[ECOLOG-L] clarification/ parthenogenesis & sex

2009-04-03 Thread Wendee Holtcamp
Just to clarify, since a couple asked offlist, what I meant when I said sex does not have adaptive advantage to the individual, that comes from this in my basic Biology textbook: "Sex is of great evolutionary advantage for populations or species...However evolution occurs because of changes at the

Re: [ECOLOG-L] analyzing ordinal phenology data

2009-04-03 Thread James J. Roper
John, Basically you are doing a ranked regression analysis. I believe you can find a paper on that from several years ago. It works, but you just cannot make inferences based on the regression line. That is, you can't find a phenology rate due to the regression, but you can still talk abou

[ECOLOG-L] News: Report Calls for "Prosperity without Growth"

2009-04-03 Thread Ashwani Vasishth
[The report itself, Prosperity without Growth? - The transition to a sustainable economy, can be accessed from: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=914 ] * * * http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/30/g20-sustainable-development-commission Ahead of G20 summit, report says

[ECOLOG-L] Hilton Pond 03/01/09

2009-04-03 Thread Research at Hilton Pond
We're trying to get caught up on our "This Week at Hilton Pond" postings after putting together four lengthy Costa Rica hummingbird banding summaries, so we've combined the first two weeks of March to make the next installment. This one's about our early March snow, a Rufous Hummingbird we band

[ECOLOG-L] Changing Climate Change Grant Competition

2009-04-03 Thread Arturo Restrepo
Dear Ecolleagues: A proposal from American Bird Conservancy has become a finalist for a major $200,000 grant from the Green Mountain Coffee Company in their Changing Climate Change grant competition. ABC is one of five finalists in the "Threats to Coffee Growing Communities" category, and part of