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First reported case of fatal tuberculosis in a wild African elephant with past human–wildlife contact [PDF]

, 2013
Vincent Obanda, J. POGHON, Moses Yongo, Isaac Mulei, Maina Ngotho, Kenneth Waititu, J. N. MAKUMI, Francis Gakuya, Patrick Omondi, Ramón C. Soriguer, S. Alasaad   +10 more
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Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Natural history museums are often seen as places with indoor galleries full of dry‐dusty specimens, usually of animals. But if they have gardens associated with them, museums can use living plants to create narratives that link outside spaces to inside galleries, bringing to life the challenges facing biodiversity.
Ed Baker, Paul Kenrick, Sandra Knapp, Tom McCarter, John Tweddle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undergraduate Research for All: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

, 2016
Judy Awong-Taylor, Allison D’Costa, Greta Giles, Tirza Leader, David P. Pursell, Clay Runck, Thomas Mundie   +6 more
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Detecting Vegetation Change in Response to Confining Elephants in Forests Using MODIS Time-Series and BFAST [PDF]

, 2018
Jacqueline Morrison, Thomas Higginbottom, Elías Symeonakis, Martin Jones, Fred Omengo, Susan L. Walker, Bradley Cain   +6 more
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Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are stable crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants [PDF]

If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe.
Edwin Muchapondwa, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunmar Köhlin   +2 more
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Simulated elephant foraging alters tree root exudation rates: Species‐specific responses and implications for belowground carbon dynamics in tropical forests

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Asian elephants play crucial roles in ecosystem functioning, and their interactions with plants influence above‐ and belowground carbon cycling. We tested whether their mechanically destructive foraging triggers short‐term, stress‐induced shifts in tree root exudation, an underappreciated pathway linking herbivory to belowground carbon processes.
Pratibha Khatri, Bimal Sharma, Lisa Ong, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Elephants: Overcoming the Postelection Crisis in Kenya [PDF]

, 2008
The article discusses the postelection crisis in Kenya which has caused suffering to innocent civilians in the area. It states that the chaos was caused by the negligence of both the opposing parties of incumbent candidate Mwai Kibaki and his rival Raila
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
core   +1 more source

Quantifying aboveground herbaceous biomass in grassy ecosystems: a comparison of field and high‐resolution UAV‐LiDAR approaches

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The abundance of herbaceous vegetation in grassy ecosystems—which cover >25% of the world's land surface—is highly variable and impacts key ecological processes including carbon sequestration and support for grazing wildlife and livestock. Here, we present a method for using high‐resolution, UAV‐borne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to estimate ...
Tyler C. Coverdale, Peter B. Boucher, Jenia Singh, Andrew B. Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deep learning‐based ecological analysis of camera trap images is impacted by training data quality and quantity

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Machine learning image classifiers are increasingly being used to automate camera trap image labelling, but we don't know how much ML model accuracy matters for downstream ecological analyses. Using two large data sets from an African savannah and an Asian dry forest ecosystem, we compared human labelled data with predictions from deep‐learning models ...
Peggy A. Bevan, Omiros Pantazis, Holly A.I. Pringle, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Daniel J. Ingram, Emily K. Madsen, Liam Thomas, Dol Raj Thanet, Thakur Silwal, Santosh Rayamajhi, Gabriel J. Brostow, Oisin Mac Aodha, Kate E. Jones   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source