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The NAEM organising committee invites those interested to present an oral presentation in one of the parallel sessions of NAEM 2019 to submit their presentation abstract to the conveners of that parallel session. The parallel sessions have now been selected by the NAEM Organising Committee. They can be found in the programme below. The call for submitting an abstract for an oral presentation in one of the parallel sessions is now open and will be open until TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2018. That gives you just under 6 weeks to look at the programme, think about the session that you would like to present your work in, make an abstract (max. 200 words!), and submit that along with a title of your proposed talk to the conveners of the session of your choice (their e-mail addresses are hyperlinked in the programme (under their names)).

This year will be the 12th edition of the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM). As always, the meeting will be held at Conference Centre "De Werelt" in Lunteren. At this stage, the four plenary speakers have been confirmed. The first plenary session will be about "Rewilding in the face of Global Change", with plenary talks by Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning of Aarhus University in Denmark, about "Trophic rewilding – background, opportunities and challenges for megafauna-based restoration in the Anthropocene", and by Dr Liesbeth Bakker of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, about "Rewilding: impact on ecosystems under global change". The second plenary session will be about "Estuarine & Coastal Ecology in the Anthropocene: challenges and opportunities", with plenary talks by Prof. Laura Airoldi of the University of Bologna in Italy, about "Discovering, understanding and sustaining marine ecosystems along increasingly artificial coastlines", and by Prof. Tjeerd Bouma of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, about "Sustaining intertidal ecosystems under climate change for coastal protection". Below, you can find more details about the general set-up of the programme and about the deadlines for submission of contributions to the 2019 NAEM meeting. You are cordially invited to register your participation.

The collaboration has been sought with the BIOTA program that has been supported by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) since 1999, so more than 18 years. The program is a Virtual Biodiversity Institute bringing together more than 1200 scientists from leading universities, research institutes and non-governmental organizations in the state of São Paulo