SCIENTIFIC CENTER OF ZOOLOGY AND HYDROECOLOGY
NATIONALACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF ARMENIA
A.N.SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
AMERICANUNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA
(ACOPIAN CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT)
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III International Scientific Conference
«Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna»
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Information letter
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Third international scientific conferencetitled«Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna» organized by the Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology NAS RA, A.N.Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS and Acopian Center for the Environment of the American University of Armenia.
Date: The Conferencewill be held duringSeptember 27 - 29, 2017,Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
The working languages of conference are English and Russian.
The conference will be devoted to the discussion of the following topics:
Fauna: species diversity, evolution, taxonomy, morphology, zoogeography, forming,ecology ethology, etc.;
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems;
assessment of biodiversity and sustainable use ofbioresourses;
influence of forecated climate changes on the biota;
parasitic fauna:biodiversity, ecology, parasite-host relationships, malignancy of animals' and plants' parasites;
envinonmentaly friendly methods (genetic, biological, chemical) of the control of animals' and crops' parasites;
invasive species;
Nature and animal conservation problems;
ecotourism;
ecological education.
Separate section for young scholars and PhD students is envisaged as well as meetings with experts and conference primary speakers.
Conference papers will be published in “Conference Proceedings”.
Both Oral and Poster presentations can be submitted. The oral presentations are 15 minutes each and should be submitted in MS Power Point. Presence of international participants for poster presentations is not compulsory.
Participation and payment:
To apply please send Registration formand publication materials no later than 15 July, 2017, to .
Registration form, article submission form and rules are attached and can be found on
Registration fee for Conference participants is 50 €. Authors, who paid the registration fee, will be provided with published proceedings.
Unfortunately Organizing Committee cannot provide financial support for the Conference participants.
Additional information will be available for the registered participants in the second information letter.
Contact Information
Phone: (+374 10) 281-601;(+374 10) 281-502
E-mail:
Dr. Hasmik Khachatryan
Registration Form
II International Scientific Conference «Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna», Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
September 27 – 29, 2017
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUТHORS
Poster presentations should be submitted on A2 paper format and have to contain the title of the presentation, authors’ name and surname, address and the main content of the paper with illustrations.
Publication requirements: each publication should not exceed 4 pages; the papers have to be prepared using MS Word with extensions .doc or .rtf, but not .docx; the page size should be A4, with all the margins =2 cm; font should be Times New Roman with font size 12; line spacingshould be one line throughout the document.
Title of the article should be typed with capital letters; the names of authors should be in ‘Bold’; the present address and email address – in Italicwith font size 10. The basic text should be followed after one line spacing.
The names of taxa of species and genus levels should be in Italic, if mentioned for the first time the authors’ name should be included.
Citedliterature: should bepresented inthetextinroundbracketsinalphabeticrange and given as a reference in the end of the article.Thetitleofcitedarticle should be presented full, the sources’ name – instandardreductions. Volume, page shouldbegivenonlyinnumbers
The sample conference paper is provided below:
TO THE FAUNA OF BUTTERFLIES OF ARMENIA
Danchenko A.V.1, Aghababyan K.E.2, Khanamiryan G.G.2, Andreev S.A.1
1Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Chemistry, Russia, 119991, Moscow, GSP-1, Leninskiye Gory, 2American University of Armenia, Acopian Center for the Environment, 40 M. Baghramian, 0019 Yerevan, Armenia
e-mail:,
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Samplesforcitedpapers
CrowsonR.A. 1955. The natural classification of the families of Coleoptera. London: Nathaniel Lloyd & Co. 187 pp.
Gardner J.A. 1988. Chromosome numbers and karyotypes of some Australian Stigmoderini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) // Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 112: 163-167.
Kalashian M.Yu. 2009. Rare Invertebrates in Armenia // In: Zazanashvili N. and Mallon D. (Editors). Status and Protection of Globally Threatened Species in the Caucasus. Tbilisi. Contour Ltd.: 183-187.
Karagyan G.H., Lachowska D. 2007. Karyotypes of five species of jewel-beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae) // Comp. Cytogenetics. 4 (2): 121-127 (
Illustrationmaterialsshouldbepresentedasseparate files (Mode "Grayscale").Photos and figures should be sentin extensions .tif or .jpg, 300-600 dpi, and “black-and-white” for line drawings). Thescaleshouldbeplacedonthepicture. Thesizeofscaletоindicatedinthe picture’s caption.Illustrationsshouldbemarkedas "Fig." andnumbered with Arabic numerals in order of their appearance in the text.
Organizing Committee reserves the rights for the final copy-editing.