Publications

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of Communitas. He characterises it as a...

InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing

List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Introduction to Interview Research Conversation as Research Thre...

Conceptualizing the circular economy: An analysis of 114 definitions

Abstract The circular economy concept has gained momentum both among scholars and practitioners. However, critics claim that it means many different things to different people. ...

A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models

Predicting the distribution of endangered species from habitat data is frequently perceived to be a useful technique. Models that predict the presence or absence of a species ar...

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist conservat...

Measuring biological diversity

As prehistoric cave paintings illustrate, our species has had an enduring appreciation of the variety and abundance of life on Earth. Today, however, concern is focused on the p...

The interplay between habitat availability and population differentiation

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain ecologica...

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and hy...

Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

By exploiting the extremely large effective cross sections ( ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}17}--{10}^{\ensuremath{-}16}{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}/\mathrm{molecule}$) available from surface-enhanc...

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We give an explanation of the $\mathrm{CP}$ conservation of strong interactions which includes the effects of pseudoparticles. We find it is a natural result for any theory wher...

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

Accurate modeling of geographic distributions of species is crucial to various applications in ecology and conservation. The best performing techniques often require some parame...