Ideally, this site would contain two distinct
pieces: (i) a fully interactive version of the SORTIE model
controlled by the reader, and (ii) a hypertext version of the
paper that could be read and printed in many formats and at many
resolutions. Although this scenario may technically be possible, it
would be extremely difficult to implement at this time.
Instead, we present this work as a series of model images and
animations embedded in a traditional paper format. We provide
several ways to navigate the site so that the reader can quickly scan
and jump to the sections of greatest interest.
The site is organized into two distinct sections:
the Quick View and the Paper.
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The Quick View, a brief (1200 words) overview,
provides a simple way to scan the material. It is
heavily illustrated but does not contain literature
citations. |
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The Paper is organized as a traditional research
article. Because electronic publishing does not impose
severe size limits, it is larger than a traditional
article in Science. We use several strategies to make
it easy for the reader to navigate this large paper
without getting overwhelmed by unwanted information. Each
HTML page is short and contains a hyperlinked header
graphic that can be used to jump to any major section of
the paper. In addition, each page is linked with a table
of contents that can be used to find any page of the
article. Finally, supporting information is presented on
separate "details" pages, which are linked to the
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We use several graphical conventions to aid site
navigation.
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Buttons are provided in the navigation frame to the left.
They are linked to the navigation and information pages
of this site. |
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Arrows jump to the previous and next pages in the paper. |
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The Table of Contents button, available at the bottom of all
pages, allows navigation to any page in the paper.
Note, the Quick View and Paper have separate contents. |
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This navigation bar appears at the top of each page of
the paper. Each section of the button is linked to the first
page of the corresponding major section of the paper. The
current section is displayed in red. |
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are available for interested readers; they are essentially
footnotes to the main paper. |
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Pages end with this blue line and are followed by
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This site has been designed for version 3.0
and later of both major browsers. Color graphics
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both GIF and JPEG files for still images and MPEG files
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(1 MB) to download, do not worry. While the animations
are very informative, they are not necessary to follow
this work. Netscape users having trouble viewing the
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- Douglas Deutschman (corresponding author)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Present address: Department of Biology,
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
- Simon Levin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
- Linda Buttel
The Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
- Catherine Devine
The Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science
Foundation (BSR-8918616 and DEB-9221097), the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NAGW-2088, NAGW-3471, NAGW-3703, and
NAGW-4688), the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-90ER 60933 and
DE-FG02-94ER61815), and the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. Michael
Herzog (Cornell Theory Center) and Gregg Hartvigsen (Princeton
University) provided extremely insightful and helpful feedback on
this site. Steve Pacala also deserves credit for his enthusiasm
and guidance as well as his willingness to make SORTIE (including
the source code and input files) available on this site.
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Copyright © 1997
by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.