The Revolution of Science through Scuba
... react to and recover from climate change and human-induced disturbances—requires a firm grasp of natural history (Dayton, 2003), without which ecologists may accept the right hypothesis for the wrong reason (Dayton, 1973), fail to recognize strong controlling interactions of consumer species, or o ...
... react to and recover from climate change and human-induced disturbances—requires a firm grasp of natural history (Dayton, 2003), without which ecologists may accept the right hypothesis for the wrong reason (Dayton, 1973), fail to recognize strong controlling interactions of consumer species, or o ...
Biotic Interactions, Structure, and Long
... Temporal variation may be asynchronous in different patches, and spatial pattern can be viewed as a mosaic of patches at different stages of succession (Watt 1947). Processes affecting larger spatial scales are slower, and their effect is often lagged (Wiens 1989; Zajac et al. 1998). Biotic interact ...
... Temporal variation may be asynchronous in different patches, and spatial pattern can be viewed as a mosaic of patches at different stages of succession (Watt 1947). Processes affecting larger spatial scales are slower, and their effect is often lagged (Wiens 1989; Zajac et al. 1998). Biotic interact ...
Interaction strengths in food webs
... Opportunities. Differences among studies in what they measure as interaction strength highlight differences between the two classes of questions described above. In this respect, the various kinds of interaction strengths can be distinguished into two categories: (1) interaction strengths that refer ...
... Opportunities. Differences among studies in what they measure as interaction strength highlight differences between the two classes of questions described above. In this respect, the various kinds of interaction strengths can be distinguished into two categories: (1) interaction strengths that refer ...
Interaction strengths in food webs - Centre for Biodiversity Theory
... Opportunities. Differences among studies in what they measure as interaction strength highlight differences between the two classes of questions described above. In this respect, the various kinds of interaction strengths can be distinguished into two categories: (1) interaction strengths that refer ...
... Opportunities. Differences among studies in what they measure as interaction strength highlight differences between the two classes of questions described above. In this respect, the various kinds of interaction strengths can be distinguished into two categories: (1) interaction strengths that refer ...
Carola Lentz Culture The making, unmaking and remaking of an
... ent culture concepts, both of which to this day continue to shape how anthropologists talk about culture. In 1871, Tylor published his magnum opus under the ambiguous title Primitive Culture, which can be read as meaning both primitive culture and the culture of primitives. In Great Britain, at the ...
... ent culture concepts, both of which to this day continue to shape how anthropologists talk about culture. In 1871, Tylor published his magnum opus under the ambiguous title Primitive Culture, which can be read as meaning both primitive culture and the culture of primitives. In Great Britain, at the ...
Spring 2013 - Tufts University
... developments in American, British, and French anthropological theory through the 20th century, thinking about the “culture concept,” structure, function, ritual, performance, production, power, post-structuralism, feminist anthropology, representation, interpretive anthropology, and critical anthrop ...
... developments in American, British, and French anthropological theory through the 20th century, thinking about the “culture concept,” structure, function, ritual, performance, production, power, post-structuralism, feminist anthropology, representation, interpretive anthropology, and critical anthrop ...
Landscape elements: patches, corridors, boundaries in a
... Similar deleterious edge effects have been found for plant growth and seed dispersal. Although certain taxa may be favored by ecotonal conditions (such as nest predators), boundaries can act as ecological traps: because they often have more sunlight, edges favor growth of weeds, which have lots of s ...
... Similar deleterious edge effects have been found for plant growth and seed dispersal. Although certain taxa may be favored by ecotonal conditions (such as nest predators), boundaries can act as ecological traps: because they often have more sunlight, edges favor growth of weeds, which have lots of s ...
Evolution of Stable Ecosystems in Populations of
... In both environments 9 resources were present. These could be “metabolized” by performing logical computations. The full set of computations rewarded were: Not, Nand, And, OrNot, Or, AndNot, Nor, Xor, and Equals. To complete one of these computations, the organisms must input one or two 32-bit numbe ...
... In both environments 9 resources were present. These could be “metabolized” by performing logical computations. The full set of computations rewarded were: Not, Nand, And, OrNot, Or, AndNot, Nor, Xor, and Equals. To complete one of these computations, the organisms must input one or two 32-bit numbe ...
What is Humanistic Anthropology?
