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Drones: Emergence of a transformative technology for island rodent eradications

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Drones have emerged as a potentially powerful tool to address an ongoing need for alternative rodent eradication solutions on remote islands. This potential has now been demonstrated in a diverse set of operations across the Pacific. In the coming decades, this novel toolset also offers the possibility to step beyond existing paradigms and imagine a ...
Donal Smith, Rohan H. Clarke, Doug Gillings, David Will   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of variation in yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) abundance and impacts on native fauna in an atoll ecosystem

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes; YCA) are widespread invaders of islands across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. We investigated the ecological preferences and impacts of this species on a Polynesian atoll. We show that even at low abundances, this species can have important impacts on the fauna, including seabirds, and require management ...
Miléna Philip, Simon Ducatez, Jayna L. DeVore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of ecosystem status in Mozambique and implications for environmental planning

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We assess Mozambique's terrestrial ecosystems using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framework, showing that more than half of Mozambique's ecosystems are threatened, with impacts primarily concentrated in temperate subhumid grasslands and pyric tussock savannas.
Kendall R. Jones, Mervyn Lötter, Hugo M. Costa, Gautam Surya, Vanessa Rathbone, Hermenegildo Matimele, Eleutério Duarte, Tereza Alves, Célia Macamo, Denise Nicolau, Muri G. Soares, Roberto Zolho, Hedley S. Grantham   +12 more
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Home ranges, feeding sites, and daily movement behavior of the highly threatened Livingstone's fruit bat revealed through GPS tracking

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Livingstone's fruit bat GPS tracks during day‐ and nighttime on Anjouan, Comoros, identifying likely feeding sites. Abstract The highly threatened Livingstone's fruit bat, Pteropus livingstonii, is endemic to only two islands of the Union of the Comoros, a country with some of the highest deforestation rates worldwide.
Isabella Mandl, Badrane Ben Ali Abdou, Ishaka Said, Teague O'Mara, Jon Flanders, Sourette Said Ali Chaihane, Owen T. Lewis, Misbahou Mohamed, Hugh Doulton   +8 more
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of a Decade of Anadromous Salmonid Hatchery (And Stocking) Research: Insights for Policy, Management and a Changing Climate

Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hatcheries and stocking programmes have long been a cornerstone of fisheries management, seen as tools for fisheries enhancement and/or conservation of threatened populations. Their use draws controversy, however, from a growing body of research over the last 50 years suggesting that stocking can have negative consequences for wild stocks, and
Hannah L. Harrison, Øystein Aas, Valerie Berseth, Tom Chance, Katherine L. Dalby, Shelley Denny, Michael T. Fabiano, Norm Johnson, Tor Kitching, Lian E. Kwong, Polina Orlov, Adrian P. Spidle, Alan Walker, Kyle Wellband, Lorna Wilson, Kurt Samways   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Progress of Stock Rebuilding in the Northeast Atlantic Against Levels That Can Produce Maximum Sustainable Yield

Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rebuilding fish stocks to levels above which they produce Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) is a management aim for all European commercially exploited stocks. Progress is typically monitored against the fishing mortality that produces MSY in the long term (FMSY), however, the corresponding biomass target (BMSY) is rarely evaluated nor reported.
Henning Winker, Massimiliano Cardinale, Rishi Sharma, Laurence T. Kell, Iago Mosqueira, Christopher Griffiths   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) in Motion: Oceanographic Forces Shaping Its Habitat in the Southwestern South Atlantic, With Insights From Fishers' Perceptions

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lepidocybium flavobrunneum [Smith, 1843], commonly known as escolar, is a large pelagic species, important for global and local fisheries, particularly in the southwestern South Atlantic Ocean (SWAO), where it constitutes a significant portion of the catch.
Lucas Rodrigues, Maria Grazia Pennino, Paul Gerhard Kinas, David Conesa, Alba Fuster‐Alonso, Andrés Domingo, Rodrigo Forselledo, Federico Mas, Bruno Mourato, Rodrigo Sant'Ana, Vinni Santos Thykjaer, Raquel Virginia Marquez Marquez, Abner Ventura Alves, Mariano Cabanillas‐Torpoco, Rafael Schroeder, Luis Gustavo Cardoso   +15 more
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Expansion of invasive carabids across elevation and habitats on sub‐Antarctic South Georgia

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Two introduced carabid species have continued to expand their ranges on the sub‐Antarctic island of South Georgia over the past 10–15 years. The species have colonised inland valleys and are present across habitats but are more abundant in those with high vegetation cover. N‐mixture models revealed the optimal sampling method, intensity and habitat for
Pierre Tichit, Peter Convey, Paul Brickle, Rosemary J. Newton, Tamara Contador, Wayne Dawson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life‐stage and environmental influences on the recruitment of African freshwater eels into the uThukela River, South Africa

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Anguillid eel recruitment into east‐flowing rivers along the east coast of Africa is poorly understood. The few harvest records of anguillid eels from South Africa have highlighted anthropogenically derived environmental stressors as risks for further decline.
Rory McNeill, Matthew J. Burnett, Céline Hanzen, Colleen T. Downs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source