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Predicting roadkill: a regional-scale model for the Northern Tamandua integrating environmental and road characteristics [PDF]

Neotropical Biology and Conservation
Wildlife-vehicle collisions may be the most visible impact of road networks on ecosystems. It has been shown that roadkill does not randomly occur across space and is distributed depending on environmental and ecological factors, such as habitat ...
Silvio Boyat, Esmeralda Arévalo-Huezo
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Hydraulic drive framework on habitat suitability enhances movement bias of brown trout in stream networks

Freshwater ecosystems face increasing threats from human activities and climate change, thus requiring efforts to reduce impacts and prevent further deterioration.
Padoan, Francesca, De Cesare, Giovanni, Perona, Paolo, Calvani, Giulio   +3 more
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A perspective from the Mesozoic: Evolutionary changes of the mammalian skull and their influence on feeding efficiency and high‐frequency hearing

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The complex evolutionary history behind modern mammalian chewing performance and hearing function is a result of several changes in the entire skeletomuscular system of the skull and lower jaw. Lately, exciting multifunctional 3D analytical methods and kinematic simulations of feeding functions in both modern and fossil mammals and their ...
Julia A. Schultz
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Quantifying Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) habitat suitability in the Bangweulu Wetlands, Zambia

, 2013
A quantitative analysis of suitable habitat for the Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), a large waterbird confined to African swamps, was conducted by using a combination of aerial photographs and a previously determined habitat suitability model from the ...
Musker, Seth
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Lagomorph cranial biomechanics and the functional significance of the unique fenestrated rostrum of leporids

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The crania of leporid lagomorphs are uniquely fenestrated, including the posterior cranial bones and the lateral portion of the maxilla. The functional significance of the highly fenestrated rostrum has received considerably little attention, despite being absent in other mammalian herbivores with a long rostrum.
Amber P. Wood‐Bailey, Alana C. Sharp
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Assessing Habitat Suitability for Pacific Oyster (Magallana gigas) in the Venice Lagoon [PDF]

openOysters have an important role in protecting coastal-marine ecosystems, by providing several benefits such as filtering water, creating habitat, reducing eutrophication, controlling coastal erosion, absorbing carbon, and supporting biodiversity.
AJI, AULIA PUTRI
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Predictive habitat modelling as a tool to assess the change in distribution and extent of an OSPAR priority habitat under an increased ocean temperature scenario:consequences for marine protected area networks and management [PDF]

, 2013
The aims of this study were to determine the extent and distribution of an OSPAR priority habitat under current baseline ocean temperatures; to illustrate the prospect for habitat loss under a changing ocean temperature scenario; and to demonstrate the ...
William G Sanderson, Sanderson, William G., Gormley, Kate Sarah Geddes, Kate S G Gormley, Hull, Angela D., Joanne S Porter, Porter, Joanne; id_orcid, Bell, Michael C., Gormley, Kate S. G., Angela D Hull, Michael C Bell, Hull, Angela, Porter, Joanne S., Bell, Michael, Sanderson, William; id_orcid   +14 more
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part II Deriving instrument‐specific correction equations for meta‐analyses using published data

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three‐dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and surface texture parameters have been published for both extant and fossil species.
Mugino O. Kubo, T. Kubo, Ellen Schulz‐Kornas, T. M. Kaiser, Daniela E. Winkler   +4 more
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Habitat suitability modulates the response of wildlife to human recreation

, 2018
Outdoor recreation activities are growing in popularity, causing increasing pressure on wildlife. There arevarious ways in which wildlife reacts to recreation activities, ranging from behavioural to physiological re-sponses, with regional variation in ...
Nopp-Mayr, U., Grünschachner-Berger, V., Suchant, R., Coppes, J., Braunisch, Veronika, Storch, I.   +5 more
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Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li, Mike Schindler, Martha Paskin, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Elliott Scott, Sabine Hauert, Nicholas Payne, David E. Cade, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Frederik H. Mollen, Daniel Baum, Sean Hanna, Mason N. Dean   +12 more
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