Southwestern region, USA

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Robustness and Resilience across Scales: Migration and Resource Degradation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest

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Migration is arguably one of the most important processes that link ecological and social systems across scales. Humans (and other organisms) tend to move in pursuit of better resources (both social and environmental). Such mobility may serve as a coping mechanism for short-term local-scale dilemmas and as a means of distributing organisms in relation to resources. Movement also may be viewed as a shift to a larger scale; that is, while it may solve short-term local problems, it may...
09 Aug 2016