The historicity of human geography
... geography. Geographers of all persuasions seem able to find solace in ’contextual’ approaches of one kind or another. In the following discussion, the emphasis is upon ’historical’ context and the ways in which it is called upon within geographical theory. Two distinct themes are examined: the place ...
... geography. Geographers of all persuasions seem able to find solace in ’contextual’ approaches of one kind or another. In the following discussion, the emphasis is upon ’historical’ context and the ways in which it is called upon within geographical theory. Two distinct themes are examined: the place ...
New York University
... ethnographic realities and anthropology from the perspective of new spaces of communication focusing on the social, economic and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice, whether in production, reception, or circulation. After some introductory ...
... ethnographic realities and anthropology from the perspective of new spaces of communication focusing on the social, economic and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice, whether in production, reception, or circulation. After some introductory ...
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities and Ecosystems
... To achieve a realistic integration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics for most natural communities, we need to know how the results from two-species communities are changed by the presence of additional species. Two important effects of additional species are: (1) the effect of the population d ...
... To achieve a realistic integration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics for most natural communities, we need to know how the results from two-species communities are changed by the presence of additional species. Two important effects of additional species are: (1) the effect of the population d ...
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems
... To achieve a realistic integration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics for most natural communities, we need to know how the results from two-species communities are changed by the presence of additional species. Two important effects of additional species are: (1) the effect of the population d ...
... To achieve a realistic integration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics for most natural communities, we need to know how the results from two-species communities are changed by the presence of additional species. Two important effects of additional species are: (1) the effect of the population d ...
9th Revision Spring 07
... G19A- evaluate the significance of major technological innovations, including fire, steam power, diesel machinery, and electricity that have been used to modify the physical environment. ...
... G19A- evaluate the significance of major technological innovations, including fire, steam power, diesel machinery, and electricity that have been used to modify the physical environment. ...
Delivering Biodiversity Gain: Experience and Practicalities Dr Julia
... •such biodiversity gains have real conservation value Need a better understanding of what ‘delivering net biodiversity gain’ means in practice ...
... •such biodiversity gains have real conservation value Need a better understanding of what ‘delivering net biodiversity gain’ means in practice ...
Biogeography and ecology: towards the integration of two disciplines
... possible the global analysis of patterns of mammal species richness and phylogenetic diversity described by Davies & Buckley [38]. However, the rush to the global scale carries the risk of abandoning, to some degree, local scales where biogeography, ecology and evolutionary adaptation intersect. Thu ...
... possible the global analysis of patterns of mammal species richness and phylogenetic diversity described by Davies & Buckley [38]. However, the rush to the global scale carries the risk of abandoning, to some degree, local scales where biogeography, ecology and evolutionary adaptation intersect. Thu ...
revisiting theories of invented tradition
... the important functional role traditions play for Aboriginal cultures and societies. 5 For many Aboriginal groups historical traditions are inseparably bound up with contemporary questions of identity, belief, rights, and proprietorship. Accordingly, a challenge to the meaning or authenticity of a t ...
... the important functional role traditions play for Aboriginal cultures and societies. 5 For many Aboriginal groups historical traditions are inseparably bound up with contemporary questions of identity, belief, rights, and proprietorship. Accordingly, a challenge to the meaning or authenticity of a t ...
- Wiley Online Library
... selection In a recent review of terrestrial ecosystems, Allendorf & Hard (2009) pointed out that selection is important for trait evolution. This conclusion was based on theoretical modelling which indicated that size-selective harvesting can cause shifts in trait values. However, the few empirical ...
... selection In a recent review of terrestrial ecosystems, Allendorf & Hard (2009) pointed out that selection is important for trait evolution. This conclusion was based on theoretical modelling which indicated that size-selective harvesting can cause shifts in trait values. However, the few empirical ...
Ecology Name: Date: 1. The diagram below illustrates the
... D. continue in their present forms unless a ected by environmental factors Which letter indicates the carrying capacity of the environment for this population? A. ...
... D. continue in their present forms unless a ected by environmental factors Which letter indicates the carrying capacity of the environment for this population? A. ...
Slide 1
... Why Study Interacting LIDs We know that ecosystems are always recovering from the last disturbance, but how might recovery be affected after a flurry of intense disturbances? This is an important question, given the increasing frequency of LIDs due to both climate change and human land use. ...
... Why Study Interacting LIDs We know that ecosystems are always recovering from the last disturbance, but how might recovery be affected after a flurry of intense disturbances? This is an important question, given the increasing frequency of LIDs due to both climate change and human land use. ...
Predicting and Detecting Reciprocity between Indirect Ecological
... Thompson 2005). Less well known are the potential evolutionary influences of interaction chains and the indirect effects (i.e., the effects of interactions between any two species with one or more intervening species) they generate on individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Here we ex ...
... Thompson 2005). Less well known are the potential evolutionary influences of interaction chains and the indirect effects (i.e., the effects of interactions between any two species with one or more intervening species) they generate on individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Here we ex ...
When Large, Infrequent Disturbances Interact
... Why Study Interacting LIDs We know that ecosystems are always recovering from the last disturbance, but how might recovery be affected after a flurry of intense disturbances? This is an important question, given the increasing frequency of LIDs due to both climate change and human land use. ...
