A Call for Papers: Tracking Marine Vertebrates for Conservation

The First Inter-Research Science Symposium, “Tracking Marine Vertebrates for Conservation” will be convened as part of the 27^th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium, Myrtle Beach 27^th February 2007. Plenary papers (listed below) will form part of a special issue of Inter-Research’s fast growing conservation journal, Endangered Species Research http://www.int-res.com/journals/esr/.

Authors of other relevant papers from all marine and terrestrial taxa are encouraged to submit manuscripts esr-submissions@int-res.com or enter into discussion with the Editor-in-Chief b.j.godley@exeter.ac.uk as to manuscript suitability. All contributions to this special issue will be published as online open access thus extremely high visibility is guaranteed.

Plenary Papers Include:

“Using telemetry to understand life-history tradeoffs in resource allocation in seals; A natural history study with conservation implications”

Mike Fedak

University of St Andrews, UK

“Satellite tracking in sea turtles: where, when, how much and, above all, why?”

Brendan Godley

University of Exeter, UK

“Progress in tracking large pelagic fishes”

Molly Lutcavage

University of New Hampshire, USA

“Identifying whale habitat and habits: issues associated with assessing natural variability and anthropogenic impacts?”

Bruce Mate

Oregon State University, USA

“Why we need a good flight recorder for wildlife before anything actually crashes”.

Rory P Wilson

University of Wales Swansea, UK