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2006 ANNUAL MEETING
24-28 JUNE, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, AND STUDENT AWARDSThe 20th annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Conservation Without Borders, will be held 24-28 June 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. The call for proposals for symposia, workshops, and organized discussions closed on 15 October 2005. The Steering Committee will accept abstracts for invited and contributed oral and poster presentations until 10 January 2006. This year, we will be conducting a new experiment for some oral presentations. Details about this experiment, "speed presentations," are provided below. Due to the high number of participants expected at the 2006 meeting and the limited number of oral presentations that can be accommodated, we strongly encourage poster presentations. Posters will be displayed prominently in a central location for several days. Dedicated poster sessions will facilitate in-depth discussion between authors and attendees. Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your abstract for an oral presentation or poster. -- Traditional oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, including time for questions. -- Speed oral presentations will be limited to three minutes. See below for details. -- The abstract should include new information. Abstracts should not be submitted for presentations that have been given at previous SCB meetings or similar conferences. -- The abstract should include specific information about the results and conclusions of the research. Abstracts that state "results will be discussed" will not be accepted. -- Contributed oral presentations and posters will be grouped by topic. Please choose from the list of topic areas to assist us in placing your presentation in an appropriate session. -- If your abstract is accepted but cannot be accommodated as an oral presentation, you may be given the option to prepare a poster. -- Individuals may give only one oral or poster presentation. You may be an author on more than one abstract, but you may be the presenter for only one. Registration. Presenting authors (oral and poster) must register for the meeting by 17 March 2006 or their presentation will be dropped from the program. Because late cancellation excludes others who might have wished to give a presentation, authors who fail to notify the Steering Committee of their withdrawal by 14 May will be excluded from giving a presentation at the 2007 annual meeting. Visual aids and other special needs. All oral presentation session rooms will be equipped with a laptop computer and projector, slide projector, and overhead projector. If you need to make special arrangements for other types of presentations, email 2006@conbio.org. Authors who wish to give a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation will be required to submit the file several weeks in advance; information and instructions will be available several months before the meeting.
SCIENTIFIC "SPEED DATING" A new experiment in presentation formats for scientific meetings
"I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." -- attributed to Blaise Pascal and / or Mark Twain Dear participants in SCB's 2006 annual meeting: Are you -- Tired of attending a presentation of a paper that you expected to be exciting, discovering in the first two minutes that it doesn't interest you, and then suffering through the entire 15 minute talk because you are too polite to leave and trapped in a middle seat? -- Looking for opportunities to engage in detailed conversation with presenters whose work appealed to you, but who disappear immediately after their session? -- Frustrated because you cannot attend as many presentations as you would like during concurrent sessions? -- Jittery because modern life has left you with a really short attention span and insufficient time to digest all of the journal articles you should be reading? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, never fear, speed presentations are here! You may have heard of "speed dating," spending five minutes each with a dozen prospective dates. In honor of our 20th anniversary meeting, SCB is going to adapt this concept to conduct an exciting experiment in alternative formats for meeting presentations-and we need your help. What are speed presentations? At the 2006 annual meeting, in addition to the traditional formats for contributed oral and poster presentations, we will offer an experimental "speed presentation" option. Each speed presentation session will be two hours long. In the first hour, 15 presenters will be given three minutes each to present their key ideas and results. In the second hour, presenters will station themselves at separate tables where they can interact with people who are interested in learning more about their work. How do I participate? If you are interested in being a speed presenter, simply submit an abstract according to the standard guidelines and indicate that you would like your abstract to be considered for a speed presentation. Depending on the number of submissions we receive, we will convene one or two speed presentation sessions that include 15 papers with a common theme. If your abstract is accepted for a speed presentation, you will be notified by the Steering Committee; if not, your abstract still will be considered for a traditional (15-minute) oral presentation or poster. You then will be expected to prepare a presentation that summarizes your research in a maximum of three minutes (as the introductory quotation hints, do not underestimate how difficult this will be!). We also encourage you to prepare an extended abstract (one to four pages) that you can distribute to interested members of the audience following your presentation. If you are interested in listening, just attend the sessions! We look forward to seeing you there. We will evaluate the outcome of this experiment to determine whether speed presentations should become a regular feature of our annual meetings. Help us discover what happens when MTV meets SCB.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTSAbstracts should be submitted for oral presentations (both traditional and speed) and poster presentations and for invited symposia. Abstracts for symposium presentations are by invitation only. Please follow the instructions carefully, including all requested information and formatting. Any abstract with errors or omissions will be returned for revision and runs the risk of missing the abstract submission deadline. Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the meeting Web site, www.ConservationBiology.org/2006. Web submission is strongly encouraged. If you cannot submit your abstract via the Web site, please email your abstract to 2006@conbio.org. The abstract should be attached as a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, RTF, or ASCII text file, and the subject line of the email should read "Abstract for SCB 2006." Regardless of the method of submission, all abstracts must be received by 10 January 2006. The Steering Committee will attempt to notify all authors by 20 February.
