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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
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Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured farmland and avoided forests and water bodies occupied by the invasive American mink.
Salvador Salvador, Roger Puig‐Gironès, Xavier Llopart, Santiago Palazón, Miguel Clavero   +4 more
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Ampliación del ámbito de distribución geográfica de la especie exótica: NEOPOMACENTRUS CYANOMOS (BLEEKER, 1856) (PERCIFORMES-POMACENTRIDAE) en el sistema Arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpán, Veracruz, México.

Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2023
La especie exótica Neopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856) extiende su distribución geográfica hasta el sistema arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpan. Específicamente se registró su presencia en los arrecifes: Oro Verde,Tanhuijo y Enmedio, formando grupos con seis ...
Vicencio de la Cruz-Francisco, Marlene González-González, Itzel Morales-Quijano   +2 more
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Urbanization and Vector Species Shape Avian Malaria Prevalence in Mosquitoes

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Avian malaria prevalence was assessed in two mosquito species across urban and peri‐urban habitats. No infections were detected in either species in urban areas, while a 2.53% prevalence was found in the native Culex pipiens from peri‐urban sites, highlighting the influence of urbanization on parasite transmission dynamics.
Paula Parra, Jesús Veiga, Marta Garrigós, Guillermo Panisse, Mario Garrido, Josué Martínez‐de la Puente   +5 more
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A 4D geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motion

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Quantifying biological motion is fundamentally tied to quantifying the biological structures that produce that motion. Yet, this dependence makes it essential to decouple motion from static morphology to enable general, comparable analyses across individuals and conditions. In this work, we present a methodological pipeline to study biological
Marta Gómez‐Recio, Markus Bastir, Gael Deboeck, Antonella LoMauro, Andrea Aliverti, Véronique Feipel, Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker, Benoit Beyer   +8 more
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Stable Isotope Analysis as a Tool to Prevent Illicit Wildlife Trade of Songbirds in Brazil

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Feather isotopes provide clear differences between wild and captive songbirds in Brazil. Combining multiple isotopes improved classification accuracy and revealed individuals falsely declared as captive‐bred. These results demonstrate the potential of isotope analysis to detect wildlife laundering in the bird trade.
Luiza Brasileiro, Fábio J. V. Costa, Paulo R. R. Ramos, Vladimir E. Costa, Gabriela B. Nardoto   +4 more
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EL CONEJO EUROPEO EN CHILE: HISTORIA DE UNA INVASIÓN BIOLÓGICA

Historia (Santiago), 2008
Este trabajo analiza las relaciones entre los seres humanos y su ambiente, a partir de la historia de la aclimatación y posterior invasión de conejos en Chile, constatando que, en el largo plazo, las acciones humanas tienen efectos e impactos ...
Pablo Camus, Sergio Castro, Fabián Jaksic   +2 more
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Efeitos da invasão biológica de algaroba: Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. sobre a composição e a estrutura do estrato arbustivo-arbóreo da caatinga no Município de Monteiro, PB, Brasil Effects of the biological invasion of algaroba: Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. on composition and structure of the shrub-tree stratum of the caatinga in Monteiro Municipality, Paraíba State, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2006
A contaminação biológica é uma das principais causas da perda de biodiversidade atualmente no planeta. Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar os impactos causados pela invasão biológica de Prosopis juliflora sobre a composição e a estrutura do ...
Cláudia Maria Alves Pegado, Leonaldo Alves de Andrade, Leonardo Pessoa Félix, Israel Marinho Pereira   +3 more
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Incubation Management Can Skew Population Sex Ratios of the Critically Endangered Maleo

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Exposure to suboptimal temperatures during managed incubation may alter the population sex‐ratio of maleo.
José L. Tella, Cristina B. Sánchez‐Prieto, Pedro Romero‐Vidal, Gema Ruíz‐Jimenez, David Serrano   +4 more
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Reconsidering the role of introduced species in the climate‐affected and highly invaded eastern Mediterranean

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bioinvasions are considered mostly as a biodiversity and conservation hazard, but in specific situations, introduced species can bring ecological or socioeconomic benefits. We assessed the social–ecological role of marine introduced species in the eastern Mediterranean Sea—a global hotspot of bioinvasions and extirpations—and their potential ...
Stelios Katsanevakis, Jonathan Belmaker, Gil Rilov, Erez Yeruham, Andreas Konstantinidis, Maria Papazekou, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Antonios D. Mazaris   +7 more
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