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Lek Territory Size and the Evolution of Leks: A Model and a Test Using an Ungulate With a Flexible Mating System

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Despite many decades of research, the evolution of the rare and unusual lek-mating system continues to be debated. The key question is: why do males defend tiny territories clustered together in an aggregation when the costs of doing so are so high ...
Kavita Isvaran, Kavita Isvaran
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Jak sprawiać wrażenie osoby pewnej siebie w komunikacji publicznej? [PDF]

, 2014
Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego ...
Cieśla, Bartłomiej
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Female preference and predation risk models can explain the maintenance of a fallow deer (Dama dama) lek and its 'handy' location.

PLoS ONE, 2014
We tested the predictions of three models (female preference; hotspot; predator avoidance) on lek formation in the fallow deer population of San Rossore, Tuscany.
Marco Apollonio, Fabio De Cena, Paolo Bongi, Simone Ciuti   +3 more
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Local knowledge in ecological modeling

Ecology and Society, 2018
Local people and scientists both hold ecological knowledge, respectively stemming from prolonged day-to-day contact with the environment and from systematic inquiry based on the scientific method.
Annie Claude Bélisle, Hugo Asselin, Patrice LeBlanc, Sylvie Gauthier   +3 more
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Przejawy oraz nasilenie lęku wśród młodzieży naruszającej normy prawne oraz uczniów szkół ponadgimnazjalnych. Raport z badań

Seminare, 2022
Celem przeprowadzonych badań była analiza istniejących różnic w nasileniu lęku-stanu i lęku-cechy między badanymi grupami młodzieży z uwzględnieniem czynnika płci.
Marcin Jurczyk
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Strategie rozwiązywania konfliktów stosowane przez żony mężczyzn uzależnionych od alkoholu [PDF]

, 2020
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie strategii rozwiązywania konfliktów w sytuacji uzależnienia męża od alkoholu. Badaniami objęto kobiety pozostające (obecnie lub w przeszłości) w związku z osobą uzależnioną od alkoholu.
Chemperek, Agnieszka
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Elderly Priests in the Diocese Community [PDF]

, 2009
Bp Andrzej Franciszek DziubaHuman life is divided into stages. Today’s societies perceive an old age as an unproductive period of life. The cult of youth and vital forces which seem to determine the value of human life, tends to marginalize elderly ...
Dziuba, Andrzej Franciszek
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Using an individual-based model to assess common biases in lek-based count data to estimate population trajectories of lesser prairie-chickens.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Researchers and managers are often interested in monitoring the underlying state of a population (e.g., abundance), yet error in the observation process might mask underlying changes due to imperfect detection and availability for sampling.
Beth E Ross, Daniel S Sullins, David A Haukos   +2 more
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Evaluating fishermen’s conservation attitudes and local ecological knowledge of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), Peniche, Portugal

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017
Background European sardines are an important fishing resource in the North Atlantic. Recognized for its great commercial and economic value in southern Europe, this resource currently has low stock indices.
Heitor O. Braga, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Henrique M. F. Oliveira, Miguel A. Pardal   +3 more
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Trade-Offs in Male Display Activity with Lek Size. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
In lek mating systems, males aggregate and defend arenas where they display for females; females select and mate with a male and then solely raise their offspring. Generally, female visits and copulations increase and reproductive variance in male mating
César Cestari, Bette A Loiselle, Marco Aurélio Pizo   +2 more
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