Friday links: RIP Philip Grime, the end (?) of #pruittdata at Am Nat, negative logging, and more
Dynamic Ecology,
Also this week: the joy weird satisfaction of cleaning data, why publishing false and unjustified scientific claims might (someti…
Do we need replication studies in theoretical ecology?
Dynamic Ecology,
tl;dr: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines is alive and well. ********** Here’s an example of a influential theoretical result in…
Why I voted as I did in our controversial ecological ideas poll
Dynamic Ecology,
Recently we polled readers about their views on various controversial ideas in ecology. Here’s how I voted, with links to key…
Poll results: here’s what our readers think about some of the most controversial ideas in ecology
Dynamic Ecology,
Recently we polled readers on their views on some of the most controversial–or maybe just seemingly controversial!–ideas in…
Favorite good (or bad?) examples of “operationalizing” vague ecological concepts?
Dynamic Ecology,
“Operationalization” is the term for taking a concept that’s vague or abstract and making it more precise and concrete, so that…
Book review: The Theory of Ecological Communities by Mark Vellend
Dynamic Ecology,
Earlier this fall I read Mark Vellend’s The Theory of Ecological Communities. I read it on my own, and also read it in a…
How (not) to influence the direction of your field
Dynamic Ecology,
Senior Oikos editors Dustin Marshall and Dries Bonte have a great piece on why they reject most proposed Forum articles. If you…
Ask us anything: what’s a scientific hypothesis, anyway?
Dynamic Ecology,
Better (very) late than never, hopefully: it’s our last “ask us anything”!: What’s a scientific hypothesis, beyond an educated…
Is my paper arguing for abandonment of the IDH having any impact? (or, is the IDH a ghost, not a zombie?) (UPDATED)
Dynamic Ecology,
tl;dr: No, my paper’s not having much impact. But that might be because there’s no potential impact for it to have, because the…
Peter Abrams on ratio-dependent predation as a zombie idea
Dynamic Ecology,
Peter Abrams has a paper in press at Biological Reviews criticizing the idea of ratio-dependent predation. Briefly, this is the…
Are there Buddy Holly ideas? (or, has any line of ecological or evolutionary research ever been prematurely abandoned?)
Dynamic Ecology,
One of the things this blog is known for is calling for the death of zombie ideas–ideas that should be dead, but aren’t. Here, “d…
Are there Buddy Holly ideas? (or, has any line of ecological or evolutionary research ever been prematurely abandoned?)
Dynamic Ecology,
One of the things this blog is known for is calling for the death of zombie ideas–ideas that should be dead, but aren’t. Here, “d…
Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? (guest post)
Dynamic Ecology,
Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post by Angela Moles and Jeff Ollerton. A little while back I noted with interest that Angela…
Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? (guest post)
Dynamic Ecology,
Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post by Angela Moles and Jeff Ollerton. A little while back I noted with interest that Angela…
On progress in ecology
Dynamic Ecology,
Missed this at the time, but back in December Charles Krebs listed what he sees as the 10 most important factors limiting the…
On progress in ecology
Dynamic Ecology,
Missed this at the time, but back in December Charles Krebs listed what he sees as the 10 most important factors limiting the…
Friday links: p-hacking=posterior hacking, #montypythonscience, forgotten co-authors (oops!), and more
Dynamic Ecology,
Also featured this week: the internet vs. English, English vs. English, and tea vs. lakes… From Meg: An interesting post on…
Friday links: p-hacking=posterior hacking, #montypythonscience, forgotten co-authors (oops!), and more
Dynamic Ecology,
Also featured this week: the internet vs. English, English vs. English, and tea vs. lakes… From Meg: An interesting post on…
What science can learn about engaging audiences from a radio program
The Lab and Field,
There’s a CBC Radio program called Ideas that’s be around for 40 years (it’s on at 9pm on Radio 1 [9:30 in Newfoundland and…
On the value of simple limiting cases: Lotka-Volterra models and trolley problems
Dynamic Ecology,
I’ve talked in the past about the many different ways in which models can be false, and how false models are actually useful…
On the value of simple limiting cases: Lotka-Volterra models and trolley problems
Dynamic Ecology,
I’ve talked in the past about the many different ways in which models can be false, and how false models are actually useful…
WIWACS vs. zombie ideas
Dynamic Ecology,
Some zombie ideas in ecology–ideas that should be dead, but aren’t–are about purported empirical generalities that actually aren…
WIWACS vs. zombie ideas
Dynamic Ecology,
Some zombie ideas in ecology–ideas that should be dead, but aren’t–are about purported empirical generalities that actually aren…
Blogs: do ecologists give a #
Dynamic Ecology,
Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post by Martine Fugère, Eric Vander Wal and Mark Vellend. Mark recently led an ecology…
Blogs: do ecologists give a #
Dynamic Ecology,
Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post by Martine Fugère, Eric Vander Wal and Mark Vellend. Mark recently led an ecology…
Zombie ideas in ecology: my TREE paper is a hit (UPDATED)
Dynamic Ecology,
Shameless plug: Trends in Ecology and Evolution just published a list of their top 10 most downloaded papers over the past two…
Zombie ideas in ecology: my TREE paper is a hit (UPDATED)
Dynamic Ecology,
Shameless plug: Trends in Ecology and Evolution just published a list of their top 10 most downloaded papers over the past two…
FLUMP!
BioDiverse Perspectives,
It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for our Friday link dump, where we highlight some recent papers that we found…
When, if ever, is it ok for a paper to gloss over or ignore criticisms of the authors’ approach? (UPDATED)
Dynamic Ecology,
A big bandwagon in community ecology over the past decade or so has been the idea that one can infer the determinants of…
Why pattern-based hypotheses fail ecology: the rise and fall of ecological character displacement
The EEB & flow,
Yoel E. Stuart, Jonathan B. Losos, Ecological character displacement: glass half full or half empty?, Trends in Ecology
Zombie ideas about disturbance, and the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise (UPDATED)
Dynamic Ecology,
One common zombie idea about disturbance is that it prevents competitive exclusion by “interrupting” or “setting back” the…
Zombie ideas in ecology: my TREE paper is now online
Dynamic Ecology,
Anyone who’s been ignoring my critiques of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis because they’re not peer reviewed will have…