Re: [ECOLOG-L] Reason and rhetoric The Fall and Growth of Intellectual Discipline ECOLOG as fertile ground?

We live in an anti-intellectual society in which having an opinion is treasured, but having the intellect or background to defend it is not. (this was in no way targeted at the previous post). Snootiness can sometimes be a personality trait, but if someone else really is smarter or really doe

[ECOLOG-L] New articles for Population Ecology (July 2009)

New articles for Population Ecology (July 2009) Eleven new articles of Population Ecology were published at 'Online First' last month. (1) Rachel M. Goodman Evidence of divergent growth rates among populations of the lizard Anolis carolinensis based on experimental manipulations of egg size (2)

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Listserv posting and email subject line additions Ecolog

Wayne, I'm with Jonathan here. I use gmail, and I find it much easier to identify a new post as relevant to previous ones if it is included in the same thread. I get at least 50 emails a day, and I'm simply not going to take the time to do a search for emails whose subject lines share terms with

[ECOLOG-L] Reason and rhetoric The Fall and Growth of Intellectual Discipline ECOLOG as fertile ground?

Y'all: I confess to not being quite up to the task of following all the convolutions of all the threads and strands of discussion about "growth," for example, so I'll cast this before the multitudes of my betters for analysis. "Intellectual" has gotten a bad rap over the years. I suspect that

[ECOLOG-L] Summary of Colorado Birds, Vol. 43, No. 2

Hello, Ecologists. Here is a summary of the contents of vol. 43 no. 2 (2009) of the journal Colorado Birds, published by Colorado Field Ornithologists (CFO). * PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. * By BILL SCHMOKER. * Pp. 88-89. * Welcome to incoming CFO President Jim Beatty, plus reflections on the growth

Re: [ECOLOG-L] What's wrong with growth, (was: ESA position on sustainable growth)

I don't have any data on these cities, but there seems to be a growing consensus that city dwellers have a smaller footprint than people living in the countryside. On a per capita basis I suspect that these two "dense, hi-tech masses of humanity" are not doing too badly, especially since in wea

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Listserv posting and email subject line additions Ecolog

Ecolog: All of Silvert's points are well-taken. (I must admit to have occasionally emailed both the poster and Ecolog, but I agree with Silvert that deleting the poster's email address is a courtesy that should be practiced) Perhaps the key is to encourage originators to use subject lines, par