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Monitoring active osprey nests with drones is more time efficient and less disturbing than conventional methods

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Drones are used to monitor bird nesting sites at less accessible locations, such as on cliffs, human infrastructure, or within the tree canopy. While there are a growing number of studies documenting avian behavioral responses to various drones, there is a continued need to monitor taxa‐specific responses to different drone models. We explored both the
Natasha K. Murphy, Jared A. Elmore, Melanie R. Boudreau, Brian S. Dorr, Scott A. Rush   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape factors influencing predation on capercaillie nests by two competing mesopredators: pine marten and red fox

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Predation by pine martens Martes martes and red foxes Vulpes vulpes is an important factor influencing the population dynamics of capercaillie Tetrao urogallus. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding the relative effects of these mesopredators on the reproductive success of capercaillie. To better understand how various landscape factors influence
Siow Yan Jennifer Angoh, Scott Michael Brainerd, Olivier Devineau, Morten Odden, Torfinn Jahren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Grand Pessimistic Induction [PDF]

, 2018
After decades of intense debate over the old pessimistic induction (Laudan, 1977; Putnam, 1978), it has now become clear that it has at least the following four problems.
Park, Seungbae
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Urbanisation and human activities influence the co‐occurrence of red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris and meso‐carnivores in Berlin, Germany

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban expansion is a major driver of habitat fragmentation, shrinking wildlife habitat, and restricting wildlife movements and activity patterns. In this novel environment, species must adapt to the new composition of wildlife communities. For example, red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris are commonly found in urban environments, while their potential ...
Josefa Vergara Stuardo, Sinah Drenske, Julie Louvrier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waste Disposal Sites as All-You-Can Eat Buffets for Carrion Crows (Corvus corone)

Animals, 2019
In cities and densely populated areas, several corvid species are considered nuisance animals. In Austria, particularly carrion (Corvus corone) and hooded crows (C. cornix) are regarded as pests by the general public that frequently cause damage to crops,
Doris Preininger, Bjoern Schoas, Diether Kramer, Markus Boeckle   +3 more
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Concrete jungle to urban oasis: evaluating scale, vegetation cover, and aggregation of urban greenspaces on wildlife

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban greenspaces are a haven for wildlife in densely populated cities. Wildlife use greenspaces for resource acquisition, shelter, and travel across urbanized landscapes. Greenspace metrics such as herbaceous or woody landcover, size, patchiness, and human land use influence species richness.
Adrianna J. Elihu, Janel L. Ortiz
wiley   +1 more source

Mortality associated with avian reovirus infection in a free-living magpie (Pica pica) in Great Britain [PDF]

, 2015
Avian reoviruses (ARVs) cause a range of disease presentations in domestic, captive and free-living bird species. ARVs have been reported as a cause of significant disease and mortality in free-living corvid species in North America and continental ...
Cunningham, AA, Dastjerdi, A, Everest, D, Hicks, D, Horton, DL, Irvine, RM, Lawson, B, Núñez, A, Pocknell, A, Shah, S   +9 more
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Social information about others' affective states in a human‐altered world

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective states to guide their decisions. Considering affective states of wild animals could have important implications for animal welfare and wildlife conservation ...
Luca G. Hahn, Jordan McDowall, Margaux Vanhussel, Mike Mendl, Alex Thornton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Band splitting and Modal Dispersion induced by Symmetry braking in Coupled-Resonator Slow-Light Waveguide Structures

, 2009
We study the dispersion relations in slow-light waveguide structures consisting of coupled microdisk resonators. A group theoretical analysis of the symmetry properties of the propagating modes reveals an interesting phenomenon: The degeneracy of the CW ...
Bigelow, Boriskina, Boriskina, Boriskina, Chung, Deych, Heebner, Heebner, J. Scheuer, Khurgin, Kippenberg, Liu, M. Shtaif, Melloni, Nakagawa, Phillips, Poon, Ryu, Scheuer, Scheuer, Schwelb, Smotrova, Steinberg, Steinberg, Turukhin, Weiss, Winzer, Yanik, Yanik, Yariv   +29 more
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Predator‐guild‐specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predation close to forests. They acted more aggressively towards an avian predator when nesting close to trees, but comparatively tamer against a mammal.
Guillaume Dillenseger, Justine Delautre, Ankitha Jayanth, Zora Marchal, Petr Veselý, Vojtěch Kubelka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source