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| Kramer, Daniel B; Michigan State University; dbk@msu.edu. |
| The utility of traditional bio-economic harvest models suffers from their dependence on two commonly used approaches. First, optimization is often assumed for harvester behavior despite system complexity and the often neglected costs associated with information gathering and deliberation. Second, ecosystem interactions are infrequently modeled despite a growing awareness that these interactions are important. This paper develops a simulation model to examine the consequences of harvesting at two trophic levels in a coral-reef food web. The model assumes adaptive rather than optimizing behavior among fishermen. The consequences of changing economic, biological, and social parameters are examined using resilience as an evaluative framework. Three general... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Fisheries; Resource economics; Coral reefs; Resilience; Adaptive behavior; Food web; Simulation. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Bezerra,José Maurício Dias; Peruquetti,Rui Carlos; Kerr,Warwick Estevam. |
| Forty six beetles Scotocryptus melitophilus Reitter, 1881 collected in a nest of Melipona quadrifasciata Lepeletier, 1836 were studied. All beetles were put together in a large petri dish with 14 males, 14 virgin queens and 14 workers of M. quadrifasciata, which was not aggressive towards the S. melitophilus and flew with 3 to 10 beetles attached to them. When groups of 20 workers, 20 males and 20 virgin queens were put separately in three petri dishes, the workers become attractive to beetles after they were seven days old, while the males after the 19 days old. Only one virgin queen five days old attracted one beetle. The anatomic parts of the workers bees more attractive to the beetles when smeared to a filter paper were the head (32%), abdomen (29%)... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Scotocryptus; Melipona; Adaptive behavior; Phoresy; Caste. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752000000100016 |
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