The 71st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan

Important notice

2024-03-14: Request for Pre-printing of Name Tags: Please ensure you wear your name tag at the venue. Please download and print your name tag from the conference platform, ONLINE CONF, and bring it to the venue. Name tag holders will be distributed at each venue. Thank you for your contribution.
2024-03-01: The Online Platform of the meeting is now open. Now we also accept registration and payment on the platform.
~~2024-02-05: From Feb 1st to Feb 29th we won’t be able to accept registration and payment. From Mar 1st, we will accept them again on the upcoming online platform of the meeting.~~
2023-10-30: We have changed our policy of responses to changes in the format of presentations. For the details, please see the items 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 on the FAQ page.

Meeting Information

The 71^st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan will be held as follows.

Dates: 16th March 2024 to 21st March 2024
Venue: Yokohama National University and Online

The format will be online (16–17 March) and hybrid (18–21 March).
Upcoming information will be shown on this web site.

Meeting Schedule

Format	Date	Onsite Venue	Onsite Events	Online Events
Online	Day 1: 16 Mar (Sat)			Oral presentations Poster presentations Workshops Opening ceremony
Online	Day 2: 17 Mar (Sun)			Oral presentations Poster presentations Workshops Ecological lectures for junior and high school student
Hybrid	Middle day: 18 Mar (Mon)	Yokohama Kannai Hall	Award lectures	General meeting Real time Zoom streaming
Hybrid	Day 3: 19 Mar (Tue)	Yokohama National University	Symposia Workshops Poster presentations	Real time Zoom streaming
Hybrid	Day 4: 20 Mar (Wed) (Holiday)	Yokohama National University	Symposia Workshops Poster presentations Public lectures	Real time Zoom streaming
Hybrid	Day 5 21 Mar (Thu)	Yokohama National University	Symposia Workshops Poster presentations	Real time Zoom streaming

What’s new

2024-03-14: Add information of name tags to Important notice on this page.
2024-03-14: Access information was merged into the Venue page.
2024-03-13: The list of the presentation composition subcommittee was updated.
2024-03-13: Opening time of On-site Poster Sessions has been changed.
2024-03-12: The time of the core time and notice about removal of posters were added on On-site Poster Presentation.
2024-03-12: Information about the accessibility map was added to Access to the venue page.
2024-03-06: The deadline for the uploading presentation file was added on the Instructions for oral presentations.
2024-03-04: The list of the English session subcommittee on the list of planning committee was updated.
2024-03-02: Information about Childcare facilities available at Yokohama National University was published.
2024-03-01: Venue was published.
2024-03-01: Updated Important notice on this page.
2024-02-29: Information about General Meeting and Lectures by Award Recipients was published.
2024-02-29: Access to the venue was published.
2024-02-29: The schedule of the core time for the on-site poster presentation was published.
2024-02-22: The member list of the high school student poster presentations subcommittee on the list of planning committee was updated.
2024-02-21: The member list of the online subcommittee on the list of planning committee was updated.
2024-02-15: The list of planning committee was updated.
2024-02-05: Important notice of this page was updated.
2024-02-04: Details of the poster presentation are published.
2024-01-18: Application form for the Childcare fee assistance was opened.
2024-01-12: Timetable of the oral presentations on the Program and Abstract page was updated: invitations to SpatialChat were added.
2024-01-11: Program of the oral presentations was added to Program and Abstract.
2024-01-11: Timetable of the oral presentations on the Program and Abstract page was updated: the topic of presentations in Room A on 16 March 15:15- was changed from “Material cycling” to “Material cycling / Fungi and microbes / Ecosystem management”.
2024-01-11: Added information about Participation certificate/receipt, Duration of on-demand streaming, Planning committee and Organizing committee.
2023-12-28: The timetable and program of the meeting was published.
2023-12-25: Added details about the Oral presentations.
2023-12-16: Added notes on the Registration page.
2023-12-12: Added Important notice on this page.
2023-11-20: Updated FAQ (2.4, 2.6, and 6.8).
2023-11-14: Important: Word limit of English abstracts increased from 200 words to 400 words. For the details, please see Oral and poster presentation sessions and Session Proposal Guidelines.
2023-10-30: Important: We have changed our policy of responses to changes in the format of presentations. For the details, please see the items 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 on the FAQ page.
2023-10-29: FAQ item 6.4. The speaker of the meeting which was scheduled to participate on-site suddenly asked for a remote presentation. Is it possible to change it? is also currently under consideration. Information will be provided as soon as details are finalized.
2023-10-28: FAQ items 6.3. Is it possible to switch our symposia, workshop, or forum from on-site format to fully online format? and 6.5 A speaker who was scheduled to attend the meeting remotely has suddenly requested to give a presentation on-site. Is it possible to change it? are currently under consideration. Information will be provided as soon as details are finalized.
2023-10-27: Updated Session proposal guidelines to clarify speakers of hybrid sessions are asked to present onsite as a general rule.
2023-10-26: Updated Session proposal guidelines to clarify the explanation of on-demand distribution of presentations on symposia.
2023-10-25: Payment deadline of the early bird discount was clarified on the Registration page.
2023-10-10: Added information about Childcare fee assistance.
2023-10-02: Added a link to registration system on the Registration page.
2023-10-02: Added 3.6 Attention for simultaneous application for symposium and oral/poster presentation on the Frequently Asked Questions page.
2023-09-30: Added Registration Guidelines and Registration pages. Registration will be open on 2023-10-02.
2023-09-30: Added Oral and poster presentation sessions page.
2023-09-30: Added Frequently Asked Questions page.
2023-09-30: Important: The following deadlines have been changed to 31st January 2024.
- Registration of workshop only audience
- Payment of membership registration fee by a non-member
- Payment of membership registration fee by ESJ members
- Refund for cancellation
2023-09-09: Added Session proposal guidelines.
2023-08-07: Basic Meeting Information is now available.
2023-08-07: Added schedule of the meeting on this page.
2023-07-25: Added the call for proposals for Ecological Research Symposium (deadline 2023-08-31 23:59 JST).
2023-07-03: ESJ71 website is published.