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

Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;     695 words ......perhaps less familiarity with life history research. This volume is a welcome...provides a rationale for life history research, and delineates between...of the principles guiding life history research, including such aspects...

Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira...specific concerns generated by life history research. The key theme that compassion...encountered in conducting life history research and the ways in which they...

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

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

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

Human Biology;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ 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...

Reflexivity and moral agency: Restoring possibility to life history...

Frontiers;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......elements that must be considered in life history research in order to address the question of...substitute for good judgement.2 When using life history methodology in ethnographic research...researcher color her or his subject's life history? There is considerable debate on ...

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

Alces;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

Preservice teacher developmental tasks and life history research.

Education;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Goodson (1992) states that life history research is designed to locate the...and Life History Studies Life history research efforts are developing insights...as a Developmental Task Life history research has recently concentrated...

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

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

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

The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 2004 ;     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 ;     700+ 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...