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1. First Author, Second Author, and Third Author Department of Redundancy Department State University of New York, College at Oneonta Your Title in Really Big 80 Font That Says it All And a subtitle if you need it Conclusions Put it all together. Tie in the data you used and state what it means. Be blunt. A few short paragraphs is better than a series of longwinded sentences that go on and on with lots of qualifiers and compound statements that are so long and complicated by detail that by the time the reader gets to the end they forgot what the point of the first part of the sentence was all about. For example, the previous sentence. Throughout this poster, brevity is important: - The RA hypothesis is supported. - Self pollination makes up for the lack of pollinator activity. - this is 28 font; use between 20-32 for text. The section is also good as a part called Future Research. Here you admit your mistakes or shortcomings of the current research, but come up with cool ideas you think are worth doing. In the Big Research World, this is how collaborators are often found: reading your poster. Summary You can repeat the same abstract submitted for this poster or you can discuss the rationale for conducting the research. You may even change this to an Introduction or use the term Background depending on what you decide. An effective use of boldface is nice for complex or erudite terms (i.e., technical terms not often understood by those outside your field). This is also a good place to show you will use RA whenever discussing Reproductive Assurance. If you don’t like the tan background color of text boxes, right click inside this text box, and choose Format Text Box. You can get rid of the border lines, change the fill color, or other details. You can add new text boxes under the Insert function. Figure 1: A good descriptive title Provide a full explanation of the data below especially defining what the treatment groups mean, or what the Y-axis is measuring, what stats were done (Correlation R2 = .65, p< .05), and any notable results. For example, our results show that as pollination failure increases, the selfing rate goes up. This increase is detectable at modest (< 20%) levels of pollinator failure. Normally this is your research but if data are taken from a published source include a citation (Vogler and Kalisz, 2001). That citation should appear in full in your References section. Methods A list of target species was provided by Meg Wilkerson of The Nature Conservancy. Each of the 18 students in Plant Ecology (BIOL 381) were assigned 2-3 species to research using various governmental websites and primary literature. Specific information regarding nine parameters of interest were researched so that each parameter could be ranked according the National Park Service protocol (Heibert and Stubbendieck, 1993): 1. ability to complete reproductive cycle in area of concern 2. mode of reproduction 3. vegetative reproduction 4. frequency of sexual reproduction for mature plant 5. number of seeds per plant 6. dispersal ability 7. germination requirements 8. competitive ability 9. known level of impact in natural areas These data will be uploaded to the database (See next panel) and become available to the general public. One unique aspect of our data is that it includes a portion for comments that makes the choice of each ranking more explicit; especially where there was variability between in the literature or other primary sources. Figure 2: Structure of the proboscis of Xanthopan morganii, the Darwin’s Moth You may also want to present a long figure, or picture. The use of an arrows (look under Insert, then symbol) may be helpful to point out key structures. Don’t be afraid to discuss in detail the importance of the figure. A figure legend should stand on its own. References Heibert, R. D. and J. Stubbendieck. 1993. Handbook for Ranking Exotic Plants for Management and Control. U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Natural Resources Report NPS/NRMWRO/NRR-93/08. Invasive Plant Council of New York. http://www.ipcny.org. Accessed Nov. 2007. Vogler, D. and S. Kalisz. 2001. Sex Among the Flowers—the distribution of plant mating systems. Evolution 55: 202-204. [limit references to 5 or fewer, and you may use tiny font for this section only. Most people don’t read these, but still…one must give credit where credit is due.] a  b  Acknowledgments This research was completed under the assistance and guidance of my dog Chessie and my mentor, Dr. D. Doctor. Special thanks to The Group That Provided Financial Support who made this work possible, and make sure you spell their name correctly.