tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.comments2023-10-24T11:44:05.219-04:00Wandering WondermentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-10058650329506420132022-06-20T13:14:52.375-04:002022-06-20T13:14:52.375-04:00Lovely bloog you haveLovely bloog you haveMayahttps://www.mayawardle.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-85634189050316447382016-05-14T00:52:13.909-04:002016-05-14T00:52:13.909-04:00Hello there
As we all know , translation is being...Hello there<br /><br />As we all know , translation is being popular day by day. we all need translation that make the things easy to understand.<br />I love so much your blog.<br />Thanks for sharing here.Birth Certificate Translationhttps://www.ezeetranslate.com/certified-translations/birth-certificatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-54290718025585629402013-09-18T04:02:14.022-04:002013-09-18T04:02:14.022-04:00Great!Great!Chandrahttp://bestmemoryfoammattressreviews.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-80576050763715446612013-09-17T13:17:28.706-04:002013-09-17T13:17:28.706-04:00Hi there Lisa! I hope everyone is enjoying school!...Hi there Lisa! I hope everyone is enjoying school! My name is Heather and I was wondering if you could answer a quick question about your blog! My email is Lifesabanquet1(at)gmail(dot)com :-)Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04104895709983001125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-48676627348417226462013-07-16T13:52:10.448-04:002013-07-16T13:52:10.448-04:00This is cool!This is cool!Vernonhttp://themeatgrinders.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-65659008892044175362013-06-13T13:27:06.613-04:002013-06-13T13:27:06.613-04:00Cool ! I like it.Cool ! I like it.Toryhttp://rchelicoptersreviews2013.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-81889599801607791072013-03-23T19:22:44.651-04:002013-03-23T19:22:44.651-04:00I appreciate the kind words about my work; I'm...I appreciate the kind words about my work; I'm hoping you're right about a successful career. :) I'll try to get through all of the comments. Pictures aren't my strong suit in research- I tend to focus on getting work done, and less on photographing, so the photographs end up as hurried staged photos; my apologies. We recently switched to using day of the year for all graphs, for just the reason you mentioned. In most years, the experiments started around day 140 of the year. Our natural field sites were 8 of each plant type, 10 of each plant type for the large mesocosms, and 5 of each plant type for the kiddie pool mesocosms. They had a wide range of sizes, but were generally around 4 meters in diameter. The sites were all ones that had frog populations there before we added the enclosures, and the animals in the enclosures were not tracked individually. All measures for a given plant type were taken on the same day of each week. Metamorphosis actually wasn't an issue in this case, as green frogs and bull frogs take longer to metamorphose than this study was conducted, and the graphs are not species specific- the early group is green frogs only, but the late group is both green and bull frogs (to compare across species and across time). Also for slide 17, there were approximately 30 tadpoles per enclosure, three enclosures per pond, and 8 ponds per plant type. We were trying to make it possible to track individual animals in the graphs, while showing the means as well. It apparently did not work as we had hoped. Unfortunately, I ran out of slides, and didn't have the space to add summary slide. Thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-55436385522048117522013-03-22T10:20:48.357-04:002013-03-22T10:20:48.357-04:00Hi Lisa,
This is a great work, I love your person...Hi Lisa,<br /><br />This is a great work, I love your personal video, and the enthusiasm reflected in it. I wouldn't doubt the importance of this work and your success in career. Here I have several personal questions/comments after viewing the presentation. <br /><br />1) I love the introductory slides. You did a fabulous job here to show and tell the story. <br /><br />2) Slide 6: I'd like to see the frog somewhere in this diagram.<br /><br />3) Slide 10: "Week" on the x-axis doesn't seem a helpful way to show the seasonal change, or to make a intuitive connection with the frog development/growth. If I could see how the water quality changes are related to the frogs, it would be much more helpful.<br /><br />4) It was somewhat unclear how many field sites were tested, how wide/narrow the sites were, whether or not they were good frog habitats, what the sampling technique was, how you followed individual frogs, which time of a day, in a single day or different days, and etc.<br /><br />5) Slide 17: Not the x-axis title is "day of year", which seems to be better than "week" in the previous slides, however, you should make them consistent to clarify your points. Moreover, the "survival" may give a wrong impression, that the tadpoles were dying out, instead developing into the metamorphosis. It's also unclear which frog species is denoted by which symbols and how the differences were tested. The sample size, replication, and etc. was also not clear in the graph.<br /><br />6) Slide 20: I'm not sure why you showed all the individual data sets, instead of comparing the different habitats by taking the mean values. I'm not quite sure what biological meanings under a specific context the "movement" or other behavioral parameters that you measured and compared mean. <br /><br />7) At the end of the presentation, I'd like to see some summary of the results and a kind of conclusion to reflect your findings in the big picture or context. <br /><br />These are my two cents. Good luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-83652629259357545732013-03-22T07:18:43.788-04:002013-03-22T07:18:43.788-04:00John,
