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Foundations of Ecology

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Animated Foundations of Ecology

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An update from Joshua Scholl on a project he's working on:

These videos were created with a centennial grant fund from the Ecological Society of America--two of them are classics in the American Naturalist. The videos are free to view at http://ecomotionstudios.com/video.php and animate the following papers:

 

  1. "Huffaker's Balancing Act" Huffaker C. 1958. Experimental studies on predation: Dispersion factors and predator-prey oscillations. Hilgardia 27(14):343-383
  2. "The World is Green" Hairston, N. G., F. E. Smith, and L. B. Slobodkin. 1960. Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition. The American Naturalist 94:421–425.
  3. "Life of Every Color and Kind" Paine, R. T. 1966. Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity. The American Naturalist 100:65–75.
  4. "Mangrove Melody" Simberloff, D. S., and E. O. Wilson. 1969. Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands. Ecology 50:278–296.