Dear All, the following message has been posted on May 22nd 2008; we have now virtually terminated the implementation of the numerical model and we are starting working on real data. some collegues are kindly providing their data; this is our last attempt to widen the list of contributors. We are thus renewing our inquiry for individually-resolved community data sets.
thank you so much! Enrico Barbone and Giorgio Mancinelli with a collegue of mine and with the help of prof. nick gotelli we are currently implementing a null-model based approach to the analysis of community assembly in order to assess the importance of individuals size in the structuring of the community itself. To this end, we need community data sets resolved to the scale of individual size - e.g., mass, or length. We will acknowledge help provided in terms of data sets - published and unpublished - from terrestrial and aquatic environments, vertebrates and invertebrates assemblages etc. In addition, we will be grateful for any info regarding data sets made available on the web. many thanks to anybody! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Barbone Ph.D. student University of Salento Di.S.Te.B.A. Centro Ecotekne - S.P. Lecce Monteroni, 73100 Lecce - ITALY Phone: +39.0832.298606 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
