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Wheat breeding approaches for designing wheat to thrive in a warmer world

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wheat is a vital food crop, accounting for approximately 20% of daily calories and protein consumed worldwide. However, modern‐day wheat is under pressure from global change. The improvement rate of wheat yields is not keeping up with the demand of our growing population. Furthermore, abiotic and biotic stressors are becoming more prevalent. This paper
Jake Hill, Surbhi Grewal, Stella Edwards
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Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change is contributing to vegetation changes that threaten life support systems. Yet, inherent climatic variability and past and present human actions—such as clearing, burning and grazing regimes—also alter vegetation and complicate understanding of vegetation change. Australian ecosystems exemplify such complexity.
Laura J. Williams, Rachael V. Gallagher, Sami W. Rifai, Matthew A. Adeleye, Patrick J. Baker, David M. J. S. Bowman, Jake Eckersley, Jacqueline R. England, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Pauline F. Grierson, Assaf Inbar, Jürgen Knauer, Clare M. Stephens, Raphaël Trouvé, Belinda E. Medlyn   +14 more
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Conflict to Coexistence: Human – Leopard Interactions in a Plantation Landscape in Anamalai Hills, India

Conservation & Society, 2017
When leopards are found in human-dominated landscapes, conflicts may arise due to attacks on people or livestock loss or when people retaliate following real and perceived threats. In the plantation landscape of the Valparai plateau, we studied incidents
Swati Sidhu, Ganesh Raghunathan, Divya Mudappa, T R Shankar Raman   +3 more
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Framing the relationship between people and nature in the context of European conservation [PDF]

, 2015
A key controversy in conservation is the framing of the relationship between people and nature. The extent to which the realms of nature and human culture are viewed as separate (dualistic view) or integrated is often discussed in the social sciences. To
Agnoletti, Apollonio, Bauer, Bekoff, Bendrey, Birks, Blanco, Boitani, Castree, Chapron, Cronon, Descola, Descola, Descola, Donlan, Ellen, García, Ghosal, Gunther, Halada, Haraway, Hobbs, Hodder, Ingold, Isselstein, Jones, Kerley, Kirby, Knight, Latour, Latour, Linnartz, Linnell, Liu, Lorimer, López-Bao, Mace, Maffi, Marris, Martin, Marvier, Mattisson, Milton, Monbiot, Mysterud, Navarro, Ordiz, Phalan, Queiroz, Redpath, Robbins, Rubenstein, Schwartz, Selva, Terborgh, Treves, Tsiafouli, Vera, Vos, Watson   +59 more
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Field size as a determinant of common vole population density

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Population densities of the common vole, an agricultural pest, increase nonlinearly with forage field size, especially in fields below 20 ha. Reducing the field size may help limit crop damage in farmland. Abstract BACKGROUND Environmental heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes is a key driver of biodiversity and ecological processes, yet its role in
Emil Tkadlec, Radek Aulický, Marek Bednář, Marcela Fraňková, Eva Jánová, Václav Stejskal, Jan Šipoš, Josef Suchomel   +7 more
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The behaviours of different carnivore and livestock species shape spatial patterns of human–carnivore conflict

People and Nature
Understanding the ecological and human factors that shape the loss of livestock to wild carnivores can help target conservation efforts. We used 5 years of livestock depredation records (2009–2013, n = 1147) alongside Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, to ...
Timothy Kuiper, David Macdonald, Lovemore Sibanda, Liomba‐Junior Mathe, Daphne Mahdlamoto, Andrew Loveridge   +5 more
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Developing fencing policies in dryland ecosystems [PDF]

, 2015
The daily energy requirements of animals are determined by a combination of physical and physiological factors, but food availability may challenge the capacity to meet nutritional needs.
Bashir, S., Becker, M. S., Beudels Jamar, R. C., Blake, S., Boitani, Luigi, Borner, M., Breitenmoser, C., Broekhuis, F., Christianson, D., Cozzi, G., Creel, S., Davenport, T. R. B., Deutsch, J., Dickman, A. J., Dollar, L., Dolrenry, S., Douglas Hamilton, I., Dröge, E., Fitzherbert, E., Foley, C., Hazzah, L., Hilborn, R., Hopcraft, J. G. C., Ikandad,, Jacobson, A., Joubert, B., Joubert, D., Kelly, M. J., Lichtenfeld, L., Mace, G. M., Matandiko, W., Milanzi, J., Mitchell, N., Msuha, M., Mweetwa, T., M’Soka, J., Nyahongo, J., Pettorelli, N., Pimm, S. L., Rosenblatt, E., S. M., Durant, Schenck, C., Schuette, P., Sillero Zubiri, C., Sinclair, A. R. E., Stanley Price, M., Tehou, J. A., Wall, J., Wittemyer, G., Zimmerman, A.   +49 more
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Impacts of rodents in piggeries in Australia – review and pilot impact study

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Rodent impacts in Australian piggeries are under‐researched, with limited data on economic losses and control costs. A review and pilot study found average losses of AUD$100 000 annually. Key concerns include disease, damage, and control expenses.
Peter R. Brown, Steve Henry
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Reducing livestock depredation losses in the Nepalese Himalaya

, 1996
In the Nepalese Himalaya conflict with rural communities due to livestock predation to large carnivores like snow leopard, common leopard, wolf and wild dog has risen sharply in recent years. This increase is attributed to a number of factors, including implementation and enforcement of wildlife protection laws (which have permitted a recovery in ...
Jackson, Rodney M., Ahlborn, Gary G., Gurung, Mahesh, Ale, Som   +3 more
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Working 9 to 5: Diurnal Variability in Terrestrial Invertebrate Activity Does Not Compromise Ecosystem Health Assessments in Dry Stream Channels

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Temporary streams are impacted by climate change and other anthropogenic pressures, but fluctuating water levels complicate ecological assessments. Terrestrial invertebrate communities may enable dry‐phase assessments, but their sampling can be resource intensive.
Kieran J. Gething, Chloe Hayes, Jaime Martin, Patrycja Meadows, Judy England, Tim Sykes, Rachel Stubbington   +6 more
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