III Circular, Euroamerican Mammal Congress

Santiago Reig Mustela at PINAR1.CSIC.ES
Thu Feb 12 14:08:03 CST 1998


We are pleased to send you the final call for papers and III Circular of
the EAMC. Note that this is just the e-mail version. A nice, full- color
copy has been already sent three weeks ago to everybody who responded to
our previous mailings.



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             |      T H I R D       C I R C U L A R         |
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             |       EURO-AMERICAN MAMMAL CONGRESS:         |
             |     Challenges in Holarctic Mammalogy        |
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             | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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             |              July 19-24, 1998                |
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     Introduction
     Meeting Location
     Congress Schedule=20
     Scientific Program
     Abstract Submission
     Student Honoraria
     Registration
     Accommodation, Meals, Social Events
     Excursions and Tours
     Program for Accompanying Persons
     Getting There
     Useful Information
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                        . o O | INTRODUCTION  | O o .
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
   This meeting is being organized under the auspices of the American
   Society of Mammalogists (ASM), Societas Europaea Mammalogica (SEM),
   and Sociedad Espanola para la Conservacion y el Estudio de los
   Mamiferos (SECEM). The main goals of this Congress are to promote
   holarctic mammalogy, cooperation among European and North American
   mammalogists, and further the development of and cooperation among
   national Mammal Societies.

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
   The Euro-American Mammal Congress is being organized by the University
   of Santiago de Compostela (USC), through its Colleges of Biology and
   Pharmacy, as well as the Consejeria de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Montes
   of the local Government (Xunta de Galicia) through the medium of its
   Direccion General de Montes y Medio Ambiente Natural.

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                    . o O |   CONGRESS SCHEDULE   | O o .
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SUNDAY   JULY 19   Arrival, Registration, Opening Ceremony, Welcoming
                      Reception
MONDAY   JULY 20   Scientific Program, Oral Presentations
TUESDAY  JULY 21   Scientific Program, Oral and Poster Presentations
WEDNESD. JULY 22   Free (Congress Excursion optional)
THURSD.  JULY 23   Scientific Program, Oral and Poster Presentations,
Banquet
FRYDAY   JULY 24   Scientific Program, Oral Presentations



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             . o O |   SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM   | O o .
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   The meeting will focus on all biological aspects of  Holarctic=20
   mammals.  However, contributions of interest relating to mammals from
   other regions also will be welcomed.

   Contributions could be made in the form of poster or oral
   presentations, and they will be grouped in 8 General Sessions, 24
   Symposia and 3 Workshops listed below. Abstracts of ALL presentations
   (oral, poster, invited contributions to Symposia, Workshops, General
   Sessions) will be submitted to the Congress Secretariat before the
   deadline of MARCH 16. See full details below.

SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
   Oral presentations in one of the 24 Symposia or 3 Workshops mostly
   will be restricted to invited presentations, although there will
   always be space for poster contributions. Participants wishing to
   present their work in one of the Symposia or Workshops should get in
   contact directly with the conveners, who would decide about acceptance
   as oral or poster presentation. Because space available in each
   Symposium or Workshop is limited, interested participants should get
   in contact as soon as possible with the respective conveners. See the
   full list of Symposia and Workshops below. You cannot submit
   contributions to Symposia and Workshops without previous approval of=20
   the respective conveners.

GENERAL SESSIONS
   Free contributions and those not considered suitable for one of the
   specialized Symposia or Workshops will be accommodated in 8 General
   Sessions, which are open to oral and poster presentations. Time for
   oral presentations in General Sessions may be insufficient. In case of
   shortage of time slots for oral papers, the Scientific Committee will
   decide whether a presentation will be given as oral or poster. You
   will be notified by MAY 15 regarding acceptance of your paper as oral
   or poster.

There will be 8 General Sessions:
   1. Behavioural Ecology
   2. Conservation, Population Genetics
   3. Community Ecology
   4. Population Dynamics
   5. Wildlife Management
   6. Systematics, Evolution, Paleontology, Biogeography
   7. Morphology, Development, Physiology
   8. Natural History, Parasites and Diseases

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
   Conveners of Symposia and Workshops will decide about the time
   available for each oral presentation, ranging from 15 to 30 minutes.
   In General Sessions, time will be limited to a total 15 minutes, which
   will include 12 minutes for the talk followed by 3 minutes for
   discussion. Remember the time constraint and carefully choose what you
   want to say; limit your slides to the number necessary to deliver that
   message. You may find a list of useful tips for oral presentations in
   the Congress  WWW page or by anonymous FTP to ftp.csic.es in the
   directory pub/eamc filename: oral_tps.txt

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
   There will be two Poster Sessions  on the afternoon of July 21 and
   July 23 with no concurrence from  oral presentations. Space provided
   for each poster is 1.8 m high by 1.2 m wide. Poster materials should
   be mounted on the board using thumb tacks. A limited supply of thumb
   tacks will be on hand. However, presenters should bring their own  to
   be safe. The title, author(s), and affiliation(s) should be printed
   across the top of the poster in characters of at least 2.5cm high. We
   recommend to include a copy of the submitted abstract in the poster.
   You may find a list of useful tips for poster presentations in the
   Congress  WWW page or by anonymous FTP to ftp.csic.es in the directory
   pub/eamc filename: post_tps.txt

SYMPOSIA
   This is the final list of Symposia that will be in the program. In
   most cases, the list of invited speakers for each Symposium / Workshop
   is also shown.