The correlation/causation conundrum is alway...John,<br />The correlation/causation conundrum is always difficult, and I'd like to try and tease it out with a long term mesocosm study in the future. The behavior data is difficult to make heads or tails of (or tales, for that matter, because motivation in non-humans is such a black box). I think the invertebrate community really comes into play there, to look at food quality and quantity available to adults, for example. Thanks for the encouragement!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-64960635551883480132013-03-22T07:11:39.754-04:002013-03-22T07:11:39.754-04:00Tina,
It would be difficult to look at difference...Tina, <br />It would be difficult to look at differences between the native relative plants and invasive plants, especially in the case of Phragmites ausstralis. In Ohio at least, the native Phragmites is rare, with ~4 populations left, and classifying it as a separate species (P. communis, likely) or an invasive genotype is the subject of some debate. Kristin Saltonstall's work on the genetics of Phragmites is really interesting, if you want to check out some plant work. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-58137193268524429782013-03-21T23:43:13.545-04:002013-03-21T23:43:13.545-04:00Hi Lisa,
Your research project is quite interestin...Hi Lisa,<br />Your research project is quite interesting and novel. Amphibians are facing so many threats, I never considered that invasive plant species may be yet another one. I am wondering how you interpret the association of water quality measures with the invasive plant species. It seems that they may be responding to preexisting variation (e.g., more likely to invade certain types of environments) or may be causing the differences. The behavior assays of adult was also quite novel, but I am unsure what to make of it. You showed some fairly big effects of plant species on locomotion, but I'm not sure how to interpret them. For example, is more movement good or bad? It would be very interesting to see what you explore next. Keep up the great research.<br />Best,<br /><br />JohnJohnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-14030045913601983542013-03-21T21:12:00.975-04:002013-03-21T21:12:00.975-04:00Hello Lisa,
Really interesting work! You mentioned...Hello Lisa,<br />Really interesting work! You mentioned that these invasive plants have native relatives. Do you have a sense of how this relatedness might influence the effects of these grasses on the frogs?<br />Thank you!Tina Weyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00927485255318395538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-7965059476181789242013-03-20T22:35:27.003-04:002013-03-20T22:35:27.003-04:00Michi,
There were some preliminary tadpole behavio...Michi,<br />There were some preliminary tadpole behavior tests that we tried with plant extracts showing the tadpoles to have an avoidance reaction to the invasive plants, so I'm thinking that it's mainly chemical in the case of tadpoles, or possibly due to differences in temperature. Most probable solution- it's more than one mechanism of action that affects the tadpoles. I like to think that by adding more information to how invasive plants impact amphibians, we can use that data for management and prioritize how conservation and restoration dollars are spent so that they most benefit amphibians (when the dollars are meant to target amphibians). Whether that results in a preference for un-invaded ponds for conservation priority, or use of conservation funds for removal of invasive plants, or other projects depends on the goals of the managing body, but this- along with the rest of the research going into invasive plant-native amphibian interactions- could at least be more information for managers to base their decisions. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-59822700887611436402013-03-20T22:24:43.316-04:002013-03-20T22:24:43.316-04:00Thanks! I'm not aware of any aquatic contamin...Thanks! I'm not aware of any aquatic contamination in the cases of the ponds used for these studies, but it is northeastern Ohio, so it is a possibility, unfortunately. There's not been any sign of chytrid so far in the ponds I sampled. Developmental rates did not vary across the treatments, just the size of the individuals. The acclimation time may not have been enough time, and I'd like to try more work with the behavioral arenas. This set up was based on what friends and myself have been able to come up with to test the hypothesis. It's a work in progress.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-22463218068772983692013-03-20T13:25:30.559-04:002013-03-20T13:25:30.559-04:00Hi Lisa,
this is very interesting work. Invasive p...Hi Lisa,<br />this is very interesting work. Invasive plants obviously affect environmental conditions in a variety of ways. Do you know what specific effects drive differences in tadpoles? Do environmental differences that may drive differential performance of tadpoles vanish in the summer? Also, what do you think are the broad scale implications of your work?<br />Best wishes, Michi ToblerMichihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212493131040091446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-51157562394397649152013-03-20T11:42:17.759-04:002013-03-20T11:42:17.759-04:00Hi Lisa,
