Anthropology - San Diego State University
... Anthropologists study the biological characteristics, evolutionary history, geographic distribution, environmental adaptations, linguistic practices, social relationships, institutions, customs, knowledge, myths, and cultural processes of human populations. The anthropology major provides a broad ...
... Anthropologists study the biological characteristics, evolutionary history, geographic distribution, environmental adaptations, linguistic practices, social relationships, institutions, customs, knowledge, myths, and cultural processes of human populations. The anthropology major provides a broad ...
CV - Northern Arizona University
... Additional duties: Co-leading lab initiative to quantitatively and spatially assess natural resources across the greater Grand Canyon region; advising graduate students; supervising undergraduate interns; leading lab meetings and current literature discussions; conducting $1.4 million, 4-year Depa ...
... Additional duties: Co-leading lab initiative to quantitatively and spatially assess natural resources across the greater Grand Canyon region; advising graduate students; supervising undergraduate interns; leading lab meetings and current literature discussions; conducting $1.4 million, 4-year Depa ...
Evolution in Population Parameters: Density
... evolution for several reasons. Density-dependent selection is the simplest form of feedback between an ecological effect of an organism’s own making (crowding due to sustained population growth) and the selective response to the resulting conditions. In addition, density-dependent selection is one o ...
... evolution for several reasons. Density-dependent selection is the simplest form of feedback between an ecological effect of an organism’s own making (crowding due to sustained population growth) and the selective response to the resulting conditions. In addition, density-dependent selection is one o ...
Plant–soil feedbacks: connecting ecosystem ecology and evolution
... Key-words: above-ground–below-ground relationships, eco-evolutionary dynamics, ecosystem ecology, G 9 G interactions, plant–soil feedback, selection, soil gradients, soil microbes Introduction Plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) have important evolutionary implications because they are associated with change ...
... Key-words: above-ground–below-ground relationships, eco-evolutionary dynamics, ecosystem ecology, G 9 G interactions, plant–soil feedback, selection, soil gradients, soil microbes Introduction Plant–soil feedbacks (PSF) have important evolutionary implications because they are associated with change ...
Biblio RTF Export - Global Invasive Alien Species Information
... J. K. Webb, D. Pearson, and R. Shine, ?A small dasyurid predator (Sminthopsis virginiae) rapidly learns to avoid a toxic invader?, Wildlife ResearchWildlife Research, vol. 38, pp. 726-731, 2011. J. K. Webb, G. P. Brown, T. Child, M. J. Greenlees, B. L. Phillips, and R. Shine, ?A native dasyurid pred ...
... J. K. Webb, D. Pearson, and R. Shine, ?A small dasyurid predator (Sminthopsis virginiae) rapidly learns to avoid a toxic invader?, Wildlife ResearchWildlife Research, vol. 38, pp. 726-731, 2011. J. K. Webb, G. P. Brown, T. Child, M. J. Greenlees, B. L. Phillips, and R. Shine, ?A native dasyurid pred ...
Mandalay - city of Buddha, centre of diversity, or whose city now?*
... Win Pe (2001) in his poem writes that “we cherish our ancestors’ true heritage”. Who is the we and which ancestors and whose heritage is to be cherished? What is the “true heritage” of the ancestors of Myanmar? Who authenticates this true heritage? Who is being referred to in the statement of “our c ...
... Win Pe (2001) in his poem writes that “we cherish our ancestors’ true heritage”. Who is the we and which ancestors and whose heritage is to be cherished? What is the “true heritage” of the ancestors of Myanmar? Who authenticates this true heritage? Who is being referred to in the statement of “our c ...
Hopscotch modernism - Modernist Cultures
... Henderson’s photographs also relate to the work of a photographer like Brassaï whose photographs of street graffiti, of carved hearts and faces on the stone walls of Paris, also suggest an anthropological eye. Brassaï’s introduction to this collection of photographs, Graffiti, makes the anthropologi ...
... Henderson’s photographs also relate to the work of a photographer like Brassaï whose photographs of street graffiti, of carved hearts and faces on the stone walls of Paris, also suggest an anthropological eye. Brassaï’s introduction to this collection of photographs, Graffiti, makes the anthropologi ...
