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Belowground effects of ground‐dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study reviews how ground‐dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally. Effects are context‐dependent, vary among species and forest types, and remain poorly studied in tropical forests, highlighting critical gaps in understanding nutrient cycling and ecosystem functioning.
Letícia Gonçalves Ribeiro, Mateus Melo‐Dias, Beatriz Maria Paccas Saraiva, Nacho Villar, Mauro Galetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Host‐mediated filtering and interspecific associations structure strongyle parasite communities in Sable Island horses

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using individual‐level nemabiome metabarcoding of 3147 samples from 916 horses on Sable Island over 10 years, we generate the largest dataset of its kind to date. This unprecedented scale enables a rare test of the processes structuring parasite communities in a natural system, revealing dominant host‐mediated filtering and predominantly positive ...
Sangwook Ahn, Philip D. McLoughlin, Jocelyn Poissant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of leguminous shrub encroachment on neighboring grasses include transfer of fixed nitrogen. [PDF]

Oecologia, 2016
Zhang HY, Yu Q, Yu Q, Lü XT, Trumbore SE, Yang JJ, Han XG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Megafaunal engineering in the tropical rainforest: African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) reduce avian species richness but elevate functional diversity

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our paper investigates the crucial role of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) on the functioning of rainforest ecosystems, through the lens of bird communities. It reveals that the critically endangered megaherbivores are inextricably linked to survival of another key group imperilled by land‐use change: understory invertivore birds ...
Kryštof Korejs, David Hořák, Kryštof Chmel, Ondřej Sedláček, Francis Njie Motombi, Francis Luma Ewome, Lucas Lyonga Molua, José Innocent Tamdjo Tache, Solange Mekuate Kamga, Joel Soniya Cecil Christopher, Jan Riegert   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burned habitats facilitate predation and lead to long‐term reductions in prey success

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
By evaluating the effects of burned habitats on the habitat selection and movement responses of cougars and mule deer, cougar kill sites, and mule deer reproduction, the authors find that increasingly large, severe burns are diminishing herbivore reproductive success, potentially due to advantages for predators created by burned landscapes.
Kirby L. Mills, Martin Leclerc, Mark A. Ditmer, David C. Stoner, Zachary L. Steel, Joseph O. Sexton, Panshi Wang, Kent R. Hersey, Cody A. Schroeder, Alyson M. Andreasen, Kristin Engebretsen, Julie K. Young, Brock McMillan, Randy Larsen, Derek B. Hall, Brandon Holton, David Choate, Neil H. Carter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactive Effects of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs and Cattle on Shrub Encroachment in a Desert Grassland Ecosystem. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Ponce-Guevara E, Davidson A, Sierra-Corona R, Ceballos G.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental and human‐related gradients shape the community structure of medium and large terrestrial mammals in a central Amazonian white‐sand Forest

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This novel study examines how environmental and human‐related gradients influence habitat use and the community structure of medium and large terrestrial mammals in Central Amazonian white‐sand forests (campinaranas), one of the naturally rarest and least studied ecosystems in the Amazon region.
Renilce Carvalho de Castro, Edney Matos do Nascimento, Renan Ministerio Castro, Rafael Rabelo, Paulo Bobrowiec, Sâmia Letícia Reolon da Cruz, Juliana Schietti, David Luther, Clarissa Rosa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Interactive Effects of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs and Cattle on Shrub Encroachment in a Desert Grassland Ecosystem. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
PLOS ONE Staff.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
wiley   +1 more source