Donald Mackay, Rod Ward and Jenny Hall provide us with the first of a series of bulletins on developments within the BIOME area of activity. <a href="/issue36">issue36</a> July 2003 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/726/author-info">donald mackay</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/728/author-info">jenny hall</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/727/author-info">rod ward</a>