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check this one out: Lozier, J. D., P. Aniello, and M. J. Hickerson. "Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling." Journal of Biogeography 36.9 (2009): 1623- 1627. Cheers, Viorel Viorel D. Popescu Simon Fraser University Biol

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See also: Lim MSC, Hellard ME, Aitken CK (2005) The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute. BMJ 331:1498-1500. Very funny and clever. - Daniel On 08/06/2015 17:59, "Bob O'Hara" wrote: >The BMJ has a Ch

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The BMJ has a Christmas issue that contains amusements, my favourite of which is this one: (which has even been used in a 'serious' meta-analysis) Bob On 06/08/2015 05:40 PM, David Schneider wrote: For a humorous application of inverse probability (wh

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For a humorous application of inverse probability (which somehow came to be called Bayesian statistics) see Stigler, S.M. 1983. Who discovered Bayes's Theorem? The American Statistician 37:290-296 David Schneider Quoting Gary Grossman : > I'm looking for funny articles published and a few come

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Hi all, I have to add this gem to the mix. It's not ecology, but I can't pass it up: "Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass" http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2825 Introduction Young people at heavy metal concerts often report being dazed

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Penguin biologists are particularly proud of this contribution: Meyer-Rochow, V. B. and J. Gal. 2003. Pressures produced when penguins pooh - calculations on avian defaecation. Polar Biol. 27:56-58. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00300-003-0563-3 and there is also a letter describing

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Spatial Distribution of the Montane Unicorn Stuart H. Hurlbert Oikos Vol. 58, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 257-271 Actually a serious topic addressed in this paper I was given by a prof many years ago.Joe  We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg C.

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McNOLEG, O. L. E. G. "The integration of GIS, remote sensing, expert systems and adaptive co-kriging for environmental habitat modeling of the highland haggis using object-oriented, fuzzy-logic and neural-network techniques." *Computers & Geosciences* 22.5 (1996): 585-588. ftp://46.43.34.31/users/

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I have to point everyone to the following paper. Moran R. (1962). Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extensio

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A good one! "/Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate extensive morphological convergence between the "yeti" and primates/" Michel C. Milinkovitch; Aldagisa Caccone and George Amato Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2004, Pages 1--3 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ym

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Another paper that's tongue-in-cheek but has serious science at its core: Lozier, J. D., Aniello, P. and Hickerson, M. J. (2009), Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1623-1627. doi: 10.111

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Oy vay, who knew there were so many humorous papers. Thanks you all -- I am sated, except for the Shelley poem, no one seems to have come up with that. I'll figure out some way to put these in a shared drop box folder to share. cheers, g2 -- Gary D. Grossman, PhD Professor of Animal Ecology War

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Frank J.Rahel 1983. The Habitus of Ecologists: Fear and Clothing at Penn State. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 64:219–220 There is also a great one on succession in research institutions. Early organizations have little stuff and small libraries, both heavily used. Mature institutes

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The following is pretty entertaining as well I think. If you are into monocerology that is. Spatial Distribution of the Montane Unicorn SH Hurlbert Oikos 1990 53(3): 257-271 Cheers, Basti On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Rachael Eaton wrote: > I think this might be the fast food one mentione

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;David Inouye [ > ino...@umd.edu] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 18:31 > Bis: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Betreff: Re: [ECOLOG-L] humorous papers > > Here's one of them. I used to use this in ecology classes. > > > Sheldon, R. W., and S. R. Kerr. 1972. The pop

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t; im Auftrag von "David Inouye [ino...@umd.edu] Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 18:31 Bis: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Betreff: Re: [ECOLOG-L] humorous papers Here's one of them. I used to use this in ecology classes. Sheldon, R. W., and S. R. Kerr. 1972. The population density of Monste

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I think this might be the fast food one mentioned: Species Packing in the Fast-Food Restaurant Guild Patrick C. Kangas and Paul G. Risser Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America Vol. 60, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 143-148 On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:31 PM, David Inouye wrote: > Here's one of t

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Here's one of them. I used to use this in ecology classes. Sheldon, R. W., and S. R. Kerr. 1972. The population density of Monsters in Loch Ness. Limnology and Oceanography 17:746-798. I think there was one about resource partitioning among fast food restaurants that was published in the B