Parker, Daniel M.; Nams, Vilis O.; Balme, Guy A.; Begg, Colleen; Begg, Keith; Bidner, Laura; Bockmuehl, Dirk; Cozzi, Gabriele; Du Preez, Byron; Fattebert, Julien; Golabek, Krystyna; Grant, Tanith; Hayward, Matt W.; Houser, Ann-Marie; Hunter, Luke T.B.; Isbell, Lynne A.; Jenny, David; Loveridge, Andrew J.; Macdonald, David W.; Mann, Gareth K.H.; Maputla, Nakedi; Marker, Laurie; Martins, Quinton E.; Maruping-Mzileni, Nkabeng; Melzheimer, Joerg; Menges, Vera; Nyoni, Phumuzile; O'Brien, John; Owen, Cailey; Parker, Tim; Pitman, Ross; Power, R. John; Slotow, Rob; Stein, Andrew; Steyn, Villiers; Stratford, Ken; Swanepoel, Lourens H.; Vanak, Abi; Van Vuuren, Rudi; Wachter, Bettina; Weise, Florian; Wilmers, Chris C.(Oxford University Press, 2023-12)
The size of the home range of a mammal is affected by numerous factors. However, in the normally solitary, but polygynous, Leopard (Panthera pardus), home range size and maintenance is complicated by their transitory social ...
Recent loss of rhinoceros subspecies has renewed interest in using more advanced assisted reproductive technologies
(ART) in rhinoceroses and elephants. Currently, only semen collection, semen preservation and artificial ...
Our research represents the first extensive study of the breeding behaviour and related environmental triggers of reproduction in the African giant pouch rat (Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse, 1840) in and around the equator ...
A cross-sectoral Blue Economy (BE) approach that optimises the use of marine and aquatic resources in an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive manner, is seen as a means of overcoming the challenges Africa ...
Risely, Alice; Muller-Klein, Nadine; Schmid, Dominik W.; Wilhelm, Kerstin; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Manser, Marta B.; Sommer, Simone(Wiley, 2023-10)
Climate change and climate-driven
increases in infectious disease threaten wildlife
populations globally. Gut microbial responses are predicted to either buffer or exacerbate
the negative impacts of these twin pressures ...
De Lange, Christoffel J.; Bonnet, Olivier; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian)(Oxford University Press, 2024-06)
Within African savannas, seasonal rainfall influences the survival of mammalian grazers by determining the availability and quality of food. The strength of these effects may, however, vary depending on the availability ...
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 ...