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Higher-order interactions enhance the latitudinal tree diversity gradient
Abstract The global decrease in species diversity from low to high latitudes is among the most robust biogeographic patterns1,2. There is continuing debate on the contribution of conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) to the latitudinal diversity gradient evident for trees3,4. Theory suggests that CNDD based on pairwise interactions alone is not sufficient to explain the intricacies of diverse communities, because higher-order interactions (HOIs) may greatly modify these interactions5,6.
The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity
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Abstract Although competition and facilitation both influence tree diversity1,2,3,4,5, their relative importance and variation with latitude remain poorly understood.
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Wind acclimation in a subtropical forest: trees on wind‐exposed slopes are shorter with smaller crowns
Fig. S1 Direction of prevailing winds in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot. Fig. S2 Distributions of tree height (m), diameter at breast height (cm), crown area (m2), and crown volume (m3) of 124 trees in this study. Fig. S3 Pearson's correlations of environmental variables and architectural metrics of all 124 trees in this study. Fig. S4 Log–log allometric relationships between stem diameter at breast height (cm) and height*crown area (m2) of 124 trees in this study.
9 Facts About Krampus, St. Nick’s Demonic Companion
You don’t want to get on Krampus’s bad side. By Jess Zimmerman|1 hour ago St. Nick brings the gifts, and Krampus brings the pain. Here are some things you might not have known about Santa'’s demonic companion. Krampus is a Christmas demon. December 5 belongs to Krampus. If you survive, you might get presents. Krampus may be a monster, but he pals around with Santa. Krampus revelers will hit, push, and whip spectators at their parades.
There’s a Theory That All Monsters Are Gay. So What Does That Make J.D. Vance?
Politics I am delighted to inform you that all monsters are gay. Zombies are gay. Werewolves are gay. Godzilla is gay. Vampires are obviously gay. Mothman is gay, as are all other cryptids. Frankenstein is gay in, like, 20 different ways. The Babadook, you may have heard, is gay. Swamp Thing is trans, and also gay.
The Unexpected Corner of Culture That Explains a Lot About the Election
I am delighted to inform you that all monsters are gay. The queerness here is not so much about whom the monsters sleep with—I don’t want to picture the Babadook getting busy, and neither do you—as it is about the queer community’s enthusiastic adoption of monsters, cryptids, and other weird little guys as beloved avatars.
There’s a Theory That All Monsters Are Gay. So What Does That Make J.D. Vance?
Generate Key Takeaways I am delighted to inform you that all monsters are gay. Zombies are gay. Werewolves are gay. Godzilla is gay. Vampires are obviously gay. Mothman is gay, as are all other cryptids. Frankenstein is gay in, like, 20 different ways. The Babadook, you may have heard, is gay. Swamp Thing is trans, and also gay.
20th‐Century hurricanes leave long‐lasting legacies on tropical forest height and the abundance of a dominant wind‐resistant palm
1 INTRODUCTION Tropical cyclones represent the dominant natural disturbance in many coastal temperate and tropical forests (Lin et al., 2010; Lugo, 2008). Since cyclonic storms derive their energy from ocean heat, their intensity is forecasted to rise with a warming climate, with some of the most significant increases in the North Atlantic (Balaguru et al., 2018; Knutson et al., 2010, 2019; Walsh et al., 2016).
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests
1 INTRODUCTION The coexistence in a single hectare of tropical rainforest of hundreds of tree species has long been a beguiling puzzle for ecologists. Understanding such high levels of local diversity is even more puzzling given that most seedlings recruit in the closed-canopy shaded understory and have long appeared to be functionally equivalent shade-tolerant species (Hubbell, 2001; Wright, 2002).
QGIS orthographic projection problem
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Is there any way to project a QGIS map into solid shapes?
Asked today Viewed 8 times I got a request to produce a world map that can be printed, cut, and assembled into a globe. I know there are ways to make fairly simple shapes, but the guy wants a geodetic sphere, which has 720 triangular surfaces. Is there any way to do this? 1 Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Twitter, or Facebook. Thanks for contributing an answer to Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange! Please be sure to answer the question.
My QGIS styles don't appear anywhere
Asked today Viewed 9 times I created a smart group in the Style Manager, but when I save a style (using "Save Style") in the layer properties window, the styles don't appear anywhere, either in the style manager or in the regular preset window. When I'm in the style manager and try to add a style, it forces me to recreate it. I must be missing something. How do I get my styles into the style manager? Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Twitter, or Facebook.
