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Independent Demographic Responses To Climate Change Among Temperate And Tropical Milksnakes (Colubridae: Genus Lampropeltis), Sara Ruane, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Frank T. Burbrink Jun 2015

Independent Demographic Responses To Climate Change Among Temperate And Tropical Milksnakes (Colubridae: Genus Lampropeltis), Sara Ruane, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Frank T. Burbrink

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The effects of Late Quaternary climate change have been examined for many temperate New World taxa, but the impact of Pleistocene glacial cycles on Neotropical taxa is less well understood, specifically with respect to changes in population demography. Here, we examine historical demographic trends for six species of milksnake with representatives in both the temperate and tropical Americas to determine if species share responses to climate change as a taxon or by area (i.e., temperate versus tropical environments). Using a multilocus dataset, we test for the demographic signature of population expansion and decline using non-genealogical summary statistics, as well as …


Communal Reflections: The Jewish Historical Society Of Staten Island Oral History Project, Amy F. Stempler Jan 2015

Communal Reflections: The Jewish Historical Society Of Staten Island Oral History Project, Amy F. Stempler

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The history of Jewish communities in New York has often cast a shadow over the history of other communities throughout the United States. Staten Island, though part of America’s largest Jewish city, has not received the scholarly attention awarded to Manhattan and the other outer boroughs. By the end of the twentieth century, Staten Island had the fastest growing Jewish community in New York City. Jews constituted 9 percent of the borough’s population, a higher proportion of the population than the number of Jews in all states outside of New York. Little is known about the community, especially its early …


Can Establishment Success Be Determined Through Demographic Parameters? A Case Study On Five Introduced Bird Species, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, José D. Anadón, Pim Edelaar, Martina Carrete, José Luis Tella Oct 2014

Can Establishment Success Be Determined Through Demographic Parameters? A Case Study On Five Introduced Bird Species, Ana Sanz-Aguilar, José D. Anadón, Pim Edelaar, Martina Carrete, José Luis Tella

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The dominant criterion to determine when an introduced species is established relies on the maintenance of a self-sustaining population in the area of introduction, i.e. on the viability of the population from a demographic perspective. There is however a paucity of demographic studies on introduced species, and establishment success is thus generally determined by expert opinion without undertaking population viability analyses (PVAs). By means of an intensive five year capture-recapture monitoring program (involving >12,000 marked individuals) we studied the demography of five introduced passerine bird species in southern Spain which are established and have undergone a fast expansion over the …


From The Ubiquitous To The Nonexistent: A Demographic Study Of Oclc Worldcat, Jay H. Bernstein Apr 2006

From The Ubiquitous To The Nonexistent: A Demographic Study Of Oclc Worldcat, Jay H. Bernstein

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Analysis of a random sample of bibliographic records from OCLC WorldCat finds that the great majority of items in WorldCat are held by very few participating libraries, and that an inverse geometric relationship exists between the number of libraries holding an item and the number of items with a given level of shared holdings. The findings provide a context for interpreting holding levels in WorldCat with regard to the proportion of widely shared items and the characteristics of items at various ranges of holdings. Used with other quantitative and evaluative measures, these findings will assist libraries in assessing their collections.


A Review Of Frank Wu's Renegotiating America's Multi-Color Lines / Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration And Civil Rights Options For America, Harvey Gee Oct 2002

A Review Of Frank Wu's Renegotiating America's Multi-Color Lines / Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration And Civil Rights Options For America, Harvey Gee

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


Perspective: Laguardia Community College Newsletter (Winter 1984), Laguardia Community College Jan 1984

Perspective: Laguardia Community College Newsletter (Winter 1984), Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

Vol. 13 No. 1; Perspective is a quarterly publication of LaGuardia Community College / CUNY which is designed and edited by the Office of Communications, Bill Freeland, director. Information on news and features stories should be addressed to the office In room M413. Faculty and staff news items should be sent to Dr. Roberta Matthews, Associate Dean of Faculty, room M202.


Laguardia Community College - Accreditation -- 1974, Laguardia Community College Jan 1974

Laguardia Community College - Accreditation -- 1974, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE - ACCREDITATION -- 1974 Part I: The College's Self-Study Part II: The Evaluation Team's Report Part III: The Commission's Action