yin, duo chen, jiachun gao, quan
Wildlife residing in cities has made encounters between humans and wild animals a common phenomenon. The perspective of the conflict-laden animal–human relationship has been over-emphasized by traditional media, which neglects the peaceful and harmonious daily encounters between residents and urban wildlife. This paper addresses the lacuna in extan...
Rodríguez-Álvarez, María Paz, Soraya Hardisson, Arturo González-Weller, Dailos Rubio, Carmen Gutiérrez, Ángel J
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Biological trace element research
The monitoring of trace elements and toxic metals in apical predators of the trophic chain provides data on the degree of contamination in ecosystems. The common kestrel is one of the most interesting raptors in this respect in the Canary Islands; therefore, the study of the levels of trace elements and toxic metals in this species is of much scien...
Jentzsch, Matthias Meissner, Benjamin Batsaikhan, Nayamsuren Stubbe, Annegret Stubbe, Michael
The hippoboscid species Ornithophila gestroi has been rediscovered from Mongolia. It is the easternmost of all the known occurrences. Specimens were collected from Amur Falcon Falco amurensis, Saker Falcon Falco cherrug, Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni, Eurasian Hobby, Falco subbuteo, Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 and Black Kite Mil...
Zhou, Lei Huo, Xiaona Liu, Boyu Wu, Hui Feng, Jiang
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Frontiers in Microbiology
The gut microflora play a very important role in the life of animals. Although an increasing number of studies have investigated the gut microbiota of birds in recent years, there is a lack of research work on the gut microbiota of wild birds, especially carnivorous raptors, which are thought to be pathogen vectors. There are also a lack of studies...
Buck, Annika Carrillo-Hidalgo, José Camarero, Pablo R Mateo, Rafael
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Chemosphere
Organochlorine (OC) pesticides were widely used on the Canary Islands (Spain) for intensive crop production and against plagues of African locust. A previous study performed in 1988-1994 showed a high concentration of p,p'-DDE in the eggs of common kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) from the island of Tenerife. The present study shows OC pesticide and po...
Valverde, Irene Espín, Silvia María-Mojica, Pedro García-Fernández, Antonio J.
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European Journal of Wildlife Research
One of the most common wildlife crimes involving birds worldwide is malicious poisoning. Post-mortem examination and toxicological analysis are essential for a proper diagnosis of the cause of the poisoning. However, investigators often require an estimate of the time of death, which is best determined by identifying the stage of carcass decomposit...
Fay, Rémi Michler, Stephanie Laesser, Jacques Jeanmonod, Jacques Schaub, Michael
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Ecology and evolution
Theoretical studies suggest that temporal covariation among and temporal autocorrelation within demographic rates are important features of population dynamics. Yet, empirical studies have rarely focused on temporal covariation and autocorrelation limiting our understanding of these patterns in natural populations. This lack of knowledge restrains ...
Fay, Rémi Michler, Stephanie Laesser, Jacques Jeanmonod, Jacques Schaub, Michael
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Rodents are classical model species to investigate spatial synchrony in population fluctuation. Yet, previous studies have been strongly biased geographically toward high latitude (boreal ecosystem) and limited in their spatial scale, i.e., few sampling sites separated by a few tens of kilometers. Both aspects currently limit our understanding of r...
Visser, Tim Melman, Dick Staritsky, Igor
Het kennissysteem voor Agrarisch Natuurbeheer, Beheer-op-Maat (BoM), is in 2019 op een aantal aspecten aangepast aan de wensen van de gebruikers (beheercollectieven). De kaartlagen die aan de basis staan van het kennissysteem – de openheid van het landschap, de bodemvochtigheid, de aanwezigheid van verstorende bronnen en de zwaarte van het gewas – ...
Sharikov, A. V. Volkov, S. V. Sviridova, T. V. Buslakov, V. V.
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Biology Bulletin
AbstractIn the period 2001–2016, the authors studied the combined effect of trophic and weather–climatic factors on the population dynamics of three vole-eating bird of prey species on the study area in northern Moscow region, Crane Homland Reserve (56.7573° N, 37.792° E). The numbers of breeding pairs of the Common kestrels (Falco tinnunculus), Lo...
