[ECOLOG-L] Data sharing in ecology

Hej! Last week Nature published a special feature on data sharing (http://www.nature.com/news/specials/datasharing/index.html). it was mostly about other areas of science, but I think the problem of how to equitably share data is present in ecology too. SO, I blogged some thoughts:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism

borretts wrote: Colleagues, Biology/ecology could adopt a model like the physicists and develop an electronic preprint archive like arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). This provides a way to share research results and ideas -- even those that have been peer reviewed -- in a moderated fashion without

Re: [ECOLOG-L] stealing from websites; educational use

MaryBeth Voltura wrote: I would be interested in the list's opinion of this type of project, and how best to allow students to create interesting and educational websites without violating fair use of images. Obviously, they are not going to be able to obtain their own pictures of red kangaroos

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism

Jane Shevtsov wrote: The physical sciences seem to be halfway there with arXiv.org . Jane On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:22 PM, joseph gathman wrote: Jane wrote: The journal's contribution is coordinating peer review, formatting the paper and, most importantly, disseminating the paper.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] analyzing ordinal phenology data

John Skillman wrote: Ecologgers... We have regularly censused populations of several different plant species throughout the growing season and categorized the observed individuals into one of 7 different phenological stages (e.g., stage 1 = initial greening, stage 4 = peak flowering, stage 6 = se

Re: [ECOLOG-L] dna from museum skins and pickled animals

malcolm McCallum wrote: Hi, how much of the genome can be obtained from museum skins and other kinds of preserved specimens? Can we get complete genomes or only fractions? I do realize a lot of factors play into this! I'm not an expert, but I would have thought we could get a full genome. The

Re: Data set with many many zeros..... Help?

- Original Message Subject: Re: Data set with many many zeros. Help? Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:38:41 +0200 From: Anon. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Highland Statistics Ltd. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Highland Statistics Ltd. wrote: > On Sat, 12

Data wanted!

I have a student who has been doing some work on fitting population dynamic models to data. One thing he has looked at is fitting a model with an Allee effect. However, he would like to have some real data to try it out on. So, does anyone have any suitable data, or know where it would be av

Re: Input of non-normal variables into GLM models

Highland Statistics Ltd. wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:07:33 +0200, Anon. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sami Ullah wrote: >>> Hey Ecologers: >>> >>> I have a various variables for running multiple linear regression model >>> usin

Re: Input of non-normal variables into GLM models

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sami_Ullah?= wrote: > Hey Ecologers: > > I have a various variables for running multiple linear regression model > using GLM. Some of my predictor variables are non-normally distributed. > Using multiple linear regression, I use proc-univariate to check if the > residuals in the r

Re: On the Bonferroni adustment of correlograms

Alexandre Souza wrote: > Dear friends that work on spatial Ecology, > > I am proceeding with the analysis of a dataset on the spatial > structure of canopy openness in the southern Brazilian mixed > conifer-hardwood forests, and would like to ask your opinion on a > rather simple matter on which I

Re: Fwd: Global Warming Swindle

David M Bryant wrote: > Hello fellow propagandists, > > I just received this link to a video supposedly contradicting the > recent media hype on global warming. > > You owe it to yourself to take a look. To paraphrase the "final > line" it would be hilarious if it weren't such a sad rhetorica

Re: Dealing with non-normal, ordinal data for 2-way ANOVA with interactions

Bahram Momen wrote: > Highland Statistics Ltd. wrote: > >> >Date:Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:35:18 -0700 >> >From:John Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Subject: Re: Dealing with non-normal, ordinal data for 2-way ANOVA >> with interactions >> >> >My short answer is that for controlled blocke

Re: example R-code for ARIMA transfer function model

Daniel C. McEwen wrote: > Can anyone help me out on using R to run ARIMA transfer models by sending > (or posting) a generalized R-code for such? I have one response and > multiple predictors and desire to model seasonality of the series as well. > I sort of pieced something together, but it see

Re: fuzzy arithmetic

William Silvert wrote: > Although Bob (Anon) O'Hara is right in pointing out that there is a > difference between uncertainty and probability, both can be characterised by > fuzzy methods. There is nothing problematical about this, after all > non-fuzzy mathematics has also be

