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Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments
Science Robotics, 2021 Description Bird-inspired robotic leg and foot design enables dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments. Birds take off and land on a wide range of complex surfaces.
William R. T. Roderick +2 more
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Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics
Nature, 2020 Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and characterizing biodiversity1–4. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to confound phylogenetic inference5, and captures only a fraction of the genomic ...
Shaohong Feng +149 more
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How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?
bioRxiv, 2020 Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) aims to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure its success, we used a Delphi expert elicitation method to estimate the number of bird and mammal species whose ...
Friederike C. Bolam +45 more
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ABC’s Bird-Smart Wind Energy Campaign: Protecting Birds from Poorly Sited Wind Energy Development
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 This article summarizes American Bird Conservancy’s (ABC’s) strategies and goals for achieving Bird-Smart wind energy in the United States. We describe the current and projected impact of wind energy development on birds and bats in the United States. We
Michael Hutchins +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Estimated population trends can identify declining species to focus biological conservation, but monitoring may fail to illuminate causes of population change and strategies for reversing declines. Monitoring programs can relate trends with environmental
Quresh S. Latif +3 more
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Common Loon Reproductive Success in Canada: the West is Best but Not for Long
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2013 Reproductive success of Common Loons (Gavia immer) is a powerful indicator of aquatic ecosystem health, especially in relation to mercury and acid precipitation. We examined relationships between Common Loon reproductive success and longitude, year, lake
Douglas C. Tozer +2 more
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Warming Arctic summers unlikely to increase productivity of shorebirds through renesting
Scientific Reports, 2021 Climate change in the Arctic is leading to earlier summers, creating a phenological mismatch between the hatching of insectivorous birds and the availability of their invertebrate prey.
Sarah T. Saalfeld +4 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Ranges of species around the world are expected to contract in response to climate change. Species distribution models (SDMs) are a powerful tool for predicting changes in habitat availability, but the variables selected to create SDMs influence their ...
Lynn N. Schofield +2 more
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Different Habitat Types Affect Bird Richness and Evenness
Scientific Reports, 2020 More studies are needed on the mechanism and effective prediction of bird diversity in various habitats. The primary purpose of this study was to explore the difference in the species richness and evenness of various habitats.
Hung-Ming Tu +2 more
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Food and Energy Security, 2023 In recent years, fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, has emerged as one of the most serious invasive species in many countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Justice A. Tambo +4 more
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