Re: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California
A great guide? I'd like one too, and I live here. Let me/us know what you find! Do you want one with pix or a flora. Lugging around the new Jepson/Hickman requires superhuman strength and stamina. I tried to talk Hickman into putting it disk form before it was published, but he would have none of it. I was, as usual, crying in the wilderness--so to speak . . . There's Munz' Southern California Flora, and it stood me in good stead for many years, but it's no lightweight either, and the nomenclature is not up-to-date, of course. (Damned taxonomists! I jest, of course.) Munz also wrote some regional and type (trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses) field guides that were small paperbacks with pix, and they were pretty good supplements to the floras, but you'd play hell finding, for example, Stipa cernua (A perfectly good species, G. Ledyard Stebbins once told me . . .) in recently published floras--not even under Nasella. I'm willing, even anxious, to change with the times, for better or for worse. I started with a 1928 Jepson--California Flora that I bought from a bookseller in 1956 for three dollars. I still have it--somewhere. Most of my books are in boxes in storage, including the Jepson once owned by Sara Schenk, who gave it to Gerald Charlton, who gave it to me. I wrote a short piece about it for Fremontia, the Journal of the California Native Plant Society, but couldn't find it on-line (I think I wrote it in the 1980's, but I don't remember for sure). Sara had covered it in awning-cloth, duct-taped it, and attached grips made from old jeans, including a closure made from the top button. What places it has been! I look forward to being brought up-to-date on a more recently-published GREAT field guide. Even if it's (ugh) digital. WT - Original Message - From: Paul Jensen pjhorsema...@aol.com To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:26 PM Subject: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California I just moved from Washington to Southern California and I am looking for a great plant identification field guide. Would someone refer me to a good one? Thanks in advance! Paul Jensen
Re: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California
From my friend David H. Davis: Peterson's field guides: Pacific State Wildflowers and Western Trees. On 8/5/2013 11:17 PM, Colleen Grant wrote: Weeds of California and Other Western States author: Joseph DiTomaso The Jepson Desert Manual California Desert Flowers authors: Sia Emil Morhardt good intro guide, not as technical as Jepsons Cacti, Agaves and Yuccas of California and Nevada author: Stephen Ingram has range maps, good photos, good descriptions From: Paul Jensen pjhorsema...@aol.com To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 12:26 PM Subject: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California I just moved from Washington to Southern California and I am looking for a great plant identification field guide. Would someone refer me to a good one? Thanks in advance! Paul Jensen ATD of ATB and ISI -- Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Founder/Owner: All Things Bugs Capitalizing on Low-Crawling Fruit from Insect-Based Innovation http://allthingsbugs.com/about/people/ http://www.facebook.com/Allthingsbugs https://www.facebook.com/InvertebrateStudiesInstitute 1-352-281-3643
[ECOLOG-L] PLoS Collection: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Dear colleagues, PLoS has recently released a collection of 16 papers that represent a range of studies on the subject of Ecological Impacts of Climate Change. All of the papers were published in either PLoS ONE or PLoS Biology. The collection can be accessed at: http://www.ploscollections.org/ecoclimatechange Cheers, James -- *James R. Guest, PhD,* *Research Fellow, Centre for Marine Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Australia Visiting Research Fellow, Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore*
Re: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California
Wayne - Ask and you shall receive! UC Press does have a digital version of Jepson. I've seen it demonstrated on an iPad at a meeting, and it looks great. http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14140/deeper-context-the-digital-jepson-manual/ I also really like An Island Called California by Elna Bakker for natural history reading. -Jeff On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Wayne Tyson landr...@cox.net wrote: A great guide? I'd like one too, and I live here. Let me/us know what you find! Do you want one with pix or a flora. Lugging around the new Jepson/Hickman requires superhuman strength and stamina. I tried to talk Hickman into putting it disk form before it was published, but he would have none of it. I was, as usual, crying in the wilderness--so to speak . . . There's Munz' Southern California Flora, and it stood me in good stead for many years, but it's no lightweight either, and the nomenclature is not up-to-date, of course. (Damned taxonomists! I jest, of course.) Munz also wrote some regional and type (trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses) field guides that were small paperbacks with pix, and they were pretty good supplements to the floras, but you'd play hell finding, for example, Stipa cernua (A perfectly good species, G. Ledyard Stebbins once told me . . .) in recently published floras--not even under Nasella. I'm willing, even anxious, to change with the times, for better or for worse. I started with a 1928 Jepson--California Flora that I bought from a bookseller in 1956 for three dollars. I still have it--somewhere. Most of my books are in boxes in storage, including the Jepson once owned by Sara Schenk, who gave it to Gerald Charlton, who gave it to me. I wrote a short piece about it for Fremontia, the Journal of the California Native Plant Society, but couldn't find it on-line (I think I wrote it in the 1980's, but I don't remember for sure). Sara had covered it in awning-cloth, duct-taped it, and attached grips made from old jeans, including a closure made from the top button. What places it has been! I look forward to being brought up-to-date on a more recently-published GREAT field guide. Even if it's (ugh) digital. WT - Original Message - From: Paul Jensen pjhorsema...@aol.com To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:26 PM Subject: [ECOLOG-L] plant field guide for Southern California I just moved from Washington to Southern California and I am looking for a great plant identification field guide. Would someone refer me to a good one? Thanks in advance! Paul Jensen -- Jeffrey D. Corbin Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 388-6097 http://jeffcorbin.org
