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Biodiversity Conservation
Kanchan Thapa, Sabita Malla, Samundra Ambuhang Subba, Gokarna Jung Thapa, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Naresh Subedi, Maheshwar Dhakal, Krishna Prasad Acharya, Madhuri Karki Thapa, Pramod Neupane, Shashank Poudel, Shiv Raj Bhatta, Shant Raj Jnawali, Marcella J. Kelly
Summary: This study used multi-season occupancy models to analyze the distribution of leopards in the Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal, and found negative impacts on leopard detection and occupancy rates from factors such as deforestation, roads, and co-occurrence with tigers. The study also pointed out that leopards and tigers are regulated by habitat availability and prey index when coexisting, and suggested that conservation measures should focus on preventing loss of critical habitat and promoting human-leopard coexistence.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Mahi Puri, Arjun Srivathsa, Krithi K. Karanth, Imran Patel, N. Samba Kumar
Summary: Global land-use changes and rapid infrastructure development necessitate the identification and conservation of wildlife corridors. The connectivity through corridors is influenced by species' structural, ecological, and behavioral constraints. The study on tigers indicates that areas with high tiger use but limited connectivity have a higher likelihood of human-tiger conflict and may act as ecological traps for the species. Interactions with humans are crucial in mediating connectivity for large carnivores in shared habitats.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Guilherme B. Ferreira, Liam Thomas, Daniel J. Ingram, Peggy A. Bevan, Emily K. Madsen, Dol Raj Thanet, Santosh Rayamajhi, Kate E. Jones
Summary: The establishment of protected areas and buffer zones is widely used to mitigate biodiversity loss, but the ecological outcomes of buffer zones have been rarely measured. A study in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape found that both the national park and the buffer zone had positive effects on multiple species, but the effectiveness varied depending on the species group and threats they faced.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
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Ecology
David H. Keller, Gregory J. Barren, Richard J. Horwitz
Summary: This study conducted in the Delaware River Basin found that variables such as slope, land cover, and disturbance significantly influenced the composition of reproductive guilds in wadeable streams. Different reproductive guilds were associated with different landscape determinants, highlighting the importance of specific landscape-scale characteristics for each reproductive guild.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Elisa Torretta, Andrea Corradini, Luca Pedrotti, Luciano Bani, Francesco Bisi, Olivia Dondina
Summary: In the last few decades, there has been a significant recovery and natural expansion of wolf populations in Europe. This study focused on the movement patterns of rehabilitated wolves in a highly human-dominated landscape in Northern Italy. The results showed that wolves had the ability to segregate from human activities and exhibited different movement patterns based on their settling or dispersing phases.
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Ecology
Clint R. Otto, Larissa L. Bailey, Autumn H. Smart
Summary: Understanding habitat needs and patch utilization of wild and managed bees has been identified as a national research priority in the United States. Occupancy models were used to investigate patterns of bee use across transects in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR). Wild bees favored transects with higher flower richness, while honey bees were more frequently detected on transects with non-native flowers. Overall, wild bees and honey bees showed potential for resource overlap on non-native flowers in the PPR.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Monia Nakamura, Jose Vicente Lopez-Bao, Helena Rio-Maior, Sara Roque, Patricia Gil, Ana Serronha, Emilio Garcia, Orencio Hernandez Palacios, Goncalo Ferrao da Costa, Francisco Alvares, Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca, Olivier Gimenez, Pedro Monterroso
Summary: This study investigates the dynamics of wolf spatial use in human-dominated landscapes using a long-term wolf monitoring dataset. The results show that altitude, livestock density, and unpaved road density, as well as burned areas and road densities, influence the colonization and extinction probabilities of wolves. The assessment of wolf range dynamics in Iberia reveals the relationship between ecological traits and expansion, stagnation, or extinction sites.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Varun R. Goswami, Divya Vasudev, Bhavendu Joshi, Prity Hait, Pragyan Sharma
Summary: The study demonstrates the challenges and opportunities faced by large-bodied mammalian herbivores during flood-driven refuge migration in a human-dominated environment. During the dry season, animals avoid areas with strong human presence but prefer spaces with high land-use diversity, while during floods they navigate through woodlands and areas under bamboo cover on private lands to reach forested refugia on higher ground.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Laurel E. K. Serieys, Jacqueline M. Bishop, Matthew S. Rogan, Justine A. Smith, Justin P. Suraci, M. Justin O'Riain, Christopher C. Wilmers
