Bats of the Philippine Islands —A review of research directions and relevance to national-level priorities and targets
Publication date: Available online 26 March 2018 Source:Mammalian Biology Author(s): Krizler Cejuela Tanalgo, Alice Catherine Hughes Effective science-based conservation priorities and policies are crucially important to effectively maintain biodiversity into the future. For many threatened species and systems insufficient information exists to generate priorities, or the mechanisms needed to effectively conserve species into the future, and this is especially important in megadiversity countries like the Philippines, threatened by rapid rates of development and with few overarching strategies to maintain their biodive...
Source: Mammalian Biology - March 26, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Landscape-level field data reveals broad-scale effects of a fatal, transmissible cancer on population ecology of Tasmanian devil
Publication date: Available online 26 March 2018 Source:Mammalian Biology Author(s): C.E. Grueber, S. Fox, K. Belov, D. Pemberton, C.J. Hogg In order to project and plan for the future of threatened species, conservationists require good quality estimates of basic population parameters, such as population sex ratios and breeding rates. These data can be difficult to obtain in many threatened species where pervasive threats perturb population dynamics. For Tasmanian devils, previous studies at several sites across Tasmania revealed demographic consequences of the fatal and transmissible devil facial tumour disease (D...
Source: Mammalian Biology - March 26, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Spiny mice of the Zambezian bioregion – phylogeny, biogeography and ecological differentiation within the Acomys spinosissimus complex
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2018 Source:Mammalian Biology Author(s): Jan Petružela, Radim Šumbera, Tatiana Aghová, Anna Bryjová, Abdul S. Katakweba, Christopher A. Sabuni, Wilbert N. Chitaukali, Josef Bryja Despite the high degree of biological diversity in the Zambezian region, little information is available regarding the evolutionary history of its biota, and this is especially true for the fauna and flora of non-forested habitats. Here we use the most comprehensive multi-locus genetic dataset available to (1) reconstruct the phylogeny of spiny mice of the Acomys spinosissimus complex and t...
Source: Mammalian Biology - March 24, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Spatiotemporal patterns of Amur leopards in northeast China: Influence of tigers, prey, and humans
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2018 Source:Mammalian Biology Author(s): Haitao Yang, Xiaodan Zhao, Boyu Han, Tianming Wang, Pu Mou, Jianping Ge, Limin Feng The Amur leopard Panthera pardus orientalis is one of the most endangered cat subspecies in the world. The rare leopard is sympatric with Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica and their prey in human dominated landscape. To conserve the felid species, it is important to understand the activity patterns of Amur leopards, including its interactions with Amur tigers, prey, and human activities. We used a data set from 163 camera traps to quantify the spa...
Source: Mammalian Biology - March 23, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Evaluation of Methods to Monitor Wild Mammals on Mediterranean Farmland
Publication date: Available online 21 March 2018 Source:Mammalian Biology Author(s): Ana M. Valente, Héctor Binantel, Diego Villanua, Pelayo Acevedo Managers have, over the years, searched methods with which to monitor wildlife populations that will have the best cost-performance balance for each case scenario. Monitoring techniques are of particular importance when attempting to attain either population density estimates or species richness values, since they enable management decisions to be made. It is, therefore, imperative to assess the capability of the methods employed to detect a wide range of species as a m...
Source: Mammalian Biology - March 22, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: research
