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  • Cooperative prey herding by the pelagic dolphin, Stenella longirostris

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    Benoit-Bird, Kelly J. and Au, Whitlow W. L.
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    Sonar techniques were used to quantitatively observe foraging predators and their prey simultaneously in three dimensions. Spinner dolphins foraged at night in highly coordinated groups of 16–28 individuals using strict four-dimensional patterns to increase prey density by up to 200 times. Herding exploited the prey’s own avoidance behavior to achieve...
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    Pacific Ocean. © 2009 Acoustical Society of America. �DOI: 10.1121/1.2967480� PACS number�s�: 43.30.Sf

  • Energy : converting from acoustic to biological resource units

    Creator:
    Benoit-Bird, Kelly J. and Au, Whitlow W. L.
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    Acoustic backscattering strength is often used as an index of biomass; however, the relationship between these variables has not been directly validated. Relationships were investigated between acoustic cross section at 200 kHz, measured as part of a previous study, and measured values of length, biovolume, dry weight, ash-free dry weight,...
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    distribution of the populations being studied. ©2002 Acoustical Society of America. @DOI: 10.1121/1.1470505

  • Bolivia

    Creator:
    Kellar, Brenda
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Bolivia from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 44 Bolivia Retrieved from

  • Argentina

    Creator:
    Archer, Whitney K. and Delatorre, Mayela
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Argentina from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 1 of the total population

  • Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Abdullah, Abritty
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Bangladesh from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 16 in a Parliament and

  • Greece

    Creator:
    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Greece from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 134 Greece DIK (Deutsche

  • Micronesia

    Creator:
    Lockhart, Janet
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Micronesia from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 174 Micronesia Report

  • Nepal

    Creator:
    Furman, Kali
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    A chapter in Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, that outlines women's lives in Nepal from a post-colonial, feminist lens.
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    printed on acid-free paper @ Manufactured in the United States of America 205 governmental system

  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
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    Emergence ofOrnithology as a Scientific Discipline," Journal ofthe Society for the Bibliography of Natural

  • Forestry

    Creator:
    Avery, Bonnie E.
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    A broad definition of forestry would include the study of trees, forests, and the habitat they provide as well as their use by people. Modern, "science-based" forestry began in the nineteenth century when Europeans looked for specialists who could address questions on wood supply and extraction both at home and...
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    Society of American Foresters was established, as was the first School of Forestry in North America at