Thoughts from the vanguard of biodiversity research. Why is leaf shape important to plants? June 12, 2017. A decade of restoration is making the microbiome great again. Forests hiding in plain sight.

In the future, how will restorationists think about the past? Never blog in your PJs, and other tips for science and ecology bloggers. Framing the plains and packaging remnants. Field guide to the future. Forgotten woodlands, future landscapes.

Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience. The View from a Microbiologist. Unhelpful hint on seed pack. 4 hours ago in The Phytophactor. 10 hours ago in Field Notes. 4 days ago in RRResearch. Anti-vaxxers use religious exemptions as false cover for their beliefs. 5 days ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience. 2 weeks ago in The Curious Wavefunction. 2 weeks ago in Variety of Life. Hunting up the ghosts of elements.

Research, teaching, and mentorship in the sciences.

Notes from ecology, biogeography and evolution by Florian Hartig. Sept 2015, Bergen, Norway. All models are wrong, but which are useful for understanding the effect of nestedness on plant-pollinator dynamics? A simple explanation of rejection sampling in R. The central quantity in Bayesian inference, the posterior, can usually not be calculated analytically, but needs to be estimated by numerical integration, w.

El Mirador del Sol The human species has always been able to adapt to the problems of survival that has faced since lives in the Earth. Again today, the attitude of Western culture threatens the natural evolution of the planet and the existence of many species. Although culturally we have lost the state of grace, as humans we can reinstate it, there begin the ecology. Our piece of land! By El Mirador del Sol.

Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. Tropical rainforest trees and their diverse water transport strategies. In the past year I have been helping a PhD student Deborah Apgaua with an axillary study on these trees. Deborah measured baseline data on the leaf and wood traits of these species with the aim to determine how these feature relate to their water transport strategies. One aspect of this study involved looking at the vessels inside the wood.

Nature, nurture, and human influences on past ecosystems. Each July, archaeologists around the world contribute to an excellent online project, the Day of Archaeology. Sadly for Superman, radiocarbon dating is only useful for samples that are less than 50,000 years old.

Invader-invader mutualism faciltates secondary invasion in rainforest on Christmas Island. Have little to impact in rainforest. Which brings me to my study site. We do not have G.