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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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Hunting behaviour in domestic cats: an exploratory study of risk and responsibility among cat owners.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Crowley, S. L. & Cecchetti, M. & McDonald, R. A.

Content type: Blog

Detailed interviews on 48 cat owners in the United Kingdom were conducted to investigate how they feel about their pets' hunting behaviour, to find ou...

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The use of nitrogen fertilizer on alternative grassland feeding refuges for pink-footed geese in spring.

Published online: 10 Oct 2001

Authors: Patterson, I. J. & Fuchs, R. M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensive agriculture often reduces biodiversity on farmed land, but the converse situation, of wildlife damaging agriculture, is also important. A st...

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Intertidal habitat loss and wildfowl numbers: applications of a spatial depletion model.

Published online: 01 May 1998

Authors: Percival, S. M. & Sutherland, W. J. & Evans, P. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A spatial depletion model of the responses of grazing wildfowl to the availability of intertidal vegetation at Lindisfarne National Nature reserve, no...

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Responses of hayfield vegetation to spring grazing by greater snow geese.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Bédard, J. & Lapointe, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Field studies at Montmagny, Quebec showed that the use of hayfields (dominated by Medicago sativa, Trifolium pratense, Phleum pratense, Agropyron repe...

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Effects of spring grazing by greater snow geese on hay production.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Bédard, J. & Nadeau, A. & Gauthier, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effects of spring grazing by the greater snow goose (Chen caerulescens atlantica) on hay production were studied in an agricultural area of 283 ha at ...

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Movements and feeding ecology of white-fronted geese at the New Grounds, Slimbridge.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Owen, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

During 3 seasons from 1968 to 1971 movement and feeding habits of European white-fronted geese (Anser a. albifrons Scopoli) were studied in the New Gr...

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The effect of winter grazing by barnacle geese on grassland yields on Islay.

Published online: 06 Jun 1992

Authors: Percival, S. M. & Houston, D. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of different intensities of winter grazing by barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, on the yields of agricultural grasslands dominated by Loliu...

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Feeding of geese on farmland in east-central Scotland.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Newton, I. & Campbell, C. R. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Greylag and pink-footed geese fed together around Loch Leven, Kinross, at a rate equivalent to 0.54 and 0.39 geese/ha day during 2 successive winters....

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Greater impacts of wind farms on bird populations during construction than subsequent operation: results of a multi-site and multi-species analysis.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Pearce-Higgins, J. W. & Stephen, L. & Douse, A. & Langston, R. H. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There has been a rapid increase in the development of renewable energy because of the need to combat climate change. One of the most widely used techn...

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