What with this year's failure of some seed crops across Canada, ornithologists
have predicted 2012-13 will be a good "finch winter" in the southern U.S. and
even that a few other northern species may come on down and show up at our
feeders. When we started hearing reports of migrant Red-breasted
Graduate Opportunities at Northern Illinois University
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ECOLOG members,
I'd like to share a posting for an open position on behalf of Franklin
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2 PhD positions in Biodiversity and Soil Carbon Dynamics of Bioenergy Crops in
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A postdoctoral research associate position is available in the
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Dear Colleagues,
I have sent this query to other lists, so I apologize for cross posting.
Melanins appear to be difficult to quantify given their diversity, ability
to complex with other molecules, and lack of solubility. They are also
known to interfere with PCR. We are having some problems am
Kevin Robinson,
I appreciate your taking the time to thoughtfully respond. It would seem
obvious that although some adaptations of some plants work equally well to
keep them alive under both fire and grazing regimes, there are clearly all
kinds of physical and chemical differences between the tw
I have an opening for a student with an ecological background to pursue a
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Kind regards,
2013 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting: April 9th-13th,
2013; Los Angeles, CA.
Session: *Exurbanization and Amenity-Driven Development*
Many amenity-rich regions are experiencing rapid land-use change in the
form of low-density residential development. In the United States,
This volunteer position(s) of Visitor Center Host will have the primary
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emphasis on the unique ecology of Galena Creek Park. This position will work
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We're looking for interns passionate about sustainable living, research, and
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Interns at the Jama-Coaque Reserve are encouraged to take on high-impact an
Sorry I forgot to mention in my last message, talking of causation. The simple
correlation coefficient looks at the linear relationship between X and Y. There
are many examples where X and Y have zero or close to zero correlation but are
perfectly related to one another (predict X from Y; Y from
Re: 'BTW, for your story about the cat: In a statistical sense, the head
predicts the tail. Quite a difference from the head causes the tail.'
Unless the cat is walking backwards.
It is the word causation that is the problem. X is positively associated with Y
does not mean (and never means /o
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Miles Medina wrote:
>
> Also, I would add, in response to a comment above.. someone said
> correlation implies causation. Yes it may, of course, but let's not forget
> that there could be a third variable that causes the two correlated ones
> originally in question.
I believe that the me
One of my personal favorites:
Chronobiologia. 1991 Jan-Mar;18(1):1-8.
Sunspots and hip fractures.
Caniggia M, Scala C.
Abstract
In this paper a remarkable statistical link between sunspot cycles and
prevalence of hip fractures in the elderly is shown. Hip fractures in old
people are due to: 1.
Publishing Internship at Frontiers - Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is urgently looking for an intern, to
be based at its Washington, DC, office, to help with the production of one of
the Society's journals, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE), and in
collaboration with the Department of Life Science and Biotechnology of the
University of Ferrara and the Museum of Natural History of Ferrara, we are
pleased to invite all interested parties to a
Hello,
apart from R packages, I sometimes used Ned Levine's Crimestat to carry out
spatial analyses of point patterns. You might be interested in tests such as
Ripley's (clumped versus random distribution of points), or global or local
autocorrelation indices (sparial association between positive a
I don’t know what constitutes the popular use of
correlation, but the (1980) Steele and Torrie quote is more of an opinion or
view than a definition – I’m not saying it’s wrong, but the mathematical
definitions
of correlation are less subjective or mushy.
Anyway, based on the responses to the qu
Dear Ecologgers,
We are in the process of starting an Electronic Herbarium in our Biology
Department (UAEU) and this requires scanning/imaging all available specimen
in our Herbarium.
I was wondering if someone could share with me information (where/how/who)
regarding a HerbScan (developed by KEW
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