Threatened Fishes of the World Series in EBF

(DFC Webmaster's note: Dr. Jim Cambray, who is soliciting contributions on Threatened Fishes for publication in Environmental Biology of Fishes, has encouraged members of DFC who contribute to DFC Web to also submit their contributions for publication in EBF. This invitation, distributed by EBF, is thus being posted here so that potential contributors are aware that publication of their work in both DFC Web and EBF is possible, and in fact, encouraged.)

This is an invitation to contribute to the "Threatened fishes of the world" series in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes (EBF). It is the policy of this international journal to fill up blank left-hand pages with interesting and useful one-page articles. In the past these articles have been on subjects such as "The art of fish illustrations" and "Fish imagery in art". The Editorial Committee of EBF has recently granted approval for the publication of a new series of one-pagers on "Threatened fishes of the world", of which Dr. Jim Cambray will be editor. It is anticipated that about 40 one-pagers will be published each year. Once over 200 have been published, they will be bound in book form with an Introduction, Discussion and Index and published in the hardcover series Developments in the Environmental Biology of Fishes.

You are invited to contribute to this series, and in so doing to publicize the plight of threatened fishes worldwide. The series will cover marine, estuarine and freshwater fishes globally. The categories in which information is required are Scientific name, Family, Common names, Conservation status, Distribution, Abundance, Habitat Ecology, Reproduction, Threats, Conservation Action, Conservation Recommendations, Important References. The length of the article must not exceed one printed page including the illustration. Dr. Bruton will ensure that the manuscript is in the correct format before it is sent to the journal editor, but contributors are asked to follow the style of EBF in the preparation of their manuscripts. It is essential that the illustration of the fish should be a high quality monochrome drawing or photograph.

For the purposes of this series a "threatened fish" is defined as "a species whose status has deteriorated due to natural or unnatural causes to the point at which it may be considered as rare, vulnerable or endangered".

Please consider producing several of these one-pagers on the threatened fish familiar to you. The preparation of each article will not take long, but the information will receive very wide exposure.

For more information contact: Dr. Cambray by sending e-mail to: J.Cambray_at_ru.ac.za.

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