The 6th Mississippi-Yangtze River Basin Symposium (MYRIBS) focuses on the conservation and management of the Yangtze and Mississippi River basins and their respective aquatic resources are hereby encouraged, as well as presentations on studies of other large (i.e., boatable) rivers and their tributaries, and lakes or lake basins in the United States and China, and throughout the world.
We invite presenters working on a broad array of topics including:
- Large river or lake fish ecology and management, mussel and crayfish conservation,
- Non-native species,
- Tools and techniques for sampling rivers and lakes,
- River restoration success and failures, balancing multiple uses of rivers and lakes,
- Long-term monitoring programs,
- Instream flows and hydropower,
- Commercial and recreational fisheries,
- Watershed approaches to river or lake basin management,
- Conservation planning of river networks or lake basins,
- Ecosystem services of rivers and lakes,
- River and lake science and policy, and others.
Organizer: Yushun Chen, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, [email protected]
Co-organizers: Michael Eggleton, Dana Infante, Patrick Kroboth, Jim Lamer, Michael Moore
Supported by: American Fisheries Society, China Society of Fisheries