Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 1562
-
Arthropods consumed by an immature Marbled Godwit
(1977)Rapid digestive rates often hinder precise analysis of avian stomach contents, especially those containing insects. Thus, there is a paucity of information concerning the identity of prey items consumed by many birds. ... -
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change on the Great Plains
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2024-03)Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was a St. Louis photographer who was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to take promotional photographs along the entire length of the Railroad. Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver in ... -
Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university
(PeerJ, 2023-01-04)Background: Optimizing access to high-quality scientific journals has become an important priority for academic departments, including the ability to read the scientific literature and the ability to afford to publish ... -
Cryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)
(2023-12)The blackish small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Allen, 1895), is a blarinine soricid that occurs in high-elevation premontane wet forests and cloud forest in the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama. ... -
Innovations that changed Mammalogy: dermestid beetles—the better way to clean skulls
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2020-08) -
Specimen collection is essential for modern science [Formal Comment]
(Public Library of Science, 2023-11) -
ASM History: Presidents/Vice Presidents
(2023-10)Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942), a classically trained medical doctor of the latter 1800s, quit his medical practice in 1885 to follow his lifelong passion of natural history. In 1885, he became the first chief of the ... -
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
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2015-03-27) -
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
(Pacific Seabird Group, 1996) -
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 ...