S-1  MAMMALIAN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS
Conveners: Rodney L. Honeycutt, Faculty of Genetics and Department of
   Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, 210 Nagle Hall,
   College Station, TX 77843, USA. Phone: (1) 409 8479462. Fax: (1) 409
   845 4096. rhoneycutt at wfscgate.tamu.edu=20
Francois M. Catzeflis, Laboratoire de Paleontologie, ISEM - UMR 5554
   CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, Cc 064; Place Eug=8Ane-Bataillon,
   349095 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France. Phone: (33) 4 67143401. Fax: (33)
   4 67143610.  catz at isem.univ-montp2.fr
Invited speakers: E. Douzery (Montpellier, France), M. Ruedi and F. Mayer
   (Lausanne, Switzerland), J.A.W. Kirsch (Madison WI, USA), A. Bannikova
   and A. Lomov (Moscow, Russia)=20

S-2  LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE, POPULATION GENETICS, AND GENE FLOW
Conveners: Adrian Monjeau, Ecologia, Universidad Nacional del Comahue,
   cc. 1336, (8400), Bariloche, Argentina. Phone: (54) 612 6255700. Fax:
   (54) 612 6246777.  monje001 at gold.tc.umn.edu =20
Carleton Phillips, Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Campus
   Box 4120,  Normal, IL 61790, USA. Phone: (1) 309 4383669. Fax: (1) 309
   438 3722.  cjphilli at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu =20
Maarit Jaarola, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of
   Medicine, 333 Cedar St.,  New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Phone: (1) 203
   7854958. Fax: (1) 203 7857023.  maarit-jaarola at qm.yale.edu
Invited speakers: V. Fedorov (Kharkov, Ukraine), B. Riddle (Las Vegas NV,
   USA), E.C. Birney (St. Paul MN, USA), M. H.Yoon (Korea).

S-3  ECOLOGY, ETHOLOGY, POPULATION GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION OF MUS
Conveners:  F. Stephen Dobson, Department of Zoology & Wildlife Sciences,
   Auburn University, 331 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. Phone:
   (1) 334 8449252. Fax: (1) 334 8449234.  fdobson at acesag.auburn.edu  =20
Francois Bonhomme, Laboratoire d'Evolution des Vertebres, Universite de
   Montpellier,  F-34060 Montpellier, France. Fax: (33) 4 67143622.=20
   bonhomme at crit.univ-montp2.fr =20
Claude Baudoin, Leec Ura 2214 CNRS, Laboratoire d'Ethologie, Universite
   Paris Nord, F 93430  Villetaneuse, France. Phone: (33) 1 49403196.
   Fax: (33) 1 49403975.  baudoin at leec.univ-paris13.fr
Invited speakers: G. Ganem (Montpellier, France), H. Hauffe (Tovo S.
   Agata, Italy), B. Lundrigan (East Lansing MI, USA), M. Nachman (Tucson
   AZ, USA), J. Britton-Davidian (Montpellier, France), E. Capanna (Roma,
   Italy), D. Frynta (Praha, Czech Republic), A. Miller (Salt Lake City
   UT, USA), J. Searle (York, UK), S. Meagher (Salt Lake City UT, USA).

S-4  GENETICS OF THE CERVIDAE: INVESTIGATING OLD PROBLEMS WITH NEW
   TECHNOLOGIES
Conveners: James R. Purdue, Illinois State Museum, 1011 East Ash Street,
   Springfield, IL 62703, USA. Phone: (1) 217 7854843. Fax: (1) 217 785
   285.  purdue at museum.state.il.us =20
Michael H. Smith, Department of Ecology, Genetics, and Forest Resources,
   University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. Fax: (803) 7253309.=20
   smith at srel.edu =20
Gunther B. Hartl, Biologiezentrum, Inst. Fur Haustierkunde der Christian-
   albrechts, Univ. Kiel, Olshausensttrasse 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany.
   Fax: (49) 431 8801389. ghartl at ifh.uni-kiel.de
Invited speakers:  K.J. Hundertmark (Soldotna AK, USA), A. Lister (London=
,
   UK), I. A. van Pijlen (Oxford, UK), R. Lorenzini (Teramo, Italy), E.
   Randi (Ozzano dell' Emilia, Italy).

