http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/FW-Fractal-discussion-Landscape-bird-songs-tp7589163p7589176.html
Dr. Alaniz seems not yet to be signed on to FRIAM so I am forwarding this to the list.
If you respond to the list, I will forward your response to him; and/or you can write to him directly.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Alberto Jose Alaniz [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 2:34 PM
To: Alicia Juarrero <[hidden email]>
Cc: Tom Johnson <[hidden email]>; Nick Thompson <[hidden email]>; Eloy Cell MIAMI <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs
Hello all, first i will talk from my expertise area, and if I have some problem with theoretical approaches, just tell me. In my point of view the structures of a birds song in a community are highly determined by landscape structure, because some elements of the landscape provide a diversity of habitat in which different species of birds could live. The landscape has two types of heterogeneity, compositional, which are related with the different number of habitat or land covers that compose the landscape; and the configurationally, which are related with the spatial structure of the patches and matrix (size of patches, aggregation, and complexity of patch shape, among others).
In a most complex landscape the variability of habitats increase, increasing the offer for be occupied by different bird species. However this landscape structure is fractal, because depending of the scale of analysis one homogeneous habitat could be disaggregated in other habitats, this will influence the structure of bird songs mainly dependent on the mobility and the home range of the species. For example for a rapacious bird (that fly at high altitude above the canopy), the landscape will be more homogeneous. On the other hand for a little bird e. g. a Rhinocryptidae the landscape will be more heterogeneous. Nevertheless I am not saying that this are the only single variable that explain the structure of bird song at landscape scale, the analysis must be cross-scale in space and time, and using multivariate analysis where we could include a high number of variables that reflects the heterogeneity of landscape.
I sent to you two papers that make an similar analysis using this approach.
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/willig/Willig_pdf/SJ_215_Klingbeil_Willig_2016.pdf
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702016000500600
Alberto Alaniz Baeza
Lic. en Geografía, Geógrafo & Magíster (c) Áreas Silvestres y Conservación
Becario, Laboratorio de Ecología de Ambientes Fragmentados
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Animales, U. de Chile
Investigador, Laboratorio de Ecología de Ecosistemas
Departamento de Recursos Naturales Renovables, U. de Chile
Académico, Centro de Formación Técnica del Medio Ambiente IDMA
2017-02-16 18:12 GMT-03:00 Alicia Juarrero <[hidden email]>:
Hello, to Old Friends (Tom and Nick); nice to meet you, Alberto.
Thanks,Tom, for the introduction.
I take this opportunity to invite you to visit our new website at
I especially invite you to view the videos, click on the all the images, etc.on each of the site's pages & products.
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Alas we do not have cartography for Chile up yet, Alberto, but Florida, I believe, is complete.
I copy Eloy Ortiz who is our Chief Scientist. Alberto he can answer technical questions better than I can.
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Alicia
Associate Scholar, Program on Clinical Neuroethics
Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, D.C.)
Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:
Read down. Perhaps someone you and your guys should know. Epidemiology, etc.
Helloooo, List,
I would like to introduce to you Alberto Alaniz (who describes himself in the communication below). I “met” him on Research Gate when he downloaded a paper of mine on the structural organization of bird song. I noticed that he was writing from a Landscape Department, and I thought, “A landscape person who is interested in birdsong! He must be interested in fractals!” And I was right. So please welcome him. Steve please note?
The idea of his that I particularly want to hear you discuss is his notion that fractality (is that a word?) in one domain can effect, affect, impose? fractality in another. So is there a relationship between the fractality which my research revealed in the organization of bird song and the fractality of the landscapes on which bird behavior is deployed.
I particularly wonder what Kim Sorvig and Jenny Quillen and ProfDave think about this, but also wonder if others on the list could put an oar in.
Thanks,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Alberto Jose Alaniz [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:21 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs
I apreciate so much your invitation, so i really intrested in participate of your discussion group. I am a young researcher finishing my MS, and this types of oportunities look very good for my, specially if i can interact with other scientics. About your question, of course you can share my oppinion, now if you want i can writte a compleate opinion in extenso, and i will send to you tomorrow in the afternon.
My field of study is the ecologial modelling and the conservation biology, the last year i published my firsts papers in Biological conservation and International Journal of Epidemiology, the first one about ecosystem conservation and the secondth is a global model of exposure risk to Zika virus. Currently im working in ecosystems and in assessment of habitat loss in forest specialist species (with Kathryn Sieving from University of Florida).
Alberto Alaniz Baeza
Lic. en Geografía, Geógrafo & Magíster (c) Áreas Silvestres y Conservación
Becario, Laboratorio de Ecología de Ambientes Fragmentados
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Animales, U. de Chile
Investigador, Laboratorio de Ecología de Ecosistemas
Departamento de Recursos Naturales Renovables, U. de Chile
Académico, Centro de Formación Técnica del Medio Ambiente IDMA
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