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31 March 2015
Avian influenza viruses may be spread by wild birds, and waterfowl in particular. In order to model the dispersal of these viruses, it is important to assess the effects of infection on the birds’ behaviour. We compared the local and regional movements of mallard ducks...
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31 March 2015
Our Forum article on how medical surrogate approaches could be applied to ecology is the result of research being done by the surrogate ecology group at The Australian National University (comprised of the paper’s authors). While discussing how to make a new and...
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24 March 2015
The southwestern Ecuador holds one of the last remnants of seasonally tropical dry forest of the Tumbesian region, a place where amazing biodiversity, endemism and adaptation to extreme conditions can be found. However, this forest face high anthropogenic pressures...
New model predicts how long-lived species experience changes in the environment. Presented in the Oikos Early View paper " An integrated population model for a long-lived ungulate: more efficient data use with Bayesian methods" by Aline M. Lee and coworkers. Watch...
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10 March 2015
Always wondered about the apex predator? Read the Early View paper in Oikos "What is an apex predator?" by Arian D. Wallasch and co-workers. Below is the author's summary of the study: What is the difference between a dingo and fox? We had been counting animal tracks...
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6 March 2015
Humans cull large carnivore populations in areas around the world to reduce predation on wild and domestic ungulates. However, medium-sized ungulates such as sheep and deer are often preyed upon by smaller predators such as coyotes and lynx as well. Suppression of...
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27 February 2015
There may be no more prevalent icon of climate change in the Arctic than the polar bear. The story is simple: a warming climate is causing reductions in the volume, extent and seasonal duration of Arctic sea ice. Polar bears use the sea ice surface for hunting seals,...
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27 February 2015
Invasive populations within the invaded range are often regarded as a homogeneous group in the studies of invasive plants. However, since invasive plants can evolve very rapidly and there may be lots of differences between old and young invasive populations, the...
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13 February 2015
Ecosystem-shaping interactions between consumers and plants are notoriously variable. Indeed, even within a single system (and a single pair of interacting species) enormous variability can be seen -- the same consumer might increase plant biomass at one place and time...
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13 February 2015
Understanding the distribution of species over space and time is an important aspect of ecological research and has great value for wildlife and land management. How animals choose foraging sites is typically influenced by a variety of environmental conditions...
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