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Attendance at the Wildlife Research and Conservation 2019 (WRC2019) conference
The Editor of BMC Zoology is pleased to be attending the Wildlife Research and Conservation 2019 (WRC2019) conference, taking place in Berlin, Germany from September 30th to October 2nd. The conference is jointly organised by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and WWF Germany. For more information, including how to register and submit an abstract, please visit the conference website.
Aims and scope
BMC Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of zoology, including comparative physiology, mechanistic and functional studies, morphology, life history, animal behavior, signaling and communication, cognition, parasitism, systematics, biogeography and conservation.
Editor
- Alison Cuff, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Cecilia Pennica, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Joseph Minus, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Brock Fenton, University of Western Ontario
- Thomas Flatt, University of Lausanne
- Herbert Hoi, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- Serge Morand, University of Montpellier
- Laurence Packer, York University
Meet the editors
Thomas Flatt is Associate Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg. His main interest is the evolution and mechanisms of life history and aging. He is a Section Editor for BMC Zoology since its inception in 2016.
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