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Tropical cities as windows into the ecosystems of our present and future

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2025.
We propose an agenda for moving the field of tropical urban ecology forward through an interdisciplinary lens that synthesizes recent advances in both urban ecology and tropical biology. Specifically, advances and development in community science, Earth observation, environmental justice, One Health, and land sparing/sharing strategies could lead to ...
Timothy C. Bonebrake   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alien Birds in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview

open access: yesConservation
Introduced species may pose one of the biggest threats to biodiversity conservation. Today, monitoring their status, distribution and abundance constitutes an important part of ecological and conservation studies throughout the world. In the Afrotropical
Grzegorz Kopij
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic Introgression Between Critically Endangered and Stable Species of Darwin's Tree Finches on the Galapagos Islands

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Natural hybridisation among rare or endangered species and stable congenerics is increasingly topical for the conservation of species‐level diversity under anthropogenic impacts. Evidence for beneficial genes being introgressed into or selected for in hybrids raises concurrent questions about its evolutionary significance.
Rachael Y. Dudaniec   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

大绯胸鹦鹉砂巢繁殖观察

open access: yes野生动物学报, 1991
大绯胸鹦鹉(Psittacula derbiana)在动物园中俗称“四川鹦鹉”,野生时通常在树洞里筑巢、产卵和孵化。动物园饲养时一般设置树洞、木箱、缸管等作为繁殖巢,而我园饲养的大绯胸鹦鹉则以隐蔽处的砂堆为巢产卵及孵化,其中1989年有一对大绯胸鹦鹉繁殖两只幼鸟全部成活。现将繁殖情况总结如下: 一、生活环境自1988年以来,我园饲养的8只大绯胸鹦鹉(7雌1雄)与1只挂线鹦鹉(Psittacula krameri)、7只亚利山大鹦鹉生活在同一笼舍中,笼舍的地面面积为13.05平方米,舍高2.4米 ...
张萍, 王威
doaj  

First photographic record of Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri (Linnaeus, 1758) (Psittaciformes: Psittaculidae) from Haryana state in India

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology
Haryana is a state in northern India, situated in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The single female individual of Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri was observed on 23 November 2023 in the Kurukshetra University Campus, and its observation was ...
Aruna Yadav   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Breeding Bird Survey of the United Kingdom

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Motivation Information on species' population trends is essential to assess species' conservation status, make informed environmental decisions and ultimately reduce biodiversity loss. Robust population trends require a long‐term monitoring programme, often using citizen scientists, that ideally generates representative and unbiased data from ...
Dario Massimino   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occurrence of gastrointestinal parasites in wild animals in State of Paraná, Brazil

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2018
The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and diversity of gastrointestinal parasites in fecal samples from wild birds and mammals from the State of Paraná.
LEW K. SPRENGER   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Avian influenza annual report 2023

open access: yesEFSA Journal, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract All European Union (EU) Member States (MSs), along with Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), conduct surveillance for avian influenza (AI) in poultry and wild birds. EFSA, upon mandate of the European Commission, compiles and analyses this data in an annual report.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Kill Two Birds with One Stone”: Urban Tree Species Classification Using Bi-Temporal Pléiades Images to Study Nesting Preferences of an Invasive Bird

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2017
This study presents the results of object-based classifications assessing the potential of bi-temporal Pléiades images for mapping broadleaf and coniferous tree species potentially used by the ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri for nesting in the ...
Marine Le Louarn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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