Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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A minute stingless bee in Eocene Fushan amber from northeastern China (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
(University of Kansas, 2013-07-29)The first fossil bee in Eocene amber of the Fushan Coalfield, Liaoning, China is described and figured. Exebotrigona velteni Engel & Michener, new genus and species (Apinae: Meliponini) is based on a stingless bee worker ... -
Review of "Cuban Cinema" by Michael Chanan
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Los hijos de Menem: The New Independent Argentine Cinema, 1995-1999
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The question of sex identification in specimens housed in research collections
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Lida Abdul – White House , 2005
(Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2006-05)Broadcast Transcript: I’m David Cateforis with another art minute from the Spencer Museum of Art. Lida [Leeda] Abdul begins her 2005 video “White House” by training her camera on several bombed structures near Kabul, ... -
Integrating fundamental concepts of ecology, biogeography, and sampling into effective ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling
(Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology: Official Journal of the Societa Botanica Italiana, 2012-10-30)Correlative techniques for estimating environmental requirements of species – variably termed ecological niche modeling or species distribution modeling – are becoming very popular tools for ecologists and biogeographers ... -
Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods (WIS2DOM) Workshop
(2014-05-27)This report summarizes the findings of the February 13-16, 2013 workshop, entitled Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify our Methods (WIS2DOM), held in Olympia, Washington at The Evergreen State ... -
Fahrenholz's Rule and Resource Tracking: A Study of Host-Parasite Coevolution
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Murciélagos Neotropicales que Acampan en Hojas: Neotropical Tent-roosting Bats
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Distribution, Natural History, and Parasites of Mammals of Cook County, Minnesota
(Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 1975-12-30)Natural history, distributions, and parasites of mammals of Cook County, Minnesota, were studied from the summer of 1971 through the summer of 1973. The purposes of this research were twofold. First, to determine species ... -
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 ...