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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Blue sheep in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve prefer alpine grasslands at 3800–4200 m on south‐facing slopes near water resources, favoring areas with low tree cover and dense ground cover, particularly rhododendrons, junipers, and Cyperaceae grasses. Their habitat significantly overlaps with livestock.
Amit Adhikari +4 more
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The impact of diatomaceous earth on hydrophobicity transfer characteristics
High Voltage, EarlyView.Abstract Silicone rubber of composite insulators is extensively utilised because of its superior hydrophobicity and hydrophobicity transfer characteristics, especially in heavily polluted environments. This work investigates the hydrophobicity transfer process of silicone rubber materials with different insoluble substances and explores the impact of ...
Xinzhe Yu +7 more
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It is cool to be clear: Transparency induces a thermal cost in clearwing butterflies
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In butterflies, wing transparency raises the question of potential costs for vital functions, such as thermoregulation. The thermal melanism hypothesis posits that darker colorations enable higher absorption of solar radiation, leading to the prediction that such ...
Violaine Ossola +8 more
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Journal of Applied Ecology, EarlyView.Through systematic review and meta‐analysis, we present a database of mean flight parameter values and uncertainty for Procellariiform species and flight groups. Flight speed and nocturnal flight parameter values are ready for use in offshore wind farm collision risk models; but flight height results are too uncertain for useful parameterization.
Mark G. R. Miller +2 more
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Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient
Journal of Ecology, EarlyView.We study how wood density varies along a 3500‐m elevational gradient, spanning from the Andean tree line to the Amazon basin. Our results reveal that wood density decreases from low to mid‐elevations, then increases toward the tree line. These patterns underscore the influence of species composition, life forms such as tree ferns, and local ...
William Farfan‐Rios +17 more
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Early detection of plant community responses to climate warming along mountain roads
Journal of Ecology, EarlyView.Plants are rapidly shifting to higher elevations along mountain roads in Switzerland. These shifts result in a significant community warming of 0.13°C within 10 years. However, because species gained or lost in communities tend to have low cover, this signal is only detectable in unweighted estimates of community‐inferred temperatures—highlighting the ...
Evelin Iseli +4 more
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Bat Tongues and Foraging: Linking Morphology to Hunting Strategies
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We linked the bat tongue's mediodorsal lobe (MDL), a muscular prominence, to foraging strategies. Aerial hawkers exhibit tall MDLs and prominent forward‐pointing papillae. The MDL may function as a barrier or filter, preventing unintentional ingestion of non‐food material, aiding in prey handling, and controlling food access during fast flight ...
Danilo Russo +6 more
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Addressing spatial confounding in geostatistical regression models: An R‐INLA approach
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Spatial confounding, which has been studied extensively in recent years, can explain inconsistencies between results obtained by regression models with and without spatial modelling. While the most common solutions for spatial confounding mitigation often target areal data or geostatistical data modelling by splines, we aim to extend some ...
Jérémy Lamouroux +4 more
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Annals of Applied Biology, EarlyView.Triticale and lupin are promising candidates for sustainable intercropping in low‐input, mixed crop–livestock farming systems in the Mediterranean basin, where they can be grown as rain‐fed crops during the autumn‐winter period. A field trial conducted in Sardinia demonstrated several key findings: the slower canopy development and shorter stature of ...
Rosella Motzo, Francesco Giunta
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.To supply high demand for exotic pets, animals are harvested illegally from the wild and laundered as captive bred. However, there are currently limited methods to identify captive or wild origins of wildlife. We assessed the accuracy of stable isotope analysis of feathers to identify differences in diets, and therefore captive and wild origins, of ...
K. G. W. Hill +5 more
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