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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"socioecology"”.
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Socioecology, Acoustic Communication and Demography of Asian Elephants in Sri Lanka
SOCIOECOLOGY, ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION AND DEMOGRAPHY OF ASIAN ELEPHANTS IN SRI LANKA Shermin de Silva (Author) Dorothy L. Cheney (Supervisor) Comparison of behavior across species brings to light the underlying social and ecological factors that have shaped social organization and communication. …
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Diagnosing Bone Fracture to Assess Early Hominin Behaviour, Meat-Eating, and Socioecology at FLK-Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
… hominin’s position in the carnivore guild and socioecology. One aspect of bone damage, fracture surfaces, is ubiquitous, but largely unstudied. The fractographic (study of fracture surfaces) method is based on fracture principals, particularly how differences in static- and impact-loading …
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Socioecology of Adult Female Vervet Cercopithecus Aethiops and Patas Monkeys Erythrocebus Patas in Kenya: Food Availability, Feeding Competition, and Dominance Relationships
The dominance hierarchy of female vervet and patas monkeys was similar when both used an A. drepanolobium woodland habitat. Foods here were randomly and closely distributed in space and less abundant per feeding site compared to foods in the A. xanthophloea riverine habitat, a second habitat used …
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Merchant mothers and fishermen fathers : parental investment and subsistence work among the boat-dwelling Shodagor of rural Bangladesh
… influenced by the constraints of the Shodagor socioecology, influence nutritional outcomes for children and parents? I find that the concentration of resource sharing and childcare duties within the nuclear family is associated with husbands and wives cooperating in order to fulfill a family's …
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Patterns of Affiliation and Co -Operation in Howler Monkeys: An Alternative Model to Explain Social Organization in Non -Human Primates
… social groups, several recent studies of primate socioecology have highlighted the role of cooperation and affiliation in determining the costs and benefits of social grouping patterns. I conducted a detailed field study of subgrouping patterns, social affiliation, and ecology in two neighboring …
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Mountains, cities, random forests: new and old frontiers in geographical psychology
The present dissertation offers a big data window into the causes and consequences of geo- graphical differences in personality. After an initial introduction to the field and a broad over- view of the relevant literature (Chapter 1), I present an applied tutorial, that describes the typical …
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A mixed methods study of the habituation process in wild Bornean orangutans in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
… of each other; it is impacted both by the socioecology and individual traits of the animals, and the perspectives and backgrounds of the humans involved.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS (MARSH RICE RAT) IN COASTAL TEXAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGY OF BAYOU VIRUS (BAYV)
Prior to the 1990s, Hantaviruses (Family: Bunyaviridae) and their manifest human syndromes were viewed as public health concerns primarily for Eurasia. However, the Sin Nombre virus (SNV) outbreak of 1993-94 in the southwestern U. S. brought Hanta to North America’s front door, fueling intense …
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Estructura poblacional de la lisa (Mugil incilis) y la caracterización de su acceso, uso y control en el municipio de Puebloviejo, Magdalena
La pesca en sistemas estuarinos tropicales enfrenta desafíos asociados tanto a la degradación ambiental como a la efectividad de los mecanismos que regulan el acceso, uso y control de los recursos hidrobiológicos. Esta investigación caracterizó la relación entre las prácticas comunitarias de …
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Undergraduate Student Sense of Belonging and EdTech Tool Engagement: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Virtual Campus Experience
<p>The contemporary postsecondary learning experience is heavily mediated by educational technology (EdTech) tools and yet little is known about the ways in which these tools impact student engagement and sense of belonging, two indicators which are important to student persistence and graduation. …