While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

Climatic shocks and economic insecurity challenge the wellbeing of livestock managers,
globally. Scholars argue that ranchers pursue different economic strategies (herd …

Hydrological systems are important to society as water resources and effective management
requires an understanding of how water and humans influence each other. To describe …

While smallholder food producers increasingly depend on goods and services provided by
distant markets, they are still constrained by their local ecology, as their rural communities …

Birth seasonality is a phenomenon whereby populations can be characterized by a single
month or season in which births peak. While non-human animal research suggests that …

A consistent finding from contemporary Western societies is that women outlive men.
However, what is unclear is whether sex differences in survival are constant across varying …

Historical demographic research shows that the factors influencing mortality risk are labile
across time and space. This is particularly true for datasets that span societal transitions …

Fractured rock aquifers cover much of Earth's surface and are important mountain sites for
groundwater recharge but are poorly understood. To investigate groundwater systematics of …

Landscapes varied throughout human history, some offering more fitness benefits than
others. Therefore, natural selection has likely designed in us landscape preferences that …

The exploration of population diversity motivated us to present this paper. A mathematical
model for the ecological process of population dispersion is finally considered by us to figure …