[ECOLOG-L] Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the rest of life on Earth

I am excited to let you know about the publication of: Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the rest of life on Earth http://www.amazon.com/dp/1907962522/ref=nosim?tag=cranmorpublic-20 http://www.cranmorepublications.co.uk/73 Here is the amazon info:

[ECOLOG-L] New Vertebrate Field Manual available

Announcing “Field and Laboratory Techniques in Vertebrate Biology” a new text for field courses in Vertebrate Biology, Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Conservation Biology. With over 50 exercises for students in 9 chapters, this manual will introduce students to many of the modern field techniques

[ECOLOG-L] Natural history workshops at the UWM Field Station

Please share this announcement with others who may be interested. 2012 NATURAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS at the UWM FIELD STATION The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Station conducts a series of Natural History Workshops. These workshops offer an opportunity to study focused topics at

Re: [ECOLOG-L] climate change video advice

You can try the Climate Literacy Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) at cleanet.org. The site has hundreds of educational resources for middle school, high school, and undergraduate students that are both scientifically sound and pedagogically effective. Several of the resources are videos (see

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the rest of life on Earth

How can you claim that the idea that we cannot do without the rest of the planet's biodiversity, but it can do very well without us, is completely and utterly wrong, given that life did just fine for 4 billion years without us? I suggest that is a powerful and irrefutable empirical rejection

[ECOLOG-L] Post-doc in microbial ecology

Post-doctoral Research Associate position is available in Rhizosphere Microbial Ecology/Microbiomics at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. The post-doc will study the microbial community associated with the plant root-zone using genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic tools. PhD’s with

[ECOLOG-L] spring wildflowers visited by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds?

http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html reports that Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have already arrived in Canada this month (3 weeks earlier than last year). What wildflowers do they usually visit during their spring migration, and are they already in bloom? David Inouye

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteers needed: Socio-Ecology of small Mammals in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa

3 volunteers needed from July / August to November / December 2012 as field assistants for the project: Socio-Ecology of small Mammals in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for anybody who wants to get more experience in field work relating to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] spring wildflowers visited by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds?

Hi David, I wonder what they are eating way up in Canada already. High bush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) (yes, white flowers) and pinxter flower or pinxter azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides, syn: R. nudiflorum) are some attractions and they are not flowering yet in southern New England.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] spring wildflowers visited by Ruby-throated Hummingbirds?

DAVID . . . My guess is that this may be one of those years when sapsucker wells--those horizontal, sap-oozing holes made by Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers--may be of more importance than usual in the northern part of the ruby-throat's range. (See images at

[ECOLOG-L] designing for migration routes

Hi, I have a grad student in China at the moment looking at ways of designing wildlife corridors through a national park. She has now realized she needs to find some way of designing migration corridors based upon the steep topography in the park. Does anyone have some good sources of

Re: [ECOLOG-L] designing for migration routes

There is much excellent literature on corridor design for various taxa. Good places to start might be Machtans, C.S., M. Villard and S.J. Hannon. 1996. Use of riparian buffer strips as movement corridors by forest birds. Conservation Biology 10: 1366-1379. Naiman, R.J. and

[ECOLOG-L] PetriDish - Are there estrogens in your backyard?

Hi all, My lab mate, Geoff Giller, and myself are studying the effects of suburbia on endocrine disrupting pollutants in water and how these pollutants are affecting several frog species. We have a video up on the new science crowd-funding site, PetriDish.org. The video and page are on this link

[ECOLOG-L] SERDP Student Travel Awards to 2012 ESA Annual Meeting - Deadline May 1

Application Deadline: May 1, 2012. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announces the availability of ten (10) travel awards of $500 each to students presenting papers at ESA's 2012 Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. These awards are sponsored by the Strategic Environmental Research and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the rest of life on Earth

Thanks for this. We seem to agree on quite a lot. However, I seek to persuade people in my books that the extinction of the human species would ultimately lead to the extinction of all life on Earth, rather than a new era of evolution (although my view is compatible with a very short new era

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Saviours or Destroyers: The relationship between the human species and the rest of life on Earth

I'm sorry, but you'll have to offer more evidence than you have before I'll plunk down $20 for a book that might just be full of nonsense. Speaking both as a scholar and as a consumer, nothing I've seen here on or on the Amazon site entices me to spend either the money or time on your thesis.

[ECOLOG-L] Tropical Conservation, Permaculture Research Internship in Ecuador

A few years ago, a few of us – ecology, economics, and business graduates – founded a nonprofit organization called Third Millennium Alliance. We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically-endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve. There was a small patch of

[ECOLOG-L] Grant writing volunteer opportunity in Quito, Ecuador

Third Millennium Alliance is a US non-profit organization based in Ecuador. Our mission is to preserve the last remnants of Pacific Equatorial Forest in coastal Ecuador and the wide range of endangered and endemic species therein contained. In 2007 we established the Jama-Coaque Ecological