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Knee height is often right: evaluating device height effects on camera trapping rate

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera trap deployment height can introduce systematic biases in detection trapping rates across species of different body sizes. Combining 172 paired sampling points in five experiments across Europe, North America and Africa, our results show that low cameras significantly increase detections of small‐ and medium‐sized species, whereas high cameras ...
Jorge Sereno‐Cadierno, Tim R. Hofmeester, Marcus Becker, Alice Bernard, Lizette Moolman, Hervé Fritz, Pelayo Acevedo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk. [PDF]

, 2020
Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to global health.
Doyle, Megan M, Evans, Tierra Smiley, Hitchens, Peta L, Johnson, Christine K, Pandit, Pranav S, Rushmore, Julie, Young, Cristin CW   +6 more
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Phylogenetic and Functional Originality Shape Species Positions in Flea–Mammal Networks Across Biogeographic Realms

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The relationship between the position of a flea species in the networks and its functional originality was found to be consistently positive in all realms, independently of which originality index was used. ABSTRACT We investigated the relationships between a species’ network position (measured as the combined normalized degree, species strength, and ...
Boris R. Krasnov, Vasily I. Grabovsky
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Hedgehog Conservation Research

Animals
Hedgehogs (Order Eulipotyphla, Family Erinaceidae, Subfamily Erinaceinae) are familiar and popular spiny mammals, but they face many challenges in modern human-dominated environments [...]
Nigel Reeve, Anne Berger, Sophie Lund Rasmussen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical shifts, geographic biases, and biological constraints shape mammal species discovery

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
Taxonomic descriptions of mammals have become more robust from 1990 to 2025, with increased specimen sampling, broader comparisons, and more integrative methods. However, disparities remain: tropical and small‐bodied species are less comprehensively described, reflecting ongoing geographic and biological biases.
Matheus de T. Moroti, Jhonny J. M. Guedes, Guilherme M. Missio, Giovana L. Diegues, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra, Mario R. Moura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tick‐Tac‐Foe: When Ticks, Trade, and Zoonotic Pathogens Align in African Wet Meat Markets

Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Zoonotic diseases account for over ∼60% of infectious diseases and present a significantly growing fatality threat in Africa. Live and wet markets (LWMs) in Africa function as key economic venues that support human livelihoods through social interaction and trade in food stuff, including meat and other animal‐based products.
Allen Takudzwa Munaro
wiley   +1 more source

Non-target small mammal communities in invertebrate pitfall traps: effects of season, habitat, and elevation

Folia Oecologica
Despite considerable endeavours of scientists to avoid it, non-target species are frequently trapped for ecological and conservation research. Nevertheless, these data can provide valuable insights into how ecosystems function. Small mammals not targeted
Košša Jakub, Baláž Ivan, Tulis Filip, Gajdoš Peter, Ambros Michal   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid size change associated with intra-island evolutionary radiation in extinct Caribbean “island-shrews”

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020
Background The Caribbean offers a unique opportunity to study evolutionary dynamics in insular mammals. However, the recent extinction of most Caribbean non-volant mammals has obstructed evolutionary studies, and poor DNA preservation associated with ...
Roseina Woods, Samuel T. Turvey, Selina Brace, Christopher V. McCabe, Love Dalén, Emily J. Rayfield, Mark J. F. Brown, Ian Barnes   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Small-eared shrews of the New World genus Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) comprise at least 42 species that traditionally have been partitioned among four or more species groups based on morphological characters.
Kai He, Neal Woodman, Sean Boaglio, Mariel Roberts, Sunjana Supekar, Jesús E Maldonado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying and Quantifying Conflicts Between Humans and Terrestrial Mammals in Great Britain

Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
We conducted a literature review to identify conflicts between humans and terrestrial mammals in Great Britain. A modified Generic Impact Scoring System was applied to all conflicts so that mammals could be ranked according to their level of impact to help identify the most damaging species and to aid decision‐making. ABSTRACT Introduction Interactions
Kate L. Palphramand, Daniel A. Warren, Graham C. Smith, Dave Cowan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source