Ecological niche

While a bit outdated, this theory was one of the very first to attempt to connect the concept of cognitive distortions with child sexual offending. According to Abel, Becker, and Cunningham-Rathner (1984), a faulty connection between deviant sexual interests and an individuals’ perception of societal norms and mores is what creates a cognitive distortion. This mismatch can lead to many of the beliefs that were listed in the cognitive distortion section. While Abel’s theory is considered the…

them from drying out during low tide. Barnacles can live out of the water for long periods of time, which allows them to thrive on the rocky shore. Column barnacle The column barnacle is a smaller barnacle than the brown barnacle. Its fundamental niche ranges from high to low tidal zones, but it is more prone to desiccation than Chamaesipho brunnea so it prefers a damper climate (Luckens, 1975). While the brown barnacle only settles on rock, the column barnacle can also settle on mollusc…

discussed in depth here (summarised in fig. 1). The first two hypotheses are largely centred around Bond’s (1989) slow seedling hypothesis (Box 1), which induced an assortment of literature surrounding the topic. The final hypothesis discusses the ecological advantages that are thought to…

teeth are shaped specifically to break sea turtle shells with sharp, serrated edges. Tiger sharks are also known as “swimming garbage disposals” due to their stereotype of eating anything and everything. However, Tiger Sharks play a very important niche as the keystone in their environment. They are very important to their…

study, the great horned owl is often compared to the Eurasian eagle owl, a closely related species which, despite the latter's notably larger size, occupies the same ecological niche in Eurasia, and the red-tailed hawk, with which it often shares similar habitat, prey and nesting habits by day and is thus something of a diurnal ecological…

My name is Tianshu Kong and I am from China. My father is a geophysicist and my mother is an animal scientist. I am currently studying Geoscience and Marine science at the University of Arizona. I was raised in China and I moved to Russia to take my last two years of high school when I was 16. Three years ago, I went to Tucson to take my university study. I have a strong interest in Geoscience when I was young. I become involved in the field of geoscience and worked with my father when I was…

Paradigm shift, term first been used by philosopher of science, Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–96) in his research, which means a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. People believe paradigm shifts is a change from one way of thinking to another. It 's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change. It represents a phenomenon that when enough anomalies proved the current philosophy, paradigm or science are…

As spoken by a preeminent American food writer, M.F.K. Fisher, “first we eat, then we do everything else.” Food is a basic necessity, that is demanded constantly around the globe, however its problems are often overlooked and reside behind a veil of industry. Through an analysis, of both industrial and small-scale agriculture, these two strategies of organization can be further examined; to evaluate the potential benefits and possible market failures from each of these different market…

eats. Another animal that the snow leopard hunts is called a marmot. It is a mammal that looks like and is small as a meerkat or rabbit. The snow leopard adapts very well to the environment that it is in. This gives them access to an entire ecological niche with minimal competition from other carnivores in that area. The snow leopard can migrate to a different area to hunt if needed. The snow leopard may eat 20 to 30 adult sheep and that will last them 10 to 15 days. They will hunt deer,…

protecting the living ones. It reminded him of the species richness of the earth. Ecologists have three levels of this diversity. These measurements are the alpha, the beta and the gamma. The alpha diversity tells how many species are in an ecological community. The beta diversity compares that to the nearby communities that have different physical characteristics. Gamma diversity compares communities on a grander scale, including similar places that are separated. Topology variation is…