Hosting 1460 plant and 126 vertebrate endemic species, the Great Escarpment (hereafter, Escarpment) forms a semi-circular “amphitheater” of mountains girdling southern Africa from arid west to temperate east. Since arid ...
Chong, Lisa; Pienaar, Elizabeth Frances; Ahrens, Robert N.M.; Camp, Edward V.(Wiley, 2024-06)
The Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery has been caught in a spiral of more restrictive regulations and disputed management. Current management measures have failed to reduce fishing mortality, owing in part to derby style ...
Whales have been titled climate savers in the media with their recovery
welcomed as a potential carbon solution. However, only a few studies were
performed to date providing data or model outputs to support the ...
Seyboth, E.; Meynecke, Jan-Olaf; De Bie, Jasper; Roychoudhury, Alakendra; Findlay, Ken P.(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-19)
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily
targeted during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000
individuals killed between 1903 and 1973. That impacted the abundance of ...
If transparent and inclusive stakeholder discussion delivers a consensus for active
rewilding, then five steps are recommended for operationalizing that decision,
focused initially on the large herbivore assemblage. ...
Bonacic, Cristian; Medellin, Rodrigo A.; Ripple, William; Sukumar, Raman; Ganswindt, Andre; Padua, Suzana M.; Padua, Claudio; Pearl, Mary C.; Aguirre, Luis F.; Valdes, Lourdes Mugica; Buchori, Damayanti; Innes, John L.; Ibarra, J. Tomas; Rozzi, R.; Aguirre, A. Alonso(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-20)
A nuclear leakage or tactical nuclear weapon use in a limited war could cause
immense and long-lasting ecological consequences beyond the direct site
of exposure. We call upon all scientists to communicate the importance
of ...
Tropical and subtropical savanna ecosystems (TSE; Figure 1) contribute 30% of
terrestrial primary productivity globally (Grace et al., 2006), while covering 20% of the
land area of the Neotropics, sub-Saharan Africa, ...
Megafauna (animals ≥45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems for millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological communities and evolutionary processes. However, ...
Temperate living primates cope with a variety of environmental stressors, which may vary by body mass. We studied two sympatric galagos, the thick-tailed greater galago, Otolemur crassicaudatus (1.5 kg) and the southern ...
A high-resolution climate archive was reconstructed based on carbon isotope analysis and
radiocarbon dating of the Chapman baobab in northeastern Botswana. The Chapman baobab, which
exhibited an open ring-shaped structure ...
Interspecific interactions can influence species' activity and movement patterns. In particular, species may avoid or attract each other through reactive responses in space and/or time. However, data and methods to study ...
Urbanization is a key driver of global environmental change and is adversely impacting wildlife populations. Human tolerance for wildlife is critical to wildlife conservation in urban areas.
Using metropolitan Atlanta, ...
Human-wildlife coexistence is important for a sustainable relationship between humans and the natural environment. However,
human activities often act as a disturbance to wild animals, which may show behavioural shifts ...
Thorley, Jack; Bensch, Hanna M.; Finn, Kyle T.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Zottl, Markus(Oxford University Press, 2023-08)
In eusocial invertebrates and obligate cooperative breeders, successful reproduction is dependent on assistance from non-breeding
group members. Although naked (Heterocephalus glaber) and Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys ...
Highly polymorphic single tandem repeat loci (STR, also known as microsatellite loci) remain a familiar, cost efficient class of genetic markers in genetic studies in ecology, behavior and conservation. Here we characterize ...
Mountain topography gives rise to often dramatic climate-driven elevation
gradients in primary productivity, which can generate substantial biodiversity
variation. Therefore, mountain areas may be particularly useful for ...
Smith, Kyle; Venter, Jan A.; Peel, Mike; Keith, Mark; Somers, Michael J.(Wiley, 2023-08)
Carnivora occupy many ecological niches fundamental to ecosystem functioning.
Within this diverse order, carnivore species compete to establish dominance, ensure
survival and maintain fitness. Subordinate carnivores must, ...
Jordaan, Rowan Keith; Oosthuizen, W. Chris; Reisinger, Ryan R.; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico(Wiley, 2023-06)
Most marine apex predators are keystone species that fundamentally influence their
ecosystems through cascading top-down
processes. Reductions in worldwide predator
abundances, attributed to environmental-and
anthrop ...
Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (fGCMs) are a relevant means of non-invasively assessing adrenocortical activity and thus, a key physiological stress response in wildlife populations. However, the widespread use of fGCMs ...
The scratch-digging Cape dune mole-rat (Bathyergus suillus), and the chisel-toothed digging naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) are African mole-rats that differ in their digging strategy. The aim of this study was to ...