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Selectivity and efficiency of predator control methods: a case study from a Mediterranean hunting ground

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Predator control is a widely used management tool worldwide to reduce the impact of opportunistic predatory species, but in some contexts where predators are controlled to reduce negative impacts on game species, there are concerns about the selectivity and efficiency.
José A. Torres, E. Jorge Tizado, José L. Valero, Miguel Gómez, Luis F. Villanueva, Carlos Sánchez‐García   +5 more
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Nanopore adaptive sampling for targeted mitochondrial genome sequencing and bloodmeal identification in hematophagous insects

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Blood-feeding insects are important vectors for an array of zoonotic pathogens. While previous efforts toward generating molecular resources have largely focused on major vectors of global medical and veterinary importance, molecular data ...
Evan J. Kipp, Laramie L. Lindsey, Marissa S. Milstein, Cristina M. Blanco, Julia P. Baker, Christopher Faulk, Jonathan D. Oliver, Peter A. Larsen   +7 more
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Effects of forest treatments on nutritional carrying capacity for white‐tailed deer in mid‐rotation loblolly pine stands

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
In this study we compared nutritional carrying capacity (NCC) for white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) among 6 treatment combinations in mid‐rotation loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) forests, including 3 levels of commercial thinning. We also paired each level of thinning with prescribed fire, prescribed fire with herbicide, or herbicide only ...
Dylan G. Stewart, Daniel U. Greene, James A. Martin, Stephen S. Ditchkoff, Kristina L. Johannsen, William Lewis, William D. Gulsby   +6 more
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Molecular pathogen screening of louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) from domestic and wild ruminants in Austria

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Hippoboscid flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), also known as louse flies or keds, are obligate blood-sucking ectoparasites of animals, and accidentally of humans.
Miguel Peña-Espinoza, Daniel Em, Bita Shahi-Barogh, Dominik Berer, Georg G. Duscher, Lara van der Vloedt, Walter Glawischnig, Steffen Rehbein, Josef Harl, Maria S. Unterköfler, Hans-Peter Fuehrer   +10 more
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Relationship between spatial and social phenotypes in an avian scavenger

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
A method is applied to distinguish interaction rates that would be expected given animals' movements from those that exceed expected values due to incidental contact. The relationship between space use and both observed and non‐incidental social network position varies between social situations.
Kaija Gahm, Marta Acácio, Nili Anglister, Gideon Vaadia, Orr Spiegel, Noa Pinter‐Wollman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colagè, Larissa M. Straffon, Andrea Bender   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
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First record of Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) among goats in Bulgaria

Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine
The investigation was conducted on 4,599 goats from eight breeds, naturally infected with ectopara-sitic insects. The visit to the farms was paid after the owners alarmed for signs of considerable dis-comfort and itching among the animals.
N. Nizamov
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Cardiovascular Plasticity and Adaptation of High‐Altitude Birds and Mammals

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This schematic depicts the cardiovascular adaptations of mammals and birds to high‐altitude hypoxia. It highlights key phenotypic changes in oxygen transport and cardiac responses, driven by molecular mechanisms including transcriptional regulation and genetic modifications.
Huishang She, Yanhua Qu
wiley   +1 more source