Though not from the primary literature, here's another paper in this category that I first saw referenced in Joel Cohen's *How Many People Can the Earth Support*:
Fremlin, J.H. 1964. How many people can the world support. New Scientist 24 (29 October): 285 - 287. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13518297.500-letters-packing-them-in.html On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Gregor Kalinkat <kalin...@igb-berlin.de> wrote: > There are a couple of papers out there on modelling disease dynamics with > Zombie and/or Vampire etc attacks > > e.g. > http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ted/203S10/Projects/Zombies/Zombies.pdf > > > http://www.m-hikari.com/ams/ams-2013/ams-9-12-2013/strielkowskiAMS9-12-2013.pdf > > enjoy! > > °°° > Dr. Gregor Kalinkat > email: gregor.kalin...@eawag.ch > skype: gregor.kalinkat > > Postdoctoral research fellow > > Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) > Department Fish Ecology and Evolution > Theoretical Evolutionary Ecosystem Ecology Lab > Seestrasse 79 > 6047 Kastanienbaum > Switzerland > > Personal website: http://goo.gl/ztVSm8 > Google Scholar profile: http://goo.gl/RI0a5 > Working group at Eawag: http://goo.gl/Lw2AQ8 > B-Types project at the IGB: www.b-types.igb-berlin.de > > > ________________________________________ > Von: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ > ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU]" im Auftrag von "David Inouye [ > ino...@umd.edu] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 18:31 > Bis: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Betreff: Re: [ECOLOG-L] humorous papers > > Here's one of them. I used to use this in ecology classes. > > > Sheldon, R. W., and S. R. Kerr. 1972. The population density of > Monsters in Loch Ness. Limnology and Oceanography 17:746-798. > > > I think there was one about resource partitioning among fast food > restaurants that was published in the Bulletin of the ESA about 30 > years ago but I don't have the citation. > > David Inouye > > At 11:00 AM 3/24/2015, you wrote: > > > I'm looking for funny articles published and a few come to mind that I > can't remember citations for so I thought I'd ask here. I don't really > want to page through J. Irreproducable Results or Worm Runner's Digest but > there are a few I'm hoping someone can help me with (vice vis pdfs) > > In either the late 70's or 80's there was a note in Nature that comprised > the poem and reviewers comments on Shelley's *"Ozymandias*" > > Then at about the same time someone published a paper in Limn. & Ocean. > estimating the biomass of the Loch Ness monster. > > And also at some point someone published a satirical paper on "if no one > heard it, did the tree in the forest really fall?" > > Of course any other humorous gems would be appreciated. > Please remember the list doesn't allow attachments, so please respond to my > university email. > > TIA, g2 > > > > > -- > Gary D. Grossman, PhD > > Professor of Animal Ecology > Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources > University of Georgia > Athens, GA, USA 30602 > > http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/ < http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egrossman> > > Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation > Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology > Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish >
