[ECOLOG-L] Also write your university administrators concerning upholding science

I completely agree we need to write our elected officials in support of science, federal databases, federal policies, etc. However, I also think we need administrators - in particular, college and university presidents, to step up to the plate. They really should, in my opinion, take a promine

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Insect keys?

If you go to bugguide.net, most taxonomic groups have suggestions for the best keys or other resources to use. Also bugguide itself is a great resource, if used with appropriate caution. --Mike On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:26 AM -0700, "Jason Hernandez" mailto:jason.hernande...@yahoo.com>> wr

[ECOLOG-L] Portable digital microscopes: summary

I wish to thank all of you who responded to my request for information about portable digital microscopes. What I find amazing (but probably shouldn't have) is the degree to which this technology has been integrated with smart phones. All but the first listed product involve smart phones. Som

[ECOLOG-L] Portable digital microscopes

Colleagues, Does anyone have any experience with inexpensive (say <$300) portable digital microscopes for photographing objects of ~1-3mm in the field, without being tethered to a laptop? While there seem to be several such devices on the market, expecting quality images almost seems too good to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] The Five Dumbest Things You’ ll Hear About Sustainability

The dumbest think I have heard about sustainability was a couple of years ago, at a ‘sustainability’ session of an Oklahoma biofuels conference. I was hoping that they were going to finally address key ecological concerns. No, to them ‘sustainability’ means maintaining the industry when and if

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Human-assembled ecosystem

This report is indeed interesting, and potentially challenging for conservationists. But has any ecologist in recent years really believed the ideas (poorly articulated in this article) that are attributed to 'mainstream ecological theory'? I suspect you would have to dig up decades-old textbook

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Switch grass as a biofuel

" If someone can grow switch grass as a crop without irrigation, without cultivation, without energy inputs that exceed the yield, great. I am all for it." Switchgrass already grows spontaneously as part of a diverse assemblage of plants (which are also biomass...). Regular harvesting, in many

Re: [ECOLOG-L] plot sampling for density

For those of you interested in questions of sampling and analyzing vegetation, You are not alone! I will put in a plug here for the International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS) - On the web: http://www.iavs.org/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/iavs.org/?fr

[ECOLOG-L] [POTENTIAL JUNK MAIL] 55th Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science

Dear Colleagues, We wish to draw your attention to the 55th Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), 23-28 July 2012, in Mokpo, Korea. The symposium is of moderate size, which allows ample opportunities for personal and professional contacts. The theme of the

[ECOLOG-L] Web page/article translation scam?

Colleagues, I have been solicited by this apparent scam a couple of times, and recently I have been made aware of many more instances (i.e. just do a google search for exact text, and you will find many hits). It is not clear what the scam is - perhaps some form of Article Spinning - but sin

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Community Analysis Hypothesis Tests

"The use of Canonical Correspondence Analysis depends if you have abiotic data and if you want to test the relationship among biotic and abiotic variables." Yes, but the abiotic variables can simply be nominal ("dummy") variables representing "treatments vs. controls" or even "before and after".

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Community Analysis Hypothesis Tests

Travis, Note that partial Canonical Correspondence Analysis and partial Redundancy Analysis are ideal for this sort of a hypothesis test (especially if the permutations are set up correctly). Also note that it is not 'ordination vs. MRPP', because these direct gradient analysis techniques, when

[ECOLOG-L] new book on sustainable field stations

Dear Ecologgers, You may be interested in a new online-only publication: Mansy, K., Gundersen, G., and Palmer M.W. 2010. Design Guidelines for Sustainable Biological Field Stations. Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Stillwater, Oklahoma. ISBN 978-0-9843264-1-9 Copyright (c) 2010 by Khaled Mansy,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Post-doc Career Advice/Dilemma

" I have been told that I should just accept *post-doc 1* and then back-out if I get *post-doc 2*. " Whether or not one considers this "backing out" advice to be moral, think of what it can do to your reputation. Such things are not easily forgotten, and your job prospects might be hurt in the

[ECOLOG-L] Reminder: PhD position in floristics

This is a reminder for the PhD position available with the FloraS of North America Project. The deadline for expressing interest is 8 February, with a completed application for our graduate program by 28 February. __ Research Assistantship in Quant

Re: [ECOLOG-L] vegan package: goodness.cca function

Lauren, I am not aware of a single publication that uses 'goodness statistics' to remove species from ordination plots. But that does not mean it is not common practice (just as failure to report nonsignificant results may be common practice...). On another point, removing species from displa

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Research Assistantship in Quantitative Floristics - new deadline

Research Assistantship in Quantitative Floristics The LIBRA group at Oklahoma State University (http://ecology.okstate.edu/Libra/index.htm) is seeking a PhD student to assist with the FloraS of North America Project (http://botany.okstate.edu/floras/index.html) as part of an NSF-EPSCoR funded

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Research Assistantship in Quantitative Floristics

Research Assistantship in Quantitative Floristics The LIBRA group at Oklahoma State University (http://ecology.okstate.edu/Libra/index.htm) is seeking a PhD student to assist with the FloraS of North America Project (http://botany.okstate.edu/floras/index.html) as part of an NSF-EPSCoR funded

[ECOLOG-L] rainforest forever: is it legit?

