Testing for mimicry—An evolutionary biologist’s wish list

A taxonomic wish-list for community ecology.

Community ecology seeks to explain the number and relative abundance of coexisting species. Four research frontiers in community ecology are closely tied to research in systematics and taxonomy: the statistics of species richness estimators, global patterns of biodiversity, the influence of global climate change on community structure, and phylogenetic influences on community structure. The mos...

A science editor's wish list

One-sentence summary: This article presents an experience-based opinion on resources that would help author's editors working on scientific manuscripts perform their tasks more efficiently. Before I stumbled into a career in science editing, I had not fully appreciated how multi-layered the task of an author's editor can be; I had barely even known that such a profession existed. I began to enj...

A wish list for systematic biology.

—“When you’re movin’ in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.” Stevie Wonder, “Master Blaster (Jammin’),” 1980 This is the last of several commentaries solicited by the Editor on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of our society. Whereas previous installments have reected on key episodes in the past, this one concerns the future. The distant future is hard to predict, except ...

Book Review Evolutionary genetics for organismal biologists

Current Issues and a “Wish List” for Conjoint Analysis

Conjoint analysis is one of the most celebrated tools in Marketing, and its widespread use (not just widespread publication history) has been one of the greatest success stories in Marketing/Business of the academic and practitioner interface. In this article, I provide a wish-list, of sorts, summarizing current cutting-edge research that is trying to fill some holes, and other issues that I "w...