As scholars and activists met in Waterloo, copyright in September 2014 to discuss progress and obstacles in adopting the right to food, similar discussions were being held by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and among civil society organizations (CSOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements aro
Harvesting strategies as evidence for 4000 years of camas (Camassia quamash) management in the North American Columbia Plateau
One of the greatest archaeological enigmas is in understanding the role of decision-making, intentionality and read more interventions in plant life cycles by foraging peoples in transitions to and from low-level food production practices.We bring together archaeological, palaeoclimatological and botanical data to explore relationships over the pas
When Does Sexual Signal Exploitation Lead to Signal Loss?
Evolutionary loss of traits is common over evolutionary time and occurs in diverse taxa.Sexual signals and other non-signal traits should differ in their likelihood of becoming lost because they experience different selection here pressures contributing to their diminution or persistence.In particular, conspicuous sexual signals are often exploited
SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SELECTED HERMATYPIC CORALS FROM GULF OF KACHCHH, INDIA
Hermatypic, scleractinian corals are the most important benthic substrates in a coral reef ecosystem.The here existing, high (spatial) resolution, broad-band, multi-spectral, space-borne sensors have limited capability to spatially detect and spectrally discriminate coral substrates.In situ hyperspectral signatures of eight coral targets were colle