Call for papers for the proceedings of
IMCG 12th Biennial Symposium, Tammela,
Finland 24th to 26th July, 2006

Oral and poster presentations

Here you can download the abstracts of oral and poster presentations from the IMCG 12th Biennial Symposium in Tammela, Finland.

Instructions for authors

Scientific articles as well as technical reports dealing with mire conservation are welcome. The articles should be written in English. Linguistic revision will be arranged by the editors. Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to the editors:
Tapio.lindholm@ymparisto.fi and raimo.heikkila@ymparisto.fi

If you have large files, e.g. photos, please take into account that our mailbox does not accept attachments exceeding altogether 5 MB in one message. So, if you have many large attachments, please send them in separate messages. You can reduce the size of the files using zip packing.

Each article will be reviewed.

Manuscripts should follow this sequence:

Title
Full names of authors
Affiliation, postal address and e-mail address

Example:

Nature and degradation of polygon mires in NE Yakutia (NE Siberia)
Norman Donner, Merten Minke, Pim de Klerk & Hans Joosten
Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Grimmer Strasse 88, D-17487 Greifswald, Deutschland
E-mail: norman.donner@web.de, MertenChristian@gmx.de, pimdeklerk@web.de, joosten@uni-greifswald.de

Introduction
Materials and methods (when applicable)
Results
Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Tables
Figure legends
Figures

The maximum length of articles is 10 pages (Times Roman 12 pt, single-spaced, 2,5 cm margins in all directions) including figures, tables and references.

The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 31st January, 2007.


The text should be in .rtf file format without any formatting. Do not hyphenate, indent, justify or use any other special features. Please separate paragraphs and chapters with one empty line between them.

Tables should be sent as separate files in .rtf format using tabs to separate columns, and without using the table options of word processors. The figures can be printed in colors. The graphs should be in vector format (.eps), or high resolution (minimum 600 dpi) .jpg or .gif format. Photos are welcome, and they should be in .tif format (minimum resolution 300 dpi) or .jpg format (minimum resolution 600 dpi). If you are uncertain about the figures, please consult the editors.


Text references should be written in the text as follows: Cajander (1913), (Юрковская 1975), Päivänen & al. (1993) (if more than two authors) or (Eurola & Kaakinen 1979, Tahvanainen & Tuomaala 2003), in chronological order. The references in the reference list should be in alphabetical order with the journal names unabbreviated.

Give titles of papers cited in the language in which they have been written, but include the name of an English (or other 'congress language') abstract/summary, if available. If there is no such abstract/summary, please give an English translation of the title in brackets []. Please do not transliterate the names of authors, titles of publications or names of journals. If several works by the same author are cited, please order the references as follows:
Author: chronologically
Author & coauthor: alphabetically according to coauthor, then chronologically.
Author et al. (several coauthors): chronologically.

Examples:

Cajander, A. K. 1913: Studien über die Moore Finnlands. – Acta Forestalia Fennica 2(3): 1-208.
Eurola, S. & Holappa, K. 1985: The Finnish mire type system. – Aquilo Ser. Botanica 21: 101-110.
Eurola, S. & Kaakinen, E. 1978: Suotyyppiopas. [Guide to mire site types] – WSOY, Porvoo. 87 pp.
Eurola, S. & Kaakinen, E. 1979: Ecological criteria of peatland zonation and the Finnish mire type system. – Proceedings of the International Symposium on Classification of Peat and Peatlands: 20-32. Hyytiälä, Finland, 17-21 IX 1979. IPS, Helsinki.
Eurola, S., Hicks, S. & Kaakinen, E. 1984: Key to Finnish mire types. – In: Moore, P.D. (ed.), European mires: 11-117. Academic Press. London.
Eurola, S., Huttunen, A. & Kukko-oja, K. 1994: Suokasvillisuusopas. [Guide to mire vegetation]. – Oulanka Reports 14: 1-85.
Hämet-Ahti, L., Suominen, J., Ulvinen. T. & Uotila, P. (eds.) 1998: Retkeilykasvio. (Summary: Field flora of Finland). Ed. 4. –Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum. Helsinki. 656 pp.
Кац, Н. Я. 1948: Типы болот СССР и Западной Европы и их географическое распространение. [Mire types of USSR and Western Europe and their geographical distribution]. – Москва. 320 с.
Юрковская Т.К. 1975: География растительного покрова типов болотных массивов европейской части СССР. [Geography of the vegetation cover of mire massif types of the European part of USSR]. – Ботанический журнал. 60(9): 1251–1264.

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