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  • Angling baits and invasive crayfish as important trophic subsidies for a large cyprinid fish 
    Basic, Tea; Britton, J. Robert; Jackson, Michelle C.; Reading, Peter; Grey, Jonathan (Springer, 2015-01)
    Invasive species and anthropogenic sources of allochthonous trophic subsidies can have substantial eco-logical consequences for freshwater ecosystems, including modifying the diet of consumers and altering food web ...
  • Animal borne ocean sensors - AniBOS - an essential component of the global ocean observing system 
    McMahon, Clive Reginald; Roquet, Fabien; Baudel, Sophie; Belbeoch, Mathieu; Bestley, Sophie; Blight, Clint; Boehme, Lars; Carse, Fiona; Costa, Daniel P.; Fedak, Michael A.; Guinet, Christophe; Harcourt, Robert; Heslop, Emma; Hindell, Mark A.; Hoenner, Xavier; Holland, Kim; Holland, Mellinda; Jaine, Fabrice R.A.; Du Dot, Tiphaine Jeanniard; Jonsen, Ian; Keates, Theresa R.; Kovacs, Kit M.; Labrousse, Sara; Lovell, Philip; Lydersen, Christian; March, David; Mazloff, Matthew; McKinzie, Megan K.; Muelbert, Monica M.C.; O’Brien, Kevin; Phillips, Lachlan; Portela, Esther; Pye, Jonathan; Rintoul, Stephen; Sato, Katsufumi; Sequeira, Ana M.M.; Simmons, Samantha E.; Tsontos, Vardis M.; Turpin, Victor; Van Wijk, Esmee; Vo, Danny; Wege, Mia; Whoriskey, Frederick Gilbert; Wilson, Kenady; Woodward, Bill (Frontiers Media, 2021-11-05)
    Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal behavior and ecology. These data are an essential ...
  • Animal diversity declines with broad-scale homogenization of canopy cover in African savannas 
    McCleery, Robert A.; Monadjem, Ara; Baiser, Benjamin; Fletcher Jr, Robert; Vickers, Karen; Kruger, Laurence (Elsevier, 2018-10)
    Savannas are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic forces that are causing broad-scale directional shifts in woody vegetation that homogenizes their structure. Yet, whether animal communities respond consistently to ...
  • Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags 
    Wilson, Rory P.; Rose, Kayleigh A.; Gunner, Richard; Holton, Mark D.; Marks, Nikki J.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Bell, Stephen H.; Twining, Joshua P.; Hesketh, Jamie; Duarte, Carlos M.; Bezodis, Neil; Jezek, Milos; Painter, Michael; Silovsky, Vaclav; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Harel, Roi; Arnould, John P.Y.; Allan, Blake M.; Whisson, Desley A.; Alagaili, Abdulaziz; Scantlebury, D. Michael (Royal Society, 2021-10)
    Animal-attached devices have transformed our understanding of vertebrate ecology. To minimize any associated harm, researchers have long advocated that tag masses should not exceed 3% of carrier body mass. However, this ...
  • Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes 
    Nimmo, Dale G.; Avitabile, Sarah; Banks, Sam C.; Bliege Bird, Rebecca; Callister, Kate; Clarke, Michael F.; Dickman, Chris R.; Doherty, Tim S.; Driscoll, Don A.; Greenville, Aaron C.; Haslem, Angie; Kelly, Luke T.; Kenny, Sally A.; Lahoz-Monfort, Jose J.; Lee, Connie; Leonard, Steven; Moore, Harry; Newsome, Thomas M.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Ritchie, Euan G.; Schneider, Kathryn; Turner, James M.; Watson, Simon; Westbrooke, Martin; Wouters, Mike; White, Matthew; Bennett, Andrew F. (Wiley, 2019-06)
    Movement is a trait of fundamental importance in ecosystems subject to frequent disturbances, such as fire‐prone ecosystems. Despite this, the role of movement in facilitating responses to fire has received little attention. ...
