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Spatial–Temporal Patterns of Mammal Diversity and Abundance in Three Vegetation Types in a Semi-Arid Landscape in Southeastern Coahuila, Mexico

Diversity
The grasslands and shrublands of northern and central Mexico cover nearly 25% of the country and harbor high biodiversity. However, they are increasingly degraded by agriculture, urbanization, infrastructure development, and water overexploitation.
Erika J. Cruz-Bazan, Jorge E. Ramírez-Albores, Juan A. Encina-Domínguez, José A. Hernández-Herrera, Eber G. Chavez-Lugo   +4 more
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Mesopredators have differing influences on prey habitat use and diel activity in a multipredator landscape

Ecosphere
Resource distribution, habitat structure, and predators greatly influence spatial and temporal landscape use by prey species. The “risky places” hypothesis establishes prey will proactively respond to predators' presence based on habitat cues, whereas ...
Gabriela Palomo‐Munoz, Mason Fidino, Ty J. Werdel, Colleen W. Piper, Travis Gallo, Matthew S. Peek, Andrew M. Ricketts, Adam A. Ahlers   +7 more
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Trophic niche overlap decreases in related mesocarnivore species

Oikos, Volume 2025, Issue 11, November 2025.
In natural environments, competition between species is a crucial factor for the survival or demise of populations. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that promote species coexistence is crucial in community and evolutionary ecology. The phylogenetic limiting to similarity hypothesis (PLSH) posits that closely related species should experience ...
Carlos Sarabia, Javier Hernández-Hernández, Imanol Miqueleiz, Emilio Virgós, Jennifer A. Leonard, Jose María Gil‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Heading west: ecology of swift foxes in a novel landscape beyond their range

Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 6, November 2025.
The swift fox Vulpes velox is generally associated with the short‐grass prairie ecosystem of the North American Great Plains; a system that has declined by approximately 50% over the last century. Yet, swift fox populations seem to demonstrate regional variation in trends, with some populations declining while others appear stable to increasing.
Austin B. Smith, Ashley G. Wolf, Kelsie R. Buxbaum, Leah H. Yandow, Christopher C. Keefe, Heather L. O'Brien, Neal C. Swayze, Joseph D. Holbrook   +7 more
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Discriminating different-purpose burrows of the North American badger Taxidea taxus [PDF]

Wildlife Biology, 2019
For many species, burrowing is used for a variety of purposes, such as finding food, sheltering from elements and predators, or raising offspring. For threatened species, differentiating among burrow types allows effective conservation efforts, and provides insight into habitat attributes needed at different stages in their life-history.
Stephen A. Symes, Richard Klafki, Roger Packham, Karl W. Larsen   +3 more
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Taxidea Waterhouse 1839

, 1993
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
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EFFECTS OF A MODIFIED-LIVE VIRUS CANINE DISTEMPER VACCINE ON CAPTIVE BADGERS (TAXIDEA TAXUS) [PDF]

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 1994
We vaccinated six captive badgers housed with five controls, and monitored blood antibody titers and white cell counts of both groups for 63 days postvaccination between 29 August and 3 December 1992. Five vaccinated badgers responded with antibody titers ranging from 1:64 to 1:1024 by 63 days postvaccination, whereas the sixth badger did not respond ...
J M, Goodrich, E S, Williams, S W, Buskirk   +2 more
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Where the buffalo roam: Ungulate influences on quaking aspen and willow communities in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2025.
Abstract Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) and willows (Salix spp.) are keystone species of montane and shrub‐steppe landscapes of the Western United States. Intact communities dominated by these species provide a wide range of ecosystem services, harboring an exceptional proportion of landscape biodiversity. Land use, especially overgrazing by large
J. Boone Kauffman, Dian L. Cummings, Robert L. Beschta, William J. Ripple   +3 more
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Ecosystem services on restored marginal farmland

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 23, Issue 7, September 2025.
Industrialized agriculture often uses marginal‐land restoration to reduce environmental impacts, seeking to generate ecosystem services while maintaining food production on better soils. Here, we describe benefit trajectories for biodiversity, nutrient retention, and soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation up to a decade after conversion of marginal ...
Andrew S MacDougall, Ellen H Esch, Aleksandra J Dolezal, Caroline Kamm, Oliver H Carroll, Micaela Tosi, Kevin MacColl, Mark Nessel, Annika Wilcox, Lake Ellsworth, Annalisa CM Mazzorato, Daniel Noble, Matthew Pavusa, Samantha Ramirez, Bernal J Arce, Marie Gutgesell, Kevin S McCann, Evan DG Fraser, John M Fryxell, Bryan Gilvesy, Katherine Balpataky, Jana Levison, Asim Biswas, Kari Dunfield, Neil Rooney, Hafiz Maherali, Amy Newman, Brian C Husband, Dirk Steinke, Jeremy DeWaard, Genevieve Ali, Ryan Prosser, Andrew Young, Hugh J Earl, John Sulik, Eric Harvey, Malcolm M Campbell   +36 more
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Describing Diet of Imperiled Sierra Nevada Red Foxes and a Carnivoran Competitor Using DNA Metabarcoding

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
Montane red foxes (Vulpes vulpes ssp.) native to western North America are of broad conservation interest, but their ecology is poorly understood due to their rarity. We examined the diet of the Sierra Nevada red fox (V. v. necator) in an unstudied portion of their range in Oregon, USA, then evaluated dietary overlap between red fox and coyote (Canis ...
Matthew S. Delheimer, Marie E. Martin, Jennifer Hartman, Katie M. Moriarty, Jennifer M. Allen, Taal Levi   +5 more
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