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Ecological And Evolutionary Modelling

by Andriamihaja Ramanantoanina, Cang Hui, Henintsoa Onivola Minoarivelo e Pietro Landi

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 The aim of this book is to (i) introduce key concepts in ecology and evolution, (ii) explain classic and recent important mathematical models for investigating ecological and evolutionary dynamics, and (iii) provide real examples in ecology/biology/environmental sciences that have used these models to address relevant issues.
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Political Leadership And Charisma - Nehru, Ben-Gurion, And Other 20th Century Political Leaders: Intellectual Odyssey I

by Michael Brecher

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 This book is unique in illuminating and comparing the charismatic role of two political leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion, along with assessments of many other 20th century political leaders.
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Evolution Of Mammalian Sociality In An Ecological Perspective

by Clara B. Jones

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 This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns and linkages are discussed as components of a possible social "tool-kit". "Top-down" (predators to nutrients), as well as "bottom-up" (nutrients to predators) effects are assessed. The present synthesis also emphasizes outcomes of Hebbian (synaptic) decisions on Malthusian parameters (growth rates of populations) and their consequences for (shifting) mean fitnesses of populations. Ecology and evolution (EcoEvo) are connected via the organism’s "norms of reaction" (genotype x environment interactions; life-history tradeoffs of reproduction, survival, and growth) exposed to selection, with the success of genotypes influenced by intensities of selection as well as neutral (e.g. mutation rates) and stochastic effects. At every turn, life history trajectories are assumed to arise from "decisions" made by types responding to competition for limiting resources constrained by Hamilton’s rule (inclusive fitness operations).
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Improving Gis-Based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis

by Charles R. Smith e Jeffrey K. Keller

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 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs. However, the relative ease of data manipulation and analysis using GIS, associated landscape metrics packages, and sophisticated statistical tests may sometimes cause investigators to overlook important species-habitat functional relationships. Additionally, underlying assumptions of the study design or technology may have unrecognized consequences. This volume examines how initial researcher choices of image resolution, scale(s) of analysis, response and explanatory variables, and location and area of samples can influence analysis results, interpretation, predictive capability, and study-derived management prescriptions. Overall, most studies in this realm employ relatively low resolution imagery that allows neither identification nor accurate classification of habitat components. Additionally, the landscape metrics typically employed do not adequately quantify component spatial arrangement associated with species occupation. To address this latter issue, the authors introduce two novel landscape metrics that measure the functional size and location in the landscape of taxon-specific ‘solid’ and ‘edge’ habitat types. Keller and Smith conclude that investigators conducting GIS-based analyses of species-habitat relationships should more carefully 1) match the resolution of remotely sensed imagery to the scale of habitat functional relationships of the focal taxon, 2) identify attributes (explanatory variables) of habitat architecture, size, configuration, quality, and context that reflect the way the focal taxon uses the subset of the landscape it occupies, and 3) match the location and scale of habitat samples, whether GIS- or ground-based, to corresponding species’ detection locations and scales of habitat use.
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Microbiome Community Ecology - Fundamentals And Applications

by Muhammad Saleem

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 This book reviews the mechanisms, patterns, and processes that regulate prokaryotic diversity through different habitats in the context of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses, principles, and theories. Despite the tremendous role of prokaryotic diversity in the function of the global ecosystem, it remains understudied in comparison to the rest of biological diversity. In this book, the authors argue that understanding the mechanisms of species coexistence, functioning relationships (e.g. nutrient cycling and host fitness), and trophic and non-trophic interactions are helpful in addressing the future challenges in basic and applied research in microbial ecology. The authors also examine the ecological and evolutionary responses of prokaryotes to global change and biodiversity loss. Ecological Diversity of the Microbiome in the Context of Ecology Theory and Climate Change aims to bring prokaryotes into the focus of ecological and evolutionary research, especially in the context of global change.
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Trapping Of Small Organisms Moving Randomly - Principles And Applications To Pest Monitoring And Management

by Christopher G. Adams, James R. Miller, Jeffrey H. Schenker e Paul A. Weston

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 More important, it goes on to explain and illustrate how these principles and relationships can be used to estimate absolute population densities in the landscape and to address an array of important problems relating to the use of trapping for detection, population estimation, and suppression in both research and applied contexts.
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Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies

by Alex Lerczak, Alice Mauchline, Derek France, Julian Park, Katharine Welsh, Robert S. Bednarz, Victoria Powell e W. Brian Whalley

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 This book shows how tablets (and smartphones) using a variety of selected `apps', can enhance fieldwork and other out-of-classroom activities. To help readers keep abreast of new technology and innovative ways to use it, the book is supported by a web site and a social media community.
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Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?

by Ian D. Rotherham

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 This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Whether or not conservationists accept ecological change, factors such as urbanisation and globalisation combine with climate and other changes to trigger new hybrid communities and ecologies.
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Ecological Succession On Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields - A Review Of The Literature

by Claudio O. Delang e Wing Man Li

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 Reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests. The book is organised in four different sections: forest structure, forest diversity, species composition, and the factors that contribute to differences in forest recovery rates.
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Recovering Biodiversity In Indian Forests

by G. Vishwanatha Reddy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, K. Ullas Karanth, Krithi K. Karanth e N. Samba Kumar

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 This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats.
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Memory Development From Early Childhood Through Emerging Adulthood

by Wolfgang Schneider

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 In addition, given that the predominantly classic research on memory development has recently been complemented by more cutting-edge applied research (e.g., eyewitness memory, memory development in educational contexts) in recent years, this volume also provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of these emerging areas of study.
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Optical Coherence Tomography In Multiple Sclerosis - Clinical Applications

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 This book gives a clinical context to optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings, while considering the differential diagnosis and providing patient management guidance.
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Recovering Biodiversity In Indian Forests

by G. Vishwanatha Reddy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, K. Ullas Karanth, Krithi K. Karanth e N. Samba Kumar

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 This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats.
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Invasion Of Woody Legumes

by J.K. Bush e O.W. Van Auken

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 This book examines the invasion or encroachment and spread of some dry land, arid zone woody legumes, especially the Acacias and their communities. It also details how global warming and climate change affects their population growth.
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Old Growth Urban Forests

by Robert E. Loeb

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 Millions of urbanites never see primeval forests during their lives except for the old growth forests found in urban parks.
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Old Growth Urban Forests

by Robert E. Loeb

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 Millions of urbanites never see primeval forests during their lives except for the old growth forests found in urban parks.
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Improving Gis-Based Wildlife-Habitat Analysis

by Charles R. Smith e Jeffrey K. Keller

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