The Guardian profiles E.O. Wilson
Posted 21 Aug 2012 / 0The Guardian “The Saturday interview: Harvard biologist Edward Wilson“
A Minor Post“Adaptive” approach to climate change puts faith in resilience thinking
Posted 21 Aug 2012 / 0All Things Considered “Boston Plans For ‘Near-Term Risk’ Of Rising Tides” My worry here is pretty simple: with the ‘practical’ approach of adapting to inevitable climate change is beginning to gain traction across the United States, the end of near-term denial will fail to pull along our long-term denial. As people begin to contemplate triage Read More
A Minor Post, Climate Change, ResilienceMy review of “How Species Interact” published in Ecological Modelling
Posted 18 Aug 2012 / 1My review of How Species Interact: Altering the Standard View of Trophic Ecology by Roger Arditi and Lev R. Ginzburg was just published in Ecological Modelling. You can also read the review here. Lev Ginzburg was my dissertation advisor, so clearly this review has to be seen as subjective; however, if you look at how strong Read More
A Major Post, Books, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, My publications, PredationInfographic signs on the road to game theory understanding
Posted 16 Aug 2012 / 0Game Theory Icons These are pretty clever. I have not walked my way through them yet, but they use arrows to show the relative gradient of payoff for each player, and a little blue circle to represent Nash equilibrium (if any) for the game. What I have not yet figured out with these is whether Read More
A Minor Post, Game Theory, Information DesignSteve C. Walker on optimistic but reasonable expectations for mathematics
Posted 15 Aug 2012 / 0ecology & stats “Why math is sooo great!“
A Minor Post, MathematicsBiocreativity blog explores the interaction between biology and art
Posted 15 Aug 2012 / 0Biocreativity blog
A Minor Post, Art & Design, Biology (general), Science in Art & DesignCan crocheting help save corals? Can we learn something about developmental genetics in the process?
Posted 14 Aug 2012 / 0The bit about “hyperbolic geometry” is very interesting, but I wonder what its biological significance is. Why do organisms develop in this manner? Is the act of crocheting these analogous to the developmental process of organisms with hyperbolic geometry? Are the “crochet mutations” analogous to genetic mutations that affect development? The physical nature of this Read More
A Minor Post, EvoDevo, GeneticsESA 2012 Overall Impressions
Posted 12 Aug 2012 / 0What was the ‘big news’ at this year’s Ecological Society of America meeting? Given that this meeting is composed of so many different meetings running concurrently, this just might be an impossible question to answer fairly. But for me, this year’s meeting could be summarized as the ‘year of computational ecology’. At a great variety Read More
A Major Post, Altruism, Biodiversity Loss, Conservation Biology, Cooperation, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Society of America, Ecology Education, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Group Selection, Marine Ecosystems, Multilevel Selection, Public Policy, Punishment, Resource Consumption, Social Capital, Sustainability, System Stability, Talks & Seminars, Teaching, Teaching Tools, The Sustainable Use of FisheriesESA 2012 Symposium #23, Commodifying Nature: The Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Service Valuation in Environmental Decision Making
Posted 10 Aug 2012 / 0Friday morning is a tough spot at an ESA meeting. It is the last day of a six-day conference, and there are only morning events, so many people evacuate before this final session. And for those who do drag themselves out of bed for sessions beginning at 8 am (perhaps, like me, for the sixth Read More
A Major Post, Anthropogenic Change, Biodiversity Loss, Biomes, Climate Change, Conferences, Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of America, Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Freshwater Ecosystems, Habitat Destruction, Interdisciplinarity, Invasive Species, Pollution, Talks & Seminars, Temperate Rainforest, Traditional Ecological KnowledgeESA 2012 Thursday afternoon talks
Posted 10 Aug 2012 / 0I spent Thursday afternoon once again hustling from one talk to another, with Organized Oral Session #47 (Universal Senescence? New Theories and Experimental Approaches Across the Tree of Life) being my primary focus. The writings of George C. Williams and his ingenious antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis explaining aging have always fascinated me. Like a lot of Read More
A Major Post, Behavior, Conferences, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Society of America, Ecosystem Services, Freshwater Ecosystems, Individual-based Models, Parasitism, Phenotypic Plasticity, Ponds & Lakes, Predation, Senescence, Spatially Explicit Modeling, Sustainable Agriculture, Talks & Seminars, Tropical Forest