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Does owning a pet protect older people against loneliness? [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundPet ownership is thought to make a positive contribution to health, health behaviours and the general well-being of older people. More specifically pet ownership is often proposed as a solution to the problem of loneliness in later life and ...
Victor, Christina +5 more
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From tigers to axolotls: Why people keep exotic pets in Russia
People and Nature, 2020 The exotic pet trade, both legal and illegal, plays a crucial role in wildlife overharvesting and biodiversity loss world‐wide, but drivers of demand for exotic pets are still poorly understood and under‐studied.
Sofiya Shukhova, Douglas C. MacMillan
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Captive reptile mortality rates in the home and implications for the wildlife trade [PDF]
, 2015 The trade in wildlife and keeping of exotic pets is subject to varying levels of national and international regulation and is a topic often attracting controversy.
Janine E Robinson +11 more
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Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2020 In recent years, ornamental shrimps gained increasing popularity in the aquarium trade. Unfortunately, they are potential vectors of epibionts, which may be unintentionally introduced to aquaria with imported shrimps. This contribution presents the first
Maciaszek Rafał +3 more
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Going beyond the borders : field-of-view extension in MR/PET hybrid imaging [PDF]
, 2012 The recent combination of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is of emerging interest in clinical routine. On the one hand, MRI is a widely-used diagnostic tool in medical practice.
Blumhagen, Jan Ole
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Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2021 There are known plenty tiny invertebrate species associated with decapod crustaceans. Our contribution documents the first record of New Guinean ornamental Cherax crayfish epibiont, Diceratocephala boschmai (Platyhelminthes: Temnocephalida) found in pet ...
Ložek Filip +2 more
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Beautiful, but also potentially invasive
Ekológia (Bratislava), 2015 Introduction of non-indigenous exotic species to new areas, where they may establish viable populations and become invasive, is a considerable problem in the protection of nature worldwide, as these species may alter the indigenous species population ...
Lipták Boris, Vitázková Barbora
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Biology, 2021 Biological invasions are increasingly recognized ecological and economic threats to biodiversity and are projected to increase in the future. Introduced freshwater crayfish in particular are protruding invaders, exerting tremendous impacts on native ...
Antonín Kouba +9 more
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Measuring the impact of the pet trade on Indonesian birds
Conservation Biology, 2017 Abstract The trade in wild animals involves one‐third of the world's bird species and thousands of other vertebrate species. Although a few species are imperiled as a result of the wildlife trade, the lack of field studies makes it difficult to gauge how serious a threat it is to biodiversity.
Wilcove, David S. +11 more
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