Ecology & Evolutionary Biologyhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/44712024-03-28T23:35:47Z2024-03-28T23:35:47ZOne Hundred and Fifty Years of Change on the Great PlainsPeterson, A. Townsendhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/349632024-03-07T22:23:57Z2024-03-01T00:00:00ZOne Hundred and Fifty Years of Change on the Great Plains
Peterson, A. Townsend
Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was a St. Louis photographer who was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to take promotional photographs along the entire length of the Railroad. Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver in the early 1870s, creating a rich legacy of views of the Great Plains at a very early date. In this book, Benecke's landscape photographs are paired with new photographs of the same views. Comparing the old and new photographs, the reader can appreciate how the region has changed in terms of its landscape, vegetation, and human and natural systems over the 150 year time span.
This book presents pairs of photographs from across the Great Plains, taken in 1873-1874 and in 2021-2023. It has been presented as an open-access ebook, and is also available in hard-copy format on a print-on-demand basis.
Note: This ebook is best viewed in two-page spreads, so you can compare the old and new photographs side-by-side.
2024-03-01T00:00:00ZRelationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. universityPeterson, A. TownsendCobos, Marlon E.Sikes, Benjamin A.Soberon, JorgeOsorio-Olvera, LuisBolick, JoshEmmett, Adahttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/348942024-01-09T07:07:36Z2023-01-04T00:00:00ZRelationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university
Peterson, A. Townsend; Cobos, Marlon E.; Sikes, Benjamin A.; Soberon, Jorge; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Bolick, Josh; Emmett, Ada
Background:
Optimizing access to high-quality scientific journals has become an important priority for academic departments, including the ability to read the scientific literature and the ability to afford to publish papers in those journals. In this contribution, we assess the question of whether institutional investment in scientific journals aligns with the journals where researchers send their papers for publication, and where they serve as unpaid reviewers and editors.
Methods:
We assembled a unique suite of information about the publishing habits of our Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, including summaries of 3,540 journal publications by 35 faculty members. These data include economic costs of journals to institutions and to authors, benefits to authors in terms of journal prestige and citation rates, and considerations of ease of reading access for individuals both inside and outside the university. This dataset included data on institutional costs, including subscription pricing (rarely visible to scholars), and “investment” by scholars in supporting journals, such as time spent as editors and reviewers.
Results:
Our results highlighted the complex set of relationships between these factors, and showed that institutional costs often do not match well with payoffs in terms of benefits to researchers (e.g., citation rate, prestige of journal, ease of access). Overall, we advocate for greater cost-benefit transparency to help compare different journals and different journal business models; such transparency would help both researchers and their institutions in investing wisely the limited resources available to academics.
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2023-01-04T00:00:00ZCryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)Woodman, NealTimm, Robert M.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/348732023-12-15T07:05:34Z2023-12-01T00:00:00ZCryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)
Woodman, Neal; Timm, Robert M.
The blackish small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Allen, 1895), is a blarinine soricid that occurs in high-elevation premontane wet forests and cloud forest in the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama. The species is taxonomically monotypic, although it exhibits size variation that manifests as a gradual increase in size from northwest to southeast. Habitat loss is currently the greatest threat to the species’ existence, although populations in the few areas where C. nigrescens has been studied appear to be healthy, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies it as a species whose conservation status is “Least Concern.” We include a complete synonymy for the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848.
2023-12-01T00:00:00ZInnovations that changed Mammalogy: dermestid beetles—the better way to clean skullsTimm, Robert M.McLaren, Suzanne B.Genoways, Hugh H.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/348562023-11-26T07:07:54Z2020-08-01T00:00:00ZInnovations that changed Mammalogy: dermestid beetles—the better way to clean skulls
Timm, Robert M.; McLaren, Suzanne B.; Genoways, Hugh H.
2020-08-01T00:00:00Z