Catalogue of super-trees in Istria (Croatia) created as a result of the citizen science action
1 Introduction 1.1 Importance of large old trees Large old trees are some of the biggest and oldest living organisms on the Earth (Lindenmayer et al., 2012). They are important elements of the ecosystem and represent valuable ecological, environmental, and historical heritage (Mattioni et al., 2020). Large old trees are individuals established over a long period and which have survived environmental changes and human interventions.
How to smooth river/road paths in QGIS
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Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade-offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests.
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Taylor Swift removed "fat" from her "Anti-Hero" video. Here's why the moment didn't work artistically.
Medical Examiner She removed the word from her “Anti-Hero” video following backlash. But was it working artistically? By Rebecca Onion, Shannon Palus, and Jess Zimmerman Oct 27, 20223:42 PM There’s a moment in Taylor Swift’s music video for her new song “Anti-Hero” where she steps on a scale—and instead of a number, the scale says “FAT.” Or, there was such a moment. As of Thursday, after much online commentary, multiple platforms now feature a new version of the video.
What makes the Hocus Pocus movies so frustrating and not really witch friendly.
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9 Books About Monstrous Transformations
I have always been drawn to the uncanny, to the strange that doesn’t feel strange, to the stories that can frighten us at the same time that they reveal the brutal truths of our realities. As Lydia Dietz says in Beetlejuice when asked why she can see the spirits of the dead, “Live people ignore the strange and unusual.
I Gave Up Pants—But Femininity Is Just As Binding | Jess Zimmerman
This is I Give Up, a new series from Catapult magazine on the things—habits, expectations, jobs, ambitions, futures, and more—that people have let go of in the past few years. I am not built right for pants. It’s something about fat, but also fat distribution: not just how much of it I have, but where it is and in what proportions. Jeans that most people would consider mid-rise or high-rise hit me right in the middle of a bulge, which is both uncomfortable and unworkable.
Theory of Knowledge | Jess Zimmerman
Name: Date: Philosophy 120 T–Th 3:30–4:45 This final exam will count for 40 percent of your course grade. In the space below, please provide an example of each listed cognitive bias. Reactance When I thought you didn’t want me, I would have done anything. Attentional bias Everyone on the department website has an official headshot, except you. (I looked. Of course I looked.) Instead you have a snapshot taken near dusk, near winter, your jacket zipped to your jaw.
There's No Such Thing As Too Many Personal Essays...(Here Are 7 of Them.)
Welcome to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Catapult, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub — and now many additional publications. In addition to the weekly curation, there are now occasional original personal essays under the heading of First Person Singular, for paying subscribers. If you haven’t become a paid subscriber, please consider becoming one.
WOMEN AND OTHER MONSTERS
Vanessa Moyen's narration is the perfect blend of the heartfelt and the academic in this collection of essays about the feminist possibilities of female monsters. Zimmerman examines some of Greek mythology's most famous female monsters, from Circe to Medusa, and the traits that make them monstrous: greed, hunger, ambition, ugliness.
Who Is Steven Hotdog? Or, Untangling the “Braided Essay” | Jess Zimmerman
When I first heard the term “braided essay,” a form of creative nonfiction that interweaves multiple storylines or topics, I felt an immediate spark of recognition—and an equal one of embarrassment. Like many people without formal training who stumble into a pursuit for which training very much exists, I had been assembling obvious, time-tested concepts about writing from scratch.
What Do We Mean When We Call a Character a “Monster”?
Many years ago, before I knew it was a cliche to get into a fight with a man on the internet about Lolita, I got into a fight with a man on the internet about Lolita. He was arguing the position that Humbert Humbert, literature’s most high-gloss pedophile, was simply heeding any red-blooded straight man’s desire for preadolescent girls. I was arguing the position that he was being a sucker, and also, yuck.
The Construction of Language in Riddley Walker
I don’t recommend my favorite book, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, without a lot of caveats.
A Cow with a Hole in It | Jess Zimmerman
The thing that’s so difficult about personal essays is that they’re awfully personal. I realize saying this lands me somewhere on a spectrum from Yogi Berra to Randall from Clerks (“This job would be great if it wasn’t for all the fucking customers”). But there’s a robust, if a bit paradoxical, population of writers who want to use our own lives as the substrate for our work while also remaining completely unperceived.
I Got an Artificial Intelligence to Write My Novel
According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, among writers “influence always proceeds by misinterpretation.” In The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom argues that writers willfully ignore and misinterpret their predecessors in order to make their canvases as blank as possible. Bloom’s specific stages of anxiety (outlined much like the stages of grief) are a bit too Freudian and peculiar to be truly universal, but he’s right that to create is to exist in a state of anxiety.
