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Environmentalism and Contraceptive Use: How people in less developed settings approach environmental issues
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-09)
The rise in environmental concerns around the globe has prompted increasing research on the links between such concerns and behavior. However, most studies have focused on pro-environmental behaviors in affluent western ...
Cleptobiosis in the ant Ectatomma ruidum in Nicaragua
(Birkhäuser-Verlag; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
Observations of the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum suggested that this is a cleptobiotic species which appears to use the pheromone trails of other ant species to locate individual workers carrying food. To test this ...
Post-agriculture versus post-hurricane succession in southeastern Nicaraguan rain forest
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-10)
Wecompared five-year old forests developing after agriculture to those recoveringfrom Hurricane Joan (1988) and to the pre-hurricane forest, at two sites intropical rain forest in southeastern Nicaragua. We used non-parametric ...
Spatial Pattern And Ecological Process In The Coffee Agroforestry System
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Ecological Society of America, 2008-04)
The qualitative behavior of coupled predator-prey oscillations as deduced from simple circle maps
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Qualitative patterns of the non-equilibrium behavior of coupled consumer/resource systems, formulated as a standard circle map, are explored. Patterns of demographic locking, reflected as a "devil's staircase", are observed ...
Conservation through an Agroecological Lens
(Ecological Society of AmericaWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2003-11)
The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
As an initial step toward new models of the population-environment relationship, this paper explores the relationship between community context and local land use in an agricultural setting. In this type of setting, we ...