We have over 2000 posts in our archives. Here are some of them, organized by topic. Click the topic you want to be taken down to the list of posts on that topic. Note that there’s already a separate page listing all of our posts about the N. American ecology faculty job market and how to navigate it. And note that a few posts are listed under multiple topics.
This page is a work in progress. More topics and posts will be added whenever Jeremy wants to procrastinate on real work finds some time.
Topic list
Doing ecology around the world
Equity, diversity, and inclusion
Fundamental vs. applied research
Non-academic (and non-faculty academic) careers for ecologists
Public image of ecology and ecologists
Research programs, their rise and fall
Scientific publishing and peer review
Zombie ideas (ideas that should be dead, but aren’t)
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Biodiversity^
Biodiversity and pizza – an extended analogy
Questioning the value of biodiversity
Did North America really lose 3 billion birds? What does it mean?
Scientists have to present a united front, right?
Here we go again – the planet is practically dead
Does ecology have a role in sustainability science?
The implementation gap in conservation biology: is math contributing to the problem?
Book reviews^
The Theory of Ecological Communities
Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity
Brief book reviews: four popular science and history of science books
Community Ecology (Morin) and Community Ecology (Mittelbach)
Popular science books that scientists would enjoy
What are your favorite novels featuring scientists?
Some thoughts on The Undoing Project, especially related to science, academia, and mentoring
Darwin’s Origin of Species: notes for your reading group
Blogging^
Why should an academic read blogs?
Chill out about Jingmai O’Connor’s criticism of bloggers
Here are the slides from my talk on blogging
The hardest thing about spelling banana, and also about blogging
Ask us anything: is there a place for ‘hot takes’ in ecology?
In which we stop spelling banana
Conferences, posters, talks^
Resolved: debates at scientific meetings are a good thing (interview)
How to decide whether to attend conference X
How to write your ESA abstract even though you haven’t analyzed your data yet
Why the ESA meeting ends with a half day on Friday, and the alternatives
How to answer to tough questions
Tips for giving a good talk or poster
How not to start your next ecology or evolution talk
The biggest mistake almost every scientific poster makes
Students shouldn’t bother with “student friendly” conferences
On wandering alone at meetings
Put your take-home message at the top of your slides
Controversies^
Why are some ecological ideas controversial?
How do ecological controversies typically end?
Do scientific controversies help or hurt scientific careers?
Contrarian ecology and why we need it
Poll results: here’s what our readers think about some of the most controversial ideas in ecology
Scientists have to present a united front, right?
The one true route to good science is…
Here we go again – the planet is practically dead
Questioning the value of biodiversity
Don’t be afraid to disagree with Dr. Famous; it won’t hurt your career
Data management^
Collecting, storing, analyzing, and publishing lab data
Ten commandments of good data management
My lab’s new lab notebook backup system, part 1
My lab’s new lab notebook backup system, part 2
iPads and digital data collection in the field
Setting up a lab data management system
Doing ecology around the world^
Ask us anything: the research contributions of ecologists from developing countries
Doing ecology in Canada and Brazil
Doing ecology on a rollercoaster in Brazil
Ecology done and being done in Latin America
Equity, diversity, and inclusion^
Ask us anything: how to be an ally
Supporting BIPOC researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology
Guest Post: What not to say to a pregnant colleague
I am a scientist. Ask me what I do, not where I am from “originally”
“Illegal” questions at job interviews
Sexual harassment changed my career path, even though I wasn’t the target of the harassment
Choosing reviewers, recognition not recall, and why lists like DiversifyEEB are useful
EEB seminar series are almost gender balanced
Gender balance of the faculty and chairs of N. American EEB departments
Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 1
Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 2
How changing our healthcare system impacts science: my experience as a postdoc looking for insurance
Musings on the culture of ecology
Does gender influence when people first apply for faculty jobs?
Redacted ecology faculty search (UPDATED)
Plumbing advice for the leaky pipeline (guest post)
Do gender and imposter syndrome influence where scientists submit their manuscripts?
Neil deGrasse Tyson on stereotypes, societal expectations, and women and minorities in science
Stereotype threat: A summary of the problem
Stereotype threat and ally work
Sexual harassment and rape in field sciences, part II
Serial bullies: an academic failing and the need for crowdsourced truth telling
Equity and diversity targets in science: your thoughts please
Equity and diversity targets in science: views depend on identity
My gender gap: is there value in calculating the gender ratio of your co-authors?
