Sustainability of Human Ecological Niche Construction
... hosts are variably susceptible (S), infected (I), or resistant (R). Future studies could relax this assumption by considering multiple human compartments, such as assuming S-I-R dynamics for human hosts. Rather than precisely describing the dynamics of any particular natural enemy, such as a specifi ...
... hosts are variably susceptible (S), infected (I), or resistant (R). Future studies could relax this assumption by considering multiple human compartments, such as assuming S-I-R dynamics for human hosts. Rather than precisely describing the dynamics of any particular natural enemy, such as a specifi ...
Than Muck Munchers: Detritivores Impact Primary Producer Food Web
... interactions in donor controlled detritivore food webs (Mikola et al. 2002, Moore et al. 2004) compared to primary producer food webs (Grime 1997, Finke and Denno 2005) (Hooper et al. 2005). Although decomposition and primary production are necessarily linked there has been little investigation into ...
... interactions in donor controlled detritivore food webs (Mikola et al. 2002, Moore et al. 2004) compared to primary producer food webs (Grime 1997, Finke and Denno 2005) (Hooper et al. 2005). Although decomposition and primary production are necessarily linked there has been little investigation into ...
Scholarly Interest Report - Faculty Information System - Login
... with Douglas Holmes, . Edited by Melissa Fisher and Douglas Guthrie ""The New Economy In Real Time: Para-Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge."." Volume on the New Economy, from an SSRC conferenceIn Press with Michael Fischer ""Mapping the Culture/Cultural Impact of the Multin ...
... with Douglas Holmes, . Edited by Melissa Fisher and Douglas Guthrie ""The New Economy In Real Time: Para-Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge."." Volume on the New Economy, from an SSRC conferenceIn Press with Michael Fischer ""Mapping the Culture/Cultural Impact of the Multin ...
Cultural Anthropology 102 - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... 1. To understand the race concept what historical knowledge is important? 2. How did science, economics, and politics converge to formulate and impact our current understanding of race? 2. How does the race concept distort and prejudice our ideas about human differences and human behavior? Hint: if ...
... 1. To understand the race concept what historical knowledge is important? 2. How did science, economics, and politics converge to formulate and impact our current understanding of race? 2. How does the race concept distort and prejudice our ideas about human differences and human behavior? Hint: if ...
High School Science
... answer geographic questions about the human and physical characteristics of places and regions. 7 – G1.2.4 Draw the general population distribution of the Eastern Hemisphere I can illustrate the general population distribution of the Eastern on a map, analyze the patterns, and propose two generaliza ...
... answer geographic questions about the human and physical characteristics of places and regions. 7 – G1.2.4 Draw the general population distribution of the Eastern Hemisphere I can illustrate the general population distribution of the Eastern on a map, analyze the patterns, and propose two generaliza ...
Cultural Pluralism: Critique and Application to the Study and
... in the understanding as well of the choice of cultural pluralism as a framework of intellectual disquisition with which to study and analyze these peculiarities. Important to the understanding of the question earlier raised and in the generation of answers, is the simple question: What is a premise? ...
... in the understanding as well of the choice of cultural pluralism as a framework of intellectual disquisition with which to study and analyze these peculiarities. Important to the understanding of the question earlier raised and in the generation of answers, is the simple question: What is a premise? ...
C.V. - The Patrick Lab
... 9. Patrick, C.J. & D.H. Fernandez (2013) Invertebrate β-richness affects ecosystem functioning in stream networks. Oecologia 172: 1105-1115 10. Patrick, C.J. (2013) The effect of shredder diversity on the quality and quantity of fine particulate organic matter. Freshwater Science 32(3): 1026-1035 11 ...
... 9. Patrick, C.J. & D.H. Fernandez (2013) Invertebrate β-richness affects ecosystem functioning in stream networks. Oecologia 172: 1105-1115 10. Patrick, C.J. (2013) The effect of shredder diversity on the quality and quantity of fine particulate organic matter. Freshwater Science 32(3): 1026-1035 11 ...
