Conference Announcement
VI International Moose Symposium
13-23 August 2008
Yakutsk, Russia
For further information, please contact:
Innokentiy Okhlopkov
E-mail: mountlab [at] ibpc.ysn.ru
The VI International Moose Symposium will be held on 13-23 August 2008,
in Yakutsk, Russia, under the theme "Moose in Virgin and Anthropogenic
Altered Landscapes."
The symposium will give participants a chance to present results of
their research and management activities and spend time in the Siberian
taiga to see remnant steppes from the early Holocene epoch, which in
those early times were home to mammoths, hairy rhinos, and ancestors of
our present day reindeer. The symposium features a 4-5 day field trip in
Lenskie Stolby National Nature Park.
Program areas for the Moose Symposium will include:
- Status of moose in their current world wide range
- Population parameters and influencing factors
- Alterations in moose biology (virgin to anthropogenic-impacted
habitats)
- Systematic and evolution
- Physiology and biochemistry
- Genetics
- Behavior
- Distribution in biotopes
- Hunting
- Moose, logging, and access
- Moose and traffic accidents
- Moose conservation
- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes
- Predation
- Climatic influences on feeding, breeding, and population dynamics
- Qualitative and quantitative aspects of food in an altered environment
and impacts on moose
- Veterinary issues
- Ethnographical questions (i.e., the cultural significance of moose)
Letters of interest and questions should be sent to Innokentiy
Okhlopkov, the symposium General Secretary, at: mountlab [at] ibpc.ysn.ru.