[ECOLOG-L] Fwd: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-10-01 Thread Nicolas PERU
/MosqEcoFun5.html Ted Mosquin On 9/29/2012 9:30 AM, Nicolas PERU wrote: I'm also a proponent of the application of fuzzy thinking and fuzzy set mathematics to ecology. Clearly, binary thinking should be avoided in ecology because very little (none ?) ecosytems parts obey black/white rules like human

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Fwd: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-10-01 Thread Nicolas PERU
addressed. Thank you. Martin M. Meiss 2012/10/1 Nicolas PERU nicolas.p...@univ-lyon1.fr Hi, Ted Your work is interesting and provide a kind of synthesis on functional aspects of ecosystems. I think that we can all agree on your vision of ecosystem for themselves and not for human

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-09-29 Thread Nicolas PERU
- From: Nicolas PERU nicolas.p...@univ-lyon1.fr To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity Dear Wayne, In my point of viewn, ecosystem functions directly refer to how energy flows are shaped through ecosystem

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas PERU
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Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas PERU
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Re: [ECOLOG-L] Simpson's Index of Diversity_aquatic plants

2012-08-10 Thread Nicolas PERU
a negative value when trying to calculate Simpson's Index. Is there a proper transformation that I can do with the data? Thank you in advance, Todd Shuskey -- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10 CNRS, UMR 5023 - LEHNA Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 43 Bld du 11 novembre 1918 Rdc

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ordinal vegetation data and mixed effects models

2011-09-29 Thread Nicolas PERU
-- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10 CNRS, UMR 5023 - LEHNA Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 43 Bld du 11 novembre 1918 Rdc Bât Forel 69622 VILLEURBANNE cedex FRANCE

[ECOLOG-L] Field spectrophotometer

2011-03-03 Thread Nicolas PERU
spectrophotometers. Regards, Nicolas -- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10 CNRS, UMR 5023 - LEHNA Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 43 Bld du 11 novembre 1918 Rdc Bât Forel 69622 VILLEURBANNE cedex FRANCE

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Clarification on calculating Shannon diversity index

2011-01-03 Thread Nicolas PERU
range from 0 to 1 (which is already a small number, and standardized too), I am wondering about the logic of multiplying the ?proportion? by its ?logarithmic proportion?. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts. Sincerely, Nabin -- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Question for generating population distributions in R

2010-11-04 Thread Nicolas PERU
to the dataset. I'd appreciate any insight on the topic, Peter * Peter Houk, PhD Marine Biologist Pacific Marine Resources Institute www.pacmares.com www.micronesianfishing.com -- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10 Laboratoire d'Ecologie

[ECOLOG-L] Publication process in ecology

2010-09-30 Thread Nicolas PERU
share this concern, we can collectively counter this deteriorating situation, because we are the key to the publishing and evaluation process. -- Nicolas PERU, PhD 33-(0)4 72 43 28 94 06-88-15-23-10 Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Fluviaux Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 43 Bld du