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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Assessing drivers of population dynamics helps to mitigate human–wildlife conflicts. In Mediterranean areas, summer aridity reduces resources, potentially affecting ungulates' body condition and reproduction. In a mixed forested‐rural area, wild boar female body mass increased throughout summer in rainy‐mild years and decreased in hot‐dry years.
Martina Calosi +4 more
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Linking brain and behavior states in Zebrafish Larvae locomotion using hidden Markov models. [PDF]
PLoS Comput BiolDommanget-Kott M +6 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Male weaponry evolution is often linked to male–male competition, but its relationship with breeding site type remains unclear. Using Leptodactylinae frogs, we found a macroevolutionary correlation between breeding site type and weapon evolution. Also, gains and losses of weapons occurred more frequently in exposed‐breeding sites, an unexpected finding.
Erika M. Santana +3 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang +8 more
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depmixS4: An R Package for Hidden Markov Models
Journal of Statistical Software, 2010 depmixS4 implements a general framework for defining and estimating dependent mixture models in the R programming language. This includes standard Markov models, latent/hidden Markov models, and latent class and finite mixture distribution models.
Ingmar Visser, Maarten Speekenbrink
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Environmental tracers, including both elemental concentrations and isotope ratios, are widely used to reconstruct the movement patterns of animals throughout landscapes. The methodology involves creating a map that describes the distribution of the environmental tracer across the landscape, an isoscape and then matching the values of the same ...
Michael P. Venarsky +7 more
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Trait coevolution and causal inference using generalized dynamic phylogenetic models
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Phylogenetic comparative methods are widely used to study trait coevolution across biological and cultural domains. The most common methods are phylogenetic generalized linear (mixed) models, phylogenetic path analysis, Pagel's ‘discrete’ method and Ornstein–Uhlenbeck models. While some frameworks like generalized linear mixed models are quite
Erik J. Ringen +3 more
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Beyond the next step: A multi‐criteria generative validation framework for step selection functions
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Step‐selection functions (SSFs), typically fitted using step‐selection analysis (SSA) or integrated step‐selection analysis (iSSA) are widely used to infer habitat selection and movement kernels from high‐frequency telemetry data, but most standard validation tools focus on one‐step‐ahead prediction and do not guarantee that fitted models ...
Aurélien Nicosia
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مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2018 Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis is a chronic bacterial disease and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. It is caused by a Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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