I'm going to be teaching general #ecology next fall with at least some #OneHealth perspective added in. Does anyone have recommendations on open access/open source/otherwise free general ecology textbook options?
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Fully funded PhD position helping gather our *FIRST* rangewide abundance estimate for imperiled New England cottontails!
Great project with a great team (and one of my favorite collaborators) behind it!
Start date: Summer/Fall 2025
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New paper at #JFWM! @cm_kent, @DiannProsser, Jeff Sullivan and I constructed an avian dietary composition database quantifying the diets of 58 Chesapeake Bay waterbirds, which can be used to characterize important forage taxa in this ecosystem.
https://t.co/xwM3M1hCwt
@BenGFreeman1@cenemes@jamesTstroud@BirdsCaribbean Yeah, those lizards seem to have been a bit bigger. Of the ~70 stomach samples I had from Jamaica across 5 parulid species, this was the only one with vertebrate remains. We only had 5 samples from black-and-white warblers though.
@BenGFreeman1@cenemes@jamesTstroud@BirdsCaribbean This was the black-and-white warbler from Jamaica in that paper. The anole was super tiny - probably just hatched. There are a good number of reports among the larger warblers. I suspect chance encounters while foraging for insects, and if it fits down their throat they'll eat it
@BenGFreeman1@cenemes@jamesTstroud@BirdsCaribbean The lizard bones were funny to come across. An undergrad found a claw while sorting stomach contents and called me over. She then didn't say anything more about it. Later when I went to ID the insect pieces I found out there ended up being more than half of a skeleton!
@cenewman0 Thanks! It was an interesting bit of work... When I started this at the beginning of my post doc in 2020 we were not expecting to end up having a validation data set by the time I ended two years later........ lol
@NicoSGonzalez Then while reading some old lit on birds in Jamaica, I ran into some writings by Philip Gosse saying that Cuvier must be wrong because he had shot one's leg clean off and it didn't even seem to notice..?!
Other faculty who don't penalize for attendance:
Do you frequently get negative student comments blaming you for their poor attendance? Or is that just a me thing...?
@analog_ashley I had to complete "time sheets" but I don't think it was actual hours? I think it was checking that "duties for the day had been performed" which I still need to complete now as faculty?