This year's annual conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society will be held on the Unitec New Zealand campus, Auckland, hosted by the School of Natural Sciences. The conference runs from 29 September to 2 October 2008, with a student day on Sunday 28 September.

We look forward to the comprehensive range of papers spanning research, issues and solutions within the discipline of ecology that we associate with our conference. The conference will also include three symposia – Urban Ecology recognising an emerging element within the discipline of ecology; island restoration celebrating the success of the Tiritiri Matangi project; and a recognition of the contribution of Assoc. Prof. John Ogden to the discipline of ecology.