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Peasant farmer–raptor conflicts around Chembe Bird Sanctuary, Zambia, Central Africa: poultry predation, ethno–biology, land use practices and conservation [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2017 Raptors provide ecosystem services to African rural communities by: (1) preying on rodents, (2) regulating harmful snake populations, (3) shaping cultural beliefs, and (4) being part of tourist attractions.
Musonda, F., Kambole, S., Tembo, S.
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Monitoring of exposure to toxins in raptors in Albania
Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2023 Raptors are large carnivorous birds, most well known for their scavenging nature. This study evalu-ates the level of exposure to toxins in raptors and vultures in Albania to assess whether existing legis-lation and regulations are effectively protecting ...
K. Korro +6 more
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Frugivory in Raptors: New Observations from Australia and a Global Review
Birds, 2021 The diets of raptors are some of the best studied and well-known of all bird groups. Raptors are typically carnivores, hunting and feeding on vertebrates and, for some species, invertebrates. Here, we described instances of the Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
James A. Fitzsimons, Jack Leighton
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Verification of Information Flow Properties under Rational Observation [PDF]
, 2014 Information flow properties express the capability for an agent to infer information about secret behaviours of a partially observable system. In a language-theoretic setting, where the system behaviour is described by a language, we define the class of ...
Bérard, Béatrice, Mullins, John
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Raptors are highly sensitive to environmental and human-induced changes. In addition, several species of raptors exist in considerably small numbers. It is thus critical to conserve raptors and their habitats across relatively larger landscapes.
Sudesh Kumar +3 more
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Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2019 With the increase in amount of remote sensing data, there have been efforts to efficiently process it to help ecologists and geographers answer queries. However, they often need to process this data in combination with vector data, for example, city boundaries.
Singla, Samriddhi +3 more
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Data in Brief, 2021 The dataset presented in this article supports “Intensive livestock farming as a major determinant of the exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides in raptors of the Canary Islands (Spain)” (Rial-Berriel et al., 2020).
Cristian Rial-Berriel +11 more
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Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2016 On the basis of five-year monitoring data on summer bird population in the Nature Reserve “Kerzhensky” after the catastrophic fires of 2010, a spatial distribution of raptors was analyzed (mainly birds of prey – Falconiformes).
Olga S. Noskova
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Ecotoxicology 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
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Contenido de Cadmio y Plomo en tejido de Hígado y Riñón en el Jote de Cabeza Colorada Cathartes aura (Linneo, 1758) de Chañaral, Desierto de Atacama, Chile [PDF]
, 2013 Indexación: Web of Science; ScieloThe Atacama region, Chile, presents one of the highest levels of mining exploitation of the country, which leads to high levels of contamination from mine tailings and other related environmental liabilities.
Abarca, Jorge +6 more
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