Burgess Shale food web




Compilation and network analyses of Cambrian food webs by Jennifer Dunne, Rich Williams, Neo Martinez, and colleagues appears in the open-access journal PLoS Biology on April 29, 2008 (press release). 
This study has been reported by Nature, Science, Science Daily, German Public Radio, Folha de S. Paolo (the largest circulation newspaper in Latin America), The New Mexican, and others.  It was selected as a "must read" paper by Faculty of 1000 Biology. The Science Daily piece is popular on Digg.com and was included in Complexity Digest.


Lab research featured in SFI Bulletin article on Risk in financial markets: learning from nature (Spring 2008).

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The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities (plus Supporting Information) by Thara Srinivasan and colleagues appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on February 5, 2008.
  The results of this study have been reported by Nature, Science, National Public Radio, Bioscience, Science News, World Science, United Press International, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and a variety of other newspapers, radio stations, and websites around the world.

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www.foodwebs.org listed as further reading for Nature essay: Protecting biostructure (Vol. 446, page 29, 3/1/07)



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Lab research and food-web image featured in PLoS Biology article: Restoring nature's backbone
(June 2006)





Lab research discussed in Boston Globe article:When things get complicated (5/30/04)


Lab icon of ecological complexity chosen as math poster child: Math Awareness Month poster (April 2004)


Research by Lab scientists featured in leading conservation biology magazine Conservation In Practice - Virtual ecosystems (Fall 2003), with a critique from food-web guru Bob Paine: Letter, with response by Martinez/Dunne (Winter 2003/2004)


Research by Lab scientists featured in the California Academy of Science's California Wild Magazine: Untangled food webs (Winter 2002/2003)

Papers by Lab scientists on "Two degress of separation in complex food webs" and "Food-web structure and network theory" are published back to back in the 2002, Volume 99 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.  These articles recieve press in a variety of outlets including BBC News, Focus Magazine, PlanetSave Networks, Marin Independent Journal, and SFSU First Monday Newsmakers.

New Scientist, one of the largest circulation popular science magazines, features research by Lab scientists: The weakest link (08/18/01)

Nature publishes "niche model" article by Rich Williams and Neo Martinez and prints FoodWeb3D image of the Little Rock Lake food web as a thumbnail on the cover of the March 9, 2000 edition.  The press release ("Food web theory suggests ecology may be governed by general rules") is picked up by Science Daily and other outlets.



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presentation of research by members of the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab


Jan. 28, 2008 Simplicity on the other side of ecological complexity
Seminar by Eric Berlow for EcoLunch
University of California, Berkeley, CA


March 24, 2008 Dynamics and robustness in complex ecological networks: how does nature keep it together and when does it fall apart?
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Monday Seminar by Neo Martinez
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

March 25, 2008 Diversity in ecology and academia: an interesting history with an uncertain future
Talk by Neo Martinez for the Martin Luther King/Cesar Chavez Scholar Series of the Latino/a Association of Graduate Students in Engineering and Science
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

April 5, 2008 Size-dependent foraging affects predator-prey interaction strengths and food-web stability
Keynote Address by Uli Brose for the ESF SIZEMIC Workshop on Trophic Dynamics in Ecosystems
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

April 10, 2008 Dynamics and robustness in complex ecological networks: how does nature keep it together and when does it fall apart?
Seminar by Neo Martinez for the Curriculum in Ecology Series
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

April 22, 2008 Dynamics and robustness in complex ecological networks: how does nature keep it together and when does it fall apart?
Seminar by Neo Martinez at the Odum School of Ecology
University of Gerogia, Athens, GA

May 3, 2008 The webby world of ecology: how does such diversity and complexity persist?
Presentation by Neo Martinez at the National Science Bowl
Chevy Chase, MD

June 9, 2008 The structure of complex ecological networks
Two lectures by
Jennifer Dunne for the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

June 10, 2008 The nonlinear dynamics of complex ecological networks
Two lectures by
Neo Martinez for the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

June 16-20, 2008 The nonlinear dynamics of complex ecological networks
Lectures by Neo Martinez at the Food Web Summer School
Parma, Italy

Aug. 4-7, 2008 Predicting interaction strengths in complex food webs
Talk by Uli Brose at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
The Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, WI

Aug. 7, 2008 Structural and dynamical roles of preindustrial people in food webs of the North Pacific
Symposium talk by Jennifer Dunne at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Combining Ecological and Archaeological Knowledge to Better Understand the Reciprocal Dynamics of People and the Ecosystems that Sustain Them
The Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, WI

Sept. 14-19, 2008 Conservation of ecological network structure over space and deep time
Plenary lecture by Jennifer Dunne for the European Conference on Complex Systems Science
Jerusalem, Israel













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