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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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A New Mechanism for Science-Policy Transfer and Biodiversity Governance?
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The Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Science is a sequence of generating new ideas, detailed explorations, incorporation of the results into a toolbox for understanding data, and turning them into useful knowledge. One recent development has been large-scale, ... -
Ecological niche shifts and environmental space anisotropy: a cautionary note
(Instituto de Biología, 2011)The anisotropic structure of climatic space may cause significant (and to a large extent unappreciated) nonevolutionary niche shifts. This can be seen mostly in the context of spatial transferability of ecological niche ... -
Occupation of environmental and morphological space: climatic niche and skull shape in Neotoma woodrats
(Evolutionary Ecology, 2012)Background: Theoretical and empirical studies suggest that in some circumstances niche evolution may be very slow – a phenomenon called ‘niche conservatism’. Evidence for niche conservatism comes mainly from studies of ... -
Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2011-08-15)Review of Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery. Steve Nicholls. 2009. University of Chicago Press, New York and London. Pp. 536. ISBN10: 0226583406 ISBN13: 978-0226583402. -
Forms of Becoming: Evo-Devo for Ethnobiologists
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2012-06-26)Review of Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of Development. Alessandro Minelli. 2009. Princeton University Press, Princeton and London. Pp. 242, 17 line drawings. US$29.95 (cloth). ISBN 9780691135687. -
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology of the Northeast Pacific
(Society of Ethnobiology, 2013-03-07)Review of Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology of the Northeast Pacific. -
Tent construction and use by Uroderma bilobatum in coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in Costa Rica
(American Museum of Natural History, 1991)Tent construction and use, uniformity of tents, and frond selection were studied in a population of Uroderma bilobatum roosting in coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in Parque Nacional Palo Verde, Guanacaste Province, northwestern ... -
““Capitán, ¿a qué huele la sangre? ”: Mexicana/o Vaudeville and Militarized Citizenship during World War II.”
(University of Texas Press, 2014)Much of the research on the generation of Mexican Americans who came of age during World War II has characterized that cohort’s orientation as culturally and politically assimilationist. A survey of the state of Mexican ... -
Bringing Standards to Life: Synthetic Biology Standards and Intellectual Property
(Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal, 2014)In aspiring to become a true engineering discipline for the biological sciences, the field of synthetic biology has a unique opportunity to create and encourage the widespread adoption of standards to enhance innovation ... -
Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
(Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 2014-04)The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region. Conceived in 2006 by just four small countries, it now embraces 12 that ... -
Potential Geographic Distribution of the Novel Avian-Origin Influenza A (H7N9) Virus
(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-01)Background In late March 2013, a new avian-origin influenza virus emerged in eastern China. This H7N9 subtype virus has since infected 240 people and killed 60, and has awakened global concern as a potential pandemic ... -
Patterns of host and flea communities along an elevational gradient in Colorado
(2014-05)Patterns in community composition across a landscape are the result of mechanistic responses and species interactions. Interactions between hosts and parasites have additional complexity because of the contingency of host ... -
The index of tobacco treatment quality: development of a tool to assess evidence-based treatment in a national sample of drug treatment facilities
(BioMed Central, 2013-03-15)Background: Quitting smoking improves health and drug use outcomes among people in treatment for substance abuse. The twofold purpose of this study is to describe tobacco treatment provision across a representative sample ... -
Callosphecodes, a little-known bee (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Sphecodes)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2011-09-08)Callosphecodes Friese, 1909, a synonym or perhaps subgenus of Sphecodes Latreille, 1804, is known on the basis of one female of Sphecodes ralunensis (Friese, 1909)from New Britain and one female and one male of a similar ... -
Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices from Around the Globe
(2014-03)A level playing field is key for global participation in science and scholarship, particularly with regard to how scientific publications are financed and subsequently accessed. However, there are potential pitfalls of the ... -
Phylogenetic assessment of filoviruses: how many lineages of Marburg virus?
(Wiley Open Access, 2012-07-01)Filoviruses have to date been considered as consisting of one diverse genus (Ebola viruses) and one undifferentiated genus (Marburg virus). We reconsider this idea by means of detailed phylogenetic analyses of sequence ... -
Microspatial Distributional Patterns of Vectors of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial distribution and population trends through time of Lutzomyia species in a long-term focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission in an Atlantic Forest area, northeastern ... -
Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling
(Ecological Society of America, 2012-07-01)Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic envelopes are characterized, ... -
Multiscalar Ecological Characterization of Say's and Eastern Phoebes and their Zone of Contact in the Great Plains
(University of California Press, 2011-05-01)We assessed interspecific ecological relationships between Say's (Sayornis saya) and Eastern (S. phoebe) phoebes at three scales by developing ecological niche models at two spatial extents and comparing the models' ...