The Technical and Organizational Advisory Committee invites you to submit your current and innovative work, case studies on best practices and recent research experiences that are relevant under the three broad conference themes given below for inclusion in the programme of the International Conference on Humid Tropics.
- Changes and challenges in humid tropics
- Opportunities for meeting the challenges
- Environmental futures and global partnerships.
Under these three broad themes of the conference, participants are strongly encouraged to present papers in the areas of interest stated in the conference overview page for the dedicated sessions.
*Please note presentations on species should feature globally threatened taxa or very charismatic or keystone species in the humid tropics that are clearly at risk of extinction due to over-exploitation or habitat change (natural or human induced) in the presenter’s country or geographic region. The mere description of a tropical species or their behaviour will not qualify for inclusion in this conference. |
Queries and technical clarifications regarding the above areas of interest can be made to Dr Jinie Dela (anuama@nsf.ac.lk).
The Technical Review Panel for the conference will review abstracts for suitability and quality. Accepted works will be organized into the technical sessions according to topic and schedule.
Submission of the abstract implies that one of the authors will attend the conference and present the work described in the abstract.
Instructions for preparing and submitting abstracts for oral, poster and movie presentations
- The deadline for submission of abstracts for presentations at the Conference is now extended up to 31st Octorber 2006.
- Abstracts can be submitted free of charge online by clicking here.
- If there are problems of online submission, please send the abstract by fax to Ms Christine Dassanayake before the abstract deadline using the printable
 36 Kb PDF form that is available. Please make sure to send the entire abstract document as an e-mail attachment (in the Ms Word format) at least by 31st October 2006 to Christine. Please note that abstracts reaching us without soft copies will not be included in the abstract book.
(Contact for abstracts fax: +94 112 694754; e-mail: christine@nsf.ac.lk).
Please indicate the conference title when faxing abstracts and address it to Ms Christine Dassanayake .
- In extreme cases the abstract (hard copy and soft copy on a CD) may be posted or couriered to Ms Christine Dassanayake, The NSF Organizational Secretariat , National Science Foundation, 47/5, Maitland Place, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka. Please note that using ordinary post may lead to us receiving the abstract after the abstract deadline.
Please indicate the conference title when posting/couriering abstracts.
- Authors should indicate whether the abstract is for an oral, poster or movie presentation in the abstract submission form.
- The abstract should represent the actual presentation to be made at the conference. Changes in the topic and focus after the abstract is accepted will not be permitted.
- All abstracts will be reviewed by the Technical Review Panel.
- Notification of acceptance of presentation (oral, movie or poster), or otherwise, will be made to the presenting author (to be marked by an asterisk* in the abstract) within one month of receipt of the abstract.
- Please note that the presenting author must be registered for the conference (with registration fee paid) before an individual abstract is selected for the conference by the Technical Review Panel.
- General guidelines to follow on format and layout when preparing abstracts:
- Abstracts (for all types of presentations) must be submitted in English.
- Authors should use 11 point Arial font.
- Title should be in bold type at the top of the abstract.
- List author’s surname first, followed by initials of first and middle names. When there are multiple authors, the presenting author’s name must be indicated by an*. Give institutional affiliations of authors using superscript numbers. Give full mailing and e-mail address of the presenting author, and only institutional affiliations of co-authors.
- Abstracts should be single spaced. The word count for the body of the abstract should be between 350 and 400 words (i.e., excluding title and author information and keywords). There should be no more than 5 key words. Please check your word count before you submit your abstract.
- Abstracts should use standard format of introduction, methods, results, and conclusion. Do not include figures, tables or equations, Greek letters or special mathematical symbols.
- Scientific or taxonomic names should be in italics in the abstract.
- Where symbols may change in the word document when cut and pasted into our abstract document, or if you think that the accurate representation of symbols will be a problem, please make note of it at the end of the abstract under the title comments for printing.
- The abstract should not contain references.
Abstract Book
Abstracts of the accepted presentations and posters will be printed in the conference abstract book and included in the conference kit.
A summary of the conference proceedings and outcomes will be published.
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