Conservation Dogs, Copepods, Mountain Goats
This week in new and notable research
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New and Notable Research:
🌾 Agriculture
Bees improve oil quality of oilseed rape
🐘 Animal Behavior
Not afraid of the big bad wolf: calls from large predators do not silence mesopredators
The effect of a startle-eliciting device on the foraging success of individual harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)
🦋 Biodiversity
Individual recognition of Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) by their tail patterns using a computer‐assisted pattern‐identification algorithm
🏝️ Biogeography
Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semiarid woodland
Effect of ecological and anthropogenic factors on grouping patterns in African lions across Kenya
Invasion by Cedrela odorata threatens long distance migration of Galapagos tortoises
Dynamic connectivity assessment for a terrestrial predator in a metropolitan region
☀️ Climate
Street trees provide an opportunity to mitigate urban heat and reduce risk of high heat exposure
Heat stress conditions affect the social network structure of free‐ranging sheep
Unveiling the role of climate in spatially synchronized locust outbreak risks
Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from the Epiphytic Lichens: Incubation Experiments
Atmospheric CO2 emissions and ocean acidification from bottom-trawling
🦬 Community Ecology
Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores
Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities
A model of coffee berry borer population growth and susceptibility to control by birds
🦅 Conservation
A threat analysis for the world’s most threatened turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)
Conservation detection dogs: A critical review of efficacy and methodology
A follow‐up assessment of wildlife‐permeable fences used in the reintroduction of bison
Survival rates of wild and released White‐rumped Vultures (Gyps bengalensis), and their implications for conservation of vultures in Nepal
Searching priorities for a species at the brink of extinction: Threats analysis on the critically endangered Nubian Flapshell Turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans)
🐊 Evolution
Seasonal remodeling of visceral organs in the invasive desert gecko Tarentola annularis
👨🦳 Human Ecology
Using photo editing to understand the impact of species aesthetics on support for conservation
🛣️ Human-Wildlife Interface
Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change
Synergistic effects of anthropogenic disturbances on giant pandas
Human activities influence mule deer use of overpasses across multiple scales
Declining pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) population productivity caused by woody encroachment and oil and gas development
Structural and socioeconomic features of cities predict migratory bird species richness
🐸 Invasive Species
🏭 Pollution
Assessment of mercury concentrations in fur, liver, and brain tissue from necropsied southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)
Pollutant Exposure for Chinese Wetland Birds: Ecotoxicological Endpoints and Biovectors
Deforestation as an Anthropogenic Driver of Mercury Pollution
🐟 Population Ecology
Reconstructing mountain goat history in the Olympic Mountains, USA
Mottled ducks, feral mallards, and their hybrids in Florida
🦫 Restoration Ecology
Collateral benefits: River flow normalization for endangered fish enabled riparian rejuvenation