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Abstract Guidelines: Technical Session abstracts will be published in the Congress program to be distributed during the Congress. Manuscript Guidelines: Manuscripts of oral presentations will be peer-reviewed and published in an edited volume of the Congress Proceedings following the Congress. Poster Presentations Please Note: Proposals were accepted only through June 30, 1999. See Poster Sessions for a schedule of topics and presenters. We invite you to submit a proposal for a poster on topics related to ecosystem health management. Proposals for oral presentations are no longer being accepted. Proposals for posters will be accepted through June 30, 1999. The poster sessions during the Congress program will attempt to provide an integrated perspective on topics related to science and technology; policy, culture, and economics; and case studies and management experience. The proposal should present current research, recent technological or conceptual progress, or a compelling case study in ecosystem health management. We particularly encourage integrated case studies in managing for ecosystem health.
We request proposals for topics to be addressed in poster sessions that include, but are not restricted to:
 Submission Procedure for Poster Topics: To submit a poster proposal, provide the following information to the Congress Secretariat by April 15, 1999. Submit the proposal online, by Fax or by mail. Submit a Proposal Online
To Submit a Proposal by Fax or Mail: If you do not receive confirmation within 10 days of sending your proposal, contact the congress secretariat at ehc@ucdavis.edu or use the mailing address below.
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Abstract Guidelines Technical Session abstracts were due by June 1, 1999. If you have not done so, please expedite forwarding your abstract in order that it may be included in the Congress program. N. Barker, ICEH—Program Facilitator
Format (e-mail submission, preferred):
Title in Capitals, Author(s) name (surname, first name or intials) and affiliation in upper and lower case. If multiple authors, please underline the Presenting Author's name). Single space all typing. The text of the abstract should be a single paragraph. Font size 10-12 pt. The paragraph should approximately 250 words in length.
Example: DEVELOPMENT OF A TERRESTRIAL INDEX OF ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY (TIEI), A NEW TOOL FOR ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT Noss, R.F.1 , Andreasen, J.K.2 , Strittholt J.3 1&3Conservation Biology Institute Corvallis, OR.,. U.S.A. 2.US Environmental Protection Agency, ORD/NCEA (8623-D) 401 M Street SW Washington, DC, U.S.A. Multiple levels of information are needed to make decisions about complex systems. Examples are the Consumer Price Index, the Dow-Jones Industrial Index, and the Index of Leading Economic Indicators where values of the economic variables are compared to a standardized year or base period. In the human health field, physicians rely on multiple measures from a single sampling point (1 person) and the pattern from all the measurements is used to make some judgement about the health of the individual or to point to a certain disease. Following this assessment, a treatment is specified. Multiple biological indexes calculated from ambient biological data can provide a similar integrated approach for *diagnosing* ecosystem health or integrity. The ideal metric for ecosystem integrity will incorporate multiple dimensions of biological systems. There are a number of interactions, ecological processes and stressors that impact ecosystem integrity. For example, impacting the population of one species may have effects on its predator or prey species. Changes in environmental conditions (such as temperature, moisture, and light) may exceed the tolerance range of species in the ecosystem thereby favoring one population or community over another. The disturbance of *preserves* or *corridors* between preserves could change the habitat available to a population and could eliminate the intermingling of reproductive individuals necessary for species to survive. The Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI), developed by Karr, has been adopted by many States as an indicator of aquatic habitat quality. However, water quality is dependant on the total of all activities that occur within a watershed. A terrestrial index of ecological integrity (TIEI) gives decision makers another tool to help with management decisions in watershed assessments which will lead to further improvements in water quality. This presentation discusses the background of the development of the TIEI, how the measures were selected and how the various measurements or indicators are combined into an index.
Manuscript Guidelines for the Congress Proceedings Submission. Submit an original and four copies of all manuscripts. Be sure to include your telephone and fax numbers and your email address. Authors must obtain written permission to use in their articles any material copyrighted by another author or publisher. Include with your manuscript photocopies of letters granting permission; be sure credit to the source is complete. Disk submission. Along with the hard copies of the manuscript, enclose a high-density floppy disk (3- or 5-inch PC or Macintosh compatible) containing an ASCII text version (i.e., no formatting or control characters) of the article. Typing. Use double-spacing throughout all text, tables, references, and figure captions. Print on one side only of 8 x 11-inch white paper. Print all tables, figure captions, and footnotes on pages separate from the manuscript text. Provide a separate title page with authors' names, titles, affiliations, and addresses. Style. Follow Scientific Style and Format, 6th edition (CBE 1994) for conventions in biology. For spelling, consult a dictionary such as Webster's Third International Dictionary (Gove 1968). Length. It is left to the judgment of author regarding the appropriate length of the paper. However, the monographs will be reviewed by peers and possibly edited for the final proceedings of the Congress. Abstract. Manuscripts should include an informative abstract no longer than 250 words. Do not include a summary in the article. Symbols, acronyms, and measurement. Define all symbols and spell out all acronyms the first time they are used. All weights and measures must be in the metric system, SI units. References cited and footnotes. No more than 50 references should be cited. Personal communications, unpublished data, and manuscripts in preparation should be cited in footnotes containing the date and source's name and affiliation. Keep other footnotes to a minimum. Number text footnotes with consecutive superscript numerals. For footnotes in tables, use symbols. In-text citations must take the form: (Author date). Multiple citations should be listed in alphabetical order: (Author date, Author date). Use the first author's name and "et al." for in-text citation of works with more than two authors or editors; list every author or editor in the "References cited" list. All works cited in the text must be listed alphabetically in References cited; works not cited must not be listed. Provide the full names of all journals. Italicize the titles of all books and journals. Some examples:
Black-and-white illustrations. Photographs, maps, line drawings, and graphs must be camera-ready, glossy black-and-white prints, photostats, or the original art. On the reverse side of the artwork, number and identify figures and indicate "top" of photographs. All photographs must be untrimmed and unmounted, 4 x 5 to 8 x 10 inches in size, and clearly focused; photomicrographs should have a scale bar. Line drawings and graphs should be done by professional artists or scientific illustrators. Figures will be reduced to fit one column (2.25") or two columns (4.75"). Therefore, when labeling figures, make sure to use large enough letters so that they will reduce to no smaller than 8 points. In drawings and graphs, please capitalize only the first letter of the first word of each label; please use Arial, Helvetica, or a similar sans serif typeface, without bold or italics (unless genus, species, or gene names). Do not place keys within a graph. Letters labeling the sections of a figure should be lowercase, placed in the upper left hand area of the section, and not followed by a period. Color illustrations. Color art in the Proceedings may be requested if compelling justification is provided and the additional costs can be accommodated. Authors may have to contribute to meeting the cost.
References cited: [CBE] CBE Style Manual Committee 1994. Scientific style and format: the CBE manual for authors, editor, and publishers. Chicago (IL): Council of Biology Editors. Gove, P.B., ed. 1968. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. Springfield (MA): G. & E. Merriam Co.
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