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I'm mentoring a graduate student who has several publications already
(including one in Ecology). I looked up the student's name on Web of
Science and realized that the name (first and last only) that was
used for publication is shared with a large number of researchers
(although not
Hi David, on some of my early publications I just used my first initials and
originally they showed up under a different name in Science Citation Index
(yes this was the days when it only was a print index). Since they've gone
electronic you can write them and ask them to switch citations into
This student could use Hartzings Publish or Perish to do the same thing. It
may give you a slightly different number for h than will ISI but it is close
enough for everyday purposes. Both systems make equally signficant, but
different, errors in the calculation in that ISI leaves out so many
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While on the topic of Web of Science, as managing editor of Herpetological
Conservation and Biology I figured I'ld do a search on our journal this
morning to see how many times our journal has been cited (HCB has qualified
for ISI inclusion, but is still waiting for them to start giving us actual
Dear list:
I watched a very interesting talk yesterday about this. They are the
plantstones:
http://www.plantstone.com.au/
Matheus C. Carvalho
Senior Research Associate
Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry
Southern Cross University
Lismore - Australia
Hi,
or you can use:
http://www.researcherid.com/
to add all your publications which might be under different names,
your affiliations (including former ons) etc...
it uses ISI Web of Science as a database and you can check your
citations like in Web of Science (it is also a Thomson
I agree that phytoliths (plantstones) offer a cheap way to sequester carbon.
However it is not at all clear that phytoliths are retained in soils for
millenia on a large scale. Recent studies (I'm thinking of Alexandre et al
1997) showed that, in humid tropical regions at least, that soil
Re: Reefs, artificial Osborne Reef failure and failure of cleanup
What is the history of the tire-dumping idea? By what process was it
conceived, tested, demonstrated, and moved to project status? What about the
several other instances of such projects in different parts of the world?
Was
I've not used them ever, but have you tried looking on CRAN (cran.r-
project.org) for R? I know there's a few meta-analysis packages (meta,
metafor, rmeta) that may or may not be what you're looking for.
Nate
Date:Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:13:31 -0500
From:John Bruno jbr...@unc.edu
Greetings Ecologgers,
I have a student in my lab beginning a study of the role of the Western
Scrub Jay seed caching in the dispersal and regeneration of Oak species
in the Sierra Nevada foothills oak woodlands. We plan to measure rates
of acorn caching and retrieval by the jays using
It's a ticklish process, but the best tool I've found is a small piece of
stamped metal with a tiny slit cut on one side which can be inserted over
the tick's mouthparts at skin level, and the tick slowly rocked out. This
preserves the tick and minimizes further injury to the victim. I'm sorry
Dear Colleagues,
Sorry for cross posting.
We are pleased to announce that one special issue about Behavior, Ecology and
Evolution of Fishes has been published in the 2010 1st issue of CURRENT
ZOOLOGY,
http://www.currentzoology.org/issuedetail.asp?volume=56number=1issue_id=494,
This special
Some comments from Mark Taper. I have PDFs of the papers he mentions and
will forward along if asked. Thanks.
Tim
tim_bow...@nps.gov
Thanks for forwarding this dialogue to me. I am excited to see it
happening. I think I can make a few useful comments.
1) small a priori model sets and all
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My dog and I served as tick flags for a fellow graduate student of mine who
was studying Lyme's disease in northern California. After we had walked through
clearcuts all day checking pitfall traps, I would clear us both of ticks and
save them for my colleague, and this often required pulling out
The article at the link apparently has zero references and zero theoretical
or evidentiary foundation that can be independently verified (unless one
counts the following: We have developed and hold IP on proceedures [sic]
for quantification and for the practical application of this process as
Hi Eric,
From my field experience, but considering that the ticks are on a snake, use
insecticide. The ticks will fall off the snake. Ticks on humans can be removed
by: 1) using tape, if they are too many, but the heads may stay inside the
host; 2) cover the ticks with abundant vaseline, and
Hello ecolog,
I disagree with the suggestion that maximizing R2 is a good way to
predict future changes to a system... maximizing R2 may produce a
perfect fit to your current data set, but you are fitting to the noise
as well as the signal, and such a model will likely perform poorly with
I might be an 'n' of one, but I spent 2 weeks being treat for
Ehrlichiosis and was chided by my doctor for squeezing the tick. I
suppose that depends on where you live -- North Carolina is rough!
I like the tick slider Wayne mentioned, but a plastic spoon with a
slot in it works great, too.
I've
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