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Red 15 Hz flickering light: a novel technique for effective wild bird management 红色 15 赫兹闪烁灯：有效管理野生鸟类的新技术

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01846-8

Takeshi Honda, Hiroki Tominaga, Akio Shimizu

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Broad geographic variation in age- and sex-dependent origin of harvested eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) revealed by stable-hydrogen (δ2H) isotope analyses of feathers 通过对羽毛进行稳定氢（δ2H）同位素分析，发现收获的欧亚鸽（Mareca penelope）的年龄和性别来源存在广泛的地理差异

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01849-5

Sari Holopainen, Antti Piironen, Jackson W. Kusack, Keith A. Hobson, Matthew B. Ellis, Iben Hove Sørensen, Heather Warrender, Toni Laaksonen

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First records of the raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Luxembourg: evidence for natural spread and a novel introduction 浣熊蛔虫（Baylisascaris procyonis）在卢森堡的首次记录：自然传播和新引进的证据

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01844-w

Alain C. Frantz, Stéphanie Lippert, Jill Gaasch, Mike Heddergott, Louis Kox

{"title":"First records of the raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Luxembourg: evidence for natural spread and a novel introduction","authors":"Alain C. Frantz, Stéphanie Lippert, Jill Gaasch, Mike Heddergott, Louis Kox","doi":"10.1007/s10344-024-01844-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01844-w","url":null,"abstract":"The raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis), a gastrointestinal nematode parasite of the raccoon (Procyon lotor), is the causative agent of a zoonotic disease that can cause severe neurological sequelae and even fatal cases. The parasite is now established in Europe and, while not present in all raccoon populations, it is currently expanding its range. Understanding the geographic distribution of the roundworm is a necessity for public health. Here, we report the first detections of the raccoon roundworm from Luxembourg. We used genetic techniques to test whether the roundworm originated from a distinct introduction event or entered the country by natural dispersal. We detected two roundworms in a raccoon that was road-killed in Echternach, northeastern Luxembourg. Furthermore, in a wildlife rescue centre, roundworms were detected in the latrine of an enclosure containing seven raccoons. Using different genetic techniques, we showed the Echternach roundworms to originate from the nearest German population, while the rescue centre roundworms were genetically distinct. By genotyping the host from a roundworm DNA extract, we identified a raccoon originating from southwest Luxembourg as the host of at least one roundworm. Roundworms are thus colonising Luxembourg both by natural dispersal and from an introduced population. The (potential) hosts all originated from the local population, suggesting that imported/introduced roundworms have already spread to the local raccoon population. Authorities should act as though the parasite is already widespread in the country, raising awareness among the public and individuals with occupational contact with raccoons.","PeriodicalId":51044,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Wildlife Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cost-effectiveness of lures in attracting mammals: a large scale camera-trapping field test on European species 诱饵吸引哺乳动物的成本效益：对欧洲物种进行的大规模相机诱捕实地测试

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01840-0

Alessio Mortelliti, Riccardo Bergamin, Paola Bartolommei, Ilaria Greco, Emiliano Manzo, Francesco Rovero, Federica Fonda

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Assessing climate change threats to biodiversity and protected areas of Iran 评估气候变化对伊朗生物多样性和保护区的威胁

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01842-y

Ehsan Rahimi, Pinliang Dong, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Chuleui Jung

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Satellite-derived measures of habitat structure perform as well as locally recorded measures in predicting predation on artificial nests in central European agricultural landscapes 在预测欧洲中部农业景观中人工巢被捕食的情况时，卫星得出的生境结构测量结果与当地记录的测量结果一样好

