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in 2015 the American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, and Society for the Study of Evolution had their joint meeting in Brazil - the first time this meeting was held in the tropics.

The University of Florida has just pushed a press release about a paper by our Ph.D. student Ernane Vieira Neto [website]. Congratulations Ernane!   UF student’s research shines a light on Brazilian ecosystems [caption id=“attachment_9368” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Road cutting through a mixture of natural areas and agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado (Photo by Emilio Bruna).

I’m diving into ggplot2 - this is just a scratch pad of the useful resources I find online. Edwin Chen Intro to ggplot2 Upen Rstudy Group ggplot intro Cookbook for R ggplot2 colors

I’ve got to do some maps for a manuscript, so I’ve been working through different options for mapping in R. Here are some resources I’ve found useful, feel free to add in the comments.

There’s lots of angst about the lamentable proposal funding rates at the NSF, on which many ecologists and evolutionary biologists are dependent. DEB is funding 3-7% of the proposals submitted to its panels, which is only about half of those recommended for funding, but as most panelists will tell you there are plenty of really good proposals that aren’t recommended for funding.

The latest issue of Ecology brings with it a sweet new paper from the Amazon. In it our intrepid team – Heraldo Vasconcelos, Brian Inouye, me, and our former postdoc Thiago Izzo – report on how the identity of ant partners influenced the demography of the myrmecophyte* Maieta guianensis.

ANNOUNCEMENT Date: November 18, 2014 To: All UF Graduate Students and Faculty From: UF George A. Smathers Libraries RE: New Resource: IR@UF (Institutional Repository at the University of Florida) New Resource: IR@UF (Institutional Repository at the University of Florida)

18 October 2014: An important update is below the original post.  No citations for my @datadryad archive OR code w/ doi bc @ESA_org refused both in LitCited. Remind me again of those incentives for #OA?

[caption id=“attachment_1294” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Coauthorship network of all articles in 55 ecological journals from 2001-2010 that include at least one coauthor from Costa Rica (Bruna & Hahn, unpubl. data).

Several years ago I made a personal commitment to Open Science: I try to publish papers on which I am the lead author on in open access journals and I archive data for these papers in Dryad, Figshare and other repositories.