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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bronwyn A S Harkness, Gabriela Ibarguchi, Veronica F Poland, Vicki L Friesen
Understanding the forces that shape population genetic structure is fundamental both for understanding evolutionary trajectories and for conservation. Many factors can influence the geographic distribution of genetic variation, and the extent to which local populations differ can be especially difficult to predict in highly mobile organisms. For example, many species of seabirds are essentially panmictic, but some show strong structure. Pigeon Guillemots ( Cepphus columba ; Charadriiformes: Alcidae) breed in small colonies scattered along the North Pacific coastline and feed in shallow nearshore waters year-round...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nichole L Nageotte, Marley Steele-Inama, Brittany Frederick, Erica Elvove, Shelby E McDonald
As place-based conservation organizations, zoos are in a central position to support individuals in making small changes in their lives that will support the protection of wildlife and their habitats. This paper describes the secondary analysis of data collected from multi-phase front-end, exploratory evaluation that informed the development of a conservation action campaign in association with a non-profit, urban zoo. In phase one, internal organization staff were invited to attend workshops during which they brainstormed potential conservation actions that they felt were important for the zoo to promote...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Colin W Brocka, Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto, John L Koprowski
Connectivity is essential for the maintenance of genetic diversity and stability of wildlife populations. Drought and changing precipitation regimes have caused natural aquatic amphibian breeding habitats to disappear or become isolated and have led to the replacement of natural surface water with artificial livestock water tanks. Terrestrial movement is the only means of responding to aquatic threats in arid landscapes and to allow population connectivity. Aridity may present an impenetrable barrier in hydrologically fragmented environments...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tess Rooney, Eric M Fèvre, Jandouwe Villinger, Maris Brenn-White, Charles O Cummings, Daniel Chai, Joseph Kamau, Alice Kiyong'a, Dennis Getange, Dickens O Ochieng, Velma Kivali, Dawn Zimmerman, Marieke Rosenbaum, Felicia B Nutter, Sharon L Deem
AIMS: Q fever is a globally distributed, neglected zoonotic disease of conservation and public health importance, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Coxiella burnetii normally causes subclinical infections in livestock, but may also cause reproductive pathology and spontaneous abortions in artiodactyl species. One such artiodactyl, the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius), is an increasingly important livestock species in semi-arid landscapes. Ticks are naturally infected with C...
April 16, 2024: Zoonoses and Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Anthony Kirk, Sara J Collins, Juan Andrés Martínez-Lanfranco, Amanda E Martin
Aquatic invertebrates provide important ecosystem services, including decomposition and nutrient cycling, and provide nutrition for birds, fish, amphibians, and bats. Thus, the effects of agricultural land management practices on aquatic invertebrates are relevant to farmers, wildlife biologists, and policymakers. Here, we used data on aquatic invertebrates (159 taxa, 73 to species, 75 to genus/family) collected in 40 wetlands in the Canadian prairies to test for direct and indirect relationships among land management types (perennial cover, organic, minimum tillage, conventional), landscape structure (cropland and wetland cover within the surrounding landscape), and water quality (total nutrient levels, turbidity) on species richness of invertebrates using structural equation modelling...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Allyson N Beard, Donald J Brown, Eric T Hileman, Michael T Jones, Jena M Staggs, Ron A Moen, Andrew F Badje, Christopher M Lituma
Reliable population estimates are important for making informed management decisions about wildlife species. Standardized survey protocols have been developed for monitoring population trends of the wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta), a semi-aquatic freshwater turtle species of conservation concern throughout its distribution in east-central North America. The protocols use repeated active search surveys of defined areas, allowing for estimation of survey-specific detection probability (p) and site-specific abundance...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ejigu Alemayehu Worku, Paul H Evangelista, Anagaw Atickem, Afework Bekele, Jakob Bro-Jørgensen, Nils Chr Stenseth
Habitat suitability models have become a valuable tool for wildlife conservation and management, and are frequently used to better understand the range and habitat requirements of rare and endangered species. In this study, we employed two habitat suitability modeling techniques, namely Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) models, to identify potential suitable habitats for the endangered mountain nyala ( Tragelaphus buxtoni ) and environmental factors affecting its distribution in the Arsi and Ahmar Mountains of Ethiopia...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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Molly C Simonis, Kimberlee Whitmore, Kristin E Dyer, Meagan Allira, Bret Demory, Matthew M Chumchal, Daniel J Becker
UNLABELLED: Contaminant exposure can harm wildlife. However, measuring contaminant exposure in wildlife can be challenging due to accessibility of species and/or sampling tissue matrices needed to answer research questions regarding exposure. For example, in bats and other taxa that roost, it may be best to collect pooled feces from colonies for minimal disturbance to species of conservation concern, but fecal contaminant concentrations do not provide contaminant bioaccumulation estimates...
