Dear Ecolog-l colleagues, I'd like to point out a very interesting article published by Marc Mangel and colleagues that considers how invasion biology theory might be used to predict success or failure of new social collaboration networks.
This was reported UW Pugent Sound Newsletter: http://blog.pugetsoundinstitute.org/2013/11/new-paper-applies-invasion-biology-to-social-networks/?utm_source=UW+Puget+Sound+Institute+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2840b6c306-PSI_eNews_2013-11-22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f703b54829-2840b6c306-13031353 The full citation is: 2013 Mangel, M., Satterthwaite, W.H., Pirolli, P., Such, B. and Y. Zhang. Invasion biology and the success of social collaboration networks, with application to Wikipedia. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1080/15659801.2013.815435. And the link to the article is here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15659801.2013.815435#.UpcyBqWOjBw Happy Holidays, Leon Leon Blaustein Director, Kadas Green Roofs Ecology Center Head, Community Ecology Laboratory Institute of Evolution and Department of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa 199 Abba Hushi Rd, Haifa, 3498838, Israel Tel. 972-4-8240736 (office); 972-4-9998881 (home) Cell: 054-268-8290; Institute Fax: 972-4-8246554 http://leonblaustein.wikidot.com http://evolution.haifa.ac.il/index.php/research/research-centers/kadas-green-roofs-ecology Chief Editor, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=aimsScope&journalCode=tiee20&; e-mail: [email protected] "He [Rabin] knew that those who starve peace, feed extremism." -Shimon Peres speaking at Rabin commemoration 7 Nov 09