Appendix 1
... “consum*”) and examined the reference lists of the identified papers. The search was completed on 15 March 2015. ...
... “consum*”) and examined the reference lists of the identified papers. The search was completed on 15 March 2015. ...
Qi Peng
... impact on the overall field of ecology, contributed many important data that redefined various ecological concepts, and provided us with many important principles. Among these studies, an early paper published by Raymond Lindeman is especially important because of its introduction of trophic-dynamic ...
... impact on the overall field of ecology, contributed many important data that redefined various ecological concepts, and provided us with many important principles. Among these studies, an early paper published by Raymond Lindeman is especially important because of its introduction of trophic-dynamic ...
Developing a Theory of Plant-Insect Herbivore Interactions: Are We
... only one of these texts gave a historical perspective of ...
... only one of these texts gave a historical perspective of ...
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
... issues it has long cared about, and the ways in which it relates ideas to the world around us. The course draws on knowledge of the diversity of human societies, experiences, and histories to shed light on people’s understandings of the social world, including thinking about world problems, especial ...
... issues it has long cared about, and the ways in which it relates ideas to the world around us. The course draws on knowledge of the diversity of human societies, experiences, and histories to shed light on people’s understandings of the social world, including thinking about world problems, especial ...
References - Biology Department | UNC Chapel Hill
... Pulse perturbation: A change in the physical or biotic environment of a community that is applied and immediately removed (as immediately as it can be). Quadrat: A vegetation sample of specified shape and area or volume. R: In C-S-R theory, R habitats are ones where there is frequent disturbance, i. ...
... Pulse perturbation: A change in the physical or biotic environment of a community that is applied and immediately removed (as immediately as it can be). Quadrat: A vegetation sample of specified shape and area or volume. R: In C-S-R theory, R habitats are ones where there is frequent disturbance, i. ...
ANTHROPOLOGY Spring 2017
... What is culture and how important is it in explaining the marvelous variations we see in human behavior around the world? Are gender roles fixed? Can you distinguish religion from magic? What do anthropologists do, and how can anthropology contribute to a better world? Besides giving you a grounding ...
... What is culture and how important is it in explaining the marvelous variations we see in human behavior around the world? Are gender roles fixed? Can you distinguish religion from magic? What do anthropologists do, and how can anthropology contribute to a better world? Besides giving you a grounding ...
CONRAD AND MALINOWSKI: THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE
... develops into genuine understanding.”3 Although Griffith’s proposal is a very intriguing one, I cannot fully agree with the conclusion he draws. He states that the difference between Marlow and an anthropologist depends only on the fact that Conrad’s character “is an observer but not a participant:” ...
... develops into genuine understanding.”3 Although Griffith’s proposal is a very intriguing one, I cannot fully agree with the conclusion he draws. He states that the difference between Marlow and an anthropologist depends only on the fact that Conrad’s character “is an observer but not a participant:” ...
Culture: Can You Take It Anywhere?
... These kinds of responses are all too typical. Sometimes they might be right, or some of them might be. But then again, what we don’t understand might well have something to do with this culture concept that we’re trying to make sense of. The odds, based on my lifelong record, recommend a bet that th ...
... These kinds of responses are all too typical. Sometimes they might be right, or some of them might be. But then again, what we don’t understand might well have something to do with this culture concept that we’re trying to make sense of. The odds, based on my lifelong record, recommend a bet that th ...
Subject Benchmark Statement: Anthropology
... cultural forms and systems of meaning. This divergence was greatest in the mid-twentieth century, since when the interests and concerns of both British and American anthropology have tended to merge. The boundaries between social and cultural anthropology are accordingly neither specific nor distinc ...
... cultural forms and systems of meaning. This divergence was greatest in the mid-twentieth century, since when the interests and concerns of both British and American anthropology have tended to merge. The boundaries between social and cultural anthropology are accordingly neither specific nor distinc ...
