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Species identity and human consumption of beaked whales in the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati
We investigated the species identity and local use of cetaceans on the Gilbert
Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Working with the Kiribati Ministry of Environment,
Lands and Agricultural Development and Fisheries Division, we visited
the islands of Tarawa, Tabiteuea (North), Butaritari and Onotoa from June to
July 2009, and collected 24 bones, bone fragments or teeth attributed to recent
strandings. The mitochondrial DNA control region or cytochrome b was successfully
amplified from 12 bones or bone fragments and used to identify four
species: Mesoplodon sp. representing a new species or subspecies of beaked
whale, the dense-beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris, Cuvierâs beaked whale
Ziphius cavirostris and the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps. This is the first
confirmed identification of the dense-beaked, Cuvierâs and pygmy sperm whales
from the Gilbert Islands. All specimens were reportedly used for human
consumption.Keywords: Molecular taxonomy, DNA surveillance, Biodiversity, Marine bushmeat, Subsistenc
Texas Parks & Wildlife
Magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas
South Carolina Wildlife, July-August 1980
The South Carolina Wildlife Magazines are published by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who are dedicated to educating citizens on the value, conservation, protection, and restoration of South Carolina's wildlife and natural resources. These magazines showcase the stateâs natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities by including articles and images of conservation, reflections and tales, field notes, recipes, and more. In this issue: Biosphere ; Soldier of the Salt Marsh ; Viewpoint ; Irresistible Forces, Movable Objects ; The Shell Game ; Yawkey Center ; The Spot ; Our Restless Islands ; Shipwreck! ; Seaside Celebrations ; South Carolina's Spectacular Shore ; Field Trip ; Readers' Forum ; Roundtable
Resource dispersion, territory size and group size of black-backed jackals on a desert coast
We studied the relationship between resourceâ
food patchârichness and dispersion on group and territory
size of black-backed jackals Canis mesomelas in the Namib
Desert. Along beaches where food patches are mostly small,
widely separated jackal group sizes are small, and territories
are narrow and extremely elongated. Where food patches
are rich, fairly clumped and also heterogeneous, group sizes
are large and territory sizes small. At a superabundant and
highly clumped food sourceâa large seal rookeryâgroup
sizes are large, and territoriality is absent. Although jackals
feed at the coast and den nearby, individuals move linearly
far inland along well-defined footpaths. The marked climatic
gradient from the cold coast inlandâa drop in wind speed
and rise in effective temperature Te â and use of particular
paths by different groupsâstrongly suggests that these
movements are for thermoregulatory reasons only.Universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria and the National Research Foundationhttp://link.springer.com/journal/13364hb2014mn201
Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores
As a branch of geomorphology, geochronology determines the ages of sediment, fossils, and rocks, thereby assembling a geologic planetary history. As a geochronological dĂ©nouement, the proposed geological epoch of the Anthropocene may indicate the figural moment in geologic time when human activity inscribed itself into sediment across the planet. This dissertation offers an artistâs account of practice-as-research investigating how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene along North Atlantic foreshores. As sites prone to the geologic acts of deposition, erosion, and intrusion, foreshores provide an impermanent surface on which to interrogate the deep time, hidden knowledges, and climate crisis affiliated with the Anthropoceneâs inaugural narrative.
Geochronologists partly comprising a working group to give the Anthropocene its formal designation note that â[t]he expression of the Anthropocene in the environmentally sensitive coastal systems [including beaches, tidal flats, and deltas]⊠represents a diverse patchwork of deposits and lacunae that reflect local interplays of natural and anthropogenic forcesâ (Zalasiewicz, Williams, and Waters 2014). Climate change also places foreshores as central players impacted by storminess, glacial melt, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification. Produced as the book Sound of Mull, the artistâs performance scores were developed through artistic practice-as-research and offer strategies for experiential knowledge acquisition through direct or imagined engagement with the multiple temporalities and more-than-human co-constituents of North Atlantic foreshores. Participatory, experiential engagement may sensitize people to the hidden geochronologies of everyday life.
This dissertation is situated within an interdisciplinary practice-as-research methodology integral to geopoetics praxis, interweaving research from performance studies, geology, human geography, and archaeology. Detailing foreshore performances enacted in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden between 2015 and 2019, the dissertation argues for interdependence and circulation as necessary components defining geopoetics. The account expounds the importance of both interdisciplinary scholarship and artistic practice-as-research methodology in the exploration of geopoetics as transformative action.
Research was undertaken through PhD study at the University of Glasgow from 2015 to 2019, supported by the Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Scholarship
Baseline data on the oceanography of Cook Inlet, Alaska
Regional relationships between river hydrology, sediment transport, circulation and coastal processes were analyzed utilizing aircraft, ERTS-1 and N.O.A.A. -2 and -3 imagery and corroborative ground truth data. The use of satellite and aircraft imagery provides a means of acquiring synoptic information for analyzing the dynamic processes of Cook Inlet in a fashion not previously possible
National Ambient Water Quality Criteria.................................................................... 7-9 Agricultural Water Quality Limits................................................................................. 7-9
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Land Tenure in Oceania
Discussions of land tenure in social anthropology have usually been deeply embedded in broader empirical and theoretical explanations of social, economic, legal, and political institutions. In this volume the editors have sought to correct the emphasis of previous studies by focusing our attention directly on land tenure in Oceania, without, it must be added, losing sight of the connections between land tenure principles and general social structure.
The editors have deliberately looked for similarities by analyzing each tenure system from the same analytical and conceptual perspective. Chapters 1 and 9 specifically discuss the methodological and theoretical framework that evolved in the course of analyzing the seven tenure systems described in chapters 2 through 8. The difficulties and problems encountered by the contributors in presenting their data in comparable form is reflected by the more than three years of analysis, writing, editing, and rewriting necessary to complete this volume.
The seven substantive ethnographic chapters illustrate the range and diversity in the land tenure practices which are found within the vast culture area of Oceania. The similarities in basic tenure principles between all seven systems seem all the more remarkable in light of the varied geographical and cultural settings of the seven societies. In all of these societies we find a complete absence of fee simple ownership and a corresponding presence of entailed family estates.
The ethnography reveals tenure principles that detail an impressive number and variety of separate categories of property. Each category, in turn, includes an even greater number of rights and duties that symbolize different forms of proprietorship. The differential allocation of these rights and duties among persons and groups represents the exact point of connection between land tenure and social structure. For example, kinship principles that specify the distribution of authority within age, sex, descent, and status categories converge on such tenure principles as land use, land distribution, succession, and inheritance. Principles of political organization concerning the relative scaling of authority and power within the society have clear parallels in the land tenure system, where corporate and individual tenure privileges are differentiated. Economic principles subtly merge with land tenure principles in social domains, where land as a resource and land as a value intersect
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