (Gödöllő) in 1991 connected to the 4th European Congress of Entomology
Szlavecz organized the workshop, including a round table discussion that resulted in a summary on the trends and methods in terrestrial isopod ecology (Hornung et al 1992)
Summary
Schmalfuss (Natural History Museum, Stuttgart, Germany), who both verified MRW’s identifications and identified several new species, naming one of them after MRW: Chaetophiloscia warburgi Schmalfuss, 1991 He spent his last 40 years at the Israeli Institute for Technology (TECHNION), Haifa. In Haifa he kindly hosted several isopodologists, including the author and collaborated internationally in laboratory and field projects During his scientific career M.R. Warburg studied a broad range of animal taxa such as ticks, scorpions, amphibians, and reptiles in addition to terrestrial isopods (Fig 2). All these diverse projects fit within the disciplines of species diversity, distribution, ecophysiology, reproductive systems and strategies (Fig. 3) He published more than 180 papers, over 75 abstracts, 2 books and was the co-editor of the 4th Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods volume
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