Phil Hockey - Memorial Special Issue

Ostrich (the Journal of African Ornithology) would like to publish a special issue in memory of Phil Hockey and the significant contributions that he made to African ornithology.

We are inviting contributions of manuscripts on a topic relevant to Phil’s research, especially coastal and estuarine bird ecology, the ecology of bird movement and migration, avian life history evolution, the ecology of rarity (especially distinguishing natural rarity from anthropogenically mediated rarity) with the aim of promoting appropriate conservation strategies, and analysing and predicting avian responses to climate change. Colleagues and past or current students are particularly encouraged to offer papers, especially where Phil may be a co-author.

For further information please contact Rob Little (rob.little@uct.ac.za), the Memorial Issue Editor, or Lizanne Roxburgh (lizanneroxburgh@yahoo.com), the OstrichEditor-in-chief.

We would like to publish this issue in early 2015. Manuscripts should ideally be submitted by the end of November 2014. We request that anyone intending to submit a paper for this special issue please send an intention to submit to Rob Little as soon as you can so that we can have a foresight of the possible content of the issue.

Manuscripts can be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tost. When asked for a special issue type, please select “Phil Hockey”.