Tuesday, September 13, 2011

New vistas in monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects

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Monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects: A journey rather than a destination Francine M.R. Hughes,...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Eavesdropping to learn to hunt

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A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, US, have found that Big brown bats learn to hunt by eavesdropping on the sonar of o...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Presence and absence of some species can be easily assessed using freely available satellite imagery

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The use of Google Earth(TM) satellite imagery to detect the nests of masked boobies   Sula dactylatra B. John Hughes & Graham R. Martin...
Friday, September 09, 2011

Mountain goats are constrained to give birth in a short birth season synchronised with forage productivity.

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Birthdate, mass and survival in mountain goat kids: effects of maternal characteristics and forage quality Steve D. Côté and Marco Fest-...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

More on human disturbance to wildlife

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Responses of red deer ( Cervus elaphus)   to regular disturbance by hill walkers Angela Margaret Sibbald ,   Russell J. Hooper ,   James E....
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Effects of human disturbance on the diet composition of free ranging animals

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Effects of human disturbance on the diet composition of wild  red deer  ( Cervus elaphus) Sevvandi Jayakody ,  Angela M. Sibbald , ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Depredations caused by human nitrogen additions

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Latest research has come up with the finding that human nitrogen additions to terrestrial ecosystems increase the terrestrial carbon dioxid...
Monday, September 05, 2011

A rapid assessment tool for locating habitat extension areas in a changing landscape

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A rapid ecological network assessment tool and its use in locating habitat extension areas in a changing landscape Journal for Nature Conse...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

New Shark Species Found on way to dinner table

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Here is a big surprise. Fish taxonomists found a previously unknown shark,     Squalus formosus   n. sp, at a fish market in Taiwan . It b...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land

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According to a new study published in the journal  Science  separating natural habitats from high-yielding farmland could be a more effecti...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Scientists it is time to dance

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Science   and   TEDxBrussels   present The “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest Turn your Ph.D. thesis into a dance. You can win   $1000 , achieve i...

Better indicators of persistence in gap-analysis frameworks needed

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Misleading results from conventional gap analysis – Messages from the warming north Heini Kujala , Miguel B. Araújo, Wilfried Thuiller   an...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

Combinations of inexpensive methods can reduce monitoring costs substantially while yielding an equal or an increased performance.

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Survey method choice for wildlife management: the case of moose   Alces alces   in Sweden Johan Månsson, Cindy E. Hauser, Henrik Andrén ...

Exciting news from UK

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Here is some exciting news that I have just got from my contacts in UK. On Wednesday July 27th at 14.22, the first of the three Dyfi ospre...