Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique Septentrionale. : Avec l'histoire naturelle du païs

Denys, Nicolas

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“…Having read Law at the Middle Temple in London before taking up Medicine, Wolley knew how to evaluate evidence: Hákonarsson's statement seemed no more than an unwarranted inference drawn from observing the behaviour of the other auk species. Birkhead (2001), despite alluding to the seventeenth century records that tend to corroborate Gould's assertion (Denys 1672, Poynter 1963), appears to place more credence on the local man's supposition than on the considered opinion of Wolley. In doing so it is not clear what reason there is for proposing the re‐admission of Hákonarsson's testimony as primary evidence of the Great Auk having a different strategy from that described by Gould (1837), while at the same time apparently discarding the evidence, which had been contemporaneously recorded by the leaders of the fowling parties in an ‘almanack’ (Wolley 1858, Gaskell 2000), as to the duration of the incubation period.…”

Section: Classification Of Maturity At Hatching In Birdsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…and that under these conditions it might be more efficient for parents and young to swim to distant feeding grounds rather than for the short‐winged parents to make repeated long journeys to and from their nests with food.’ Moreover, in view of the difficulties that would inevitably attend a flightless bird struggling ashore with tiny prey items for a newly hatched chick, a problem that was first alluded to by Micahelles (1833), there was every advantage in the neonate being taken to sea as early in life as possible. There are two seventeenth century references, one English (Poynter 1963), the other French (Denys 1672), to the young being carried far from land. Denys related how young no bigger than ‘poulets’ (pullets) used to be observed on the fishing banks.…”

Section: Classification Of Maturity At Hatching In Birdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remarks on the terminology used to describe developmental behaviour among the auks (Alcidae), with particular reference to that of the Great AukPinguinus impennis

Gaskell

2003

Ibis

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Much of the historical record relating to the breeding biology of the Great Auk Pinguinus impennis consists of statements on which it is not safe to rely without corroboration. There is, nevertheless, sufficient evidence for a strong case to be argued for the species having evolved a precocial chick‐rearing strategy, together with an incubation period that is remarkably brief for a bird of its size. In this way, the species would have minimized the time for which it had to remain ashore to raise its young. Before the evidence for this proposition is evaluated, a review is undertaken of the history and usage of the terminology most frequently used to describe the developmental condition of young birds on hatching. Modifications to the terminology have been suggested where there is a potential for confusion, and an entirely new term, ‘hypoprecocial’, introduced for downy young that require an appreciable period of brooding before quitting the breeding site. Regarding the species itself, it is suggested that the Great Auk had evolved a strategy that was more fully precocial than that of any seabird whose breeding biology is known to science.

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Section: Classification Of Maturity At Hatching In Birdsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Classification Of Maturity At Hatching In Birdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remarks on the terminology used to describe developmental behaviour among the auks (Alcidae), with particular reference to that of the Great AukPinguinus impennis

Gaskell

2003

Ibis

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“…These religious activities were part of a broader suite of mobile practices, including hunting, fishing, and gathering, which had persisted from the pre-contact period. The pre-contact and early contact “seasonal round” 26 of the Mi'kmaq involved the movements of bands consisting of several extended families, each of which ranged in size from 10–12 people (see Denys 1672; Nietfeld 1981). The introduction of the fur trade and commercial fishing altered some of the social dimensions of Mi'kmaw movement in the eighteenth century.…”

Section: Mi’kmaq Missionaries and Movement In Colonial Nova Scotiamentioning

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‘Because life it selfe is but motion’: Toward an anthropology of mobility

Lelièvre

Marshall

2015

Anthropological Theory

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Over the last two decades, mobility has gained new prominence within anthropology, particularly in theories of globalization, immigration, and subjectivity. At stake in all of the recent ethnographic and archaeological work on mobility is not just how anthropologists conceptualize mobility, but also how we conceptualize the political. Many discussions of mobile subjects have seemed to challenge traditional understandings of the political that are synonymous with a monolithic state and a stable, sedentary subject population. Yet, we maintain that there are still challenges to a coherent anthropological theory of mobility and its relation to the political. To address these challenges, we forward a conceptual framework of mobility that is grounded in the practices, perceptions, and conceptions of movement entwined with processes of emplacement. Illustrated by case studies from the Late Bronze Age (1500 – 1150 B.C.) South Caucasus and nineteenth-century Nova Scotia, the conceptual framework that we detail understands mobility as a mediator between political subjects and political institutions, thus making it possible to examine how subjects and institutions are continuously remade in relation to each other.

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“…Some native peoples used wildfires to create foraging areas for berries and nuts, but the records of N. Denys (1672), who explored the region in the 17 th century, do not indicate that the Mi'kmaq employed this practice (McAskill 1987). Other sources, such as McGee (1974), which is an anthology of many early writings, make no mention of Aboriginal use of fire for such purposes in this area.…”

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The Acadian forest: Historical condition and human impacts

Loo¹,

Ives²

2003

The Forestry Chronicle

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The Acadian Forest Region comprises the three Maritime Provinces of Canada, each of which has a distinct history resulting in different patterns of land ownership, land use, and impacts on the forest. The region encompasses a high degree of physiographic and biological diversity, being situated where the warm, moist influence of the Gulf Stream from the south collides with the cold Labrador Current and the boreal forest gradually gives way to mostly deciduous forest. Natural forest types in the Acadian Forest Region include rich tolerant hardwood, similar to the deciduous forests to the south; spruce-fir forest, similar to boreal forest to the north; and an array of coniferous, deciduous, and mixed intermediate types. Red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis Britt.), sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) are considered characteristic of the Acadian Forest Region. Except for one quantitative study in one county of New Brunswick, and another study on Prince Edward Island, most knowledge of the historical forest condition has been gleaned from early descriptions by explorers, surveyors, and settlers of the Maritimes region. Although some regions have been affected much more than others, little, if any forested area has escaped human influence over the past four centuries. A general result of human activities has been a shift in successional status and age distribution, with increased frequency of relatively young, often even-aged, early successional forest types including balsam fir, white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), red maple (Acer rubrum L.), white birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.). Both the abundance and age of late-successional species such as sugar maple, red spruce, eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis L. Carrière), yellow birch, cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.), and beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) have declined.Key words: pre-European forest, Maritime Provinces, historical ecology, witness trees, Acadian forest types, natural disturbance La région forestière acadienne est constituée des trois provinces maritimes, chacune ayant une histoire distincte qui est à l'origine de modes de propriété et d'utilisations des terres ainsi que des répercussions sur les forêts qui lui sont propres. Située au point de rencontre de l'influence chaude et humide du Gulf Stream et du courant du Labrador froid et où la forêt boréale laisse graduellement la place à une forêt en grande partie décidue, cette région comprend une grande diversité physiographique et biologique. La région forestière acadienne comprend les types de forêts naturelles suivantes : forêt productive de feuillus tolérants, semblable aux forêts décidues du sud; forêt d'épinettes et de sapins, semblable à la forêt boréale plus au nord; divers types de forêts conifériennes, décidues et mixtes.

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Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique Septentrionale. : Avec l'histoire naturelle du païs

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Remarks on the terminology used to describe developmental behaviour among the auks (Alcidae), with particular reference to that of the Great AukPinguinus impennis

Remarks on the terminology used to describe developmental behaviour among the auks (Alcidae), with particular reference to that of the Great AukPinguinus impennis

‘Because life it selfe is but motion’: Toward an anthropology of mobility

The Acadian forest: Historical condition and human impacts

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