Institution
Avila University
Education•Kansas City, Missouri, United States•
About: Avila University is a education organization based out in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Ameiva & Higher education. The organization has 87 authors who have published 93 publications receiving 2196 citations. The organization is also known as: Avila College.
Topics: Ameiva, Higher education, Anolis, Population, Classifier (UML)
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
••
TL;DR: The results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles.
720 citations
••
224 citations
••
TL;DR: The authors used netnography to investigate consumer boycott motivations and perceived boycott participation costs by analyzing consumer comments submitted to an online boycott petition and found that boycott pledgees explicitly express their desire for the target to abolish its egregious behavior, their anger about the behavior in question, and their desire to punitive actions.
168 citations
••
TL;DR: A combined phylogeographic and morphometric study of Anolis cybotes group reveals a strong association between macrohabitat type and morphology independent of phylogeny, which may be a major factor in the evolutionary diversification of Greater Antillean anoles.
Abstract: Anolis lizards in the Greater Antilles partition the structural microhabitats available at a given site into four to six distinct categories. Most microhabitat specialists, or ecomorphs, have evolved only once on each island, yet closely related species of the same ecomorph occur in different geographic macrohabitats across the island. The extent to which closely related species of the same ecomorph have diverged to adapt to different geographic macrohabitats is largely undocumented. On the island of Hispaniola, members of the Anolis cybotes species group belong to the trunk-ground ecomorph category. Despite evolutionary stability of their trunk-ground microhabitat, populations of the A. cybotes group have undergone an evolutionary radiation associated with geographically distinct macrohabitats. A combined phylogeographic and morphometric study of this group reveals a strong association between macrohabitat type and morphology independent of phylogeny. This association results from long-term morphological evolutionary stasis in populations associated with mesic-forest environments (A. c. cybotes and A. marcanoi) and predictable morphometric changes associated with entry into new macrohabitat types (i.e., xeric forests, high-altitude pine forest, rock outcrops). Phylogeographic analysis of 73 new mitochondrial DNA sequences (1921 aligned sites) sampled from 68 geographic populations representing 12 recognized species and subspecies diagnoses 16 allopatric or parapatric groupings of populations differing from each other by 5-18% sequence divergence. At least some of these groupings appear to have attained species-level divergence from others. Evolutionary specialization to different macrohabitat types may be a major factor in the evolutionary diversification of Greater Antillean anoles.
131 citations
••
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between the board of directors and bank holding company performance and risk and found that the risk of having too many board members is positively associated with the board's busyness.
Abstract: We examine the association between “busyness” of the board of directors (serving on multiple boards) and bank holding company (BHC) performance and risk. We estimate several simultaneous-equations models employing the 3SLS technique and instrumental variables to account for endogeneity. We obtain four main results. First, BHC performance measures (return on equity, Tobin’s Q and EBIT over total assets) are positively associated with busyness of directors. Second, BHC risk measures (total, market, idiosyncratic, credit and default risks) are inversely related to busyness of directors. Third, performance (risk) benefits of having busy directors strengthened (weakened) during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Fourth, busy directors are not more likely to become problem directors (fail the 75% attendance standard), and if sitting on boards of both BHC and non-financial firms, they attend more of the BHC board meetings, than those of the non-financials. Our findings partially alleviate concerns that over-boarded directors shirk their responsibilities.
105 citations
Authors
Showing all 89 results
Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
---|---|---|---|
Jonathan B. Losos | 89 | 274 | 28673 |
Allan Larson | 58 | 83 | 11615 |
Martha Hernández | 16 | 45 | 777 |
Maritza Escalona | 16 | 46 | 1170 |
Robert Powell | 15 | 78 | 1514 |
Kim M. Anderson | 14 | 37 | 668 |
Carlos Aragón | 11 | 24 | 261 |
Kristopher Proctor | 10 | 15 | 355 |
Justo González-Olmedo | 10 | 23 | 250 |
John S. Parmerlee | 10 | 27 | 248 |
Yosvany López | 10 | 19 | 380 |
Yenny Villuendas-Rey | 8 | 62 | 271 |
Marcia C. Smith Pasqualini | 8 | 12 | 606 |
Noel Perez | 8 | 41 | 180 |
Miguel A. Guevara | 7 | 11 | 115 |