Hello all, Sorry for any cross postings but we would like to draw your attention to the session "Zooplankton responses to environmental stressors: From individual responses to larger scale implications " that we will convene at the ASLO 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting (February 17-22, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA).
http://www.aslo.org/forms/neworleans2013.html Session format: Both talks and posters Session synopsis: As anthropogenic influences on aquatic environments increase, there is considerable scientific and practical interest in understanding how a system’s biological components will respond to both single and multiple stressors (chemical pollution, hypoxia, ocean acidification, toxic and harmful algal blooms, changing temperatures, etc.). The response of zooplankton to environmental conditions is of particular interest due to the central and mediating role that this group occupies as a trophic link between planktonic primary producers and larger consumers. Consequently, the response of zooplankton to stress has implications for a breadth of research fields including biogeochemical cycling, trophodynamics, fisheries and other ecosystems services. A goal of the session is to facilitate communication across geographic boundaries in zooplankton research, to identify gaps in our technological needs and to provide a venue for discussion of the responses of zooplankton to the multiple potential stressors associated with environmental change. We encourage submissions that build a mechanistic foundation for describing responses of zooplankton to stressors at the level of the individual, as well as those that utilize such a foundation to scale up to the population, community, and ecosystem levels. The call for papers for this meeting will be posted in August 2012, and the deadline for abstract submission is October 5th, 2012. Students and scientists at all stages of their careers are encouraged to submit to this session. We look forward to seeing you at this session! David T. Elliott and Amy E. Maas
