[ECOLOG-L] Open rank position in Organismal Sensing and Tracking

2012-01-26 Thread Gareth Russell
directed to Gareth Russell (russ...@njit.edu) or Jorge Golowasch jorge.p.golowa...@njit.edu. NJIT is dedicated to recruiting and retaining women and underrepresented minority candidates to help the university achieve its mission of education, research, economic development, and service. The

[ECOLOG-L] Faculty position, animal detection/sensing/tracking

2012-02-29 Thread Gareth Russell
-biology positions), please forward them the announcement. Interested candidates should e-mail russ...@njit.edu for more information before applying. Gareth Russell New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University

[ECOLOG-L] Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution, NJIT

2016-04-14 Thread Gareth Russell
, wisner@njitedu Dr. Gareth Russell, Chair of the Department, russ...@njit.edu

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecosystem health related to human health

2010-03-24 Thread Gareth Russell
/ Gareth Russell On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:24:07 -0700, Russell L. Burke wrote: >Sala, O.E., Meyerson, L.A., Parmesan, C. 2009. Biodiversity Change and Human >Health: From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease. Island Press. > >Pain, A.K. 2008. Climate change and its effect on

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Comparing slopes and intercepts in linear regressions

2010-04-01 Thread Gareth Russell
packages will do an ANCOVA. Gareth Russell On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:02:07 -0400, Howie Neufeld wrote: >Dear All - I have a stats question concerning comparing linear >regressions. If you have two or more regressions, and want to know if >their slopes and/or intercepts are significan

[ECOLOG-L] Seeking metapopulation data

2008-07-21 Thread Gareth Russell
th regards to taxon -- the only requirement is that it have active dispersal. If you have, or know of, examples like this, I would appreciate hearing from you, and will gladly explain what we are trying to do. Thanks, Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers

Re: On the Bonferroni adustment of correlograms

2007-04-26 Thread Gareth Russell
ificant autocorrelation, but of very small magnitude, which makes it perhaps not interesting. Your damaged plot may have high autocorrelation values, but not be 'significant' merely because of low sample size. You should always report both the statistical tests and the effect sizes. Gareth Russell

Re: Rarefaction

2007-05-14 Thread Gareth Russell
to begin with. Don't be afraid of actually finding a difference! Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:26:35 -0400, Shrinidhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know rarefaction is used when you have different sample sizes. I have a >peculiar situation where I have 3 co

Re: comparing changes in proportions

2007-05-22 Thread Gareth Russell
What you need is a goodness-of-fit test for homogeneity. The most well-known goodness-of-fit test is the Chi-square. A somewhat better one is the G test. Both are described in Sokal and Rohlf. In tests for homogeneity, your 'null hypothesis' is given by the proportions of the various species

Funded PhD position in ecology/computer science

2007-06-15 Thread Gareth Russell
think might be interested. Thanks, Gareth Russell NJIT and Rutgers

Re: Data set with many many zeros..... Help?

2008-01-13 Thread Gareth Russell
27; Find the statistical model that fits the data, rather than the other way round. Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers

Job in theoretical/computational ecology/evolution

2008-01-18 Thread Gareth Russell
ery strong in Applied Math and Math Biology, and the Biology Department has close, symbiotic links with Rutgers and its cadre of experimental and field biologists. I would be happy to provide more details to anyone who is interested. Gareth Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Department of

Re: Sample versus individual based rarefaction

2006-08-15 Thread Gareth Russell
ased rarefaction misses that. But ultimately it comes down to want you mean to achieve by standardization, and how you define the spatial scales of your landscape, which are topics in need of much exploration! Shameless plug: you can also do rarefaction and richness estimation online at www

Re: Species richness estimators

2006-11-25 Thread Gareth Russell
add a few lines to make it loop through a series of files. If you DO have access to Mathematica, and would like to try this, I would be happy to add those lines in the 'examples' section and send the notebook to you. Gareth Russell On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:25:45 -0200, Alexandre Sou

Re: rarefaction

2007-01-04 Thread Gareth Russell
ions, so it would be more straightforward to compare the distributions directly. Hope this helps, Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:55:51 -0500, bonnie clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear Colleagues, >I'm considering using rarefaction as a measure of specie

www.eco-tools.net is new and improved

2006-02-14 Thread Gareth Russell
web development. We would love to have some of the modules available in, say, Chinese! If you would like to contribute in any capacity, please e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you can also visit the site to learn more about contributing). I hope you find it useful, Gareth Russell New Jers

Re: Inquiry about Clements and Gleason

2006-02-24 Thread Gareth Russell
Louise, Most people get these papers from Foundations of Ecology (ed. Leslie Real). I'm impressed if you found the originals! Foundations is divided into sections of a few papers each, and there is an introduction to each section that places the papers in historical and current context. Might

Re: AIC

2006-03-05 Thread Gareth Russell
d, as there many difficulties with having 58-parameters! Having said that, 16 parameters is a lot as well, so, without knowing anything about your model, you might want to look for redundancy, and/or try to reduce your number of parameters with PCA or some other technique. Gareth Russell NJIT/Rutgers

Re: AIC

2006-03-06 Thread Gareth Russell
Wirt, as usual, makes clear and powerful arguments. I offer the following responses in the spirit of discussion. On Mar 5, 2006, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The discussion I was having -- primarily with myself, I suspect -- > was in > making the choice between the goodness-of-fit c

Re: Digital camera

2006-03-19 Thread Gareth Russell
Volker, The fundamental difficulty you face is that the best quality cameras are digital SLR. These are the cameras with the best lenses (including macro), but SLR, by definition, doesn't provide a constant digital feed, even to its own screen. They are designed such that you look through the

[ECOLOG-L] Tenure-track position in ecological remote sensing

2018-10-22 Thread Gareth Russell
) contact information for three referees. For more information about the Department, please visit biology.njit.edu To apply, please go to the following link: https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=867 For questions or further information, please contact Dr. Gareth Rus

[ECOLOG-L] UPDATE: Tenure-track position in ecological remote sensing/GIS

2018-10-22 Thread Gareth Russell
For questions or further information, please contact Dr. Gareth Russell, russ...@njit.edu NJIT is an equal opportunity employer.