Plenary speakers
Plenary speakers
This will be an excellent opportunity to present and discuss your own work among your peers and get in touch with selected senior Ornithologists in a relaxed environment.
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With respect to vertebrate faunas, there is little doubt that freshwater fishes represent the most threatened set of vertebrates in the world due to both extensive and intensive human impacts, but also because of the disproportionate richness of inland waters (DUDGEON et al. 2005). Over 10 000 fish species live in freshwater, representing approximately 41% of global fish diversity (LUNDBERG et al. 2000).
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ISBN 978-975-429-315-9 © Copyright 2013 left to the authors
Wildlife Society Bulletin
Publication Rates of Presentations Given at Annual Conferences of The Wildlife Society, 1994–2006Annual conferences of The Wildlife Society (TWS) are important venues to advance wildlife science research through the presentation of papers and posters. However, no longitudinal analysis has been conducted of publication rates of TWS conference presentations. We classified all conference presentations from 1994 to 2006 by publication status, publication outlet, lead author affiliation, and elapsed time between presentation and publication to analyze presentation and publication trends. Of the 6,279 presentations reviewed, 1,771 were published (28.2%), primarily in the Journal of Wildlife Management (22.9%) or the Wildlife Society Bulletin (15.2%). The average time between presentation and publication was 30.10.6 months. Academics provided most of the presentations (52.6%), as well as publications (62.4%). We believe consideration of TWS annual conference presentation and publication metrics by TWS membership and conference organizers is warranted to ensure maximum stakeholder benefit. We discuss these implications of publication analysis and offer suggestions for increasing publication rates, if that becomes a goal of TWS. We encourage periodic investigation to quantify conference benefits and to better assess the efficacy of TWS conferences.