Move Over, Poe—The Real Godfather of Gothic Horror Was Nathaniel Hawthorne - Electric Literature
Edgar Allan Poe is generally regarded as the OG of American literature. OG, of course, stands for “Original Goth.” When it comes to the creepy, the weird, and the macabre, Poe takes his place as the grandmaster of the whole black parade. Guillermo del Toro, serving as the series editor of the Penguin Horror line, writes: “It is in Poe that we first find the sketches of modern horror while being able to enjoy the traditional trappings of the Gothic tale.
I Thought This Memoir Wasn't "Taiwanese Enough"—Because That Was My Fear About Myself - Electric Literature
Skip to content books My instinctive reaction to Jessica J. Lee's "Two Trees Make a Forest" helped me understand fault lines in my own sense of national identity In March of 2004, my family and I were at home in Taiwan for the national election, and I got into my first-ever screaming match with a perfect stranger. The election choice, as always, was between the Kuo Ming Tang, which favors reunification with China; and the Democratic People’s Party, which advocates for an independent Taiwan.
The Book Club of My Dreams Was at the Library All Along
A successful book club needs three things to thrive: delicious food, decent wine and wonderful people. Only the first two, food and wine, are easy to find. It is the third element, the people, that is like a jigsaw puzzle with a thousand pieces—something that promises to look like the pretty picture on the box, but which is so complex you may quit before it’s done. Everyone in L.A. seemed to be in a book club, except me.
"A Clockwork Orange" Made Me Long to Be a Monster, But It Only Saw Me as a Victim
Let me crack open a time capsule for you: it’s 2001 and I, a Catholic, 16-year-old high school dropout, have just walked to Blockbuster in my billowing JNCOs to rent a VHS tape of A Clockwork Orange. I will watch the film on the upstairs TV while Fox News blares on the downstairs TV.
twisty little passages | Jess Zimmerman
You are standing in an open field west of a white house. >go Which way do you want to go? North, south, east into the house, west away from the house. >east You walk to the house. The door blocks you from going farther. >inventory You are carrying: a photograph a key a sealed letter >examine photograph Two women, one short with dark skin, one taller and paler, both wearing rings. They look happy.
Rage Becomes Her
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman Reviewed by Kathleen Rooney Reclamation has been a vital feminist tool since the 1970s. That decade saw the dawn of scholarship seeking to pry open the vise-grip of masculinist history—all too often presented with biases both deliberate and unconscious that rendered it hisstory—to reveal the herstory hidden therein.
Graduation caps and gowns made from recycled bottles
Published Mar 16, 2012 Michigan Tech student Emily Baker. (Photo by Sarah Bird.) Seniors at Michigan Tech will be sporting the finest in recycled-bottle couture at their commencement next month. The school’s graduation caps and gowns just look like the standard Hogwarts-uniform deal, but they’re actually made of recycled water bottles. The caps and gowns are made of a yarn called Repreve, which is recycled and recyclable.
Ryan Gosling wants you to recycle
Published Mar 26, 2012 Hey girl, are you tired of the Ryan Gosling “hey girl” meme yet? Haha, LIAR. You’re not, and DoSomething.org knows you’re not, and that’s why they’re using Ryan’s handsome mug to get you to recycle. The group’s “Don’t Be Trashy” campaign is clearly trying to leverage every viral meme on the internet, in a flailing bid to catch the eye of Young People.
A science experiment run by gnomes
Published Mar 21, 2012 A company that makes scales for scientific use has demonstrated slight variations in Earth’s gravitational pull at the surface, in what may the first science experiment to use garden gnomes as instrumentation. Kern, a German company that makes precision scales, sent this little dude on a lab-hopping trip to research stations around the globe. At each stop, scientists weigh Kern the gnome (yes, the gnome is also named Kern) on his travel partner, a highly sensitive scale.
Biodegradable slippers are the new creepy toe shoes (we hope)
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Published Apr 02, 2012 I’m pretty sure this is the ultimate eco-product: a biodegradable shoe modeled after the Amazonian practice of painting resin onto one’s feet to protect them. Should you invest in these lovelies? Let us examine the advantages and disadvantages. Advantages: You can dispose of them in a compost bin. (Pre-shredding required.) You can get rid of the weird foot smell by washing them.
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8-year-old environmentalist raises $250 in 12 hours after friends' parents call her 'stupid' for caring
Published Apr 20, 2012 Reddit is the internet in microcosm — it showcases a lot of gross boneheaded stuff, gives space and succor to every flavor of perversion and bigotry, and is simultaneously full of interesting information, funny quips, and the occasional moment of grace. This story is one of those.
