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Published estimates of feral cat density.

open access: yes, 2018
Histogram of (a) population density and (b) log-transformed population density estimates for feral cats used to estimate carrying capacity. Mean density (elog(density) = 0.07911264 cats/ha) was calculated using the log-transformed estimates of feral cat ...
Jason B. Coe (4898527)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Practical Physical and Behavioral Measures to Assess the Socialization Spectrum of Cats in a Shelter-Like Setting during a Three Day Period

open access: yesAnimals, 2013
Animal welfare organizations routinely accept large numbers of cats with unknown histories, and whose backgrounds vary from well-socialized pets to cats that have had little or no contact with humans. Agencies are challenged with making the determination
Margaret Slater   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
wiley   +1 more source

Feral Cat Distance 6.0 Data

open access: yes, 2019
This is the data file for Distance 6.0 containing feral cat distance sampling data, along with the density ...
Hand, Alexis, Alexis Hand (7877372)
core   +1 more source

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in feral cat density between two large adjacent islands in Australia's monsoon tropics

open access: yes, 2022
Despite contributing to the ongoing collapse of native mammal populations across northern Australian savannas, we have limited understanding of the ecological constraints of feral cat population density in this system. Addressing such knowledge gaps is a
Miller, AC   +6 more
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How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Social Gathering observed on Feral Cats in the Campus of Nagasaki University, Nagasaki City, Japan(SPECIAL ISSUE CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF ESTABLISHMENT OF FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES)

open access: yes, 2007
Leyhausen (1979) observed that feral cats gathered at regular gathering sites and only sat for a long time usually in the evening, and he named this curious cat behavior as "social gathering".
伊澤, 雅子   +3 more
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Role of feral pig (Sus scrofa) in the dissemination of Phytophthora cinnamomi in South-western Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Phytophthora cinnamomi is a soil-borne plant pathogen that causes dieback, a disease that devastates many native vegetation ecosystems in Australia, particularly in south-west Western Australia.
Li, Andrew
core  

Multistate matrix population model to assess the contributions and impacts on population abundance of domestic cats in urban areas including owned cats, unowned cats, and cats in shelters.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Concerns over cat homelessness, over-taxed animal shelters, public health risks, and environmental impacts has raised attention on urban-cat populations.
D T Tyler Flockhart, Jason B Coe
doaj   +1 more source

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