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Urban landscape and infection risk in free-roaming cats. [PDF]
Zoonoses Public Health, 2022 Abstract Despite public concern on the role of free‐roaming cats as reservoirs of zoonotic agents, little is known about the influence of urban and peri‐urban landscapes on the exposure risk. We evaluated the seroprevalence of three zoonotic agents (Chlamydia felis, Coxiella burnetii and Toxoplasma gondii) in domestic cats (Felis catus).
Candela MG +6 more
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Integrating habitat-masked range maps with quantifications of prevalence to estimate area of occupancy in IUCN assessments. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2023 Abstract Estimates of species geographic ranges constitute critical input for biodiversity assessments, including those for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Area of occupancy (AOO) is one metric that IUCN uses to quantify a species’ range, but data limitations typically lead to either under ...
Anderson RP.
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Examining the relationship between local extinction risk and position in range. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2018 Abstract Over half of globally threatened animal species have experienced rapid geographic range loss. Identifying the parts of species’ distributions most vulnerable to local extinction would benefit conservation planning. However, previous studies give little consensus on whether ranges decline to the core or edge.
Boakes EH +4 more
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Ecological Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 568-581, October 2023., 2023 Landscapes dominated by olive groves do not encourage syrphid population. Syrphids can help pest control in olive groves. A complex landscape structure can contribute to the ecosystem service biological pest control. Abstract Sustainability of agroecosystems depends on the ecosystem services, provided by beneficial organisms, such as the syrphids ...
M. Ortega +3 more
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Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1218-1230, June 2023., 2023 Our results demonstrate that soil nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly in tropical forests, a process mediated by key functional traits within the leaf and wood economics spectrum. Functional space size and its filling increase with soil nutrient concentration, whereas niche vacancy decreases.
Guille Peguero +16 more
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Habitat use of and threats to African large carnivores in a mixed‐use landscape
Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 6, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Large carnivores increasingly inhabit human‐affected landscapes, which exhibit heterogeneity in biotic resources, anthropogenic pressures, and management strategies. Understanding large carnivore habitat use in these systems is critical for their conservation, as is the evaluation of competing management approaches and the impacts of ...
Paolo Strampelli +4 more
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Habitat loss increases seasonal interaction rewiring in plant–pollinator networks
Functional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 10, Page 2673-2684, October 2022., 2022 Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understanding the flexibility of interactions and network rewiring (i.e. reassembly of interactions due to partner‐switching) is necessary to comprehend how future anthropogenic changes will affect interspecific interactions and the functioning of communities.
Amparo Lázaro +1 more
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Conservation Biology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1084-1093, October 2019., 2019 Abstract The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List categories and criteria are the most widely used framework for assessing the relative extinction risk of species. The criteria are based on quantitative thresholds relating to the size, trends, and structure of species’ distributions and populations.
Luca Santini +8 more
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Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.Findings here show that successional forest predicts greater kissing bug infestation risk in palm trees, whereas native forest predicts lower kissing bug occurrence but greater infection with T. cruzi. These insights can guide land use planning towards vegetation management practices that help minimize T. cruzi transmission risks for rural communities.
Juliana Hoyos +10 more
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Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.Forest conversion for agriculture is a major cause of biodiversity loss in the tropics, but its impacts depend on how broadly they are measured. Using data from across Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, we examined how deforestation for cattle farming affects the evolutionary history of bird species.
Giovanny Pérez +7 more
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