Tara has a great post up about infectious diseases and landscape ecology, and being able to reconcile, if you will, very big picture (landscape ecology) with the very small (microbiology).
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I spent all day yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a conference on Landscape Ecology and infectious disease. I'll discuss a few of the talks and issues below, but I wanted to start out with a bit of an introduction and explain just what landscape ecology (LE) is.
The introductory talk, which…
From the archives comes this comment on a question raised by microbiologist Paul Orwin--"What is science?":
The only problem with Paul Orwin is that he doesn't post as often as I would like. He makes a great observation (italics mine):
You've set yourself up a nice little system for examining the…
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