15:41 Sep 19, 2016 |
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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / bats | |||||
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3 | "Eisenberg syetems" or "Eisenberg [social] syetems" or "Eisenberg [cave] syetems" |
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1 | glacial systems |
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glacial systems Explanation: Pure guess. I can't find Eiselberg anywhere, but Eisenberg sounds like German for iceberg, which made me think of glaciation, which in turn fits with "procesos erosivos milenarios "... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 35 mins (2016-09-19 16:16:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.ideam.gov.co/web/ecosistemas/glaciares-colombia -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 36 mins (2016-09-19 16:17:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Colombia cuenta con pequeñas masas de hielo que coronan lo más alto de las montañas más elevadas del territorio. Y es ese factor, la altura, el que permite tener una maravilla de tal magnitud. Pese a que no representan más que el 0.16% de los glaciares del subcontinente suramericano, los 45.3 Km2 de hielo existentes en Colombia para el año 2010, representan un excelente laboratorio de exploración de los efectos del cambio climático global sobre las zonas más frías del planeta..." |
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"Eisenberg syetems" or "Eisenberg [social] syetems" or "Eisenberg [cave] syetems" Explanation: Could this be a typo? Eiselberg for Eisenberg? Moreover, could it be that the source material has erroneously mixed the Saxon genitive into the mix? "Eiselberg's" The first thing I thought when I saw it was that it sounds like the authors have assigned the name to an author who's done a lot of work in the area (or it's a term that's informally used in the field but that hasn't officially made it into textbooks and articles yet). This seems to be surprisingly common in academia, especially where terms are used in one country but not another. I then started researching the name in fields related to yours... Eiselberg doesn't appear, but Eisenberg does quite a lot. There's a couple of possibilities that I'll explain below, but perhaps the easiest way is to check the references from your source material and/or contact the authors to ask - do either of these names appear? From my research, John F Eisenberg appears a lot, especially in reference to work on bats in the tropics, especially in association with another author Kent H Redford. Together they wrote the book "Mammals of the Neotropics, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. The third volume (about Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil) especially appeared time after time when researching these terms: https://books.google.es/books?id=p2MDAzCeQQoC&pg=PA226&lpg=P... He seems to have done specific work on defining the keys for bat identification and is an expert on their distribution and ecology: https://www.cortolima.gov.co/sites/default/files/images/stor... http://www.inogo.info/ecoterr/especies-indicadores/murcielag... Eisenberg, J. F.; Wilson, D. E. (1978). "Relative brain size and feeding strategies in the Chiroptera". Evolution. 32 (4): 740–751. http://www.science.smith.edu/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-581-01-0001.... http://www.saude.rs.gov.br/upload/1350310970_Guia de Campo M... https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd... Importantly in the following link the authors make mention of Eisenberg in relation to social systems, and I'm wondering if this is the true meaning of the term you need to translate: "Knowledge of intraspecific variation in social organization is necessary to fully understand how environmental and demographic factors influence the evolution of social systems (Eisenberg 1981)." Here: https://www.bu.edu/cecb/files/2011/05/Biotrop1983152133-138.... Another possibility is that the "sistemas" are cave systems in which the bats live and are created over time by "millenal erosive processes"...? https://books.google.es/books?id=UrvxBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA709&lpg=P... I hope this infgormation is useful to you - looking in your citations list and checking with your client is likely to give you the best clues. :) |
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