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PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

• SATURDAY 7 JUNE
• SUNDAY 8 JUNE
• MONDAY 9 JUNE
• Contributed paper sessions:

SATURDAY 7 JUNE

Special sessions:

• Biodiversity and its conservation on global coral reefs
• Considerations of reserve design: core reserves, buffer zones, and connecting habitat
• Genetics and conservation of marine organisms
• Marinating the community: getting youth and adults to care about our marine waters and resources
• Marine conservation biology - application to protected areas
• Overexploitation of marine species and technological change
• Red tides and harmful algal blooms
• Seaweeds and seagrasses: threats and conservation status
• The impacts of fishing gear on the marine environment

Contributed paper sessions:

• Avian ecology and conservation I: the issues
• Avian ecology and conservation II: diving birds
• Avian ecology and conservation III: diversity research
• Avian ecology and conservation IV: distribution research
• Cetaceans in Canadian waters
• Conservation issues in coastal environments
• Disturbance I: impacts
• Disturbance II: forest examples
• Disturbance III: human influences
• Disturbance IV: case studies
• Ecology, fish and fishing, reefs and beyond
• Fragmentation and disturbance in coastal systems
• Geographic Information Systems and conservation planning
• Indigenous cultures, local peoples, and conservation
• Marine reserves I: the frontiers of protection
• Marine reserves II: problems and perspectives
• Marine reserves III: revisiting the potential
• Marine reserves IV: back to basics
• Patterns of endangerment
• Scale issues in conservation
• Some North American perspectives on GAP analysis
• What is natural? A roundtable

SUNDAY 8 JUNE

Special sessions:

• Applications of molecular biology to conservation
• Conservation of cetaceans
• Conservation of large river floodplain ecosystems
• Coping with uncertainty in marine conservation biology
• Evaluating conservation programs: theory and practice
• Habitat, pollution, and marine conservation biology
• Impact of marine reserves: theory and empirical evidence
• Impacts of introduced species in aquatic, terrestrial, and marine systems
• Indigenous knowledge and conservation
• Marine protected areas in temperate zones
• Protecting habitat essential to fish populations
• Social sciences and marine conservation biology
• The ecological effects of roads: implications for conservation planning

Contributed paper sessions:

• Biodiversity conservation at the landscape level
• Consequences of fragmentation of tropical forests
• Conservation and program planning I
• Conservation and program planning II
• Conservation and scientists
• Conservation and the public
• Conservation innovation from the grassroots to space
• Conservation of reptiles and amphibians
• Forest habitat relationships
• Forest protection across scales
• Metapopulation research
• Perspectives on conservation institutions
• Perspectives on endangerment
• Population viability analysis I
• Population viability analysis II
• Restoration and reintroduction I
• Restoration and reintroduction II
• Wildlife and human interaction

MONDAY 9 JUNE

Special sessions:

• A neglected science: the importance of animal and human behavior to marine conservation biology
• Conservation of cetaceans
• Does what we know about food webs help us manage and protect marine environments?
• Factors affecting reproduction and recruitment success in marine organisms
• How effective are single species approaches for ecosystem conservation?
• Stewardship across boundaries
• The conservation and management of populations and communities in non-closed systems

Contributed paper sessions:

• Biodiversity conservation assessments
• Conservation in the riparian zone
• Conservation of river biota
• Ecology of predators and prey
• Endangered species cases: status and strategies
• Fisheries I: perspectives
• Fisheries II: conservation issues
• Fisheries III & IV: case studies 1 & 2
• Genetic research I: plants
• Genetic research II: theory to practice
• Genetic research III: mammals
• Genetic research IV: novel applications
• Identifying units for protection, genes to biomes
• Issues in ecology and habitat
• Perspectives on protected areas
• Physiological and morphological research
• Population census and survey techniques
• The problem of exotic species I
• The problem of exotic species II

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