... anthropologists in attendance elected to formalize their interests by establishing a new scholarly society: The Society on Anthropology and Humanism. The first Anthropology and Humanism Newsletter was published in April 1976. The newsletter (which later became a journal) was a space for debating and ...
... anthropologists in attendance elected to formalize their interests by establishing a new scholarly society: The Society on Anthropology and Humanism. The first Anthropology and Humanism Newsletter was published in April 1976. The newsletter (which later became a journal) was a space for debating and ...
International Congress on Mycorrhizae: mycorrhizal
... of mycorrhizal biotechnologies in agro-ecological engineering strategies and the socio-economic environment of tropical and Mediterranean areas. In the opening conference on the role of arbuscular mycorrhiza for plant health, Prof. Paola Bonfante (Italy) provided an overview on the cellular and mole ...
... of mycorrhizal biotechnologies in agro-ecological engineering strategies and the socio-economic environment of tropical and Mediterranean areas. In the opening conference on the role of arbuscular mycorrhiza for plant health, Prof. Paola Bonfante (Italy) provided an overview on the cellular and mole ...
Culture in Business: Using a Symbolic Approach
... (and misapplied) by management and organizational theorists as frequently as culture. The genesis of this is likely the publishing of Deal and Kennedy’s Corporate Cultures and Peters and Waterman’s In Search of Excellence, both best‐sellers in the early 1980s (Hamada 1998:1; Gamst 1989:15; Jordan ...
... (and misapplied) by management and organizational theorists as frequently as culture. The genesis of this is likely the publishing of Deal and Kennedy’s Corporate Cultures and Peters and Waterman’s In Search of Excellence, both best‐sellers in the early 1980s (Hamada 1998:1; Gamst 1989:15; Jordan ...
Ecology in Global Scenarios - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
... Ecological feedbacks may accentuate human modifications of ecosystems. Changes in ecological functioning produced by unintended ecological feedbacks from human actions appear likely to amplify climate change, decrease agricultural productivity, reduce human health, and increase the vulnerability of ...
... Ecological feedbacks may accentuate human modifications of ecosystems. Changes in ecological functioning produced by unintended ecological feedbacks from human actions appear likely to amplify climate change, decrease agricultural productivity, reduce human health, and increase the vulnerability of ...
Seeing Cooperation or Competition
... 2011). However, conceptions of species interactions remain underexplored in cognitive psychology, despite their pivotal role for understanding of human interactions with nature. Folkecology refers to people’s cognition of ecological relationships between plants, animals (including humans), and envir ...
... 2011). However, conceptions of species interactions remain underexplored in cognitive psychology, despite their pivotal role for understanding of human interactions with nature. Folkecology refers to people’s cognition of ecological relationships between plants, animals (including humans), and envir ...
empirical approaches to quantifying interaction intensity: competition
... Abstract. Quantitative synthesis across studies requires consistent measures of effect size among studies. In community ecology, these measures of effect size will often be some measure of the strength of interactions between taxa. However, indices of interaction strength vary greatly among both the ...
... Abstract. Quantitative synthesis across studies requires consistent measures of effect size among studies. In community ecology, these measures of effect size will often be some measure of the strength of interactions between taxa. However, indices of interaction strength vary greatly among both the ...
References - laral
... and culture goes beyond transmission and it extends to evolution, that is, to change over time in genetic or cultural information. In fact, biology and culture appear to be both instances of a more abstract and general process of evolution which results from the selective transmission of variants in ...
... and culture goes beyond transmission and it extends to evolution, that is, to change over time in genetic or cultural information. In fact, biology and culture appear to be both instances of a more abstract and general process of evolution which results from the selective transmission of variants in ...
Spaces of Indigenous cultural performance as spaces of
... In developing their typology of resistance in the context of social movements, Hollander and Einwohmer (2004: 536-538) argue that the core features of resistance are the ‘act’, the ‘intent’ and ‘opposition’. Nonetheless, they point out that there is a distinction between resistance as an act of coll ...
... In developing their typology of resistance in the context of social movements, Hollander and Einwohmer (2004: 536-538) argue that the core features of resistance are the ‘act’, the ‘intent’ and ‘opposition’. Nonetheless, they point out that there is a distinction between resistance as an act of coll ...