S-5  PHYLOGENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF THE GLIRES- PROBLEM
Conveners: Ulrich A. Zeller, and Sylke Frahnert, Institut fuer
   Systematische Zoologie, Museum fuer Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43,
   10115-Berlin, Germany. Phone: (49) 30 20938528=20
   sylke.frahnert at rz.hu-berlin.de=20
Jim Meng Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Morill
   Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, Phone: (1) 413 5453565. Fax: (1)
   413 5453243 jmeng at bio.umass.edu=20
Invited speakers: M. Mckenna (New York NY, USA) and J. Meng (Amherst MA,
   USA),  M. Ade (Berlin, Germany), T. Martin (Berlin, Germany), A. Mess
   (Berlin, Germany), J. Bjoernhag (Uppsala, Sweden), O.A. Averianov (St.
   Petesburg, Russia).

S-6  CHROMOSOMES IN SYSTEMATIC AND PHYLOGENETIC RESEARCH
Conveners: Vitaly Volobouev, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Mammif=8Ares et
   Oiseaux, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55, rue Buffon F-75005
   Paris, France. Phone: (33) 1 40793065. Fax: (33) 1 40793063.=20
   vitaly at mnhn.fr
William S. Modi, Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick,
   National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development
   Center, Frederick, MD 21702-1201 USA. Fax: (1) 301 8461909.=20
   modi at ncifcrf.gov =20
Jan Zima, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics As Cr, Veveri 97,
   Brno  CZ-60200, Czech Republic. Phone: (420) 5 412 12292. Fax: (420) 5
   412 12988.  gemobrno at ipm.cz
Invited speakers: R.J. Baker (Lubbock TX, USA), T.J. Robinson (Pretoria,
   South Africa), M. Engstrom (Toronto, Canada), J. Wienberg (Cambridge,
   UK), J.F. Ducroz and L. Granjon (Paris, France), J. Britton-Davidian
   (Montpellier, France), J. Searle (York, UK), A.S. Graphodatsky
   (Novosibirsk, Russia).

S-7  CONSERVATION GENETICS AND GENETIC BANKS
Conveners: William V. Holt, Institute of  Zoology, The Zoological Society
   of London, London NW1 4RY, UK. Fax: (44) 0171 5862870.=20
   w.holt at ucl.ac.uk
William L. Gannon, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New
   Mexico, NM 87131, Albuquerque, USA. Phone: (1) 505 2775340. Fax: (1)
   505 2773838.  wgannon at unm.edu
Invited speakers: K. Hodges (Gottingen, Germany), T. Abaigar (Almeria,
   Spain), T. Yates (Albuquerque NM, USA), R. Baker (Lubbock TX, USA), V.
   Volobouev (Paris, France).

S-8  GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS IN MAMMALOGY
Conveners: Marco Corti, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell  Uomo,
   Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", via Borelli 50, I-00161 Roma,
   Italy. Phone: (39) 6 49918092. Fax: (39) 6 4457516.=20
   corti at axrma.uniroma1.it
Leslie F. Marcus, Department of Biology, Queens College of  CUNY /
   Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History,
   Central Park W at 79th street,  New York, NY 10024, USA.  Fax: (1) 212
   7695842.  lamqc at cunyvm.cuny.edu
Invited speakers: J.C. Auffray (Montpellier, France), N. Chatti and S.
   Khaled (Monastir, Tunisia), J. Britton-Davidian (Montpellier, France),
   C. Hood (New Orleans FL, USA), E. Hingst and L.R. Monteiro (Rio de
   Janeiro, Brazil), C. Fadda (Rome, Italy), W. Bogdanowicz (Bialowieza,
   Poland).

S-9  DIVERSITY, BIOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION OF LAGOMORPHA
Conveners: Fernando A. Cervantes, Zoologia. Instituto de Biologia, UNAM
   Apartado Postal 70-153, Coyoacan,  Mexico, DF 04510,  Mexico. Phone:
   (52) 5 6225706, ext. 324. Fax: (52) 5 5500164.  fac at ibiologia.unam.mx
Ramon C. Soriguer, Unidad de Especies Cinegeticas y Plagas. Estacion
   Biologica de Donana (CSIC). Apartado 1056, Sevilla 41013, Spain. Fax:
   (34) 54 621125.  soriguer at ebd03.ebd.csic.es  =20
Fernando Palacios, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Jose
   Gutierrez Abascal 2. 28006 Madrid, Spain. Phone: (34)  1 4111328. Fax:
   (34) 1 5645078.  fernan at pinar1.csic.es
Invited speakers: B. Cooke (Lyneham, Australia), M.C. Durette-Dussete
   (Paris, France), J. E. C. Flux (Belmont, New Zealand), D. Graur (Ramat
   Aviv, Israel), K. M. Halanych (New Brunswick, Canada), N. Lopez
   Martinez (Madrid, Spain), M. Monnerot (Gif sur Ivette, France), T. J.
   Robinson (Pretoria, South Africa), L. A. Ruedas (Albuquerque NM, USA),
   F. Yamada and K. Sugimura (Tsukuba-Norin, Japan).

