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Niche construction in evolutionary biology and ecology. An extensive body of formal theory explores the evolutionary consequences of niche construction and its ramifications for evolutionary biology and ecology.
3 Ιουν 2021 · Niche construction theory (NCT) aims to transform and unite evolutionary biology and ecology. Much of the debate about NCT has focused on construction. Less attention has been accorded to the niche: what is it, exactly, that organisms are constructing?
Niche construction theory is a branch of evolutionary biology that focuses on the capacity of organisms to perturb and modify their environments through their metabolisms, activities, and choices (Odling-Smee et al. 2003).
24 Νοε 2020 · Niche construction is the process whereby organisms, through their activities and choices, modify their own and each other’s niches. Examples of niche construction include the building of nests, burrows, and mounds and alternation of physical and chemical conditions by animals, and the creation of shade, influencing of wind speed, and ...
22 Ιουν 2020 · We aim to understand general consequences of niche construction on metapopulation dynamics in ephemeral landscapes. To this effect, a contact process-like stochastic spatial model is introduced...
1 Ιουν 2000 · In this article I review the important literature on scale construction and argue for enlarging our scope for understanding scale to include the complex processes of social repro- duction and ...
This paper seeks to clarify what is meant by the ‘social construction of nature’, which has become a crude but common term used to describe very different understandings of nature, knowledge and the world. I distinguish two broad varieties of construction talk in the social sciences: construction-as-refutation and ...
