Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Recent submissions
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Coevolution of the Tlx homeobox gene with medusa development (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)
(Nature Research, 2023-07-11)Cnidarians display a wide diversity of life cycles. Among the main cnidarian clades, only Medusozoa possesses a swimming life cycle stage called the medusa, alternating with a benthic polyp stage. The medusa stage was ... -
First Report of Small Skeletal Fossils from the Upper Guojiaba Formation (Series 2, Cambrian), Southern Shaanxi, South China
(MDPI, 2023-06-24)A small skeletal fossil assemblage is described for the first time from the bioclastic limestone interbeds of the siltstone-dominated Guojiaba Formation, southern Shaanxi, China. The carbonate-hosted fossils include ... -
Understanding mental health trends during COVID-19 pandemic in the United States using network analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2023-06-08)The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States resulted in a series of federal and state-level lock-downs and COVID-19 related health mandates to manage the spread of the virus. These policies may negatively impact the ... -
Effects of occurrence data density on conservation prioritization strategies
(Elsevier, 2023-08)Place-prioritization analyses are a means by which researchers can translate information on the geographic distributions of species into quantitative prioritizations of areas for biodiversity conservation action. Although ... -
Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
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Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2014-11-13)Review of Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea. Marsha Quinlan and Dana Lepofsky, eds. 2013. Society of Ethnobiology, Denton, TX. Pp. 310, color illustrations, maps, tables. $56.95 (paperback). ISBN ... -
Review: We Probably Thought That Would Be True: Perceiving Complex Emotional States in Nonhumans
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2014-01-13)Review of: Do Fish Feel Pain? Victoria Braithwaite. 2010. Oxford University Press, New York. Pp. 256. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 9780199551200. How Animals Grieve. Barbara J. King. 2013. University of Chicago Press, ... -
The Morale of Faculty, Students, and Staff Under a Corporate Model: The case of the University of Kansas
(Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES), 2002-02)In this essay, I describe issues related to morale of faculty, staff and students at the University of Kansas, a major Midwestern research university, after a corporate model was implemented by a new administration in the ... -
Influence Of Nesting Habitat In The Western/Glaucous-Winged Gull Hybrid Zone: A Preliminary Study
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Alcid Patchiness and Flight Direction Near a Colony in Eastern Newfoundland
(The University of New Mexico, 1990)Topographic features, including shape of the coastline and shape of the bottom, generate spatially predictable flow gradients that can concentrate seabird prey. We hypothesize that bathymetrically induced flow gradients ... -
Behavioral Consequences of Habitat Selection in the Herring Gull
(University of New Mexico Press, 1987)Data were collected on time budgets, rates of chick provisioning, and patterns of aggressive behavior in Herring Gulls Larus argentatus that nested in three distinct habitats on Great Island, Newfoundland. Exposed marine ... -
Foraging behavior and prey selection of the leather seastar Dermasterias imbricata
(Inter Research, 1983-01-02)Stomach contents of 243 Dermasterias imbricata (Gmbe) from 2 field sites in Monterey Bay, central California (USA), revealed a diet consisting primarily of the corallimorphian anemone Corynactis califomica. A survey of ... -
Indigenous Concepts of ‘Living Systems’: Aristotelian ‘Soul’ meets Constructal Theory
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2015-08-14)I examine similarities among the ways of thinking concerning the natural world of Indigenous peoples of North America and Australia and two aspects of Western Science from different historical periods. The first comparison ... -
The Role of Myth in Understanding Nature
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2016-12-31)Use of metaphor embodies myth in Western science and Native American traditional knowledge traditions about understanding the “natural” world and the nonhuman “other.” Using personal history, I compare a myth/metaphor from ... -
World Views and the Concept of “Traditional”
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2018-11-28)Whether individuals hold static or dynamic worldviews underlies a number of contemporary controversies, including evolution/creationist debates, the reality of climate change, and application of treaty rights by Indigenous ... -
Learning about Extraordinary Beings: Native Stories and Real Birds
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2020-12-04)Oral traditions of Indigenous American peoples (as well as those of other Indigenous peoples) have long been discussed with regard to their reliability as metaphorical accounts based upon historical knowledge. I explore ... -
Neocolonial Thinking and Respect for Nature: Do Indigenous People have Different Relationships with Wildlife than Europeans?
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2020-08-01)We respond to Mech (2019) “Do Indigenous American Peoples’ Stories Inform the Study of Dog Domestication” and point out a number of errors and omissions in Mech’s essay. These include: 1) assuming that the behavior of all ... -
The Semantics of Color: Reply to Response to Review
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2021-08-05)
