New articles for Population Ecology (August 2007)

2007-09-02 Thread Mayuko Tanigawa
New articles for Population Ecology (August 2007) Four new articles of Population Ecology have been published at ‘Online First’ last month. (1) Joanne L. Isaac, Leonie E. Valentine and Brett A. Goodman Demographic responses of an arboreal marsupial, the common brushtail possum (

Re: EVOLUTION Early life and changes to present

2007-09-02 Thread Robertson, Bruce
Wayne, I don't know an illustration, but one of the coolest video sequences I've seen is about 60 seconds at the beginning of the movie "Adaptation" with Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. Bruce Robertson From: Ecological Society of America: g

EVOLUTION Early life and changes to present

2007-09-02 Thread Wayne Tyson
Does anyone know of a simple time-scale illustration depicting the earliest know traces of life on earth to the present correlated with habitat conditions (atmosphere, temperature, pH, water, etc.), beginning with the earth's formation and progressing to the present time? WT

Re: ECOLOG-L Digest - 31 Aug 2007 to 1 Sep 2007 (#2007-239)

2007-09-02 Thread Tom Mosca III
> One interesting example of source-sink management is the > bald eagle. Despite the fact that it is the US national > bird, the US is a sink for this species, and bald eagles > are imported from Canada. >> Not so fast Bill. This is not true in Minnesota and many >> other states, the bald

Re: DDT question

2007-09-02 Thread Ashwani Vasishth
The actual research article is at: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.716 For those who don't have access to Nature, a news summary is at: http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/ddt-repels-rather-than-kills-mosquitoes.cfm Ch

Re: ECOLOG-L Digest - 31 Aug 2007 to 1 Sep 2007 (#2007-239)

2007-09-02 Thread Ed Lindquist
In a message dated 9/1/2007 11:05:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date:Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:47:01 +0100 From: William Silvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mountain lions/source sink management One interesting example of source-sink management is the bald e

Re: DDT question

2007-09-02 Thread Brian Todd
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070827/full/nm0907-1002b.html - Original Message - From: "joseph gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 1:32 AM Subject: Re: DDT question >> Paul Cherubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> c) DDT mostly repels rather than kills

Re: DDT question

2007-09-02 Thread joseph gathman
> Paul Cherubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > c) DDT mostly repels rather than kills mosquitoes > from treated homes, hence acquired resistance is not > a big problem either. Paul, can you cite evidence that DDT on walls repels mosquitoes and that mosquitoes can't acquire resistance to the repe