Faculty advice^
What academics can learn from business, part 1: the hats a PI (or grad student) wears
What academics can learn from business, part 2: the best business books
What academics can learn from business, part 3: good meeting culture
Prioritizing manuscripts, and having data go unpublished for lack of time
Intellectual property law 101 for academics
What makes for a great departmental seminar series? And how do you fix one that’s not great?
Are you in touch with your university’s Dean of Students office?
Advice on writing reference letters
How I write tenure and promotion letters
How selective are you about prospective graduate students?
Strategies, and reasons, for being more productive in fewer hours
Fraud^
Some data and historical context on scientific misconduct
The history of retractions from ecology and evolution journals
What’s the “greatest” scientific fraud of all time?
What happens to serial scientific fraudsters after they’re discovered?
Friday links: Jonathan Pruitt retraction fallout
One year into #pruittdata, how have citing authors reacted? Here’s some data.
How much damage do retracted papers do to science before they’re retracted, and to whom?
Scientific fraud vs. financial fraud: the ‘Canadian paradox’
Scientific fraud vs. financial fraud: the fraud triangle
Scientific fraud vs. financial fraud: is there a scientific equivalent of a ‘market crime’?
Scientific fraud vs. art forgery (or, why are so many scientific frauds so easy to detect?)
What I learned about scientific misconduct from reading the NSF OIG’s semiannual reports
Fundamental vs. applied research^
Making waves: can basic ecological research generate headlines, and does it matter?
Why do fundamental research in a world with pressing applied problems?
Is fundamental research a young ecologist’s game?
Grad student advice^
Weak reasons for choosing a research project
Good reasons for choosing a research project (plus some bad ones)
“Double-edged swords” make good research projects
A good idea for a research project: endogenize the exogenous
Choosing a research topic of lasting value
What’s the optimal composition of a graduate supervisory committee
Strategies, and reasons, for being more productive in fewer hours
Musings on reading older literature
What ecology and evolution papers do you read again and again?
On rereading Stearns and Huey’s “Some modest advice to graduate students”
Surviving your comprehensive exams
Hardest (or weirdest) question you were asked during your candidacy exam?
Why teaching Intro Bio makes me think we need to radically change qualifying exams
It’s no big deal for your supervisor to write you a bunch of reference letters
Tips for meeting one-on-one with a visiting speaker
How to make your graduate student seminar series better training
Grants^
Are US researchers slowly boiled frogs? – or thinking out of the box about the future of NSF
Frogs jump? Researcher consensus on solutions for NSF declining accept rates
History of ecology^
Big concepts and ideas in ecology for the last 100 years
The (r)evolution of ecology in the ’50s and ’60s
Which classic topics do ecologists still care about?
The best thing you’ll read about ecology this week: Fretwell (1975) on Robert MacArthur
When, and why, the ecology faculty job market first got so competitive
Stats vs. scouts, polls vs. pundits, and ecology vs. natural history
The road not taken — for me, and for ecology
The history of ecology on Earth-2
The most-cited ecology papers from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s are…
What are the most important and influential review papers in the history of ecology?
What is the origin of the term “field work”?
What’s the greatest ecology experiment in history?
Ideas about ecologists^
Do ecologists have schools of thought?
In (tentative) praise of shopkeeper science
A brief history of ecologists’ disagreements about “generality”, in quotes
Why aren’t ecologists prouder of putting old wine in new bottles?
Subtle biases with important consequences
What should ecologists learn less of?
Poll results: what should ecologists learn less of?
Poll results: the many ways in which ecologists seek generality
The unbearable hypocrisy of being an ecologist
On the differences between natural resource and biology departments
Are you in science to understand, describe, or predict?
Questions for Rich Lenski about his amazing Long-Term Evolution Experiment
Why do (some) ecologists have evolution envy?
On ecological ideas and their champions
Musings on the culture of ecology
At what career stage do scientists typically do their best work?
Techniques aren’t powerful, scientists are
Who are the most accomplished scientist-politicians in history?
The road not taken — for me, and for ecology
Ask us anything: what’s a “mid-career” researcher?
Less obvious signs of reaching a new career stage
Do we need a culture of data science in ecology?
Ideas about ecology^
Is ecology a single coherent scientific discipline?
Poll results: what are the biggest problems with the conduct of ecological research?