Competition between distantly related taxa
... failure of the comparative approach to cope with the complexities posed by competition between distantly related taxa, works against the detection of patterns, which is the starting point for most ecological inquiries. These methodological difficulties in recognizing patterns demonstrated by phyloge ...
... failure of the comparative approach to cope with the complexities posed by competition between distantly related taxa, works against the detection of patterns, which is the starting point for most ecological inquiries. These methodological difficulties in recognizing patterns demonstrated by phyloge ...
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... Edward O. Wilson (Cambridge, MA, USA), ECI Prize winner 1987 in terrestrial ecology. Quotation of the Jury (Chairman: Sir Richard Southwood, Oxford, UK) Professor E. O. Wilson is distinguished for his many contributions to different aspects of ecology and evolutionary biology. His life-time love of ...
... Edward O. Wilson (Cambridge, MA, USA), ECI Prize winner 1987 in terrestrial ecology. Quotation of the Jury (Chairman: Sir Richard Southwood, Oxford, UK) Professor E. O. Wilson is distinguished for his many contributions to different aspects of ecology and evolutionary biology. His life-time love of ...
1. the harmless drudge : defining ethnomusicology
... such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as a teacher of Western music. Many students of ethnomusicology undertake very quickly a specialized allegiance to the music of a particular culture or area, and even a particu ...
... such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East. Some turn to ethnomusicology after a period of living in a non-Western culture as a teacher of Western music. Many students of ethnomusicology undertake very quickly a specialized allegiance to the music of a particular culture or area, and even a particu ...
Ecological Role of Predators - National Wolfwatcher Coalition
... Large terrestrial carnivores, e.g. wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their position at the apex of trophic systems. Changes to their populations reverberate through ecological communities; consequently their widespread decline in numbers and shrinking distribution due to human p ...
... Large terrestrial carnivores, e.g. wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their position at the apex of trophic systems. Changes to their populations reverberate through ecological communities; consequently their widespread decline in numbers and shrinking distribution due to human p ...
Parasites as predators - University of South Florida
... Figure 2. Flow diagrams for different types of community-level interactions. (a) Comparison of resource use in predator–prey, parasite–host and competitive interactions. Arrows indicate positive (blue), negative (red) or neutral (0) effects. As with a predator, a parasite benefits from its host and ...
... Figure 2. Flow diagrams for different types of community-level interactions. (a) Comparison of resource use in predator–prey, parasite–host and competitive interactions. Arrows indicate positive (blue), negative (red) or neutral (0) effects. As with a predator, a parasite benefits from its host and ...
Linking Scales in Stream Ecology
... species in this dry-season refuge was enhanced because hypoxia caused predators to cease feeding to conserve oxygen. The persistence of Poecilia gillii along a steep-gradient, intermittent stream reach in Costa Rica depended on the availability of hydrologically stable pools and the ability of fish ...
... species in this dry-season refuge was enhanced because hypoxia caused predators to cease feeding to conserve oxygen. The persistence of Poecilia gillii along a steep-gradient, intermittent stream reach in Costa Rica depended on the availability of hydrologically stable pools and the ability of fish ...
Macquarie University Anthropology Graduate Capabilities
... Kansas State University: http://www.k-state.edu/sasw/anlearning.html Two SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) and their major components are described below: 1. Anthropological Approach: Students will demonstrate basic knowledge of the holistic four-field nature of anthropology and the concepts and inte ...
... Kansas State University: http://www.k-state.edu/sasw/anlearning.html Two SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) and their major components are described below: 1. Anthropological Approach: Students will demonstrate basic knowledge of the holistic four-field nature of anthropology and the concepts and inte ...
FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: TOWARD AN O J. S
... ecosystems. This claim is based on several separate observations. First, the biotic part of an ecosystem can be universally envisioned as being composed of chains of consumers that are themselves resources for other consumers (Odum and Biever 1984, Paine 1988, Tilman 1989, Hairston and Hairston 1993 ...
... ecosystems. This claim is based on several separate observations. First, the biotic part of an ecosystem can be universally envisioned as being composed of chains of consumers that are themselves resources for other consumers (Odum and Biever 1984, Paine 1988, Tilman 1989, Hairston and Hairston 1993 ...
