[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc: models and experiments of disease in insect outbreaks

2010-08-27 Thread David Inouye
TWO TO FIVE YEAR POSTDOC - USING MODELS AND EXPERIMENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF DISEASE IN INSECT OUTBREAKS with Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago In this project, we will use a combination of mathematical modeling and field experiments to understand how host-pathogen coevolution and induced pl

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Making Species Co-Occurrence Matrix

2010-08-27 Thread Andy Rominger
Hi Jane, I think someone may have asked something similar on the r-sig-eco email list (which is a good resource in general: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology) I think the answer may have been there there's a function in the vegan package for R (http://cran.r-project.org/web/pack

[ECOLOG-L] Making Species Co-Occurrence Matrix

2010-08-27 Thread Jane Shevtsov
Is there a fast way to make a species co-occurrence matrix given a site-species matrix or lists of species found at each site? I'm looking for a spreadsheet or database method (preferably OpenOffice) or R function. Thanks, Jane -- - Jane Shevtsov Ecology Ph.D. candidate, University o

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Powdermill Nature Reserve important!!

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Meiss
Dear Mr. McCallum, I can well understand why you would hate to see a nature reserve despoiled by drilling, but perhaps there is an important scientific opportunity here to affect decisions about drilling in the whole Marcellus Shales region and beyond. Has the research conducted at the P

[ECOLOG-L] Institutionalized perversion of original intent? Re: [ECOLOG-L] Powdermill Nature Reserve important!!

2010-08-27 Thread Wayne Tyson
Malcolm and Ecolog: I know nothing about the trustees, nor do I know anything about the museum's charter, but I do have a bit of experience with other museums and am acquainted with present and past (some fired in proportion to their dedication to principle) staff members of a number of museum

[ECOLOG-L] Need Trirhabda beetles

2010-08-27 Thread Tania Kim
Hi all, Does anyone have live Trirhabda virgata beetles? I need 30-50 of them, will pay for shipping and provide all the necessary paperwork to ship out of state. Thanks! Tania Kim Florida State University