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Biogeography Bits: October 2012
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Thursday, October 11, 2012. To Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Plantae style. For mammals- mice and rats. Get larger (of course they do), artiodactyls. Such as deer) get smaller, but this has more to do with what type of animal they are than with how large they began. Novel Most of the plants just got larger, regardless of how big they started out. But, ...
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Biogeography Bits: October 2013
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Friday, October 4, 2013. Melting Ice = Missing Species? A recent feature in National Geographic magazine posed a provocative question: What would today’s world look like without ice? The global meltdown isn’t anticipated for millennia, but within the next century we can reasonably expect to see the waters rise about 1-2 meters. One of biogeography̵...
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Biogeography Bits: It takes two to pollinate
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. It takes two to pollinate. Networking is not just a thing that computers and college counselors are into; birds, bees and trees do it too. Pollination networking, that is. The pollination. Of all the world’s flowers is not the sole job of the European honey bee; many other insects, birds, and even little furry mammals. Dots and ...
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Biogeography Bits: Through the belly of the tortoise, passes the wise seed
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Saturday, November 3, 2012. Through the belly of the tortoise, passes the wise seed. Hitching a ride with a tortoise is a speedy way to travel. May take advantage of Galapagos tortoise. Mobility and undiscriminating appetite to move their offspring from place to place. How does one go about discovering such a thing? Combining these digestion times with...
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Biogeography Bits: Benny the bark beetle and the not-so palatable pine
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Friday, December 26, 2014. Benny the bark beetle and the not-so palatable pine. And other herbivores intending to lunch on enticing green needles or tender inner bark may be surprised to get a mouthful of nasty chemical compounds. Or gummy resin produced by these trees expressly for the purpose of deterring such intrusions. In the meantime I will give ...
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Biogeography Bits: January 2013
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Cell phones track human migration. Here’s a question every scientist at some point asks themselves: does this data that I can easily and (relatively) inexpensively collect reasonably approximate the data that I would collect in an ideal world where I had bucket loads of money and an infinite amount of time? Census data might ...
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Biogeography Bits: November 2012
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Saturday, November 3, 2012. Through the belly of the tortoise, passes the wise seed. Hitching a ride with a tortoise is a speedy way to travel. May take advantage of Galapagos tortoise. Mobility and undiscriminating appetite to move their offspring from place to place. How does one go about discovering such a thing? Combining these digestion times with...
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Biogeography Bits: December 2014
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Friday, December 26, 2014. Benny the bark beetle and the not-so palatable pine. And other herbivores intending to lunch on enticing green needles or tender inner bark may be surprised to get a mouthful of nasty chemical compounds. Or gummy resin produced by these trees expressly for the purpose of deterring such intrusions. In the meantime I will give ...
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Biogeography Bits: Mystery of the Malaysian Mangroves
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Highlighting new research in biogeography- the study of how living things got to live where they do on planet Earth and where they might go in the future. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Mystery of the Malaysian Mangroves. As an Alaskan child, visiting Florida for the first time when I was 17, mangroves. Fast forward ten years, and I am now learning that mangroves are a favored friend of biogeographers. For one, miniature mangrove islands played host to one of the founding experiments in the field of islan...
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