Re: [ECOLOG-L] Percent shade methodology?

Juan Are you wanting shade as in percent cover or shade as in reduction in light intensity/quality? If you want percent cover, I'd use a densiometer or canopy image to calculate coverage of canopy. If using a camera to take images, it would be recommended to use a fisheye lens. If you want ligh

[ECOLOG-L] Visiting Instructor - Animal Biologist

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Department of Biology Visiting Instructor (Non-Tenure Track, Academic Year) - Animal Biologist Duties and Qualifications: Full time teaching load will include undergraduate courses in animal biology, human and animal physiology and other undergradua

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Transformation of percent cover data for power analysis

Brian I use arcsin(square root(proportion)) anytime I'm doing analysis of percent data. The reason may not be justified for the type of simulation your running, which I'm not familiar with. I use this transformation since percent data is inherently not normally distributed. Arcsin(sqrt(proportion)

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Seed traits

Mekala The Woody Plant Seed Manual (http://www.nsl.fs.fed.us/wpsm/) should have germination information for most of those species. Jordan -- Jordan M. Marshall, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biology Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for graduate programs in Entomology/Integrated Pest Management

Molly Entomological Society of America lists the colleges with graduate programs in entomology in North America - http://www.entsoc.org/resources/education/colleges. Many of those associated with land grant universities will have ag focused programs with IPM components. Also, I was thinking th