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Home range and habitat use of vervet monkeys in the urban forest mosaic landscape of Durban, eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Generally, urbanisation affects biodiversity negatively; however, some species thrive in urban areas. One mammalian species thriving in the urban...
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First look on the home range, movement, and habitat selection of the invasive Northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) in France through two contrasted populations
Introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) is one of the main threats to biodiversity. The Northern raccoon ( Procyon lotor ), here after named...
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Living la Vida T-LoCoH: site fidelity of Florida ranched and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) transmission period
BackgroundEpizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is a pathogen vectored by Culicoides midges that causes significant economic loss in the cervid...
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Coexistence of two sympatric predators in a transitional ecosystem under constraining environmental conditions: a perspective from space and habitat use
BackgroundRange expansion of species, a major consequence of climate changes, may alter communities substantially due to competition between...
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Home range overlap between small Indian mongooses and free roaming domestic dogs in Puerto Rico: implications for rabies management
The small Indian mongoose ( Urva auropunctata ) is the primary terrestrial wildlife rabies reservoir on at least four Caribbean islands, including...
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Movement ecology and minimum density estimates of red foxes in wet grassland habitats used by breeding wading birds
The red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) is a widely distributed generalist meso-predator implicated in declines of wading bird populations. In the wet grassland...
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Home range and resource selection of Virginia opossums in the rural southeastern United States
The Virginia opossum ( Didelphis virginiana ) has a rapidly expanding distribution in North America, but many aspects of its ecology remain relatively...
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The effect of sampling effort and methodology on range size estimates of poorly-recorded species for IUCN Red List assessments
Geographic range size is the most commonly implemented criterion of species’ extinction risk used in IUCN Red List assessments, especially for...
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Variation in herbivore space use: comparing two savanna ecosystems with different anthrax outbreak patterns in southern Africa
BackgroundThe distribution of resources can affect animal range sizes, which in turn may alter infectious disease dynamics in heterogenous...
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Residency and space use estimation methods based on passive acoustic telemetry data
Acoustic telemetry has helped overcome many of the challenges faced when studying the movement ecology of aquatic species, allowing to obtain...
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Impact of test, vaccinate and remove protocol on home ranges and nightly movements of badgers in a medium density population
In the British Isles, the European badger ( Meles meles ) is thought to be the primary wildlife reservoir of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), an endemic...
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Sex-specific movement ecology of the shortest-lived tetrapod during the mating season
Sex-specific reproductive strategies are shaped by the distribution of potential mates in space and time. Labord’s chameleon ( Furcifer labordi ) from...
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Foxes at your front door? Habitat selection and home range estimation of suburban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
The red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) is one of the most adaptable carnivorans, thriving in cities across the globe. We used GPS-tracking of five suburban...
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Urban habitat use and home ranges of fishing cats in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Urbanisation and habitat loss are major threats to wildlife populations globally. Understanding how species respond to anthropogenic changes is...
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Denning and maternal behavior of caracals (Caracal caracal)
Knowledge of behaviors surrounding reproduction in wild species is essential to the development of effective management and conservation strategies....
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Infection risk varies within urbanized landscapes: the case of coyotes and heartworm
BackgroundUrbanization can have profound effects on ecological interactions. For host–pathogen interactions, differences have been detected between...
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Home range and core area utilisation of three co-existing mongoose species: large grey, water and white-tailed in the fragmented landscape of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa
The spatial ecology of the Herpestidae family has remained poorly studied across Africa. The behavioural plasticity and generalist nature of members...
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Automated classification of time-activity-location patterns for improved estimation of personal exposure to air pollution
BackgroundAir pollution epidemiology has primarily relied on measurements from fixed outdoor air quality monitoring stations to derive...
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Family Formation and Dissolution
The question of the unity of the family models in the Mediterranean has been the subject of much debate in the field of generations history. Some...
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Trophic downgrading of an adaptable carnivore in an urbanising landscape
Urbanisation critically alters wildlife habitat and resource distribution, leading to shifts in trophic dynamics. The loss of apex predators in...
