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The impact of artificial light at night on nocturnal insects: A review and synthesis

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2018
In recent decades, advances in lighting technology have precipitated exponential increases in night sky brightness worldwide, raising concerns in the scientific community about the impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) on crepuscular and nocturnal ...
Avalon C. S. Owens, S. Lewis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Etiology of nocturia response in men with diminished bladder capacity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Aims: To test the hypothesis that patients with nocturia owing to diminished global or nocturnal bladder capacity improve via increased bladder capacity.
Burgio   +36 more
core   +1 more source

Cabinet of Curiosities: Venom Systems and Their Ecological Function in Mammals, with a Focus on Primates

open access: yesToxins, 2015
Venom delivery systems (VDS) are common in the animal kingdom, but rare amongst mammals. New definitions of venom allow us to reconsider its diversity amongst mammals by reviewing the VDS of Chiroptera, Eulipotyphla, Monotremata, and Primates. All orders
Johanna E. Rode-Margono   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering a Wildlife-Friendly Program for Sustainable Coffee Farming: The Case of Small-Holder Farmers in Indonesia

open access: yesLand, 2021
There is an urgent need for a global transition to sustainable and wildlife-friendly farming systems that provide social and economic equity and protect ecosystem services on which agriculture depends.
Marco Campera   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Habitat connectivity in coastal environments: patterns and movements of Caribbean coral reef fishes with emphasis on Bluestriped Grunt, Haemulon sciurus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Habitat connectivity within tropical marine seascapes may be greatly dependent on the movement of large organisms, particularly fishes. Using visual and trap sampling within two small bays in Virgin Islands National Park/Biosphere Reserve, St. John, U.S.
Beets, J.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Sighting of Petaurista petaurista (Pallas, 1766) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sciuridae) on limestone hills in Merapoh, Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2020
Flying squirrels are poorly studied nocturnal mammals as their elusive and nocturnal behaviour makes it hard to observe them in the wild.  Here, we describe sightings of Petaurista petaurista on a limestone hill and its foot at Merapoh, Pahang, Malaysia. 
Priscillia Miard   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited

open access: yesAmerican Naturalist, 2019
The existence of a synthetic program of research on what was then termed the “nocturnal problem” and that we might now call “nighttime ecology” was declared more than 70 years ago.
K. Gaston
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Venom in Furs: Facial Masks as Aposematic Signals in a Venomous Mammal

open access: yesToxins, 2019
The function of colouration in animals includes concealment, communication and signaling, such as the use of aposematism as a warning signal. Aposematism is unusual in mammals, and exceptions help us to understand its ecology and evolution.
K. Anne-Isola Nekaris   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

NOCTURNE [PDF]

open access: yesMusic and Letters, 1920
n ...
openaire   +1 more source

Traditions, taboos and trade in slow lorises in Sundanese communities in southern Java, Indonesia

open access: yesEndangered Species Research, 2014
For endangered species management a shared understanding of the different beliefs, opinions and factual knowledge that local people hold towards the target species is imperative.
V Nijman, KAI Nekaris
doaj   +1 more source

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