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Social outcomes associated with a public and stakeholder engagement process for wolf reintroduction

Conservation Science and Practice
A growing body of literature suggests that public and stakeholder engagement processes can be implemented to achieve social outcomes that can influence conservation goals.
Rebecca M. Niemiec, Michael Quartuch, Mireille Gonzalez, Veronica Champine, Andrew Mertens   +4 more
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Diabetic Retinopathy Classification With Convolutional Neural Networks Designed by the Fuzzy Grey Wolf Optimizer With Parameter Adaptation

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection and classification of diseases have become a field of interest for artificial intelligence in recent years, where the development of methods and models that allow support for specialists in different health fields has allowed early detection of diseases and the provision of timely treatment to patients.
Rodrigo Cordero‐Martínez, Daniela Sánchez, Patricia Melin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Walking with wolves : an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between socialised wolves and humans. [PDF]

, 2012
Wolves have held a fascination, fear and or revulsion for humankind throughout history. At the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, a charity whose main aim in to educate the public about wolves, socialised wolves interact with volunteers and with members of the ...
Williams, Bridget.
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Balancing Exploration and Exploitation Through a Sequential Hybrid of Roach Infestation and Mayfly Algorithms for Constrained Engineering Design Optimization

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Maintaining an effective balance between exploration and exploitation is essential during optimization processes, from mathematical functions to more complex problems such as constrained engineering design optimization, particularly when addressing highly nonlinear issues with numerous local optima and strict feasibility requirements.
Enrique Lizárraga, Fevrier Valdez, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing automated howling devices in a wintertime wolf survey

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2013
Previous tests of the automated acoustic device, referred to as a howlbox, effectively identified the presence of wolves (Canis lupus) during the summer, near rendezvous sites.
Angela Brennan, Paul C. Cross, David E. Ausband, Andrea Barbknecht, Scott Creel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactions between maternal provisioning and natural selection on seed mass fluctuate across heat waves

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Changing climates are leading to more frequent and severe heat waves, potentially threatening plant populations. Both acclimation to stress and selection for heat‐escape or heat‐resistance phenotypes occur during heat waves. However, plastic responses and selection do not necessarily interact cohesively—even producing trait responses ...
Lana F. Gaspard, Elissa Harb, Stacy D. Holt Jr., Courtney M. Patterson, Nicholas J. Kooyers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vigilance and foraging behaviour of female caribou in relation to predation risk

Rangifer, 1997
Behaviour of female caribou (Rangifer tarandus) was investigated during the calving season on ranges in Alaska and West Greenland with the purpose of determining whether investment in vigilance behaviour differed between areas with and without natural ...
Pernille S. Bøving, Eric Post
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Altruism in wolves explains the coevolution of dogs and wolves

Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
The date of historical domestication of dogs has been pushed back to between 15,000–30,000 years ago (estimates vary), a time when hunter-gatherer societies predominated in northern Europe and central Asia. We present insights from evolutionary behavioural ecology suggesting that wolves may have been “tricked” by their social evolution into ...
Pierre Jouventin, Yves Christen, Stephen Dobson   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Wolves, boar and other wildlife defy contamination to make a comeback at Chernobyl [PDF]

, 2015
The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 had a devastating impact on the local population and forced 116,000 people to permanently leave their homes.
Beresford, Nick, Wood, Mike
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