Chapter 1 What is Biological Anthropology
... 63. Discuss the scope of biological anthropology using three related disciplines as examples. What do these related disciplines have in common? How do they differ? 64. Provide a brief discussion of the roots of modern biological anthropology. Explain the specific contribution of Sherwood Washburn. 6 ...
... 63. Discuss the scope of biological anthropology using three related disciplines as examples. What do these related disciplines have in common? How do they differ? 64. Provide a brief discussion of the roots of modern biological anthropology. Explain the specific contribution of Sherwood Washburn. 6 ...
Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait‑based plant ecology
... renamed at least three times. The older name was “comparative ecology” (Grime 1965, 1979). A new name was introduced in 1987 when the British Ecological Society launched the journal Functional Ecology and a number of leading ecologists attempted to define the newly named subdiscipline of “functional ...
... renamed at least three times. The older name was “comparative ecology” (Grime 1965, 1979). A new name was introduced in 1987 when the British Ecological Society launched the journal Functional Ecology and a number of leading ecologists attempted to define the newly named subdiscipline of “functional ...
Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait
... renamed at least three times. The older name was “comparative ecology” (Grime 1965, 1979). A new name was introduced in 1987 when the British Ecological Society launched the journal Functional Ecology and a number of leading ecologists attempted to define the newly named subdiscipline of “functional ...
... renamed at least three times. The older name was “comparative ecology” (Grime 1965, 1979). A new name was introduced in 1987 when the British Ecological Society launched the journal Functional Ecology and a number of leading ecologists attempted to define the newly named subdiscipline of “functional ...
Cipdactions.m030402
... utilization of environmental resources in the Bay Area and covers Native American perspectives on human/land relationships. It is the only course in Peralta on Bay Area Native Americans and is a valuable source of information for area residents. Through a combination of classroom and field experienc ...
... utilization of environmental resources in the Bay Area and covers Native American perspectives on human/land relationships. It is the only course in Peralta on Bay Area Native Americans and is a valuable source of information for area residents. Through a combination of classroom and field experienc ...
World History - Prairie Hills USD 113
... (e.g. NATO, International Red Cross, United Nations). (▲OTL 1:5:3) 14. Examines the use of various tools in carrying out U.S. foreign policy (e.g., trade sanctions, extension of “most favored nation” status, military interventions). 15. Examines government responses to international affairs from an ...
... (e.g. NATO, International Red Cross, United Nations). (▲OTL 1:5:3) 14. Examines the use of various tools in carrying out U.S. foreign policy (e.g., trade sanctions, extension of “most favored nation” status, military interventions). 15. Examines government responses to international affairs from an ...
FORESTRY 215 - FOREST ECOLOGY SYLLABUS SPRING 2017
... species to abiotic factors such as aspect, slope, temperature, wind, light, moisture, nutrients, and fire. 3) To explore forest properties and processes at the scales of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes. By the end of the course, students should be able to read the lay of the land in relation ...
... species to abiotic factors such as aspect, slope, temperature, wind, light, moisture, nutrients, and fire. 3) To explore forest properties and processes at the scales of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes. By the end of the course, students should be able to read the lay of the land in relation ...
Microbial Experimental Systems in Ecology
... ecological specialization can incur a cost of adaptation (a decline in competitive fitness in environments other than the one to which the organisms have specialized) and that it was possible to study such phenomena with laboratory experimental systems. Over 20 years later, L.L. WoodruV (1911, 1912, ...
... ecological specialization can incur a cost of adaptation (a decline in competitive fitness in environments other than the one to which the organisms have specialized) and that it was possible to study such phenomena with laboratory experimental systems. Over 20 years later, L.L. WoodruV (1911, 1912, ...
The Anthropological Questions
... In their study about social change, anthropologists identify which factors are most significant at any particular time. ...
... In their study about social change, anthropologists identify which factors are most significant at any particular time. ...
Cultural Keystone Species: Implications for Ecological
... humans identify themselves and each other by their cultural and economic affiliations with particular species of plants and animals. The reliance of humans on other life-forms in their environments is unquestioned. However, although all life-forms in some way influence human survival and the diversi ...
... humans identify themselves and each other by their cultural and economic affiliations with particular species of plants and animals. The reliance of humans on other life-forms in their environments is unquestioned. However, although all life-forms in some way influence human survival and the diversi ...