April 1, 2024: bioRxiv
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REVIEW
F Whiting-Fawcett, A S Blomberg, T Troitsky, M B Meierhofer, K A Field, S J Puechmaille, T M Lilley
The fungal infection causing white-nose disease in hibernating bats in North America has resulted in dramatic population declines of affected species, since the introduction of the causative agent Pseudogymnoascus destructans. The fungus is native to the Palearctic, where it also infects several bat species, yet rarely causes severe pathology or the death of the host. Pseudogymnoascus destructans infects bats during hibernation by invading and digesting the skin tissue, resulting in the disruption of torpor patterns and consequent emaciation...
April 15, 2024: Conservation Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matteo Serpieri, Giuseppe Bonaffini, Chiara Ottino, Giuseppe Quaranta, Luca Manassero, Mitzy Mauthe VON Degerfeld
In human and veterinary medicine, the treatment of synovial cysts involves medical or surgical approach. When medical treatment is chosen, triamcinolone acetonide is one of the most used drugs. In this case, intracystic triamcinolone was administered for the treatment of a non-infectious elbow synovial cyst in a subadult female Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), unable to fly. The bird was brought to a wildlife rescue center after an aerial fight with a conspecific. After the treatment, no clinically detectable adverse effects were noted and there was no recurrence within two weeks...
April 15, 2024: Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tiago Pinto, Neftalí Sillero, António Mira, Sara M Santos
Roads represent one of the main sources of wildlife mortality, population decline, and isolation, especially for low-vagility animal groups. It is still not clearly understood how wildlife populations respond to these negative effects over space and time. Most studies on wildlife road mortality do not consider the spatial and temporal components simultaneously, or the imperfect roadkill detection, both of which could lead to inaccurate assumptions and unreliable mitigation actions. In this study, we applied a multi-season occupancy model to a 14-year amphibian mortality dataset collected along 120 km of roads, combined with freely available landscape and remote sensing metrics, to identify the spatiotemporal patterns of amphibian roadkill in a Mediterranean landscape in Southern Portugal...
April 11, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rihan Wu, Xin Zhang, Jianxi Zhao, Deying Yi, Fuli Gao, Weidong Bao
The Chinese goral ( Naemorhedus griseus ) is identified as a vulnerable species on the Red List of China's Biodiversity and listed as a national second-class key protected wild animal in China. It is a representative flagship ungulate in Beijing. Its distribution range is fragmented and small populations are separated by dense infrastructures and tourism sites. Understanding its population status provides a foundation to plan effective conservation strategies. In this study, a population viability analysis was conducted with VORTEX (10...
April 7, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Najeeb Ullah, Irum Basheer, Faiz Ur Rehman, Minghai Zhang, Muhammad Tayyab Khan, Sanaullah Khan, Hairong Du
Livestock herding is a vital practice in Balochistan, contributing to the economy and culture. The livestock sector is significant in Balochistan, providing 20% of the national stock. Large predators and their prey species, including livestock, have coexisted in these mountainous landscapes for centuries. The aim of the present research is to investigate the impacts of livestock depredation by large predators on livelihoods and predator conservation in two districts of Balochistan, Pakistan. A human-carnivore conflict survey was conducted from July to September 2019, collecting data from 311 residents in a selected study area...