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01841-z

Shane D. Morris, Larissa Bosseler, Aldin Selimovic, Claudia Bieber

{"title":"Satellite-derived measures of habitat structure perform as well as locally recorded measures in predicting predation on artificial nests in central European agricultural landscapes","authors":"Shane D. Morris, Larissa Bosseler, Aldin Selimovic, Claudia Bieber","doi":"10.1007/s10344-024-01841-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01841-z","url":null,"abstract":"Ground nesting birds have declined throughout Europe, with the reduction of habitat structure in agricultural areas being a key contributing factor. Habitat structure is vital not only for providing food and suitable microclimates for these species but also limits nest predation. Field assessments of habitat structure have, historically, been the most common way of identifying areas of low nest predation. However, they are limited in their applicability over wide areas due to time, money, and logistics. Remotely sensed measures (e.g., recorded by a satellite) can address these issues. Normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a measure of the ‘greenness’ of an area and correlates with habitat structure. We conducted an artificial nest experiment over three years (2019, 2020, 2023) in Baden, Austria to test the relationship of NDVI to nest predation in an agricultural landscape. Critically, we compared whether NDVI could predict nest predation as well as locally recorded variables (ground cover, vegetation height, etc, ). We report that NDVI performs equally well at predicting nest predation, with predation decreasing with higher values of NDVI, signifying greater habitat structure. This was supported by our finding that predation probability decreased with greater ground cover (a locally recorded variable). Additionally, we found that areas with greater partridge numbers had higher predation and circumstantial evidence that birds are the primary predator in our study area. Overall, our study shows that satellite-derived measures of habitat structure have untapped potential in identifying areas of high nest predation for European ground nesting birds in agricultural landscapes.","PeriodicalId":51044,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Wildlife Research","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Disentangling ground-nest predation rates through an artificial nests experiment in an area with western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) presence: martens are the key 通过在有西方狍（Tetrao urogallus）出没的地区进行人工筑巢实验来厘清地巢捕食率：马貂是关键

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01837-9

Pablo Palencia, Patricia Barroso

{"title":"Disentangling ground-nest predation rates through an artificial nests experiment in an area with western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) presence: martens are the key","authors":"Pablo Palencia, Patricia Barroso","doi":"10.1007/s10344-024-01837-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01837-9","url":null,"abstract":"The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is a species of conservation concern that has been experiencing a severe decline in many regions of Europe. The poor breeding success rather than mortality of full-grown birds has been suggested to be responsible for its decline, been the nest loss a potential driver of the low productivity (number of chicks per female and year) of capercaillie. Working in a capercaillie population in the Pyrenees, we aimed to provide further insights into nest predation by monitoring 82 artificial nests (58 of them with camera traps), and estimating the population density of predators using camera traps and applying random encounter model and camera trap distance sampling. Pine/stone martens -Martes foina, Martes martes- were the species with higher nest predation rates (23%) despite being the less abundant (0.49 ind/km2), followed by foxes -Vulpes vulpes- (11%) and a population density of 3.37 ind/km2, and wild boar -Sus scrofa- (4%) and 6.95 ind·km− 2; predators could not be identified at 27% of the events. After fitting statistical models on the nest predation data, we observed that the martens’ encounter rate (i.e. number of martens detected per camera and day) and the altitude had a positive significant effect on the artificial nest predation probability. While caution is recommended in artificial nest experiments, our results are valuable highlighting the importance of martens and red foxes when addressing nest predation to promote the breeding success and population recovery of western capercaillie populations.","PeriodicalId":51044,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Wildlife Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flexibility in positional behavior is associated with ecological seasonality in Assamese macaques inhabiting limestone forests 栖息在石灰岩森林中的阿萨姆猕猴位置行为的灵活性与生态季节性有关

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01839-7

Yujing Qiu, Guanghua Liu, Ailong Wang, Shengyuan Liu, Shixin Nong, Zhonghao Huang

