Bala Shark Looks Bloated

A pair of tickets on biogeography (cedars and beavers)

In an entry I left a while ago on Abies alba and Abies pinsapo a friend named Adrian has left some interesting comments. Adrian also has a blog "incipient" (his own palabrlas) called Yurakuna . In this blog I link to you two entries that I found very interesting about the cedar and the beaver. Here goes:

Cedar: King forgotten our mountains

Beaver Persecution in Spain

Regards, and thanks to Adrian for their contributions.

Older Babes In Girdles

Links to articles on general biology course

Then I leave some links to some interesting articles on general biology to answer some interesting questions (if relevant, and explain what they do here):

you still natural selection acting on the modern man:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Dobzhansky_1956.pdf

How common is hybridization in plants? are those hybrids fertile?:
http://dl .dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Ellstrand_1996.pdf

Are adaptive mutations?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Foster_2007.pdf

Why was causing the problem of rejection in organ transplants?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Frohn_2001.pdf

The evolution of fungi
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos / James_2006.pdf

Is it possible that horizontal transfer of genes to produce new species?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Lawrence_2002.pdf

Have speciation run experiments in the lab?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4948740/blas_benito/articulos/Rice_1993.pdf

a greeting

Does The Shock Belt Really Work

GBIF models

has opened the application period to the traditional workshop Ecological Niche Modeling National Node of GBIF. This morning we announced Cristina Villaverde through AHIM-L list of RedIris:

Dear colleagues:

From the Coordination Unit of GBIF in Spain you are informed that now open the registration period for Seventh Workshop GBIF Ecological Niche Modeling with biodiversity data. The course will be held 10 to 13 May 2011 in the computer room of the Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC) in Madrid.

This practical workshop will explore the basic concepts to biological data analysis through modeling and management tools such as Open Modeller or MaxEnt. This time the workshop will be led by Blas M. Benito (Centro Andalusian Environment) and work on a virtual machine Ubuntu Linux where they will be installed and configured all the necessary materials. Applications should be sent to info@gbif.es before April 8, 2011.

All information about the workshop and the relevant application form, find it here at: http://www.gbif.es/ formaciondetalles.php? IDForm = 87

See you in Madrid!

Can You Swim With Bouyancy Belt

Migramar

Global Change, Migration altitudinal and colonization of degraded habitats in Mediterranean mountains (Migramar) is the name of the new Research Excellence Project of the Junta de Andalucía in our laboratory is involved. Participants



The project is led by Dr. Regino Zamora , Professor of Ecology at the University of Granada, and participate:

Dr. Josep Peñuelas (CREAF)
Dr. Adrián Escudero ( URJC)
Dr. Craig A. Allen (USGS)
Hódar Dr. José Antonio Correa (UGR)
Dr. Lluis Brotons (Centre Technologic Forestal de Catalunya)
Dr. Thomas Carlo (University of Washington)
Dr. David Nogués Bravo (University of Copenhagen)
Dr. Gregorio Moreno-Rueda (EEZA-CSIC) Dr. Lorena López
-Aparicio (INIA)
Dr. Luis Cayuela (URJC)
Dr. Francisco Javier Bonet (CEAMA-UGR)
Dr. Luis Matias (UGR)
Navarro Irene Eng (CEAMA- UGR)
Ldo. Antonio J. Luque Pérez (CEAMA-UGR)

soon be added to this list: Dr. Fabio SUZARTE
Albuquerque (CEAMA-UGR)
Dr. Ramón Pérez Pérez (CEAMA-UGR)
Ldo. Moreno Ricardo Llorca (CEAMA-UGR)

and if all goes well, a server.


hypothesis

The project is based on two assumptions made based on each of the drivers of Global Change: Climate Change and Land Use.

1. Climate Change: Global warming causing a rise in altitude of plant populations, resulting in an altitudinal advance front, active demographic, and a front retraction, in which there is a loss of vitality of individuals.
2. Land Use Change : The abandonment of crops allows the recolonization of degraded habitats, causing a front cross-feed.

