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Free rein: Are feral horses competing with native ungulates in British Columbia?

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 3, April 2026.
We investigated little‐studied feral horses in west‐central British Columbia, Canada, as a potential competitor for native moose and mule deer. We did not find strong evidence that feral horses exclude moose or deer from habitat or resources at a large landscape scale or smaller spatiotemporal patch scale.
Katie Tjaden‐McClement, Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour, Carolyn Shores, Shane White, Robin Steenweg, Mathieu Bourbonnais, Zoe Konanz, A. Cole Burton   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Megafauna: the ignored bioturbators

Marine Ecology Progress Series
Bioturbation is a process caused by animals that move particles and water in sediments. This influences gas and solute exchange, and organic matter concentrations through the sediment column. Bioturbators play an important role in biogeochemistry and ecosystem functioning.
AL Vallim, S Schenone, SF Thrush
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Applying the Ecological Trap Concept to Cetaceans

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Wild animals may select poor‐quality habitats due to mismatches between perceived and actual habitat quality, creating ecological traps. Although well explored in terrestrial systems, this concept remains underutilized for marine species.
Stephane P. G. de Moura, Camila Domit, Mauricio Cantor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecology and biogeography of megafauna and macrofauna at the first known deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge [PDF]

, 2016
Jon Copley, Leigh Marsh, Adrian G. Glover, Veit Hühnerbach, Verity Nye, WILLIAM D. REID, Christopher J. Sweeting, Benjamin D. Wigham, Helena Wiklund   +8 more
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Additional file 1 of The advantages and challenges of non-invasive towed PILOT tags for free-ranging deep-diving megafauna

, 2023
Jorge Fontes, Bruno C. L. Macena, Silvio Solleliet-Ferreira, F. Buyle, R. Magalhães, Tiago Bartolomeu, Nikolai Liebsch, Carl G. Meyer, Pedro Afonso   +8 more
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Characterizing the Distribution and Behavior of Sperm Whales, Physeter macrocephalus, Over the Otago Submarine Canyons, New Zealand

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) play an important role in marine ecosystems as top predators, nutrient vectors, and indicators of ecosystem health. In Aotearoa New Zealand, sperm whales remain largely understudied other than at Kaikōura, a foraging area for males.
Whitney Steidl, Marta Guerra, Tim Jowett, William J. Rayment   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna of the Galapagos Islands [PDF]

, 2020
Pelayo Salinas‐de‐León, Patricia Martí-Puig, Salomé Buglass, Camila Arnés‐Urgellés, Etienne Rastoin‐Laplane, Marie Creemers, Stephen D. Cairns, Charles R. Fisher, Timothy D. O’Hara, Bruce Ott, N. Raineault, Henry M. Reiswig, Greg W. Rouse, Sonia J. Rowley, Timothy M. Shank, Jenifer Suárez, Les Watling, Mary K. Wicksten, Leigh Marsh   +18 more
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Seasonal and Interannual Variation of Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis, Density in Portuguese Waters

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Modeling a species' ecology and abundance provides important insights into its habitat preferences, population trends, and distribution. Here, we studied how environmental factors relate to common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) density in waters off mainland Portugal.
Miguel P. Martins, Marc Fernandez, Ana Marçalo, Nuno Oliveira, Tiago A. Marques   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supernova and Nova Explosion’s Space Weather: Correlated Megafauna Extinctions, Antarctica Ice Melts and Biosphere Mega-disturbances—Global Warming [PDF]

, 2017
William Sokeland
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Preservation biases in the fossil record distort species ecological niche and distribution models

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 3, March 2026.
Ecological niche models (ENMs) increasingly leverage the fossil record to understand species' environmental associations and predict their geographic distributions. However, fossils do not occur uniformly through time and space, which can compromise the robustness of ENMs and thus affect ecological conclusions. Here, we assessed how preservation biases
André M. Bellvé, Val J. P. Syverson, Jessica L. Blois, Marta A. Jarzyna   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source