If you could change one thing about how ecological sciences works today, what would it be and why?
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Some researchers consider that the fewer are authors, the better is the work done. Some examples are even stunning: A paper signed by a single author visibly showing a work of several years on...
01 January 1970 6,857 4 View
Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...
28 February 2021 7,356 8 View
I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...
26 February 2021 3,033 9 View
For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...
16 February 2021 7,097 3 View
I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...
15 February 2021 3,642 6 View
Hi all, I am trying to find reference values on annual soil rhizodeposition rates for different kinds of forests, with a particular interest for tropical rainforests. Do we have an idea of the...
26 January 2021 4,278 4 View
Dear colleagues, I am asking for you recommendation: I need a book on analytical chemistry in environmental sciences. As a non-chemist (a biologist) I have some basic chemistry knowledge but not...
25 January 2021 8,486 8 View
Hello Maxent Community, I have been generating SDM models and projections in Maxent. I have had some success with one set of variables (some Hydroshed variables mixed with World CLIM variables);...
19 January 2021 3,994 7 View
I am working with intertidal muddy sediments. In one of my sites the sediment was extremely muddy (high % of silt), oxic layer was shallow, and there were a lot of oligochaetes. I would like to...
14 January 2021 7,269 4 View
Hi, I wonder if someone would share experience with building open-top chambers for surface heating of soil. My main question is what material can be used to build them? I found researchers using...
05 January 2021 5,396 6 View
Hello, everyone: I've been reading some old and new papers on how to compute beta diversity using incidence or abundance data from several assemblages/communities. For my data, I am interested...
03 January 2021 9,293 1 View