Altmetrics are catching a head of steam in science, but are still not widely used. What are they? Jason Priem, who coined the term “altmetrics”, on almetrics.org defines almetrics as “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. Find out more here and here and here. TotalImpact is a project…
A paper issue 100:4 in the Journal (Resource concentration by insects and implications for plant populations) by Andrea Stephens and Judith Myers explores how resource concentration by insects effects plants, using both modeling and empirical approaches. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Andrea a few weeks ago to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube posts…
Sandra Chung (@sandramchung) and Jacquelyn Gill (@jacquelyngill) led a workshop at the Ecological of Society Meeting in Portland, OR on social media titled “Social Media for Collaboration, Outreach and Impact”. Sandra and Jacquelyn talked mostly about how to use Twitter, the de facto social media tool these days. Here are the slides from their talk. There…
A Data Sharing workshop was held at the 2012 Ecological Societ of America Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The workshop was run by folks from NEON (Wendy Gram), DataONE (Carly Strasser), and NCEAS (Stephanie Hampton). See the abstract here. The workshop started off with statements from Joshua Tewksbury, Carly Strasser, and Cliff Duke. Joshua talked about…
I’m going to be conducting some interviews at the upcoming Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland. The interviews will be with: Jennifer Williams – on her paper in the Journal here Lauren Urgenson – on her paper in the Journal here Ian Pearse – on research presented in a paper in the Journal here Carol Thornber – on her paper in…
A paper in Early View in the Journal (Continental-scale variability in browser diversity is a major driver of diversity patterns in acacias across Africa) by Michelle Greve and colleagues explores the extent to which browser diversity can drive continental scale diversity of acacias in Africa. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Michelle a few weeks ago to…
Daniel Chapman and Alan Gray have a paper ou in the Journal titled “Complex interactions between the wind and ballistic seed dispersal in Impatiens glandulifera (Royle)”. Read the paper here. Daniel has provided some video of ballistic seed dispersal, and we have mashed it up with an open source music clip for your viewing pleasure.
A paper in Early View in the Journal (Trait evolution and the coexistence of a species swarm in the tropical forest understorey) by Brian Sedio and colleagues explores how a plant species in the genus Psychotria coexist in the understorey of tropical rainforests in Panama. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Brian last week to…
I hosted a discussion today on the topic of post-publication commentary on scientific research with Carl Boettiger and Jarrett Byrnes. We covered the different options for post-publication commentary, and their pros and cons. Join in on the discussion in the comments section below, in the comments section on YouTube, or on Twitter (tweet to me…
A paper in Early View in the Journal (Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change?) by Ellen Damschen and colleagues explores the consequences of climate change for plants on serpentine soil communities. Read the abstract here. I caught up with Ellen to do a video interview. Subscribe to our YouTube…
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