Indian man single-handedly plants hundreds of acres of forest
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Published Apr 02, 2012 In the northern Indian province of Assam, there’s a forest named after one man — not a politician, or a historical hero, but a guy who lives there today. It’s named after him because he planted most of its 1,360 acres. Jadav Payeng, known as Molai, has been living in the area for more than 30 years, planting trees. Once this area was a desolate sandbar; now it’s a jungle that’s home to tigers and rhinoceroses and elephants.
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Dr. Seuss is the reason the bees are dying
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Published Apr 09, 2012 Yeah, you heard me: Dr. Seuss killed the bees. No, wait, stay with me here: See, pesticide kills bees, and, says Mother Jones, a lot of the credit for our widespread use of pesticides may go to Mr. Lorax himself. Before he was Dr. Seuss, Theodore Geisel did cartoons for Standard Oil advertising their Flit bug spray. According to organic farming writer Will Allen, Geisel’s whimsical cartoons made people comfortable with the idea of spraying for bugs.
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Website shows you your place in the universe (and yes, you are very very small)
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Published Apr 19, 2012 The Scale of the Universe is a web-based Total Perspective Vortex that will make you feel very very small — or very very large — with the swipe of a mouse. You start at the scale of humans/dodos/giant earthworms, and from there you can zoom up to galaxies and down to quarks, or you can slow down and take in some surprises along the way.
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The dumbest green bikinis
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Published Apr 20, 2012 As the world heats up, it will be increasingly important to have itty-bitty swimsuits to wear (under your voluminous poncho, of course, once the ozone layer crumbles and turns sunlight to poison). So what swimwear best prepares you for an apocalyptic climate-altered future, while simultaneously being low-impact and sustainable? Whatever, that’s a boring question; here is the swimwear that does it WORST. 1.
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Shark teeth contain their own natural toothpaste
Published Aug 06, 2013 It’s Shark Week, and while the Discovery Channel is apparently kinda fucking it up, that shouldn’t keep us from bringing you a weird science fact about the most terrifying sea creature to probably pose you no threat whatsoever. And that fact is this: Shark teeth have built-in natural toothpaste. The outside of a shark’s tooth is made of fluoride, the same stuff that gets added to toothpaste, mouthwash, and municipal water systems to improve your dental health.
World's cutest frog will cure what ails you
Published Aug 06, 2013 Excuse me. Do you have any troubles in your life? Any troubles at all? Then you need the desert rain frog. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds] Of course, like all good things, the desert rain frog is threatened by human activity. It’s considered a vulnerable species, and is threatened by habitat loss from mining and development.
This newborn two-toed sloth is better than whatever else you were looking at
Just close all your other tabs. Ellen Trout Zoo|https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644293818971289&set=pcb.644298088970862&type=1&theater Published Feb 03, 2014 When the news cycle gets you down, just remember: Baby sloths are probably being born ALL THE TIME, somewhere. And when they’re born at zoos, like this Linne’s two-toed sloth born at the Ellen Trout Zoo in Texas, we get to hear all about it and see pictures. Just close all your other tabs; this is the only one you need.
Climate change could cause zombie smallpox (but, uh, it probably won't) (BUT IT COULD)
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Published Feb 05, 2014 You thought smallpox was eradicated, but then, for a while we thought humanity might not be driving the global climate straight to hell, too. Now, it looks like both of those might be wrong. Could warming global temperatures thaw out the bodies of smallpox victims in Siberia, a place so cold that the virus might have been sent into stasis instead of killed? Could this reanimate the deadly disease for a new global epidemic of zombie smallpox?
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Watch a baby polar bear have his first experience with snow
Published Feb 04, 2014 This utterly precious baby polar bear lives at the Wildlife Health Center at the Toronto Zoo, and since he was only born in November, this is his first experience of winter. Which means you get to watch him have a formative experience: meeting a polar bear’s natural element, snow, for the first time.
We can't get enough of this video of young seals acting like puppies
Published Feb 05, 2014 If you haven’t dreamed of scritching a seal pup behind the ear, I don’t even want to know you. And these divers in the Farne Islands near England got to live that dream with some young Atlantic grey seals, who live near the islands in huge numbers.
Ask your doctor about Not Having Kids, your prescription for a better, greener life
Published Feb 06, 2014 Wanna save the planet — or just have an enjoyable meal at a fancy restaurant? How about hanging onto your disposable income and preventing stress? Try Not Having Kids: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AhGvR0143s] “Not Having Kids is a new alternative to Having Kids that can help you achieve personal happiness,” the childfree spokesperson promises.
Microwaves could be the future for plastic recycling
This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s been almost a decade since Jocelyn Doucet first experimented with recycling plastic waste in a microwave. Now he says the technology derived from those early efforts will make it possible to produce plastic almost exclusively from recycled materials.
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