Browsing by Subject "Ecology"
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A Comparative Study of Habitat Complexity, Neuroanatomy, and Cognitive Behavior in Anolis Lizards
(2012)Changing environmental conditions may present substantial challenges to organisms experiencing them. In animals, the fastest way to respond to these changes is often by altering behavior. This ability, called behavioral ... -
A Social and Ecological Evaluation of Marine Mammal Take Reduction Teams
(2014)There have been few efforts to evaluate the actual and perceived effectiveness of environmental management programs created by consensus-based, multi-stakeholder negotiation or negotiated rulemaking. Previous evaluations ... -
Acoustic Ecology of Sea Turtles: Implications for Conservation
(2012)An understanding of sensory ecology, how animals receive and respond to their environment, can be a powerful tool for the conservation of endangered species because it can allow us to assess the potential success of actions ... -
Advancing Drone Methods for Pinniped Ecology and Management
(2022)Pinniped species undergo a life history, unique among marine mammals, that includes discrete periods of occupancy on land or ice within a predominantly marine existence. This makes many pinniped species valuable sentinels ... -
American Manna: Religious Responses to the American Industrial Food System
(2016)“American Manna: Religious Responses to the American Industrial Food System” is an investigation of the religious complexity present in religious food reform movements. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at four field sites. ... -
An Ecosystem Approach to Dead Plant Carbon over 50 years of Old-Field Forest Development
(2011)This study seeks to investigate the dynamics of dead plant carbon over fifty years of old-field forest development at the Calhoun Long Term Soil-Ecosystem Experiment (LTSE) in South Carolina, USA. Emphasis is on the transition ... -
Analyzing Hydrodynamic Properties of the North Atlantic Right Whales with Computer Solutions
(2020)Animals experience hydrodynamic forces (lift, drag, and side) and moments (pitching, yawing, and rolling) as a result of motion in an aqueous medium. Under selective pressure, most cetaceans, including porpoises, dolphins, ... -
Aspects of the Feeding Ecology of the Antillean Manatee (<italic>Trichechus manatus manatus</italic>) in the Wetlands of Tabasco, Mexico
(2013)Manatees (Mammalia: Sirenia), along with the closely related dugongs, are the only herbivorous marine mammals. Manatees consume a wide variety of vascular plants and algae in both marine and freshwater habitats. However, ... -
Assessing the effects of elephant foraging on the structure and diversity of an Afrotropical forest
(Biotropica, 2020-05-01)African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are ecosystem engineers that browse and damage large quantities of vegetation during their foraging and movement. Though elephant trail networks and clearings are conspicuous ... -
Balancing the good and the bad: Assessing the positive and negative effects of alien species on native plant demography
(2022)Alien species are considered one of the primary threats to native plant populations and their control is often prominent among proposed management actions. While negative alien effects are well documented, there are also ... -
Behavioral Ecology of the Western Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
(2015)Social structure is a key determinant of population biology and is central to the way animals exploit their environment. The risk of predation is often invoked as an important factor influencing the evolution of social structure ... -
Behavioural ecology and infectious disease: implications for conservation of biodiversity.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2019-09)Behaviour underpins interactions among conspecifics and between species, with consequences for the transmission of disease-causing parasites. Because many parasites lead to declines in population size and increased risk ... -
Biological and Physical Factors Affecting the Natural History and Evolution of Encapsulated Development
(2016)The evolution of reproductive strategies involves a complex calculus of costs and benefits to both parents and offspring. Many marine animals produce embryos packaged in tough egg capsules or gelatinous egg masses attached ... -
Boom and bust carbon-nitrogen dynamics during reforestation
(Ecological Modelling, 2017-09-24)© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Legacies of historical land use strongly shape contemporary ecosystem dynamics. In old-field secondary forests, tree growth embodies a legacy of soil changes affected by previous cultivation. Three patterns ... -
Bycatch and foraging ecology of sea turtles in the Eastern Pacific
(2011)Sea turtles are long lived marine species that are currently endangered because their life history and population dynamics hinder them from withstanding modern anthropogenic threats. Worldwide, fisheries bycatch in on the ... -
Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally.
(Nature, 2017-03-22)Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being used globally to conserve marine resources. However, whether many MPAs are being effectively and equitably managed, and how MPA management influences substantive outcomes ... -
Causes and functional consequences of denitrifying bacteria community structure in streams affected to varying degrees by watershed urbanization
(2011)Human welfare depends heavily on ecosystem services like water purification and nutrient cycling. Many of these ecosystem services, in turn, rely on reactions performed by microbes and yet remarkably little is known about ... -
Changes in evapotranspiration and phenology as consequences of shrub removal in dry forests of central Argentina
(Ecohydrology, 2015-10-01)More than half of the dry woodlands (forests and shrublands) of the world are in South America, mainly in Brazil and Argentina, where in the last years intense land use changes have occurred. This study evaluated how the ... -
Climate Change and Forest Biodiversity in the Eastern United States: Insights from Inventory Data
(2014)Ecologists have long been interested in the relationships between climate change and forest biodiversity. For centuries, the scientific problems remain understanding the patterns of climate variation, forest geographic ... -
Climate change challenges the current conservation strategy for the giant panda
(Biological Conservation, 2015-10-01)The global total of protected areas to conserve biodiversity is increasing steadily, while numerous studies show that they are broadly effective. That said, how will current conservation strategies work, given the current ...
