Scientists Should Advance Management of Behavioral Norms
Researchers should study how people's social and personal norms are influenced by behavior and use their insights to help governments promote pro-environmental actions, a distinguished group of scholars writes in the March issue of BioScience. The authors maintain that effective policies induce not only short-term changes in behavior but also long-term changes in norms. More effective management of social norms will be necessary, they write, to persuade the public to accept the inconvenience and expense of many environmental policies.
The interdisciplinary group, led by Ann P. Kinzig of Arizona State University, includes n...
Source: BioScience Press Releases - February 10, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Timothy M. Beardsley
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Whales' Foraging Strategies Revealed by New Technology
Marine biologists are beginning to understand the varied diving and foraging strategies of filter-feeding whales by analyzing data from multisensor tags attached to the animals with suction cups. Such tags, in combination with other techniques such as echolocation, are providing a wealth of fine detail about how the world's largest creatures find and trap their prey.
Recent studies on the behavior of baleen whales, which filter small fish or invertebrate animals from seawater, are described in the February issue of BioScience. Jeremy A. Goldbogen of the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, and his colleague...
Source: BioScience Press Releases - January 23, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Timothy M. Beardsley
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Whales' Foraging Strategies Revealed by New Technology
Marine biologists are beginning to understand the varied diving and foraging strategies of filter-feeding whales by analyzing data from multisensor tags attached to the animals with suction cups. Such tags, in combination with other techniques such as echolocation, are providing a wealth of fine detail about how the world's largest creatures find and trap their prey.
Recent studies on the behavior of baleen whales, which filter small fish or invertebrate animals from seawater, are described in the February issue of BioScience. Jeremy A. Goldbogen of the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, and his colleagu...
Source: BioScience Press Releases - January 9, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Timothy M. Beardsley
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