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Assessing Habitat Preference of Invasive American Minks (Neovison vison) Using Trap-Cameras in Navarino Island, Chile

Poster presented at the 2013 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. This poster discusses research on assessing habitat preference of invasive American minks (Neovison vison) using trap-cameras in Navarino Island, Chile.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D. & Jiménez, Jaime E.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Avoiding the Resource Curse: Challenges of the Policy Process in a Nascent-Oil-Producing Country in West Africa

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses avoiding the resource curse and challenges of the policy process in a nascent-oil-producing country in West Africa.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Akon-Yamga, Gordon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bryophyte-Cyanobacteria Associations during Primary Succession in Recently Deglaciated Areas of Tierra del Fuego (Chile) (open access)

Bryophyte-Cyanobacteria Associations during Primary Succession in Recently Deglaciated Areas of Tierra del Fuego (Chile)

Article on bryophyte-cyanobacteria associations during primary succession in recently deglaciated areas of Tierra del Fuego (Chile).
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Arróniz-Crespo, María; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; De Los Ríos, Asunción; Green, T. G. Allan; Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl; Casermeiro, Miguel Ángel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Black's Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Martin Heidegger's Theory of Language

This paper discusses research on the philosophical connotations of words.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Guyden, Lateesha; Glazebrook, Patricia & Davenport, Beverly
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas

Paper explores the effects of the The Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas on the Latino community in Oak Cliff.
Date: 2013
Creator: Gomez, Corina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mississippi and the Meander—Two Rivers, Two Worlds, Meandering Through Time (open access)

The Mississippi and the Meander—Two Rivers, Two Worlds, Meandering Through Time

Paper examines and contrasts the cultural legacy of the Mississippi and Meander rivers.
Date: 2013
Creator: Cain, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species (open access)

Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species

This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
Date: March 11, 2010
Creator: Arango, Ximena; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Massardo, Francisca & Ibarra, J. Tomás
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senda Darwin Biological Station: Long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society (open access)

Senda Darwin Biological Station: Long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society

Article discussing long-term ecological research at the interface between science and society at the Senda Darwin Biological Station (SDBS).
Date: 2010
Creator: Carmona, Martín R.; Aravena, J. C.; Bustamante-Sanchez, Marcela A.; Celis-Diez, Juan L.; Charrier, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estación Biológica Senda Darwin: Investigación ecológica de largo plazo en la interfase ciencia-sociedad (open access)

Estación Biológica Senda Darwin: Investigación ecológica de largo plazo en la interfase ciencia-sociedad

This article discusses Senda Darwin Biological Station and the work of the scientists who study the anthropological role in ecological processes there.
Date: 2010
Creator: Carmona, Martín R.; Aravena, J. C.; Bustamante-Sanchez, Marcela A.; Celis-Diez, Juan L.; Charrier, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dinámica estacional y patrones de distribución de la avifauna asociada a humedales subantárticos en la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos (54-55°S), Chile (open access)

Dinámica estacional y patrones de distribución de la avifauna asociada a humedales subantárticos en la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos (54-55°S), Chile

This article discusses the seasonal dynamics and distribution patterns of birds associated to the sub-Antarctic wetlands in Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (54-55°S), Chile.
Date: 2009
Creator: Ibarra, J. Tomás; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Gilabert, Horacio; Anderson, Christopher B.; McGehee, Steven M. & Bonacic, Cristián
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Variation of Abundance and Composition in Forest Bird Assemblages on Navarino Island, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile (open access)

Annual Variation of Abundance and Composition in Forest Bird Assemblages on Navarino Island, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile

Article on the annual variation of abundance and composition in forest bird assemblages on Navarino Island, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile.
Date: 2009
Creator: Ippi, Silvina; Anderson, Christopher B.; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Elphick, Chris S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fenología de Tayloria dubyi (Splachnaceae) en las turberas de la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos (open access)

Fenología de Tayloria dubyi (Splachnaceae) en las turberas de la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos

This article proposes a methodology for phenological studies of Tayloria dubyi (Splachnaceae) in the peatlands of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jofre, Jocelyn; Massardo, Francisca; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Goffinet, Bernard; Marino, Paul; Raguso, Robert A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ten Dimensions of a Biocultural Conservation Approach at the Austral Tip of the Americas (open access)

Ten Dimensions of a Biocultural Conservation Approach at the Austral Tip of the Americas

This article discusses ten dimensions of a biocultural conservation approach at the austral tip of the Americas.
Date: 2004
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Massardo, Francisca; Anderson, Christopher B. & Silander, John August, 1945-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comentario: Archipiélago Patagónico. La última frontera (open access)

Comentario: Archipiélago Patagónico. La última frontera

This article offers comment by the author on the Patagonian Archipelago as the Final Frontier, as written about in a book by Matthew B. Martinic titled, 'Patagonia Archipelago. The Final Frontier.
Date: 2005
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bieberians at the Gate? (open access)

Bieberians at the Gate?

Article discussing theories on the evaluation of philosophy and philosophers and the peer review process.
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt & Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose (open access)

Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose

Article discussing research on how the resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose.
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge - but it's also much simpler than that (open access)

Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge - but it's also much simpler than that

Article on developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication and the technical challenges.
Date: June 12, 2013
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ciencia y política: perspectiva histórica y modelos alternativos (open access)

Ciencia y política: perspectiva histórica y modelos alternativos

Article on the relations between science and policy offering an analysis of the historical antecedents of the policy of science and comparative data and ethical reflections on the policy of scientific budget.
Date: April 2007
Creator: Mitcham, Carl & Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011) (open access)

Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011)

Article discussing research on re-assessing the science to society relation and the case of the U.S. National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion from 1997 to 2011.
Date: 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Not in My Back Yard!

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling Redux. This presentation discusses the 'not in my back yard' (NIMBY) attitude - opposition by residents to a proposal for new development that is close to their homes - and focus on whether is it principled or hypocritical to simultaneously oppose the development while benefiting economically from it.
Date: February 8, 2012
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion (open access)

Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion

Article describing changes in the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) merit review criteria. The authors argue that scientists are more likely to preserve their autonomy by embracing - or 'owning' - the new Broader Impacts Criterion rather than resisting it.
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration

Article discussing interdisciplinary communication and reflections on the idea of disciplinary integration.
Date: July 1, 2013
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does open access really threaten peer review? (open access)

Does open access really threaten peer review?

In this paper, the author discusses whether open access threatens peer review, as implied by the Association of American Publishers in their endorsement of the Research Works Act. The author suggests that we need to experiment with new models of peer evaluation.
Date: January 11, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component ("S") in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites (open access)

Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodological approaches to broaden the ways of integrating the social component ("S") in Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) Sites

This article discusses field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation methods at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve in Chile.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Anderson, Christopher B.; Pizarro, J. Cristóbal; Massardo, Francisca; Medina, Yanet; Mansilla, Andrés O. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library