To all ECOPHYS participants:
Please forward this message to anyone who is interested in joining the
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Thanks,
Hafiz Maherali
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Information for ECOPHYSIOLOGY/bionet.ecology.physiology (moderated)
USENET newsgroup name: bionet.ecology.physiology
(moderated)
One line description: Research and education in physiological
ecology
Mailing list name: ECOPHYSIOLOGY
E-mail posting addresses: ecophys at net.bio.netecophys at daresbury.ac.uk
Moderator:
Hafiz Maherali
Department of Plant Biology
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801-3707
USA
FAX: 217-244-7246
Ph: 217-244-3167
E-mail: h-maher at uiuc.edu
Newsgroup charter:
Physiological ecology currently has its own section within the
Ecological Society of America; it contains nearly 1,000 members.
Current research and teaching interests of ecophysiologists range from
molecular through ecosystem approaches and include all aspects of
nutrient and carbon cycles, cell and whole-organism metabolism, life
history, evolution, and various modeling endeavors. Environmental
physiology is a component of many other related societies, including
those in biometeorology, agriculture, and forestry, all of whom
benefit from and communicate with this group.
It is anticipated that the newsgroup will focus on topics such
as:
* methodologies and instrumentation for ecophysiology
* instructional approaches and teaching environmental physiology
* announcements of meetings and job openings
* discussion of ways to increase awareness and opportunities of
those interested in ecophysiology
MODERATION POLICY
This newsgroup will be moderated to ensure that discussion will
remain useful to the professional ecophysiologist. This group
will be moderated by the head of the Physiological Ecology
Section of the Ecological Society of America, or his/her
designee.
Discussion of controversial issues within ecophysiology (and the
expression and justification of contested viewpoints) is
encouraged. Posts will be rejected that do not contribute to the
discussion, e.g. "flames", posts without any scientific merit, or
posts that do not contribute any new material.
RATIONALE
Physiological ecology and related subdisciplines are rapidly
growing emphasis in ecology with a need to rapidly exchange
technical information and to post queries for solving technical
issues related to field and laboratory studies. Existing
newsgroups are too broad to effectively serve the needs of this
ecological subdiscipline.
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Once again, if you have any administrative questions that require
personal assistance, please address them to biosci-help at net.bio.net in
the U.S. or biosci at daresbury.ac.uk in the UK.<bigger><bigger>
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Hafiz Maherali
Moderator, ECOPHYS
Department of Plant Biology,
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
