It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers (and other stuff) that we found interesting but didn’t have the time to write an entire post about. If you think there’s something we missed, or have something to say, please share in the comments section!

Nature just released “Statistics for Biologists”, a free  on-line collection of articles offering practical statistical guidance and information we all should be familiar with.

Here is a link to an awesome podcast interview with eminent professor Hall Caswell, conducted by Roberto Salguero-Gómez, an associate editor of the Journal of Ecology.

Museums of natural history are suffering severe reductions in their budgets all over the World, becoming just a threatened as some of the species they preserve. See a special article, written by Christopher Kemp, on this subject here.

– Vinicius Bastazini

The value of returning apex predators to historic habitat in order to restore biodiversity has been a hot topic in the past few years. Researchers in Australia propose allowing dingos to recolonize Sturt National Park as an ecological experiment testing this theory. Title dingo photo by Henry Whitehead via Wikimedia Commons

Sexual size dimorphism as a promoter of diversification, and associated with reduced extinction rates by Stephen De Lisle et al in ProcB. PS: Larger ladies are a bigger contributor

Also, my favorite title of the week, from the most recent American Naturalist: The mothematics of female pheromone signalling: Strategies for aging virgins

-Emily Grason

Two interesting articles in a recent issue of Ecology Letters by Fitzpatrick and colleagues: using genomics data and community models to predict how environmental change will impact adaptive genetic diversity, and the maintenance of phenotypic differentiation despite high gene flow.

-Kylla Benes

February 20, 2015