In a student email this morning: “being a psychology major this is my first bio blitz...this has to be the most fun I have had all semester...I am terrible at catching the specimens it has been a really great experience.”
And earlier in the week a team came by my office:
“We’re looking for #mollusks but aren’t sure where to find them.” 😂
I sent them to flip logs for slugs and look in ditches and ponds for snails.
The teams have 1 more day to add to their #animal#biodiversity collections (photos, no actual specimens collected).
a group of #zoology students just told me about a 2-for-1 find for their #bioblitz photo collection: dead mouse (Phylum Chordata) and maggots (Phylum Arthropoda). Sweet 😄
They also asked where they could find mollusks...we'll see if any teams are successful with that group!
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🏙️#Sex biases in the individuals studied in the lab & field. Why is it more often males of a species? What data are we missing because of that bias? 🤔
(Prompted by: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…)
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Any recommendations for ways to collect data about color & pattern from images of #wildlife? We want to quantify things like %cover by a color & intensity.
Have enjoyed reading some of the work by Davis & Grayson on quantifying #color, hue, % coverage in #newts and other animals.
They used Fovea Pro, a Photoshop add in. The newer version (QIA-64) costs ~$800 😬
Am also considering the methods of Paterson & Blouin-Demers where they quantify continuous variation in throat color in #lizards using Adobe & ultimately analysis in #imageJ (but haven't had time to test it out yet)