Partitioning Species Diversity: History and Implications
Whittaker’s work on diversity partitioning is doubtless one of the most influential in ecology. As a community/quantitative ecologist, my opinion may be biased, but his work has all the necessary...
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Understanding the distribution and composition of vegetation communities is critical for effective management and conservation priorities. However, traditional studies of vegetation diversity require...
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I’m a Simbelieber!
I am a Simbelieber. By which I mean I am a member of the [Daniel] Simberloff nation. His papers nearly always say what I am thinking, and much better than I could myself. His latest TREE paper is a...
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Spatial legacy and spatial nuisance
Many methods and tools for multiscale spatial analysis have recently been proposed and developed. One of the main motivations for the rapid diversification of these methods is undoubtedly the...
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Finding the Do Re Mi of the LDG
No Biodiversity Blog could be complete without a discussion of the pattern that, I think, initiated biodiversity science. The proof that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is an important and...
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Flumpty Dumpty sat on a Wall
It’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you think there’s a paper we missed, or...
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Updates from the Field
AKA: Why I took a quarter off and went to Costa Rica We’re introducing a new series of posts, “Updates from the Field,” wherein we can discuss some of the field work we must do as geographers (like...
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Conceptual change in biological evolution
The received view of Evolution, the so called “Modern Synthesis of Evolution”, developed during the 1920s and 1950s, is a matter of genetics. Disciplines such as ecology and embryology did not even...
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Updates from the Field: Lichen it up in the trees
My favorite outdoor activity as a child was to climb high into the branches of a spruce tree, hack off a couple branches, and build myself a fort. But it wasn’t until just last fall that I realized I...
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SLUMP
It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you...
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Parasite biodiversity – a missing dimension?
Here are a few statistics: Forty-percent of all species are parasites, and more than 75% of links in natural food webs are likely to involve them. As many as 10,000 parasitic helminth species are...
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Flump
It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you...
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From the Field
We are on a short hiatus this week as most of our writers are in the field. We’ll be back on schedule next week, in the meantime here are updates from a few folks: Above, Jon Lefcheck inspects...
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Species Delimitation Incorporates Ecological Niche Modeling
What is a species? Theoretical musings over this question have generated a multitude of species concepts, however the ‘nitty-gritty’ business of species delimitation has been relatively neglected....
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It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you think...
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BioDV at ESA and INTECOL
This is probably the most exciting time of this year for ecologists, as the two most important ecological meetings will be happening this month; the 98th Annual Ecological Society of America conference...
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Finding the Do Re Mi of the LDG
No Biodiversity Blog could be complete without a discussion of the pattern that, I think, initiated biodiversity science. The proof that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is an important and...
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Flumpty Dumpty sat on a Wall
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Friday links
It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you think...
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IDH, MRH, WTF?
After all the discussion on this blog surrounding Jon’s thoughtful post on Paradox of Phytoplankton and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH), I was both excited and a little intimidated when I...
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