Event ecology

Ebook "The evolution of mammalian sociality in an ecological perspective" 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”.

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Ebook "Tropical fish otoliths: Information for assessment, management and ecology" is a comprehensive description of the current status of knowledge about otoliths in the tropics. This book has contributions from leading experts in the field, encompassing a tropical perspective on daily and annual ageing in fish and invertebrates, microchemistry, interpreting otolith microstructure and using it to back-calculate life history events, and includes a treatise on the significance of validating periodicity in otoliths.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Tourism and global environmental change: Ecological, social, economic and political interrelationships" provides readers with contents including: global issues; tourism, disease and global environmental change; tourism, biodiversity and global environmental change; stakeholder adaptation and perceptions; the role of climate information in tourist destination choice decision making; restructuring the tourist industry;...

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Coastal dunes are characterised by plant species adapted to harsh conditions. Salinity and other factors (soil pH, nutrients, and climate events) vary along the landward gradient. The current study investigated the effects of environmental factors on the occurrence and composition of coastal dune plants. Ellenberg ecological indicator values (EIVs), species tolerance values (TVs), and species niche models for salinity, nutrient availability, and soil reaction were determined.

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We operate within an ecology of people, physical artifacts and electronic systems, and this rich ecology has recently become more complex as electronic devices invade the workplace and our day-to-day lives. We need methods to deal with these rich interactions. Chapter 18 extends these notations to model rich interactions.

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Telmatochromis temporalis is a cichlid fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika. The normal and dwarf morphs of this fish are a clear example of ongoing ecological speciation, and body size plays an important role in this speciation event as a magic trait. However, the genetic basis underlying this trait has not been studied.

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Carex L., a grass genus commonly known as sedges, is distributed worldwide and contributes constructively to turf management, forage production, and ecological conservation. The development of nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) technologies has considerably improved our understanding of transcriptome complexity of Carex L. and provided a valuable genetic reference.

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Biodiversity is commonly used for the totality and variability of species, genes and the ecosystems. They occupy at three levels i.e generic, species and ecology. Recently the advancement in bioinformatics is mainly accelerated by the study of molecular events using data obtained by exhaustive experiments such as whole genome sequencing, functional annotation, expression analysis and some others.

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Flavobacterial diseases in fish are caused by multiple bacterial species within the family Flavobacteriaceae and are responsible for devastating losses in wild and farmed fish stocks around the world. In addition to directly imposing negative economic and ecological effects, flavobacterial disease outbreaks are also notoriously difficult to prevent and control despite nearly 100 years of scientific research.

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Chapter 2 - Event pollution. After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: How to create a healthy and successful event ecology, how pollution can degrade both the environment and the event experience, how outdoor and indoor events impact their environments,...

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Paper consumption can represent significant costs associated with the communications and marketing activities of a planned event. It is often considered a necessary cost of doing business. Yet, when looking at a standard piece of paper, many of us do not consider the true cost of producing it. Conventional paper uses chemicals that produce, along with the paper itself, harsh toxic substances and the living trees used to make the paper provide priceless ecological services.

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Human activities are affecting the global environment in myriad ways, with numerous direct and indirect effects on ecosystems. The climate and atmospheric composition of Earth are changing rapidly. Humans have directly modified half of the ice-free terrestrial surface and use 40% of terrestrial production. Our actions are causing the sixth major extinction event in the history of life on Earth and are radically modifying the interactions among forests, fields, streams, and oceans.

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If we are to create a sustainable world—one in which we are accountable to the needs of all future generations and all living creatures—we must recognize that our present forms of agriculture, architecture, engineering, and technology are deeply flawed. To create a sustainable world, we must transform these practices. We must infuse the design of products, buildings, and landscapes with a rich and detailed understanding of ecology.

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THE CAMBRIAN RADIATION, which commenced around 550 million years ago, arguably ranks as the single most important episode in the development of Earth’s marine biota. Diverse benthic communities with complex tiering, trophic webs, and niche partitioning, together with an elaborate pelagic realm, were established soon after the beginning of the Cambrian period. This key event in the history of life changed the marine biosphere and its associated sediments forever.

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The idea of restoration is not new. Life, as it happens, is full of accidents, mishaps, and untoward events, from breaking a tool to growing old and dying, and the desire to avoid the consequences of these events by reversing or undoing them in order to return to some happier previous or “original” condition seems to be as old as our species. It is the root aspiration behind religion, that oldest of human institutions. It is also a constant theme of both public and private life, and it may even be grounded in the capacity for self-repair that is a peculiarity of life itself....

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In writing a volume of this kind, one becomes keenly aware that science is indeed a community of scholars. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and mistake the broadened vision for our own. In this instance the giants are Kurt Lewin, George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, William I. and Dorothy S. Thomas, Edward C. Tolman, Lev Vygotsky, Kurt Goldstein, Otto Rank, Jean Piaget, and Ronald A. Fisher. ·From these I learned mainly by reading. There are others who struggled to teach me, often against resistance. Chief among them were my first teachers in psychology, Frank S. Freeman, Robert M.

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.Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences Editors: S. Bhattacharji, Brooklyn H. J. Neugebauer, Bonn J. Reitner, Göttingen K. Stüwe, Graz Founding Editors: G. M. Friedman, Brooklyn and Troy A. Seilacher, Tübingen and YaleIn various periods throughout the younger earth history comparable changes in climate occurred globally and simultaneously. Such global events can be recon- structed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific mor- phological, chemical and mineralogical properties. Desert margins represent inter- sections between arid and humid ecosystems.

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This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the biophysical issues related to climate change. Climate change is a phenomenon by which the long-term averages of weather events (i.e. temperature, precipitation, wind speed, etc.) that define the climate of a region are not constant but change over time. There have been a series of past periods of climatic change, registered in historical or paleoecological records.

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Time-driven systems such as living organisms, ecological systems and world population have long been modeled and analyzed through differential equations. Man-made technological environments such as computer, transportation and telecommunication networks or manufacturing and logistics systems represent systems whose behaviors are governed by events occurring asynchronously over time.

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6 Herbivory It is 4:00 a.m. on a cold, wet midsummer’s day in Southwest England. The 500 kg dairy cows have been grazing for 30 minutes. A network of eighteen video cameras in weatherproof cases stands ready to record events across the study site. By 8.30 p.m. the cows have grazed for 9 hours and spent another 7 hours ruminating.

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