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Sources for an Australian Interdisciplinary Historical Demography
This chapter begins with quantitative sources: population censuses, vital registration, administrative statistics (including convict records), and sample surveys. This is followed by a short section on the many qualitative sources and a discussion of the
Kippen, Rebecca, Lucas, David
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Description of disadvantage: the households of Aboriginal children
A description of the households in which Aboriginal children and young people live is of considerable importance to community and government organizations providing services or policy advice, particularly in education. This is because Aboriginal children
Gray, Alan
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Maori demography in Aotearoa New Zealand: Fifty Years on [PDF]
Writing in the Journal of the Polynesian Society fifty years ago, budding demographer Ian Pool asked: “When is a Maori a ‘Maori’”? His assertion that cultural self-identification was the only credible way to define Māori collectively in official ...
Kukutai, Tahu
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Warming and degradation had negligible multi‐year mean effects on annual plant phenology, but their impacts varied strongly with interannual precipitation and spring soil moisture. Degradation amplified warming‐induced advancement of leaf‐out and extended the total active period of the perennial Aster tataricus via microclimatic amplification and ...
Lanying Chen +8 more
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Life history stability under climate change: a wildflower at the northern edge of its range
Stabilities of life history traits for a widespread native perennial wildflower, Rudbeckia laciniata L., are described for five populations near the northern edge of its range in North America. Theory proposes that such populations experience variable levels of stress as suitable abiotic conditions shift north or south from year to year, which ...
Robert J. Lamb, Patricia A. MacKay
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Anthropological demography in Europe [PDF]
This paper offers a descriptive account of the methods used to conduct a comparative ethnographic study of below-replacement fertility in Athens, Greece and London, UK.
Katerina Georgiadis
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Business Demography Dynamics in Portugal: A Non-Parametric Survival Analysis [PDF]
We address the post-entry performance of new Portuguese firms by investigating the structural characteristics of the hazard and survival functions, using non-parametric survival analysis.
Alcina Nunes, Elsa Sarmento
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Mesoclimatic origin affects alpine plant germination but not its plasticity
Mountain ecosystems are disproportionately exposed to global warming, which may put alpine plant species in particular at risk. Plant species' migration and persistence depend on successful seed regeneration, with demographic traits such as germination being strongly sensitive to both present and ancestral climate.
Lukas Dietrichstein +6 more
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The net reproduction rate and the type-reproduction number in multiregional demography [PDF]
In order to study effects of migration on demographic changes of multiregional populations, multiregional population modelling is a useful traditional tool.
Hisashi Inaba
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Seed dormancy and seedling emergence studies in Avena fatua L.
Studies were made of seedling emergence of three phenotypes of Avena fatua L. with different coloured lemmas (fA, fB, fC) originally collected from one site.
N. C. B. PETERS, Peters, N. C. B.
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