Every Campus A Refuge

Island refuge

Wildlife conservation in Turkey does not get a high priority. Yet the country lies in a key location for birds migrating from Asia and Africa to Europe. Wildlife reserves exist but often have worryingly little support. So the development of Lake Kuyucuk in the Kars province of eastern Turkey as a wildlife reserve for thousands of birds of more than two hundred species, while also supporting loc...

Narrating Refuge

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2017, Vol. 13(1), 1–15, doi:10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1386 Published (VoR): 2017-03-03. *Corresponding author at: Graduate Center, CUNY/Psychology, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. E-mail: [email protected] This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/3.0), which pe...

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A Competition-diffusion System with a Refuge

In this paper, a model composed of two Lotka-Volterra patches is considered. The system consists of two competing species X, Y and only species Y can diffuse between patches. It is proved that the system has at most two positive equilibria and then that permanence implies global stability. Furthermore, to answer the question whether the refuge is effective to protect Y , the properties of posit...

Refuge of spandrels

There is a strong and widely held belief that all organisms are perfect and that everything within them is there for a function. Believers ascribe to the Darwinian natural selection process a fastidious prescience that it cannot possibly have and some go so far as to think that patently useless features of existing organisms are there as investments for the future. I have especially encountered...