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Hybrid apes in the anthropocene: burden or asset for conservation?

Published online: 22 Oct 2021

Authors: Palmer, A. & Sommer, V. & Msindai, J. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Conservationists often view hybrid animals as problematic, at least if anthropogenic influence caused the intermixing to occur. However, critics propo...

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Revised Disease Risk Analysis for the Conservation Translocation of the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) to England.

Published online: 12 Apr 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Common, S. & Sainsbury, A. W. & Donald, H.

Content type: Reports

In a disease risk analysis (DRA) on the conservation translocation of free-living beavers from either Norway or Great Britain, or those housed in eith...

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Reintroduced, but not accepted: stakeholder perceptions of beavers in Germany.

Published online: 07 Nov 2024

Authors: Hohm, M. & Moesch, S. S. & Bahm, J. & Haase, D. & Jeschke, J. M. & Balkenhol, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

While reintroductions of regionally extinct native species usually benefit ecosystems, reintroduced animals often struggle to locate appropriate habit...

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Special Issue: Seed predation.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Lewis, O. T. & Gripenberg, S.

Content type: Journal issue

This issue contains 4 papers focusing on the following topics: (i) insect seed predators and environmental change; (ii) limits of predation rates by t...

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Grazers on the plains: challenges and prospects for large herbivores in Central Asia.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Mallon, D. P. & Jiang ZhiGang

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Twelve species of large herbivores dwell on the steppes of Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Three of these species once occurred in vast he...

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Should individual animals be given names in wildlife reintroductions?

Published online: 20 Sep 2023

Authors: Auster, R. E. & Puttock, A. & Bradbury, G. & Brazier, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Individual animals are often given names by humans. For example, names are attributed to domestic animals to acknowledge their closeness to people, so...

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Age-dependent effects of developmental experience on morphology, performance, dispersal and survival in a translocated, endangered species.

Published online: 26 Jul 2022

Authors: Hammond, T. T. & Swaisgood, R. R. & Jacobs, L. E. & Curtis, M. J. & McCormick, B. A. & Hornfeldt, J. A. & Trotman, E. M. & Shier, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

While ex situ breeding programs are critical tools for species recovery, translocations using animals reared under human care can face low success rat...

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Death detector: using vultures as sentinels to detect carcasses by combining bio-logging and machine learning.

Published online: 21 Jan 2025

Authors: Rast, W. & Portas, R. & Shatumbu, G. I. & Berger, A. & Cloete, C. & Curk, T. & Götz, T. & Aschenborn, O. & Melzheimer, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Bio-logging technologies allow scientists to remotely monitor animal behaviour and the environment. In this study, we used the combination of natural ...

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Aedes aegypti control: the concomitant role of competition, space and transgenic technologies.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Yakob, L. & Alphey, L. & Bonsall, M. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Over 2 billion people are currently at risk of infection with dengue fever. Use of the sterile insect technique (SIT) in controlling the vector, Aedes...

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What monarch butterfly waystation names and characteristics can reveal about program participants.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Geest, E. A. & Taylor, O. R. & Baum, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have undergone large scale population declines leading to multiple conservation organizations encouraging the c...

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