Once again I am seeking volunteers to help with the diamondback terrapin (DBT)
research and conservation project at Jamaica Bay (New York City) in June and
July 2014. We’ve had a long and cold winter and we have lots of new projects so
this is likely to be a particularly interesting year.
Not only the huitlacoche (or cuitlacoche) is a delicacy en Mexico, the
worm (actually a lepidopteran larvae) that can be found in some
mezcales (the alcoholic beverage) is also a parasite of the agaves used
for mezcal production. Another moth larvae, called chinicuiles are
fried or toasted and
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David Duffy
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
Botany
University of Hawaii
3190 Maile Way
Honolulu
Hello Ecolog-Listers:
Has anyone *successfully* done an ecology exercise supposed to mimic island
biogeography dispersal and extinction patterns using of ping-pong balls,
egg cartons, and dice? If you have done it and consider that the results
echoed MacArthur and Wilson's expectations, could you
On a whim, I did a google search for open source version of matlab
and was shocked to see just how many supposed open equivalents there
were!
Does anyone know enough about these to evaluate which they think is
the best or the pluses and minuses of these different free
alternatives?
GNU Octave
For many purposes, the statistical language R can replace MATLAB. Especially
for simulations.
I'd love to see an open source Mathematica.
Patrick Foley
bees, fleas, flowers, disease
patfo...@csus.edu
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs,
I've used Octave and Sage. Octave is very, very close to Matlab. If you
want to run Matlab code without buying Matlab, Octave is what you want. The
graphics aren't as polished, but otherwise it seems like a solid piece of
software. I've used it in my research to do metacommunity analysis.
Sage is
