I nominate:
1. Trigger plants (Stylidiaceae - Australia). They slap pollinators
with their reproductive parts to effect pollination.
2. Resurrection plant (Selaginella)- desert species and eastern
epiphytes. Yes, they look dead until you add water.
3. Epiphytic Bromeliads (in general)
Dear fellow Ecologgers,
I was hoping some of your knowledge and expertise may be able to help me
find some data for a project Im working on.
I am looking for plant distribution range data for species inhabiting the
northern edge of the Great Plains. Ideally, I would like species occurrence
Post Doctoral position available in Mosquito ecology
Title: Influence of ecological filters on medically important container
mosquito communities
Review of applicants will begin 31 August and continue until the position is
filled.
The Yee lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at the
Wayne Tyson landr...@cox.net wrote:
Ecolog:
Whilst researching something else, I came across this interesting item and
website. I have not delved into the details, but couldn't help but stumble
when I came to: The challenge is to provide a methodology and relevant
information for
Venus fly traps would definitely appeal to middle school kids.
I nominate:
1. Trigger plants (Stylidiaceae - Australia). They slap pollinators
with their reproductive parts to effect pollination.
2. Resurrection plant (Selaginella)- desert species and eastern
epiphytes. Yes, they look
Hi there,
I'd have to go for stone plants, Lithops. They would make a great
middle school project due to fascinating adaptation and hardiness.
Cheers,
Sadie
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Benjamin Blonder
bblon...@email.arizona.edu wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm about to embark on a middle
here is a very weird plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid
picture:
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the inaugural issue
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Communicating Climate Change: Being Articulate without Knowing Everything
The Wildlife Society 18th Annual Conference, November 5th 2011
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Have you ever been asked if you believe in global warming on a day when
it's unseasonably cold out? Wanted to explain how cool weather is a
There is a reason many midwestern herpetologists refer to the region
as a cornfield desert.
any uniculture (trees to moss) will be essentially a desert for other
organisms not directly
associated with the plant. Add in the agrichemicals and you got sterile blah.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:58
Drosera sp. (Sun Dews) are pretty cool and weird, as are most carnivorous
plants.
I have a short video on a desiccation tolerant fern I studied a while back (
*Mohria caffrorum*). Stop-motion of it resurrecting. Looks pretty cool!
Coco de mer (I think that's the spelling). Coconut type plant
Skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, creates heat and melts the snow
around it in early spring. It smells like rotting meat to attract the flies
that pollinate it.
-Kathleen
On Aug 16 2011, Judith S. Weis wrote:
Venus fly traps would definitely appeal to middle school kids.
I nominate:
On Aug 16, 2011, at 7:19 AM, malcolm McCallum wrote:
There is a reason many midwestern herpetologists refer to the region
as a cornfield desert. any uniculture (trees to moss) will be
essentially
a desert for other organisms not directly associated with the plant.
Add in the agrichemicals
Try stone plants: http://www.botany.org/planttalkingpoints/stone.htm
Kathleen Knight wrote:
Skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, creates heat and melts the snow
around it in early spring. It smells like rotting meat to attract the
flies that pollinate it.
-Kathleen
On Aug 16 2011, Judith
For the next 6 months or so, I will need a graphics assistant to draw and or
re-draw bw line drawn figures (graphs, etc.). I have an immediate need for
a graphics person to re-draw a (public-domain) worldwide distribution map of
tropical seasonal forests. The figures must be of very high quality
If I may have another go at it:
1. How about the duckweeds, especially *Wolfia*, because it is so small and
featureless (like grains of sand).
2. Bladderworts, because of the neat way they trap arthropods, and because
they have aquatic and terrestrial species.
3. The aquatic floating ferns, like
Hi, Ecologgers
I was wondering if there is any open peer review journal in the field of
Ecology?
Thanks.
--
Zewei
University of Minnesota
A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP in Forest
Soils/Ecosystem Ecology is available at the
University of Maine studying the biogeochemistry
of northern forested watersheds. The focus of
this position is the long-term evolution of
ecosystem response to a changing chemical and
physical
I sent this list privately to Benjamin, but realized others might be interested:
http://images.google.com/search?q=Bursera+microphyllabiw=1015bih=569tbm=isch
http://www.loscabosinsider.com/cabo-life/plants-animals-baja/insider_boojum.htm
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SELE2
I think Pitcher Plants that grow in bogs are pretty interesting; the way
they capture water. That might interest the kids, they are odd, compared to
regular plants they're probably familiar with.
Mark
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Benjamin Blonder
bblon...@email.arizona.edu wrote:
Hi
Here's the list of notable species (weird, big, small, edible, parasitic etc) I
developed for my botany course a few years ago. I gave only the genus and
species and let the students figure out what they were.
Steve
Acacia cornigera
Adenanthera pavonina
Adansonia digitata
Aldrovanda
Assistant Professor
Biological Science
University of Tulsa
The Department of Biological Science at the University of Tulsa
invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant
Professor of biology, commencing Fall 2012. Research area is open
(and includes physiological ecology);
Seriously, the Indian Pipeno chlorophyll!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:10 AM, malcolm McCallum
malcolm.mccal...@herpconbio.org wrote:
here is a very weird plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid
picture:
The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), Department of Biology, invites
applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant
Professor effective July 1, 2012.
We are searching for an outstanding Freshwater Ecologist whose research
program focuses on whole organisms,
For tropical ecology:
http://www.tropicalconservationscience.org/
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Zewei Song songze...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Ecologgers
I was wondering if there is any open peer review journal in the field of
Ecology?
Thanks.
--
Zewei
University of Minnesota
--
CURRENT ZOOLOGY, http://www.currentzoology.org , though a ZOOLOGY journal,
ECOLOGY is one of its focused field.
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发件人：Zewei Song
发送日期：2011-08-17 02:07:03
收件人：ECOLOG-L
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主题：[ECOLOG-L] Open peer review journal for Ecology
Hi,
GO to http://www.doaj.org
they have a list of many open access journals.
Malcolm
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM, kevina vulinec kvuli...@desu.edu wrote:
For tropical ecology:
http://www.tropicalconservationscience.org/
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Zewei Song songze...@gmail.com wrote:
The Genetic and Silvicultural Foundations for Management Team, USFS Pacific
Northwest Research Station in Olympia, WA is advertising to fill 1 or 2
research positions on modeling plant responses to environment or management.
The candidate will contribute to on-going studies that focus on
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