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Computational Approaches for Estimating Life Cycle Inventory Data
(2016-12)
Data gaps in life cycle inventory (LCI) are stumbling blocks for
investigating the life cycle performance and impact of emerging technologies. It
can be tedious, expensive and time consuming for LCI practitioners to ...
A Keystone Ant Species Provides Robust Biological Control of the Coffee Berry Borer Under Varying Pest Densities
(2016-04)
Species’ functional traits are an important part of the ecological complexity that
determines the provisioning of ecosystem services. In biological pest control, predator response
to pest density variation is a dynamic ...
The importance of underground foods in female gelada (Theropithecus gelada) socioecology
(2016-12)
Food plays a foundational role in animals’ lives, particularly during periods of food scarcity. Foods consumed only during times of food scarcity, “fallback foods”, exert strong
selective forces in shaping behavior and ...
Phenological Floral Resource Complementarity is Important for Bee Abundance
(2016-08)
Spatial resource heterogeneity has been found to greatly influence the dynamics
between diversity and function. This is particularly relevant for bee diversity and
pollination services. While there has been ample research ...
Pasting Behaviour Suggests Cryptic Sociality in the Striped Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena
(2016-08)
Social evolution in the order Carnivora may be investigated through comparative studies of behaviourally diverse extant carnivores. The family Hyaenidae serves as a useful model in such interspecies comparisons, as its ...
Optimizing the In Situ Identification Evaluation System Health: Ammonia and Zinc as Examples
(2016-04)
Anthropogenic influences on the environment have increased the levels of contaminants and pollution in aquatic ecosystems humans and wildlife depend on for water resources. It is especially important to be able to accurately ...
Impacts of Local Resource Scarcity Risk on Global Trade Network
(2016-04)
Local resource scarcity risk can transcend beyond national borders through international
trade activities. However, there lacks a system-based approach to evaluate such risk posed from
local resource scarcity to ...
On the Nature of Things and Environmental Decision-Making
(2016-04)
This project compiles knowledge from personal experiences and reflections, and
graduate level coursework and research at the University of Michigan School of
Natural Resources and Environment, and it encompasses a) ...