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Capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus, monitoring in Adamello Brenta Natural Park: experimentation of new methodologies

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012
In Adamello Brenta Natural Park (Western Trentino - Italy) a long-term study on galliformes started in 2007: its first phase regards Capercaille. The project was based on the experimentation of a methodology useful for a detailed monitoring of the ...
Andrea Mustoni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fruit gardens enhance mammal diversity and biomass in a Southeast Asian rainforest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Protected areas are frequently inhabited by people and conservation must be integrated with traditional management systems. Cultivation of fruit gardens is a low-impact agroforestry technique which alters the structure and composition of forest stands ...
Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa   +4 more
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Occurrences of Ornithocoris toledoi (Cimicidae) on a free-range chicken farm in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2018
Ornithocoris toledoi is a hematophagous insect that parasites birds, particularly, galliformes. Although the occurrence of this arthropod is relatively low in Brazil, this is an important ectoparasite associated with backyarding poultry. The objective of
Marcus Sandes Pires   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Surveillance: A Novel Approach to Monitoring the Illegal Wildlife Trade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A dearth of information obscures the true scale of the global illegal trade in wildlife. Herein, we introduce an automated web crawling surveillance system developed to monitor reports on illegally traded wildlife. A resource for enforcement officials as
Brownstein, John Samuel   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Examining a bias in evaluating conservation effectiveness for Galliformes on a typical Tibetan sacred mountain

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Tibetan sacred mountains, the unique landforms influenced by the Buddhist religion in many Himalayan regions, are suggested to have great potential for preserving animal diversity.
Yu Xu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simple sequence repeats in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) expressed sequence tags: a new resource for evolutionary genetic studies of passerines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background Passerines (perching birds) are widely studied across many biological disciplines including ecology, population biology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Birkhead, T.R., Hale, M.C., Slate, J.
core   +2 more sources

Uncertainty in identifying local extinctions: the distribution of missing data and its effects on biodiversity measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Identifying local extinctions is integral to estimating species richness and geographic range changes and informing extinction risk assessments. However, the species occurrence records underpinning these estimates are frequently compromised by a lack of ...
Boakes, EH   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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