Social Experiences and the Concepts of Culture
... laboratory Petri dish. However, for anthropologists and other behavioral scientists, culture is the full range of learned human behavior patterns. The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871. Tylor said t ...
... laboratory Petri dish. However, for anthropologists and other behavioral scientists, culture is the full range of learned human behavior patterns. The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871. Tylor said t ...
A Theory of the Social Function of Asceticism
... achieving sanctification, emerges from a psychic and physical regimen of discipline aimed toward controlling and creating within a person an anti-instinctual response subordinated to the religious goal. Asceticism, here, is defined as “a methodical procedure for achieving religious salvation.”2 He i ...
... achieving sanctification, emerges from a psychic and physical regimen of discipline aimed toward controlling and creating within a person an anti-instinctual response subordinated to the religious goal. Asceticism, here, is defined as “a methodical procedure for achieving religious salvation.”2 He i ...
Linking ecosystem and parasite ecology Michel Loreau,
... 2003). These new studies have all shown that plant diversity influences primary production through a complementarity effect generated by niche differentiation (which enhances resource exploitation by the community as a whole) and facilitation. Thus, there is little doubt that species diversity does ...
... 2003). These new studies have all shown that plant diversity influences primary production through a complementarity effect generated by niche differentiation (which enhances resource exploitation by the community as a whole) and facilitation. Thus, there is little doubt that species diversity does ...
Assessing the structure and temporal dynamics of seabird
... (ii) examine for the first time, evidence for temporal changes in this structure and (iii) investigate whether the same conclusions would have been drawn if the prey data were resolved only to higher taxonomic levels (i.e. family, rather than genus or species), which would involve much reduced monit ...
... (ii) examine for the first time, evidence for temporal changes in this structure and (iii) investigate whether the same conclusions would have been drawn if the prey data were resolved only to higher taxonomic levels (i.e. family, rather than genus or species), which would involve much reduced monit ...
The ecology of restoration: historical links, emerging issues and
... underlies the successful practice of restoration, and most restoration practitioners recognize this. Competition and physiological limits have long been a basis of applied plant science, including agronomy, horticulture and restoration. Other concepts, such as the extent of positive interspecific ef ...
... underlies the successful practice of restoration, and most restoration practitioners recognize this. Competition and physiological limits have long been a basis of applied plant science, including agronomy, horticulture and restoration. Other concepts, such as the extent of positive interspecific ef ...
Experimental evidence for an ideal free distribution in a breeding
... of two basins with contrasting productivity was consistent with an IFD. The presence or absence of habitatspecific variation in per capita productivity can have very different consequences for population dynamics, not to mention conservation (Morris 2003). For example, given similar population size a ...
... of two basins with contrasting productivity was consistent with an IFD. The presence or absence of habitatspecific variation in per capita productivity can have very different consequences for population dynamics, not to mention conservation (Morris 2003). For example, given similar population size a ...
Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability
... 20 Michael Soulé, “The Social Siege of Nature,” in Michael Soulé and Gary Lease, eds., Reinventing Nature? (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995), p. 143. 21 Looking at the fossil record of the last 50,000 years, David Jablonski says, “The most important message . . . is that ecological communities ...
... 20 Michael Soulé, “The Social Siege of Nature,” in Michael Soulé and Gary Lease, eds., Reinventing Nature? (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995), p. 143. 21 Looking at the fossil record of the last 50,000 years, David Jablonski says, “The most important message . . . is that ecological communities ...
"Allometry and Metabolic Scaling in Ecology". - People
... plants (Niklas, 1994). In general, this body of work supports Bartholomew’s 1982 contention by showing that many key features of organisms are governed by metabolic rate, and thus by body size, through its effects on metabolic rate. See also: Ecological Consequences of Body Size; Huxley, Julian Sorre ...
... plants (Niklas, 1994). In general, this body of work supports Bartholomew’s 1982 contention by showing that many key features of organisms are governed by metabolic rate, and thus by body size, through its effects on metabolic rate. See also: Ecological Consequences of Body Size; Huxley, Julian Sorre ...