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Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira, a @CNRUSU PhD student, just blogged on the importance of dispersal in #ecoassembly http://t.co/xLUEovOXWc

[Kristina Riemer @KristinaRiemer]

.@eco_assembly Local processes more important than dispersal limitation in pond community assembly (Shurin 2000) #missingaquaticsresearch

[Kristina Riemer @KristinaRiemer]

.@eco_assembly Preadapted species can more readily colonize a niche (Emerson & Gillespie 2008). If only I were more preadapted to Utah. #lol

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Discussing papers that highlight the importance of phylogenetic constraints on community assembly today http://t.co/j7sDx2Go8f #ecoassembly

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New blog post by @danmcglinn that summarizes our discussion of stochastic and deterministic processes: http://t.co/Gw5wWe5Kr4 #ecoassembly

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Today's #ecoassembly seminar discussion of functional traits was excellent, thanks @beecycles for leading the way.

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McGill et al. (2006) propose to rebuild community ecology using functional traits, but which traits and tradeoffs to examine is unclear

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Have you ever considered how diversity in bee tongue length might support plant community diversity? It does! Fontaine 2006. @eco_assembly

[Kristina Riemer @KristinaRiemer]

Group organisms using relevant traits, not species, for better generality and predictive value (McGill et al. 2006) @eco_assembly

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Tomorrow we'll be discussing papers that promote functional trait perspectives of community assembly: http://t.co/qAg7ywEB4F #ecoassembly

[Dr Emily Darling @emilysdarling]

Awesome. @ethanwhite: I don't always analyze data. But when I do, I prefer a lot of it #macroecology #UNC

[Kristina Riemer @KristinaRiemer]

@eco_assembly Useful ideas transplanted via interdisciplinary work, e.g., pop. genetics in community ecology (Vellend 2010) #EcoAssembly

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

Species niche differences matter under drought conditions in pond communities. More interesting than it sounds, we promise! #EcoAssembly

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@ucfagls tomorrow at 2 pm MDT (4 pm EST).

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Dispersal connects the processes of selection, drift, and speciation across scales via Vellend (2010) @skmorgane

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Vellend (2010) proposes that four fundamental processes: selection, drift, speciation, and dispersal unify community ecology #EcoAssembly

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Participate in our discussion of Vellend and Chase's papers via twitter, send us questions, we'll tweet back answers #EcoAssembly

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Tomorrow we will discuss the theory of community ecology by Vellend and an empirical test by Chase: http://t.co/AxJGkJmgmZ #EcoAssembly

[Dave Harris @davidjayharris]

I just published my presentation explaining the MaxEnt approach to species distribution modeling. http://t.co/eTDyu7N9XE

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First day of class and we've already got our first science blog post! http://t.co/tg2VsUi7Dv #EcoAssembly