{"title":"Flexibility in positional behavior is associated with ecological seasonality in Assamese macaques inhabiting limestone forests","authors":"Yujing Qiu, Guanghua Liu, Ailong Wang, Shengyuan Liu, Shixin Nong, Zhonghao Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10344-024-01839-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01839-7","url":null,"abstract":"Information on the positional behaviors of primates is essential for understanding the mechanisms of environmental adaptation. From October 2021 to September 2022, we collected data on positional behaviors of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) at Guangxi Nonggang National Nature Reserve, China, using instantaneous scan sampling method. Our results showed that quadrupedal walking (34.99% ± 6.05%) was adopted as their most frequent locomotor mode, followed by leaping (31.54% ± 10.50%), climbing (25.55% ± 11.33%), quadrupedal running (6.55% ± 2.65%) and bridging (1.37% ± 1.19%). The ground (36.83% ± 21.18%) was the most frequently used stratum during moving. Most arboreal locomotion occurred on small (44.06% ± 11.36%) and medium (34.90% ± 11.09%) sized substrates. Sitting (81.19% ± 10.47%) was used as their most common postures, followed by holding (6.38% ± 9.97%), quadrupedal standing (3.70% ± 3.03%), bipedal standing (3.54% ± 1.84%), sprawling (3.17% ± 6.45%), suspending (1.88% ± 1.19%) and lying (0.14% ± 0.21%). Positional behaviors seasonally vary with habitat structure, and distribution of food resources. The macaques used climbing more frequently in the fruit-lean season (dry season) than in the fruit-rich season (rainy season), which could be related to reducing energy expenditure in the dry season. In addition, they adopted holding and lying together to conserve energy and stabilize intergroup relationships. In conclusion, Assamese macaques adapt to limestone forests with positional behavior flexibility in response to seasonality. Our findings highlight the necessity to understand the effects of ecological factors on the behavioral ecology and adaptations of Assamese macaques in their unique limestone forest habitats.","PeriodicalId":51044,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Wildlife Research","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing functional connectivity and anthropogenic impacts on Ambystoma altamirani populations in Bosque De Agua, Central Mexico 评估墨西哥中部 Bosque De Agua 的 Ambystoma altamirani 种群的功能连通性和人为影响

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01838-8

Jessica Ruiz-Reyes, Rosa Laura Heredia-Bobadilla, Víctor Ávila-Akerberg, Moises Tejocote-Perez, Yuriana Gómez-Ortiz, Hublester Domínguez-Vega, Fabiola Ramírez-Corona, Jonas Alvarez-Lopeztello, René Bolom-Huet, Armando Sunny

{"title":"Assessing functional connectivity and anthropogenic impacts on Ambystoma altamirani populations in Bosque De Agua, Central Mexico","authors":"Jessica Ruiz-Reyes, Rosa Laura Heredia-Bobadilla, Víctor Ávila-Akerberg, Moises Tejocote-Perez, Yuriana Gómez-Ortiz, Hublester Domínguez-Vega, Fabiola Ramírez-Corona, Jonas Alvarez-Lopeztello, René Bolom-Huet, Armando Sunny","doi":"10.1007/s10344-024-01838-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01838-8","url":null,"abstract":"Ambystoma altamirani is a microendemic amphibian limited to central Mexico, specifically the Bosque de Agua region in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, renowned for its endemic amphibian species. Anthropogenic activities such as land use change, water pollution, and the introduction of exotic species such as rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have substantially transformed its habitat, creating barriers that fragment it and impeding the mobility of the species and connectivity with other populations. This fragmentation poses challenges, including emerging diseases, inbreeding, limited gene flow, and a loss of genetic diversity, placing Ambystoma altamirani in national and international risk categories. The present study utilized the ENMeval and biomod2 models for environmental niche modeling (ENM) to assess the potential distribution of Ambystoma altamirani in the Bosque de Agua region. The key supporting variables include rivers, lakes, altitude, and a combination of Abies and Pinus forests, while the detrimental factors include urbanization and agriculture. Employing circuit theory (CT) and least-cost path (LCP) methodologies, this research explored functional connectivity, identifying core areas in the central region of Bosque de Agua. As migration distance decreases, the number of corridors facilitating population flow decreases. In the concluding phase, an analysis assessed the coincidence of state and federal Mexican Natural Protected Areas with core areas, revealing a lack of protection. The results of this study could lead to improved knowledge about Ambystoma altamirani, providing valuable tools for helping stakeholders formulate comprehensive strategies for species conservation.","PeriodicalId":51044,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Wildlife Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141936536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A site of bat conservation concern: Madzharovo, Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria 蝙蝠保护关注点保加利亚东罗多佩山脉的马德扎罗沃

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European Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01835-x

Heliana Dundarova, Jiri Pikula, Katerina Zukalova, Sarka Bednarikova, Petr Mrhalek, Vladimir Piacek, Boyan Petrov, Krasimir Kirov, Vladimir Trifonov, Rashid Rashid, Jan Zukal

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