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Postby AstusAleator on Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:30 am

Would it be possible to have a forum dedicated to ecology and the environment?
It's possible to bring up ecological topics in the various forums, but it's such an interdisciplinary field that it would do well in it's own forum.
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Postby MrMistery on Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:40 pm

Lol... a person named Dave asking for an ecology forum :)
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Postby mith on Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:00 pm

been discussed before :D
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Postby alextemplet on Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:20 am

Sounds like a good idea to me. 8)
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Postby AstusAleator on Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:17 am

Hmm,
I suppose I coulda posted in one of the older forums, but it can't hurt to bring up topic again. After all, I'm right :).
Here's the argument:
If I want to talk about island biogeography, or patterns of extinction using cross/species patterns, I wouldn't have a proper forum to post in. Tropical defaunation. Food webs. Habitat matrixes. The effects of pollution/overpopulation. The list goes on, and on, and on.
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Postby MrMistery on Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:14 pm

Yes you would: general discussion
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Postby AstusAleator on Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:09 am

Fine.
While I have an active topic though, I might as well ask (cuz I can't find out using a search) what's the deal w/biology points? How are they awarded and what are they good for?
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Postby canalon on Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:26 pm

AstusAleator wrote:Fine.
While I have an active topic though, I might as well ask (cuz I can't find out using a search) what's the deal w/biology points? How are they awarded and what are they good for?


There is whole a thread about it in the Forum suggestion. But Basically the answer is "The Admin only knows"... Or from what he told the mod, he has yet to define something...
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Postby Dr.Stein on Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:03 am

Use Search function and apply the keyword(s) ;)
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Postby AstusAleator on Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:59 pm

I would just like to point out that the Mods made a SMASHING GOOD decision in creating the ecology forum, which has now surpassed the bioinformatics forum and will undoubtedly surpass physiology soon.
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Postby alextemplet on Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:37 am

Yes, let's all applaud the mods.

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Postby MrMistery on Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:49 pm

The physiology forum is newer than the ecology one, i think. Also, like I noted before the physiology forum is not quite necessary, as questions in human physiology can go to human biology, questions on animal physiology can go into zoology etc.
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