Many hypotheses for larger body size with increasing latitude invoke environmental explanations, such as decreasing temperature. We propose a novel explanation that links environmental selection pressures and body size with spacing behaviour. We test for causal pathways between (1) environment (snow, latitude, primary productivity, seasonality, and temperature) and (2) spacing behaviour (home r...

the objective of this study has been to examine the relationship between home and the hospital confinement in the treatment of serious illness and the impact of such phenomena on the pattern of the delivery of health care in the rural areas. in this study a total of 10,248 inhabitants of 11 villages in isphahan (mobarakeh area) were studied during a six months period between march and september...

Abstract Distance traveled and home range size describe how animals move in space. The seasonal variations of these parameters are important to comprehensively understand animal ecology its connection with reproductive behavior energy costs. Researchers usually estimate the distance as sum straight-line displacements between sampled positions, but this approach is sensitive sampling frequency d...