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News from the SHALLOW LAKES CONFERENCE
 Dear EFFS members,
We are pleased to announce the new date and format of the 10th International Shallow Lakes Conference. The conference will be held online from March 1st to 5th, 2021. We would like to invite you to take a look at our updated website (www.shallowlakes2020.com.br). Shallow lakes are important freshwater ecosystems worldwide, contributing in important ways to biodiversity and ecosystem services locally as well as at the landscape scale. Shallow lakes are embedded in heterogeneous landscapes, and their density and surface area are important determinants of landscape connectivity that influence metapopulation, metacommunity and metaecosystem dynamics. Thus, in addition to the traditional topics addressed on previous shallow lakes conferences, we take the opportunity of this 10th meeting to devote special attention to landscape ecology and its importance to understand the structure and function of shallow lakes.
Landscape ecology focuses on the relationships between spatial pattern and ecological processes, and considers spatial scales that extend well beyond the individual system traditionally studied by ecologists and limnologists. From a landscape perspective, conceptual frameworks have been proposed to emphasize the importance of ecosystem boundaries, including their permeability and resistance to flows of energy and materials and to the dispersal of organisms, and the challenges of managing systems to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services at the landscape scale. Understanding the implications of the dynamic landscape mosaic for ecosystem processes remains a frontier in both ecosystem and landscape ecology, and is actualized also in the ongoing global change perspective. Despite the great advances in shallow lake ecology over the last decades, we do not yet sufficiently grasp all consequences of regional processes for the structure and the function of shallow lakes. We think there is a great opportunity to integrate ecological theories that address both the role of local and spatial processes for population, community, and ecosystems dynamics in shallow lakes, and to consider the implications for their management.
Thus, we invite limnologists to join the 10th International Shallow Lakes Conference to present their recent work on shallow lake ecology and discuss current challenges and opportunities toward a landscape ecology of shallow lakes. The deadline for registration is Nov 27th, 2020 and for abstract submission is Nov 30th, 2020. The deadline for the submission of the video with the oral presentation is January 30th, 2021, and for the paper submission to a special volume of the journal Hydrobiologia is March 30th, 2021, just after the congress. Due to time zone problems, the congress will happen from 8 to 12 a.m. (BRT, Brasilia Time, UTC-3). This time is morning in the Americas, Afternoon in Europe/Africa, and evening in Asia/Oceania. The registration fee is now 25% of the original price and we hope that with the reduced registration fee and the online format, more students and professionals from developing countries will be able to attend the conference.
With my best regards,
José Luiz Attayde
Chair of the Shallow Lakes 2020 organizing committee
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil
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