S-10  MUSTELIDS IN A MODERN WORLD
Conveners: Huw I. Griffiths, Research Institute for Environmental Science
   & Management, School of Geography & Earth Resources, University of
   Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull, GB HU6 7RX, UK. Phone: (44) 1428 465339.
   Fax: (44) 1482 466340.  h.i.griffiths at geo.hull.ac.uk  =20
Steven W. Buskirk, Department of Zoology and Physiology, Box 3166,
   University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Phone: (1) 307 7664207.
   Fax: (1) 307 7665625.  marten at uwyo.edu
Invited speakers: H. Kruuk (Banchory, UK), D. Harrison (Orono ME, USA),
   F. Tuyttens (Oxford, UK), P. Ottino (Italy), L. Fornasari (Milan,
   Italy), A. Kranz (Vienna, Austria), A. Landa (Trondheim, Norway), J.
   Birks (Malvern, UK), S. Scheffield (Clemson SC, USA), S. Cahill
   (Barcelona, Spain), B. Boroski (Fresno CA, USA), A. Davison=20
   (Nottingham, UK), J. Messenger (London, UK).

S-11  DISTRIBUTION MAPPING OF MAMMALS IN THE HOLARCTIC
Conveners: Robert S. Hoffmann, National Museum of Natural History,
   Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108, Washington, DC 20560, USA. Phone:
   (1) 202 6339488. Fax: (1) 202 7862979.  rhoffman at sivm.si.edu =20
Valeri M. Neronov, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Russian Academy of
   Sciences, 33 Leninskii Prospect, Moscow 117071, Russia. Fax: (7) 095
   1291354.  mabru at glas.apc.org
Invited speakers: A. Mitchell-Jones (Peterborough, UK), J. Thissen and M.
   Weisz (Netherlands),  T. Mikhailova (Moscow, Russia), J. Soberon and
   F. Cervantes (Mexico City, Mexico), V. Rumyantsev and A. Danilenko
   (Moscow, Russia), N. Tupikova et al. (Moscow, Russia), A.Lushchekina
   (Moscow, Russia), V. Neronov and L. Eliseev (Moscow, Russia), Yu. Ravk=
in
   et al. (Novosibirsk, Russia).

S-12  COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS AND THE HISTORICAL ASSEMBLY
   OF CONTINENTAL MAMMALIAN BIOTAS
Conveners: Brett R. Riddle, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland
   Pk., Las Vegas,  NV 89154, USA. Phone: (1) 702 8953133. Fax: (1) 702
   895 3956.  briddle at nevada.edu =20
David J. Hafner, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd
   NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, USA. Fax: (1) 505 8412866.=20
   hafner at darwin.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us
Invited speakers: K. Agnew (Austin TX, USA), L. Alexander (Las Vegas NV,
   USA), B. Arbogast (Winston-Salem NC, USA), C. Conroy (Fairbanks AK,
   USA), J. Cook (Fairbanks AK, USA), J. Demboski (Fairbanks AK, USA), J.
   Demastes (New Orleans LA, USA), M. Engstrom (Toronto ON, Canada), J.
   Sullivan (Moscow ID, USA).

S-13  COLONISATION HISTORY OF MAMMALS FROM A PALAEARCTIC, NEARCTIC AND
   HOLARCTIC PERSPECTIVE
Conveners: Jeremy B.  Searle, Department of Biology, University of York,
   PO Box 373, Y01 5YW  York, UK. Phone: (441) 904 432947. Fax: (441) 904
   432860.  jbs3 at york.ac.uk =20
Joseph A. Cook, University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks,
   AK 99775, USA. Phone: (1) 907 4746946. Fax: (1) 907 4745469.=20
   ffjac at aurora.alaska.edu
Invited speakers: M. Jaarola (Uppsala, Sweden), R. Hoffmann and S.
   Steppan (Washington DC, USA), M. Engstrom (Toronto ON, Canada), T.
   Reimchen (Victoria BC, Canada), K. Stone (Fairbanks AK, USA)

S-14  SHREW COMMUNITIES: EAST, WEST, NORTH, AND SOUTH
Conveners: Gordon L. Kirkland, Jr., Vertebrate Museum, Shippensburg
   University,  Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA. Phone: (1) 717 5321407. Fax:
   (1) 717 5304048.  glkirk at ark.ship.edu =20
Sara Churchfield, Biosphere Sciences Division, King's College Campden
   Hill Road,  London W8 7AH  UK. Phone: (441) 71 3334463. Fax: (441) 71
   3334500. sara.churchfield at kcl.ac.uk
Invited speakers:  Joshua Laerm (USA), Evgeny Shvarts (Russia), Boris
  Scheftel (Russia), Jorge Salazar (USA), Rainer Hutterer (Germany), A.
  Brosset, L. Heaney (Chicago, USA), Erik Rickart (USA).

