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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.American badgers, a medium‐sized carnivore occurring in much of North America, are important predators in prairie landscapes though our understanding of their habitat use requirements in these areas is unclear. We used a multi‐scale approach to understand American badger habitat use at both local and landscape scales.
Colleen W. Piper +5 more
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.We distributed a survey to global institutions housing bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) to collect data on factors which may affect litter survival. Information from the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) and studbook records supplemented this dataset. We found that within northern temperate regions, the number of pups reared to the age of 1
Alice S. Clark +4 more
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Contrasting evidence of phylogenetic trophic niche conservatism in mammals worldwide [PDF]
, 2017 Aim Phylogenetic niche conservatism (PNC), a pattern of closely related species retaining ancestral niche-related traits over evolutionary time, is well documented for abiotic (Grinellian) dimensions of the ecological niche.
Ackerly +48 more
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Seed dormancy explains plant response to mass mortality events
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are large‐scale, rapid die‐offs resulting in extreme inputs of carrion biomass. Recent work demonstrates the effects of increasing carrion biomass on plant communities modulated by vertebrate scavengers and herbivores.
David S. Mason +5 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2000 The effect of human activity on terrestrial mammals was studied with footprint counts in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (10°30'N, 85°40'W) in February 1998 (in fifty 2 m² quadrats).
Lilliana Piedra C, Leonardo Maffei
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Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Advantageous snow conditions—in terms of snow depth and density—are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. In a warming climate, the knock‐on effects of a diminishing snowpack may reduce the hunting success of multiple large carnivore species.
Benjamin K. Sullender +7 more
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Signatures of the Anthropocene: Population Genomic Structure Detected in Pennsylvania Coyotes. [PDF]
Ecol EvolCoyotes rapidly expanded across eastern North America and are highly dispersive ecological generalists, leading prior studies to report little spatial genetic structure. Using genome‐wide data from 1199 coyotes sampled over a decade in the northeastern United States, we detected subtle but significant population structure, with two weakly clinal ...
Marshall CA +15 more
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Does Conservation Status Matter if You’re Ugly? An Experimental Survey of Species Appeal and Public Support [PDF]
, 2018 Wildlife conservation is of the utmost importance to the preservation of a healthy planet, with the extinction of wild animals increasing at previously unseen rates.
Redmond, Natalie Theresa
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Insular carnivore biogeography: island area and mammalian optimal body size.
, 2005 Published ...
Dayan, T, Meiri, S, Simberloff, D
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Invasive Wild pigs as primary nest predators for Wild turkeys [PDF]
, 2020 Depredation of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) nests is a leading cause of reduced recruitment for the recovering and iconic game species. invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are known to depredate nests, and have been expanding throughout the distributed ...
Hewitt, David G. +4 more
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