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Habitat selection of moose in Sweden in managed boreal forests with Pinus contorta and P. sylvestris

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Human land use can take advantage of using exotic species to increase financial benefits. However, the use of exotic tree species might affect ecosystem functioning, potentially including the habitat use and movement behaviour of animals, modifying their ecological impact, and interactions with human land use.
Maria Bodlund, Fredrik Stenbacka, Fredrik Widemo, John P. Ball, Göran Ericsson, Wiebke Neumann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

The Association between Charolais Cows' Age at First Calving, Parity, Breeding Seasonality, and Calf Growing Performance. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2023
Šlyžienė B, Mečionytė I, Žilaitis V, Butkienė E, Anskienė L, Šlyžius E, Palubinskas G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modeling Skin Mark Temporal Variations to Estimate the Sex of Delphinids with Low Sexual Dimorphism: Implications for Management and Conservation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This work aimed to apply the principles of skin mark analysis to a cetacean species to build a sex‐discrimination model exclusively based on photographic material. Relevant differences between sexes emerged in markings, with males presenting more social, aggression‐related, and fishing‐related marks overall, and a stronger tendency of mark accumulation
Alice Turchi, Giulia Pedrazzi, Alex Mattiussi, Maria S. Labriola, Daniele Petrone, Sofia Rinalduzzi, Giancarlo Giacomini, Daniela Silvia Pace   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unknown parent groups and truncated pedigree in single-step genomic evaluations of Murrah buffaloes

Journal of Dairy Science
: Missing pedigrees may produce bias in genomic evaluations. Thus, strategies to deal with this problem have been proposed as using unknown parent groups (UPG) or truncated pedigrees.
T.P. Melo, A.K. Zwirtes, A.A. Silva, S.F. Lázaro, H.R. Oliveira, K.R. Silveira, J.C.G. Santos, W.B.F. Andrade, S. Kluska, L.A. Evangelho, H.N. Oliveira, H. Tonhati   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Size, Demography, and Distribution of Cambodia's Largest Elephant Population Revealed Using Traditional Genetic Tools and a Novel SNP Panel

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Asian elephant population parameters were assessed using microsatellite, SNP, and sex determination DNA markers. This represents one of the first studies in mainland Asia to demonstrate that integrating microsatellite and SNP data enhances genotyping success from degraded fecal samples, increases the number of useable samples and markers, and ...
Rachel Crouthers, Wayne Linklater, Peter Ritchie, Visattha In, Chanrith Phoeurk, Alexander Ball   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential vs. Realized Large Carnivore Density: The Influence of Livestock on Carnivore Carrying Capacity Estimation

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
In an unfenced mixed‐use savanna landscape in Namibia, we compared realized densities of leopards and cheetahs estimated using spatial capture–recapture models with prey‐based carrying capacity predictions. Leopard densities exceeded predictions based on wild prey alone but closely matched livestock‐supplemented models, suggesting that vulnerable ...
Kathan Bandyopadhyay, Bogdan Cristescu, Stuti Anjaria, Stijn Verschueren, John L. Koprowski, Joseph D. Holbrook, Jeffrey L. Beck, Laurie Marker   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic analysis of a purebred herd of Kundhi buffaloes in Pakistan

Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2010
Kundhi is amongst the best dairy buffalo breeds of the world and main source of milk production in Sindh province of Pakistan. A Research and Development Kundhi Buffalo Farm was established at Rohri, Sukkur. Time series production performance data of 237
N.M. Bhutto, M.H. Jokhio, M.H. Ansari, A. Ghaffar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thirty‐year elephant population trends across 93 South African reserves and the implications for conservation management

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract While ivory poaching has driven elephant declines across much of Africa, South Africa's populations have expanded steadily, sparking debate over ecological impacts and population control. Yet these debates have lacked a harmonized, long‐term national evidence base.
Timothy Kuiper, Matthew Child, Jeanetta Selier, Pieter Olivier, Michael Mole, Andrew Purdon, Res Altwegg   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population Differentiation and Polygenic Selection in the Finnish Ayrshire Cows Selected on Genomic Information

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Finnish Ayrshire cattle belong to the Nordic Red breeds. The basis of selection in Nordic Red breeds shifted from traditional pedigree‐based breeding values to genomic breeding values between 2011 and 2014. Joint genetic evaluation and admixture among the Nordic Red breeds have led to the formation of a composite Nordic Red population ...
Katri Sarviaho, Minna Koivula, Terhi Iso‐Touru, Pekka Uimari, Katja Hänninen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source