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Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and Stemflow: Drinking More Than Just Water

Austral Ecology, Volume 50, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Stemflow, water that flows down the outside of tree stems during precipitation events, is a type of free water used by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) for drinking, alongside the moisture obtained from the Eucalyptus leaves consumed in their diet. The properties of stemflow in the context of its utilisation by animals are currently unknown. In
Connor Flanagan, Mark B. Krockenberger, John T. Van Stan II, Janine Duffy, Valentina S. A. Mella   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How much seagrass does a dugong need? Metabolic rate of live wild dugongs, Dugong dugon, determined through indirect calorimetry (oxygen consumption)

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Deterioration of seagrass beds worldwide has raised concern about the future of dugongs because almost all aspects of their life history depend on availability of seagrass. Understanding their energy metabolism and consequently how much seagrass they need will inform protective conservation strategies for dugongs. This study determined resting
Janet M. Lanyon, Helen L. Sneath, Trevor Long, Wendy H. Blanshard, Graham A. J. Worthy, David T. Booth   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polling the Public to Select Flagship Species for Tourism and Conservation—A ‘Big Five’ for the Peruvian Amazon?

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.
Flagship species are used to promote conservation and tourism, but selecting species purely for prescribed appealing characteristics may overlook unique flagships or homogenise selections. A strategy of polling the public can more directly identify existing preferences for species for marketing.
Maribel Recharte, Phyllis C. Lee, Sarah‐Jane Vick, Mark Bowler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropogenic extinctions explain most size and trophic mismatches between large mammalian primary consumers from Amazonian and African rainforests

Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2025.
Present‐day Amazonia has an impoverished fauna of large folivorous mammals by comparison with African rainforests, but recent fossil discoveries suggest that late‐Quaternary anthropogenic extinctions could account for most size and trophic faunal mismatches.
Robert S. Voss
wiley   +1 more source

The Most Attractive Is Not Always the Preferred: Lessons From Necrophagous Dung Beetle Assemblages in a Region of the Central Amazon

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.
Dung beetles are differently attracted toward carrion types. Bovine spleen attracts more dung beetles than chicken and fish meat. ABSTRACT Resource attractiveness and preference is determinant to assess how biodiversity is structured in different ecosystems. Necrophagy is the alternative or complementary dietary habit of dung beetles, but a few studies
Mirella Lima Costa, Renato Portela Salomão, Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar, César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa, Luciana Iannuzzi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic and phenotypic characterization of the Oropouche virus strain implicated in the 2022–24 large‐scale outbreak in Brazil

Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 96, Issue 10, October 2024.
Abstract The Orthobunyavirus oropoucheense species encompasses a group of arthropod‐borne zoonotic viruses transmitted by biting midges to animals including humans. Several large‐scale human outbreaks caused by the prototype member of this species, Oropouche virus (OROV) have been documented since the 1970s and were primarily confined to the Amazon ...
Elisa de A. N. Azevedo, Alexandre F. da Silva, Verônica G. da Silva, Lais C. Machado, Gustavo B. de Lima, Bruno I. M. Ishigami, Keilla M. Paz e Silva, Mayara M. de O. M. da Costa, Diego A. Falcão, Andreza P. Vasconcelos, Clintiano C. da Silva, Felipe G. Naveca, Matheus F. Bezerra, Tulio de L. Campos, Bartolomeu Acioli‐Santos, Marcelo H. S. Paiva, Clarice N. L. de Morais, Gabriel L. Wallau   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative assessment of grasping strength in platyrrhine monkeys

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 183, Issue 4, April 2024.
Quantitative assessment of grasping strength in Saimiri boliviensis and Callitrhix jacchus. (a) Custom‐built grasping force transducer. Scale bar in centimeters. (b) Representative pollical grasping of the transducer in Saimiri boliviensis. (c) Representative non‐pollical grasping of the force transducer in Callithrix jacchus. Inset illustrations in (b)
Jesse W. Young, Brad A. Chadwell, Timothy P. O'Neill, Francisco Pastor, Damiano Marchi, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cathemerality: a key temporal niche

Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 2, Page 329-347, April 2024.
ABSTRACT Given the marked variation in abiotic and biotic conditions between day and night, many species specialise their physical activity to being diurnal or nocturnal, and it was long thought that these strategies were commonly fairly fixed and invariant.
Daniel T. C. Cox, Kevin J. Gaston
wiley   +1 more source

Taphonomy of harpy eagle predation on primates and other mammals

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 86, Issue 1, January 2024.
Crania of bearded saki, saki monkey, and woolly monkey recovered from harpy eagle nests. Capuchin monkey individual freshly brought to the nest by harpy eagle (left). Abstract The goal of this study is to provide a taphonomic analysis of bone fragments found in harpy eagle nests in the Brazilian Amazonia, utilizing the largest sample of prey remains ...
Guilherme S. T. Garbino, Thiago B. F. Semedo, Everton B. P. Miranda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source