Ecologgers, A few grad students, post-docs and a professor got to thinking about how much natural history we did during our work and how little of it found its way out of our notebooks. After some thinking, we decided that in this day and age of online supplements, it might be useful to include natural history supplements - after all, those observations and data you take might be invaluable to someone else. We've published a short commentary in the Bulletin of the ESA (available open access here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bes2.1239/pdf ) and I've put a brief synopsis on my blog ( http://naturalmusing.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-natural-history-idea-for-ecologists.html ).
We've written two thus far and found them to be pretty fun to write and hopefully informative for future researchers, but we'd like feedback: is this a terrible idea? is it a fine idea, but will no one do it? or possibly worse, will people do it, but will no one ever read them? would you write one? will this somewhat incentivize natural history? Best, Eric
