Enhanced Convex Hull based Clustering for High Population Density Avoidance under D2D Enabled Network

Author(s):  
Vishaka Basnayake ◽  
Hakim Mabed ◽  
Philippe Canalda ◽  
Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody
2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 1306-1311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica L Bond ◽  
Jerry O Wolff ◽  
Sven Krackow

We tested predictions associated with three widely used hypotheses for facultative sex-ratio adjustment of vertebrates using eight enclosed populations of gray-tailed voles, Microtus canicaudus. These were (i) the population sex ratio hypothesis, which predicts that recruitment sex ratios should oppose adult sex-ratio skews, (ii) the local resource competition hypothesis, which predicts female-biased recruitment at low adult population density and male-biased recruitment at high population density, and (iii) the first cohort advantage hypothesis, which predicts that recruitment sex ratios should be female biased in the spring and male biased in the autumn. We monitored naturally increasing population densities with approximately equal adult sex ratios through the spring and summer and manipulated adult sex ratios in the autumn and measured subsequent sex ratios of recruits. We did not observe any significant sex-ratio adjustment in response to adult sex ratio or high population density; we did detect an influence of time within the breeding season, with more female offspring observed in the spring and more male offspring observed in the autumn. Significant seasonal increases in recruitment sex ratios indicate the capacity of female gray-tailed voles to manipulate their offspring sex ratios and suggest seasonal variation in the relative reproductive value of male and female offspring to be a regular phenomenon.


Mammalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Maier ◽  
Katherine L. Doyle

AbstractLarge aggregations of shrews have been reported and various explanations offered for this seemingly rare behavior; however, there has been little evidence to support any particular interpretation. We observed two small aggregations of highly active vocalizing Sorex cinereus while performing wildlife surveys in forested habitats in central Massachusetts, USA. These observations, in conjunction with a review of other reports, including genetic analyses, strongly suggest that such aggregations of adult Sorex are associated with mating behavior, more readily observed during periods of high population density. Published accounts of such behavior may be rare because primarily large aggregations have been reported; however, smaller breeding aggregations may be common.


1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C Chapman ◽  
John J Christian ◽  
Mary Ann Pawlikowski ◽  
Sandra D Michael

2013 ◽  
Vol 330 ◽  
pp. 805-810
Author(s):  
Dragos R. Rugescu

The Romanian NERVA space project, aimed at building and using a small rocket launcher for injecting nanosatellites into a LEO, requires the establishment of a secure launching area. The first candidate is on the western coast of the Black Sea and the candidate launching and flight corridor is the west-east vector above the sea. A series of ecological and safety challenges appear due to the high population density of the regions close to the sea-shores of the Black Sea; they must be catalogued and securely solved, before any space activity above the Black Sea begins. The main challenges of such an endeavor are analyzed henceforth and several solutions that fall within the scope of a recent research activity of the NERVA team are proposed.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 1820-1826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert C. P. Lee ◽  
Patrick McGinn

Observations of territorial behaviour of male Nannothemis bella indicated that females only laid eggs on males' territories after copulating with the territory holder. Results of daily censuses of marked individuals on a study area suggested that a distinct subpopulation within the male population never retained a territory for more than 1 day on the study area. Such males tend to die or emigrate sooner than do males that hold a territory on the study area for more than 1 day at some time in their lives. Further observations of territorial behaviour showed that males holding territories for less than 1 day achieved copulations at significantly lower overall rates while on those territories than did males that retained territories for more than 1 day. We infer that all males attempt to hold territories for as long as possible, but under conditions of high population density a male must have a relatively high intrinsic "territory-holding ability" in order to hold a territory for more than 1 day. Census data indicated that males emerging late in the season were less likely to retain a territory for more than 1 day than males emerging earlier.


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