April 4, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiye Shi, Lei Meng, Shanshan Xia, Song Liu, Lizhi Zhou
Habitat suitability analysis is essential in habitat and species conservation. Anatidae are known for their migratory behaviour, high population density, and wide distribution range. Understanding their habitat utilzation and influencing factors is crucial in targeted conservation and management. In this study, we collected Anatidae diversity data, including the number of species, through field surveys from October 2021 to March 2022 and thirty habitat variables through an online database in Anhui Province, China...
March 26, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ingridi Camboim Franceschi, Rubem Augusto da Paixão Dornas, Isabel Salgueiro Lermen, Artur Vicente Pfeifer Coelho, Ademir Henrique Vilas Boas, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Agnis Cristiane de Souza, Alana Rafaela Borsekowsky, Alessandro Rocha, Alex Bager, Alexander Zaidan de Souza, Alexandre Martins Costa Lopes, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Alvaro García-Olaechea, Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Ana Elisa de Faria Bacellar, Ana Kellen Nogueira Campelo, Ana Maria Oliveira Paschoal, Anderson Claudino Rolim, André Luiz Ferreira da Silva, Andre Monnerat Lanna, André Pereira da Silva, Andresa Guimarães, Ângela Cardoso, Angelica Soligo Cassol, Anna Ludmilla da Costa-Pinto, Ariel Guilherme Santos do Nascimento, Arthur Soares Fernandes, Aryanne Clyvia, Aureo Banhos Dos Santos, Barbara Lima-Silva, Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano, Bernardo de Faria Leopoldo, Bruna Nunes Krobel, Bruno Busnello Kubiak, Bruno Henrique Saranholi, Bruno Senna Correa, Caio Sant Anna Teixeira, Camila Rezende Ayroza, Camila Righetto Cassano, Camilo Benitez-Riveros, Carla Cristina Gestich, Carla Denise Tedesco, Carla Gheler-Costa, Carla Grasiele Zanin Hegel, Carlito da Silva Evangelista Junior, Carlos Eduardo Morando Faria Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Carolina Franco Esteves, Caroline da Costa Espinosa, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Catalina Sanchéz-Lalinde, Cauanne Iglesias Campos Machado, Cecilia Andreazzi, Cecília Bueno, Cecilia Cronemberger de Faria, Claudio Novaes, Cynthia Elisa Widmer, Cyntia Cavalcante Santos, Daniel da Silva Ferraz, Daniel Galiano, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Daniela Behs, Daniele Pereira Rodrigues, Danielle Picão de Melo, Déborah Maria Soares Ramos, Denise Lidório de Mattia, Diego Dias Pavei, Diogo Loretto, Douglas da Silva Huning, Douglas de Matos Dias, Éder Ricardo Paetzhold, Elaine Rios, Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz, Eliana Cazetta, Emanuel Giovani Cafofo Silva, Emanuelle Pasa, Erica Naomi Saito, Erick Francisco Silva de Aguiar, Érika Paula Castro, Ernesto Bastos Viveiros de Castro, Ezequiel Pedó, Fabiane de Aguiar Pereira, Fábio Bolzan, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Fábio Dias Mazim, Fábio Henrique Comin, Fábio Maffei, Felipe Bortolotto Peters, Felipe Moreli Fantacini, Felipe Pessoa da Silva, Felipe Santana Machado, Felipe Vélez-Garcia, Fernanda Stussi Duarte Lage, Fernando Araújo Perini, Fernando Camargo Passos, Fernando Carvalho, Fernando Cesar Cascelli de Azevedo, Fernando Ferreira, Fernando Ferreira de Pinho, Flávia Guimarães Chaves, Flavia Regina Miranda, Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues, Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Francisco Homem Gabriel, Franco Leandro de Souza, Fred Victor de Oliveira, Gabriel Cupolillo, Gabriela de Araújo Pires Moreira, Gabriela Mette, Gabriela Teixeira Duarte, Gabrielle Beca, Gilberto Corso, Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Glauber Henrique Borges de Oliveira Souto, Glenda Jéssica da Silva Vilarroel, Graziele O Batista, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Gustavo Alves da Costa Toledo, Gustavo Senger, Helena de Godoy Bergallo, Hellen Cristina Pinheiro Dos Santos, Humberto Angelo Gazola, Isabel Melo, Ismael Verrastro Brack, Iuri