Call for Papers
The Organising Committee of the 8th IPFC & 2009 ASFB Workshop & Conference invite abstract submissions in the following themes and/or symposia. The current list of symposia is indicative only, so potential presenters may wish to indicate more than one symposium or nominate a symposium. The program committee will endeavour to accommodate as many submitted abstracts as is possible within the program. However, preference will be given to presentations that fall within one of the symposia topics.
Please ensure that the abstract guidelines are followed closely and the template is utilised.
- Please write your abstract
- Download the ABSTRACT TEMPLATE provided
- Save the WORD document to the hard-drive on your computer.
- Now you are ready to submit your abstract online
Overall Themes
- Biogeography & Phylogeography
- Biodiversity & Community Ecology
- Population Biology & Ecology
- Conservation, Sustainability & Management
- Other
We welcome submissions outside the above themes, please select 'Other' if your paper does not fall into the listed themes.
List of Potential Symposia Topics
The current list of symposia is indicative only and will be reviewed in due course as the program is further developed and in consultation with symposia chairs.
- Approaches for the Assessment and Monitoring of Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Euan Harvey, Mike Cappo - Barcoding of fish and their rapid identification
Symposia Chair(s): Bob Ward, Peter Smith - Biodiversity Hot Spots of the Indo Pacific
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Biogeography of Antitropical Indo Pacific Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Martin Gomon & Keichi Matsuura - Biology of Eastern Indian Ocean Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Alex Hesp, Lynnath Beckley - Chondricthyans - Biogeography and phylogeography
Symposia Chair(s): Bernard Seret, William White, David Ebert & Peter Last - Chondricthyans - Biodiversity and community ecology
Symposia Chair(s): Bernard Seret, William White, David Ebert & Peter - Chondricthyans - Population biology and ecology
Symposia Chair(s): Symposia Chair(s): Bernard Seret, William White, David Ebert & Peter Last - Chondricthyans - Conservation, sustainability and management
Symposia Chair(s): Bernard Seret, William White, David Ebert & Peter Last - Climate Change and Indo Pacific Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Philip Munday & Alistair Hobday - Coastal and Estuarine Community Ecology of Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Fiona Valesini & Glenn Hyndes - Deep Water Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Disease & Parasites
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Fish Ontogeny & Systematics
Symposia Chair(s): Jeff Leis & Dave Johnson - Freshwater Fishes - Biogeography and phylogeography
Symposia Chair(s): David Morgan - Freshwater Fishes - Biodiversity and community ecology
Symposia Chair(s): Stephen Beatty - Freshwater Fishes - Biology and ecology
Symposia Chair(s): Howard Gill - Freshwater Fishes - Conservation, sustainability and management
Symposia Chair(s): David Morgan - Habitats, Habitat Change and Indo Pacific Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Michael Berumen & Morgan Pratchett - Introduced Species, Pests and Biosecurity
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Lanternfishes, Myctophidae - Ecology and Trophodymanics
Symposia Chair(s): Bernie Zahuranec & Karuppa Karuppasamy - Larval behaviour and processes affecting larval recruitment
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Marine Protected Areas
Symposia Chair(s): Mat van der Klift, David Fairclough, DEC Rep - Metapopulation and Seascape Dynamics of Indo-Pacific Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): Stephen Swearer - Monitoring and assessment of bycatch
Symposia Chair(s): Richard Campbell - Pelagic Fishes and their Ecosystems
Symposia Chair(s): Jock Young, Shane Griffiths & Campbell Davies - Phylogeography of reef fish
Symposia Chair(s): Brian Bowen & Luiz A Rocha - Phylogeography of non-reef fishes
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Population connectivity of Indo-Pacific fishes
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Recreational Fishing - assessment and monitoring
Symposia Chair(s): Chair tbc - Spatial population dynamics
Symposia Chair(s): Dan Gaughan - Systematics and Phylogeny of Endemic Australasian Gobioid Fishes
Symposia Chair(s): tbc - Aquaculture and restocking for conservation of species
Symposia Chair(s): tbc
Abstract Guidelines
ALL ABSTRACTS TO BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2009
- The abstract should be written in English, typed in Arial font and single spaced.
- The title of paper should be concise in bold capital letters, size 12 and centred.
- The author(s) name should begin with full first name and family name (the name of the presenting author should be bolded), size 12, normal and centred. Ensure that the author(s) have an affiliated organisation listed (aligned left)
- Text of the abstract should be in font size 12, normal and justified. The body of the text should cover the purpose of introduction, method, results and conclusions (200-250 words).
- Please indicate the theme and/or symposia you would like to have the abstract included in
- The organising committee reserves the right to edit the abstract for clarity of English.
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