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Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter, Susan Baker, Euan Bowditch, Sheena Carlisle, Natasha Constant, Alix Syder, Tom Finch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Meat production has notable benefits for food security, nutrition and various production economies, but has elicited substantial negative environmental impacts. Recreational hunting provides an alternative to agricultural meat production for over 24 million hunters worldwide.
Shane P. Mahoney, Richard D. Honor
wiley   +1 more source

Infection risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with biologic and targeted therapies

Rheumatology &Autoimmunity, EarlyView.
In this context, infections associated with each biologic and targeted drug are summarized to inform the stratification of RA patients, including the characteristics of the susceptible patients and their concomitant therapy. We aim to provide a benefit‐risk analysis for clinical decision, and vital indications for the prevention of highly correlated ...
Lujing Wang, Jieshi Lin, Jie Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis, Claudia Williamson Kramer   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative genetic analyses provide parameters for selection and conservation of captive Great-billed Seed-finches (Sporophila maximiliani).

PLoS ONE, 2020
The Great-billed Seed-finch (Sporophila maximiliani) is an endangered South American bird that has suffered from trafficking and the destruction of its natural habitat.
Mário L Santana
doaj   +1 more source

Concrete jungle to urban oasis: evaluating scale, vegetation cover, and aggregation of urban greenspaces on wildlife

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban greenspaces are a haven for wildlife in densely populated cities. Wildlife use greenspaces for resource acquisition, shelter, and travel across urbanized landscapes. Greenspace metrics such as herbaceous or woody landcover, size, patchiness, and human land use influence species richness.
Adrianna J. Elihu, Janel L. Ortiz
wiley   +1 more source

Staying sheltered: geographical variation in nestbox use by a nocturnal raptor outside the breeding season

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Tree cavities and nestboxes are crucial resources for cavity‐nesting birds. While cavities are essential for reproduction, their importance outside the breeding season remains poorly understood, with most existing evidence focusing on nestbox use by small birds to reduce heat loss during winter.
Gian Luigi Bucciolini, Chiara Morosinotto, Jon E. Brommer, Al Vrezec, Daniele Baroni, Arianna Passarotto, Giuseppe Orlando, Peter Ericsson, Lars‐Ove Nilsson, Patrik Karell   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Zebra Finches Smell Their Eggs.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Parental investment in unrelated offspring seems maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective, due to the costs of energy and resources that cannot be invested in related offspring at the same time.
Sarah Golüke, Sebastian Dörrenberg, E Tobias Krause, Barbara A Caspers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functional traits explain responses of Appalachian birds to vertical and horizontal forest structure

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
The study of bird–forest relationships dates back decades, but rarely have the relationships of functional traits to 3D forest structure responses been considered for dozens of species at regional scales. Abstract Species interact with habitat based on their functional traits, but it is unclear how specific traits interact with the multiple components ...
Trevor Roberts, Marta A. Jarzyna, Chenyang Wei, Colin P. Sweeney, Hikaru Keebler, Daniel Fink, Kaiguang Zhao, Benjamin Zuckerberg   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches

Scientific Reports
Among the diverse sexual signals used by birds, the possible signaling functions of non-bodily objects during mating/courting displays remain unexplained.
Masayo Soma, Misaki Nakatani, Nao Ota
doaj   +1 more source