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2007 ANNUAL MEETING - 1 - 5 JULY, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA --- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• SPEED PRESENTATIONS
• MENTORING PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS
• STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATES
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTS
• ABSTRACT FORMAT
• Special Characters and Formatting

SCB's 2007 annual meeting, One World, One Conservation, One Partnership, will be held from 1 - 5 July 2007 at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The call for proposals for symposia, workshops, and organized discussions closed on 16 October 2006. The Local Organizing Committee will accept abstracts for oral and poster presentations until 8 January 2007.

The scientific program will include plenary sessions, invited symposia, workshops, organized discussions, short courses, poster sessions, concurrent sessions of contributed oral presentations, and speed presentations. Due to the high level of attendance expected at the 2007 meeting and, consequently, limited time and space for oral presentations, poster presentations are strongly encouraged. Posters will be displayed prominently and for the entire meeting; a special session dedicated to posters will allow in-depth discussion between authors and attendees.

Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your abstract for an oral presentation or poster.

-- Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes - 12 minutes for the presentation and 3 minutes for questions.

-- Speed presentations will be limited to four minutes. See details below.

-- 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.

-- The abstract should have a clear connection to conservation biology.

-- Contributed oral presentations will be grouped by topic. Please choose from the list of general topic areas to assist us in selecting an appropriate session for your presentation.

-- If your abstract is accepted but cannot be accommodated as an oral presentation, you will be notified as soon as possible so that you will have ample time to prepare a poster.

-- Individuals are limited to presenting only one oral or poster presentation. If your name appears on more than one abstract, make sure you are listed as the presenter for only one of them.

Abstract Review Process. Consistent with the commitment of SCB and the Local Organizing Committee to high-quality science, the review process for abstracts will be double blind. That is, reviewers will be anonymous and author names will be removed from abstracts prior to review. Reviewers only can evaluate the 200 words they are given; they will not know whether the author is a respected scientist with many years of experience. Please read and follow the instructions for submitting abstracts carefully to maximize the probability that your abstract not only will be accepted but will be accepted in your preferred format.

Registration. Presenting authors (oral and poster) must register for the meeting by 16 March 2007. Because late cancellation excludes others who might have presented, authors who fail to notify the Local Organizing Committee of their withdrawal by 18 May 2007 may be excluded from giving a presentation at the 2008 annual meeting.

Oral Presentations. All oral presentation rooms will be equipped with a computer and a data projector. If your abstract is selected you will be notified with an acceptance email around 28 February. Those who are selected to present will be required to submit their PowerPoint files by 11 June 2007. Detailed information and instructions will be available to presenters several months before the meeting.

SPEED PRESENTATIONS

Would your paper topic be of interest to a wide range of people? Would you like your presentation to lead to an extended conversation with several colleagues who are specifically interested in your work? If so, you may wish to volunteer for "speed presentations," a novel format for oral presentations that was successfully pioneered at SCB's 2006 meeting and will be expanded in 2007. In the first hour of a speed presentation session, 15 speakers will be given four 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.

To participate in the speed presentations, simply submit an abstract according to the standard guidelines and indicate, by checking the appropriate box, that you would like your abstract to be considered for a speed presentation. Depending on the number of submissions we receive, we will convene up to four speed presentation sessions, each of which will include 15 presentations with a common theme. Please indicate your preference for a session theme by selecting one of the following: partnerships for effective conservation; global change and conservation challenges beyond boundaries; linking freshwater, marine, and terrestrial conservation; interactions between biodiversity and society; and biological aspects of conservation. If your abstract is accepted for a speed presentation, you will be notified by the Local Organizing Committee and asked to prepare a four-minute presentation instead of a traditional (15-minute) presentation; if not, your abstract still will be considered for a traditional oral presentation or poster.

MENTORING PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS

The Student Affairs Committee is offering a mentoring service for students who wish to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations whose first language is not English. Please indicate your desire to apply for this service during the online abstract submission process.

