Fellow ListServers: 1. As a behavioral ecologist, I am always intrigued by possibilities that new methodologies might be applied to questions related to the evolution of social behavior. 2. I'm wondering, for example, whether phenophases and some aspects of plant tissue quality [e.g., new leaves vs mature leaves] can be resolved with the new imaging methods such as those appearing in *MEE*? 3. Can any of these methods tell us anything about plant tissue moisture or reflectance? 4. I think I understand some of these articles to say that we are able to resolve plant dispersion [distribution and abundance] down to species level. 5. Does resolution provide information, also, about tree phenophases or do the latter data need to come via census or the technical literature, etc.? 6. Can information be resolved about animal dispersion[s] in relation to plant dispersion[s] in T & S? 6. There are many other questions that might be addressed about potential and actual applications of these and related methods to social ecology and evolution. 7. If any of you would like to suggest a paper on these topics for possible inclusion in the *JoZ* "mini-series" on social evolution, please contact me! 8. Thank you for any attention to this query. 9. sincerely, clara
clara b. jones Blog: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbjones1943 Cell: -828-279-4429 "Where no estimate of error of any kind can be made, generalizations about populations from sample data are worthless." Ferguson, 1959
