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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is well known among cervids in North America. Nevertheless, management faced different types and degrees of uncertainty when CWD was first detected in reindeer Rangifer tarandus in Nordfjella, Norway in 2016. We present a timeline of the efforts to control CWD, and identify how the process, measurement, environmental, and ...
Atle Mysterud +3 more
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Carnivore exclosures to protect sheep affect the distribution of a wild cervid
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.With the recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe, preventive measures to protect livestock are on the rise. Fences that exclude carnivores from grazing areas have been proven as effective, but they can be costly as well as posing a barrier for wildlife.
Alessandro Forti +7 more
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Ecological dynamics and coexistence patterns of wild and domestic mammals in an abandoned landscape
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The issue of agricultural land abandonment in southern Europe has raised concerns about its impact on biodiversity. While abandoned areas can lead to positive developments like creating new habitats and restoring native vegetation, they can also result in human–wildlife conflicts, particularly in areas with extensive farming and free‐ranging livestock.
Annika M. Zuleger +2 more
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Policy Analysis for the Irish Agricultural Sector: The impact of a WTO Agreement on the Irish Agricultural Sector [PDF]
, 2007 End of project reportUsing dynamically recursive partial equilibrium models of Irish, EU and World agricultural commodity markets, research undertaken under projects 5158, 5159 and 5160 formed the basis of the empirically based policy analysis that the ...
Donnellan, Trevor
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Interspecific competition, a fundamental ecological process characterized by negative interactions between species, plays a vital role in shaping ecological communities. Despite the co‐occurrence of the snow leopard Panthera uncia and the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx across vast landscapes in Asia, their interactions remain poorly understood. In this study,
Choidogjamts Byambasuren +5 more
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An in vitro study of the replication, morphology and DNA base composition of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]
, 1977 Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae can almost invariably be isolated from the lungs of sheep with chronic pneumonia, which is a prevalent disease in New Zealand hoggets.
Major, Robert Malcolm
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Recent enrichment of megafauna in the north of Eurasia supports the concept of Pleistocene rewilding
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.‘Pleistocene rewilding' refers to the concept of restoring ecosystems to their state during the Pleistocene epoch, by (re‐)introducing species or their close relatives that were present during that time, in an effort to revive ecological processes that existed before human‐driven extinctions.
Igor Popov
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The presence of humans and large carnivores in shared landscapes presents unique challenges for wildlife conservation and management. This study explores the temporal activity patterns of tourists and pumas Puma concolor using camera traps to understand the potential for encounters between the two groups in Patagonia National Park, Chile.
Liliana Guzmán‐Aguayo +8 more
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Hair histology as a tool for forensic identification of some domestic animal species
, 2018 Animal hair examination at a criminal scene may provide valuable information in forensic investigations. However, local reference databases for animal hair identification are rare.
Ahmed, Yasser A. +2 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.The fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus is a medium‐sized wetland specialist felid threatened primarily by habitat loss, human–wildlife conflict, and road mortality. Limited information is available on their life history in human‐modified environments.
Rama Mishra +11 more
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