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Fractal structure of sequential behaviour patterns: an indicator of stress
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The fractal dimension of the three measures of complexity used declined with stress, both from pregnancy and from parasitic infection, and provides a new and effective way to assess the general state of animals’ health in the field, without the need for capture and handling.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1996-02-01. It has received 106 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fractal analysis & Fractal.read more
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Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology
TL;DR: The landscape ecology as mentioned in this paper is a broad category of landscape studies from spatial quantitative analysis to holistic problem-solving procedures, including planning, management, conservation and restoration of cultural landscapes in practice synthesis.
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Developmental stability, disease and medicine.
TL;DR: It is proposed that developmental stability is an important marker of human health and the integration of the sciences of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and medicine provides a significant addition to the growing field of Darwinian medicine.
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Fluctuating Asymmetry: Methods, Theory, and Applications
TL;DR: Old and new methods of measuring fluctuating asymmetry are reviewed, including measures of dispersion, landmark methods for shape asymmetry, and continuous symmetry measures, and attempts to explain conflicting results.
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Towards a functional explanation for the occurrence of anorexia during parasitic infections
TL;DR: The development and occurrence of anorexia, the voluntary reduction in food intake during parasitic infections in animals, is somewhat paradoxical and contrary to conventional wisdom and expectation, but it is taken that its occurrence is an evolved, costly behavioural adaptation which serves a function.
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"Personality" in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata): A correlational study of exploratory behavior and social tendency.
TL;DR: In this article, the exploratory behavior and social tendencies of 29 guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in two domains of situations involving novelty and conspecincs were investigated.
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Fractal Physiology
William D. Deering,Bruce J. West +1 more
TL;DR: The nature of fractals and the use of fractal instead of classical scaling concepts to describe the irregular surfaces, structures, and processes exhibited by physiological systems are described in this paper.
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Chaos and fractals in human physiology.
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Courtship Persistence and Female-Guarding as Male Time Investment Strategies
TL;DR: Male time investment in courtship persistence and female-guarding is concerns and a model is constructed to explain how optimum persistence durations are determined.
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Fractals: A User's Guide for the Natural Sciences
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analyses of the behaviour of density-dependent populations under random noise and the role of Fourier transform in this behaviour.
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