Culturing Science – biology as relevant to us earthly beings

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Bochdansky, A., van Aken, H., & Herndl, G. (2010). Role of macroscopic particles in deep-sea oxygen consumption Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (18), 8287-8291 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0913744107 — My post

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Brashares, J., Werner, J., & Sinclair, A. (2010). Social ‘meltdown’ in the demise of an island endemic: Allee effects and the Vancouver Island marmot Journal of Animal Ecology, 79 (5), 965-973 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01711.x — My post

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Crespi, B, P Stead, & M Elliot.  2009.  Comparative genomics of autism and schizophrenia.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906080106 – My Post

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Dulvy, N., Sadovy, Y., & Reynolds, J. (2003). Extinction vulnerability in marine populations Fish and Fisheries, 4 (1), 25-64 DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2979.2003.00105.x — My post

Edelman, D., Baars, B., & Seth, A. (2005). Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (1), 169-187 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.09.001 — My post

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Fitzpatrick, B., Johnson, J., Kump, D., Smith, J., Voss, S., & Shaffer, H. (2010). Rapid spread of invasive genes into a threatened native species Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (8), 3606-3610 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0911802107 — My post

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Futuyma, D. (2010). EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES Evolution, 64 (7), 1865-1884 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00960.x – When adaptation doesn’t happen

Garrett, TJ.  2009.  Are there basic physical constraints on future anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide? Climatic Change.  doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9717-9 – My post

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Goldthwait, S., Carlson, C., Henderson, G., & Alldredge, A. (2005). Effects of physical fragmentation on remineralization of marine snow Marine Ecology Progress Series, 305, 59-65 DOI: 10.3354/meps305059 — My post

Gribaldo S, Poole AM, Daubin V, Forterre P, & Brochier-Armanet C (2010). The origin of eukaryotes and their relationship with the Archaea: are we at a phylogenomic impasse? Nature reviews. Microbiology, 8 (10), 743-52 PMID: 20844558 — My post

Haber, W. (2007). Energy, food, and land — The ecological traps of humankind Environmental Science and Pollution Research – International, 14 (6), 359-365 DOI:10.1065/espr2007.09.449 — My post

Hoffmann, A. (2003). Low Potential for Climatic Stress Adaptation in a Rainforest Drosophila Species Science, 301 (5629), 100-102 DOI: 10.1126/science.1084296 — When adaptation doesn’t happen

Iseki, K. (1981). Particulate Organic Matter Transport to the Deep Sea by Salp Fecal Pellets Marine Ecology Progress Series, 5, 55-60 DOI: 10.3354/meps005055 — My post

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Lefsky, M., Cohen, W., Harding, D., Parker, G., Acker, S., & Gower, S. (2002). Lidar remote sensing of above-ground biomass in three biomes Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11 (5), 393-399 DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822x.2002.00303.x — My post

Lefsky, M., Harding, D., Keller, M., Cohen, W., Carabajal, C., Del Bom Espirito-Santo, F., Hunter, M., & de Oliveira, R. (2005). Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (22) DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023971 – My post

Leveson, N., Dulac, N., Marais, K., & Carroll, J. (2009). Moving Beyond Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organizations: A Systems Approach to Safety in Complex Systems Organization Studies, 30 (2-3), 227-249 DOI: 10.1177/0170840608101478 — My post

Martiny, J., Bohannan, B., Brown, J., Colwell, R., Fuhrman, J., Green, J., Horner-Devine, M., Kane, M., Krumins, J., Kuske, C., Morin, P., Naeem, S., Øvreås, L., Reysenbach, A., Smith, V., & Staley, J. (2006). Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map Nature Reviews Microbiology, 4 (2), 102-112 DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1341 — My post

Mather, J. (2008). Cephalopod consciousness: Behavioural evidence Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (1), 37-48 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.006 — My post

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Mullineaux, L., Adams, D., Mills, S., & Beaulieu, S. (2010). Larvae from afar colonize deep-sea hydrothermal vents after a catastrophic eruption Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (17), 7829-7834 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913187107 — My post

Nevitt, G. (2008). Sensory ecology on the high seas: the odor world of the procellariiform seabirds Journal of Experimental Biology, 211 (11), 1706-1713 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.015412 — My post

O’Malley, M. (2007). The nineteenth century roots of ‘everything is everywhere’ Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5 (8), 647-651 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1711 — My post

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Perrow, Charles.  Normal Accidents: Living with high-risk technologies.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. — My post

Pierce, S., Massey, S., Curtis, N., Smith, G., Olavarria, C., & Maugel, T. (2004). Microscopic, Biochemical, and Molecular Characteristics of the Chilean Blob and a Comparison with the Remains of Other Sea Monsters: Nothing but Whales Biological Bulletin, 206 (3) DOI: 10.2307/1543636 — My post

Rosvall, M., & Bergstrom, C. (2010). Mapping Change in Large Networks. PLoS ONE, 5 (1) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0008694 – My post

Rumpho, M., Worful, J., Lee, J., Kannan, K., Tyler, M., Bhattacharya, D., Moustafa, A., & Manhart, J. (2008). Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (46), 17867-17871 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804968105 – My post

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Seth, A., Baars, B., & Edelman, D. (2005). Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals Consciousness and Cognition, 14 (1), 119-139 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.08.006 — My post

Seymour, J., Simo, R., Ahmed, T., & Stocker, R. (2010). Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web Science, 329 (5989), 342-345 DOI: 10.1126/science.1188418 — My post

Schoenian, I., Spiteller, M., Ghaste, M., Wirth, R., Herz, H., & Spiteller, D. (2011). Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (5), 1955-1960 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008441108 – My post

Shulenburger, D. (2009). University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science PLoS Biology, 7 (11) DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237 – My post

Silva, L., Anand, M., & Leithead, M. (2010). Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2 PLoS ONE, 5 (7) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011543 – My post

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Szeman, I. (2007). System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster South Atlantic Quarterly, 106(4), 805-823 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2007-047 — My post

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Wingate, L., Ogee, J., Cuntz, M., Genty, B., Reiter, I., Seibt, U., Yakir, D., Maseyk, K., Pendall, E., Barbour, M., Mortazavi, B., Burlett, R., Peylin, P., Miller, J., Mencuccini, M., Shim, J., Hunt, J., & Grace, J. (2009). The impact of soil microorganisms on the global budget of 18O in atmospheric CO2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905210106 – My post

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