Escaping Neobiota: Habitat use and avoidance by sloth bears in Jessore Sloth bear Sanctuary India
Trees, Forests and People, 2023 Global terrestrial ecosystem is threatened by several factors, such as infestation of invasive plants, which influence the habitat use by wildlife. Prosopis juliflora is such a plant species, sprawled over arid and semiarid ecosystems in India.
Jignesh Rot +3 more
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An African perspective on hamartology and ecology: Assessing Jesse Mugambi’s contribution to the contemporary debate [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 Christian ecotheology offers a Christian critique of ecological destruction while simultaneously proposing an ecological critique of Christianity.
Dr. Newton Cloete
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Short-range Bluetooth monitoring method for tracking, monitoring and follow-up of low-mobility wild species, Choloepus hoffmanni sp. [PDF]
Biology OpenRicardo Villalba-Briones +2 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 The impact of humans on biodiversity, in the form of the spatially extensive occurrence of humans and subsequent habitat degradation, leads to negative interactions between humans and native wildlife.
Sankarshan Chaudhuri +6 more
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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2015 Characterisations of the Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) diet during three distinguished seasons (monsoon, winter and summer) in the semi-arid region of western India was under study.
Tana P. MEWADA
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A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 A new genus and species of sloth (Eionaletherium tanycnemius gen. et sp. nov.) recently collected from the Late Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela (northern South America) is herein described based on a partial skeleton including associated femora and ...
Ascanio D. Rincón +4 more
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Genetic Variation, Structure, and Gene Flow in a Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) Meta-Population in the Satpura-Maikal Landscape of Central India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) are endemic to the Indian subcontinent. As a result of continued habitat loss and degradation over the past century, sloth bear populations have been in steady decline and now exist only in isolated or fragmented habitat ...
Trishna Dutta +4 more
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How sloths got their sloth [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Summary The evolution of sloths will have to be revised after two independent molecular studies contradicted the traditional view based on morphological evidence. The two surviving genera with their distinctive arboreal lifestyles and specialised diets are also important case studies in ecology and adaptation, while their lost relatives shed light on
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Parallel evolution of reduced cancer risk and tumor suppressor duplications in Xenarthra
eLife, 2022 The risk of developing cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species, but there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or lifespan between species indicating that large, long-lived species have evolved enhanced cancer ...
Juan Manuel Vazquez +5 more
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A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths
Land, 2023 Late Pleistocene sloths were widely distributed and present in a diversity of habitats in South, Central, and North America and some Caribbean Islands. Late Pleistocene sloths include 27 genera in four families Megatheriidae, Megalonychidae, Mylodontidae,
H. Gregory McDonald
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