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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Niche Construction Theory"”.
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Modelling spatio-temporal changes in the ecological niches of major domesticated crops in China: Application of Species Distribution Modelling
… of crops in the past related to their ecological niches. In particular, it presents the niche models for five historically significant crops in China: rice, millet, wheat, barley and buckwheat. These models are rooted in the Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) methodology and infer the potential …
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Human behavioural dynamics in island rainforests: evidence from the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua
… improvise social and technical behaviours, while niche constructing tendencies enabled them to reshape their ecologies. However, the rate and scale at which humans could transform their behaviours and environments in the deep past remains unclear. This thesis explores how humans came to frequent …
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Traditional Marine Management Systems in Northwest California: The Archaeology and Implications of Indigenous Stewardship Practices for Modern Marine Conservation and Restoration
… California's Lost Coast through the lens of Niche Construction Theory, by investigating specific settlement-subsistence strategies, socio-economic relationships, and marine stewardship practices that sustained or enhanced coastal productivity, promoting cultural resilience during periods of …
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Diversity and evolution of ecosystems: From genomes to the biosphere
… why many competitors can coexist in a single niche. The original KtW model is deterministic and expressed in terms of continuous biomass concentrations, and appears to predict the coexistence of species. Here I present a stochastic individual-level model for the KtW paradigm, representing …