Assessing Habitat Suitability and Connectivity of Black Storks in China: Integrating Species Distribution Models and Landscape Connectivity Analysis. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe black stork, a vital wetland species, is threatened by habitat fragmentation, with this study using the MaxEnt model to identify key habitats in North China, Xinjiang, and the Yangtze River Basin. An ecological corridor network of 28,312 km connects these regions, highlighting four critical nodes for prioritized conservation to enhance habitat ...
Zhang Z +5 more
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An interdisciplinary approach to improving conservation outcomes for parasites. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Parasites represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity and play important roles in the ecology and biology of ecosystems and hosts, making them an important target for conservation. Despite increasing calls to prioritize protection for parasites in the academic literature, they remain undervalued and underrepresented in global ...
Brown TM +5 more
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Sex Identification of a Multispecies Carinatae Birds by Chicken EE0.6 Gene Using Real-Time Recombinase-Aid Amplification Assay. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe present real‐time RAA assay proves to be a powerful on‐site detection tool that can be used for an efficient and reliable birds sexing for further studies on sex ratio and captive management. ABSTRACT The difficulty in bird sex identification has made molecular sexing an important way to solve this problem.
Zeng F +7 more
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Key Ecological Factors Influencing Foraging Site Selection During Different Breeding Stages of the Endangered Scaly-Sided Merganser in Northeast China. [PDF]
Ecol EvolKey ecological factors influencing the selection of foraging sites by the Scaly‐Sided Merganser across different breeding stages. ABSTRACT Studies on foraging site selection during the breeding period of waterbirds can identify key ecological factors, providing a scientific foundation for their conservation and habitat management.
He S +7 more
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Breeding Variation in a Reintroduced Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon Population in Central China [PDF]
Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 2020 Liu DongPing +4 more
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Zootaxa, 2022 The objective of this paper is to redescribe two feather mites, Compressalges nipponiae Dubinin, 1950 (Caudiferidae) and Freyanopterolichus nipponiae Dubinin, 1953 (Kramerellidae), based on samples collected from the last two individuals of the Crested ...
T. Waki, S. Shimano
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High-Quality Genome Assembly of Diplocarpon coronariae Unveils LTR Retrotransposon-Driven Structural Dynamics in Fungi Evolution. [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR‐RTs) are recognised as a significant evolutionary force capable of shaping the structure and function of the genomes in eukaryotes, including animals, plants, and fungi. However, much remains largely unknown about how LTR‐RTs influence the evolution of fungi at the chromosomal level.
Gao C, Liu X, Zhao B, Feng H, Huang L.
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Decline of traditional rice farming constrains the recovery of the endangered Asian crested ibis (Nipponia nippon). [PDF]
Ambio, 2015 Traditional agriculture benefits a rich diversity of plants and animals. The winter-flooded rice fields in the Qinling Mountains, China, are the last refuge for the endangered Asian crested ibis (Nipponia nippon), and intensive efforts have been made to protect this anthropogenic habitat.
Sun Y +4 more
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Breeding records and the detection of nesting predators of wild-release red-crowned cranes into non-breeding areas of the Yancheng National Nature Reserve, China. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe continue to track the breeding of wild‐release red‐crowned cranes in wintering grounds and for the first time we have found nest predators, Raccoon dog. Abstract The western population of the red‐crowned crane Grus japonensis in mainland China has been decreasing in the past few decades and wild population enhancement programmes have been launched ...
Dawei W +5 more
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THE LITTLE WHITE EGRET (Egretta garzetta) AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT AVIAN PATHOGENIC E. coli [PDF]
, 2021 Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is a significant threat that affect domesticated and wild birds. Studies related to the prevalence of APEC in the migratory and wild birds are relatively few compared with those related to other avian species.
Al-Humam, Naser A. +1 more
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