Broadcast Announcement and Call for Abstracts ...
12th Annual Symposium
United States Regional Association
International Association for Landscape Ecology
March 16-19, 1997
Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Landscape ecology focuses on spatial heterogeneity:
how to characterize pattern, how pattern originates, and its
implications for populations, communities, and ecosystem processes.
Increasingly, landscape ecologists are concerned with how landscapes
change through time and the forces that govern these dynamics.
Clearly, an understanding of the agents and trajectories of landscape
change is crucial to our ability to anticipate future landscape
conditions and the implications of these for resource management and
land use planning.
The symposium will be hosted by the Nicholas School of the
Environment at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The meeting
will be held Sunday through Wednesday, March 16-19, 1997, at the
Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club on the edge of Duke's West Campus,
adjoining Duke Forest. The meeting will consist of plenary sessions
with invited guests, thematic sessions of contributed papers, and
poster sessions. Special workshops will focus on techniques for
teaching landscape ecology and for sharing research and teaching tools
such as custom software.
Meeting guests may participate in all-day field trips on Sunday
as well as shorter field trips on Tuesday afternoon. Field trips will
visit a variety of ecosystems and research sites in the Durham area,
the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain.
For more information and instructions for submitting abstracts,
please visit our web site:
http://www.env.duke.edu/iale97
or contact the Program Chair:
Dean Urban, US-IALE Program Chair
Nicholas School of the Environment
Levine Science Research Center
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0328
Phone: 919-613-8076
FAX: 919-684-8741
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submitting abstracts is November 15, 1996.
