THE DEADLINE FOR HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IS SEPTEMBER 05, 2005.
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Co-sponsored by: The Goose, Swan and Duck Study Group of Northern Eurasia; Saint-Petersburg State University Congress LocationSaint-Petersburg State University
www.spbu.ru Baltiets Hotel (Repino, a suburb of St.Petersburg) |
* taking into account a need for simultaneous
development of basic researches and improvement of practices in management and
sustainable use of waterfowl resources,
* understanding importance of exchanging of
experience between scientists from different countries joined by common
waterfowl flyways
the following sessions are planned:
• Basic researches on
waterfowl biology;
• Conservation and
resource management of waterfowl populations along the major flyways in Northern
Eurasia: sharing experience;
• Development of
hunting regulations and problems of waterfowl resource management under modern
social-economic conditions;
• Monitoring and
conservation of wildfowl of artificial water bodies and farmlands
as well as the following
workshops & round tables;
• Spring waterfowl
hunting and its future;
• Seaducks: research
and conservation problems;
• Climate changes and
waterfowl population dynamics: scope of problems.
• Avian Flu in Russia: discussions on origin, investigations planning
and cooperation with governmental bodies
The scientific sessions will be held during 5 days on Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday on
06-10.10.2005.
30 minutes for the plenary talks and 15
minutes for session presentations will be available. Slide, overhead- and
multimedia projectors will be available. Please, inform the organizing
committee on device required in advance.
The final program of sessions with abstracts will be provided to the
participants at registration.
Languages
The
official languages of the Symposium are Russian and English. (simultaneous
translation will be provided).
Abstracts up to 2 standard pages (500 words or 3500 characters at
1.5 line spacing, margins (in cm) 3 left, 1.5 right, 2.5 top and bottom, font
Times New Roman 12pt, first line 1.27, justified). Title in ‘sentence
cases’, Times New Roman 12pt, bold faces, without dot at the end, centered.
Author(s) name and organization titles, contact address with e-mail for
communication with editors on a separate line, right alignment, without dot at
the end.
Abstracts are to be submitted BY 15 MAY 2005.
1.
Via online registration
2. E-mailed to organizing
committee at wf05@monomax.org as RTF for MS WORD file.
Abstracts in two languages will be published by the beginning of the
symposium.
Posters – area at
maximum of À0 (84 ơ 119 cm) will be available.
Proceedings of symposium will be published in special issue of Casarca journal. Guidelines for the authors are available at the symposium site or can be ordered from organizing committee. Manuscripts (both hard and electronic versions) are to be submitted to the organizing committee during symposium at the latest