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    Ross Mounce
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    Ross Mounce

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    I was a postdoc in Sam Brockington's lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. My research was on ex-situ conservation of threatened plant species around the world. More generally my skills and knowledge-base are in phylogenetics, bioinformatics, systematics, and conservation biology.

    In 2016 I became a Software Sustainability Institute fellow and a Data Carpentry instructor. Prior to this I was a Panton Fellow for Open Data in Science. I sit on council for the Systematics Association and I'm a founding editor of Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) http://riojournal.com/

    Biodiversity Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning Paleontology Taxonomy

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    University of Bath
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    Director of Open Access Programmes

    Arcadia Fund
    June 2017

    Postdoc

    University of Cambridge
    December 2015 - May 2017
    Department of Plant Sciences
    Documenting global patterns in ex-situ conservation of threatened plant species

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    July 3, 2016 - Version: 1
    Ten simple rules for writing a comparative software review
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    Amy Beeston, Larisa Blazic, Neil Chue Hong, Richard Domander, Ross Mounce, Robin T Wilson
    bioinformatics
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    software-engineering
    https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2221v1
    January 5, 2015 - Version: 1
    Dark Research: information content in many modern research papers is not easily discoverable online
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    Ross Mounce
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    https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.773v1

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    19 Jul 2013

    Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data

    First of all: congratulations. This is a _really_ good paper and I really hope *everyone* in ecology & evolution (& beyond!) reads it. That said. There's a couple of minor thing...

    1 vote
    19 Jul 2013

    Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data

    [comment 2/2] Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity: It would appear to me that there are licences on some of the data there e.g. all the LTER datasets http://knb.ecoinformatics.or...

    1 vote
    19 Jul 2013

    Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data

    A shorter comment this time... with Table 2 the meaning of the Access column and it's scoring isn't clear to me. A) Figshare allows data to be uploaded and held privately ind...

    1 vote
    12 Feb 2014

    The fractal dimension of the tree of life

    I think the investigation of fractal dimension in phylogeny is very interesting and this paper is a novel effort towards that. Congratulations. But may I suggest that you perfor...

    1 vote
    04 Nov 2015

    rotl, an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data

    First of all, great package! I look forward to using it. Thanks too for using PeerJ PrePrints, I'm not as motivated to post comments elsewhere but I like the StackOverflow-style po...

    04 Jul 2013

    Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    You write: "Systematic reviews have not however been as frequent, i.e. there are approximately 400 meta-analyses in ecology and only 26-30 systematic reviews to date (Web of Knowle...

    04 Jul 2013

    Formalized synthesis opportunities for ecology: systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    Another comment: "Oikos is currently ranked fifth in ecological journals publishing meta-analyses" Who's ranking, for what year, and how big is the subset of ecological journals...

    30 Dec 2014

    Impact of wolf hunting policy on moose populations in northern Minnesota

    **Clarifying Authorship** Throughout the paper you use the plural personal pronoun "we" and most pages have the header "Mackey and Kelly", yet there is only one author (Kelly) l...

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    about Phylogenetic congruence of lichenised fungi and algae is affected by spatial scale and taxonomic diversity
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