  • Animal telemetry : tagging effects 
    McIntyre, Trevor (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015-08)
    The 12 June Reviews by R. Kays et al. (“Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet,” p. 1222) and N. E. Hussey et al. (“Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world,” p. 1221) ...
  • Animal-borne telemetry : an integral component of the ocean observing toolkit 
    Harcourt, Rob; Sequeira, Ana M.M.; Zhang, Xuelei; Roquet, Fabien; Komatsu, Kosei; Heupel, Michelle; McMahon, Clive Reginald; Whoriskey, Fred; Meekan, Mark; Carroll, Gemma; Brodie, Stephanie; Simpfendorfer, Colin; Hindell, Mark; Jonsen, Ian; Costa, Daniel P.; Block, Barbara; Muelbert, Monica; Woodward, Bill; Weise, Mike; Aarestrup, Kim; Biuw, Martin; Boehme, Lars; Bograd, Steven J.; Cazau, Dorian; Charrassin, Jean-Benoit; Cooke, Steven J.; Cowley, Paul; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Du Dot, Tiphaine Jeanniard; Duarte, Carlos; Eguíluz, Víctor M.; Ferreira, Luciana C.; Fernández-Gracia, Juan; Goetz, Kimberly; Goto, Yusuke; Guinet, Christophe; Hammill, Mike; Hays, Graeme C.; Hazen, Elliott L.; Huckstadt, Luis A.; Huveneers, Charlie; Iverson, Sara; Jaaman, Saifullah Arifin; Kittiwattanawong, Kongkiat; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lydersen, Christian; Moltmann, Tim; Naruoka, Masaru; Phillips, Lachlan; Picard, Baptiste; Queiroz, Nuno; Reverdin, Gilles; Sato, Katsufumi; Sims, David W.; Thorstad, Eva B.; Thums, Michele; Treasure, Anne; Trites, Andrew W.; Williams, Guy D.; Yonehara, Yoshinari; Fedak, Mike A. (Frontiers Media, 2019-06)
    Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas and open oceans. Satellite-linked biologgers ...
  • Anniversary of a beekeeper’s discovery of thelytoky in Cape honey bees 
    Mumoki, F.N. (Fiona); Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Crewe, Robin M. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022-11)
    SIGNIFICANCE: • The laying workers of the Cape honey bee continue to negatively affect the South African beekeeping industry, with more losses suffered in the northern regions of the country. • The reproductive parasites ...
  • An annotated checklist of mammals of Kenya 
    Musila, Simon; Monadjem, Ara; Webala, Paul W.; Patterson, Bruce D.; Hutterer, Rainer; De Jong, Yvonne A.; Butynski, Thomas M.; Mwangi, Geoffrey; Chen, Zhong-Zheng; Jiang, Xue-Long (Science Press, PR China, 2019)
    Kenya has a rich mammalian fauna. We reviewed recently published books and papers including the six volumes of Mammals of Africa to develop an up-to-date annotated checklist of all mammals recorded from Kenya. A total ...
  • Annual monitoring reveals rapid upward movement of exotic plants in a montane ecosystem 
    Kalwij, Jesse M.; Robertson, Mark P.; Janse Van Rensburg, Berndt (Springer, 2015-12)
    There is increasing evidence that invasive species are threating montane ecosystems globally. However, trends in species distribution are difficult to observe directly due to a lack of data with suitable spatio-temporal ...
  • Ant assemblages have darker and larger members in cold environments 
    Bishop, Tom R.; Robertson, Mark P.; Gibb, Heloise; Janse Van Rensburg, Berndt; Braschler, Brigitte; Chown, Steven L.; Foord, Stefan H.; Munyai, Thinandavha Caswell; Okey, Iona; Tshivhandekano, Pfarelo G.; Werenkraut, Victoria; Parr, Catherine Lucy (Wiley, 2016-12)
    AIM : In ectotherms, the colour of an individual’s cuticle may have important thermoregulatory and protective consequences. In cool environments, ectotherms should be darker, to maximize heat gain, and larger, to ...
