I'm concerned about the unexplained structure of this survey. Perhaps someone can explain why it seems so limited in response options.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Dan Gruner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ecologgers: > > We write to you on behalf of the 29 members of the 50 fundamental questions > in island biology working group (member names listed at the end of this > email). > > To mark the arrival of 50 years since the publication of Robert MacArthur and > Edward O. Wilson’s book in 1967, The Theory of Island Biogeography, we are > undertaking a survey to identify the top 50 fundamental questions in island > biogeography and island biodiversity. To date we have been working with the > approximately 400 attendees of the recently held Island Biology Congress in > the Azores (http://www.islandbiology2016.uac.pt) to define a group of 80 > questions from an initial pool of more than 200. We now welcome the > participation of the broader community of researchers with an interest in > island biology to define the final set of 50 questions. > > Access to the survey will close at 23:59 this Friday, the 16th of Sept (GMT). > > To participate, please access the following link. > https://goo.gl/forms/xVFQg7Lx7stwXsp32 > > Thank you very much, in advance, for your valuable contribution. > > > Yours sincerely, > > The 50 fundamental questions in island biology working group: > Jairo Patiño, Robert J. Whittaker, Paulo A.V. Borges, Jose M. > Fernandez-Palacios, Claudine Ah-Peng, Miguel Araujo, Sergio Avila, Erick de > Boer, Pedro Cardoso, Josselin Cornuault, Lea de Nascimento, Artur Gil, Aaron > Gonzalez, Daniel Gruner, Ana Guida Santos, Ruben Heleno, Joaquin Hortal, Juan > Carlos Illera, Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, Tom Matthews, Anna Papadopoulou, > Nathalie Patorelli, Jonathan Price, Manuel Steinbauer, Kostas Triantis, Luis > Valente, Pablo Vargas, Patrick Weigelt, Brent Emerson > > P.S. we apologize for cross-postings. > > > —— > Jairo Patiño, PhD > Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos > Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC) > C/Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, > 38206, Spain > http://www.jairopatino.com
