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Upcoming

Integrated Catchment Management Workshop

Connecting Research and Practice

The Motueka Integrated Catchment Management team invites you to attend a workshop in Nelson 26 - 28 April, 2010 { Read more }

GLEON Meeting

Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network is holding its tenth meeting in Torres, RS, Brazil on 10-14 May 2010 { Read more }

SIL triennial congress

The SIL triennial congress will be held in Capetown, South Africa on 15-20 August 2010. { Read more }

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Join NZFSS

If you would like to become a member of NZFSS, please fill out the membership application form and email or post this form to the Society treasurer.

International Society for Limnology (SIL)

SIL, the International Society for Limnology seeks to raise awareness globally of inland aquatic ecosystems and their management. For a modest annual contribution members can become part of a globally interconnected society that publishes newsletters two or three times annually, has several specialist working groups and holds an international meeting every three years. A recent development is a new journal, Inland Waters: Journal of the Society of Limnology, initially included in SIL membership fees. One of its objectives is to encourage less experienced limnologists to submit papers and receive feedback, encouragement and establish a dialogue with reviewers, provided a certain threshold of scientific quality is met.  With assistance of a skilled editorial assistant, there is some scope for the journal to assist non-English speaking authors with grammatical corrections, when the science is rigorous. SIL website click here. Your NZ representative is Professor David Hamilton .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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About NZFSS

The New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society (NZFSS) aims to establish effective liaison between all persons interested in any aspect of fresh and brackish water research in New Zealand, and to encourage and promote these interests.

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News

Inquiry into the Proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management

NZFSS put forward one of the 149 submissions on the proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management. Since then, there has been a Board of Inquiry into those...

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Featured Publication

Post DM, Palkovacs EP. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2009, 364: 1629-1640.

The first featured publication is on a topic that will appeal to the more theoretically and philosophically minded ecologist.  It is a paper that tries to make the point that not only are organisms affected by their environments, but that normal organism functioning can alter the environment.  Thus, organisms create a feedback on their environment which is not only ecologically important, but has consequences on longer, evolutionary time scales.  Such feedbacks are termed “eco-evolutionary feedbacks” by the authors.

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