Abstracts for talks and posters at this year’s meeting will ONLY be accepted if submitted on or before the registration deadline: Friday, October 6, 2023. Abstract submission is closed for 2023 and no other abstracts can be accepted.

If you are giving a talk or poster at the meeting, there are specific guidelines for submitting your abstract during the meeting registration process. Please follow formatting guidelines to ensure your abstract file contains all the required information and to facilitate its inclusion in the program. This makes the Secretariat’s job much easier. Enter the authors, author affiliations, and title of your abstract in the exact same format as the examples shown below. If you are submitting an abstract for a talk, you will also need to choose your 1st and 2nd choice of sessions (this helps with scheduling). The session options are listed below. Then, you must upload your abstract file (including authors, author affiliations, title, and abstract body) in a Word document (.doc or .docx). Do not send your abstract file without author, title, or affiliation information.

Please name your abstract file as follows:

Contributed talk: “Talk_LastName_FirstName.doc”

Poster: “Poster_LastName_FirstName.doc”

Plenary speaker: “Plenary_LastName_FirstName.doc”

*If you do not name your file correctly we will not be able to know which one is yours!

Formatting Guidelines

Abstract Formatting

PLEASE format your abstract (200 words or less) exactly like the following example to aid the Secretariat in making the WSN Program Booklet. Abstracts should be written in Arial, 10 pt font, and single spaced. Please make sure track changes are off, all edits have been accepted, and comments deleted.

You abstract should look exactly like the abstract below with no spaces.

ECOLOGY OF KELP FORESTS IN DEEP TROPICAL WATERS
Graham, M.H.1*, Kinlan, B.P.2, Druehl, L.D.3
1 – Moss Landing Marine Labs, 2 – University of California, Santa Barbara, 3 – Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

Kelp forests are some of the most diverse, productive, and dynamic ecosystems on this planet, yet most ecologists consider kelp-based systems inherently temperate-boreal phenomena. Kelp forests can dominate eutrophic coastal waters of temperate-boreal regions, due to the presence of high nutrient, low temperature waters. However, we have recently completed a study that refutes the hypothesis that tropical and sub-tropical waters are incapable of supporting kelp-based systems. We used a Geographic Information System (GIS) to predict coastal regions between 30°N and 30°S in which enough light and nutrients are available at the sea floor to support kelp photosynthesis and growth. The results indicated extensive kelp-inhabitable regions throughout the tropics, down to depths exceeding 150 meters. Such regions were ubiquitous along the west coasts of Central America and North-Central Africa, the Philippine and Mediterranean Seas, and the coasts of Brazil and the Arabian Peninsula, totaling tens of 1000’s of square kilometers of potential kelp habitat. We recently completed an exploration of the Galapagos Archipelago, predicted to be inhabitable by deep kelps, in which we found extensive new forests of Eisenia galapagensis, with associated kelp forest organisms. We suggest that extensive kelp populations likely exist in deep tropical waters worldwide and may provide hotspots of habitat and energy provision in otherwise oligotrophic systems.

Author Names

Last Name, First and Middle Initial. Include a number (in superscript) following each author’s name to identify their affiliation (see below). Include an asterisk next to the name of the author that will be presenting at WSN.

Example: Graham, M.H.1*, Kinlan, B.P.2, and Druehl, L.D. 3

Title

Title should be in ALL CAPS and bold text. 130 characters maximum, including spaces.

Example: ECOLOGY OF KELP FORESTS IN DEEP TROPICAL WATERS


Affiliations

Italicize the affiliations and include numbers in front of each to identify the affiliation of each author.

Example: 1 – Moss Landing Marine Labs, 2 – University of California Santa Barbara, 3 – Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre


Word Limit

Please keep your abstract to 200 words or less. Your file must be submitted as a .doc or .docx word document or as a pdf.

Session Selection

If you are presenting a talk, you must choose a session in which you feel your talk is appropriate. You will be able to select a first and second choice (in case your first choice is full).

  • Applied Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Community Ecology
  • Conservation and Restoration
  • Dispersal and Recruitment
  • Ecosystem Assessment
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Fisheries Ecology
  • Intertidal Ecology
  • Invasive Species
  • Invertebrate Biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oceans and Human Health
  • Physiological Ecology
  • Plant/Algal Biology
  • Population Biology and Ecology
  • Reproductive Biology
  • Species-Habitat Associations

2015 Special Sessions

  • Evaluating Protected Areas
  • Long-term Monitoring for Long term Change
  • Broadening participation in Research and Monitoring
  • Human Dimensions