Burrhead & Silverstripe Shiner Manuscript Accepted By Southeastern Naturalist, Alright!

I heard back from an editor at the journal Southeastern Naturalist today, and they've provisionally accepted our manuscript on the reproductive biology of burrhead and silverstripe shiners. It's a huge relief, and also, of course, very happy(!). I have to do some editorial work on the manuscript to satisfy the three reviewers, especially on my statistical analysis of what we found about reproductive effort. But that's good, I admit that my treatment didn't closely follow earlier work and will in all likelihood be improved by the reviewers' suggestions. I started this project three years ago, so finally putting it to bed is a serious sense of accomplishment. I'd like to thank my co-authors Kevin Butler, Amy Woodall and Bob Muller for their work on this project. I'm also happy to publish in Southeastern Naturalist, the home of a wide range of ol' fashioned field ecology research around the former Confederacy (and I just renewed my subscription).