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  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns 
    Tucker, Marlee A.; Schipper, Aafke M.; Adams, Tempe S.F.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Babic, Natarsha L.; Barker, Kristin J.; Bastille-Rousseau, Guillaume; Behr, Dominik M.; Belant, Jerrold L.; Beyer, Dean E.; Blaum, Niels; Blount, J. David; Bockmuhl, Dirk; Pires Boulhosa, Ricardo Luiz; Brown, Michael B.; Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; Cerne, Rok; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Chan, Aung Nyein; Chase, Michael; Chaval, Yannick; Chenaux-Ibrahim, Yvette; Cherry, Seth G.; Cirovic, Dusko; Coban, Emrah; Cole, Eric K.; Conlee, Laura; Courtemanch, Alyson; Cozzi, Gabriele; Davidson, Sarah C.; DeBloois, Darren; Dejid, Nandintsetseg; DeNicola, Vickie; Desbiez, Arnaud L.J.; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Drake, David; Egan, Michael; Eikelboom, Jasper A.J.; Fagan, William F.; Farmer, Morgan J.; Fennessy, Julian; Finnegan, Shannon P.; Fleming, Christen H.; Fournier, Bonnie; Fowler, Nicholas L.; Gantchoff, Mariela G.; Garnier, Alexandre; Gehr, Benedikt; Geremia, Chris; Goheen, Jacob R.; Hauptfleisch, Morgan L.; Hebblewhite, Mark; Heim, Morten; Hertel, Anne G.; Heurich, Marco; Hewison, A.J. Mark; Hodson, James; Hoffman, Nicholas; Hopcraft, J. Grant C.; Huber, Djuro; Isaac, Edmund J.; Janik, Karolina; Jezek, Milos; Johansson, Orjan; Jordan, Neil R.; Kaczensky, Petra; Kamaru, Douglas N.; Kauffman, Matthew J.; Kautz, Todd M.; Kays, Roland; Kelly, Allicia P.; Kindberg, Jonas; Krofel, Miha; Kusak, Josip; Lamb, Clayton T.; LaSharr, Tayler N.; Leimgruber, Peter; Leitner, Horst; Lierz, Michael; Linnell, John D.C.; Lkhagvaja, Purevjav; Long, Ryan A.; Lopez-Bao, Jose Vicente; Loretto, Matthias-Claudio; Marchand, Pascal; Martin, Hans; Martinez, Lindsay A.; McBride, Roy T.; McLaren, Ashley A.D.; Meisingset, Erling; Melzheimer, Joerg; Merrill, Evelyn H.; Middleton, Arthur D.; Monteith, Kevin L.; Moore, Seth A.; Van Moorter, Bram; Morellet, Nicolas; Morrison, Thomas; Muller, Rebekka; Mysterud, Atle; Noonan, Michael J.; O'Connor, David; Olson, Daniel; Olson, Kirk A.; Ortega, Anna C.; Ossi, Federico; Panzacchi, Manuela; Patchett, Robert; Patterson, Brent R.; De Paula, Rogerio Cunha; Payne, John; Peters, Wibke; Petroelje, Tyler R.; Pitcher, Benjamin J.; Pokorny, Bostjan; Poole, Kim; Potocnik, Hubert; Poulin, Marie-Pier; Pringle, Robert M.; Prins, Herbert H.T.; Ranc, Nathan; Reljic, Slaven; Robb, Benjamin; Roder, Ralf; Rolandsen, Christer M.; Rutz, Christian; Salemgareyev, Albert R.; Samelius, Gustaf; Sayine-Crawford, Heather; Schooler, Sarah; Sekercioglu, Cagan H.; Selva, Nuria; Semenzato, Paola; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Sharma, Koustubh; Shawler, Avery L.; Signer, Johannes; Silovsky, Vaclav; Silva, Joao Paulo; Simon, Richard; Smiley, Rachel A.; Smith, Douglas W.; Solberg, Erling J.; Ellis-Soto, Diego; Spiegel, Orr; Stabach, Jared A.; Stacy-Dawes, Jenna; Stahler, Daniel R.; Stephenson, John; Stewart, Cheyenne; Strand, Olav; Sunde, Peter; Svoboda, Nathan J.; Swart, Jonathan; Thompson, Jeffrey J.; Toal, Katrina L.; Uiseb, Kenneth H.; VanAcker, Meredith C.; Velilla, Marianela; Verzuh, Tana L.; Wachter, Bettina; Wagler, Brittany L.; Whittington, Jesse; Wikelski, Martin; Wilmers, Christopher C.; Wittemyer, George; Young, Julie K.; Zięba, Filip; Zwijacz-Kozica, Tomasz; Huijbregts, Mark A.J.; Mueller, Thomas (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023-06)
    COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data, we compared movements and road avoidance of ...
