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1 September 2011
A colleague of mine here at Calgary read my post on how the intermediate disturbance hypothesis is a zombie idea , and decided to stop teaching the IDH to undergraduate ecology students. Hooray! Now that we're no longer turning our students into zombies, the next step...
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31 August 2011
Sarcozona has just posted her latest ESA interview , with Steve Ellner. Great stuff. Steve's thoughts on why microcosms are useful very much mirror my own . And he has a very trenchant question at the end about whether much of the putatively "policy-relevant" research...
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29 August 2011
Wiley did a couple of short (2 min.) video interviews with me at the ESA meeting; the videos are now online here and here . The first one is about the ESA meeting. In retrospect, if I'd known the video wouldn't be up until after the meeting, I'd have suggested...
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24 August 2011
I'm a little short on ideas for posts at the moment. I'll probably do something on path analysis at some point (if only to start an argument with Jarrett Byrnes ). Maybe something on Bayesian vs. frequentist statistics. And probably some more looks back at classic, or...
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23 August 2011
Now up at Sarcozona . One interesting tidbit I didn't know: Nick is a big fan of the work of statistician Brad Efron , and recommends that ecologists should read more of Efron's work. Seems like a good idea to me (if you didn't know, Efron is the guy, along with R. J...
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17 August 2011
Sarcozona interviewed a number of ecologists at the ESA meeting; the post on her first interview (with grad student and blogger Aaron Berdanier) is now up , with more to follow. She's elected to go with a summary format rather than question-and-answer, which seems like...
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12 August 2011
Colin Kremer did not disappoint, giving a very nice talk in which he compiled a massive dataset on the thermal optima and tolerance ranges of different marine phytoplankton, showed that species that like it warmer live in warmer places and that species with wider...
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12 August 2011
Spent the morning in the symposium on the ecological consequences of intraspecific variation. An amazing lineup of speakers--the ones I saw (Dave Vasseur, Steve Ellner, Rick Lankau, Lauren Ancel Myers, Seb Schreiber, and Dan Bolnick) were all really excellent, full of...
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11 August 2011
This is going to be very short, because it's very late. Another excellent day of talks. Chi Yuan, Jon Shurin, and George Livingston lived up to my high expectations, and Carl Boettiger was so good he made my high expectations look like some sort of insult. Amy Downing...
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10 August 2011
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