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Combining point counts and autonomous recording units improves avian survey efficacy across elevational gradients on two continents. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 Using avian surveys conducted in comparable, high elevation, temperate mountain habitats at opposite ends of the Americas (British Columbia, Canada, and southern Chile), we show combined ARU and point count methods are among the most efficient and accurate approaches to capturing diversity.
Drake A +7 more
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Increases in subsistence farming due to land reform have negligible impact on bird communities in Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 A land reform programme provided a unique opportunity to study the biodiversity response to abrupt habitat modification in an extensive dryland area of Zimbabwe. We measured the changing compositions of bird communities in transformed and untransformed land over an 8‐year period, commencing one decade after subsistence farms were established.
Pringle S, Chiweshe N, Dallimer M.
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Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three-Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study explores population divergence and hybridization dynamics across the golden‐backed (Dinopium benghalense) and red‐backed (D. psarodes) flameback woodpecker hybrid zone in Sri Lanka. The genomic analysis uncovers three‐way hybridization among two D. benghalense populations in the north and one island‐endemic D.
Ranasinghe RW, Seneviratne SS, Irwin D.
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Climate change, woodpeckers, and forests: Current trends and future modeling needs. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 Implementation of climate‐smart forest management strategies aimed at increasing or preserving wildlife species will require modeling efforts to include the coupled response of climate–wildlife–forest. Fully integrating an indicator species like woodpeckers into a climate–wildlife–forest model framework will address the limitations of climate ...
Walsh ES +4 more
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Patterns of frugivory in the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 Birds and bats feed on the fruit, and presumably disperse, the seeds of Pilosocereus leucocephalus, a keystone columnar cactus species in Mesoamerica Abstract In the frugivory networks of many arid and semi‐arid Mesoamerican ecosystems, columnar cacti act as keystone species that produce fruits with a high content of water and nutrients attractive to ...
Vázquez-Castillo S +2 more
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Observed and projected functional reorganization of riverine fish assemblages from global change
Global Change Biology, Volume 29, Issue 13, Page 3759-3780, July 2023., 2023 We used functional traits to understand observed and predicted responses of stream fishes to climate and land‐use/land‐cover change. Future habitat suitability differed among tax: species with preferences for warm water, slower flows, and finer substrates were projected to gain habitat suitability, whereas those with preferences for cold‐water, faster ...
Taylor Woods +3 more
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Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Court☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 399-438, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article charts the activities of featherworkers (plumajeros) at the Habsburg court in Madrid. Drawing on archival records, objects, and paintings from sixteenth‐century Spain, I argue that royal featherworkers' skills, wit, and intricacy in the transformation of materials established feathers as luxury items.
Stefan Hanß
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The pragmatism of continual failure: environmental policy as experimentation in China
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 133-150, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Faced with stifling levels of airborne pollution, Chinese citizens hold the state accountable, demanding solutions through effective environmental policy. To reduce emissions, the state has set up experimental pilot carbon markets, where potential failure is cast as integral to continuing improvement.
Charlotte Bruckermann
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Avian influenza overview September – December 2022
EFSA Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Between October 2021 and September 2022 Europe has suffered the most devastating highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic with a total of 2,520 outbreaks in poultry, 227 outbreaks in captive birds, and 3,867 HPAI virus detections in wild birds. The unprecedent geographical extent (37 European countries affected) resulted in 50 million
European Food Safety Authority +13 more
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Bird Diversity and Community Composition in Kafta Sheraro National Park, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
International Journal of Zoology, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020 Birds are one of the most important components of biodiversity that has huge ecological, economical, and esthetic values. The main objective of this study was to assess diversity and species composition of bird community in Kafta Sheraro National Park, Northern Ethiopia. Data were collected from August 2017 to March 2018 in the national park.
Teklay Girmay +3 more
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