[ECOLOG-L] AGU session H021 - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED
Dear Colleagues, Due to some technical issues the abstract submission deadline fot the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting has been extended to *Wednesday, August 7th, at 6pm EDT*. Please consider submitting your abstract to session *H021. Downstream Connectivity of Headwater Resources * *Session abstract: *Wetlands and riparian zones occur at the interface between uplands and aquatic ecosystems where dynamic hydrological and biogeochemical processes take place, and thus perform important ecological services within watersheds. Characterizing the spatio-temporal variability of these processes and their implications for downstream waters remains a challenge due to differences in mediating factors such as catchment structure, vegetation cover, climatic patterns, and local to regional flow systems. This session invites contributions from studies that seek better understanding of eco-hydrological and biogeochemical processes, factors influencing these processes, and ways to better understand the connectivity of headwater resources to downstream waters. https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search/sessions/h021-downstream-connectivity-of-headwater-resources-2/ The following invited speakers have confirmed their participation: Dr. Brian McGlynn, Duke University Dr. Philippe Vidon, The State University of New York-Syracuse Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff, University of Aberdeen Dr. Scott Leibowitz, US Environmental Protection Agency Please consider this your personal invitation to submit an abstract to this session, And note that the abstract submission deadline is *7 August 2013*. Instructions for submitting your abstract can be found at: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/abstract-submission-policies/ Sincerely, Kelsey Jencso, The University of Montana, kelsey.jen...@umontana.edu Hadas Raanan Kiperwas, ORISE Fellow, US environmental Protection Agency, raanan-kiperwas.ha...@epa.gov Hadas Raanan Kiperwas, Ph.D. ORISE Fellow U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wetland Division 202-566-2101 raanan-kiperwas.ha...@epa.gov
[ECOLOG-L] GRAD STUDENTS - ESA Online Scientist Mentoring Opportunity
The Ecological Society of America has teamed up with the Botanical Society of America for the 2013-2014 PlantingScience Master Plant Science Team (MPST). The MPST is a great way for graduate students to lead in an online mentoring experience for middle and high school students. Your involvement will help support inquiry-based science in our schools. Sponsored by the ESA Education Section, selected students will receive: - FREE ESA membership and - 50% ESA 2014 Annual Meeting registration and - a Planting Science T-shirt! Applications due September 1 at www.plantingscience.org. For more information please visit: http://www.esa.org/esa/?page_id=8708 Questions, please contact pst...@plantingscience.org. Teresa Mourad Director, Education and Diversity Programs Ecological Society of America
[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc position - Climate Change and Colorado Plateau Ecosystems
A postdoctoral position is available at the USGS Canyonlands Research Station located in Moab, UT. The successful candidate will work on a collaborative project examining how climate change will affect soils, plants, and nutrient cycles of the Colorado Plateau. This project includes analysis of existing vegetation survey data and a large rainfall manipulation experiment. Within the framework of this large, USGS-funded study, this position will: 1) oversee treatments and supervise technicians helping with data collection, 2) synthesize data to explore patterns of climate change linkages to ecosystem function, 3) effectively use statistical analyses to assess effects, and 4) communicate results in presentations and peer-reviewed publications. This position offers an exciting opportunity to elucidate how climate change predicted to be notably strong on the Colorado Plateau will affect the plants, soils, and ecosystem function of the region. Specifically, this position will focus on 1) how treatments affect plant cover, physiology (e.g., gas exchange, water potential), and phenology and 2) explore how plant-soil-interactions are likely to change under a drier climate. A Ph.D. degree and a background in laboratory and field methods in ecology, plant physiology, and/or soil science is preferred. The Canyonlands Research Station is a USGS-BRD facility and the successful applicant would be working with Drs. Jayne Belnap and Mike Duniway. Moab, UT is a small town offering a variety of outdoor adventures, and more information about Moab can be found at www.discovermoab.com. Salary is $47,500/year plus full benefits. Preferred start date is Feb 2014. Position is expected to last 2 years with potential 2-year extension. Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and three references to Mike Duniway (mduni...@usgs.gov or mailed to 2290 S.W. Resource Blvd., Moab, UT 84532). Electronic applications are preferred. Visit http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/news_info/jobs for updates about the position. Both Drs. Duniway (mduni...@usgs.gov) and Belnap (jayne_bel...@usgs.gov) will be at ESA. If you would like to talk, drop us an email and we will arrange a meeting.
