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Dear Wayne,
In my point of viewn, ecosystem functions directly refer to how energy
flows are shaped through ecosystem and how they allow ecosystem to
maintain by themselves (without human intervention this time). So, when we
measure a functional diversity we try to evaluate the number of
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Ling and Ecolog:
It seems to me that before one moves into method, one should understand the
question first, and I make no claim to being able to do so. When you say I
have done an extensive literature search and have not found where this has
been done before . . . were you referring to a
Hi,
I wanted to thank everyone for their responses and recommendations. Some of
them were quite helpful and have got me thinking in new ways.
With respect to the use of the Rao index, I didn't express my question very
well. What I was really trying to discern was whether it was appropriate to
Nicolas,
Why would you restrict your interest to the flow of energy, and not
include the flow of material, such as a nutrient like fixed nitrogen, or
potassium?
Martin M. Meiss
2012/9/27 Katharine Miller kmill...@alaska.edu
Hi,
I wanted to thank everyone for their responses and
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I'm trying to determine all studies that have quantified soil feedbacks for 6
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Finally, people are talking on my simplistic level, and I hope I can respond in
a meaningful way. I say these things with the definite understanding that they
may mark me as just an old, irrelevant fart in today's exciting world.
It seems to me that ecosystems do two things, and that both are
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Hi Wayne,
I've been interested in the meaning of function in
ecology for a couple of years and the most exhaustive and synthetic
attempt to define the multiple meanings of the term as it features in
the ecology literature are by Kurt Jax. You may want to have a look at :
Jax 2005 Function
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This is enlightening.
If they wait another decade or two will there be anything left of the
environment to prioritize protection for?
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Martin,
You're perfectly right, this is was an oversight from my part and David
gave a more general definition of my point of view (including flow of
material).
Now, if I go back on Katharine question, this is important to understand
that traits are just a kind of proxy to evaluate
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I feel this is an pertinent thread and I would like to provide some more
information to those who are interested.
I attended a lecture given by Dr. Bing Wang with the Chinese Academy
of Forestry on the CFERN (Chinese Forest Ecosystem Research Network) last
February at the Luquillo LTER site
Hi Katharine
Are you intending to do a cluster analysis on the original variables to group
so called 'like' estuaries using euclidean distance measures and/or factor
analytic methods, and then compare the results of the cluster analysis to
results obtained from the distance matrix of
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