Marine Bioinvasions: Conservation Hazards and Vehicles for Ecological Understanding

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Rilov ◽  
Jeffrey A. Crooks
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Understanding

Traditional knowledge and satellite tracking as complementary approaches to ecological understanding

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENRY P. HUNTINGTON ◽  
ROBERT S. SUYDAM ◽  
DANIEL H. ROSENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Satellite Tracking ◽  
Migratory Species ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Management And Conservation

The integration or co-application of traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge has been the subject of considerable research and discussion (see Johannes 1981; Johnson 1992; Stevenson 1996; McDonald et al. 1997; Huntington et al. 1999, 2002), with emphasis on various specific topics including environmental management and conservation (see Freeman & Carbyn 1988; Ferguson & Messier 1997; Ford & Martinez 2000; Usher 2000; Albert 2001). In most cases, examples of successful integration compare traditional and scientific observations at similar spatial scales to increase confidence in understanding or to fill gaps that appear from either perspective. We present a different approach to integration, emphasizing complementarity rather than concordance in spatial perspective, using two migratory species as examples.

Formulating eHealth Utilizing an Ecological Understanding

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Grant P. Cumming ◽  
Douglas McKendrick ◽  
Jamie Hogg ◽  
Tara French ◽  
Eva Kahana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Understanding

scholarly journals A Plurilingual Approach to ELT in Primary School: Towards an Ecological Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Alicia Chabert
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Attitude And Motivation ◽  
Initial Results

Summary This paper aims to demonstrate that using a plurilingual and ecological approach to English language teaching can achieve better results in primary school independently of the mother tongue of the student. This article is based on the initial results of our international research carried out in three very different countries (Norway, China and Spain). While the author´s research project involves 328 participants, we will present the results of the first phase of the experiment, including 133 students. In this paper, we propose a plurilingual communicative approach to English teaching as a foreign language, making a distinction between languages for communication and languages for identification. This research examines the current teaching policies in the participating countries, and analyses cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives in English language teaching while promoting the positive use of the mother tongue as a connecting tool in the students’ communication system. The subjects of this study were divided in control and experimental groups, in which they received traditional and plurilingual approach respectively. After the classes they completed a test and were then supplied with a Likert scale questionnaire focused on understanding their attitude and motivation towards mother tongue and English language learning. Based on observation and results obtained, we can conclude that a plurilingual approach that uses L1 as a tool in English teaching improves English learning, as well as develops an ecological understanding of languages.

Between Two Funerals: Zombie Temporality and Media Ecology in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-317
Author(s):  
Alexander Zahlten
Keyword(s):  
Media Ecology ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Media Mix

Abstract This article explores the popular shift to a media-ecological understanding in post-1960s Japan. Bookending its investigation with two actual funerals held for fictional characters in 1970 and 2007, it tracks the trope of death to map the increased interlocking of media temporality and everyday temporality in intensified media capitalism. As characters attain the ability to die, they are increasingly reanimated (to die again) in other media. Death and reanimation thereby become an expression of transformations at the intersection of media-systemic, economic, and aesthetic levels. The article concludes that death and reanimation across media channels point to a new rhythmic temporal regime. Characters are now mortal but cannot die, doomed to become eternally wandering media-mix zombies. The article relates this media economy linked to themes of death and animation to recent discussions of capitalist animism by figures such as Michael Taussig, Achille Mbembe, and Steven Shaviro. The article then offers a brief outlook on the most recent expressions of this zombie economy in narrative tropes of time loops and alternative realities.

Non-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Karen C. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Processes ◽  
Density Dependence ◽  
Classical Theory ◽  
Ecological Theory ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Transient Phenomena ◽  
Equilibrium Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Ecological Understanding

Most standard theoretical approaches emphasize the role of deterministic density dependence in creating and maintaining equilibrium dynamics. At the same time, it is widely recognized that ecological processes are inherently stochastic, and that disturbances and variation in the environment and in the fates of individuals prevent many ecological systems from resting at their theoretical equilibrium. A developing body of stochastic ecological theory aims to bridge the gap between the deterministic tools of classical theory and the stochastic, non-equilibrial questions that real systems present to us. This chapter provides an overview of this developing theory, with an emphasis on approaches that confront the complex interplay between deterministic density dependence, and perturbations. Although intuition may suggest that stochasticity and transient phenomena should obscure ecological understanding, they can actually strengthen it when viewed through the appropriate lens, as illustrated in this chapter.

Seasonal use of waterholes and pathways by macrofauna in the dry forest of Costa Rica

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor H. Montalvo ◽  
Carolina Sáenz-Bolaños ◽  
Luis D. Alfaro ◽  
Juan C. Cruz ◽  
Flavio H. Guimarães-Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Large Bird ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Trail Cameras ◽  
Almost All ◽  
North Western

AbstractTemporal and spatial scarcity of water in semi-arid and seasonal ecosystems often leads to changes in movements and behaviour of large vertebrates, and in the neotropics this dynamic is poorly understood due to logistical and methodological limitations. Here we used camera trapping to elucidate variation in patterns of seasonal use of waterholes and pathways by 10 large-mammal and four large-bird species in the dry forest of north-western Costa Rica. From 2011 to 2015, we deployed trail cameras at 50 locations, including waterholes and three types of pathway (roads, human trails and animal paths). We used Generalized Linear Models to evaluate the effect of location and seasonality on the rates at which independent photographs were taken. We found interacting effects of location and seasonality for the capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus), the tiger heron (Trigrisoma mexicanum), the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and the tapir (Tapirus bairdii) suggesting that these species were the most influenced by waterholes during the dry season. Comparison of waterhole sites and specific types of pathways (roads, animal paths and human trails) showed that location influenced photo-capture rates of almost all species, suggesting a useful insight to avoid and account for bias in camera trap studies. Furthering our ecological understanding of seasonal water regimes and large vertebrates’ behaviours allow for better understanding of the consequences of climate change on them.

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