What Makes Bowerbirds Such Good Artists?
The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Felicity Muth is an early-career researcher with a PhD in animal cognition. Follow on ... Le Parapluie by Georges Brassens on Grooveshark
Marine animals like corals and starfish
Sandro Bocci a diffusé cette vidéo d’animaux marins filmés en macro et parfois en timelapse comme accroche d’un prochain film. Sandro Bocci: "Meanwhile in a world far, far away ... This is a short film created during the "Porgrave" shooting, the latest...
Ma thèse en 180 secondes
Le concours Ma thèse en 180 secondes permet à des doctorants de présenter leur sujet de recherche en termes simples à un auditoire profane et diversifié. Chaque étudiant doit faire, en trois minutes, un exposé clair, concis et néanmoins convaincant sur...
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Ecosystem-shaping interactions between consumers and plants are notoriously variable. Indeed, even within a single system (and a single pair of interacting species) enormous variability can be seen
La Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB)
Lancée officiellement par les ministres de l’Ecologie et de la Recherche, en février 2008, la FONDATION POUR LA RECHERCHE SUR LA BIODIVERSITE (FRB) unit les organismes publics de recherche, les associations de défense de l’environnement, les gestionnaires...
Baker M. Social media: A network boost
Information scientist Cassidy Sugimoto was initially sceptical that Twitter was anything more than a self-promotional time-sink. But when she noticed that her graduate students were receiving conference and co-authoring invitations through connections...
Ferrando A., Gonzalez E ., Franco M., Commendatore M., Nievas M., Militon C., Stora G., Gilbert F., Esteves JL. & Cuny P. Spill effects on macrofaunal communities and bioturbation of pristine marine sediments (Caleta Valdés, Patagonia, Argentina): experimental evidence of low resistance capacities of benthic systems without history of pollution
The Patagonian coast is characterized by the existence of pristine ecosystems which may be particularly sensitive to oil contamination. In this study, a simulated oil spill at acute and chronic input levels was carried out to assess the effects of contamination...
Open Access Explained!
What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about. Sinfonia by Giuseppe Verdi on Grooveshark Avec le temps by Léo Ferré on Grooveshark
A safe operating space for humanity
Nature 461, 472-475 (24 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/461472a; Published online 23 September 2009 Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,...
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Will Steffen et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1259855 - Published Online January 15 201 5 Abstract The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability...
Can models of presence-absence be used to scale abundance? Two case studies considering extremes in life history
Nielsen, S. E., Johnson, C. J., Heard, D. C. and Boyce, M. S. 2005. Can models of presence/absence be used to scale abundance? Two case studies considering extremes in life history. / Ecography 28: 197/ 208. Understanding patterns of species occurrence...
Klümper W, Qaim M (2014) A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops. PLoS ONE 9(11): e111629.
Despite the rapid adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops by farmers in many countries, controversies about this technology continue. Uncertainty about GM crop impacts is one reason for ... Pequeño Vals Vienés by Silvia Pérez Cruz & Raül Fernandez...
Zero tolerance ecology: improving ecological inference by modelling the source of zero observations
Tara G. Martin et al., Ecology Letters, (2005) 8: 1235–1246 Abstract A common feature of ecological data sets is their tendency to contain many zero values. Statistical inference based on such data are likely to be inefficient or wrong unless careful...
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