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Ecological character displacement: glass half full or half empty?
(Elsevier BV, 2013)Ecological character displacement (ECD), the evolutionary divergence of competing species, has oscillated wildly in scientific opinion. Initially thought to play a central role in community assembly and adaptive radiation, ... -
Ecological Genetics of Adaptive Color Polymorphism in Pocket Mice: Geographic Variation in Selected and Neutral Genes
(The Society for the Study of Evolution, 2004)Patterns of geographic variation in phenotype or genotype may provide evidence for natural selection. Here, we compare phenotypic variation in color, allele frequencies of a pigmentation gene (the melanocortin-1 receptor, ... -
Ecological network metrics: opportunities for synthesis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Network ecology provides a systems basis for approaching ecological questions, such as factors that influence biological diversity, the role of particular species or particular traits in structuring ecosystems, and long-term ... -
Ecological Patterns and Processes in Sarracenia Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Fungi
(2012-10-31)The kingdom Fungi is taxonomically and ecologically diverse, containing an estimated 1.5 million species. Fungi include decomposers, pathogens, and plant and animal mutualists. Many fungi are microorganisms, and the processes ... -
The Ecological Physiology of Earth's Second Oxygen Revolution
(Annual Reviews, 2015)Living animals display a variety of morphological, physiological, and biochemical characters that enable them to live in low-oxygen environments. These features and the organisms that have evolved them are distributed in ... -
Ecological pressures affecting malaria transmission: sex, insecticides, and Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes
(2021-09-08)Anopheles mosquitoes are the only vectors of malaria, a disease that kills over 400,000 people each year. In malaria-endemic regions, interventions aimed at the mosquito vectors through the use of insecticides have been ... -
Ecologically Relevant Cryptic Species in the Highly Polymorphic Amazonian Butterfly Mechanitis Mazaeus s.l. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae; Ithomiini)
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-06-13)The understanding of mimicry has relied on a strong biosystematic framework ever since early naturalists first recognized this textbook example of natural selection. We follow in this tradition, applying new biosystematics ... -
The Ecology and Evolution of Patience in Two New World Monkeys
(The Royal Society, 2005)Decision making often involves choosing between small, short-term rewards and large, long-term rewards. All animals, humans included, discount future rewards-the present value of delayed rewards is viewed as less than the ... -
Ecology and evolution of the African ant acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium, and its multiple symbionts
(2021-05-14)Ant-plants provide food rewards and housing for resident ant colonies, and in exchange, the workers protect their host plant from herbivores and pathogens. The specific outcomes of these symbioses are highly context-dependent, ... -
Ecology and Evolution of the Ferns of Moorea and Tahiti, French Polynesia
(2016-09-12)Ferns are the only major lineage of land plants with haploid (gametophyte) and diploid (sporophyte) stages that can grow separately from each other for extended periods. Gametophytes, as the sexual stage, are critical to ... -
Ecology and Evolution Within the Oral Microbiome
(2021-07-12)Bacteria inhabit every known ecosystem, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to plant surfaces. The human body represents one such microbially-dominated ecosystem with the identity and function of human-associated microbiota ... -
The Ecology of a Healthy Home: Energy, Health, and Housing in America, 1960-1985
(2013-03-06)On November 7, 1973, President Nixon asked Americans to lower their home thermostats to a national average temperature of 68 degrees. On February 2, 1974, over half of the gas stations in the New York City area closed after ... -
Ecology of hemiepiphytism in fig species is based on evolutionary correlation of hydraulics and carbon economy
(Ecological Society of America, 2011)Woody hemiepiphytic species (Hs) are important components of tropical rain forests, and they have been hypothesized to differ from non-hemiepiphytic tree species (NHs) in adaptations relating to water relations and carbon ... -
Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing "Broken Windows" Using Large-scale Administrative Records
(SAGE Publications, 2015)The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that requires novel ... -
An Ecomorphological Analysis of Native and Introduced Populations of the Endemic Lizard Anolis maynardi of the Cayman Islands
(BioOne, 2011)Anolis maynardi is an endemic anole from Little Cayman (Cayman Islands) that is characterized by an extremely elongated rostrum in males. In the 1980s, this species was discovered on the nearby island of Cayman Brac where ... -
Ecomusicology between Apocalypse and Nostalgia
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Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975
(Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2003)US objectives during the Cold War were to prevent Soviet attacks on the United States and its allies and to prevent the spread of communism as a political and economic system to other countries, whether by force or by ... -
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
(American Economic Association, 2008)In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well ... -
Economic Consequences of the Peace, Social Consequences of the War
(Il Mulino, 2009)The article presents a debate on John Maynard Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" and the social consequences of war. The article presents biographical information pertaining to the economist as published in ... -
Economic Consequences of the Peace…Social Consequences of the War
(Società Editrice il Mulino, 2009)