Veríssimo, Ivan Réus Viana, Izabela Costa Laurentino, Jaime Luis Diehl, Jairo José Zocche, Jimi Martins-Silva, João Paulo Gava Just, Jorge José Cherem, Jorge Luiz Nascimento, Jorge Reppold Marinho, José Oliveira Dantas, Jose Roberto de Matos, José Salatiel Rodrigues Pires, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Juan Ruiz-Esparza, Juliana Paulo da Silva, Juliano André Bogoni, Karina Theodoro Molina, Karla Dayane de Lima Pereira, Karoline Ceron, Kristel de Vleeschouwer, Laís Lautenschlager, Larissa Bailey, Larissa Fornitano, Lilian Elaine Rampim, Lorena Sforza, Luan Gonçalves Bissa, Luca Mattos Santucci, Lucas Gonçalves da Silva, Lucas Neves Perillo, Lucas Ribeiro Correa, Ludmila Hufnagel, Luis Fernando Alberti, Luis Jose Recalde Mello, Luis Renato Rezende Bernardo, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira-Santos, Luiza Neves Guimarães, Maíra Benchimol, Manuela Catharina Twardowschy, Marcela Ferreira-Riveros, Marcelo da Silva, Márcia Maria de Assis Jardim, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Marcos Adriano Tortato, Marcos Tadeu do Nascimento, Margareth Lumy Sekiama, Maria Clara Nascimento-Costa, Maria Ester Bueno Dos Santos, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Mariana Baldy Nagy-Reis, Mariane da Cruz Kaizer, Mariano José Ribeiro da Silva Sant'Anna, Marilia Teresinha Hartmann, Marina Ochoa Favarini, Marina Oliveira Olivo, Martín Alejandro Montes, Martin Roberto Del Valle Alvaréz, Matheus Feldstein Haddad, Maurício Djalles Costa, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Mauricio Quoos Konzen, Mauro Galetti, Meyline de Oliveira Souza Almeida, Michel Barros Faria, Micheli Ribeiro Luiz, Michelle Noronha da Matta Baptista, Miguel Ângelo Marini, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Natalie Olifiers, Natasha Moraes de Albuquerque, Nicolás Cantero, Nivaldo Peroni, Noeli Zanella, Olívia Mendonça-Furtado, Olivier Pays, Orlando Ednei Ferretti, Oscar Rocha-Barbosa, Paloma Marques Santos, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Patrício Adriano da Rocha, Paul François Colas-Rosas, Paula Ribeiro-Souza, Paula Ferracioli, Paulo Afonso Hartmann, Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas, Paulo Ribeiro, Paulo Tomasi Sarti, Paulo Ivo Mônico, Pedro Volkmer de Castilho, Peônia Brito de Moraes Pereira, Peter Gransden Crawshaw, Pierre-Cyril Renaud, Rafael Spilere Romagna, Rafael Turíbio Moraes de Sousa, Raíssa Soares Spagnol, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Ravi Fernandes Mariano, Renata Reinoso Rocha, Renata Sousa-Lima, Renata Valls Pagotto, Rhayssa Terra de Faria, Ricardo Corassa Arrais, Ricardo Moratelli, Ricardo Sartorello, Rita de Cassia Bianchi, Roberto de Carvalho Guimarães, Rodrigo Lima Massara, Romulo Theodoro Costa, Rosane Vera Marques, Ruan Márcio Ruas Nunes, Sandra Maria Hartz, Saulo Meneses Silvestre de Sousa, Saulo Ramos Lima, Sergio Lutz Barbosa, Silvia Neri Godoy, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Talita Guimarães de Araújo-Piovezan, Talita Laura Góes, Tatiane Campos Trigo, Thales R O de Freitas, Thiago Bernardes Maccarini, Thiago Marcial de Castro, Thiago Ribas Bella, Tonny Marques de Oliveira Junior, Uslaine Maciel Cunha, Vanessa Tavares Kanaan, Vera Pfannerstill, Victor Siqueira Pimentel, Vilmar Picinatto Filho, Vinícius Nunes Alves, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Viviane Mottin, Vlamir José Rocha, Andreas Kindel, Igor Pfeifer Coelho
Camera traps became the main observational method of a myriad of species over large areas. Data sets from camera traps can be used to describe the patterns and monitor the occupancy, abundance, and richness of wildlife, essential information for conservation in times of rapid climate and land-cover changes. Habitat loss and poaching are responsible for historical population losses of mammals in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, especially for medium to large-sized species. Here we present a data set from camera trap surveys of medium to large-sized native mammals (>1 kg) across the Atlantic Forest...