Sources of bias underlying ecological knowledge
A brief history of ecologists’ disagreements about “generality”, in quotes
Why should species diversity be highest where organismal performance is highest?
Should we classify mechanisms by their causes or their effects?
The folk theorem of alternative hypotheses in ecology
What metacommunity ecology can learn from population genetics
Why expect trade-offs in ecology and evolution?
Ecology is f*cked. Or awesome. Whichever.
Trying to understand data without mechanistic models is a waste of time
In a variable world, are averages just epiphenomena?
Questions for Rich Lenski about his amazing Long-Term Evolution Experiment
The meaning and impact of stochasticity in ecology
On ecological ideas and their champions
Poll results: which ecological and evolutionary “laws” actually deserve that title?
Passing the mutualism buck: why have theoretical ecology textbooks largely ignored mutualism?
Poll results: which big ideas in ecology were successful, and which unsuccessful?
The five roads to generality in ecology
The importance of diverse approaches in ecological research
Is my latest paper a super-cool result? Or merely a “cute” curiosity? You tell me!
Stats vs. scouts, polls vs. pundits, and ecology vs. natural history
Is macroecology like astronomy?
20 different stability concepts
How not to study the relative importance of different variables in ecology
An important but little-known fact about compensatory dynamics
Do ecologists ever confuse absolute and relative fitness?
What do you think is the biggest recent conceptual advance in ecology?
Has any “shortcut” method in ecology ever worked?
Why doesn’t community ecology erase the signal of historical biogeography?
Experiments so crazy they just might work
Tell me again what “risky” or “potentially transformative” research is?
The road not taken — for me, and for ecology
Objections to microcosms in ecology, and their answers
The microcosm wars are long since over. The microcosmologists won.
Ecologists should quit making things hard for themselves and focus more on model systems
What our readers think about the most controversial ideas in ecology
Ecological forecasting: why I’m a hypocrite and you may be one too
Are feedback loops ubiquitous in ecology and evolution?
What are the biggest puzzles in ecology?
Which ecological concepts are the equivalent of phlogiston?
Ask us anything: is there a place for ‘hot takes’ in ecology?
How science is and isn’t like the legal system
What current widely-accepted scientific practices will someday be seen as unethical?
What are the top 5 “Grand Challenges” in biology?
Do you know what a Type I functional response is? Are you sure?
Steven Frank on how to explain biological patterns
Why functional trait ecology needs population ecology
Ask us (well, Brian) anything: generalities about trait-based community ecology?
The story and lessons of the NutNet experiment: an interview with Elizabeth Borer
Mental health^
Why I told a room of 300 people that I see a therapist
On wandering alone at meetings
You do not need to work 80 hours a week to succeed in academia
Work-life balance requires planning ahead
There is crying in science. That’s okay.
How to support undergraduates experiencing mental health concerns
Life as an anxious grad student
I couldn’t make it in academia without my invisible support network
There is Shit Going On but it’s not my story to tell
Imposter syndrome and cognitive distortions: some thoughts and poorly drawn cartoons
One way to make academia less anxiety-inducing: Be specific in your emails!
Work at the times that work for you
What if my hobby — what I do for fun — is being a workaholic?
Academics are humans with human emotions and problems
Does the myth of the solo genius scientist contribute to imposter syndrome?
Mentoring^
Mentoring plans: a really useful tool for PIs and their lab members
How intensively do you mentor undergrads in your lab?
My strategies for mentoring undergraduate researchers
Peers, mentors, role models, and heroes in science
Thoughts on applying to grad school, for prospective students and their mentors
Things I learned from Peter Morin
Thing I learned from my undergraduate advisor, David Smith
Meta-analysis^
Does publication of a meta-analysis encourage or discourage further studies?
Why do ecologists publish so many more meta-analyses than evolutionary biologists?
What the heck is up with the many ecological meta-analyses that have inverted funnel plots?
Why don’t ecological meta-analyses often lead to subsequent theoretical insight?
