Isotopic ecology of coyotes from scat and road kill carcasses: A complementary approach to feeding experiments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Scat is frequently used to study animal diets because it is easy to find and collect, but one concern is that gross fecal analysis (GFA) techniques exaggerate the importance of small-bodied prey to mammalian mesopredator diets.
Rachel E B Reid, Paul L Koch
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Differential effects of human density, environmental health, and group size on urban coyote detection, boldness, and exploration [PDF]
Scientific ReportsComparative studies show that urban coyotes behave differently from rural counterparts. However, these studies often homogenize cities. Cities feature diverse pressures for wildlife, such as variation in human densities and environmental health, two ...
Cesar O. Estien +2 more
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Coyote (Canis latrans) Macronutrient Consumption and Diet Relative to Seasonality and Urbanization [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDiet selection informs the health, fitness, and behavior of wild predators. Due to assumptions that vertebrate prey contains similar compositions of macronutrients (i.e., protein, carbohydrates, and lipids), whole prey items traditionally define ...
Katherine C. B. Weiss +7 more
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Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEnergy extraction and development are fragmenting the landscape in Canada's oil sands region, creating patches of boreal forest connected by millions of kilometers of cleared linear features.
Jamie F. Clarke +7 more
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Evaluation of three rapid assays for detecting Mycoplasma pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal specimens [PDF]
AMB ExpressDuring the 2023 autumn–winter period in China, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infections have increased. To address this, rapid and accurate MP DNA detection methods are crucial.
Chenglin Yang +4 more
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Urban coyote spatiotemporal overlap with humans is associated with environmental characteristics not human sociodemographics [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe tendency of wildlife to associate with humans spatially and temporally, i.e., to overlap with humans, is a key factor mediating human-wildlife coexistence in cities.
Emily Zepeda +3 more
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Describing Diet of Imperiled Sierra Nevada Red Foxes and a Carnivoran Competitor Using DNA Metabarcoding [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMontane red foxes (Vulpes vulpes ssp.) native to western North America are of broad conservation interest, occupying a narrow ecological niche and typically restricted to small, isolated populations.
Matthew S. Delheimer +5 more
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Modeling the appearance and progression of cognitive impairment
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction It remains difficult to predict which individuals will develop cognitive impairment and progress to major neurocognitive disorders. Prevention studies suffer from the long time frames and the manner in which this topic does not lend itself
B. Mainguy, L. Mehl-Madrona, D. Ruben
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Lifestyle patterns influence the composition of the gut microbiome in a healthy Chinese population
Scientific Reports, 2023 High-throughput sequencing allows for the comprehensive analysis of the human intestinal microbiota. However, extensive association analyses between the microbiome and lifestyle differences in the Chinese population are limited.
Yi Ren +11 more
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Ecology and Society, 2023 In cities throughout North America, sightings of coyotes (Canis latrans) have become common. Reports of human-coyote conflict are also rising, as is the public demand for proactive management to prevent negative human-coyote interactions.
Jonathan J. Farr +6 more
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