S-15  BEAVER PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND UTILIZATION IN EUROPE AND NORTH
   AMERICA
Conveners: Ryszard M. Dzieciolowski, Department of Forest Zoology and
   Wildlife Management, Agricultural University SGGW, ul. Rakowiecka
   26/30, 02-528 Warszawa, Poland. Phone: (48) 22 490977. Fax: (48) 22
   491375.  dzieciol at delta.sggw.waw.pl =20
Peter E. Busher, College of Basic Studies, Boston University, 871
   Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Phone: (1) 617 3532886.
   Fax: (1) 617 3535868.  pbusher at bu.edu
Invited speakers:  M.M. Balodis (Sigulda, Latvia), K. Pachinger
   (Bratislava, Slovakia), A. Saveljev and V. Safonov (Vyatka, Russia),=20
   J. Basey (Boulder CO, USA), J. Fryxell (Guelph ON, Canada), P. Lyons
   (Belchertown MA, USA), B. Schulte (Providence RI, USA).

S-16  TRANSBORDER CONSERVATION OF LARGE CARNIVORES
Conveners: George Giannatos, Environment Research Bureau, 37 Megistis
   str., GR-113 64, Athens, Greece. Phone: (30) 1 8676508.=20
   giannatos at usa.net
Christopher Servheen, Grizzly Bear Recovery Office, US Fish & Wildlife
   Service, University Hall, Room 309, University of Montana, Missoula,
   MT 59812, USA. Phone: (1) 406 2434903. Fax: (1) 406 3293212.=20
   grizz at selway.umt.edu
Invited speakers: A. Bjarvall (Solna, Sweden), B. Mc. Lellan (Vancouver
   BC, Canada), M. Delibes (Sevilla, Spain).

S-17  THE BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF EQUIDS=20
Conveners: Patricia D. Moehlman, Equid Specialist Group, Box 2031,
   Arusha, Tanzania. Phone: (255) 57 7504. Fax: (255) 57 8271.=20
   tan.guides at habari.co.tz =20
Patrick Duncan, Centre d Etudes Biologiques de Chize, 79 360 Beauvoir-
   sur-Niort, France. Phone (33)  549097163. Fax: (33) 54 9096526.=20
   duncan at cebc.cnrs.fr
Invited speakers: P. Monard   (Chize, France), C. Feh (Tour de Valat,
   France), L. Boyd (Topeka KS, USA), C. Asa (St. Louis MO, USA), D.
   Rubenstein ( Princeton NJ, USA), A. Oakenfull (Cambridge, England), C.
   Groves (Canberra, Australia).

S-18  THE ROLE OF LARGE HERBIVORES AS KEYSTONE SPECIES IN RESTORATION
   ECOLOGY
Conveners: Sip E. Van Wieren, Terrestrial Ecology and Nature, Wageningen
   Agricultural University, Bornsesteeg 69, 6708 PD, Wageningen, The
   Netherlands. Phone: (31) 317 483434. Fax: (31) 317 484845.=20
   sip.vanwieren at staf.ton.wau.nl =20
John G. Kie, Pacific Northwest Research Station, United States Forest
   Service, 1401 Gekeler Lane, La Grande, OR 97850, USA. Phone: (1) 541
   9626529. Fax: (1) 541 9626504.  kien at eosc.osshe.edu =20
Herbert H.T. Prins, Terrestrial Ecology and Nature Conservation,
   Wageningen Agriculture University, Bornsesteeg, 69, 6708 PD,
   Wageningen, The Netherlands. Phone: (31) 317 483900. Fax: (31) 317
   484845.  herbert.prins at staf.ton.wau.nl
Invited speakers: R. T. Bowyer (Fairbanks AK, USA), V. van Ballenberghe
   (Anchorage AK, USA), R.A. Riggs (La Grande OR, USA), J. G. Cook (La
   Grande OR, USA), R. D. Guthrie (Fairbanks AK, USA), M. W. DeVries
   (Wageningen, The Netherlands).

