Saturday, April 30, 2011

An insight in to wallowing in pigs

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Review of wallowing in pigs: Description of the behaviour and its motivational basis   M.B.M. Bracke Applied Animal Behaviour Science Volum...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Ecosystem collapse- The importance of regular monitoring

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I was fascinated to read in today’s Science daily about ecosystem collapse and how regular monitoring can be used to predict the collapses...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Traffic noise and its effect on the foraging efficiency in acoustic predators

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Hunting at the highway: traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in acoustic predators Björn M. Siemers    and  Andrea Schaub Published on...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Protected area impacts on a global scale

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Global protected area impacts Lucas N. Joppa and  Alexander Pfaff Published online before print November 17, 2010, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010....
Monday, April 25, 2011

Behavioral ecology is fast becoming a threatened discipline says scientists

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Endangered species and a threatened discipline: behavioural ecology Tim Caro and Paul W. Sherman Trends in Ecology & Evolution,   Vol...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

First empirical evidence to show that rewilding can work

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Resurrecting Extinct Interactions with Extant Substitutes Christine J. Griffiths , Dennis M. Hansen , Carl G. Jones , Nicolas Zuël , Stephe...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Population variables – A rapid assessment system

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A Rapid Method to Estimate Population Variables for African Elephants Sam M. Ferreira and Rudi J. van Aarde Journal of Wildlife Management ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Biological arms race between the cuckoo finch and its host

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I was really fascinated to read about the biological arms races between cuckoos and host birds in Africa. The researchers from University o...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Wildlife management – A game-theoretic approach

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In this paper the authors contend that management strategies provided by the game-theoretic approach complements existing adaptive manageme...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

No update for one week

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Hi Guys,                I am travelling to areas with no internet connectivity for the next seven days. Consequently there won't be any...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Putting Allee effects to good use

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Exploiting Allee effects for managing biological invasions Patrick C. Tobin, Luděk Berec, Andrew M. Liebhold Article first published onlin...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Predator-driven component Allee effects may exacerbate the risk of extinction of small populations

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Predator-driven component Allee effects in a wild ungulate Aurélie Bourbeau-Lemieux, Marco Festa-Bianchet,Jean-Michel Gaillard,Fanie Pellet...
Monday, April 11, 2011

A new look at predator prey relationships

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A new paper by University of Notre Dame biologist Gary Belovsky appearing in the latest issue of journal  Ecology Letters  drives home the...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

A new index to assess mammal species that are most likely to become extinct

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A new index called    SAFE (Species Ability to Forestall Extinction) has been developed by a team of Australian researchers from the Univer...
Saturday, April 09, 2011

Mangrove forests and carbon sequestration

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According to a new study published on April 3, in Nature Geoscience, mangroves store exceptionally more carbon than most tropical forests...
Friday, April 08, 2011

An assessment of the reliability of ground counts of ungulate populations

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  Ground counts are often used to monitor ungulate populations. The minus point is that ground counts have low precision and often underest...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Habitat fragmentation, percolation theory and the conservation of a keystone species

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Habitat fragmentation, percolation theory and the  conservation  of a keystone species G. P. Boswell , N. F. Britton  and  N. R. Franks Pro...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Planning, implementing, and monitoring multiple-species habitat conservation plans

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Planning, implementing, and monitoring multiple-species habitat conservation plans Janet Franklin,   Helen M. Regan,   Lauren A. Hierl,   D...