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Eliciting a predatory response in the eastern corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) using live and inanimate sensory stimuli: implications for managing invasive populations [PDF]

, 2014
North America's Eastern corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) has been introduced to several islands throughout the Caribbean and Australasia where it poses a significant threat to native wildlife. Invasive snake control programs often involve trapping with
Burghardt GM, Chiszar D, Dorcas M, Drummond HM, Dullemeijer P, Elton CS, Engbring J, Engeman RM, Ernst CH, Fisher P, Fritts T, Furry K, Giery S, Gillam E, Greene H, Hayes WK, Herzog HA, IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), J.O. Worthington-Hill, Jenkins C, Kardong KV, Knight J, L.K. Gentle, Lankford JD, Lever C, Mooney H, Mullin SJ, Neal JC, Ott E, Page A, Perry G, Powell R, Questel K, Vitry A., R.W. Yarnell, Rodda G, Saviola AJ, Saviola AJ, Shiau T, Shine R, Vice DS, Wiles GJ   +40 more
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Diversity and ecology of carrion- and fruit-feeding butterflies in Bornean rain forest [PDF]

Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2005
Tropical rain forests are well known as centres of insect diversity and much effort has focused on the role of larval host plant specificity in generating and maintaining this diversity, but fewer studies have examined the exploitation of different food resources by adults in this context.
K. C. Hamer, J. K. Hill, Suzan Benedick, Nazirah Mustaffa, V. K. Chey, Maryati Mohamed   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis of Prey Bone Remains Accumulated by Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos): A Case of Nests in Southern France

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nests in rock cavities where it accumulates prey bone remains during the breeding season. Because nests can be reoccupied from year to year, these faunal elements can form remarkable bone accumulations and, in the sub‐fossil record, be mixed with assemblages derived from human or other predator activities ...
Juliette Ripond, Véronique Laroulandie, Jean‐Baptiste Mallye, Renaud Nadal, Patrick Bayle, Christian Itty   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack

EDIS, 2016
Perennial coastal grasses such as sea oats have long been recognized as the biological engineers of our increasingly stressed beaches and coastal dunes.
Natalie Hooton, Debbie L. Miller, Mack Thetford, Sean Claypool   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Benefits and limitations of using innovative tools like detection dogs, thermal imaging and drones to increase wildlife carcass finds during health surveillance and management efforts

Frontiers in Conservation Science
Recent awareness of the role of wildlife in the evolution of emerging zoonotic diseases emphasizes the needs to conduct surveillance for public health.
Camille Sandor, Stéphanie Desvaux, Loïc Palumbo, Sylvain Larrat, Damien Charabidze, Patrick D’artois, Anouk Decors   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Large carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae) in Western Europe: a review [PDF]

Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2011
This review focuses on carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae) of the Western Palearctic and their potential use in forensic entomology as bioindicators. Few studies have looked at Silphidae in forensic context and investigations. However, some Silphidae
Dekeirsschieter, J., Verheggen, F., Lognay, G., Haubruge, E.   +3 more
doaj  

Socially Driven Consistent Behavioural Differences during Development in Common Ravens and Carrion Crows. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Consistent individual differences in behaviour, or 'personality', are likely to be influenced by development, social context, and species ecology, though few comparative, longitudinal studies exist.
Rachael Miller, Kate L Laskowski, Martina Schiestl, Thomas Bugnyar, Christine Schwab   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of the dietary nutrient profile of free-roaming feral cats: possible implications for nutrition of domestic cats [PDF]

, 2011
Cats are strict carnivores and in the wild rely on a diet solely based on animal tissues to meet their specific and unique nutritional requirements. Although the feeding ecology of cats in the wild has been well documented in the literature, there is no ...
Bosch, G., Hendriks, W.H., Plantinga, E.A.   +2 more
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Linking regional and global functional trait data: insights from mammal communities in a fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape

Oikos, EarlyView.
Accurate functional trait data are essential for understanding ecosystem services and processes in fragmented landscapes. We evaluated whether the global EltonTraits 1.0 database adequately represents the functional structure of mammal communities in forest fragments and restoration sites in a highly fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape.
Maria F. R. Godoi, Fábio Z. Farneda, Alan D. Pereira, Marcos Akira‐ Umeno, Fernanda C. Marques, Marcos Robalinho Lima   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Composition and Host-Use Patterns of a Scarab Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Community Inhabiting the Canopy of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Southern Venezuela [PDF]

, 2019
The adult scarab beetle fauna of the canopy in a lowland tropical rainforest in southern Venezuela was observed and collected by means of a 42 m-tall tower crane for a complete year.
Kirmse, Susan, Ratcliffe, Brett C.
core   +2 more sources