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CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS 1999 SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING 17-21 JUNE, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND

• Instructions for Preparing Abstracts
• Other Information About the Meeting

The 13th annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, the first to be held in the United States in three years, will be convened 17-21 June 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

The scientific program will include two plenary sessions, six symposia, several workshops, 48 half-day paper sessions, and two poster sessions.

We encourage poster presentations and guarantee space for all poster submissions provided that 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 for at least an hour in the late afternoon. Spoken papers may have to be limited due to constraints on the schedule; if your abstract is not accepted for a spoken presentation, we will notify you so you can prepare a poster instead. Spoken papers will be limited to 15 minutes, including questions. We will group papers according to topic.

Instructions for Preparing Abstracts

Deadlines for Authors
Submission of abstracts: 21 January 1999
Notification of acceptance: 21 February 1999
Author registration: 15 April 1999

Abstracts will be accepted on the condition that the presenter registers as a full delegate or student delegate to the meeting. Presenting authors must register by 15 April or their abstracts will be pulled from the program. Day registration will not entitle anyone to present a paper. Abstracts submitted after the 21 January deadline may not be allocated a place in the program or appear in the printed program and abstracts.

No more than one paper or poster may be presented by the same author. If your name appears on two or more papers or posters, make sure that you are the presenter for only one of them.

Please follow the instructions carefully and submit the abstract and additional information in the format requested. Any abstract with errors in it will be returned to the sender for correction and runs the risk of being too late for inclusion in the program.

Electronic submissions by email are preferred. If you do not have email, please try to find a friend or colleague who does. If you absolutely cannot use email, please send your abstract on a 3.5" computer disk (IBM or Mac format), as a Word, RTF, or ASCII text file (listed in order of our preference), or prepare a clean typed copy that can be scanned, in a font such as Courier or Arial, minimum 12-point, and send it by facsimile to (301) 314-9358 marked ATTENTION SCB ABSTRACT, or by mail to

SCB Abstracts
c/o CONS Program
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742 USA

Compose your abstract using your favorite word processing program and save it as a file in rich text format (RTF). Most word processing programs offer this as an option when you choose the SAVE AS option; the file will probably have a .RTF extension on the file name. Send an email message to the address below with the file either embedded in the message or as an attachment; if you have saved the file in RTF format it should work either way.

The format for abstracts should follow the examples shown below.

The first line or paragraph contains the following information.

Type of presentation

Visual aids required (for spoken papers only)
Options are 35 mm slides, overhead transparencies (OHT), or LCD projector. We will have laptop computers available if you want to bring your presentation on a disk (IBM format). Our laptops will have the latest version of Microsoft PowerPoint on them. However, you may want to bring your own laptop, especially if you use some other presentation software. Video projection can only be by prior arrangement.

Student award candidate (see page 15)
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 third line consists of the title in capitals. Titles should be 80 characters or less, i.e., should fit on one 15 cm (6-inch) line when printed in 10-point Times Roman capitals. Titles that exceed two lines may be subjected to editing or truncation.

The next line begins the abstract, which must be a single paragraph of 200 or fewer words. Do not indent. Do not use tabs. Do not use any formatting other than the hard returns at the end 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 (see details page 15) must submit an additional extended abstract of 1000 or fewer words 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 (we prefer email attachments, but will accept it as the message text) to scb-abstracts@umail.umd.edu.

If you have any queries about preparation of abstracts please send a message to consoffc@umail.umd.edu. 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 will be by 21 February at the latest. Authors who submit by mail rather than email will be notified in writing by that date.

Here are examples of abstracts for posters and for spoken talks

POSTER
Callish, F. and LOWE, J. Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (lowe@mail.umd.edu)
NEST PREDATION BY BLUE JAYS AS A FACTOR IN SONGBIRD DECLINES ON ASSATEAGUE ISLAND
The recent decline in abundance of neotropical migrants on Assateague Island has been blamed on a shortage of their primary food source, bayberries, but our research implicates blue jays as important predators on eggs and nestlings. We used radio tracking to . . .

SPOKEN (Slides, OHTs) (STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATE)
STARR, K. and Lewinsky, M. Dept. of Natural Resources, National School for Scandal, Washington, D.C. 20000 (starr@trouble.net)
CONSERVATION OF FOREST RESOURCES BY ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF IMPORTANT POLICY DOCUMENTS
We have explored the use of the Internet as a method to disseminate information rapidly and without the necessity to log trees in national forests that support biodiversity . . .

Other Information About the Meeting

At the time of writing all other information is tentative. We will post regular updates at http://www.inform.umd.edu/SCB. Please check this site for information on field trips, housing, and travel arrangements; information also will appear in the May newsletter. Registration information will be printed in the February newsletter. Deadlines will be 15 April for early (discounted) registration and 15 May for normal registration. We hope to have an electronic registration option.

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