Workplace and target species

The workplace is the National Park of Sierra Nevada, and the target species are Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica), the juniper (Juniperus communis ), and their dispersing birds: the Jay (Garrulus glandarius ) and gender groups Turdus .





Objectives The overall project goal is to reconstruct the past Migramar populations of both species by photo-interpretation of American Flight 56 \u200b\u200b compared to the current situation ( orthophoto, 2007) know the current population dynamics and scattering, and calibrate future distribution models. These objectives are divided into four blocks (which are practically sub-projects) as summarized in the following image.

In this link you can download an outline (which is still maturing) on \u200b\u200brelations between different blocks with the biological process that we study.

The project is ambitious in terms of effort required to achieve the objectives. Large number of hectares to photo interpretation, many hours in the sample plots with steep slopes and slopes, and more hours to work in computer information systems, analyzing data and designing the "machine" simulation. But it is an exciting project that opens many doors to collaboration with leading scientists, and we will grow as a research group. Gradually

'll tell the project. Greetings

Side Effect Of Blunt Paper

How good are the models? Mindmaps

Please note, part of this post is a free translation from the last paragraph of " Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences " Posted By Naomi Oreskes , Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Kenneth Belitz in Science February 1994. Recently

the journal Diversity and Distributions "(sorry I do not put the link, it is my sad retaliation: P) has rejected a job dealing with potential climate change effects on plant diversity in Andalusia (see Chapter 8 of my thesis ). Rejection is a normal thing in this world (even gives worth getting used to), and would have no importance, but for one of the associate editor's comments:

" .. You Should Not Be over-confident with your results and models. A model is a model, NOT the truth. "

I never had confidence concealment in the models that work (though perhaps not been adequately reflected in the article), but with my "work" I have learned what their weak points, and I've been critical of them (especially the last chapters of my thesis.) Although I have not personally, these words do have made me re-think my understanding of "what" are the models and what they are. And I have remained as before, but I remembered this article by Oreskes, that ends with a section that I love. Here it goes:

As the philosopher Nancy Cartwright models are "works of fiction" because some properties attached to objects in the model can be genuine properties of the modeled object, but others are simply desirable properties.

Oreskes et al. continue to say that as a novel, a model may be convincing, you can "real sound" if it is consistent with our experience about the world. But just as we ask the extent to which fictional characters are drawn from real life and how is fictitious, the model should ask: how many of the components of the model are based on observation and measurement, and how much is based exclusively on suitable values?. (Oreskes et al. 1994)

Indeed, returning to the case, when we model the distribution of a species and project the model into the future, there is no possibility of knowing how close the model a reality yet has been given, and therefore, the result can be considered pure fiction (or at least "unverifiable.") But these models are not made with the intention of determining the exact locations of the species Fulanita fulanoides be gone the year 2058 at 4 pm because that is not possible. These models are made with the intention of determining the upper and lower limits of the potential situation, and to document the range of possible outcomes.

that's all folks!

Books On Snipe Sailboats

conversion: from VYM to Freemind

VYM Freemind and applications to design are two fairly comprehensive mental maps. But have no consistent format for exchanging maps between them. In this case quickly explain how to export a Freemind map directly VYM.

To make the conversion you need the following items:

1. A Linux OS to the program xsltproc installed.
2. VYM A mind map (mini-example to download here is called prueba.vym).
3. The xslt stylesheet I have called vym2freemind.xslt (the original is here ).

Assuming you have both the mental map as the style sheet in your home directory, unzip prueba.vym. In the resulting folder (prueba.vym_FILES) prueba.xml copy the file to your folder. Now that you

vym2freemind.xslt and prueba.xml in your folder, just open a terminal and type: xsltproc

vym2freemind.xslt prueba.xml> prueba.mm

Press Enter, and if all goes well , will in your file folder prueba.mm, which can be opened with Freemind.

That's it.