Animal Ecology
Coleoptera of beetles of the Chatham Islands in the collections of the Department of the Entomology and Animal Ecology
... Most of the material is derived from two substantial visits from the University to the Chathams, in January 1990 and November - December 1992, with lesser amounts of material [r] ...
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Lonnstedt et al 2014 Journal of Animal Ecology
... Mean ( SE) proportion change in (a) distance from coral, (b) height on coral and (c) shelter use for Pomacentrus amboinensis on live (empty bars) or dead (solid bars) coral exposed to i[r] ...
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Recruitment of reviewers is becoming harder at some journals: a test of the influence of reviewer fatigue at six journals in ecology and evolution
... in Ecology and Evolu- tion), plus a third journal examined by Albert et ...(Molecular Ecology), have not experienced a similar decline, are ...review—Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology, ...
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Revisiting Elton’s copepods: : lake construction has altered the distribution and composition of calanoid copepods in the British Isles
... “Animal Ecology”, the “father of invasion biology” Charles Elton (1927) observed that the estuarine species Eurytemora velox (Lilljeborg, 1853) had invaded several constructed inland waters, mostly created ...
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Is it becoming harder to secure reviewers for peer review? A test with data from five ecology journals
... Molecular Ecology [19], where it was shown that as submissions increase, the pool of re- viewers also increases concomitantly, such that the average number of requests per reviewer stays more or less the ...
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Rat-free New Zealand 2050 – fantasy or reality?
... the Animal Ecology Group of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology of the University of Potsdam, and the Vertebrate Research Group of the Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests of the ...
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Ecology in health: Beyond medical ecology
... medical ecology concept, always polarizing and evidencing the misconception of centralizing the medical figure, acclaimed by the definitive term, the unique protagonism in the development of strategies postulated ...
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Ecology light 1.0Townsend, C.R., Harper, J.L. and Begon, M. 2000. Essentials of ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford, U.K. xviii + 553 pp. Paperback, ISBN: 0-632-04348-2, £24.95
... larger Ecology: Individuals, populations and communities by the same authors ...general ecology texts are unlikely to provide coverage in any standard ...to Ecology' (Chapters 1 and ...introductory ...
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The pros and cons of applying the movement ecology paradigm for studying animal dispersal
... Beyond the evidence of such conditional strategies, a strong recent advance in dispersal evolutionary ecology is the demonstration that dispersal is phenotype-dependent (e.g. [26]). There is often a large, ...
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The role of boldness and other personality traits in the ecology of juvenile marine fishes
... an animal if preferred resources become scarce and they reduce its ability to exploit ...an animal is so specialised that it is unable to modify its behaviour and select alternative resources this could ...
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Science Unit Lesson Plan Template - PDF Lessons, Worksheets and Activities
... influence animal and plant ...change animal and plant populations, play Oh Deer! This simulation exercise is described at ...build animal population ...
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Utilising intrinsic robustness in agricultural production systems: Inventions for a sustainable development of agriculture
... For an animal, an infectious disease may pose a threat to its life and welfare. Developing the immune system and mounting an immune response therefore get priority over production traits. For this reason, farmers ...
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Laws in ecology: diverse modes of explanation for a holistic science?
... © 2017 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gunton, R. and Gilbert, F. (2017), LAWS IN ECOLOGY: DIVERSE MODES OF EXPLANATION FOR A HOLISTIC SCIENCE. ...
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Integrated step selection analysis: Bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement
... of animal movement as a series of stochastic discrete steps, characterised by specific velocity and autocorrelation ...of animal movement as a discrete-time random walk (RW), including correlated and/or ...
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Factors affecting the population dynamics of eastern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome filholi) on Campbell Island, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Battley Massey University, Ecology Group As my primary supervisor, Phil helped me shape my research questions and methods, supported my scholarship, grant, and Animal Ethics applications[r] ...
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The determination of behavioural plasticity in yellow perch, Perca flavescens
... introductions (Winandy & Denoel, 2015) on animal behaviour and, ultimately, fitness and survival. For example, in a manipulative whole-lake experiment, a warmer temperature year led to decreased survival of ...
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Comparison of the content of crude protein and amino acids in the whole bodies of cocks and hens of Ross 308 and Cobb 500 hybrids at the end of fattening
... In body proteins there are 22 AA, and all of them are essential for the organism. Poultry needs CP in quantities which ensure a sufficient amount of all EAA, as well as enough semi-essential and NEAA, or enough of the ...
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Placing the Animal in the Dialogue between Law and Ecology
... and ecology, and asks if there is a promising space for the development of animal law in this growing ...between ecology and law, one with law prevailing, and one with ecology prevailing, The ...
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Step selection techniques uncover the environmental predictors of space use patterns in flocks of Amazonian birds
... The first step in parametrizing the models is to calculate the step length and turning angle distributions, that is, the distance between successive positions and the angle an animal turns through from one move to ...
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Exploratory Visual Analysis for Animal Movement Ecology
... Animal tracking is increasingly important for studying animal be- haviour and their interactions with each other and the environ- ment [Nat08,KCW ∗ 11]. Sampled space-time data are often supple- mented with ...
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