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Anticoagulants for the Control of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 101-116, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Background In Latin America, there is a high incidence of vampire bat‐transmitted rabies in cattle causing increased mortality of livestock, which heavily impacts the agricultural sector. Anticoagulants‐based control methods for the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) have been employed continuously since the 1970s with various methods of ...
Laura Ávila‐Vargas, Diego Soler‐Tovar, Quan Dong, Luis E. Escobar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two new genera of neotropical Deltocephalinae (Insecta: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) related to Alaca Oman

Revista Peruana de Biología, 2014
Two new genera of Neotropical Deltocephalinae (Insecta: Homoptera: Cicadellidae) related to Alaca Oman: Paralaca gen. n. and Adlaca gen. n., and two new species, P. sordida and A.
Pedro Lozada
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Automatic Livestock Waterer Prototype Based on IoT Using a Microcontroller Board

Journal of Engineering, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Water control in a livestock waterer is a crucial task to keep the animals properly hydrated and thus ensure milk production and weight gain. However, when not done correctly, it can lead to flooding of the pen, influx of diseases, or, on the other hand, it can result in water scarcity, causing poor hydration that may lead to the animal′s death if ...
Gisella Luisa Elena Maquen-Niño, Fanny Eliza Fernández_Rodríguez, Jair Edú Ramos_Gamarra, Ivan Adrianzén-Olano, Gilberto Carrión-Barco, Denny John Fuentes-Adrianzén, Assed Naked Haddad   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contaminantes orgánicos persistentes: Impactos y medidas de control

Manglar
Los contaminantes orgánicos persistentes (COP) representan un problema ambiental significativo debido a su toxicidad, con una alta capacidad para persistir en el entorno, resistencia a los métodos de degradación convencionales, la capacidad de ...
Cesar R. Castro López, Luis M. Castillo Rodríguez   +1 more
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Mapping opportunities and barriers for coexistence between people and pumas in the Argentine Dry Chaco

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 30, Issue 10, October 2024.
Abstract Aim The persistence of large carnivore populations depends on their survival outside protected areas, where they often impact local livelihoods through livestock depredation. Understanding the impacts of human behaviour on large carnivores in shared landscapes is thus important but is often overlooked in habitat assessments or conservation ...
A. Sofía Nanni, Arash Ghoddousi, Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz, Matthias Baumann, Jamie Burton, Micaela Camino, Julieta Decarre, Felipe Martello, André Luis Regolin, Tobias Kuemmerle   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the origins of sea turtle eggs in the markets of Costa Rica

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2024.
The legal commercialization of olive ridley sea turtle eggs from Ostional, Costa Rica, has been criticized with some suggesting that the legal trade stimulates illegal extraction and sale of eggs. We aimed to identify whether the traceability rules, under which the Ostional project operates, were suitably robust.
Helen Pheasey, Andrea Albert Fonseca, Federico J. Albertazzi, Richard A. Griffiths, David L. Roberts   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming Constraints to Agricultural Innovation Through the Market: Insights from the Peruvian Andes [PDF]

This paper discusses possible ways to overcome the situation of physical isolation and the multiple failures that pervade Andean villages. Specifically, it studies a training program developed by a Peruvian NGO, which aims at triggering the development ...
Timothee Demont
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Intermediaries and capability building in 'emerging' clusters [PDF]

, 2013
Increasing attention has begun to focus on the important role that organisations undertaking intermediary functions can play in supporting emerging clusters of small producers.
Clarke, Ian, Ramirez, Matias
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Allergic to bureaucracy? Regulatory allergenicity assessments of novel food: Motivations, challenges, compromises, and possibilities

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2024.
Abstract New sources of proteins are essential to meet the demands of the growing world population and evolving food trends. Assessing the allergenicity of proteins in novel food (NF) poses a significant food safety regulatory challenge. The Codex Alimentarius Commission presented an allergenicity assessment protocol for genetically modified (GM) foods,
Odeya Kedar, Alexander Golberg, Uri Obolski, Ronit Confino‐Cohen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Usos locales de las certificaciones globales: calidad, medio ambiente y trabajo seguro en forestación [PDF]

Revista IDEAS, 2009
En el NE de la Argentina la forestación es una actividad económica cuya expansión ha atraído capitales extranjeros. La inversión directa ha incentivado la integración vertical y concentración económica del proceso de producción.
Andrea Mastrangelo
doaj   +1 more source