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Identification of risk areas for arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti in northern Brazil: A One Health analysis
- One Health
- VOL. 16
on Jun 1, 2023
- State Of Tocantins
- Ecology Of Wild Animals
- Aedes Aegypti
- Local Moran's Indices
- Socioenvironmental Indicators
- Stationary Trend
- More +
A tribute to Professor Walter Traunspurger
- Nematology
on May 24, 2023
- Freshwater Nematodes
- Bielefeld University
- Trans-disciplinary Approaches
- Ecology Of Nematodes
- Research Interests
- Fields Of Ecology
- More +
Summary With this tribute, we want to highlight Professor Walter Traunspurger’s achievements and contributions to education and research in the fields of nematology and ecology. Walter started to teach in 1998 in the Department of Animal Ecology at B... Read More
Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish
- Behavioral Ecology
on May 18, 2023
- Animal Ecology
- Conspicuousness Of Prey
- Affects Predation Risk
- Predation Risk
- Virtual Prey
- Success Of Attacks
- More +
Abstract Of widespread interest in animal behavior and ecology is how animals search their environment for resources, and whether these search strategies are optimal. However, movement also affects predation risk through effects on enc... Read More
Integrating spaceborne estimates of structural diversity of habitat into wildlife occupancy models
- Environmental Research Letters
- VOL. 18
on May 10, 2023
- GEDI
- Plant Area Index
- Foliage Height Diversity
- Estimate Habitat Use
- Structural Diversity Indices
- Functional Diversity Metrics
- More +
Vegetation structure is a crucial dimension of wildlife habitat, responsive to global changes in human activities and ecosystem processes. NASA’s recent Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) provides an exciting opportunity to explore how sp... Read More
Let sleeping logs lie: Beta diversity increases in deadwood beetle communities over time
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- VOL. 92
on May 1, 2023
- Beetle Communities
- Successional Patterns
- Tree Species
- Late Successional Stages
- Dead Organic Matter
- Late Successional Species
- More +
Research Highlight: Seibold, S., Weisser, W., Ambarli, D., Gossner, M. M., Mori, A., Cadotte, M., Hagge, J., Bässler, C. & Thorn, S. (2022). Drivers of community assembly change during succession in wood-decomposing beetle communities. Journal of Ani... Read More
Coming of age in your local mating market: Just a numbers game?
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- VOL. 92
on May 1, 2023
- Mute Swans
- Great Tits
- Age-assortative Mating
- Life-history Continuum
- Research Highlight
- Mute Swans Cygnus Olor
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Research Highlight: Woodman, J. P., Cole, E. F., Firth, J. A., Perrins, C. M., & Sheldon, B. C. (2022). Disentangling the causes of age-assortative mating in bird populations with contrasting life-history strategies. Journal of Animal Ecology, https:... Read More
Editorial: Spatial aspects of urban animal ecology and conservation biology
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
- VOL. 11
on Apr 21, 2023
- Animal Ecology
- Animal Conservation
- Urban Conservation
- Aspects Of Ecology
- Urban Ecology
- Aspects Of Biology
- More +
The distribution of vertebrate roadkill varies by season, surrounding environment, and animal class
- European Journal of Wildlife Research
- VOL. 69
on Apr 3, 2023
- Presence Of Fences
- Wildlife Roadkill
- Class Of Vertebrates
- Number Of Collisions
- Frequency Of Collisions
- Reproductive Season
- More +
Due to rapid human expansion in the last century, wildlife roadkill is becoming a concerning threat to biodiversity and human safety. The frequency of roadkill events depends on factors related to specific traits of the road—tortuosity or the presenc... Read More
Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology
- Ecology and Evolution
- VOL. 13
on Apr 1, 2023
- Trait Selection
- Ecology In Terms
- Niche Dimension
- Habitat Dimensions
- Terrestrial Habitats
- Response Traits
- More +
Trait-based approaches elucidate the mechanisms underlying biodiversity response to, or effects on, the environment. Nevertheless, the Raunkiæran shortfall-the dearth of knowledge on species traits and their functionality-presents a challenge in the ... Read More
Co‐infections mask pathogen‐specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- VOL. 92
on Apr 1, 2023
- Wild Bank Voles
- Host-associated Microbial Communities
- Gut Microbiota
- Bacterial Commensals
- Wild Voles
- Research Highlight
- More +
Research Highlight: Brila, I., Lavirinienko, A., Tukalenko, E., Kallio, E. R., Mappes, T. & Watts, P. C. (2022). Idiosyncratic effects of coinfection on the association between systemic pathogens and the gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole... Read More
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”
- Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
- VOL. 53
on Apr 1, 2023
- Woods Hole Research Center
- Hopkins Marine Station
- Set Of Sieves
- Hierarchical Relationship
- Grapes Of Wrath
- Cannery Row
- More +
This article examines the intertidal ecological research of the commercial lab owner and popular science writer Edward F. Ricketts, best known as the prototype for John Steinbeck’s character “Doc” in the novel Cannery Row (1945). Ricketts’s friendshi... Read More
How tracking technology is transforming animal ecology: epistemic values, interdisciplinarity, and technology-driven scientific change
- Synthese
- VOL. 201
on Mar 27, 2023
- Animal Ecology
- Tracking Technology
- Animal Movement
- Biological Expertise
- Epistemic Values
- Background Theory
- More +
Tracking technology has been heralded as transformative for animal ecology. In this paper I examine what changes are taking place, showing how current animal movement research is a field ripe for philosophical investigation. I focus first on how the ... Read More
Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group‐living animals using drones and computer vision
- Journal of Animal Ecology
on Mar 21, 2023
- Physical Environments
- Social Environments
- Body Posture
- Georeferenced Coordinates
- Animal Trails
- Age-sex Class
- More +
Methods for collecting animal behaviour data in natural environments, such as direct observation and biologging, are typically limited in spatiotemporal resolution, the number of animals that can be observed and information about animals' social and ... Read More
Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking
- Movement Ecology
- VOL. 11
on Mar 21, 2023
- Start Points
- North-eastern Israel
- Relocation Frequency
- Barn Owl
- Tyto Alba
- Net Displacement
- More +
BackgroundMovement is central to understanding the ecology of animals. The most robustly definable segments of an individual’s lifetime track are its diel activity routines (DARs). This robustness is due to fixed start and end points set by a 24-h cl... Read More
Subfossil Insect Collections From the Arctic of Northeast Asia and Northwest North America
- Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
on Mar 20, 2023
- Subfossil Insects
- GSC
- Canadian Northwest Territories
- Northwest North America
- West Chukotka
- PIN
- More +
Subfossil insects (mostly beetles) are common in the Late Cenozoic terrestrial loose deposits of the Arctic. The best-studied areas are those regions that remained ice-free during the Pleistocene — in Alaska and Yukon, northeast Siberia, and west Ch... Read More
Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation
- Journal of Animal Ecology
on Mar 13, 2023
- Wildlife Management Strategies
- Urban Pests
- Competition Risks
- Contemporary Methods
- Wildlife Management
- Avoidance Behaviours
- More +
Disgust is an adaptive system hypothesized to have evolved to reduce the risk of becoming sick. It is associated with behavioural, cognitive and physiological responses tuned to allow animals to avoid and/or get rid of parasites, pathogens and toxins... Read More
Use of geolocators for investigating breeding ecology of a rock crevice‐nesting seabird: Method validation and impact assessment
- Ecology and Evolution
- VOL. 13
on Mar 1, 2023
- Nest Attendance
- Animal-borne Devices
- Colony Attendance
- Behavioral Patterns
- Foraging Activity
- Breeding Period
- More +
Investigating ecology of marine animals imposes a continuous challenge due to their temporal and/or spatial unavailability. Light-based geolocators (GLS) are animal-borne devices that provide relatively cheap and efficient method to track seabird mov... Read More
:Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology. Wildlife Management and Conservation
- The Quarterly Review of Biology
- VOL. 98
on Mar 1, 2023
- Animal Ecology
- Wildlife Management
- Wildlife Conservation
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Macaque progressions: passing order during single-file movements reflects the social structure of a wild stump-tailed macaque group
- Primates
on Feb 21, 2023
- Animal Ecology
- Stumptailed Macaques
- Social Structure Of Group
- Primate Social Systems
- Community Clusters
- Social Structure
- More +
Inferring the latent structures of social organisations is a central theme in animal ecology. Sophisticated theoretical frameworks underpin the study of various primate social systems. Single-file movements, defined as serially ordered patterns of an... Read More
Biologging and Biotelemetry: Tools for Understanding the Lives and Environments of Marine Animals
- Annual Review of Animal Biosciences
- VOL. 11
on Feb 15, 2023
- Biotelemetry Studies
- Big Data Approaches
- Marine Systems
- Future Opportunities
- Internal States
- International Collaborations
- More +
Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by biologging and biotelemetry, or the use of miniaturized animal-borne s... Read More