Justin C Bagley

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Biologists, have you done the Science Careers Individual Development Plan, and if so did you find it was useful to you?

Science Careers has for the past couple of years offered the myIDP Individual Development Plan program (http://myidp.sciencecareers.org/) to help scientists assess their skills and identify how...

01 January 2015 412 0 View

Two questions about additive partitioning of community diversity: Is this method still valid? Where are all the freshwater studies?

In recent years, additive partitioning has surfaced as an important tool for understanding spatial and temporal scaling of biodiversity. However, I recently noticed that there seems to be some...

11 November 2013 8,276 14 View

Ecological niche modeling in freshwater fishes: What is the best way to use ENMs to predict fish distributions? How can we make better data layers?

Ecological niche modeling is increasingly important for understanding the factors that shape species distributions, as well as testing biogeographical hypotheses about species past, present, and...

11 November 2013 9,371 5 View

What is the best diversity metric in community ecology--species richness, Simpson's index, Shannon's index, or another metric?

There are many metrics for measuring biodiversity in community ecology. It seems most diversity metrics are based on the spatially nested hierarchical organization of regional biotas. I am wanting...

11 November 2013 3,660 32 View

Where (other than GenBank) do you prefer to publish DNA datasets & supplementary material-Dryad, TreeBASE, or other databases?

It is now standard practice to make not only your results, but also your data and metadata for a project freely accessible to the world. This is the best practice for the scientific enterprise,...

10 October 2013 7,259 4 View