Syllabus for F612
... No textbook is required for this course; readings will be assigned from the primary literature. All readings will either be distributed via email, or placed on eReserves (http://eres.uaf.edu/eres/default.aspx) [PASSWORD: larvae]. In addition to required discussion readings, I will provide a general ...
... No textbook is required for this course; readings will be assigned from the primary literature. All readings will either be distributed via email, or placed on eReserves (http://eres.uaf.edu/eres/default.aspx) [PASSWORD: larvae]. In addition to required discussion readings, I will provide a general ...
On Culture, Thick and Thin - U
... concept has attracted widespread criticism and generated considerable debate from both without and within. Among scholars working outside the tradition, the concept of political culture (and of culture more generally) has been attacked in various ways as a throwback to discredited ideas about nation ...
... concept has attracted widespread criticism and generated considerable debate from both without and within. Among scholars working outside the tradition, the concept of political culture (and of culture more generally) has been attacked in various ways as a throwback to discredited ideas about nation ...
Trophic promiscuity, intraguild predation and the problem of omnivores
... both significant positive and negative effects; the negative reports do not cease to be valid in their own right just because they are less common on average than the positive ones. Perhaps the more interesting question is why the effects of multi-predator species on pest suppression appear to be co ...
... both significant positive and negative effects; the negative reports do not cease to be valid in their own right just because they are less common on average than the positive ones. Perhaps the more interesting question is why the effects of multi-predator species on pest suppression appear to be co ...
Symbol
... From the beginning of Part One, Nastasya Filippovna appears to be a fascinating, wild creature who is rebelling against the "natural” role of woman for her time. The shock and scandal that seems to surround her exploits suggests that her actions are not within the confines of her "role". Howev ...
... From the beginning of Part One, Nastasya Filippovna appears to be a fascinating, wild creature who is rebelling against the "natural” role of woman for her time. The shock and scandal that seems to surround her exploits suggests that her actions are not within the confines of her "role". Howev ...
RTF - University of Mauritius
... Written examinations for all modules will be carried out at the end of the academic year except for DE modules and some Semester Modules (unless otherwise stated). Relevant information will be provided to the students prior to delivery of the modules. The continuous assessment will count for 30% fo ...
... Written examinations for all modules will be carried out at the end of the academic year except for DE modules and some Semester Modules (unless otherwise stated). Relevant information will be provided to the students prior to delivery of the modules. The continuous assessment will count for 30% fo ...
Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture1
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
... restricted to working brains; rather, cognition, as cognitive anthropologist Ed Hutchins (1995) puts it, is distributed. Let us call ‘ethnographic representations’ those representations that have a significant role in the causal cognitive chains that lead to the production of published ethnographie ...
Physiological Ecology of Rocky Intertidal Organisms: A
... populations (Rand et al., this volume), and lead to different physiological characteristics in conspecifics from different habitats. It is clear that intertidal biologists have yet to fully consider the ecological consequences of such genetic variation for most species of intertidal organisms. Clear ...
... populations (Rand et al., this volume), and lead to different physiological characteristics in conspecifics from different habitats. It is clear that intertidal biologists have yet to fully consider the ecological consequences of such genetic variation for most species of intertidal organisms. Clear ...
An empiricist guide to animal personality variation in ecology and
... temporal framework that adequately captures the important variation in repeatability within and amongst individuals. ...
... temporal framework that adequately captures the important variation in repeatability within and amongst individuals. ...
Introduction to Ecology PPT
... • Species transplants include organisms that are intentionally or accidentally relocated from their original distribution • Species transplants can disrupt the communities or ecosystems to which they have been introduced ...
... • Species transplants include organisms that are intentionally or accidentally relocated from their original distribution • Species transplants can disrupt the communities or ecosystems to which they have been introduced ...
ANTH - Webster University
... or social, and which are from a biological template for being a man? If we claim that gender is a social and cultural construct, what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more ethno-graphic work has been produced that gives us a firm foundation for investigating cross-cultural met ...
... or social, and which are from a biological template for being a man? If we claim that gender is a social and cultural construct, what exactly does that mean? Since the early 1980s, more and more ethno-graphic work has been produced that gives us a firm foundation for investigating cross-cultural met ...