Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion
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Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?
February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…
View More Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a…
View More Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black ProfessorsDeep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale
During my Ph.D., my advisors began drafting a book. I patiently awaited the tome on the deep sea biodiversity. My wait is no longer. Rex…
View More Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and ScalePycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects,…
View More Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the seaOMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
View More OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of DespairIntroduction to Sex Week
This is the official introduction to Sex Week at DSN. We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is…
View More Introduction to Sex WeekBiodiversity Pt. 2: Mmmmm…donuts
Diversity is a matter of area. This is because there is a well-known relationship between species and area, called rather cleverly the species-area curve. You…
View More Biodiversity Pt. 2: Mmmmm…donutsBiodiversity Pt. 1: Richness vs. Evenness or What Kinds Of Beer Are In My Refrigerator
Knowing how diverse an ecological community is should be a simple matter. At the most basic level, we can go into the field take a…
View More Biodiversity Pt. 1: Richness vs. Evenness or What Kinds Of Beer Are In My RefrigeratorGlobal hotspots of deep coral diversity
One of the central questions in marine biogeography asks “why are there more species of fish and coral in the Indo-Pacific than anywhere else in the world?”
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