Neuropeptides have widespread modulatory effects on behaviour and physiology and are associated with phenotypic transitions in a variety of animals. Arginine vasotocin (AVT) is implicated in mediating alternative male phenotypes in teleost fish, but the direction of the association differs among species, with either higher or lower AVT related to more territorial behaviour in different fishes. ...

Contentious issues have frequently been overlooked in the study of international relations and interstate conflict. This chapter explores the influence of territory and territorial issues on processes of interstate conflict. I begin by reviewing existing approaches to the study of territory, and existing theoretical efforts to understand the role of territory. I then offer an empirical investig...

For territorial animals, vocal signals can play an important role in both territory defense and mate attraction. The elaborate songs of many male songbirds (order: Passeriformes) serve these dual functions (Catchpole & Slater 1995; Collins 2004). In non-territorial songbirds, however, the adaptive significance of song is poorly understood. Sexual selection through female choice is expected to b...

A close relationship between territorial behavior and population regulation in birds was claimed by Howard (1920) in his classic essay on territoriality and has been emphasized by both earlier and more recent authors (see Wynne-Edwards, 1962). At present, opinions on this matter vary considerably; but there seems to be widespread entertainment, and in some circles acceptance, of the idea that t...

—The ecology and behavior of non-territorial owls are basically unknown. I studied the integration of young Great Horned Owls (Bubo virginianus) into the territorial breeding population from 19881993 in the southwestern Yukon, Canada, during a peak and decline of the population cycle of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus). Fiftyfive fledglings were equipped with radio-transmitters that allowed we...

This paper demonstrates a way to examine the transformation of territorial shape region. The official symbols (flags and emblems) modern administrative units Ukraine were analyzed for usage heraldic historical regions that lost their status century before. results confirm more or less constant symbolic reproduction regions, but spatial shapes has changed under influence new boundaries. Simultan...

The development of any region or territory stems from its own dynamic nature. Economic activity and employment are stimulated by the number of local initiatives plus the crossfertilisation of those same initiatives. Globalisation, external constraints and technological change are therefore not really obstacles to be overcome but rather opportunities to be seized. In our experience, participator...

Lymph-oedema is a chronic disease, not easily controllable with evolutive, progressive tendency. Since 2001 in the angiological outpatients’surgery inside of Operative Unit of Territorial Rehabilitation, in the ambit of patients affected by lymph-oedema, also the rehabilitative projects of geriatric patients affected by secondary post-surgery lower and upper limb lymphoedema, contained the ther...

The determination of Indonesia's marine areas such as territorial sea boundaries, EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) boundaries and LK between Indonesia neighboring countries is based on international law, one which UNCLOS 1982. the Philippines realize that it important to determine maritime two countries. steps have been discussed since 1994, in a meeting Senior Officials Regarding Determination Ma...

Economic globalization and telecommunications have contributed to produce a spatiality for the urban which pivots on de-territorialized cross-border networks and territorial locations with massive concentrations of resources. This is not a completely new feature. Over the centuries cities have been at the intersection of processes with supra-urban and even intercontinental scalings. What is dif...