STUDENT AWARD CANDIDATES

Student award candidates (restricted to 15-minute oral presentations) must submit two abstracts. One should be formatted according to the instructions given for the regular contributed presentations and submitted online by 8 January 2007. In addition, to apply for a student award, an extended abstract (minimum 500 words, maximum 800 words) must be submitted to Gwen Coat (gcoat@conbio.org) no later than 8 January 2007. Please include in the abstract the names and complete contact information for all authors and the presentation title. The student who is applying for the award must be the senior author. If two or more authors are listed, please outline their roles in the work. Current students and students with a graduation date of 1 July 2006 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 2007." Abstracts that are not formatted according to these guidelines (and below) will not be accepted.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACTS

Abstracts should be submitted for oral 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 guidelines. Any abstract with errors or omissions will be returned to the sender for correction and runs the risk of missing the abstract submission deadline. Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the meeting Web site, www.conbio.org/2007/abstracts. Web submission is strongly encouraged.

If you cannot submit your abstract via the Web site, please email your abstract to 2007@conbio.org. The abstract should be attached as a Microsoft Word, RTF, or ASCII text file and must follow the format described in the instructions below. The subject line of the email should read "Abstract for SCB 2007."

Regardless of the method of submission, all abstracts must be received by 8 January 2007. The Local Organizing Committee will attempt to notify all authors by 28 February 2007. Abstracts must be submitted according to the following format.

ABSTRACT FORMAT

To submit your abstract please go to the meeting Web site and complete the online form. Please do not submit multiple entries for the same abstract. The online form first requests information about the abstract itself. The second part of the form requests information about the authors. You will need to submit multiple author-pages if your abstract has more than one author. You may submit information for a maximum of eight authors.

Read these instructions carefully before submitting your abstract. If you realize that you have made a mistake after you have submitted your abstract, please contact 2007@conbio.org for further instructions. Please provide a detailed description of your mistake(s).

1. Student presentation. Indicate whether the presentation will be given by a student (regardless of whether the student is a candidate for a student award).

2. Type of presentation. Indicate whether the abstract is intended for a contributed oral, contributed poster, either oral or poster, or an invited symposium presentation, even if you volunteer for a speed presentation.

3. Speed presentation. If you are interested in volunteering for a speed presentation, please indicate your preference from the following topic areas.
-- Partnerships for effective conservation
-- Global change and conservation challenges beyond boundaries
-- Linking freshwater, marine, and terrestrial conservation
-- Interactions between biodiversity and society
-- Biological aspects of conservation

4. Name of invited symposium. If applicable, indicate the name of the invited symposium to which the abstract belongs.

5. 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.

6. 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).

7. Title. List the title in CAPITAL LETTERS. Titles are limited to 150 characters.

8. Abstract. The abstract may not exceed 1500 characters (approximately 200 words). 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 the character or word limit will be returned to the author for revision.

9. Comments. List any necessary comments pertaining 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. Topic areas. Please choose from the list of general topic areas to assist us in selecting an appropriate session for your presentation. Indicate your first, second, and third choices, even if you are volunteering for a speed presentation.

Adaptive management and monitoring
Alien and invasive species
Freshwater conservation
Biogeography
Climate change
Communications, outreach, and education
Synecological conservation
Societal-driven conservation
Protected area planning and design
Conservation at the land-water interface
Conservation capacity building
Conservation funding and philanthropy
Conservation genetics
Conservation GIS
Conservation in hotspots
Amphibian and reptile conservation
Bird conservation
Fish conservation
Invertebrate conservation
Mammal conservation
Plant conservation
Urban area conservation
Conservation medicine
Conservation of migratory taxa
Conservation of wide-ranging taxa
Conservation on private lands
Desert conservation
Disturbance conservation
Ecological restoration and reconstruction
Economic and social context of biological conservation
Ecosystem / conservation area management: theory and practice
Environmental anthropology
Environmental law
Grassland conservation
Rangeland conservation
Indigenous knowledge and conservation
Inventory and monitoring
Land use planning for conservation
Landscape ecology
Marine conservation
Mediterranean system conservation
Politics, policy, and conservation
Population dynamics
Population viability analysis
Conservation modeling
Recovery of endangered species
Remote sensing
Risk assessment and uncertainty
Savanna conservation
Scientists and managers: bridging the gap
Spatial ecology and conservation
Sustainable agriculture
Transboundary conservation areas
Wetland conservation
Forest conservation
Other

Special Characters and Formatting

Abstracts submitted electronically via the meeting Web site are limited to ASCII text format. See the meeting Web site for a description of 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.

Meeting website: http://www.conbio.org/2007/

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