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Elk (Cervus elaphus) railway mortality in Ontario

Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2018
Wildlife railway research is highly underrepresented in science despite documented wildlife–train collision mortalities. Gathering baseline information is imperative to the development of effective train collision mitigation, especially for at-risk or ...
J. Popp, J. Hamr, Colleen Chan, F. Mallory   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A preliminary note on the visual changes in femur marrow fat as an indicator of femur fat percentage of springbok Antidorcas Marsupialis and blesbok Damaliscus Dorcas Phillipsi

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1973
Changes occuring in marrow fat reserves of animals have been used as an indicator of their physical condition (Cheatum, 1949; Riney, 1955). Cheatum correlated his visual estimate with a chemical analysis and Riney used four different condition classes ...
D.A. Els
doaj   +1 more source

Low sequence diversity of the prion protein gene (PRNP) in wild deer and goat species from Spain [PDF]

, 2018
The first European cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-ranging reindeer and wild elk were confirmed in Norway in 2016 highlighting the urgent need to understand transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in the context of European deer ...
A Balachandran, A Bossers, AN Hamir, AN Hamir, AN Hamir, AV Nalls, C Acín, C Johnson, C Johnson, Cristina Acín, Daniel Fernández de Luco, David Martínez, ED Belay, EFSA, ES Williams, ES Williams, G Vaccari, GB Mitchell, Helen Caroline Raksa, JE Jewell, JJ Greenlee, José Luis Pitarch, Juan José Badiola, JW Wilesmith, KA Fox, KI O’Rourke, KI O’Rourke, KM Green, L Wik, LA Detwiler, M Perucchini, María Cruz Arnal, MD Schwabenlander, Miguel Revilla, MP Dagleish, MP Dagleish, Q Kong, Q Kong, RA Moore, S Peletto, SB Prusiner, SL Benestad, TJ Kreeger, TR Spraker, TR Spraker, W Goldmann, W Goldmann, Wilfred Goldmann   +47 more
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Addressing biases in sliding window analysis gives new insight into the response of parturition date to weather in a wild mammal

Oikos, EarlyView.
Animal breeding phenology in temperate and high latitude regions is often predicted by weather variables, such as temperature. Much work on this topic has focused on taxonomic groups that employ adaptive plastic responses to annual variation in an environmental cue, with analytical approaches developed to determine when weather has an effect and the ...
Kirsty H. Macphie, Sean Morris, Alison Morris, Fiona E. Guinness, Timothy H. Clutton‐Brock, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Josephine M. Pemberton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation map and assessment of naturalness degree of the Ogliastra territory (Sardinia, Italy)

Forest@, 2012
A cartographic representation of the vegetation characteristics over a large area of the Ogliastra territory, coupled with the use of several environmental indexes, allowed to estimate the degree of naturalness of this area.
Batzella MC, Balvis T, Muntoni F, Marini A   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spring spotlight counts provide reliable indices to track changes in population size of mountain-dwelling red deer Cervus elaphus

Wildlife Biology, 2016
Monitoring changes in animal abundance is a central issue in conservation biology. Population indices may be a valuable support to wildlife managers in coarse-scale survey programs, as they normally represent more intuitive and less expensive monitoring ...
L. Corlatti, A. Gugiatti, L. Pedrotti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Not just ‘super‐predators': human behaviour shapes wildlife behavioural responses across avoidance, tolerance and attraction

Oikos, EarlyView.
Humans are thought to have a disproportionately negative impact on wildlife and are viewed by some as the ultimate ‘super predator'. This view implies that wild animals perceive humans primarily as predators. However, a growing body of evidence shows that wildlife can have remarkable tolerance for, or even attraction to, humans.
Friederike Zenth, Daniel T. Blumstein, Luca Corlatti, Mengxi Kou, Sebastian Schwegmann, Farina Sooth, Ilse Storch, Manisha Bhardwaj   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offspring sex ratio of introduced red deer in Patagonia, Argentina after an intensive drought [PDF]

, 2001
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) introduced to Patagonia have reached high densities in the forest-steppe ecotone. Drought conditions during 1998/99 were suspected to impact subsequent reproductive performance.
Fluck, Werner Thomas
core  

Mitochondrial PCGs Provide Novel Insights into Subspecies Classification, Codon Usage and Selection of Cervus canadensis Distributed in Qinghai and Gansu, China

Animals
Although Cervus elaphus (Linnaeus, 1758) has been well studied, the subspecific taxonomy of Cervus canadensis populations in Qinghai and Gansu, China, is still controversial, and the mitochondrial characteristics of Cervus elaphus (Linnaeus, 1758) remain
Shiwu Dong, Lixin Tang, Sukun Yang, Xu Chen, Yang Feng, Xinhao Wang, Weilin Su, Xiumei Xing   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple scales of fear: foraging behaviour of white‐naped jays in semiarid landscapes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Animals must constantly balance the need to find resources with the risk of predation. Not only avoiding direct encounters with predators but also assessing the overall risk of their environment using cues, social information or habitat traits at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Maria Carolina Beiriz, Luiz A. M. Mestre, Lorenzo R. S. Zanette   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source