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Volume 18 A (2001)

Note from the Editors
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This special issue 18A is only possible due to the fact that we have now a web version as we would not have been able to raise money to get the Proceedings printed so long after a conference has finished. Let us tell you first why the Proceedings were delayed that much!

Actually, we had planned to have it as a special issue immediately after the VIIIth International Otter Colloquium and Claus was trying to get the funding in place to have it printed similar to the Proceedings from Trebon. An additional problem was the fact that we were waiting for promised short papers that actually never were submitted. Thirdly Gonzalo lost all data after a terrible computer crash. At this point we had to decide that the Proceedings have a low priority and will probably never be published.

Arno Gutleb, Editor Gonzalo Medina Vogel, Editor

The reason why we now make the available abstracts available at this stage is twofold. With the electronic version there are no direct costs related with it, except the time that Gonzalo and I spent in editing the abstracts and trying to get in contact with the authors and Lesley’s work with putting everything online. Secondly, after discussions at the meeting in Korea, we decided that it would be worth while having the abstracts available as some of them may be still of relevance, and in addition it will help persons in need of assistance to identify scientists that have worked on similar issues previously.

We hope that this special issue will have at least some limited value!

With regards,

Gonzalo and Arno

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