... Why Study Interacting LIDs We know that ecosystems are always recovering from the last disturbance, but how might recovery be affected after a flurry of intense disturbances? This is an important question, given the increasing frequency of LIDs due to both climate change and human land use. ...
the role of ecological culture as an indicator of sustainable
... Cultural ecology is based on the best humanistic and cultural traditions. It creates ecohumane, benevolent, and that is respect for all life forms and conditions that it provides. Ecological culture is aimed, on the one hand, at the liberation of man from natural rigid determination, and the other - ...
... Cultural ecology is based on the best humanistic and cultural traditions. It creates ecohumane, benevolent, and that is respect for all life forms and conditions that it provides. Ecological culture is aimed, on the one hand, at the liberation of man from natural rigid determination, and the other - ...
RE - SMU
... 18. Discuss three key questions that have been important in the study of kinship over the course of the 20th century and how the study of kinship was refocused and regenerated during the 1990s. Contextualize these latter changes in relation to broader theoretical directions in the discipline. Come t ...
... 18. Discuss three key questions that have been important in the study of kinship over the course of the 20th century and how the study of kinship was refocused and regenerated during the 1990s. Contextualize these latter changes in relation to broader theoretical directions in the discipline. Come t ...
Nesting songbirds assess spatial heterogeneity of predatory
... useful for finding appropriate habitat patches, but less so for estimating small-scale spatial heterogeneity necessary for selecting individual territories or nest sites (e.g. Morton 2005). Likewise, performance-based cues, such as personal or conspecific reproductive success, can be useful as integra ...
... useful for finding appropriate habitat patches, but less so for estimating small-scale spatial heterogeneity necessary for selecting individual territories or nest sites (e.g. Morton 2005). Likewise, performance-based cues, such as personal or conspecific reproductive success, can be useful as integra ...
A Philosophical Naturalism 1995 Tags : humanity`s place in nature
... is making headlines in environmental issues that are of enormous importance for the future of nearly all life-forms. Â Â Â Â Defining nature becomes an even more complex task when we include the human species as part of it. Is human society with its ensemble of technologies and artifacts--not to spe ...
... is making headlines in environmental issues that are of enormous importance for the future of nearly all life-forms. Â Â Â Â Defining nature becomes an even more complex task when we include the human species as part of it. Is human society with its ensemble of technologies and artifacts--not to spe ...
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... are focused on plant communities. • In many cases, a “bottom-up” approach may be the most effective– that is, once essential ecosystem components, such as soil structure and geochemistry, hydrological functions, and vegetative structure are restored, animal communities may assemble themselves. Howev ...
... are focused on plant communities. • In many cases, a “bottom-up” approach may be the most effective– that is, once essential ecosystem components, such as soil structure and geochemistry, hydrological functions, and vegetative structure are restored, animal communities may assemble themselves. Howev ...
Island biology and the consequences of interspecific
... notoriously noxious invasive species that disrupts native communities almost everywhere it has been introduced. 4. The paper is really about inferring process (interspecific competition) from patterns (body sizes among islands). 5. And finally, Barun et al. (2015) stress the necessity of knowing one ...
... notoriously noxious invasive species that disrupts native communities almost everywhere it has been introduced. 4. The paper is really about inferring process (interspecific competition) from patterns (body sizes among islands). 5. And finally, Barun et al. (2015) stress the necessity of knowing one ...
Cultural Policy: Rejuvenate or Wither
... With culture leaking beyond its previously restricted domain, cultural policy is as much being made outside as inside cultural policy bureaux. Any exploration of this problem must begin by recognising what we are doing when we set about developing cultural policies. As Virginia Dominguez (2000, 23) ...
... With culture leaking beyond its previously restricted domain, cultural policy is as much being made outside as inside cultural policy bureaux. Any exploration of this problem must begin by recognising what we are doing when we set about developing cultural policies. As Virginia Dominguez (2000, 23) ...
Clinical Paradigm Clashes: Ethnocentric and Political Barriers
... knowledge typically contain tacit cultural commitments (e.g., to individualism, to rationalism, to what is locally considered ‘‘normal’’ sexuality, to tolerance of only culturally familiar intoxicants and medicines, to the primacy of the male sex, to particular cultural views of childrearing or matu ...
... knowledge typically contain tacit cultural commitments (e.g., to individualism, to rationalism, to what is locally considered ‘‘normal’’ sexuality, to tolerance of only culturally familiar intoxicants and medicines, to the primacy of the male sex, to particular cultural views of childrearing or matu ...
anthropology and business
... teamworking with experts of other disciplines. At the same time, their vocation, method and experience tend to make them individualistic and, sometimes, eccentric, and not always good team players. With the gradual spread of applied anthropology more and more anthropologists have learned to overcome ...
... teamworking with experts of other disciplines. At the same time, their vocation, method and experience tend to make them individualistic and, sometimes, eccentric, and not always good team players. With the gradual spread of applied anthropology more and more anthropologists have learned to overcome ...
Anthropology at the Intersections between the local, the national and
... Un’s Declaration of Human rights. There is indeed a fundamental law to moral relativism, tellingly encapsulated by the conundrum, should liberal democratic societies condone everything – including conquest, genocide, discrimination, denial of freedom and civil rights – because of their underlying cu ...
... Un’s Declaration of Human rights. There is indeed a fundamental law to moral relativism, tellingly encapsulated by the conundrum, should liberal democratic societies condone everything – including conquest, genocide, discrimination, denial of freedom and civil rights – because of their underlying cu ...