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The raptor lockdown menu-shifts in prey composition suggest urban peregrine diets are linked to human activities.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Mak, B. & Drewitt, E. J. A. & Francis, R. A. & Chadwick, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Raptors can thrive in cities where food supplies are abundant and seasonally stable. The availability of such resources may be linked to spatiotempora...

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Shifting host choices of the vector of Chagas disease, Triatoma infestans, in relation to the availability of hosts in houses in north-west Argentina.

Published online: 29 Apr 1998

Authors: Gürtler, R. E. & Cohen, J. E. & Cecere, M. C. & Chuit, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Data from a 4-year study on the blood meal sources of 1964 specimens of T. infestans collected from human sleeping places in 3 rural villages in north...

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Parasites and pesticides act antagonistically on honey bee health.

Published online: 20 May 2021

Authors: Bird, G. & Wilson, A. E. & Williams, G. R. & Hardy, N. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pesticides and parasites have each been linked to increased mortality in western honey bees (Apis mellifera). Currently, it is uncertain if one makes ...

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Accounting for Bias in prevalence estimation: the case of a globally emerging pathogen.

Published online: 12 Jan 2024

Authors: Sentenac, H. & Valenzuela-Sánchez, A. & Haddow-Brown, N. & Delgado, S. & Azat, C. & Cunningham, A. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Accurate quantification of infection parameters is necessary to ensure effective surveillance, investigation and mitigation of infectious diseases. Ho...

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Intensity of parasitic nematodes increases with organochlorine levels in the glaucous gull.

Published online: 01 Nov 2000

Authors: Sagerup, K. & Henriksen, E. O. & Skorping, A. & Skaare, J. U. & Gabrielsen, G. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Forty adult glaucous gulls Larus hyperboreus were collected on Bear Island, Norway, in the Svalbard archipelago in the western Barents Sea in July 199...

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Collaboration between local indigenous and visiting non-indigenous researchers: practical challenges and insights from a long-term environmental monitoring program in the Canadian arctic.

Published online: 26 Sep 2023

Authors: Richard, S. & Gilchrist, H. G. & Hennin, H. L. & Nguyen, V. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

There is a growing appreciation for the value of collaborative research projects involving local Indigenous and visiting non-Indigenous researchers. E...

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Disease, predation and demography: assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Cross, P. C. & Heisey, D. M. & Bowers, J. A. & Hay, C. T. & Wolhuter, J. & Buss, P. & Hofmeyr, M. & Michel, A. L. & Bengis, R. G. & Bird, T. L. F. & Toit, J. T. du & Getz, W. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding the effects of disease is critical to determining appropriate management responses, but estimating those effects in wildlife species is ...

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Culling wildlife hosts to control disease: mountain hares, red grouse and louping ill virus.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Harrison, A. & Newey, S. & Gilbert, L. & Haydon, D. T. & Thirgood, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Culling wildlife hosts is often implemented as a management technique to control pathogen transmission from wildlife to domestic or other economically...

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Epizootiology of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus (Baculoviridae) in European spruce sawfly (Gilpinia hercyniae): spread of disease from small epicentres in comparison with spread of baculovirus diseases in other hosts.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Entwistle, P. F. & Adams, P. H. W. & Evans, H. F. & Rivers, C. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The patterns of spatial growth of small epicentres of nuclear polyhedrosis virus disease of Gilpinia hercyniae (Htg.) (GHNPV) were studied in spruce f...

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Multistate capture-recapture analysis under imperfect state observation: an application to disease models.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Conn, P. B. & Cooch, E. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Multistate capture-recapture models are frequently used to estimate the survival and state transition parameters needed to parameterize stage-structur...

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