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Faunivores are active longer than herbivores across the daily cycle in a Neotropical savanna–forest mammal community

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Daily activity budgets reflect how animals balance internal physiological demands with external environmental pressures. We analyzed 14 037 camera‐trap records from 12 mammal species in the Venezuelan Llanos to evaluate the effects of foraging strategy (faunivore versus herbivore), season, and body mass on daily activity duration, to describe diel ...
Ilad Vivas, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, María Abarca Medina, Luis G. Morales, Pablo Lau, Astolfo Mata, Ángel L. Viloria, Margarita Lampo, Rafael Hoogesteijn, Maria del Mar Weisz, Krzysztof Schmidt   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biology, ecology, and conservation of the Italian hare Lepus corsicanus: a review

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The Italian hare Lepus corsicanus, an endemic lagomorph of Italy, serves as a critical case study in evolutionary biology and conservation. Once taxonomically debated, modern genetic and morphological analyses confirm its status as a distinct Pleistocene lineage restricted to the central‐southern Italian Peninsula and Sicily.
Pierangelo Freschi, Valter Trocchi
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Channel Coupling by Mid-Trophic Level Fish Challenges the Landscape Theory for Food Web Architecture in a Large Tropical Lake Ecosystem. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Muehl MF, Olin JA, Keyombe JL, Aller JY, Cerrato RM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Insights into diet and niche separation in the context of prey availability between two sympatric whiprays in a tropical intertidal estuary. [PDF]

J Fish Biol
Myers J, Sheaves M, Barnett A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Heightened threats to small woodland caribou populations in Canada and key considerations for their persistence Menaces pesant sur les petites populations de caribou des bois au Canada et considérations essentielles à leur rétablissement

Wildlife Monographs, EarlyView.
Abstract Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) are one of the most iconic wildlife species in Canada. These large ungulates depend on undisturbed, interconnected assemblages of mature and old‐growth conifer forests for survival, and exhibit life‐history traits typical of K‐selected species (i.e., low reproductive rates, long generation times, and slow ...
Anna M. Calvert, Mathieu Leblond, Esther Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multitrophic interaction networks mediate biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Albert G, Staab M, Luo A, Anttonen P, Beugnon R, Cesarz S, Chen J, Eisenhauer N, Erfmeier A, Fornoff F, Guo P, Härdtle W, Hönig L, Jiang L, Klein AM, Li Y, Li Y, Li Q, Liu L, Ma K, von Oheimb G, Rutten G, Scholten T, Seitz S, Singavarapu B, Trogisch S, Wang MQ, Wang P, Wu D, Wubet T, Yang X, Yu M, Zhang N, Schmid B, Bruelheide H, Liu X, Zhu CD, Schuldt A.   +37 more
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Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Physical trampling is a ubiquitous activity of walking vertebrates, but is poorly understood as a mechanism impacting biogeochemical cycling in soil. Lack of detailed knowledge of soil abiotic–biotic interactions underlying trampling effects, and the primary sources of ...
G. Adam Meyer, Shawn J. Leroux, Kathryn E. Hargan, Niels van Miltenburg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional and Trophic Structuring of Micronektonic Fishes in the Northeast Atlantic. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Thibault H, Ménard F, Roudaut G, Lebourges-Dhaussy A, Cherel Y, Ariza A, Nolé Eduardo L, Martini S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Animals can dramatically alter ecosystem structure and function through the cycling and transport of nutrients in their waste. While birds are particularly capable of influencing nutrient cycles due to their high mobility, abundance, metabolism and functional diversity,
Linsey Chen, Alexander S. Flecker, Ethan S. Duvall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Single, the Whole, and the Pooled: Implications of Tissue Choice for Stable Isotope Analysis. [PDF]

J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol
Balzani P, Belouard N, Veselý L, Kouba A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source