Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission are now open for the Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conference (30th August – 4th September 2015). Please visit www.aquaticbiodiversityandecosystems.org<http://www.aquaticbiodiversityandecosystems.org> to see instructions on the ‘register’ and ‘submit abstract’ pages. The deadline for abstract submission is 31st March 2015 and the deadline for early bird registration is 30th April 2015.

Abstracts for talks and posters may be submitted under the following broad themes:

·       Global Environmental Change

·       Fisheries & Aquaculture

·       Evolutionary Biology

·       Conservation, Management & Policy

·       Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning & Services

·       Dispersal & Connectivity

·       Food webs & Trophic Dynamics

·       General Aquatic Biology

Bookings for accommodation at the university residences are also now open. Please get in early as a limited number of rooms are available. Details on accommodation options are available on the ‘travel & hospitality’ page of the website.

The Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Evolution, Interactions and Global Change meeting is a conference for aquatic scientists (both marine and freshwater) with a focus on evolution, interactions and long-term change - particularly how these shape patterns of biodiversity and the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The scope is deliberately broad encompassing natural and highly modified habitats in both marine and freshwater aquatic systems. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are the key focus, but the meeting also caters for an interdisciplinary approach to studying and managing aquatic ecosystems, especially unravelling local and regional scale impacts from global climate driven change!

We attach a conference poster with dates and details. Please print and display it around your various institutions, and please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.

For those of you travelling from further afield who may wish to attend multiple meetings in the same trip, the following meetings are also being held elsewhere in the UK and Europe:


·       23-27 Aug 2015, 6th World Conference on Restoration, Manchester, http://www.ser2015.org

·       23-28 Aug 2015, European Phycological Congress, London, http://www.epc6.org

·       6-9 Sept 2015, Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Association Meeting, London, http://www.estuarinecoastalconference.com

·       19-26 Sept 2015, European Marine Biology Symposium, Germany


We hope to see you in Liverpool in 2015.

Louise Firth, Steve Hawkins, Katrin Bohn, Ian Donohue, Chris Frid, Martin Genner, Iwan Jones, Tony Knights, Nessa O’Connor, Gray Williams - organising committee.

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Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Evolution, Interactions and Global Change
30 August – 4 Sept 2015
(http://www.aquaticbiodiversityandecosystems.org/)
The University of Liverpool

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