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Annual Report on surveillance for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in Member States of the European Union in 2018

EFSA Journal, 2019
Avian influenza (AI) is a viral infectious disease that affects all species of domestic and wild birds. The viruses causing this disease can be of high (HPAI) or low (LPAI) pathogenicity and represent a continuous threat to poultry in Europe.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Adam Brouwer, Jose Gonzales, Adeline Huneau, Paolo Mulatti, Thijs Kuiken, Christoph Staubach, Arjan Stegeman, Sotiria‐Eleni Antoniou, Francesca Baldinelli, Yves Van der Stede, Inma Aznar   +11 more
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The decline of ground nesting birds in Europe: Do we need to manage predation in addition to habitat?

Global Ecology and Conservation
Bird populations are declining globally with losses recorded in many European breeding birds. Habitat management measures have not resulted in widespread reversal of these declines. We analysed national bird population trends from ten European countries (
Barry J. McMahon, Susan Doyle, Francois Mougeot, Beatriz Arroyo   +3 more
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Birds of the Entella river (Genoa, Italy): a qualitative assessment of bird diversity in an urbanizing biotope, with implications for management and conservation

Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2019
This work presents the first assessment of the birds of the Entella river (Genoa, Liguria), a small wetland embedded in an urbanized matrix. Data were collected through standardized in situ censuses from April 2012 to June 2017 and integrated with ...
Andrea Simoncini, Daniela Papi, Enrico Ruggeri   +2 more
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Archéo-écologie des plaines alluviales de la Meuse en France et de la Moselle au Luxembourg

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2018
Archaeological excavations in alluvial environments, carried out before the extraction of aggregate, allow us to better understand both palaeoenvironmental data and human occupations.
Olivier Brun, Henri-Georges Naton, Caroline Schaal, Guillaume Jamet, Laurent Brou, Foni Le Brun-Ricalens   +5 more
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Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs

Learning & Behavior
Summary Researchers have recently described the wing-fluttering signal of Japanese tits and eyeblink signal of concave-eared torrent frogs as bodily communication that elicits specific responses. I assess the evidence that these may be intentional, goal-directed signals using established criteria for gestural communication.
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Drivers for the Diversity of Mollusc Communities in Unique Calcareous Fen Habitats

Diversity
The research was carried out in calcareous fen habitats which share coverage with Natura 2000 sites designated under the EU Habitats and the Birds Directive. A total of 27 taxa of molluscs were recorded: 23 gastropod and 4 bivalve species.
Iga Lewin, Adam Tarkowski, Piotr Sugier, Wojciech Płaska, Edyta Buczyńska, Paweł Buczyński   +5 more
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Influence of feed form and corn particle size on nutrient digestibility and energy utilization by young turkeys

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2012
A digestibility trial with 16 to 21-day-old turkeys was conducted to study the effects of feed form and corn particle size on the coefficient of total intestinal tract apparent digestibility of dry matter (DM), nitrogen (N), ether extract (EE), aparent ...
André Favero, Alex Maiorka, Ana Vitória Fischer da Silva, Fabio Luiz de Paula Valle, Samuel Augusto dos Santos, Keysuke Muramatsu   +5 more
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The Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos in the Apennines of the Lazio region (Central Italy): updates on its status

Avocetta, 2017
A significant part (about 20%) of the population of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos in the Central Apennines breeds in the mountains of Lazio. The breeding performance of these pairs has been monitored since the midseventies of the last century ...
Fabio Borlenghi
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FFH-Verträglichkeitsprüfung und Raumordnungsverfahren

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2003
At the latest since the passage of the EU’s Conservation of Wild Birds Directive and the Flora-Fauna-Habitat Directive, it has been impossible for spatial planning law in Germany to remain aloof from the influence of European nature-protection ...
Gunhild Berg
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Rapid population response to a hunting ban in a previously overharvested, threatened landbird

Conservation Letters
Empirical data are essential to assess the outcomes of management decisions in the context of adaptive management. We used flyway‐level population indices of a declining game bird to assess population changes after introducing hunting management measures
Carles Carboneras, Eva Šilarová, Jana Škorpilová, Beatriz Arroyo   +3 more
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