Afternoon Notes

Authorship

  • Emphasize enclusiveness
  • Unequeal contribution
    • Folks can opt-out based on the honor system of contribution
  • Main papers
    • Opt-out: everybody should assume they are an author unless you opt-out, for whatever reason.
  • Spin-off papers
    • Should avoid getting dog-piled on excessively by everybody co-authoring on everything
    • Spin off papers shouldn’t be dragged down by people who aren’t doing anything
  • Equal contribution
    • Equal contribution squabbles should be resolved by “Equal-contribution starring”

Data availability

  • Hoping for data to be available whenver possible.
  • We aren’t going to kick out datasets or force them to be open, but we want to encourage openness.

Paper Ideas

  • Luke 1 - (Alpha/Beta group) - What causes species richness to accumulate at a different rate in larger communities?
    • Role of evolutionary history in structuring ecological communities on islands.
    • How does alpha diversity change with the size of a region as a function of contributions from immigration vs in situ diversification?
  • No Lead - (Radiations Group) - Do lineages that radiate in islands have closely related lineages that radiate in the mainland?
  • No Lead - (Radiations Group) - Gavrilets and Vose + a better model of speciation
    • This idea could easily be folded into the MESS model instead of carved off as a seperate thing
  • No Lead - (Arose out of Tuesday AM Discussion) - Big over-arching bullshitty framework paper
    • Jon and Luke will joint-first author, but Luke will be first-first.
  • No Lead - (Arose out of discussion) - MaxEnt + Island age (blow up andy’s model into a bunch of different islands).
  • No Lead - (Diversification Group, related to the Speciation & Abundance idea from SFI) -

Papers proposed during the SFI meeting

  • Use the MESS model to generate new summary statistics (SAD, SAR, Tree imbalance, diversification slow-down statistics).
  • MESS Model
    • HI Arthropods
    • HI Trees
    • Meta-analysis of global datasets (Breeding bird survey)
  • Andy - Ground truthing METE
  • Katie & Luke - Speciation & Abundance (diversification scales with area, but sometimes it doesn’t)
  • No Lead - What are patterns under extremes of the model?

General Chatter

  • Afternoon Breakout groups - Framework, invasions alpha/beta scaling, modelling alpha/beta scaling

Afternoon quotes

The amount of work required to do science is much than us just sitting here for five days. The idea is to have allopatric diversification of ideas.