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!

It feels like ESA Sacramento just ended, but plans for next year’s conference are already coming together. And here’s an opportunity for YOU from the desks of Heather Leslie and Paul Armsworth:

We’re pulling together a proposal for an Organized Poster Session at next year’s centennial ESA meeting in Baltimore. The session will focus on “Ecological science that can make a difference in the real world.” Our goal is to provide a venue for students engaged in conservation science and applied ecology to showcase their work.

 

If you think you fit the bill, send an email to Heather Leslie with the title ‘ESAConSci’ by 10 PM, Sunday, September 21.  

As part of the session proposal, due September 25, we need to include names of provisional poster presenters. The primary author should be a grad student, ideally in the first or second year.  Note that the one presentation rule will apply.  

If we are successful with this proposal, we will do our best to recruit a team of leading conservation practitioners to visit and review the posters and provide feedback, perhaps in a panel format later in the meeting. We also are exploring awarding a prize for ‘best poster.’

 

Interested students should send HL an email with the following information: 

1. A likely title for the poster (not definitive), 

2. A few sentences describing the topic  

3. A list of all likely authors and affiliations

4. A statement identifying the educational stage of the primary, student author (undergraduate / first year grad student, etc).

5. One criterion by which ESA will evaluate this proposal is whether it offers ‘range of perspectives… and a diverse mix of speakers.’ Any details you can provide that relate to this theme would be great.  

 

We hope to see you in Baltimore in 2015,  

Heather Leslie & Paul Armsworth 

(Brown Univ and Univ of Tennessee, respectively)

-Fletcher Halliday

Early warnings of regime shifts: evaluation of spatial indicators from a whole-ecosystem experiment – Benno Simmons

Here is a compilation of photos and drawings of some vertebrates extinct in the past 100 years. This compilation is based on the data provided by the Sixth Extinction, a website dedicate to provide information about the current biodiversity crisis.

Charles Fisher and Pankaj Mehta show that ecological communities transit between selection-dominated regimes and drift dominated regimes, in their new paper “The transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology”.

An interesting article by Rachel Nuwer scientific misbehavior: Scientific Misconduct Should Be a Crime.

At last, videos of the talks delivered during “The Frontiers in Phylogenetics 4th Annual Symposium“ are available online in three parts:

• Opening (Mike Braun, John Kress, Guillermo Orti), Lacey Knowles, Kevin Kocot, Ingo Ebersberger;
• Ingo Ebersberger (cont.), Derick Zwickl, Dave Swofford;
• Dave Swofford (cont.), Luay Nakleh, Bastien Boussau, round table discussion.

– Vinicius Bastazini.

September 19, 2014