April 12, 2024: Ecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Assessing the impact of Land use changes on ecosystem services in the Alledighe rangeland, Ethiopia.
Simeneh Admasu
Understanding the ecological, social, and economic values of protected areas, as well as assessing the services they provide to both humans and the environment is crucial for informing conservation policies and sustainable land management practices. Using the benefits transfer method, changes in ecosystem service values (ESVs) resulting from spatiotemporal land use dynamics were evaluated in the Alledighe Wildlife Reserve (AWR) spanning from 1998 to 2016. Five distinct habitat types, namely grassland, bushland, woodland, riverine forest, and highland forest, were identified across the landscape...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daxi Wang, Xinglou Yang, Zirui Ren, Ben Hu, Hailong Zhao, Kaixin Yang, Peibo Shi, Zhipeng Zhang, Qikai Feng, Carol Vannesa Nawenja, Vincent Obanda, Kityo Robert, Betty Nalikka, Cecilia Njeri Waruhiu, Griphin Ochieng Ochola, Samson Omondi Onyuok, Harold Ochieng, Bei Li, Yan Zhu, Haorui Si, Jiefang Yin, Karsten Kristiansen, Xin Jin, Xun Xu, Minfeng Xiao, Bernard Agwanda, Sheila Ommeh, Junhua Li, Zheng-Li Shi
BACKGROUND: Zoonotic viruses cause substantial public health and socioeconomic problems worldwide. Understanding how viruses evolve and spread within and among wildlife species is a critical step when aiming for proactive identification of viral threats to prevent future pandemics. Despite the many proposed factors influencing viral diversity, the genomic diversity and structure of viral communities in East Africa are largely unknown. RESULTS: Using 38.3 Tb of metatranscriptomic data obtained via ultradeep sequencing, we screened vertebrate-associated viromes from 844 bats and 250 rodents from Kenya and Uganda collected from the wild...
April 10, 2024: Microbiome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joeri A Zwerts, E H M Sterck, Pita A Verweij, Fiona Maisels, Jaap van der Waarde, Emma A M Geelen, Georges Belmond Tchoumba, Hermann Frankie Donfouet Zebaze, Marijke van Kuijk
More than a quarter of the world's tropical forests are exploited for timber1 . Logging impacts biodiversity in these ecosystems, primarily through the creation of forest roads that facilitate hunting for wildlife over extensive areas. Forest management certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) are expected to mitigate impacts on biodiversity, but so far very little is known about the effectiveness of FSC certification because of research design challenges, predominantly limited sample sizes2,3 ...
April 10, 2024: Nature
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Julia E Fa
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April 10, 2024: Nature
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christopher C Kyriazis, Laurel E K Serieys, Jacqueline M Bishop, Marine Drouilly, Storme Viljoen, Robert K Wayne, Kirk E Lohmueller
Wildlife populations are becoming increasingly fragmented by anthropogenic development. Small and isolated populations often face an elevated risk of extinction, in part due to inbreeding depression. Here, we examine the genomic consequences of urbanization in a caracal (Caracal caracal) population that has become isolated in the Cape Peninsula region of the City of Cape Town, South Africa, and is thought to number ~50 individuals. We document low levels of migration into the population over the past ~75 years, with an estimated rate of 1...
April 5, 2024: Molecular Ecology
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