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Loss of diversity in the community of small mammals of Doñana National Park (SW Spain): another effect of the local climate change ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Doñana National Park is an important wetland located in the southwest Spain forming part of the Mediterranean Basin, a "biodiversity hotspot" especially vulnerable to climate change.
Fernández, M. Carmen   +3 more
core  

Urbanization, environmental stabilization and temporal persistence of bird species: A view from Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background. A scarcely studied consequence of urbanization is the effect of temporal stabilization of the environment on bird communities. This alteration is thought to dampen environmental variations between day and night, seasons and years, promoting a
Leveau, Lucas Matias
core   +2 more sources

Use of Apple Airtag to track urban wildlife: Proof of concept with Harris's hawks

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Abstract Accurate tracking of the movement of wildlife is important for understanding the behavior, spatial use, and resource selection of a species. While traditional methods like Very High Frequency (VHF) transmitters have been widely used, newer technologies, such as GPS data loggers and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) transmitters ...
Brooke A. Poplin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term exposure of anticoagulant rodenticides leads to the toxin accumulation from prey (Rattus losea) to predator (Elanus caeruleus)

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Rodenticides are widely used around the world since the 1950s. In Taiwan, an anti-rodent operation initiated 1977 and became a regular action annually implied by the government until 2014.
Wen-Loung Lin   +3 more
doaj  

Functionally referential signals: a promising paradigm whose time has passed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the field of animal communication generally and primate communication ...
Fischer, Julia, Wheeler, Brandon C
core   +1 more source

Greater prairie‐chicken nest survival and changes in vegetation structure and composition with conservation grazing

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
We studied how conservation grazing influenced vegetation composition and structure and greater prairie‐chicken nest survival in northwestern Minnesota. We observed effects of grazing on vegetation in the year of grazing, but these changes dissipated by August of the post‐grazing year.
Jamie R. Horton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Method for Processing Whole Blood for Heterologous Packed Red Blood Cell Transfusion for Use in a Green‐Winged Macaw (Ara chloropterus)

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Residual plasma and saline following blood component processing to produce a packed red blood cell unit for transfusion in an anemic green‐winged macaw (Ara cholopterus). ABSTRACT An 11‐year‐old male green‐winged macaw (Ara chloropterus) diagnosed with severe anemia required a packed red blood cell transfusion rather than whole blood based on ...
David J. Minich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deucravacitinib, an Oral, Selective, Allosteric Tyrosine Kinase 2 Inhibitor, in Asian Patients With Moderate to Severe Psoriasis: Improvements in Patient‐Reported Outcomes in a Randomized Trial

open access: yesThe Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT POETYK PSO‐3, a 52‐week, double‐blind, phase 3 study, evaluated the efficacy and safety of deucravacitinib, an oral, selective, allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor, in adult patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in mainland China, Taiwan, and South Korea.
Jianzhong Zhang   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and perceptions of birds of prey among local inhabitants in Chile: implications for the biological control of rodent pests

open access: yesGayana, 2018
The aim of this study was to understand the level of knowledge and the perceptions of a local population with a high indigenous component (38.5%) towards birds of prey in order to address wildlife conservation strategies.
Andrés Muñoz-Pedreros   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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