S-19  BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF SEMI-AQUATIC INSECTIVORES
Conveners: Ana Isabel Queiroz, Instituto da Conservacao da Naturaleza,
   Rua Filipe Folque, n 46 - 11050 Lisboa, Portugal. Phone: (351) 1
   3523018. Fax: (351) 1 3574771.  carlos.romao at mail.telepac.pt =20
Howard P. Whidden, Biology Department, Central College, 812 University
   Avenue, Pella, IA 50219, USA. Phone: (1) 515 6285147.=20
   whiddenh at central.edu
Carlos Nores, INDUROT, Universidad de Oviedo, Independencia 13, 33004
   Oviedo, Spain. Phone: (34) 8 510 4846. Fax:(34) 8 5104868  e-mail:
   cnores at sci.cpd.uniovi.es
Invited speakers: J.C.K. Peterhans and R. Hutterer (Bonn, Germany), S.
   Churchfield (London, UK), C.M. Quaresma, A. Barbosa, C.P. Santos, and
   H. Carvalho (Lisboa, Portugal), I. Amorim (Lisboa, Portugal), A.
   Bekenov (Kazakhstan), A. Bertrand, C. Orengo (Moulis, France), A.
   Bekenov (Kazakhstan), A. Bannikova (Moscow, Russia), R.
   Fernandez-Salvador, R. Garcia-Perea, and J. Gisbert (Madrid, Spain),
   E. Fernandez-Galiano (Strasbourg, France).

S-20  CONSERVATION OF MARINE MAMMALS
Conveners: Alex Aguilar, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidad de
   Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. Phone: (34) 3
   3198021. Fax: (34) 3 3198959.  alexa at porthos.bio.ub.es =20
Stephen B. Reilly, Southwest Fisheries Sciences Center, NMFS, NOAA, 8604
   La Jolla Shores dr., La Jolla, CA 92038, USA. Phone: (1) 619 5467164.
   Fax: (1) 619 5467003.  steve at caliban.ucsd.edu

S-21  HOST PARASITE COEVOLUTION: TECHNIQUES, CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Conveners: Jean Pierre Hugot, Helminthologie, Museum National d'Histoire
   Naturelle, 61 Rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris, France. Phone: (33) 1
   40793505. Fax: (33) 1 40793499.  hugot at mnhn.fr =20
Jose Carlos Feliu, Laboratorio de Parasitologia, Facultad de Farmacia,
   Universidad de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal s/n., 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
   Phone: (34) 3 4024499. Fax: (34) 3 4024504. =20
   cfeliu at farmacia.far.ub.es=20
Scott L. Gardner, Department of Parasitology, University of Nebraska,
   W529 Nebraska Hall, Lincoln,  NE 68588, USA. Phone: (1) 402 4723334.
   Fax: (1) 402 4728949.  slg at unlinfo.unl.edu  Serge Morand, Laboratoire
   de Biologie Animale, UMR 5555 CNRS, Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie
   Tropicale et Mediterraneenne., Universite de Perpignan,  CEDEX 66025
   Perpignan, France. Fax:  (33) 04 68662281.  morand at gala.univ-perp.fr
Invited speakers: M.S. Hafner (Baton Rouge TX, USA), R. Page (Glasgow,
   UK), J.P. Gonzalez (Yale CT, USA), M. Asakawa (Hokkaido, Japan), R.
   Guerrero (Caracas, Venezuela), C. Mueller-Graf (Perpignan, France).

S-22  MAMMALS AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES
Conveners: Terry L. Yates, Department of Biology, University of New
   Mexico, Castetter Hall, Room 167, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. Phone:
   (1) 505 2779740. Fax: (1) 505 277 0304.  tyates at sevilleta.unm.edu
Heikki Henttonen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Department of Forest
   Ecology, P.O. Box 18, SF-01301 Vantaa, Finland. Fax: (358) 9 8572575.=20
   heikki.henttonen at metla.fi =20
James N. Mills, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton
   Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. Fax: (1) 404 6394436.  jumo at cdc.gov
Invited speakers: N. Stenseth (Oslo, Norway), G. Racz (Budapest,
   Hungary), S. St. Jeor (Reno NV, USA), M. Collares-Pereira (Lisboa,
   Portugal), J. Childs (Atlanta GA, USA), R. Ostfeld (Millbrook NY,
   USA), A. Filipe (Aguas de Moura, Portugal), F. Tuyttens (Oxford, UK).


SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM
S-23  DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OF BRAZILIAN MAMMALS
Conveners: Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca, Department of Zoology, Universidade
   Federal de Minas Gerais & Conservation International do Brasil, Av.
   Antonio Abrahao Caram 820/302 - CEP 31275-000, Belo Horizonte, MG,
   Brazil. Phone/Fax: (55) 31 4411795.  g.fonseca at conservation.org.br=20
Anthony Brome Rylands, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal de
   Minas Gerais & Conservation International do Brasil, Av. Antonio
   Abrahao Caram 820/302 - CEP 31275-000, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
   Phone/Fax: (55) 31 4411795.  a.rylands at conservation.org.br=20
Russell A. Mittermeier, Conservation International, 2501 M Street, NW
   suite 200, Washington, DC 20037, USA. Phone: (1) 202 8870192.=20
   r.mittermeier at conservation.org
Invited speakers: C. Peres (East Anglia, England), J. M. Filho (Brasilia,
   Brazil), C. Cartele (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), J. L. Patton, Maria
   Nazareth F. da Silva, Y.R. Leite, and L. P. da Costa (Berkeley CA,
   USA), T. E. Lacher, Jr. (Lubbock TX, USA), J. M. Ayres (Brazil).


