[Coral-List] ISRS 2006 European Meeting Bremen: Session 13 Announcement

[ISRS 2006 Bremen]

Dear coral-list

Please find below the session abstract and announcement for "Session 13:
Reef rehabilitation" at the ISRS 2006 European Meeting Bremen which we are
posting on behalf of Buki Rinkevich and Helmut Schuhmacher (chairs of this
session).

Best regards,

ISRS 2006 Bremen
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Request for abstracts:

Reef rehabilitation:

We would like to invite submission of abstracts for the session „Reef
Rehabilitation“ which is part of the ISRS meeting in Bremen (Sept. 19-22nd
2006).

The decline of coral reefs worldwide has prompted the need for urgent
development of adequate rehabilitation and restoration methodologies. In many
cases protection of reefs failed to prevent further habitat degradation. Hence,
active measures are numerous, but not all are ecologically compatible. Adequate
concepts of reef restoration, preferably embedded in theories of uw-landscape
ecology, are still in their infancies and state-of-the-art remediation
protocols are rare. Another point for consideration is the overharvesting of
reef organisms for food and ornamental trade, degrading reef health as well.

In this session, we welcome original studies on:

•	Reef rehabilitation and restoration
•	Concepts for reef restoration
•	Reef rehabilitation sites, case studies
•	Mariculture of corals and other reef organisms

Please submit your abstract by May 15 at
http://isrs2006.zmt.uni-bremen.de/regis.php.
Click on ‘Registration’, go to ‘Abstract Submission’, and assign your abstract
to session 14 “Reef rehabilitation”. Send a copy to Buki Rinkevich
(buki at ocean.org.il) and Helmut Schuhmacher (h.schuhmacher at uni-essen.de).

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Local Organising Committee
ISRS 2006 European Meeting Bremen
Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstr. 6
D-28359 Bremen
Germany
Fax +49-421-2380030
http://isrs2006.zmt-bremen.de
mailto: isrs2006 at zmt-bremen.de