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![]() | Seger, Jon | Ideas in ecology | The word "ecology" means different things to different people. For example, during the last 25 years or so the word has been used to label attitudes, life-styles, consumer goods, political parties, and college courses. In the 1960s one university renamed its "Home Economics" course "Home Ecology."... | Behavioral ecology; Population ecology | 1986 |
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![]() | Vernon, Kenneth B. | Numic fires: modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great Basin | Across Western North America, hunter-gatherers modified their surrounding environment with the application of fire (1; 11; 15). However, to date we lack a general theoretical framework to investigate the reasons why people would burn or its effects on traditional foraging economies. To begin to fill... | Behavioral ecology; Diet; Fire | 2015 |