Resources

What can you find here?

Jobs in ecology

• ECOLOG – Classic message board for ecologists with lots of jobs and graduate openings
• Texas A&M Job Board- hub for field technician jobs
• Univ. GA Natural Resources- natural resources-oriented jobs, mostly in the south
• Outdoor education jobs

Ecological Research Blogs

• Applied Ecology Blog
• Dynamic Ecology Blog
• Small Pond Science
• Ecology for the Masses
• Armchair Ecology

Anti-racism

• Institutionalized Racism- A Syllabus
• Decolonizing Ecology
• How to build an antiracist lab
• SABER: Inclusive education in biology
• Native Allies
• Anti-racist resources

Writing & Time Management Blogs

• The Thesis Whisperer
• Pat Thompson’s Blog
• Explorations of Style
• James Clear’s articles

Cool maps

• Real time wind and particulate map of the globe
• Wyoming Climate Atlas
• Map of Life
• Rangelands Analysis Platform
• Vital signs of the Planet – these maps are so cool!

Outdoor Adventure

• https://www.crazyguyonabike.com
• http://www.bikepacking.com/
• Adventure Scientists

Teaching resources

• Free silhouette images of organisms for talks, figures, and teaching
• Free photographs for teaching or presentations

Disturbance Literature

I just passed my qualifying exam! I have been really interested in disturbance theory in ecology and have spent a lot of time gathering and processing the literature. I shared some of the papers I found interesting here, with hopes that it will one day be a living bibliography, similar to Oxford Bibliographies.

• Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes – Lloret – 2012 – Global Change Biology – Wiley Online Library
• Characterization of ten extreme disturbance events in the context of social and ecological systems | SpringerLink
• Repeated fires reduce plant diversity in low‐elevation Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems (1984–2014) – Mahood – 2019 – Ecosphere – Wiley Online Library
• Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis – Science
• Direct Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly | PNAS
• Non‐native plant species benefit from disturbance: a meta‐analysis – Jauni – 2015 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• THE INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS: PATCH DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIES COEXISTENCE – Roxburgh – 2004 – Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance | PNAS
• The dimensionality of stability depends on disturbance type – Radchuk – – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity–multifunctionality relationships – Plas – 2019 – Journal of Applied Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales – Ratajczak – 2017 – Ecological Monographs – Wiley Online Library
• How ecosystems recover from pulse perturbations: A theory of short- to long-term responses – ScienceDirect
• Disturbance‐driven changes in the variability of ecological patterns and processes – Fraterrigo – 2008 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• On the dimensionality of ecological stability – Donohue – 2013 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• Navigating the complexity of ecological stability – Donohue – 2016 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• Measuring resilience is essential to understand it | Nature Sustainability
• Transitions and invasion along a grazing gradient in experimental California grasslands – Stein – 2016 – Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• How ecosystems recover from pulse perturbations: A theory of short- to long-term responses – ScienceDirect
• Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion | SpringerLink
• Decomposing multiple dimensions of stability in global change experiments – Hillebrand – 2018 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• Disturbance regulates the density–body‐mass relationship of soil fauna – Langevelde – – Ecological Applications – Wiley Online Library
• The Roles of Harsh and Fluctuating Conditions in the Dynamics of Ecological Communities
• Disturbance in Marine Intertidal Boulder Fields: The Nonequilibrium Maintenance of Species Diversity
• Stochastic disturbance regimes alter patterns of ecosystem variability and recovery
• Ecological succession in a changing world – Chang – 2019 – Journal of Ecology – Wiley Online LibraryBiodiversity and Disturbance
• The Effects of Disturbance Architecture on Landscape‐Level Population Dynamics – Moloney – 1996 – Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• The Maintenance of Species Diversity by Disturbance on JSTORThe Disturbing History of Intermediate Disturbance on JSTOR
• A general modelling framework for resource‐ratio and CSR theories of plant community dynamics – Jabot – 2012 – Journal of Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure
• Communities in Patchy Environments: A Model of Disturbance, Competition, and Heterogeneity | SpringerLink
• Quantifying the evidence for ecological synergies – Darling – 2008 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
• Synergies among extinction drivers under global change: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances – ScienceDirect
• Effects of Productivity and Disturbance on Species Richness: A Neutral Model. | The American Naturalist: Vol 167, No 6
• Discontinuities, cross‐scale patterns, and the organization of ecosystems – Nash – 2014 – Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions – ScienceDirect
• Unifying ecosystem responses to disturbance into a single statistical framework – Lemoine – – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• Frontiers | Disturbance Ecology in the Anthropocene | Ecology and Evolution
• Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation – ScienceDirect
• The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• Unifying ecosystem responses to disturbance into a single statistical framework – Lemoine – 2021 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• Identity of Ecological Systems and the Meaning of Resilience – Delettre – – Journal of Ecology – Wiley Online Library
• Why time‐limited individuals can make populations more vulnerable to disturbance – van der Kolk – 2021 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• Unifying ecosystem responses to disturbance into a single statistical framework – Lemoine – 2021 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• Why time‐limited individuals can make populations more vulnerable to disturbance – van der Kolk – 2021 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library
• The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience – Török – 2020 – Journal of Vegetation Science – Wiley Online Library