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Habitat selection and influence on hunting success in female Australian fur seals

Scientific Reports
Determining the factors influencing habitat selection and hunting success in top predators is crucial for understanding how these species may respond to environmental changes.
Saia Nahir Bartes, Jacquomo Monk, Chris Jenkins, Mark A. Hindell, Daniel P. Costa, John P. Y. Arnould   +5 more
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Developing a low‐cost drone‐based method for deploying and retrieving autonomous recording units in inaccessible areas

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Autonomous recording units (ARUs) are increasingly used for passive acoustic monitoring, but deploying them in remote or inaccessible locations remains challenging. We developed and field‐tested a lightweight, low‐cost floating platform for drone‐assisted deployment and retrieval of ARUs in wetland interiors.
Akshit R. Suthar, Jared A. Elmore, Erin K. Buchholtz, Travis H. Folk, Beau A. Bauer, Aaron R. Pierce, James T. Anderson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benthic habitats of the Saba Bank

Habitat mapping is crucial for understanding habitat connectivity and for spatial planning, environmental management, conservation, and targeted research, including long-term change monitoring. However, such information has been lacking for many Dutch Caribbean islands, especially regarding marine habitats.
Meesters, Erik H., van der Ouderaa, Isabelle, Wilkes, Tony, van Leijsen, Michelle, Debrot, Dolfi, Mücher, Sander, Doğruer, Gülşah   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem properties are temporally dynamic. Temporal variability has been shown to decrease with increasing levels of biological organization (i.e. from population to community and ecosystem levels).
Megan C. Malish, Stephen C. Cook, Mariana Perez Rocha, Albert Ruhí, Michael T. Bogan, Thomas M. Neeson, Daniel C. Allen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
The pet trade distributes exotic animals around the globe that enrich human lives. However, some pets become pests when released into the wild. This study provides experimental evidence that goldfish will negatively affect native freshwater organisms and ecosystems.
William D. Hintz, Hannah Barrett, Rick A. Relyea   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological invasions disrupt the relationship between size spectrum and trophic interactions in freshwater fish communities

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our study shows that non‐native species alter the relationship between the size‐spectrum slope and the predator–prey mass ratio (PPMR) in freshwater fish communities by occupying distinct trophic niches. Abstract The size spectrum, which describes the relationship between abundance (or biomass) and body size, is an ataxic approach that can provide ...
Valentin Marin, Gaël Grenouillet, Ignasi Arranz, Julien Cucherousset   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in size and abundance of Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) with change in hardbottom habitat

The Owl, 2014
The specific characteristics that make a habitat suitable for an organism vary both between species and between life stages within a single species. Hardbottom habitats in Florida Bay are known as nurseries for a number of commercially and ecologically ...
Amie Lentner, Robert Ellis
doaj  

Deep blueprint: A literature review and guide to automated image classification for ecologists

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
A practical, literature‐grounded review that gives ecologists a clear, modular workflow for deep learning image classification. With code, GUIs and a novel deep sea case study (automated deep sea biotope classification) it lowers technical barriers and provides a usable blueprint for accelerating, standardising, and scaling ecological image analysis ...
Chloe A. Game, Nils Piechaud, Kerry L. Howell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Native habitat affinities predict fish invasions with post‐invasion habitat shifts

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Initial invasion success is gated by native pre‐adaptations, but post‐invasion establishment is characterized by habitat shifts. We demonstrate that forecasting risk based solely on native niches severely underestimates future ecological impacts, and we provide an empirically validated watchlist of future invaders.
Shahar Chaikin, Tal Gavriel, Avery Deveto, Shahar Malamud, Jonathan Belmaker   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological scale mediates nonlinear relationships of animal nutrient excretion with dissolved organic matter

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We show that nutrient excretion by vertebrates and invertebrates varies nonlinearly with dissolved organic matter concentration and composition and by taxonomic rank, with stronger patterns at the individual compared to the community level. Our findings highlight the importance of examining animal‐mediated nutrient cycling across taxa and ecological ...
Sandra Klemet‐N'Guessan, Marina Taskovic, Nolan J. T. Pearce, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source