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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AN ORAL OR POSTER PAPER FOR THE THEME: PRACTICAL HABITAT MANAGEMENT

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS

It is our intention to produce a free online book in pdf format on “Practical Habitat Management for Lepidoptera Conservation”. We hope that colleagues contributing papers to this theme will write-up their contributions so that they can be included as case studies in the online book. We are currently developing the book format, and we will post guidance on the format of written contributions on this site in due course. We hope you will consider contributing : we want the case-studies to be very accessible with a mixture of text, photographs, and data. If you are willing to contribute, it would be helpful if you could indicate this in the covering e-mail with your abstract.

 

SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT

Abstracts should be submitted to Professor John Dover by e-mail (j.w.dover@staffs.ac.uk) as an attachment in Microsoft Word or Open Office format. The e-mail subject line should contain the message: ‘Butterfly Conservation 2010 Symposium:’ followed by the words ‘POSTER PAPER’ or ‘ORAL PAPER’ as appropriate. Deadline: Monday 2nd November 2009.

 

ABSTRACT LAYOUT

Abstracts must be in English; the font should be Arial, size 12. If using common names, scientific names should be included at first mention and be italicised. Layout should follow the following convention:

  1. In the first line give the words: POSTER PAPERor ORAL PAPER as appropriate, followed by thetheme name.
  2. Skip a line then give the title in Bold, uppercase.
  3. Skip a line then give the authors in the format: Surname then initials. Separate each author by a semi-colon and penultimate and ultimate author by with an ampersand (&). Use superscript numbers to link to the author addresses which should follow the authors after a skipped line. Include the e-mail address of the lead author (who should also be the presenting author). Addresses should not be in bold
     

    POST PAPER: Practical habitat management

    RE-INTRODUCTION OF COPPICING INTO GREEN WOOD AND ITS IMPACT ON FRITILLARY ABUNDANCE, HAMPSHIRE, UK.

    Somebody,I.S1; Outthere,O.R.2; Ami, A.L.1 & Lone, M.A.B.3

    1Oakbark Forest Products, Micheldever, UK: email staff@oakbark.co.uk; 2University of the World, Fareham, Uk; 3Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, UK.

  4. The abstract itself should follow after a skipped line and should be no longer than 200 words, key references may be included (no more than 4, list alphabetically after the abstract). The text should be justified left and right. The abstract should normally include the aims, methods, results, and conclusions. Ensure the subject matter is written in such a way that its link to Lepidoptera conservation and the chosen theme is explicit. The abstract should not require a technical background for it to be understood: jargon should be avoided wherever possible.

Example of the body of the abstract and referrences:

 

Changes in demand for coppice products since the 1940’s has led to the wholesale abandonment of coppices throughout the UK leaving only small pockets of actively coppiced woodland mainly on nature conservation sites and farms with a game management interest (Everyman et al. 2003). Coppice management was re-started in Green Wood, Micheldever, following a decline in numbers of Small Pearl-bordered Fritillaries (Boloria euphrosyne) as indicated by butterfly transects over the period 1987-2002. Reinstatement of coppicing of hazel (Corylus avellana) on a 10-year rotation in 2003 resulted in ten-fold increases in transect numbers in rides adjacent to coppice plots three years after coppicing. This has.....

Everyman, C.A.N; See, T.H.; Reis, A. & Problem, E.H. (2003) Impact of coppice abandonment on butterflies and other thermophillic species of early sucessional stages. Journal of the Very Obvious 11: 307-315.

A guide to referencing can be found at: www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/sciences/biology/Acstaff/Jdover/teaching.htm

NOTE: The organisers reserve the right to reject abstracts that are not suitable or ask that a poster be presented rather than a paper.