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Home and away: allometry and climate drive morphology of European rabbits in their native and introduced range

Oikos, EarlyView.
Climatic conditions shape phenotypic evolution by driving adaptations that optimise organismal function. Invasive species provide valuable systems to study these processes, as they often encounter novel climatic conditions in their introduced ranges. The European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to the Iberian Peninsula, has established populations
Rishab Pillai, Natasha Lee Hiotis, Christine Böhmer, Cécile Callou, Thomas J. Nelson, Irina Ruf, Thomas J. Sanger, Julia Schaar, Kévin Le Verger, Madeleine Geiger, Brian Kraatz, Emma Sherratt   +11 more
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Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
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Reconstitution des données historiques et diagnostic de l’état actuel des aménagements antiérosifs dans le bassin versant Nekor

Revue Marocaine des Sciences Agronomiques et Vétérinaires, 2019
Au Maroc, l’envasement des barrages représente un problème épineux pour l’état. La valeur annuelle totale d’envasement est estimée à 75 millions de m3.
Nassima ARREBEI, Mohamed SABIR, Mustapha NAIMI, Mohamed CHIKHAOUI, Damien RACLOT   +4 more
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Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite, François Poisson, Irati Abascal, Javier Menéndez‐Blázquez, Clara Cánovas Pérez, Sofia Conti, Ricardo Sagarminaga, Juan Antonio Raga, David March   +8 more
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Diversité de la macrofaune des sols cultivés sur les Hautes-Terres de Madagascar

Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2016
Crop management and soil macrofauna diversity in the Highlands of Madagascar. Description of the subject. This article deals with soil macrofauna as a key component of soil biological functioning. Objectives. This original study, performed in 2015, aimed
Rakotomanga, D., Blanchart, E., Rabary, B., Randriamanantsoa, R., Razafindrakoto, M., Autfray, P.   +5 more
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The Emerging Role of UAV for Heathland Monitoring and Conservation: State of the Art and Perspectives

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Heathland ecosystems are currently in a degraded state due to agricultural transformations and the effects of climate change. They are semi‐natural ecosystems hosting a variety of species (fauna and flora), and they also carry landscape and cultural importance, hence the need to pay careful attention to their conservation.
J. Boissonnat, F. Binet, T. Houet
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Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours that improve their fitness in human‐altered settings. Despite research on wildlife in urban areas, the development of foraging behaviour in urban species is
Joan Navarro, Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Giménez, José Antonio Garcia, Pablo Cermeño, Jordi Figuerola, Raül Aymí, Tomás Montalvo   +7 more
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Thermoregulation in Heliconius butterflies is determined by habitat association and morphology but not phylogeny

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
The roles of morphology and phylogeny in thermoregulation were studied in mimetic Heliconius butterflies across habitats. Buffering ability differed among habitats, likely due to morphology. Live heating rate decreased with iridescence and forewing length. No phylogenetic signal was detected.
Benita C. Laird‐Hopkins, Marius Klotz, Irena Kleckova, W. Owen McMillan, Nicola J. Nadeau, Nicolai M. Nürk, Oscar Paneso, Katerina Sam   +7 more
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Baseline Cortisol and Behavioral Phenotype Are Linked to Context‐Dependent Spatial Cognition and Space Use in Giant Pandas

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Baseline cortisol and repeatable behavioral phenotypes were associated with context‐dependent spatial cognition in giant pandas. Individuals differed in spatial search performance under stable and changing resource conditions. Exploratory GPS analyses revealed directionally consistent but non‐significant patterns of space use in novel environments ...
Yuxin Jiang, Yingmin Zhou, Wenling Wang, Yuhang Li, Yuanhao Du, Tianjiao Liu, Yanwu Lai, Daifu Wu, Shengshan He, Hong Yang, Jiqiu Zhou, Shijie Mou, Zhiguo Cui, Chuan Liu, Jia Zhou, Wen Zeng, Rong Li, Yuanming Zheng, Xinxing Zhang, Changyu Mou, Desheng Li, Jianghong Ran   +21 more
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Seeing both the forest and the trees: An automated workflow for ultra‐high‐resolution drone imaging of tropical canopies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Tropical forest canopies host diverse tree and liana assemblages, yet key foliar and reproductive traits needed for taxonomic identification of canopy plants are often difficult to see from the forest floor, creating a bottleneck in inventories.
Etienne Laliberté, Antoine Caron‐Guay, Vincent Le Falher, Guillaume Tougas, Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Gonzalo Rivas‐Torres, Thomas R. Walla, Hugo Baudchon, Mélvin Hernandez, Adrian Buenaño, Anna Weber, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Jomber Chota Inuma, Fernando Araúz, Jorge Valdes, Andrés Hernández, David Brassfield, Paulo Araujo Filho, Vicente Vasquez, Adriana Simonetti, Daniel Magnabosco Marra, Caroline de Moura Vasconcelos, Jarol Fernando Vaca, Geovanny Rivadeneyra, José Illanes, Luis A. Salagaje‐Muela, Jefferson Gualinga   +26 more
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