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1998 SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING

All information concerning the 1998 meeting in this document is superceded by informaion contained on the official site:
http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/consbio/
Please see this site for the most up to date iformation.

13-16 JULY 1998 -- MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 28 FEBRUARY 1998

The 12th annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, the third to take place outside the United States, will be held 13-16 July 1998 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

The Scientific sessions of the meeting will consist of two plenary sessions, 18 symposia, four workshops, and a number of open sessions for posters and spoken papers. The following list of the symposia and workshops is intended as a guide to the range of topics to be covered during the scientific sessions. Symposia titles preceded by asterisks are open to contributions. If you wish to contribute to ONE OF THESE SYMPOSIA please contact the convenor BEFORE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT. All other symposia have invited speakers only but POSTERS relevant to any of the symposium topics will be welcome from anyone. Posters, other than those relevant to particular symposia, and contributed spoken papers will be grouped into appropriate categories by the organizing committee.

SYMPOSIA

NUMBER / TITLE (ABBREVIATED) / CONVENOR / CONTACT EMAIL

WORKSHOPS

NUMBER / TITLE / CONVENOR / CONTACT EMAIL

    W1 / ***Developing an integrated approach to biodiversity conservation and State of the Environment reporting / Stephanie Williams / stephanie.williams@nre.vic.gov.au

    W2 / Birds as conservation tools in the Americas: debunking myths and facing reality / Christina Wurschy / cwurschy@tnc.org

    W3 / Teaching conservation biology / Martha Groom / mgroom@unity.ncsu.edu

    W4 / Tools for Population Viability Analysis / Resit Akcakaya / resit@ramas.com

Poster presentations are preferred and we guarantee space for all poster submissions provided the abstracts meet the specified requirements. Posters will be displayed for a full day and presenting authors will be expected to be in attendance at their posters during the lunch break and from 5:00-7:00 P.M. on the day of presentation. Spoken papers may have to be limited; priority will be given to symposia, papers directly relevant to symposia but not included by the organizers, and papers relevant to the conference theme. In symposia, spoken papers will generally be of 20 minutes duration inclusive of question time. Spoken papers, other than those in symposia, will be grouped according to topic, allocated a time of ten minutes, and grouped question periods will be included at least once per hour.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTS

Abstracts will be accepted on condition that the presenter registers as a full delegate or student delegate to the meeting. Day registration will not entitle anyone to present a paper. Abstracts submitted by persons not registered by the final date for normal registration (31 May 1998) will not be allocated a place in the Program and will not appear in the printed Program and Abstracts.

No more than one paper or poster may be presented by one person. If your name appears on two or more papers presented by you and your colleagues/students, ensure that each of you acts as presenter on ONE paper only.

Please follow the instructions carefully and submit the abstract and additional information in the format requested. Any abstract where there is any ambiguity will be returned to the sender for correction.

Electronic submissions by email are preferred. If you do not have email, try to find a friend or colleague who does, or visit your local Kinko's or Mail Boxes Etcetera before attempting other forms of submission. If you absolutely cannot use email then please prepare a clear typed copy which can be scanned, in a font such as Courier or Arial, minimum size 12 point, and either send it by facsimile to

+61-2-9850-9273 marked ATTENTION SCB ABSTRACT

or as a last resort if you do not have access to a FAX machine, then send via Air Mail to

SCB ABSTRACTS
c/o Key Centre for Biodiversity and Bioresources
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia

Do not send diskettes in the mail.

Compose your abstract using your favorite word processor and save it as a file in rich text format (RTF). Most word processors either will offer you this option in the SAVE AS menu (e.g., MSWord for Windows or Macintosh, WordPerfect) or will allow you to select a file with extension .RTF (e.g. Word 5.5 for MSDOS). Do not use the SAVE command or the "diskette" ikon to save files. Using an RTF file means that regardless what conversion protocol your mail program uses, the file is already in a form which is easily translated. Send an email message to the address below with the file either embedded in the message or as an attachment; provided you have previously saved the file in RTF format, it should not matter which of these two options you choose.

The format for the abstracts is simple and straightforward as shown in the following examples.

POSTER (S29)
MacTavish, H. and MACAOIDH, S.: University of the Hebrides, Rhum, H2V3AK and Hibernean Technical College, Muck, M9G5KY (macca@mickle.muckle.ac.uk).
Extinction of Red grouse traced to BSE / Scrapie cycle in domestic livestock.
The apparently mysterious lack of Red grouse observed on August 12, 1997 on the island of Muck has been traced to an apparently novel means of transmission of a disease previously associated with cross-contamination of stock feeds. The carcasses of 239 dead grouse collected from the moors immediately after the attempted collecting exercise all contained lesions of

SPOKEN (S34) (Slides, OHT's) (STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATE)
DUNDEE, C. and Swagman, J.: Northern Territory Dept. Heritage, Gove, NT 0823 and Queensland Dept. Tourism, Longbeach, Qld 4999 (crocca@ocka.nocka.nt.gov.au).
FEEDING SHEEP TO CROCODILES BENEFITS ENDANGERED REPTILES, ALLEVIATES DESTRUCTION OF BUSH.
Casual observations along the billabong by the junior author led us to speculate that an alternative use could be found for the ubiquitous jumbuck

The FIRST LINE / PARAGRAPH contains the following information:

  • type of presentation
  • (optional) Symposium closest in subject area
  • (for spoken papers only) visual aids required. Options for visual aids are35 mm slides, overhead transparencies (OHT's), or LCD projector. If you need an LCD projector, then either bring your own laptop (preferred) or have a MS-Powerpoint presentation on diskette. If you are not bringing your own laptop, your LCD presentation must be in MS Powerpoint only, not Corel or other presentation software. Video projection can only be by prior arrangement and will only be possible for VHS/ PAL videocassettes recorded to Australian standards (North American and most European systems are totally incompatible).
  • (STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATE) this flag is to indicate that the person presenting the paper is a student who wishes to be judged for the student award.

The SECOND LINE lists the authors, with the author presenting the paper in CAPITALS, authors' institutional affiliations in the same order as the authors, and (in parentheses) the email address of the presenting author only (the presenting author should be the person sending the email - if email addresses in the abstract do not match those on the message header we will query).

The THIRD LINE consists of the title in capitals. Titles preferably should be 80 characters or less in length, i.e. should fit on one 15 cm (6 inch) line when printed in 10-point Times Roman capitals. Titles which exceed two lines may be subjected to editing or truncation.

The NEXT LINE begins the abstract, which must be a single paragraph of 200 words or fewer. Do not indent. Do not use tabs. Do not use any formatting other than the hard returns at the ends of the previous paragraphs. As with all good abstracts yours must begin with a definition of the problem or objectives, have a clear statement of the methods used and the major results obtained, and end with a substantial conclusion. Abstracts containing imprecise statements such as "implications will be discussed" will be rejected. Candidates for the student award MUST submit an additional "extended abstract" of 1000 words or fewer describing their work in more detail. This extended abstract will not be published in the Program and Abstracts but will be available to the Student Award judges. Please leave a blank line, then begin the extended abstract. The extended abstract may contain multiple paragraphs, tables, and references as deemed appropriate but not figures or photographs.

Send your abstract (either as an attachment to an email message or embedded in the message) to cb-abstract@rna.bio.mq.edu.au

If you have any queries about preparation of abstracts or any other matter please email to george.mckay@mq.edu.au. Please do not send abstracts to this address.

We will acknowledge receipt of your abstract by email as soon as practicable and indicate whether it is readable or further clarification is needed. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be by 15 March at the latest. Authors who submit by mail rather than electronically will be notified in writing by 15 March.

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