Our #sciart-ist Allison Simler also painted my #ESA2014 talk. She takes the odd commission

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My talk 11.45 Mon 29 Oct #ESA2014 "Power to save nature: key role of #nuclear energy in #biodiversity #conservation" http://goo.gl/elrZkT

ICYMI: More #ESA2014 text mining: abstract topics as communities:

noamross.net/blog/2014/8/22…

More #ESA2014 text mining: abstract topics as communities:

noamross.net/blog/2014/8/22…

I like how @davidjayharris's talk spans citizen science and computational methods. #ESA2014

.@davidjayharris: Climate variables don't tell us if a habitat is a wetland or a parking lot #ESA2014

Crafton: Measure of "under-invasion" relative to habitat suitability ⨉ density of ports predicts invasion risk #ESA2014

Crafton: Used @GBIF data supplemented with lit for training data. GBIF still lacks data for places w less research infrastructure #ESA2014

Now in COS-136 - Invasions Modeling: Eliot Crafton on using #opendata to create a global invasion risk tool #ESA2014

McCann: We should use multi-dimensional, mechanistic warning signals for regime shifts instead of just time-series statistics. Yes! #ESA2014

McCann: Organisms in high trophic levels that can respond at behavioral time scales strongly stabilize ecosystems #ESA2014

Sugihara showing how state-space reconstruction can be used to evaluate relative strength of bottom-up/top-down interactions #ESA2014

Sugihara: "In nonlinear systems, lack of correlation does not imply lack of causation." #ESA2014

It's been fun, #ESA2014, but I'm off to a epic week of weddings. If we didn't get to meet, I'm sorry! See you next year!

Blois: Biotic interactions are operating in the paleo record, but are difficult to detect within tropic levels. #ESA2014

(I wonder if Blois' taxon pair results would look different across taxonomic groups, rather than just plants?) #ESA2014

Blois: Most species interactions are not constant through time; present at one time step, then absent 1000 years later. #ESA2014

Blois: In the past 21,000 years, most significant species pairs were aggregated; segregation of taxon pairs is a recent phenomenon. #esa2014

Blois: We see associations between species in the paleo record, but species associations aren't necessarily biotic interactions. #ESA2014

Blois: the relative importance of different climate variables changes through time. Climate isn't stationary! #ESA2014

Blois: 27% to 48% of vegetation community turnover across space in the last 14,000 years is explained by climate or geography. #ESA2014

I officially hate the Sheraton. Weird set-ups for talks! Not enough seats! #ESA2014

Blois: Climate is often the first and only explanation paleoecologist a look to to understand species responses. #ESA2014

Blois: Fossil pollen are good at picking up wind-dispersed taxa, and are often taxonomically limited to genus or species. #ESA2014

Pretty curious who among us at #ESA2014 is @ECOLOGISTHULK

Borreguard: Speciation also occurs on islands, and new immigrants will be competing with well adapted species. #ESA2014

Answers: Plant physiology (Naeem), population bio and epidemiology (Dwyer). Both say not so much in community ecology. #ESA2014 #IGN12

Question: In what areas do theory and empiricism work well together now? #ESA2014 #IGN12

Great comment from the audience: Tools we use drive us towards theory or empirical approaches. Not free intellectual space. #ESA2014 #IGN12

Dwyer: Sam Scheiner pointed out that< 50% of papers in ESA journals have ANY theory. In the context of ESA, need more. #ESA2014 #IGN12