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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Pace-of-life"”.
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Assessing pace-of-life: Comparing metabolism and behavior in tarantulas
<p>Pace-of-Life Syndrome (PoLS) links physiology, behavior, and life history to understand how an organism lives and is under-researched in many invertebrate groups. In this study I used five tarantula species to assess if they follow the predictions of PoLS. I compared individual species as well …
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Inter-individual variation within social groups: how metabolic rate shapes the pace of life
Metabolic rate (MR) is often cited as the fundamental rate which determines the rate of all biological processes by shaping energetic availability for the various physiological, behavioral, and life-history traits that contribute to performance. Furthermore, the metabolic theory of ecology posits …
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Evolutionary Relationship between Life History and Brain Growth in Anthropoid Primates
<p>The pace of life history is highly variable across mammals, and several evolutionary biologists have theorized that the tempo of a species' life history is set by external factors. These factors, such as food availability and predation pressure, determine mortality rates. In turn, mortality rate …
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Individual risk and reward in the wild. A study on blue tits
… biologists seek to understand why individuals of the same species differ in their behaviour. The "pace-of-life syndrome" (POLS) hypothesis offers a framework to explain such individual behavioural variation. It puts forth that individuals differ broadly in how they take risks in their …
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Social Acceleration in the Marketplace: Three Essays Exploring the Intersection of Culture and Consumption
… values – the material and nonmaterial aspects of culture – are moving more quickly throughout the marketing system than ever before. Such acceleration effects diverse stakeholders: people, public, and planet. This dissertation explores the phenomenon of ‘social acceleration’, and specifically, …
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Molecular mechanisms underlying avian metabolic variation: a genomic approach
… an organism to balance the competing demands of its life cycle and environment. This thesis seeks to further our understanding of the processes underlying physiological acclimation by characterizing two molecular mechanisms that enable organisms to mount physiological responses to changing …
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Narrating the Elusive: Stories of Wellbeing in Later Life
… has been significant interest in the concept of wellbeing in the academic literature. Likewise, Government strategies are increasingly being aligned with the promotion of positive mental health, as opposed to merely the treatment of illness. Experiencing wellbeing in later life has, however, …
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The role of life-histories in colonising a novel environment
… a single ancestor diversifies into an array of species can result in explosive diversity in a short time. Species radiations often arise when ancestral populations colonise a new habitat and/or begin to utilise a novel resource. Savannah grasslands represented a novel niche during the Miocene …
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Sexual citizenship : an analysis of gay men as sexual citizens in nonmetropolitan England and Ireland
This study explores the concept of sexual citizenship as it applies to the lives of gay men living in nonmetropolitan areas of Britain, and Ireland. Both countries have undergone dramatic social, legal and cultural changes over recent decades, and have witnessed profound and progressive shifts in …
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Behavior and Ecology of Wild Slow Lorises (Nycticebus coucang): Social Organization, Infant Care System, and Diet
… organization, infant care system, and diet of the slow loris Nycticebus coucang, a nocturnal arboreal prosimian primate, in the Malaysian rainforest. Data collected are locational data obtained during 1,000 h of radio-tracking slow lorises, behavioral data from visually observing …
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Unravelling the ecological trade-offs in behavioural and physiological sexual traits
… are particularly important where there are trade-offs between investment in different life-history traits. Trade-offs between reproduction and survival have been widely documented, in addition to a body of evidence for trade-offs between mating related traits. How an individual adjusts their …