WORKSHOPS
W-1  BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY OF FOSSORIAL MAMMALS
Conveners: Anna Loy, Dipartimento Biologia Animale e dell  Uomo,
   Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", 50 Via Borelli, 00161 Rome, Italy.
   Phone: (39) 6 4991 8023. Fax: (39) 6 4457516.=20
   annaloy at axcasp.caspur.it =20
Gerhard Heldmaier,  Department of Biology, Philipps University, D-35032
   Marburg, Germany. Phone: (49) 6421-283409. Fax: (49) 6421 288937,=20
   heldmaie at mailer.uni-marburg.de

Invited speakers:   G. Hickman,  A. H. Maddock, A. Duckworth  (Lubbock
   TX, USA), M. Gorman (Aberdeen, Scotland), D. Kushnirov, F. Beolchini,
   E. Nevo (Haifa, Israel),  J. O. Reichman, E. W. Seabloom (Santa
   Barbara CA, USA), F. Wollnik (Stuttgart, Germany), T. Ruf and W.
   Arnold (Vienna, Austria), A. Smorkatchova (St. Petersburg, Russia).

W-2  SEARCHING FOR THE GRAIL: A SAMPLING METHOD THAT ACCURATELY PORTRAYS
   SMALL MAMMAL COMMUNITIES
Conveners: Gordon L. Kirkland, Jr., Vertebrate Museum, Shippensburg
   University,  Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA. Phone: (1) 717 5321407. Fax:
   (1) 717 5304048.  glkirk at ark.ship.edu =20
Jiri Gaisler, Department of Zoology and Ecology, Masaryk University,
   Kotlarska 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. Phone: (420) 5 41129522.
   Fax: (420) 5 412 11214  gaisler at sci.muni.cz

W-3  INCREASING MAMMAL POPULATIONS; FROM THE THREAT OF EXTINCTION TO
   OVERPOPULATION: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS=20
Conveners: Marc Artois, CNEVA Nancy, Domaine de Pixiricourt, BP 9, (F)
   54220 Malzeville, France. Phone: (33) 3 832989. Fax: (33) 3 83298959.=20
   cneva.nancy at fitech.fr =20
Richard Rosatte, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Rabies Research
   Unit, Science Complex, P.O. Box 4840, Peterborough, ONT K9J 8M8,
   Canada. Phone: (1) 705 7552280. Fax: (1) 705 7552288.=20
   rosattri at epo.gov.on.ca =20
Invited speakers: M. Chautan, M. Artois, D. Pontier (Malzeville, France),
  L. M. Rogers, R. J. Delahay, C. L. Cheeseman, & G. C. Smith (Hutton,
  UK), A. Kranz (Vienna, Germany), C. Gortazar et al. (Zaragoza, Spain)

IUCN SPECIALIST GROUP MEETINGS
   IUCN/SSC specialist group meetings are not planned for paper
   presentations, unless otherwise arranged by chairmen. Chairs of other
   IUCN/SSC groups who wish to arrange a meeting during the congress
   should contact the local committee before March 16.
CANIDS=20
Chair: David W. Macdonald, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford,
   South Park Road, Oxford 0X1 3PS, UK. Fax: (44) 1 865310447.=20
   david.macdonald at zoology.oxford.ac.uk

EQUIDS=20
Chair: Patricia D. Moehlman,Equid Specialist Group, Box 2031, Arusha,
   Tanzania. Phone: (255) 57 7504. Fax: (255) 57 8271.=20
   tan.guides at habari.co.tz

INSECTIVORE, TREE SHREW AND ELEPHANT SHREWS
Chair: Rainer Hutterer, Mammals Department of Zoology Forschungsinstitut
   und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany,
   Fax: (49) 228 216979.   r.hutterer.zfmk at uni-bonn.de

RODENTS
Chair: Giovanni Amori, Centro di Genetica Evoluzionistica, Consiglio
   Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Lancisi 29, 00161 Roma , Italy. Phone:
   (39) 6 4403277. Fax: (39) 6 44230311.  amori at axrma.uniroma1.it

LAGOMORPH
Chair: Andrew T. Smith, Department of Biology, Box 871501, Arizona State
  University Tempe AZ 85287-1501 USA  FAX: 1.602.965.2519 a.smith at asu.edu


PLENARY SESSIONS
   The program for each day of technical sessions will begin with a
   plenary lecture. The invited speakers and lecture topics are:
Alex Aguilar (Department of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona,
   Spain)  "The Mediterranean monk seal: the difficult conservation of a
   species in the verge of extinction"
Ernesto Capanna (Centro di Genetica Evoluzionistica, CNR, Roma, Italy)
   "Selfish or not selfish:  the role of the heterochromatin  in the
   evolution of  mammals"
Michael Rosenszweig  (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
   University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA) "Conserving biodiversity in a
   world full of people: reservation or reconciliation? "
Jeremy Searle (Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK)
   "Post-glacial colonisation history of mammals in Europe and North
   America - an overview."


OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
   Demonstration of  geometric morphometrics software and data
   acquisition hardware
Organizers: Marco Corti, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell  Uomo,
   Universita` di   Roma "La Sapienza" via Borelli 50, I-00161 Roma.
   Phone: (39) 6 49918092. Fax: (39) 6 4457516.  corti at axrma.uniroma1.it
Leslie F. Marcus, Department of Biology, Queens College of  CUNY /
   Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History,
   Central Park West at 79th street, New York NY 10024, USA. Fax: (1) 212
   7695842.  lamqc at cunyvm.cuny.edu

   Please contact organizers if you wish to participate or have more
   details about this demonstration.



FEES
_______________________________________________________________________
                              Early payment     Late payment
                                             (after MARCH 16)
_______________________________________________________________________
Participants from the US,
  Canada, Scandinavia,
  Germany, Austria, Italy,
  and west thereof             19.500 pta           25.000 pta

Participants from all
  other countries,
  students, and accompanying
  persons                      10.500 pta          15.000 pta
______________________________________________________________________

Note that in Spanish a point is written to separate thousands of pesetas.


COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS

Facultades de Farmacia y Bioloxia (USC)
Direccion Xeral de Montes e Medio Ambiente Natural (XG)
Secretaria Xeral de Medio Ambiente e Proteccion Civil (XG)
Secretaria Xeral para o Turismo (XG)
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)


STEERING COMMITTEE

Anthony Mitchell-Jones (SEM), Fax: (44) 1 733 68834 =20
     jones at mitchelljones.force9.net
David Macdonald (SEM), Fax: (44) 1 865 310447=20
     david.macdonald at zoology.oxford.ac.uk
Maria da Luz Mathias (SEM), Fax: (351) 1 7500028  zsaramag at fc.ul.pt
Giovanni Amori (SEM), Fax: (39) 6 44230311  amori at axrma.uniroma1.it=20
Terry L. Yates (ASM), Fax: (1) 505 2770304  tyates at sevilleta.unm.edu=20
Luis A. Ruedas (ASM), (Co-chair), Fax: (1) 505 2770304
     lruedas at sevilleta.unm.edu
Rodrigo Medellin (ASM), Fax: (52) 5 6224828=20
medellin at miranda.ecologia.unam.mx
Miguel Delibes (SECEM), Fax: (34) 54 621125 decastro at ebd03.ebd.cica.es=20
Fernando Palacios (SECEM), (Co-chair), Fax: (34) 1 5645078=20
     fernan at pinar1.csic.es=20
Santiago Reig (SECEM), Fax: (34) 1 5645078 mustela at pinar1.csic.es
Felipe Barcena (USC), Fax: (34) 81 593316  fbarcena at bbvnet.com
Manuel Sanmartin (USC), Fax: (34) 81 593316 mpduran at usc.es
Tomas Fernandez-Couto (Xunta de Galicia), Fax: (34) 81 546101


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Robert J. Baker, Lubbock (TX), USA
Luigi Boitani, Roma, ITALY
James H. Brown, Albuquerque (NM), USA
Fran=87ois Catzeflis, Montpellier, FRANCE
John F. Eisenberg, Gainesville (FL), USA
Scott L. Gardner, Lincoln (NE), USA
Paul H. Harvey, Oxford, UK
William V. Holt, London, UK
Rainer Hutterer, Bonn, GERMANY
Alicia V. Linzey, Indiana (PA), USA
Georgina Mace, London, UK
Zdzislaw Pucek, Bialowieza, POLAND
Santiago Reig, Madrid, SPAIN (Co-chair)
Steven P. Rushton, Newcastle, UK
Don E. Wilson, Washington (DC), USA (Co-chair)

LOCAL COMMITTEE
USC
Felipe Barcena, (Co-chair) Fax: (34) 81 593316   fbarcena at bbvnet.com
Manuel Sanmartin, Fax: (34) 81 593316  mpduran at usc.es
Jesus Dominguez, Fax: (34) 81 596904  bajesdom at usc.es
Jose Guitian, Fax: (34) 81 596904  bfguiti at usc.es
SECEM=20
Miguel Delibes, Fax: (34) 54 621125   decastro at ebd03.ebd.cica.es
Fernando Palacios, (Co-chair) Fax: (34) 1 5645078   fernan at pinar1.csic.es=
=20
Santiago Reig, Fax: (34) 1 5645078  mustela at pinar1.csic.es=20
XG
Tomas Fernandez-Couto, Fax: (34) 81 546101




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