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Author Archives: pvesk
Pausas lab, Valencia
I spent two weeks working in the lab of Juli Pausas of CIDE-CSIC (Desertification Research Center – Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). Juli is a plant ecologist working mostly on fire but also on the effects of land management on … Continue reading
Sevillá
I have just spent a couple of weeks working in the lab of Montserrat Vilá in Sevillá, Espana. Montse is an ecologist focused on invasions and their impacts in plant communities and associated interactions with insects. She works at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Conservation biology, ecosystem management, Invasive species, Native plant, pollination, Spain
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the road to good graphics
I came across this when I was scanning Andrew Gelman’s blog. Its a blog from the Graphics Department at the New York Times. A very nice illustration of development of ‘how do we graph it?’
Doodling in Math Class: Squiggle Inception
I’ve watched this a few times. My ten-year-old daughter agrees, it’s way cool.
multivariate musing
Many data that biologists, ecologists and environmental scientists collect and concern themselves with are multivariate–whether multiple species, multiple attributes of a species or an individual, multiple measures of vegetation structure, multiple chemical data… multivariate data abound. I have a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged ANOSIM, CCA, David Warton, ecology, hierarchical GLM, modelling, multivariate statistics, mvabund, R, species composition, species traits, teaching, vegan
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change in the rangelands
I saw this first via John Morgan’s blog. Anyone interested in vegetation change and effects of rangeland pastoralism should check out this series of Youtube videos put together by Dean Graetz formerly of CSIRO with Russell Sinclair from U. Adelaide. … Continue reading
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Tagged arid zone, Dean Graetz, ecology, John Morgan, Koonamore, monitoring, photography, rangelands, vegetation dynamics
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(dis)organized thoughts
As a teacher and researcher, much of my work is concerned with organized or critical thinking–what is the issue of concern, where does this sit within some broader domain, what is the logical structure of an argument, what are critical … Continue reading
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Tagged Cmap, conceptual models, critical thinking, Eucalypt, Freemind, mindmaps, modeling, modelling, Rationale, teaching
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no news
I have no news right now, but just maybe, once in a while…
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