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Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change by Wolverton, Steve

“…Ethnobiology 5 stems from Eugene Hunn's four phases of the history of ethnobiology and focuses on the relevance of ethnobiological research in the context of…”
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global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox by Huston, Michael A, Wolverton, Steve

“…The distribution of the diversity and abundance of life on Earth is thought to be shaped by the patterns of plant growth (net primary production, NPP) in the…”
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Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena by Huston, Michael A, Wolverton, Steve

“…Bergmann's rule, which proposes a heat-balance explanation for the observed latitudinal gradient of increasing animal body size with increasing latitude, has…”
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A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes by Gillreath-Brown, Andrew, Nagaoka, Lisa, Wolverton, Steve

“…Prehistoric peoples chose farming locations based on environmental conditions, such as soil moisture, which plays a crucial role in crop production. Ancestral…”
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature. By David George Haskell. 2013. Penguin Books, New York. 288 pp by Wolverton, Steve

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Were domestic camelids present on the prehispanic South American agricultural frontier? An ancient DNA study by Abbona, Cinthia Carolina, Adolfo, Gustavo Neme, Johnson, Jeff, Kim, Tracy, Gil, Adolfo Fabian, Wolverton, Steve

“…The southern boundary of prehispanic farming in South America occurs in central Mendoza Province, Argentina at approximately 34 degrees south latitude…”
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A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation by Pan, Feifei, Nagaoka, Lisa, Wolverton, Steve, Atkinson, Samuel F., Kohler, Timothy A., O’Neill, Marty

“…A constrained stochastic weather generator (CSWG) for producing daily mean air temperature and precipitation based on annual mean air temperature and…”
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TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective by Dombrosky, Jonathan, Wolverton, Steve

“…How to manage the impact of free-ranging cats on native wildlife is a polarizing issue. Conservation biologists largely support domestic cat euthanasia to…”
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Analysis of ancient DNA from South American rhea bones: Implications for zooarchaeology and biogeography by Abbona, Cinthia Carolina, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Johnson, Jeff, Giardina, Miguel, Neme, Gustavo, Wolverton, Steve

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Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region by Wolverton, Steve, Figueroa, Robert Melchior, Swentzell, Porter

“…Multiple cultural identities converge in Mesa Verde archaeology. Archaeologists have engaged research questions for the last half century, leading to cultural…”
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The utility of zooarchaeological data to guide listing efforts for an imperiled mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Pleurobema riddellii) by Randklev, Charles R., Wolverton, Steve, Johnson, Nathan A., Smith, Chase H., DuBose, Traci P., Robertson, Clinton R., Conley, Julian

“…The status of species in freshwater systems shift over time due to natural and anthropogenic causes. Determining the magnitude and cause of these shifts…”
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The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World by Wolverton, Steve

“…Review of The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World. Eugene N. Anderson. 2010…”
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Quantitative Paleozoology by Wolverton, Steve

“…Review of Quantitative Paleozoology. R. Lee Lyman. 2008. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 348, black-and-white illustrations. $29.34 (paper). ISBN…”
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Snapshots of Digital Scholarship in Zooarchaeology: Introduction to the Special Issue by McKechnie, Iain, Kansa, Sarah Whitcher, Wolverton, Steve

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Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification by Wolverton, Steve

“…There is no standard for reporting faunal identifications in zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeologists are open to accusations that reported conclusions are invalid…”
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Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis by Barker, Andrew, Dombrosky, Jonathan, Chaput, Dale, Venables, Barney, Wolverton, Steve, Stevens, Stanley M.

“…Identification of protein residues from prehistoric cooking pottery using mass spectrometry is challenging because proteins are removed from original tissues,…”
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Introducing Ethnobiology Letters by Wolverton, Steve, Fowler, Cynthia, Cozzo, David

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North American Pleistocene overkill hypothesis and the re-wilding debate by Wolverton, Steve

“…The conservation agenda to re-wild North America may or may not be realistic in terms of political ecology. However, it represents a real conservation…”
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Plastic litter in streams: The behavioral archaeology of a pervasive environmental problem by Carpenter, Evan, Wolverton, Steve

“…Plastic deposition in hydrological systems is a pervasive problem at all geographic scales from loci of pollution to global ocean circulation. Much attention…”
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Effects of Population Density on Juvenile Growth Rate in White-Tailed Deer by Barr, Brannon, Wolverton, Steve

“…Animal body size is driven by habitat quality, food availability, and nutrition. Adult size can relate to birth weight, to length of the ontogenetic growth…”
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