Sorry, no help with the question, but say hi to Ole Shelton over in the
Wooton lab for me the next time you see him. We were housemates when he was
working out here at Hopkins a few years back.

At 12:56 AM 5/4/2005, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've been lurking for a little while and thought i should introduce
>myself.  I'm a graduate student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology
>at the University of Chicago interested in macroecology and morphology,
>and will be doing my dissertation research on western Atlantic
>neogastropods.
>
>Research (the short short version):
>I intend to use morphometrics to characterize the shell and the radular
>teeth, and to look at how morphospace occupation varies with species
>richness.  In order to confirm the morphospace represents a functional
>space, i'll be doing a diet-radula analysis, and a variety of
>biomechanical tests of the conch.  Among the larger questions i'm
>interested in, this would allow a rigorous test of MacArthur's hypothesis
>that niche breadth decreases towards the tropics.  Further, this would be
>the first documentation of multi-dimensional morphometric patterns across
>a latitudinal gradient, and may also shed some light on the
>latitude-richness gradient (including the potential for a causal
>explanation).  (I can rephrase this in less jargonated prose if anyone is
>interested, and can also go into rather more detail).
>
>At the moment, i'm in the final stages of preparing to defend my proposal,
>and looking for species lists along the atlantic coast.  I've been having
>a surprisingly hard time finding 'local' species lists given how well
>sampled the Atlantic has probably been.  The best lists i've found have
>been for the Bay of Fundy, and the jaxshells lists for Florida.  What i
>mean by 'local' is a list of marine species living between 0-50m depth
>that are known to occur in some locality.  A locality could be as large
>as a state coastline.  While i am quite aware of Malacolog, its use of
>range based presence or absence reports means that species which don't
>actually occur in an area (perhaps because of lack of appropriate habitat)
>will be reported as present if it occurs north and south of that area.  If
>anyone happens to know of locations i can get representative lists,
>especially the Carolinas, ~Delaware (or neighboring state), and
>Massachusetts (either side of the cape would be great), i would be
>extremely grateful.
>
>Cheers,
>Nicholas Johnson
>
>The University of Chicago
>Committee on Evolutionary Biology
>
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Hopkins Marine Station
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