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Spatial‐environmental predictors of crop raiding and livestock predation in the communal area around Doma Safari Area of Zimbabwe

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Mapping hotspots of negative human–wildlife interactions and understanding environmental drivers of crop raiding and livestock predation risk provide a foundation to work towards coexistence between people and wildlife. In this study, the binomial linear
Knowledge Kudakwashe Mawere, Ronex Nyamadzawo, Henry Ndaimani, Mhosisi Masocha, Mark Zvidzai, Nobesuthu Ngwenya, Courage Mutema   +6 more
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Assessing How Collaborative Resource Management Impacts Victims’ Perspectives on Wildlife Crop Raids

Journal of Natural Resources and Development, 2018
Collaborative resource management has been touted as one of the ways conservation of wildlife resources can be improved, especially in off-protected areas.
Nana Owusu-Ansah
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Phantom citations: An empirical study of non‐existent and unverifiable references in scholarly literature

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The integrity of scholarly communication depends critically on the accuracy and verifiability of cited references. Citations enable readers to trace prior work, assess evidence, and situate new contributions within the existing literature. However, concerns have emerged regarding the presence of references in published papers that cannot be ...
Chengcheng Han, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Xinfeng Ye, Ulrich Speidel   +3 more
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Alternative crops as a mitigation measure for elephant crop raiding in the eastern Okavango Panhandle

Pachyderm, 2020
Elephant crop raiding causes food losses to subsistence farmers in the eastern Okavango Panhandle in Botswana. This study evaluated the effectiveness of using alternative crops such as groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) and chilli (Capsicum frutescens) as a strategy to reduce ...
Tiroyaone A Matsika, Joseph A Adjetay, Motshwari Obopile, Anna C Songhurst, Graham McCulloch, Amanda Stronza   +5 more
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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
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Functional relationship between crop raiding by the savannah elephant and habitat variables of the Red Volta Valley in north-eastern Ghana

Pachyderm, 2012
We investigated the degree to which crop raiding by elephants in the Red Volta Valley is a function of: the density and diversity of their natural browse, extent of degradation of their habitat, and proximity of crop enclaves to the nearest forest ...
Patrick Adjewodah, William Oduro, Alex Asase   +2 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions

Ecography, EarlyView.
Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey, Brian D. Gerber, Adam S. Hadley, Hankyu Kim, Madison Sutton, Nina C. Ferrari, Matthew G. Betts   +6 more
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Maternal and infant gut microbiome

iMeta, EarlyView.
The maternal–infant continuum involves critical windows of host–microbiota co‐adaptation. Preconception, maternal and paternal microbiomes modulate immunity and reproduction. During pregnancy, a gut–placenta axis emerges, where microbial metabolites influence fetal growth or contribute to complications like gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM ...
Huidi Wang, Felicia Tin, Hui Chen, Fuxin Jiao, Min Wu, Shanshan Sun, Lisha Lin, Die Li, Huimin Zheng, Zhenxin Niu, Mengyao Lan, Bahtiyar Yilmaz, Johan G. Eriksson, Mengjia Wang, Andrew Macpherson, Jose C. Clemente, Jia Xu, Ri‐hua Xie, Xiaojiao Zheng, Tao Zhou, Jinfeng Wang, Wei Shen, Bing Huang, Xia Chen, Hai Li, Yan He   +25 more
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Are crop fields pharmacies for megaherbivores? From ecophysiological studies of elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) crop raiders in Gabon

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Damage to crops is a major cause of human–elephant conflict (HEC) in elephant range states. Elephant crop raiding drives farmers' resentment against elephants and reduces local community support for wildlife conservation.
Steeve Ngama, Jerome Bindelle, Janine L. Brown, John R. Poulsen, Jean‐Luc Hornick, Annick Linden, Lisa Korte, Jean‐Louis Doucet, Stephen Paris, Monique Bouanga Banfoui epse Ngama, Mireille Bawe Johnson, Auguste Ndoutoume Ndong, Jacques François Mavoungou, Philippe Lejeune, Cédric Vermeulen   +14 more
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