Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research

Nursing History Review;  January 1, 2005 ;   Cooke, Danielle;   699 words ...Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research By Ardra L. Cole and J. Gary...in-depth look into the process of doing life history research, which is a variation on oral...thorough discussion of the "doing" of life history research. It includes topics such as...

Cole, Arda L. and J. Gary Knowles, eds., Lives in Context: the Art of Life...

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;   Glotzer, Richard;   695 words ......Lives in Context comes at a time when life history and narrative research are attracting...methodologies but perhaps less familiarity with life history research. This volume is a welcome edition...disciplines and the author's discussion of the life history literature, including some ...

Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People

Human Biology;  August 1, 1997 ;   Smith, Eric Alden;   787 words ...Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging...65.95 (cloth), $32.95 (paper). Ache Life History is based on painstaking research...scholarly project presented in Ache Life History is conducted at three interwoven levels...

Are moose only a large deer?: some life history considerations.

Alces;  January 1, 2007 ;   Gaillard, Jean-Michel;   787 words ......a large part of variation in life history traits of ungulates. However...shown to cause differences in life history patterns among species of similar...assess the factors that shape life history traits of moose (Alces alces...

Loop analysis: evaluating life history pathways in population projection...

Ecology;  December 1, 1994 ;   Groenendael, Jan Van Kroon, Hans De Kalisz, Susan Tuljapurkar, Shripad;   787 words ......Silvertown et al. 1992, 1993). Variation in life history traits among individuals within populations...all been described. These arrays of life history pathways present within populations...questions regarding trade-offs among life history traits (Caswell 1989b, Stearns 1992...

Application of Perturbation Simulations in Population Risk Assessment for...

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment;  October 1, 2006 ;   Raimondo, Sandy; McKenney, Charles L Jr; Barron, Mace G;   787 words ...ABSTRACT Population structure and life history strategies are determinants of how populations...theoretical constructs that represented the life history strategies and elasticity patterns of...similar elasticity patterns but different life history strategies: mysid shrimp, ...

Effects of variable life history and insect herbivores on reproduction in...

The American Midland Naturalist;  April 1, 1998 ;   Kelly, Carol A;   787 words ......aphid infestation levels nor floral life history traits predicted the mean number of...number of emerging seedlings. Floral life history traits did not predict reproduction...elevation populations. INTRODUCTION Life history traits have been shown to determine...

LIFE HISTORY AND MULTIPLE ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSES OF AN INVERTEBRATE PELAGIC...

Ecology;  January 1, 2000 ;   STRAILE, DIETMAR HALBICH, ASTRID;   787 words ......fish. We observed seasonal changes in life history and morphology and diel vertical migration...population was still increasing, a marked life history shift occurred. The reproductive strategy...the size at first reproduction. Such a life history shift is typically observed in the ...

Life History of Sialis (Megaloptera: Sialidae) in a Lentic and Lotic...

The American Midland Naturalist;  January 1, 2006 ;   Locklin, Jason L; Arsuffi, Thomas L; Bowles, David E;   787 words ...ABSTRACT.- We studied the life history and feeding habits of two coexisting...histories with a single cohort. Life history dynamics were somewhat faster...play a greater role in regulating life history in these insects than environmental...

VARIATION IN TORTOISE LIFE HISTORY: DEMOGRAPHY OF GOPHER US BERLANDIERI.

Ecology;  May 1, 2000 ;   HELLGREN, ERIC C. KAZMAIER, RICHARD T. RUTHVEN III, DONALD C. SYNATZSKE, DAVID R.;   787 words ......provide excellent models for studies of life history strategies, but terrestrial species...selective advantages of small size and the life history strategies of G. berlandieri have been...wards: demography; Gopherus berlandieri; life history; life table; sex ratio, age variation...

Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. .(Book Review)

Biography;  September 22, 2002 ;   Storey, Williams K.;   692 words ......Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. Oxford, England and...of Toronto, on the methods of life history research. The second part is...of thirteen brief memoirs of life history research by various authors...

Life history analysis of the juvenile horseshoe crab in Pleasant Bay, Cape...

The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 2004 ;   Cierpich, Sarah B. Grady, Sara P. Valiela, Ivan;   232 words ...Little is known about the early life history of the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus...studies have been done regarding its life history--specifically, first-year juvenile growth...This study provides information on the life history of juvenile horseshoe crabs, which can...

Life history and behavioral responses to time constraints in a damselfly.

Ecology;  June 1, 1999 ;   Johansson, Frank Rowe, Locke;   787 words ...INTRODUCTION Time constraints on the life history, imposed by seasonality, are...common in a wide variety of life history transitions (hatching, metamorphosis...Consider a simple animal life history where eggs emerge from winter...

LIFE HISTORY OF Plantago coronopus L. AT THE LIMIT OF ITS RANGE

Ekológia;  January 1, 2007 ;   Sotek, Zofia;   787 words ...Abstract Sotek Z.: Life history of Plantago coronopus L. at the...the study was to recognise the life history of individuals growing in a marginal...rosettes' size. Irrespectively of the life history all individuals were characterised...

Life History Variation in the Yazoo Shiner (Notropis rafinesquei) in Three...

The American Midland Naturalist;  October 1, 2007 ;   Haag, Wendell R; Commens-Carson, Amy M; Warren, Melvin L Jr;   787 words ...ABSTRACT.- We investigated the life history and demographics of Notropis rafinesquei...found striking variation in most other life history traits including female length, body...geographic proximity of these populations. Life history traits of all other species in the Notropis...