Browsing by Author "Alvard, Michael"
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Grow, Nanda Bess (2013-08-06)Pygmy tarsiers (Tarsius pumilus) of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia are the only species of tarsier known to live exclusively at high altitudes. This study was the first to locate and observe multiple groups of this elusive ...
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Hodges, Shannon R (2020-05-14)The San Martin titi monkey (Plecturocebus oenanthe) is a Critically Endangered Neotropical primate endemic to Peru, where forested habitat has been dramatically altered due to anthropogenic activities. In the face of ongoing ...
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Henderson, Erin Elizabeth (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Photoidentification surveys of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) were conducted from December of 2002 through December of 2003 in Chocolate Bay, Texas, and the adjacent Gulf of Mexico area. The research represented ...
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Smolensky, Nicole Limunga (2014-11-20)Overexploitation of wildlife is a leading threat to biodiversity in tropical Africa. Effective management requires integrating information on the extent of exploitation, distribution, and status of exploited species. I ...
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Reese Jr, Bruce Edward (2018-02-20)This research examines how the act of administrating altruistic punishment is impacted by group identity and variability in contributions to a public good settings. The decision to punish low contributors involves a cost ...
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Alvard, Michael (2014-06-11)Dataset includes 23 GPS files that describe fishing trips made by Dominican fishers to fish aggregating devices. Files are in RData file format.
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MacDonald, Kaeleigh Marie (2014-11-26)This paper investigates the relationship between a person’s level of religiosity, their ability to tolerate outsiders to their faith and their level of openness-to-experience (a big five personality trait). This relationship ...
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Ford, Benjamin L. (2010-10-12)The goal of the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape project was to investigate the nature and distribution of archaeological sites along the northeast shoreline of Lake Ontario while examining the environmental, ...
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Raterman, Jessica (2018-05-01)This project addresses questions about human foraging behavior in the ethnographic context of small-scale fishing-foraging in the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island in the Eastern Caribbean. The first goal of this project ...
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Pryor, Mackenzie Rose (2020-03-16)Habitat loss is a major problem for many forest dwelling species worldwide. This habitat loss is often due to activities associated to population growth, and nonhuman primates are among the most affected by these forest ...
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Harrison, James Burr (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This thesis examines six prominent Pecos River Style rock art anthropomorph attributes to determine if they are found in limited geographic districts of the Lower Pecos Region. Both Boyd (2003) and Turpin (2004) have ...
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Kurten, Jenna Snow (2019-07-17)Seeking to understand what catalyzes and sustains fertility reduction, this research explores the reproductive tradeoffs and opportunity costs experienced by individuals in three unique environmental and cultural contexts. ...
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Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David; McGaffey, Ethan (PLOS, 2015-02-03)Foragers must often travel from a central place to exploit aggregations of prey. These patches can be identified behaviorally when a forager shifts from travel to area restricted search, identified by a decrease in speed ...