Re: fuzzy arithmetic

Wayne Tyson wrote: > It doesn't "worry" me, but a greater concern might be that this > discussion could descend into a competition of egos. > Why? Everyone will read what I write and agree with it, because I'm always right. Um, should I add a smiley? > Let me confess, if it is necessary at al

Re: Species richness estimators

Gareth Russell wrote: > Alexandre, > > The Species Richness module on www.eco-tools.net calculates the same > statistics as EstimateS. > There is also a Mathematica notebook you can download that allows you to do > the calculations on > your own computer, if you have access to Mathematica. I m

Re: hare/lynx time series data

John M. Drake wrote: > For teaching, I am seeking data for the hare/lynx time series from Elton's > Hudson's Bay Company. If anybody is able to provide these data or similar, I > would be grateful to be contacted off list. > > The time series are (should be?) here: http://cpbnts1.bio.ic.ac.uk/gp

Re: Guidelines for Authorship

Malcolm McCallum wrote: > I would say that ultimately, regardless of the ethical implications that = > the lead author will determine who ends up on the bilines. Some people = > are ultra inclusionary for authorship others are ultra conservative with = > virtually everyone else ending up in the ac

Re: 3D spatially autocorrelated data

Daniel C. McEwen wrote: > I am developing models of benthic invertebrate abundance but am uncertain > of the best way to treat the spatial data. I have lat, long, and depth. > I thought about detrending, but then wouldn't I have to double detrend > (first with respect to lat and long and second w

Re: Comparing Non-linear regression lines

Jay P Sah wrote: > Recent discussion on how to compare regression lines was really = > enlightening. As far as I understood, the discussion was about comparing = > slopes in linear regressions.=20 > > =20 > > I have similar problems in comparing non-linear regression lines. Here, = > it goes what I

Re: standard deviation of a slope

Geoffrey Poole wrote: > Sarah: > > I think the reviewer comment has merit. > > I understand your problem as follows: Your goal is to compare the > "usefulness" (not sure what you means by "usefulness", but we'll go with > it...) of a regressions across environmental conditions. However, under

Re: standard deviation of a slope

Sarah Gilman wrote: > Is it possible to calculate the standard deviation of the slope of a > regression line and does anyone know how? My best guess after > reading several stats books is that the standard deviation and the > standard error of the slope are different names for the same thing

Re: probability question?

Wirt Atmar wrote: > Regarding my earlier answer to the question, two people have written me and > said that I misread the question. That's entirely possible: > > >> This assumes the smaller circle is defined within the bigger. If the >> question concerns *any* smaller circle within the bigger

Re: R Texts

Ron E. VanNimwegen wrote: >Two R libraries (packages) that deal with multivariate ecological >statistics that complement each other quite well are "VEGAN" and >"LABDSV" written by Jari Oksanen and Dave Roberts, respectively. If you >Google their web sites, you'll find some very useful tutorial

Re: AIC (effective parameters)

E Holmes wrote: >>Having said that, 16 parameters is a lot as well, so, without >>knowing anything about your model, you might want to look for redundancy, >>and/or try to reduce >>your number of parameters with PCA or some other technique. >> >> > >Gareth Russells' response to Bonnie's ques

Re: AIC

Wirt Atmar wrote: >Gareth Russell writes: > > > >Gareth's comments do allow me however an opportunity to expand a little bit >on my previous posting. I personally hold David Anderson and Ken Burnham in >very high regard, but I worry that the AIC is being oversold to the ecological >communit

Re: The Earth is round (B<0.5)

DeSolla,Shane [Burlington] wrote: >Shouldn't it be, "The Earth is round (B<.05)"? > >After all, the null hypothesis would be that the Earth was round, and >rejecting it would give you, "The Earth is not round (P<.05)" > >According to Cohen, you can only accept a null hypothesis to be true if >the

Re: hypothesis testing vs descriptive statistics

Malcolm McCallum wrote: > I vaguely recall an exchange on here regarding the role of hypothesis = > testing and the statistical validity of this approach. Any citations or = > comments would be greatly apprecieated! There's enough here to keep you going:

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Re: Online journals and publications: time to revolt? Copyright law

Dekker, Jasja wrote: > Dear all, > > So why do we keep submitting papers to this group of journals? Are page > charges so far spread that fitting, but free-of-charge journals are so > rare? I think the scientific community, being both primary producer and > consumer of the journals, has more power