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The ecology of human–carnivore coexistence
Significance The persistence of large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes will become increasingly challenging as the human footprint expands. Here, we bring together long-term demographic and behavioral data on one of the worlds’ most conflict ...
C. Lamb+7 more
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The Human Ecology of Tornadoes [PDF]
Abstract This paper offers an empirical test of the impact of human ecological patterns and other known correlates on tornado occurrence. It uses the National Severe Storms Forecast Center’s information on tornadoes from 1950 through 1990 and employs ecological data from the U.S.
John Edmiston+5 more
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The paper explores the experiences and meanings that participants attribute to community wildlife sites, a new kind of space created through the initiative and commitment of local residents, often without any wider organisational involvement.
Anna Lawrence+2 more
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Intelligent behavior depends on the ecological niche: Scaling up AI to human-like intelligence in socio-cultural environments [PDF]
This paper outlines a perspective on the future of AI, discussing directions for machines models of human-like intelligence. We explain how developmental and evolutionary theories of human cognition should further inform artificial intelligence. We emphasize the role of ecological niches in sculpting intelligent behavior, and in particular that human ...
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Application of POET model to investigate agricultural water conflict in Iran
Water conflicts might be a serious threat for the life quality of stakeholders and also an obstacle on the way of human and environmental development. Obviously, the environment could be affected by such conflicts.
Masoud Bijani+3 more
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The Voice of Human Ecology in the Novel The Bear (2020) by Andrew Krivak
As a movement that has held an important position in the humanities for the past few decades, eco-criticism or environmental-oriented literature needs to promote a better understanding of nature more broadly. That is, ecocriticism must distinguish itself
Annisa Sabrina
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Cold climates represent one of the major environmental challenges that anatomically modern humans faced during their dispersal out of Africa. The related adaptive traits have been achieved by modulation of thermogenesis and thermoregulation processes ...
Alena Kalyakulina+11 more
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The high incidence of psychopathologies recorded in today’s human society, correlated with the high percentages of biodiversity loss, point to the need for an interdisciplinary approach of the scientific fields under study—neuroscience and biodiversity ...
Madalina Borca+2 more
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Communities in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their geographic location and subsistence‐based livelihoods.
A. L. Ullmann, I. Haag, U. Bulbulshoev
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS AND HUMAN ECOLOGY [PDF]
A complex statistical overview of the economy in a circumstantial manner remains that of the perennial hexagon of major balances, and it is presented in the introduction of thiss paper.
Constantin MANEA, Gheorghe SĂVOIU
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