The original deadline for abstracts for the Endangered Species Research Special Issue on Marine Mammal habitat modeling is June 1, 2010 (original announcement below). Due to numerous requests, and in recognition that many of you are preparing for or already into the summer field season, we are extending the abstract deadline to Friday, June 11, 2010.

For more details on the Special Issue, please see
http://www.int-res.com/journals/esr/esr-specials/beyond-marine-mammal-habitat-modeling/

For details regarding marine mammal habitat modeling, please see our website at:
http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=7272

We look forward to your participation.

With best regards,
Edward Gregr
Mark Baumgartner
Kristin Laidre
Daniel Palacios


The Inter-Research journal Endangered Species Research has agreed to produce a special issue on Marine Mammal Habitat Modelling. The inception of this issue was motivated by the work presented at the Ecological Modeling Workshop and in the main sessions of the 18th Biennial Conference on Marine Mammology. This work showed how habitat suitability modelling for marine mammals has reached a certain level of maturity, and is ready to take the next step towards relevant applications for ecology and conservation. This is an open call for manuscripts describing how habitat models are being actively applied to further our ecological understanding or support conservation efforts. We invite abstracts (max. 300 words) to be submitted by June 1, 2010. Abstracts will be selected based on how closely they match the theme of the special issue. Completed manuscripts for selected abstracts will be accepted until December 1, 2010 for full peer-review. We expect the assembled articles to convey the state of applied habitat modeling and to motivate continued improvement in how we study and manage marine mammals and their ecosystems.