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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Interaction diversity"”.
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Aquatic Community Interaction Diversity and Mosquito Larvae
… in manyfactors including size, invertebrate diversity, and spatial heterogeneity.My dissertation research focuses on the larval stages of mosquitoes. The mainquestions of my research include: 1. What are the important interactions of co-inhabitinginvertebrates including predators and …
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Investigating Causal Relationships between Global Change and Insect Interaction Networks: Insights into Dietary Specialization, Interaction Diversity, and Disturbances
… global change, including dramatic losses of biodiversity. In this dissertation, I investigated causal relationships between global change and diversity of insect interaction networks through quantifying effects of biotic and abiotic gradients on dietary specialization, interaction diversity, and …
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Elevational Gradients Shape Bee Network Structure and Community Composition Across Tropical Lowland to Montane Forests in Costa Rica
… posited that mutualistic networks with higher diversity, connectance, nestedness, interaction diversity and more generalist species are more resilient and stable. However, in some ecosystems, specialized interactions and specialists may promote network stability. Drivers of network properties …
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Diversity and Student Engagement in a Small Multi-ethnic Liberal Arts University in California
… public universities are responding to various diversity initiatives and changes, a number of institutions, especially small liberal arts colleges, have been less responsive to these changes in demographics. As liberal arts colleges begin to plan more effectively to respond to a more pluralistic …
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The Effects of Classroom and Informal-Interactional Diversity on Learning and Democracy Outcomes
<p>Exposure to increased diversity has been found to produce beneficial results in both learning and democracy outcomes across races; however, this relationship is more consistent for White students than students of color (Gurin, Dey, Hurtado, & Gurin, 2002). Using the data from a campus-wide …
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Social evolution : opinions and behaviors in face-to-face networks
… automatically capture fine-grained face-to-face interactions between people, to better model the diffusion process. In this thesis, we describe the use of colocation and communication sensors in 'socially aware' mobile phones to model the spread of opinions and behaviors of 78 residents of an …