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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting foraging behaviour of breeding Mediterranean Gull (Ichtyaetus melanocephalus) [PDF]

, 2022
openGulls (subfamily Larinae) are a cosmopolitan group of seabirds, and as such they have peculiar biological traits like colonial breeding, high longevity, low fecundity, biparental care, sexual maturity reached over many years.
PESCE, ANGELICA
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Agent‐based modeling may help to merge research traditions in foraging ecology in Europe and North America

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017
Although ducks have long been popular research subjects in both North America and Europe, geographical divergences in research orientation have developed during the past several decades for studying foraging ecology.
Matthieu Guillemain, Johan Elmberg, Claire A. Pernollet, Celine Arzel, John M. Eadie   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Travis L. DeVault, Wayne M. Getz, Zebensui Morales‐Reyes, Daniel Redondo‐Gómez, Lara Naves‐Alegre, Solange A. Batista‐Nunes, Esther Sebastián‐González, Juan M. Pérez‐García, Kelly A. Waters, Thijs van Overveld, Craig Smith, Nuria Selva, Thomas A. Schlacher, Graeme Ruxton, Jesús Rodríguez, Martina‐M. Quaggiotto, Paula L. Perrig, Norman Owen‐Smith, Thomas M. Newsome, Isabel Navas, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Ana Mateos, Carlos Martínez‐Carrasco, Daniel Martín‐Vega, Berta Martín‐López, Antoni Margalida, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Adam Kane, Kevin Healy, Akane Hashizume, Antonio J. García‐Fernández, José A. Donázar, M. Eric Benbow, James C. Beasley, Philip S. Barton, Kathleen A. Alexander, Eneko Arrondo   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

A global meta‐analysis of non‐lethal mammal browsing control in forests

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing resource demand, desire to sequester atmospheric carbon, and conservation goals are driving a need for forests to be managed more effectively in the face of numerous challenges. One such challenge is damage perpetrated by browsing mammals, which can cause substantial financial and ecological impacts.
James B.H. Grimsdale, Daniel W.A. Noble, Geoffrey M. While, Dean Williams, Julianne O'Reilly‐Wapstra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of prescribed burning on avian foraging ecology and arthropod abundance in sagebrush-grassland [PDF]

, 1984
Prescribed burning in western sagebrush-grasslands has been used primarily to eradicate sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and, consequently, increase the growth of herbaceous vegetation. Although fire has been used commonly, little is known about its effects on
Winter, Brian
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Intra-specific foraging dynamics reveal anthropogenic impact on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Danish Kattegat and the German Wadden Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science
IntroductionMarine mammals are apex predators in the marine environment and seals are known as opportunistic hunters which adapt to prey availability in their distribution range. Knowledge about harbour seal diet is a crucial baseline parameter to assess
Kristina Lehnert, Elehna Bethune, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Ursula Siebert, Thomas M. Kaiser   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2023
Potier S, Roulin A, Martin GR, Portugal SJ, Bonhomme V, Bouchet T, de Romans R, Meyrier E, Kelber A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl, Alex S. Wegmann, Nick D. Holmes, Caitlin E. Andrews, Gérard Rocamora, Simon Ducatez, James C. Russell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Satisfying giant appetites : mechanisms of small scale foraging by large African herbivores [PDF]

, 2009
Variation in body mass allows for resource partitioning and co-existence of different species. Body mass is also seen as the main factor governing nutrient requirements in herbivores as metabolic rate and requirements have often been found to scale to ¾ ...
Pretorius, Y.
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