Wednesday

Reading

Wait, the storage effect is often evolutionarily unstable? Yikes. (Snyder & Adler, 2011). Will have to read this more closely.

  • Vasseur & Fox nice AD paper in PNAS Am Nat (Vasseur & Fox, 2011), ((One day Am Nat will finish registering the doi for these papers?))

Contrary to previous verbal arguments that suggest that character convergence leads to neutral stability, coadaptation of competing consumers always leads to stable coexistence. Furthermore, we show that incorporating costs of consuming or excreting excess nonlimiting nutrients selects for nutritionally balanced diets and so promotes character convergence.

  • Curious: phlyogenetic rate shifts in feeding in Homo genus: (Organ et. al. 2011). An unfamiliar approach to me. Nice time-calibrated mophological-character tree of humans though. Now if only PNAS would consider requiring treebase archiving…

  • Best meta-population dataset ever (Hanski, 2011)? Looks like a nice paper, can’t help feeling it would have huge impact if the data were made available. Without that, it’s a bit hard to judge.

  • Great arxiv paper on parallel computation to improve MCMC. Not the way I thought – independent samples rather than independent chains. Which I had a better grasp or more time to go through this. Also, Robert’s ABC critique paper is out (Robert et. al. 2011).

  • Also need to read (Liebhold & Bascompte, 2003)

Writing

Working on Evolution revisions…

Arithmetic

Bill got me started on automatic reporting from the clusters using some bash scripting. Still tweaking.

Jacob, P., Robert, C. P., & Smith, M. H. (2010). Using parallel computation to improve Independent Metropolis–Hastings based estimation, 19. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1595

References

  • Snyder R and Adler P (2011). “Coexistence And Coevolution in Fluctuating Environments: Can The Storage Effect Evolve?” The American Naturalist, 178. ISSN 00030147, https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/661905.

  • Vasseur D and Fox J (2011). “Adaptive Dynamics of Competition For Nutritionally Complementary Resources: Character Convergence, Displacement, And Parallelism.” The American Naturalist, 178. ISSN 00030147, https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/661896.

  • Organ C, Nunn C, Machanda Z and Wrangham R (2011). “Phylogenetic Rate Shifts in Feeding Time During The Evolution of Homo.” Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, 108. ISSN 0027-8424, https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107806108.

  • Hanski I (2011). “Inaugural Article: Eco-Evolutionary Spatial Dynamics in The Glanville Fritillary Butterfly.” Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, 108. ISSN 0027-8424, https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110020108.

  • Robert C, Cornuet J, Marin J and Pillai N (2011). “Lack of Confidence in Approximate Bayesian Computation Model Choice.” Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, 108. ISSN 0027-8424, https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102900108.

  • Liebhold A and Bascompte J (2003). “The Allee Effect, Stochastic Dynamics And The Eradication of Alien Species.” Ecology Letters, 6. ISSN 1461-023X, https://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00405.x.