Yellowstone National Park is well known for its geothermal features. Among microbiologists it is equally well known for its unique microbial ecology and extreme habitats associated with terrestrial hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles. Yellowstone Lake has also been shown to contain geothermal activity, and the presence of hydrothermal vents with water temperatures up to 120 ̊C have been reported...

1 The western corn rootworm (WCR) is a historic pest with a legacy of resistance and behavioural plasticity. Its behaviour and nutritional ecology are important to rootworm management. The success of the most effective and environmentally benign rootworm management method, annual crop rotation, was based on an understanding of rootworm behaviour and host – plant relationships. Enthusiastic adop...

With the development of blockchain technology and non-fungible token (NFT), digital collections have ushered in a golden age. In field cultural museums, collection has also been given new mission, i.e., to migrate relics from offline places online platforms, thus broadening application areas ways collection. However, actual implementation, it presents multifaceted ecology pros cons. Beginning c...

abstract purpose - the aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...

BACKGROUND . Subjective social status (SSS) is associated with physical and mental health in diverse samples. However, community, cultural, and ethnic influences on SSS are poorly understood, especially among rural and American Indian populations. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine similarities and differences in how community poverty, family context, and life course attainment predict SSS among C...

P. M. Greenfield's new theory of social change and human development aims to show how changing sociodemographic ecologies alter cultural values and learning environments and thereby shift developmental pathways. Worldwide sociodemographic trends include movement from rural residence, informal education at home, subsistence economy, and low-technology environments to urban residence, formal scho...

NTRODUCTION This artcle charts the origins and development of scientific psychology, a Euro-American “article of export” (Danziger, 2006, p. 271), into Afrique Noire. This ‘export’ commodity is “an indigenous psychology rooted in a particular cultural tradition” – European Enlightenment (Berry, 2006, p. 260). The paper develops in six major themes: scientific psychology’s emergence and growth; ...

A burgeoning body of research documents links between sleep and adjustment in adolescence, but little is known about the role of the social ecology in promoting healthful sleeping habits. This study was aimed at identifying the socio-cultural correlates of adolescents' sleep, including average nighttime sleep duration, average daytime napping, and night-to-night variability in sleep duration an...

Although ecological forces are known to shape the expression of sociality across a broad range of biological taxa, their role in shaping human behavior is currently disputed. Both comparative and experimental evidence indicate that beliefs in moralizing high gods promote cooperation among humans, a behavioral attribute known to correlate with environmental harshness in nonhuman animals. Here we...