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Models of cultural niche construction with selection and assortative mating [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grant GM28016 and a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council studentship to LF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
Fogarty, Laurel   +11 more
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Niche Theory Analysis of Sustainable Strategic Relationships among MICE Destinations: A Case of Four Cities in Waikato and Bay of Plenty Regions of New Zealand

open access: yesTourism and Hospitality, 2022
This study aimed to analyze the competitive relationship among meetings, incentive, convention, and exhibition (MICE) destinations with reference to the notion of niche businesses in New Zealand, and to explore the existence of cooperative strategies ...
Jiwon Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Expected faunal signatures for Optimal Foraging Theory and Niche Construction Theory.

open access: yes, 2022
Expected faunal signatures for Optimal Foraging Theory and Niche Construction Theory.
Florent Rivals (3360248)   +4 more
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Sustainability of Human Ecological Niche Construction

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
Humans influence and depend on natural systems worldwide, creating complex societal-ecological feedbacks that make it difficult to assess the long-term sustainability of contemporary human activities.
Forest Isbell, Michel Loreau
doaj   +1 more source

The future of microbial ecological niche theory and modeling [PDF]

open access: yesNew Phytologist, 2021
This article is a Commentary on Davison et al. (2021), 231: 763–776.
Stephanie N. Kivlin   +4 more
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Community Preferences of Woody Plant Species in a Heterogeneous Temperate Forest, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Diversified community types provide different microhabitats for plant growth. However, whether the distribution of species is random distribution or ecological specialization within different plant community types remains to be elucidated.
Yun Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Niche? The Theory of Grandfather Involvement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A multitude of factors influence the role a grandfather plays in his family. This chapter presents an interdisciplinary perspective of grandfathering, incorporating research from the fields of evolutionary biology, sociology, economics and psychology. Examples will be used to show how these perspectives complement rather than compete with each other. A
Coall, D.   +3 more
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Sensitivity and resistance of communities: Evaluation on the example of the influence of edaphic, vegetation and spatial factors on soil macrofauna

open access: yesBiosystems Diversity, 2017
Environmental stability is a multifaceted concept and includes properties such as asymptotic stability, robustness, persistence, variability, elasticity and resistance.
O. V. Zhukov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fine‐scale substrate heterogeneity in green roof plant communities: The constraint of size

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Heterogeneity–diversity relationship (HDR) is commonly shown to be positive in accordance with classic niche processes. However, recent soil‐based studies have often found neutral and even negative HDRs. Some of the suggested reasons for this discrepancy
Amiel Vasl   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structuring of Dragonfly Communities (Insecta: Odonata) in Eastern Amazon: Effects of Environmental and Spatial Factors in Preserved and Altered Streams

open access: yesInsects, 2019
The evaluation of the effects of environmental factors on natural communities has been one of the principal approaches in ecology; although, over the past decade, increasing importance has been given to spatial factors.
José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior   +1 more
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