Mistakes^
The importance of knowing and recognizing the limits of your knowledge
On finding errors in one’s published analyses
Non-academic (and non-faculty academic) careers for ecologists^
The pluses of seeing science as a job, not a calling
Helping grad students pursue non-academic careers: advice from Anne Krook
Training students for non-academic careers
How my student has explored career interests outside academia
The great escape: charting a career outside academia
A career as an ecologist at a government agency
A career in non-academic research
A career as an environmental consultant
A career as a research lab manager
A career in departmental technical support
A career at an ecologist at a non-profit conservation organization
A career as a land manager at a land trust conservancy
Parenting in science^
Academic Parenting During a Pandemic
Guest Post: What not to say to a pregnant colleague
Musings of a very tired, still pregnant scientist
Reproduction is energetically costly
It can be really hard to get into daycare
The logistics of pumping at work and sending bottles to daycare (updated!)
Sciencing with an infant, revisited
Sciencing during the first trimester
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 1 (guest post)
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 2 (guest post)
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 3 (guest post)
Parental leave, beyond the numbers (guest post)
Personal stories^
A remembrance of my dad, the best field assistant anyone could hope for
Why I told a room of 300 people that I see a therapist
Things I learned from Peter Morin
Thing I learned from my undergraduate advisor, David Smith
The paper that Ecology rejected that later won the Mercer Award
The great escape: charting a career outside of academia
My most embarrassing moments in academia
The study that almost made me quit grad school
Why I recommend doing your first interview on 2 days notice
In (tentative) praise of shopkeeper science
The teaching job that slipped through my fingers and what I learned from that experience
My first publication: revisiting an Oikos non-classic
In praise of boring local field sites
Why am I a scientist again? The concept of a data present.
The loneliness of the career microcosmologist
Why my papers are like fine wine
The road not taken — for me, and for ecology
Personal journeys towards developing quantitative skills
Public image of ecology and ecologists^
What’s the public face of ecology?
What scientific questions do you get asked at parties?
Making waves: can basic ecological research generate headlines, and does it matter?
Scientists have to present a united front, right?
Should you contact news media to promote your own research?
Strategies for helping your research reach a wider audience
Is citizen science about science or outreach?
On what important ecological research topic do non-experts have the most outdated view?
Philosophy of science^
Why ecologists might want to read more philosophy of science
Philosophy of science 101 for ecologists
The folk theorem of alternative hypotheses in ecology
Why don’t more ecologists use strong inference?
The power of “checking all the boxes” in scientific research: the example of character displacement
Why do our null models nullify some effects and not others?
“Null” and “neutral” models are overrated
Have ecologists ever successfully explained deviations from a baseline “null” model?
False models are useful BECAUSE they’re false
Ask us anything: what’s a scientific hypothesis anyway?
Ask us anything: descriptive vs. hypothesis-driven research
In praise of a novel risky prediction: Biosphere 2
Research programs, their rise and fall^
What shape is the long trajectory of ecology?
The trajectory of ecology: poll results
What ecological questions or topics require no further research?
Why do some bandwagons in ecology get rolling much faster than others?
On ecological ideas and their champions
The most, and least, influential calls for future research in ecology
What’s the biggest idea ecologists have ever permanently rejected?
Can the phylogenetic community ecology bandwagon be stopped or steered?
Another attempt to stop or steer the phylogenetic community ecology bandwagon
Quantifying the life histories of ecological ideas
What are the biggest understudied topics in ecology?
Citation patterns of classic ecology papers: the most-cited classic is a zombie
On what important ecological research topic do non-experts have the most outdated view?
Poll results: which big ideas in ecology were successful, and which unsuccessful?
How (not) to influence the direction of your field
Sciences, policy, and society^
Science, advocacy, and honesty
Policy relevant science – life on the boundary
Policy relevant science: the unreasonable effectiveness of boundary objects
What it takes to do policy relevant science
Why universities are great places to do policy relevant science
A post-fact world: Part I – on how we got here
A post-fact world: Part III -what is a scientist to do?
Scientists have to present a united front, right?
Here we go again – the planet is practically dead
Does ecology have a role in sustainability science?
The implementation gap in conservation biology: is math contributing to the problem?
Scientific publishing and peer review^
How random are referee decisions?
In praise of pre-publication review (because post-publication review is hopeless)
Post-publication ‘review’: signs of the times
Post-publication review is here to stay – for the scientific 1%
Pre- vs. post-publication review and procedural justice
Author-suggested reviewers and their effects: data from Functional Ecology
Follow the money – what really matters when choosing a journal
Should old or superseded papers ever be retracted?
What can a journal Editor-in-Chief do to attract you to submit to the journal?
I love that journals let reviewers see the other reviews
FYI: rejected mss often get the same referees when resubmitted to a different journal
Citation concentration, filtering, incentives, and green beards
A book is everything tweet is not (but please tweet about my book)
What should editors do when referees disagree?
Should supervisors let student authors make mistakes? And should reviewers care?
Tell me again what “major revisions” are?
Writing a response to reviewer comments
Should journals offer a “no revisions” option to authors?
How should comment-reply exchanges be structured?
Two-stage peer review: methods review prior to data collection, full review after
Impact factors are means and therefore very noisy
Statistics^
How many terms should you have in your model before it comes statistical machismo?
Is using detection probabilities a case of statistical machismo?
Detection probabilities, statistical machismo, and estimator theory
Poll results on statistical machismo
In praise of exploratory statistics
What makes for good exploratory research?
On choosing among different indices of the “same” thing
Is statistical software harmful?
What conclusions should you draw from a dataset when different analysts reach different conclusions?
What’s a “small” effect, anyway, and when are they worth caring about?
Why OLS is an unbiased estimator for GLS
Statistical Balkanization: is it a problem?
Is it a fixed or random effect?
Are the statistics in ecology papers becoming too difficulty for students and readers to understand?
Why saying you are a Bayesian is a low information statement
In a variable world, are averages just epiphenomena?
Interpreting ANOVA interaction terms and model selection
Why, and how, to do statistics (it’s probably not why and how you think)
Why advanced machine learning methods badly overfit niche models – is this statistical machismo?
Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction (part I): the insidious evils of ANOVA
Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction (part II): the six P’s of good prediction
Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction (part III): mechanistic or phenomenological?
Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction (part IV): defining prediction quality
“Null” and “neutral” models are overrated
A novel check on causal inference methods: test ridiculous causal hypotheses
Why AIC appeals to ecologists’ lowest instincts
Autocorrelation: friend of foe?
Does peer review ever increase “researcher degrees of freedom” and compromise statistical rigor?
Stuart Hurlbert rips Sokal & Rohlf and the state of biostatistical training
Zombie ideas in statistics: R^2 (?!)
Poll results: how replicable do ecologists think ecology is, and why?
Tim Parker on replicability in ecology vs. the social sciences
Don’t force your regression through zero just because you know the true intercept has to be zero
Statistical vignette of the day as a teaching tool
What statistical techniques does every ecologist need to know?
10 things to keep in mind as you analyze your data (plus a few more)
Questions and resources about structural equation models
The worst forecasting failures and what we can learn from them
In praise of courtesy p-values
Ecologists like robustness checks–especially if other people do them
Teaching^
What are the key ecology concepts all Intro Bio students need to learn?
An incomplete list of things that blow the minds of Intro Bio students
Organism of the Day: a way to feature organismal diversity and natural history in Intro Bio and Ecology courses
Having an Organism of the Day was only sort of successful
How much do scientists lecture, and why? Poll results and commentary
Challenges of writing higher order thinking questions in ecology
Are our students reading the textbook? And if so, is it helping them?
What should high school students and undergrads learn about the scientific method?
Late semester thoughts on flipping the classroom
We flipped our huge intro biostats course. Here’s why.
Flipping our huge intro biostats course didn’t work for me (yet)
What does modern pedagogy say about field classes?
A curmudgeon’s musings on modern pedagogy
Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a cautionary tale
Ecology is f*cked. Or awesome. Whichever.
Statistical vignette of the day as a teaching tool
8 lessons for teaching over Zoom
What math should ecologists teach?
Using text matching software to detect and deter plagiarism
What ecology labs do you remember from when you were a student?
Tips for relieving student anxiety about exams
Theory and mathematics^
Marquet et al. on theory in ecology
On the value of simple limiting cases: Lotka-Volterra models and trolley problems
Mathematical constraints in ecology and evolution, part 1: species can’t all covary negatively
Mathematical constraints in ecology and evolution, part 3: why selection is risk-averse
Mathematical constraints in ecology and evolution, part 4: dimensional analysis
The meaning and impact of stochasticity in ecology
A painless introduction to partitions in ecology and evolution
A visual metaphor for the Price equation
On 50 years of the Price equation: looking back vs. looking ahead
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 2
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 3
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 4
What math should ecologists teach?
Best examples of ecological theory anticipating future data?
The implementation gap in conservation biology: is math contributing to the problem?
