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Kansas African Studies Center Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Mammals of Cabo Blanco: History, diversity, and conservation after 45 years of regrowth of a Costa Rican dry forest
(Forest Ecology and Management, 2009-09)Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco, a strongly seasonal deciduous forest located at the southernmost tip of northwestern Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, was established in 1963 and is the country's oldest nationally ... -
Fortifying Virtue Ethics: Recognizing the Essential Roles of Eudaimonia and Phronesis
(University of Kansas, 2009-03-31)There is not one, single theory of virtue ethics that commands general agreement in the field. The aim of this dissertation is to help resolve this problem by proposing that eudaimonia and phronesis are necessary for a ... -
Shifting suitability for malaria vectors across Africa with warming climates
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2009-05-10)Background Climates are changing rapidly, producing warm climate conditions globally not previously observed in modern history. Malaria is of great concern as a cause of human mortality and morbidity, particularly across ... -
A new subgenus and four new species of Gliricola (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) from the Caribbean hutias (Rodentia: Capromyidae)
(Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1997-07)A new subgenus, Hutiaphilus (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae), is described for five previously named species of Gliricola (G. armatus, G. capromydis, G. cubanus, G. ewingi, and G. omahonyi) and four new species (G. rabbi, with ... -
Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), with the description of a new species from Colombia
(Field Museum of Natural History, 1993-09)The Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews previously was considered to consist of a single, wide-ranging species with three subspecies distributed from southern Mexico to Panama. Our study of the ... -
Authoritarian Aggression and Social Stratification: A Research Note
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1999-04-01)Ever since Seymour Martin Lipset's famous paper on authoritarianism and the left(1959), it has been widely assumed that blue collar workers are uniquely susceptible to the temptations of hate. Thisassumption was tested and ... -
The Ambivalent Worker: Max Weber, Critical Theory and the Antinomies of Authority
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What is Pseudonovibos spiralis?
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Mammals [of Monteverde]
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Morphology, genetics, and ecology of pocket gophers (genus Geomys) in a narrow hybrid zone
(Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1985)A population of hybrid pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius × G. lutescens) exists 1–2 km west of Oakdale, Antelope County, Nebraska, U.S.A. The hybrids occur in soil that has characteristics intermediate between that occupied ... -
Natural history and karyology of the Yucatán vesper mouse, Otonyctomys hatti
(Instituto de Biología and Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, and Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, México, D.F., 2005)Seventeen specimens of the rare Yucatán vesper mouse, Otonyctomys hatti, are now known from Belize, Guatemala, and the Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán. We herein report a second specimen of O. hatti, ... -
Taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of Phillips’ small-eared shrew, Cryptotis phillipsii (Schaldach, 1966), from Oaxaca, Mexico (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae)
(Biological Society of Washington, 2000-07)The name Cryptotis peregrina (Merriam, 1895) previously encompassed two separate populations of a small-eared shrew of the Cryptotis mexicana group inhabiting the Sierra de Cuatro Venados and the Sierra de Miahuatlán in ... -
Artibeus phaeotis
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Mammalian community structure in lowland, tropical Peru, as determined by removal trapping
(Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1995)Amazonian lowland rain forests are complex three-dimensional formations consisting of a variety of arboreal and terrestrial habitats. The small mammal faunas, particularly of arboreal habitats, are poorly studied, and ... -
Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani–group (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae)
(Field Museum of Natural History, 1999-01)The Cryptotis goldmani group of small-eared shrews consists of species that occupy high elevation (>1000 m) habitats in Mexico and northern Central America. Previously, this group was viewed as consisting of only two ... -
A field key to the bats of Costa Rica
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Tent construction by bats of the genera Artibeus and Uroderma
(Field Museum of Natural History, 1987-12)Herein, I describe new styles of tents cut and utilized by Artibeus anderseni, A. glaucus, A. gnomus, A. phaeotis, A. toltecus, A. watsoni, Uroderma bilobatum, and U. magnirostrum; review and summarize the literature on ... -
The mammal fauna [of La Selva]
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Clave de campo para los murciélagos de Costa Rica
(Brenesia (Museo Nacional de Costa Rica), 2000-01)Costa Rica has an extremely diverse bat fauna with 109 species recorded from the country to date. The diversity of bats at a given locality can be high with 71 species known from the La Selva Biological Station in the ... -
A roof over their feet: Tent-making bats of the New World tropics turn leaves into living quarters
(Natural History magazine, 1990-03)