> Dear all - We would like to invite oral and poster contributions to our > session on dietary biomarkers in Aquatic food webs to be held at this > year's ASLO summer meeting in Lake Biwa, Japan (information below). We are > particularly interested in novel applications of dietary biomarkers, and/or > studies that use biomarker approaches to integrate physiological and > ecosystem processes. We are also interested in showcasing biomarker studies > from a wide range of aquatic ecosystems. > > The meeting website is (http://aslo.org/japan2012/). > > Abstracts are due *midnight (23:59 US Central Time) on 1 March 2012*, and > the submission guidelines are here ( > http://aslo.org/japan2012/submittal.html). > > We look forward to seeing you at this year's ASLO meeting! > > Please don't hestiate to contact me or my co-chair if you have any > questions. > > Sincerely, > Rana El-Sabaawi, Martin Kainz, Michael Brett, Hiroaki Saito and Nicole > Richoux. > > > DIETARY BIOMARKERS IN AQUATIC FOOD WEBS – TROPHIC TRANSFER AND STABILITY > Martin J. Kainz, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria, martin.ka...@donau-uni.ac.at; > Michael T. Brett, University of Washington, Seattle, > mtbr...@u.washington.edu; Hiroaki Saito, National Research Institute of > Fisheries Science, Yokohama, Japan, hiroa...@affrc.go.jp; Nicole Richoux, > Rhodes University, South Africa, n.rich...@ru.ac.za; Rana El-Sabaawi, > University of Victoria, Canada, r...@uvic.ca > > Dietary biomarkers within aquatic food webs are a critical measure for > evaluating diet sources, trophic relationships, and nutritional status of > aquatic consumers. In addition to gut content analysis for assessments of > recent diet success, aquatic food web research heavily relies on > biochemical tracers such as stable isotopes and fatty acids. Although food > web research has advanced considerably in recent decades, efforts to link > dietary biomarkers with their trophic stability and physiological > implications are rare. The aim of this session is to build a more > comprehensive understanding of what regulates the input, alteration, and > trophic retention of dietary biomarkers in consumers within aquatic food > webs. We invite talks that, a) propose the application of new biomarker > research, and, b) integrate current research challenges regarding > retention, biochemical stability, and physiological implication of dietary > biomarkers at all trophic levels and aquatic ecosystems. >