[ECOLOG-L] Job: Barbara Wheatland Professorship of Geospatial Analysis Remote Sensing
The School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine is seeking applications for the Barbara Wheatland Professorship of Geospatial Analysis Remote Sensing. The selected candidate will be expected to develop an internationally recognized research and teaching program on geospatial analysis, modeling, and remote sensing that advances the management of working forests in Maine and the region. This is an academic-year, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with 50% research and 50% teaching responsibilities. An earned Ph.D. by date of hire in a geospatial analysis and/or remote sensing as they apply to forest resource management, landscape ecology, earth sciences, or closely related field is required To apply, submit an application letter with specific information about disciplinary focus, professional activities and other information relevant to meeting position qualifications, including curriculum vitae; academic transcripts; names, addresses telephone numbers of three references; copies of research publications and course teaching evaluations (if available) to: Dr. Aaron Weiskittel 5755 Nutting Hall School of Forest Resources University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5755 Phone: (207) 581- 2857; FAX (207) 581-2875 mailto:aaron.weiskit...@maine.eduaaron.weiskit...@maine.edu Review of applications will begin October 14, 2013 and continue until a qualified pool of applicants is identified. Starting date for this position is June 1, 2014 or earlier. The official position description is available online at: http://jobs.umaine.edu/blog/2013/08/05/assistant-professor-of-geospatial-analysis-remote-sensing/http://jobs.umaine.edu/blog/2013/08/05/assistant-professor-of-geospatial-analysis-remote-sensing/.
[ECOLOG-L] Job in Vienna: Climate Change project - Agroforestry in Burkina Faso
A project assistant position is available at the Department of Forest Genetics (Federal Forest Research Centre for Forest, BFW) in Vienna (Austria), funded in the framework of a REDD Project “Fighting climate change in Burkina Faso through technical cooperation and knowledge transfer in the agroforestry sector” 30h/week; 3 years; The person must have good communications skills and must be fluent in French and Englisch (oral and written). The person will be stationed in Vienna. Some trips to Burkina Faso are mandatory. Find further information and contact here (pdf): http://bit.ly/13hFXwu Website of BFW: www.bfw.ac.at (by now in german only)
[ECOLOG-L] Spring School Landscape Genetics March 2014
We are happy to announce the Spring School “A practical, hands-on introduction to landscape genetics” from March 10th to 15th, 2014 in Göttingen, Germany. Learn how to conduct the three analytical steps of landscape genetics, discuss challenges and future opportunities with your peers, and meet others interested in this rapidly-developing field. The Spring School is funded by the VW Foundation and consists of a 5-day hands-on workshop plus a 1-day symposium. It is intended for PhD students and postdocs with little or no experience in landscape genetics. Workshop lecturers: Erin Landguth - University of Montana, USA Gernot Segelbacher - University of Freiburg, Germany Niko Balkenhol – University of Göttingen, Germany Keynote speakers for the symposium: Rachael Dudaniec - Lund University, Sweden Helene Wagner - University of Toronto, Canada Rodney Dyer – Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Ian Wang – Stanford University, USA The application deadline is September 15th, 2013. For more information and to apply, visit www.LandscapeGenetics.info
[ECOLOG-L] wetland vegetation
Hello everyone, Can anyone point me to literature pointing to differences in upland and lowland forested environments. Thanks.
