Ecology Letters “Experimental climate change weakens the insurance effect of biodiversity“
A Minor Post, Articles, Climate Change, Community EcologyI am proud to announce the recent publication of a new paper in the Chinese Science Bulletin with collaborators from Yunnan University and the Kunming Institute of Zoology in Kunming, China. Our paper, entitled “Cooperation in an asymmetric volunteer’s dilemma game with relatedness“, uses a game-theoretic analysis of a new variant to the volunteer’s dilemma to Read More
Evolutionary Modeling, Game Theory, Kin Selection, Modeling (General), Mutualism, My publicationsToday’s New York Times Business section features an interesting article on the recent JPMorgan multi-billion loss. Entitled “The Hunch, the Pounce and the Kill: How Boaz Weinstein and Hedge Funds Outsmarted JPMorgan“, the article explains how a risk-prone hedge fund manager named Boaz Weinstein was able to exploit errors by JPMorgan and end up on Read More
Articles, Economic sustainability, Economics, Ethics, Parasitism, Public Policy, Social Capital, System StabilitySmithsonian Magazine “Truffle Trouble in Europe: The Invader Without Flavor“
A Minor Post, Economics, Invasive SpeciesMarketplace “High-frequency trading: Bad for markets… and the soul?“
A Minor Post, Economic sustainability, Economics, Parasitism, Radio & PodcastsMarketplace Sustainability “Radiated tuna splashes up in California“
A Minor Post, Community Ecology, Pollution, Radio & PodcastsBMC Biology “Evolving a photosynthetic organelle” What I find fascinating about this particular protist is that it suggests that the endosymbiotic acquisition of chloroplasts may not have been a singular event, and protists may continue to incorporate new bacteria, creating potential for novel evolutionary change.
A Minor Post, Articles, MutualismBreakthrough Journal “Love Your Monsters” Interesting concept here of “political ecology”. I have never heard of this term, but it provides a pretty nice distinction between the science of ecology and those social and political movements that seek to make us more respectful of the ecological systems on which we depend. What is a little Read More
A Minor Post, Articles, Ecology, Political Science, SustainabilityNature “Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem“
A Minor Post, Articles, Biodiversity Loss, Conservation Biology, Extinction, Sustainable HarvestingMe with Molly and B. Ricardo Brown (coordinator of the Critical and Visual Studies program) at Pratt’s Honors Convocation I am proud to report that a student who I have both taught and mentored, Molly H. Adams, has won top honors for both her exceptional academic work and the production of an exemplary thesis. Along Read More
Anthropogenic Change, Biomes, Conservation Biology, Critical and Visual Studies program, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Ethics, Mentoring, Pratt Institute