Essays about: "mobile ecology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words mobile ecology.

1. 1. Temporal, climatic and spatial variation in the distribution and activity patterns of the raccoon (Procyon lotor) in Hainich National Park, Germany

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

   Author : Maria Grüneberger; [2022]
   Keywords : raccoon; procyon lotor; hainich National Park; canopy Walk; camera trapping; nocturnality; ground temperature; habitat preference; european beech; fagus sylvatica; anthropogenic influence;

   Abstract : The raccoon (Procyon lotor) has been a part of German fauna since the 1920s, following a number of releases and escapes from captivity. This study intends to investigate the distribution and activity patterns of this non-native mesopredator in Hainich National Park, which lies in Central Germany, in-between 3 core areas of established raccoon populations. READ MORE

3. 2. En märr som hette Mor : de sista härjedalska hästkörarnas berättelser från tiden innan skogsbrukets mekanisering

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

   Author : Jon Nordström; [2021]
   Keywords : skogshistoria; timmerkörning; timmerhästar; Härjedalen;

   Abstract : I slutet av 1700-talet och början av 1800-talet skedde en förändring i det agrara samhället och i det norrländska samhället. Från att bondesamhället innan varit nästintill helt självförsörjande öppnades genom industrialiseringen en möjlighet till annan utkomst i form av lönearbete. READ MORE

4. 3. Let's Do Away with Urban : Autoethnographic Adventures in Stockholms län

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Olivia Butler; [2020]
   Keywords : Urban; Rural; Spatiology; Political Ecology; Embodiment; Emplacement; Stockholm;

   Abstract : The spatial categorisations of urban and rural are still used in academia, lay terminology and policy formation in spite of a postmodern obsession with the deconstruction of binaries. Hitherto, the urban rural dichotomy has been exposed to little scrutiny, and the critiques that have been made come from the epistemological standpoint of total urbanisation which assumes the rural will be effaced by a perennial urban sprawl. READ MORE

5. 4. Importance of bumble bee community evenness for crop pollination : a simulation analysis of Swedish red clover seed production

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Vivek Babu; [2018]
   Keywords : bumble bee; Bombus; community; evenness; biodiversity-ecosystem function; diversity-stability; diversity-productivity; overyielding; productivity; stability; biodiversity; selection effect; species asynchrony; portfolio effect;

   Abstract : The red clover seed production systems are dependent on pollinators for increase in red clover seed yield and its stability. When compared to domesticated honey bees, the wild bumble bees are highly efficient in pollinating the red clover crop due to its relatively longer tongue length. Longer dependence on single pollinator species i.e. READ MORE

6. 5. Pics or it didn't happen: Instagram in Prosumer Capitalism and Reflexive Modernity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Aaron Frey; [2012]
   Keywords : Instagram; Facebook; social media; social network sites; mobile computing; prosumption; prosumer capitalism; web 2.0; photography; material culture; reflexive modernity; communities of practice; practice theory; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Drawing on practice centered approaches to consumption, this study situates a cultural analysis of Instagram, a smartphone-­‐based image sharing application used by over 80 million people worldwide, within wider discourses on reflexive modernity, critical media studies, prosumption, and late-­‐modern consumer culture. A seven-­‐day diary study with 25 international participants, supplemented by participant observation, helps tie these theoretical engagements to specific lived experiences illustrating what it means to live with a networked camera almost permanently on-­‐hand to record and share images of daily life. READ MORE