Endangered Species Research, 2021 Predicting habitat suitability and understanding habitat utilization are important to inform and orient conservation and management decisions for the recovery of endangered species.
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Effects of habitat composition and landscape structure on worker foraging distances of five bumblebee species [PDF]
, 2016 Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators of both crops and wild flowers. Their contribution to this essential ecosystem service has been threatened over recent decades by changes in land use, which have led to declines in their populations.
Andrew F. G. Bourke +67 more
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Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa
Movement Ecology, 2020 Background Kelp Gulls Larus dominicanus are one of the most abundant gulls in the Southern Hemisphere and can play an important role in their ecosystem.
Katharina Reusch +3 more
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Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris. [PDF]
, 2017 Little is known about the foraging behavior of top predators in the deep mesopelagic ocean. Elephant seals dive to the deep biota-poor oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) (>800 m depth) despite high diving costs in terms of energy and time, but how they ...
Adachi, Taiki +6 more
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The Effect of nest Size and Species Identity on Plant Selection in Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants
Sociobiology, 2018 Leaf-cutting ants are key organisms because their role as primary consumers and potential agricultural pests. However, their foraging ecology was mostly studied as response of extrinsic factors such as climate and plant species traits.
Laura Elizabeth Jofre +3 more
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Grassland ecology in China: perspectives and challenges [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2018 During the last few decades, there have been an increasing number of studies on grassland ecology in China, involving the classic ecology concepts or theories and the applicable ecological principles of grassland conservation or management.
Deli WANG, Ling WANG, Jushan LIU, Hui ZHU, Zhiwei ZHONG
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Foraging activity by the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) as a mechanism for soil turnover [PDF]
, 2012 Mammals that forage for food by biopedturbation can alter the biotic and abiotic characteristics of their habitat, influencing ecosystem structure and function.
Anderson, H. +3 more
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Correlated evolution of wing morphology and echolocation calls in bats
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 IntroductionFlight and echolocation are two crucial behaviors associated with niche expansion in bats. Previous researches have attempted to explain the interspecific divergence in flight morphology and echolocation vocalizations in some bat groups from ...
Wenyu Zou +11 more
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Does the waggle dance help honey bees to forage at greater distances than expected for their body size? [PDF]
, 2015 A honey bee colony has been likened to an oil company. Some members of the company or colony prospect for valuable liquid resources. When these are discovered other group members can be recruited to exploit the resource. The recruitment of nestmates to a
Beekman +49 more
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Identifying Space Use at Foraging Arena Scale within the Home Ranges of Large Herbivores.
PLoS ONE, 2015 An intermediate spatiotemporal scale of food procurement by large herbivores is evident within annual or seasonal home ranges. It takes the form of settlement periods spanning several days or weeks during which foraging activity is confined to spatially ...
Norman Owen-Smith, Jodie Martin
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