As pointed out, many conservative Christians believe the mandate in Genesis to
be fruitful and increase in number is a directive to produce as many children
as possible. Whenever I have heard this argument put forward, there is usually
a science-sounding adjunct like, and you know, the whole
rates higher than 2% and then
look at how women are treated in that nation. The problem, and solution is
clear, and I'm constantly dismayed that it is consistently ignored in
population growth conversations like the one on this forum.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Nathan Brouwer brouw
David -
As I understand it, a key component of using AIC and model selection is the
declaration of a priori models of interest. Therefore, to put it in terms of
writing a paper, all models that show up in your Results section should've
already been laid out explicitly within your Methods, and
Dear ECOLOG:
I think there was an important aspect of Dr. Bigelow's quote from Burnham and
Anderson (2002) page 131 that was not highlighted.
THe passage quoted was:
Models having delta-I within 0-2 units of the best model should be examined to
see whether they differ from the best model by 1
Nabin -
While it seems like a mechanistic model for a non-linear response is always
preferable, it doesn't seem like there is an indication in the literature that
a quadratic term should not be used when such a model is not available. (I
looked through Sokal and Rolf's Biometry, Legendre's
Regarding cross-training in ecology and policy, I know that the University of
Washington school of forestry offers a dual masters degree in conjunction with
the university's public policy school. Are these programs very common, though?
There have been several op-ed pieces in Conservation
Many of the policy/ecology programs that have been posted are for Masters-level
degrees. It seems one problem folks have highlighted is that the professors
that teach ecology don't have policy-related issues on their radar. In
addition to promoting interdisciplinary programs in policy,
An assortment of comments and questions regarding stats for undergrads:
I'm surprised Gotelli and Ellison's A Primer of Ecological
Statistics did not make the list. Most grad students seem to have a
copy of this kicking it around. Do people feel its written at a level
appropriate for
For general invasive earthworm information there's a great website:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html
And the best titled review article ever:
Pandora's Box Contained Bait: The Global Problem of Introduced
Earthworms
State attorney general demands ex-professor's files from University of
Virginia
By Rosalind S. Helderman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 4, 2010; B01
RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II is demanding
that the University of Virginia turn over a broad range of
Amod:
Here is a pretty good website which covers many standard techniques and uses
ecological and biological examples
http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statintro.html
Carl Schwarz http://people.stat.sfu.ca/~cschwarz/ has many of his course
notes and outlines of book chapters on his website.
In
Derek Roff's book Modeling Evolution: An Introduction to Numerical Methods
would likely be a good resource for anyone using R as a replacement for MatLab.
For most (all?) of its examples it contains code for both languages and has an
appendix with information for translating between the two
Some organizations that offer at least small grants that I think could be
used in Africa are:
http://www.foc-uk.com/
http://www.bou.org.uk/bouresg.htm
As important as funding issues in working in Africa are logistical and
cultural ones. Africa has perhaps the lowest African scientist to western
for my grad work.
Nathan Brouwer
A book not mentioned yet is Marc Kery’s “Introduction to WinBUGs for
Ecologists.” Though the focus is on Bayesian stats and WinBUGs, this book has
2 fabulous features
-straight forward ecological examples of all major statistical procedures in R,
from t-tests to GLMMs.
-simulated data is
Middle Schoolers at the JGEMS charter school in Salem, OR are seeking
feedback from conservation biologists and managers on management plans they
are writing on threatened and endangered species. They are looking for
people who can comment on 4 species: red pandas, hawksbill sea turtles,
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