  • Behavioural adjustments of a large carnivore to access secondary prey in a human-dominated landscape 
    Valeix, Marion; Hemson, Graham; Loveridge, Andrew J.; Mills, Michael G.L. (Gus); Macdonald, David W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-02)
    1. Conflict between people and large carnivores is an urgent conservation issue world-wide. Understanding the underlying ecological drivers of livestock depredation by large carnivores is greatly needed. 2. We studied ...
  • Behavioural and endocrine correlates to the aardwolf mating system 
    Marneweck, David G.; Cameron, Elissa Z.; Ganswindt, Andre; Dalerum, Fredrik (Elsevier, 2015-01)
    It is now widely recognized that mating systems contain both social and genetic components, where social components describe patterns of social associations while genetic components reflect patterns of mating activities. ...
  • Behavioural change during dispersal and its relationship to survival and reproduction in a cooperative breeder 
    Harrison, Natasha D.; Maag, Nino; Haverkamp, Paul J.; Ganswindt, Andre; Manser, Marta B.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Ozgul, Arpat; Cozzi, Gabriele (Wiley, 2021-11)
    1. The ability of dispersing individuals to adjust their behaviour to changing conditions is instrumental in overcoming challenges and reducing dispersal costs, consequently increasing overall dispersal success. Understanding ...
  • Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands 
    Cleland, Elsa E.; Lind, Eric M.; DeCrappeo, Nicole M.; DeLorenze, Elizabeth; Wilkins, Rachel Abbott; Adler, Peter B.; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Brown, Cynthia S.; Davies, Kendi F.; Esch, Ellen; Firn, Jennifer; Gressard, Scott; Gruner, Daniel S.; Hagenah, Nicole; Harpole, W. Stanley; Hautier, Yann; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Hofmockel, Kirsten S.; Kirkman, Kevin; Knops, Johannes M.H.; Kopp, Christopher W.; La Pierre, Kimberly J.; MacDougall, Andrew; McCulley, Rebecca L.; Melbourne, Brett A.; Moore, Joslin L.; Prober, Suzanne M.; Riggs, Charlotte; Risch, Anita C.; Schuetz, Martin; Stevens, Carly; Wragg, Peter D.; Wright, Justin; Borer, Elizabeth T. (Springer, 2019-11)
    Anthropogenic activities are increasing nutrient inputs to ecosystems worldwide, with consequences for global carbon and nutrient cycles. Recent meta-analyses show that aboveground primary production is often co-limited ...
  • Benefits of cooperation in captive Damaraland mole-rats 
    Houslay, Thomas M.; Vullioud, Philippe; Zottl, Markus; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Oxford University Press, 2020-05)
    Although the social mole-rats are commonly classified as eusocial breeders on the grounds that groups include a single breeding female (the “queen”) and a number of nonbreeding individuals (“helpers”) of both sexes, ...
  • The best of both worlds : no apparent trade-off between immunity and reproduction in two group-living African mole-rat species 
    Wallace, Kyra Mary Elizabeth; Hart, Daniel William; Venter, Francois; Janse van Vuuren, Andries K.; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Royal Society, 2023-08)
    Co-operatively breeding mammals often exhibit a female reproductive skew and suppression of the subordinate non-breeding group members. According to evolutionary theory and the immunity–fertility axis, an inverse relationship ...
  • Best practices for colony management : a neglected aspect for improving honey bee colony health and productivity in Africa 
    Nganso, Beatrice T.; Soroker, Victoria; Osabutey, Angelina F.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Johansson, Tino; Elie, Ntirenganya; Otieno-Ayayo, Z. Ngalo; Ibrahim, Mohammed M.; Ndungu, N.N.; Ayalew, Workneh; Wubie, Abebe J.; Taboue, Geraud C. Tasse; Fameni, Sidonie T.; Bobadoye, Bridget O.; Assefa, Freweini; Subramanian, Sevgan (Taylor and Francis, 2024)
    Apiculture has a well-recognized role in enhancing food security by pollination services around the globe. Besides, apiculture is an extremely valuable income-generating and job-creating activity for millions of men, women, ...
  • Between-lake variation in the trophic ecology of an invasive crayfish 
    Jackson, Michelle C.; Evangelista, Charlotte; Zhao, Tian; Lecerf, Antoine; Britton, J. Robert; Cucherousset, Julien (Wiley, 2017-09)
    1. The trophic ecology of invasive species has important implications for their impacts on recipient ecosystems, with omnivorous invaders potentially affecting native species and processes over multiple trophic levels. The ...
