Comments for Field Talk http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk Field Talk explores research results – and the stories of the ecologists behind them – from three of the Society’s journals: Ecology, Ecological Applications, and Ecological Monographs. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska by Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska | EcoTone http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=235&cpage=1#comment-597 Changing climate, changing landscape: monitoring the vast wilderness of interior Alaska | EcoTone Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:51:26 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=235#comment-597 [...] stream or download the Field Talk interview with National Park Service ecologist Carl Roland on ESA’s podcast page, or on [...]

]]> Comment on Fruitful Savannahs: Termites enrich the soil in East Africa by Field Talk: Termites enrich the soil in East Africa | EcoTone http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=194&cpage=1#comment-596 Field Talk: Termites enrich the soil in East Africa | EcoTone Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:04:02 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=194#comment-596 [...] nutrients in the soil—significantly more so than ungulates typically provided. In this edition of Field Talk, Brody talks about the symbiotic relationships these Acacia trees have with vertebrates and [...]

]]> Comment on Where the ecologists are: geographical bias in field research by Where the ecologists are: a Field Talk podcast with Erle Ellis | EcoTone http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=227&cpage=1#comment-205 Where the ecologists are: a Field Talk podcast with Erle Ellis | EcoTone Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:40:10 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=227#comment-205 [...] to the podcast on the Field Talk page, or download it from [...]

]]> Comment on Tallgrass prairie: the invasion of the woody shrubs by Tallgrass prairie: the invasion of the woody shrubs | EcoTone http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=224&cpage=1#comment-179 Tallgrass prairie: the invasion of the woody shrubs | EcoTone Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:07:28 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=224#comment-179 [...] Jesse Nippert spoke with me in today’s edition of ESA’s Field Talk podcast. Listen. [...]

]]> Comment on Immersed in the clouds: Interview with tropical cloud forest researcher by Immersed in the clouds: Interview with tropical cloud forest researcher | EcoTone http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=217&cpage=1#comment-177 Immersed in the clouds: Interview with tropical cloud forest researcher | EcoTone Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:09:19 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=217#comment-177 [...] into one of these forests,” said Goldsmith in a recent Ecological Society of America Field Talk podcast. “I am still amazed and still totally enthralled by the idea of seeing something I have never [...]

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]]> Comment on It’s only skin deep: Melanism and thermoregulation in lizards by Beyond the Frontier » New podcast: Field Talk: It’… http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=154&cpage=1#comment-125 Beyond the Frontier » New podcast: Field Talk: It’… Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:58:33 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=154#comment-125 [...] podcast: Field Talk: It’s only skin deep: Melanism and thermoregulation in lizards http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=154 Share and [...]

]]> Comment on To fly or not to fly? Diving birds shun air travel by Liz Gado http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-113 Liz Gado Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:26:10 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=27#comment-113 Can we say that the birds have opted not to fly or because of ther habits and years of evolution the birds lost their original capacity and gain another one?
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]]> Comment on Elephant Engineers by OOKii BOOKii http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-36 OOKii BOOKii Fri, 30 May 2008 14:02:08 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=12#comment-36 Nice interview Rob and also very nice project. As both a marine and terrestrial conservation ecologist I can completely understand the dilemma that you seem to be in when you stated that you find it difficult to understand where ecology meets conservation. I was in the same boat. However, I always had the knowledge that I would make the science of ecology meet the science and passion for conservation. I was reading Captain Paul Watson’s of the Sea Shepherd Society biography Ocean Warrior when he stated “that there is no use understanding the natural world around us if we do not preserve it”.

I think that statement goes a long way, in so far as explaining a fundamental principle that I follow. That is, we as ecologists describe to the best of our scientific knowledge at the time (which may be incorrect) what we believe relationships among species in an ecosystem are. However, if in the short term or long term future these species and the ecosystems described are gone, then the point of originally explaining these relationships may be futile and irrelevant. This I believe makes us as ecologists also irrelevant in the long term if we do not put into practice in 2008 the simple rule that “we describe to understand and preserve”.

The statement is definitely worth giving some time to, and putting it into practice the next time we are out there collecting data to explain species relationships and ecosystem processes

Anyway that’s my and many other ecologists positions that I have had the pleasure to talk to.

]]> Comment on Elephant Engineers by George Shedrawi http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-9 George Shedrawi Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:22:56 +0000 http://www.esa.org/fieldtalk/?p=12#comment-9 Nice interview Rob and also very nice project. As both a marine and terrestrial conservation ecologist I can completely understand the dilemma that you seem to be in when you stated that you find it difficult to understand where ecology meets conservation. I was in the same boat. However, I always had the knowledge that I would make the science of ecology meet the science and passion for conservation. I was reading Captain Paul Watson’s of the Sea Shepherd Society biography Ocean Warrior when he stated “that there is no use understanding the natural world around us if we do not preserve it”.

I think that statement goes a long way, in so far as explaining a fundamental principle that I follow. That is, we as ecologists describe to the best of our scientific knowledge at the time (which may be incorrect) what we believe relationships among species in an ecosystem are. However, if in the short term or long term future these species and the ecosystems described are gone, then the point of originally explaining these relationships may be futile and irrelevant. This I believe makes us as ecologists also irrelevant in the long term if we do not put into practice in 2008 the simple rule that “we describe to understand and preserve”.

The statement is definitely worth giving some time to, and putting it into practice the next time we are out there collecting data to explain species relationships and ecosystem processes

Anyway that’s my and many other ecologists positions that I have had the pleasure to talk to.

Good luck Rob and it was a pleasure to listen to your interview.

Cheers
George Shedrawi

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