Abstract Submissions

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN

EXTENDED UNTIL 1 MAY 2006.

Instructions to authors
Oral presentations

Oral presentations (during sessions) will be 20 minutes long, including 5 minutes for questions.  Length of symposia presentations will be determined by each symposia organizer.

Poster presentations

Poster dimensions allowed are 1.20 m x 1.20 m (48 inches x 48 inches) maximum.  We encourage you to consider a poster presentation, especially if you are making multiple presentations due to time slot limitations for session presentations.. Posters offer an excellent opportunity for interaction between presenter and audience, allowing a more extensive exchange of ideas. A larger audience is likely to view a poster, and a poster allows greater flexibility in presentation. All poster presentation will be held in the Art Gallery in Founders Hall.

Abstracts
Please send your information and abstract as an attachment of an email to: eeef@soka.edu .  You should also send the same information in the body of the email in case our computers can not read the attachment.  Abstracts should be single spaced and can not exceed 250 words.

Information needed with the abstracts:
Presentation preference:  Do you wish to submit a poster or oral presentation?  Which symposium do you prefer to be associated with?
Title of presentation.
Author(s) (please put an asterisk after presenter’s name).
Author(s) organization (please put numbers after author’s names and before organizations names if authors are from more than one organization).
Presenter’s e-mail address.
Abstract Body - single spaced; do not exceed 250 words.

EXAMPLE

Session (Oral)

Ecology of Red Sea anemonefish on both sides of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Anthony I. Mazeroll ¹, Renee L. Mazeroll², Denis Goulet³, Maroof A. Khalaf⁴.
¹ Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA, 92656 USA
²Point Loma Nazarene University, Department of Nursing, San Diego, CA, 92106, USA
³Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, USA
⁴Marine Science Station-Aqaba, Aqaba, Jordan
amazeroll@soka.edu

Anemonefish (Family Pomacentridae) are known for their symbiotic associations with tropical sea anemones. In the northern Gulf of Aqaba, anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) occur in widely dispersed isolated mated pairs, as single adults, or less often as haremic social groups. We compared the ecology of anemonefish in Eilat, Israel and in Aqaba, Jordan. These two study sites are on opposite sides of the upper Gulf of Aqaba approx. 5 miles apart. On average, each anemone in Eilat has less than 1 fish occupying it (mean = 0.7 fish, range 0-4). In Jordan, there are significantly more fish inhabiting each anemone (mean = 1.2 fish, range 0-6: p = 0.01). In fact, most of the anemonefish within the study site in Jordan occupy multiple anemones and live in social groups with two breeding adults along with 2 or more sub-adult/juveniles. In Israel, all fish/pairs within the study site occupy just one anemone. The anemonefish in Jordan are also significantly larger than the anemonefish in Israel (Jordan: mean = 70 mm, range 10-135 mm; Israel mean = 43 mm, range 10-105 mm; p = 0.0001). Additionally, both the numbers of anemones and anemonefish declined drastically from 1996 to 1999 in Eilat, but stayed relatively constant in Aqaba over a two-year period (1998-1999). Furthermore, fish swim significantly farther away from their host anemones in Jordan than they do in Israel (p = 0.001).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN

EXTENDED UNTIL 1 MAY 2006.