8 am, room 5: Yuan and Chesson on differing sensitivities to environmental fluctuations as a mechanism of temporal niche partitioning. The storage effect is an important mechanism by which environmental fluctuations can promote competitive coexistence. But existing...
8:20 am, room 4: Smith et al. on coexistence of cryptic species of amphipods. Cryptic species are a great testbed for coexistence theory. If we can't tell them apart without sequencing, they must be functionally identical and therefore neutrally-stable, right? Well, no...
Many students tend to find the ESA meeting overwhelmingly big. So in the interests of helping you sort through the clutter, I'm going to put up a series of blog posts highlighting some of the talks I plan to see each day. I'm interested in population, community, and...
Next week I'll be attending the first ever Morin Lab Alumni Reunion. Peter Morin 's former graduate students and postdocs are returning to visit him at Rutgers for a weekend of talks, field trips, and celebration. I'm really looking forward to it. I thought I'd mark...
Coming up with an original research topic isn't easy, especially the first time (say, for your undergraduate honors thesis). Here's some excellent advice to help you get started. It's aimed at economics students, but it's mostly applicable to ecology students as well.
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and a deputy Editor-in-Chief at Oikos. I’m interested in the evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrates, with a bunch of different themes within that field. One of my main jobs in the Oikos team is to be the...
This is a true story. It is meant primarily for students, but I don't know if it's uplifting, depressing, both, or neither. So I'm just going to tell it, and you can make of it what you will. In the late winter of 2004, I almost quit science. Indeed, I effectively had...
Register to be considered! This of course won't guarantee that you win--but you can't win if you don't register. I help judge the Braun Award every year, and I'm always struck by how few students register to be considered--typically 20 or fewer. That's surely a small...
In a previous post , I said that Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is one of the works that most influenced me, because of the attention Wittgenstein pays to the ways in which the very words we use can mislead us. I think this is a particularly important...
In the spirit of advancing contrarian ecology , here’s an idea for a provocative review paper which I think a lot of people would find really interesting and useful, but that I don’t have time to write myself. Someone should review the theoretical literature and...
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