Ecological Evolution Group 生态进化组
Posted in News on Jun 30th, 2009
Chuck Cannon presented the results of his recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) entitled, “The current refugial rainforests of Sundaland are unrepresentative of their biogeographic past and highly vulnerable to disturbance” at the the 28th meeting of the Willi Hennig Society in Singapore. Dr. Cannon’s talk was part of [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Jun 30th, 2009
Okay, I have been debating whether I should post this or not but here goes. I have been involved with the DNA barcode idea through a series of strange events and communications, most of them from rather irrational proponents of the DNA barcode idea – including calling me a ‘reptile brain’. Hmm. Okay, sounds like [...]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 21st, 2009
Prof. Cannon is lead author on a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) that presents a spatially explicit model of rainforest distribution through the last million years in Sundaland. Sundaland is the ‘sub-continent’ of the major islands of Indonesia and Malaysia which were joined during previous ice ages but [...]
Posted in Chuck's Blog on Jun 21st, 2009
In Singapore for a week – meetings mainly, see some friends – I mainly wanted to comment on how connected we all are and how much this has changed our lives. Modern life is incredibly different than it ever has been and the change is pervasive, not as if only a small fraction of the [...]
