Category Archives: ecology

37 years of the Paradox of Enrichment

Here’s is a priceless quote from one of the great classical papers in theoretical ecology. It’s from Michael Rosenzweig’s 1971 paper Paradox of Enrichment: Destabilization of Exploitation Ecosystems in Ecological Time (Science 171: 385-387). This was written 37 years ago … Continue reading

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CSEE 2008 – here I come!

I am on my way to the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). This year it is held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, my previous home base. It will be nice … Continue reading

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Special Volume of JSS on Ecology and Ecological Modelling in R

The latest issue Journal of Statistical Software is a special volume on Ecology and Ecological Modelling in R. This has been in the woodwork for quite some time now and it is nice to finally to see this out “in … Continue reading

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Darwin as a theoretician

Most rational people would agree that Charles Darwin was one of the greatest naturalist of all times. He went on his Beagle world tour where he observed natural history, geology, and collected large amounts of biological specimens. Although this voyage … Continue reading

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Report from the meeting of the Ecological Society of America in San Jose

I am attending the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in San Jose. I have never been to a meeting of this magnitude before, some of the impressive stats are: 5 days long, around 3000 participants, 20-30 … Continue reading

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Two new theoretical journals

There are two new journals on the block that should be of interest to ecology-evolutionary-theory minded folks. Theoretical Ecology with Alan Hastings as the Editor in Chief. A few phrases from its aims and scope that caught my attention are; … Continue reading

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