What questions must you consider before starting a Research Topic?

As like : Do you have the budget needed to conduct this research? Do you have the know-how needed to conduct this research? Do you have access or can you obtain access to whatever it is you want...

07 August 2018 9,007 27 View

How to write a research paper (technical writing)? how to generate ideas, creativity, sources of problems information management (research notebooks)?

How to write a research paper (technical writing)? how to generate ideas, creativity, sources of problems information management (research notebooks, etc.)? Find some inspiration regarding open...

07 August 2018 7,957 11 View

Are there any criteria or guidelines to develop good test questions?

What are the impact of good and bad test questions on students learning?

07 August 2018 437 11 View

What makes a good university lecturer?

07 August 2018 4,234 25 View

Why does the pressure increase under soil?

pressure = unit wt * depth

06 July 2018 1,276 1 View

Are we losing water because of excessive use? Is the correct that statement?

Are we losing water because of excessive use? Is the correct that statement?

06 July 2018 1,631 3 View

How do you maintain water pressure?

water pressure

06 July 2018 1,546 1 View

What are the qualities of a good exam?

I think A good exam gives all students an equal opportunity to fully demonstrate their learning.

06 July 2018 9,798 94 View

How do you maintain water pressure?

water pressure

06 July 2018 5,399 0 View

How can we calculate the activity of SO4 in sediment

29 June 2017 4,530 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

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

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

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

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

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

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

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

What is the magnitude of yearly rhizopdeposition in tropical forests?

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

Can you recommend a good book on analytical chemistry for non-chemists?

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

Why are my Maxent SDM projections coming up almost entirely blue?

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

How deep into the sediment do marine/riverine oligochaetes live?

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

How to make open-top chambers?

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

R package for multivariate dispersion as a measure of beta diversity?

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