Acknowledgements
The editors thank the academic research scientists and the numerous students who attended the NAVEP1 meeting. Their presence and the quality of their presentations were the conditio sine qua non for the success of this event. The authors are gratefully acknowledged for their contribution to this issue. We are also indebted to the reviewers for their thorough and thoughtful reviews as well as for the abstracts of the oral and poster presentations as for this special issue: R. Allain (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris), H. Aouragh (Mohammed 1er University, Faculty of Sciences, Oujda, Morocco), M. Belvedere (Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy), D. Geraads (CNRS UPR 2147, France), G. Gand (Laboratoire Biogéosciences, UMR-CNRS 5561, France), D. Germain (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences Marrakech), D. Hadjouis (Service d'Archéologie du Val de Marne, France and CNRPAH, Algérie), S. Jouve (UMR 7207, CNRS, Dépt. HDT, MNHN, Paris), F. Medina (Scientific Institute, Rabat, Morocco), P. Mietto (Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy), B. Ouchaou (My. Ismail University, Faculty of Sciences, Meknès, Morocco), X. Pereda Suberbiola (Depto. Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao), J.C. Rage (UMR 7207, CNRS-Paris) and A. Tourani (Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences, Marrakech). We are deeply indebted to Dr G. Dyke, editor-in-chief, for the publication in Historical Biology and to Claire Mossman for her valuable editorial assistance.
For the NAVEP1 Organising Committee