  • Ant colony nest networks adapt to resource disruption 
    Burns, Dominic D.R.; Franks, Daniel W.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Robinson, Elva J.H. (Wiley, 2021-01)
    1. Animal social structure is shaped by environmental conditions, such as food availability. This is important as conditions are likely to change in the future and changes to social structure can have cascading ecological ...
  • Antarctic fur seal predation on cephalopods at Marion Island 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Pistorius, Pierre Anton; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Springer, 2010-04)
    We report two observations of adult male Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, preying on large octopods at subAntarctic Marion Island during July and August 2008. If Antarctic fur seals take cephalopods ...
  • Antarctic pack ice seal observations during spring across the Lazarev Sea 
    Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Lubcker, Nico; Haddad, Wiam; Bornemann, Horst; Wege, Mia (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
    The distribution, density and percentage contribution of pack ice seals during ship-board censuses in the marginal sea ice zone beyond the Lazarev Sea in spring 2019 are presented. Adult/juvenile crabeater seals (n = 19), ...
  • Anthropogenic influences on distance traveled and vigilance behavior and stress-related endocrine correlates in free-roaming giraffes 
    Scheijen, Ciska P.J.; Van der Merwe, Sean; Ganswindt, Andre; Deacon, Francois (MDPI, 2021-04)
    Giraffes are an important tourist attraction, and human presence to wildlife is increasing. This has an impact on an animal’s behavior and its endocrine correlates. Studies on other species show alterations in movement ...
  • Anthropogenic influences on spotted hyaena diet in the Kruger National Park, South Africa 
    Belton, L.E. (Lydia); Cameron, Elissa Z.; Dalerum, Fredrik (Springer, 2018-07)
    Rapid urban expansion has led to an increase in carnivores that live close to human dominated environments. Some carnivore species have successfully adapted to these novel conditions and taken advantage of opportunities ...
  • Anthropogenic modifications to fire regimes in the wider Serengeti-Mara ecosystem 
    Probert, James R.; Parr, Catherine Lucy; Holdo, Ricardo M.; Anderson, T. Michael; Archibald, Sally; Mustaphi, Colin J. Courtney; Dobson, Andrew P.; Donaldson, Jason E.; Hopcraft, Grant C.; Hempson, Gareth P.; Morrison, Thomas A.; Beale, Colin M. (Wiley, 2019-10)
    Fire is a key driver in savannah systems and widely used as a land management tool. Intensifying human land uses are leading to rapid changes in the fire regimes, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and composition. ...
  • Anti-inflammatory potential of South African medicinal plants used for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections 
    Lawal, F.; Bapela, Mahwahwatse Johanna; Adebayo, Salmon A.; Nkadimeng, Sanah Malomile; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Malterud, Karl Egil; McGaw, Lyndy Joy; Tshikalange, Thilivhali Emmanuel (Elsevier, 2019-09)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Antibiotic treatment impairs protein digestion in the honeybee, Apis mellifera 
    Du Rand, Esther Elizabeth; Stutzer, Christian; Human, Hannelie; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Nicolson, Sue W. (Springer, 2020-02)
    Nutritional stress due to habitat transformation and loss is one of several factors contributing to current declines in global bee populations. Bees obtain protein from pollen, which in honeybees is consumed and digested ...
  • Antioxidant supplementation can reduce the survival costs of excess amino acid intake in honeybees 
    Archer, C. Ruth; Kohler, Angela; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Oosthuizen, Vinette; Apostolides, Zeno; Nicolson, Sue W. (Elsevier, 2014-12)
    Over-consuming amino acids is associated with reduced survival in many species, including honeybees. The mechanisms responsible for this are unclear but one possibility is that excessive intake of amino acids increases ...