Women in ecology^
Women in ecology and Ecolog discussions
Academic Parenting During a Pandemic
On getting—and giving—well-meaning but bad advice
Guest Post: What not to say to a pregnant colleague
Sexual harassment changed my career path, even though I wasn’t the target of the harassment
Guest post: Women and relationships in academia: a curious journey of self-reflection
DiversifyEEB: Introducing a new resource for ecology and evolutionary biology
Choosing reviewers, recognition not recall, and why lists like DiversifyEEB are useful
EEB seminar series are almost gender balanced
Gender balance of the faculty and chairs of N. American EEB departments
Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 1
Guest post: The day I broke some twitter feeds: insights into sexism in academia, Part 2
How changing our healthcare system impacts science: my experience as a postdoc looking for insurance
Does gender influence when people first apply for faculty jobs?
Sciencing with an infant, revisited
Musings of a very tired, still pregnant scientist
Reproduction is energetically costly
It can be really hard to get into daycare
The logistics of pumping at work and sending bottles to daycare (updated!)
Plumbing advice for the leaky pipeline (guest post)
Sciencing during the first trimester
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 1 (guest post)
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 2 (guest post)
Postdoc parental leave policies, part 3 (guest post)
Parental leave, beyond the numbers (guest post)
Do gender and imposter syndrome influence where scientists submit their manuscripts?
Sexual harassment and rape in field sciences
Sexual harassment and rape in field sciences, part II
Working groups^
A raspberry of an idea: how to do inspired science as a group
The secret recipe for successful working group meetings
Four rules for long distance collaborations
Writing^
Some well-known tricks for clear writing
The five pivotal paragraphs in a paper
How to write a great journal article: act like a fiction author
How to write a good introduction section — and tell if yours is bad.
Don’t introduce your paper by saying that many people have long been interested in the topic
When writing, tell us your biological results!
Up Goer Five: can you describe your research using only the 1,000 most common words?
More examples of humorous and satirical scientific papers
To be sure: advice for writing discussions
Rough drafts, getting words on the page, and the pain and pleasure of writing
Views on authorship and author contribution statements: poll results part 1
Views on authorship and author contribution statements: poll results part 2
What belongs in the appendices vs. the main text of scientific papers
The “always have two papers in review” rule of thumb
Writing a response to reviewer comments
Teaching science writing in university courses
Taking a writing-intensive evolution course was transformative for me
Avoid naked salesmanship: never use these words in your papers and grant proposals
Should supervisors let student authors make mistakes? And should reviewers care?
Should your papers anticipate potential criticisms?
Should figures go at the end of a manuscript or inline? And where should figure legends go?
How do you decide authorship order?
Fun ways of deciding authorship order
Last and corresponding authorship practices in ecology: a series of blog posts turns into a paper
Poll results on co-authorship of papers using publicly available data
Case studies in coauthorship: what would you do and why?
Bad coauthors: how to avoid them, and what to do if you have one
What if coauthors disagree about what their ms should say?
Poll results: ecologists disagree on whether co-authors should agree
Is the PEG model paper an indicator of changing authorship criteria?
Zombie ideas (ideas that should be dead, but aren’t)^
Yes, the IDH is a zombie: reply to Karl Cottenie
Zombie ideas about disturbance: a dialogue
Zombie ideas about disturbance, and the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise
Is Hutchinson’s zombie idea about coexistence not a zombie after all?!
Citation patterns of classic ecology papers: the most-cited classic is a zombie
Is my paper arguing for abandoning the IDH having any impact? (or is the IDH a ghost, not a zombie?)
A thumbs up for the intermediate disturbance hypothesis
Species pools and the fallacy of composition
Contrarian ecology and why we need it
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 2
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 3
How disturbance and environmental fluctuations actually affect coexistence, part 4
Let’s identify all the zombie ideas in ecology!
Zombie ideas in ecology: textbooks now teach the controversy
Zombie ideas in ecology: inferring causation from correlation in a density-dependent world
Zombie ideas in ecology: “neutral” = “stochastic”
Zombie ideas in ecology: “neutral” = “dispersal limitation”
Zombie ideas in ecology: r and K selection
Zombie ideas in ecology: local-regional richness relationships
Zombie ideas in ecology: the unimodal diversity-productivity relationship
The latest on diversity-productivity relationships: getting past a zombie idea
Peter Abrams on ratio-dependent predation as a zombie idea
Dynamic Ecology 