The Enquist lab has positions for two new postdoctoral positions to start fall 2016 (1) Postdoctoral Position – Macroecology of land plant biodiversity: Niche evolution and ecological limits. The College of Science at the University of Arizona is seeking to fill a position in Plant Macroecology and trait-based niche evolution. This position, funded by the National Science Foundation,…
What will be the future of western mountain ecosystems? The Effect of the Foresummer Drought on Carbon Exchange in the Subalpine
Since 2003 my group has been conducting a set of long-term observations and experiments up at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. It is a fantastic place filled with an impressive set of visiting scientists and colleagues as well as a diverse, lush, and striking mountains. It is typical Colorado – green and filled with flowers…
Even the best ecoinformatics tool requires a skilled hand: Best practices for taxonomic name resolution in biodiversity science
Even the best ecoinformatics tool requires a skilled hand: Best practices for taxonomic name resolution in biodiversity science Increasingly, informatics approaches in biology and ecology are realizing that ‘Names are key to the big new biology‘. Did you know that in many large biological, ecological, and evolutionary datasets and databases contained on the order of…
New! Postdoctoral position in Tropical Forest Ecology, Trait-based ecology, and Macroecology at the University of Arizona. Starting late 2015/2016
New! Postdoctoral position in Tropical Forest Ecology, Trait-based ecology, and Macroecology at the University of Arizona. Starting late 2015/2016 A two-year post-doctoral position is available (start date flexible, can start as early as Fall 2016) in the group of Dr. Brian Enquist (https://brianjenquist.wordpress.com) in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of…
A Big Database and Big Models Pave the Way for Big Questions in Ecology
Source: A Big Database and Big Models Pave the Way for Big Questions in Ecology
Are we at risk of losing much of our western forests? – Accelerating mortality of forests in and around the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab
Something odd and very worrisome caught my eye scrolling through my photos of my labs work up at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab . . . Every year since 2002 I and my lab have been heading up to the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Gothic Colorado to conduct repeated measures across an elevational gradient….
A plea for reasoned reviewers – advice for writing a review
How to be a good reviewer (a view from an editor) I’m on the editorial board of two journals and over the years have seen many reviews come in. What I have been impressed with is the overall quality of the reviews. Many of you are excellent and constructive reviewers. I have consistently learned from you…
‘Scaling in Ecology’ and the ESA 100th anniversary – symposium on ‘A focus on scaling for the next 100 years’
“Biological research is in crisis…. Technology gives us the tools to analyze organisms at all scales, but we are drowning in a sea of data and thirsting for some theoretical framework with which to understand it.” – Sydney Brenner. 2012 “The harmony of the world is made manifest in form and number, and the heart and…
New approach to predicting climate from leaf traits . . .
How much can a leaf tell you about the environment in which is grows? Can ecology become more predictive? We have been working on a variety of approaches to assess the ‘predictive nature’ of leaves. The idea is that that the constellation of traits that define a leaf actually reflect a set of coordinated shifts to…