Dear Colleagues, Our daughter's 7th grade Geography class is having a fundraiser to buy and protect rainforest trees, and the organization they are choosing is 'rainforest forever': http://www.rainforestforever.org/index.html. The idea behind it is that donors will buy a tree, and get a certif

Re: [ECOLOG-L] The ESA Blog, EcoTone: Ecology and ecologists in the news

I wanted to alert ecologists to a change in title and address of my blog on the ecology of biofuels. I felt that the distinction between LIHD and HILD biofuels was subject to misunderstanding, and did not really reflect an important difference between biofuels derived from standing spontaneous

[ECOLOG-L] Suspicious request for help on ecology

Dear Colleagues, This is a head's up for those about to give examinations related to ecology. Several ecology faculty here at OSU have simultaneously (at 3:00 AM on Sunday) received the following message. It arrived via an aol address. The name has been removed from the text below, but it does n

[ECOLOG-L] Position at Oklahoma State U.: Plant Evolution/Ecology/Biogeography and Herbarium Director

Assistant Professor: Plant Evolution, Ecology, or Biogeography/Herbarium Director The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater (http://botany.okstate.edu) seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor to start August 2009. Duties include developing a rigorous externall

Stipend supplements for new PhD students at Oklahoma State University

The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University seeks to expand its PhD program. Toward this end, we can offer a $5,000 annual stipend supplement to recruit highly qualified new PhD students. The awards are not restricted to US citizens. For the 2008-9 academic year, it must be assigned by

Re: ecology in film and lit

In my opinion, there is no better (nor more timely) treatise on agricultural ecology than Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Michael W. Palmer, Botany Department, Oklahoma State University 104 LSE Stillwater OK 74078 USA 405-744-7717 fax:405-744-7074 LABORATORY FOR INNOVATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH AND

Re: NY Times editorial on biofuels

Thanks, Linda and Bill. =20 Of course, the issues raised in the editorial only scratch the = complexities of the biofuels issue, particularly from the ecological = side. Many of you will remember that a few months ago, largely at the = prompting of contributors to this ECOLOG-L listserv, I establis

Botany Dept. Head Search, Oklahoma State University

Head, Department of Botany =20 Oklahoma State University =20 =20 The Department of Botany (http://botany.okstate.edu ) at Oklahoma State University invites applications for the position of Professor and Department Head. We seek a dynamic and visionary leader who w

yellowing of the forest understory

This year, many of the forests in my main study site (the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma) are demonstrating something I have not witnessed in my 15-year familiarity with the area. The forest understory is yellowing. Some particular features: =20 1.In some locations

Biofuels blog

Dear Ecologgers, A number of people have been encouraging me to start a blog on = ecological consequences of biofuels, and in particular about low-input, = high-diversity systems. So I have bitten the bullet, and started one = (though I am relatively na=EFve with respect to the blogsphere). You

Re: corn, ethanol, and wildlife

Stan Moore wrote, "He tells me that government programs funding CRP are likely to give way = to large-scale plantings of corn for ethanol, " The irony here is that annual mowing of CRP would make a perfectly fine = biofuel feedstock, with added advantages for wildlife (though not = necessarily for

FW: TNC Position at Tallgrass Prairie

For more information about the position, please respond to Bob Hamilton, not to me. (though I would be happy to tell you about the site). -- Mike Palmer Friends, Attached is a job posting for a Science & Stewardship Assistant position We

Re: switchgrass concerns & fire

"Certainly, these areas of native species expansion in the absence of periodic fire present a current fire risk. These are also the lands that may well be converted into biofuel plantations, if the economics are favorable. " Geoff is probably right here. It is a sad prospect that some of our las

switchgrass concerns

"Not to mention the loss of biodiversity. Pure switchgrass fields have about as much biodiversity as pure fescue fields from the studies on animals that I have seen. mas tarde, EJF" As envisioned by CERES and other biotech companies, there will be huge monocultures of transgenic switchgrass.

Re: If not Ethanol, what then?

Bill, Quite a number of people are working on the use of Low-Intensity, High-Diversity (LIHD) systems (to use Dave Tilman's term). This contrasts markedly with High-Intensity, Low-Diversity (HILD) systems such as corn or transgenic Miscanthus. LIHD systems have advantages in not only being carbon

Re: Ethanol (in)efficiency

" If - as it seems - ethanol is a hoax, shouldn't we speak up, also for the sake of the remaining prairies that might be at stake?" -- Maiken Maiken, I agree that ecologists need to speak up. The dramatic transformation of the global landscape is already happening, especially in the neotropics

Assistant Professor: Plant Ecology

Assistant Professor: Plant Ecology The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University (http://botany.okstate.edu) seeks to fill a tenure track Assistant Professor position in ecology. Successful candidates are expected to mentor students, develop extramurally funded experimental research on an

Asst. Prof.: Evolutionary Biology/ Molecular Systematics at Oklahoma State

Assistant Professor: Evolutionary Biology / Molecular Systematics The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University (http://botany.okstate.edu ) seeks to fill a tenure track Assistant Professor position (start date negotiable), as part of an Oklahoma NSF EPSCoR ini

Ecologist (temporary Visiting Assistant Professor), Oklahoma State University

Ecologist (temporary Visiting Assistant Professor), Oklahoma State University The Department of Botany at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a nine-month Visiting Assistant Professor in Ecology starting 16 August 2006, to replace a faculty member on sabbatical leave. Responsibilit