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Tag Archives: Lyons et al 2016
The breakpoint is broken and other tales from the comment on Lyons et al
A few weeks ago, Nature finally published the comment I wrote with colleagues on Lyons et al (2016). In this post, I explore some of the details that did not fit into the constraints of a 1200 word comment, and … Continue reading
Comment on Lyons et al finally published
After many months, our comment on Lyons et al is finally published [link should give free access]. Lyons et al looked at many community data sets from the last 300 million years and tested for pairs of species that are … Continue reading
Denying the “undeniable reality”
In their paper “Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts”, Lyons et al report that that the proportion of species pairs that are aggregated (i.e. co-occur) rather than segregated began to decline in the … Continue reading
How foreign is the past?
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley Wooly mammoths. Saber-toothed cats. Giant sloths. You don’t need to think very long before some differences between modern ecology and the ecology of the past become apparent. Altered nutrient cycles. Introduced … Continue reading
Musings on Quantitative Palaeoecology 