As a fellow amphibian conservationist, I ...Hi Lisa,<br />As a fellow amphibian conservationist, I am very familiar with the amphibian declines and exciting to see your research. Building on the comments from the previous judge, I had a few additional questions: 1) Are you aware if there is a history of aquatic contamination in the habitats from which theses amphibians were collected? 2) With that, is there a history of chytrid infections? 3) Did you record developmental rates, and if so, were there any effects of your treatment combinations? 4) Do you think 15 minutes for the adult trials was sufficient for acclimation? Is there a precedent for this method?<br /><br />Overall, very good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-81858425384353046392013-03-19T22:01:21.432-04:002013-03-19T22:01:21.432-04:00Thanks, I appreciate the encouraging words. I ref...Thanks, I appreciate the encouraging words. I refer to trends because for this set of data, we did not see any significance. Maybe too small a sample size, maybe a bad behavioral design, who knows. It's something I'd like to come back to someday. Both of these particular plants are known to have secondary metabolites with allelopathic capabilities, so there's a chance that these might be changing the water chemistry. Or I might have the cart before the horse, and different water chemistry leads to a different invader (although I doubt it, based on other data from this study that I didn't have enough slides to display). We did do both visual encounter survey and frog call surveys (again, data not presented- dang limits!), and there were differences across the wetland types, lower in invaded wetlands than in native, and I believe lower in Typha, but I'd have to go back and check. We also did surveys of the tadpoles using minnow traps, and they were higher densities away from the invasive plants. The difference between early and late summer is likely either temperature related, or tied to what the plants are doing in their life history (younger plants, earlier in the season, more exudate that could be problematic). It's a question I'd like to investigate further. Adult frogs came from a non-invaded wetland also in Portage County, Ohio, but not used in this study for anything else than as a source of frogs. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780410047718841042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-2452701153728431392013-03-19T14:54:10.262-04:002013-03-19T14:54:10.262-04:00This is a very interesting perspective about the f...This is a very interesting perspective about the factors influencing not only frog growth/survival, but also behavior. I do have some questions about your results. 1) You refer to your results as trends, are any of the relationships significant? 2) Why do you think the invasive plants have different effects on chemistry? 3) If you did a survey of these habitats, what densities of these frogs would you expect? Are frog densities naturally lower in these invasive communities? 4) Why do you think there was no difference in tadpole survival in the habitats in late summer? Could it have to do with the temperature relationship you found? 5) For the adult behavioral trial, where did you get the frogs? Depending on what habitat you got them from, two of the three habitats could be novel to them and may influence behaviors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-80905689004164992032013-02-17T11:24:13.083-05:002013-02-17T11:24:13.083-05:00The political buzzword of "austerity" re...The political buzzword of "austerity" really gets me. It is one of those things that sounds good on paper during hard times, but doesn't necessarily play out that way. Contrary to what many politicians would like us to believe, government is not the same as a household and it is important for the government to spend more during times of a bad economy to keep money flowing within the economy that is missing. During times of prosperity is when austerity measures are important. (Many parts of Europe enforced strict austerity measures when their problems were equal to ours, showing a much worse outcome because of it.) <br /><br />And yes - as you perfectly point out - we need to educate our children more not less. We need to do it for equality, and for staying relevant in a new global economy. <br /><br />Thanks for the great post!A Passage to Babyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13190701499572333220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-76823666665160450722012-12-02T23:10:34.198-05:002012-12-02T23:10:34.198-05:00Losing a friend is always hard.
That said, if it&#...Losing a friend is always hard.<br />That said, if it's someone that has been a drain on you of late, you will find that you feel much lighter in the coming days. :-)A Passage to Babyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13190701499572333220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-16690903475712030332012-11-28T02:45:16.008-05:002012-11-28T02:45:16.008-05:00Visiting from ICLW. Congrats on your upcoming gra...Visiting from ICLW. Congrats on your upcoming graduation and Ph.D. That is extremely generous of you to be a surrogate and an egg donor. That is very admirable.<br /><br /><br />Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507432917936364757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-37079506548983049552012-11-26T07:11:20.646-05:002012-11-26T07:11:20.646-05:00Hi from ICLW!!! Graduation will soon be hereHi from ICLW!!! Graduation will soon be hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-33236967357067096712012-11-25T21:40:24.867-05:002012-11-25T21:40:24.867-05:00Hello there! *waves*
What a wonderful blog you ha...Hello there! *waves* <br />What a wonderful blog you have here. I'm so excited to have new blogs to follow that really interest me. Fantastic!<br />You are a wonderful woman doing all that you have done and continue to do. <br /><br />Visiting from ICLW (#7)A Passage to Babyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13190701499572333220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-58210432120426735182012-11-24T22:44:33.193-05:002012-11-24T22:44:33.193-05:00Visiting from ICLW - I'm sorry for your loss. ...Visiting from ICLW - I'm sorry for your loss. This is a lovely letter to your sister.Azarahttp://inthetesseract.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268637549897044551.post-27193264493599463102012-11-24T20:16:54.270-05:002012-11-24T20:16:54.270-05:00Hi from ICLW. You have accomplished a lot and your...Hi from ICLW. You have accomplished a lot and your phd will just be another thing to add to the list soon. Cngratultions!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16622876789284884234noreply@blogger.com