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Habitat use of and threats to African large carnivores in a mixed-use landscape. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2022 Abstract Large carnivores increasingly inhabit human‐affected landscapes, which exhibit heterogeneity in biotic resources, anthropogenic pressures, and management strategies. Understanding large carnivore habitat use in these systems is critical for their conservation, as is the evaluation of competing management approaches and the impacts of ...
Strampelli P +4 more
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Functional diversity loss and change in nocturnal behavior of mammals under anthropogenic disturbance. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2022 Abstract In the Anthropocene, understanding the impacts of anthropogenic influence on biodiversity and behavior of vulnerable wildlife communities is increasingly relevant to effective conservation. However, comparative studies aimed at disentangling the concurrent effect of different types of human disturbance on multifaceted biodiversity and on ...
Li X +9 more
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Effect of uneven tolerance to human disturbance on dominance interactions of top predators. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Anthropogenic activities may alter felid assemblage structure, facilitating the persistence of tolerant species (commonly mesopredators), excluding ecologically demanding ones (top predators) and, consequently, changing coexistence rules. We aimed to determine how human activities influence intraguild relationships among top predators and ...
Villalva P, Palomares F, Zanin M.
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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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Ecosphere, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Chile's isolation and varied climates have driven the evolution of a unique biodiversity with a high degree of endemism. As a result, Chile encompasses diverse environments, including the Mediterranean‐type ecosystem, a global biodiversity hotspot.
Leon Marshall +7 more
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Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland
Biotropica, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1160-1169, September 2022., 2022 We studied the influence of human disturbance in shorebirds, a subtropical coastal wetland in Mexico. During the winter, all shorebird species were negatively related to human disturbance but positively associated with the presence of raptors. Understanding the factors influencing the abundance and habitat use of shorebirds on their non‐breeding ...
Eduardo Palacios +3 more
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Indirect effects of African megaherbivore conservation on bat diversity in the world's oldest desert
Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2022., 2022 Abstract In extreme environments, temperature and precipitation are often the main forces responsible for structuring ecological communities and species distributions. The role of biotic interactions is typically thought to be minimal. By clustering around rare and isolated features, like surface water, however, effects of herbivory by desert‐dwelling ...
Theresa M. Laverty, Joel Berger
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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Biotropica, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 619-631, March 2021., 2021 We combined observations of seed removal by ants with a characterization of the above‐ and below ground ant communities at five sites on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to determine if seed removal patterns were associated with local ant community structure.
Selina A. Ruzi +5 more
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