  • Beyond spatial overlap : harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions 
    Suraci, Justin P.; Smith, Justine A.; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Gaynor, Kaitlyn M.; Jones, Menna; Luttbeg, Barney; Ritchie, Euan G.; Sheriff, Michael J.; Sih, Andrew (Wiley, 2022-08)
    Predation risk, the probability that a prey animal will be killed by a predator, is fundamental to theoretical and applied ecology. Predation risk varies with animal behavior and environmental conditions, yet attempts to ...
  • Bioconversion of poultry manure and vegetable waste mixes by Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) 
    Parry, Nina Jennifer; Weldon, Christopher William (Wiley, 2023-05)
    Development time, survival and final nutrient content of Hermetia illucens L. larvae depends on the substrates in which they develop. Mixing different waste types together can increase the performance and survival of the ...
  • Biodiversity conservation through farming : a landscape assessment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Torquebiau, Emmanuel; Dosso, Mireille; Nakaggwa, Flavia; Philippon, Olivier (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    The integration of agriculture and biodiversity has become an acknowledged solution to concurrently address the development of sustainable food production systems and the preservation of natural resources. However, there ...
  • Biogeo : an R package for assessing and improving data quality of occurrence record datasets 
    Robertson, Mark P.; Visser, Vernon; Hui, Cang (Wiley, 2016-04)
    Occurrence data from museum and herbarium collections are valuable for mapping biodiversity patterns in space and time. Unfortunately these collections datasets contain many errors and suffer from several data quality ...
  • Biogeographical and co-evolutionary origins of scarabaeine dung beetles : Mesozoic vicariance versus Cenozoic dispersal and dinosaur versus mammal dung 
    Davis, Adrian L.V.; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Sole, Catherine L. (Wiley, 2017-09)
    The subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) may have originated in Gondwanaland, through Mesozoic vicariance or dispersal in association with dinosaur dung, or through Cenozoic dispersal in association with mammal ...
  • Biogeographical assessment of anthropogenic threats to areas where different frog breeding groups occur in South Africa : implications for anuran conservation 
    Mokhatla, Mohlamatsane M.; Measey, G. John; Chimimba, Christian Timothy; Janse Van Rensburg, Berndt (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-05)
    AIM To determine the spatial relationship between areas where different frog breeding groups occur and elevated anthropogenic activities, and the conservation implications thereof. LOCATION South Africa. METHODS Data on ...
  • The biogeography of Gabonese savannas: evidence from termite community richness and composition 
    Evouna Ondo, Fidele; Jeffery, Kathryn J.; Whytock, Robin; Abernethy, Katharine A.; Couteron, Pierre; Eggleton, Paul; Griffin, Claire; Ostle, Nicolas J.; Koumba Pambo, Aurelie-Flore; Ngomanda, Alfred; Ndong, Josue Edzang; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2023-09)
    AIM : The mosaic of savannas that persists in the forest-dominant Congo Basin is thought to be palaeoclimatic relics, but past biogeographical processes that have formed and maintained these systems are poorly understood. ...
  • Biological control of forest plantation pests in an interconnected world requires greater international focus 
    Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-09)
    The worldwide homogenization of genetic resources used in plantation forestry (primarily Pinus, Eucalypus, Populus and Acacia spp.) together with accelerating rates of human-aided dispersal of exotic pests, is resulting ...
  • Biological properties and activities of major royal jelly proteins and their derived peptides 
    Muresan, Carmen Ioana; Dezmirean, Daniel Severus; Marc, Bianca Dana; Suharoschi, Ramona; Pop, Oana Lelia; Buttstedt, Anja (Elsevier, 2022-11)
    Royal jelly (RJ) is a complex beehive product that is important for larval development and queen nutrition in the hive and may also have beneficial effects on human health, according to in vitro and in vivo studies. The ...
  • Biological survey of the Prince Edward Islands, December 2008 
    Cooper, J.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Chown, Steven Loudon; Crawford, R.J.M.; Daly, R.; Heyns, E.; Lamont, T.; Ryan, Peter G.; Shaw, J.D. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2009-08)
    A biological survey of the Prince Edward Islands took place in December 2008. The survey repeated an earlier survey of the populations of surface-nesting seabirds on both islands and of fur seals (Arctocephalus spp.) and ...
  • Biological traits of wild-caught populations of Aedes aegypti in dengue endemic and non-endemic regions of Kenya 
    Wanjiku, C.; Tchouassi, David Poumo; Sole, Catherine L.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Torto, Baldwyn (Society for Vector Ecology, 2021-06)
    Variation in vector traits can modulate local scale differences in pathogen transmission. Here, we compared seasonal variation in the wing length (proxy for body size) and energy reserves of adult wild-caught Aedes aegypti ...