ABSTRACT FORMATNote: Unfortunately, the online submission interface cannot accommodate letters with accents (e.g., é, ü, ç). Please write these letters in plain text (e.g., e, u, c). 1. Presentation format. Indicate whether you would prefer your abstract to be considered for an oral, poster, either oral or poster, or an invited symposium presentation. Indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a speed presentation (described above). 2. Title of invited symposium. If applicable, indicate the title of the symposium in which you have been invited to present. 3. Authors. List all authors with the name of the presenting author in CAPITAL LETTERS. Order should be last name first for the first author, but first name first for all other authors. Write out full first names. 4. Addresses. List the institutional affiliations and addresses, including countries, for each author in the same order as above. For the presenting author only, include an email address in parentheses at the end of the address. If there are multiple addresses, place the initials of the author in parentheses at the end of each address (see examples below). 5. Title. List the title in CAPITAL LETTERS. Titles may not exceed 150 characters. 6. Abstract. The body of the abstract may not exceed one paragraph of 200 words (excluding formatting codes). Begin with a clear statement of the problem or objectives, give brief methods and major results, and end with a substantial conclusion. Do not use vague statements such as "results will be discussed." Follow the instructions given below to indicate any special formatting or symbols within the abstract. Abstracts that exceed 200 words will be returned for revision and may miss the submission deadline. 7. Student presentation. Indicate whether the presentation will be given by a student (regardless of whether the student is a candidate for a student award). 8. Session moderator. Indicate whether you are willing to moderate the session in which you will be presenting (moderate own), a session in which you will not be presenting (moderate other), or none. 9. Comments. List any necessary comments relevant to your abstract submission, including any special scheduling requests. 10. Contact. Provide the name of the contact person for correspondence, including notification of abstract acceptance and program position. Include the contact person's complete mailing address and country. Also provide an email address and telephone number, including the country and city codes. 11. Visual aid(s) needed. Indicate whether your presentation will be made using a computer projector, slide projector, or overhead projector. 12. Topic areas. The following general topic areas will be used to place your abstract in an appropriate session. Unless otherwise specified, topic areas are unrestricted with respect to ecological realm (e.g., freshwater, marine, or terrestrial), geographic location, or taxonomic group. Consistent with the meeting theme, conservation without borders, we hope that a range of study systems will be represented in many of the sessions. Please indicate your first, second, and third choices. Adaptive management and monitoring
Special Characters and FormattingAbstracts submitted electronically via the meeting Web site are limited to ASCII text format. Please use the following codes to indicate the use of special formatting and symbols within the abstract. Replace special symbols, such as accented letters or Greek characters, with their text equivalent whenever possible. FORMAT/CHARACTER EXAMPLE SUBMISSION EXAMPLE italics Salix nigra <i>Salix nigra</i>
STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATESStudent award candidates (restricted to 15-minute oral presentations) must submit two abstracts. One should be formatted according to the instructions given above and submitted online by 10 January 2006. In addition, to apply for a student award, an extended abstract (minimum 500 words, maximum 800 words) must be submitted to Alan Thornhill at athornhill@conbio.org no later than 10 January 2006. Please include in the abstract the names and complete contact information for all authors and the presentation title. The student must be the primary author and must submit the abstract under that name. In other words, please make certain that the name of the student applying for the award and the name of the primary author are identical. If two or more authors are listed, please outline their roles in the work. Current students and students with a graduation date of 24 June 2005 or later are eligible to apply. The extended abstract should be attached as a Microsoft Word or ASCII text file, and the subject line of the email should be "Extended Abstract for SCB 2006." Abstracts that are not formatted according to these guidelines will not be accepted.
ABSTRACT EXAMPLESExample 1 Either Oral or Poster Adams, Diana, Elizabeth Farmer, DOUG ZIFTER. Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA (DA, EF). Valley Environmental Consulting, 2800 Commerce Ave., San Jose, CA 95134 (DZ), dzifter@veconsult.com. GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ENDANGERED PLANT <i>CORDYLANTHUS PALMATUS</i> WITHIN SEASONAL ALKALI WETLANDS <i>Cordylanthus palmatus</i> is an annual, hemiparasitic plant that inhabits seasonally flooded wetlands with saline and alkaline soils in California's Central and Livermore valleys. The goal of our research was to inform conservation strategies for the species by examining genetic diversity and structure using inter-simple-sequence-repeats (ISSR) nuclear DNA markers . . . (200 word maximum). Moderate none Please schedule after talk by C. Mollis Doug Zifter, Valley Environmental Consulting, 2800 Commerce Ave., San Jose, CA 95134; dzifter@veconsult.com; 408-555-1212 Computer projector Conservation genetics; wetland ecology; ecological restoration and reconstruction Example 2 Oral Consider for speed presentation JONES, JANE, Bill Q. Smith, Bob Thomas. Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 USA (JJ, BQS), jjones@nevada.edu. Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1000 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512 USA (BT). RESPONSE OF BIRDS TO MANAGEMENT OF WILDLAND FUELS AND FIRE REGIMES Local land managers in the intermountain west need information on the response of various taxonomic groups to fire and fuels treatments. We focused on the response of birds to fire in pinyon-juniper woodlands at multiple spatial and temporal scales . . . (200 words maximum). Moderate own Jane Jones, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 USA; jjones@nevada.edu; 775-555-1212 Computer projector Adaptive management and monitoring; spatial ecology and conservation; remote sensing
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