Summary: Human activities present challenges to wild animal populations, but modified habitats can attract generalist species. In this study, we used GPS collars to track caracals in urban and wildland areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to investigate their habitat selection and activity patterns. The results showed that caracals did not become more nocturnal in urban areas, but their selection for proximity to urban areas increased as the proportion of urban area increased. These findings suggest that caracals exhibit behavioral flexibility in response to anthropogenic disturbances.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Cameron Wesley Hodges, Benjamin Michael Marshall, Jacques George Hill, Colin Thomas Strine
Summary: The study revealed frequent encounters between Malayan kraits and humans on a suburban university campus, indicating a constant potential for human-wildlife conflict. Buildings and natural areas were the main attractions for the kraits. Substantial education and awareness training are needed to ensure coexistence on campus.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Ecology
Amy E. Mayer, Laken S. Ganoe, Charles Brown, Brian D. Gerber
Summary: Anthropogenic developments can lead to changes in the environment and resources available to wildlife communities, causing species to adjust their spatial distribution and diel activity. This study used a multi-state diel occupancy modeling framework to examine how a community of mammals responds to anthropogenic development and forest cover, and found that species displayed heterogeneity in diel occupancy and detection in relation to these factors.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
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Engineering, Environmental
Marco Salvatori, Valentina Oberosler, Margherita Rinaldi, Alessandro Franceschini, Stefania Truschi, Paolo Pedrini, Francesco Rovero
Summary: Outdoor recreation in natural areas is becoming more popular globally, but its long-term effects on wildlife are poorly understood. This study investigated whether tourism in the Dolomites, Italy, affected wild mammals in the long term and if it resulted in spatial or temporal avoidance. Camera trapping was used to detect mammal occurrences over seven summers at 60 consistently sampled sites. Overall, human presence increased over the 7-year period, but both community and species-level occurrences of mammals also increased. However, human activities caused temporal avoidance in the whole community and spatial avoidance in bigger-sized species.
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Environmental Studies
Maria Camila Latorre-Cardenas, Antonio Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Oscar Godinez-Gomez, Eugenio Y. Arima, Kenneth R. Young, Audrey Denvir, Felipe Garcia-Oliva, Adrian Ghilardi
Summary: The rapid expansion of avocado cultivation in Michoacan, Mexico, leads to deforestation. In this study, we assessed the fragmentation and connectivity of temperate forests in the Avocado Belt and identified the patches that contribute most to connectivity. We updated land-use maps using satellite imagery and found that temperate forests in the region are highly fragmented and have low connectivity, especially in terms of seed dispersal. The conservation and management strategies should focus on the identified patches that support seed connectivity, which are found within denser zones of avocado orchards.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Robert Mollenhauer, Joshua B. Mouser, Victor L. Roland, Shannon K. Brewer
Summary: The study examines the relationship between stream fish distributions and landscape characteristics, particularly flow regimes and landscape disturbance, in the central Red River catchment area in the south-central United States. The research finds that occurrence of stream fishes is associated with landscape disturbance and flow regime metrics, with frequency and duration being the most common metrics. More common species tend to be positively associated with higher levels of disturbance and flow variability, while narrow-ranged fishes tend to be negatively associated. The study suggests that maintaining natural flow patterns and reducing landscape disturbance can benefit endemic and narrow-ranged fishes.
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Ondrej Kameniar, Ondrej Vostarek, Martin Mikolas, Marek Svitok, Michal Frankovic, Robert C. Morrissey, Daniel Kozak, Thomas A. Nagel, Martin Dusatko, Jakob Pavlin, Matej Ferencik, William S. Keeton, Andreea Petronela Spinu, Ion Catalin Petritan, Linda Majdanova, Katarina Markuljakova, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Rhiannon Gloor, Radek Bace, Arne Buechling, Michal Synek, Milos Rydval, Jakub Malek, Kresimir Begovic, Jenyk Hofmeister, Ruffy Rodrigo, Joseph L. Pettit, Ecaterina Fodor, Pavel Janda, Miroslav Svoboda
Summary: Understanding the temporal and spatial variations in historical disturbance regimes in primary forest landscapes is crucial for predicting forest development and adapting forest management. This study focused on the Fagaras Mountains in Romania to describe the disturbance regimes and synchronicity between different forest community types. The results highlighted the importance of protecting large continuous forest landscapes and adopting spatiotemporal forest management approaches to maintain biodiversity and adapt to climate change.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ngwe Lwin, Matthew Linkie, Abishek Harihar, Saw Soe Aung, Aung Ko Lin, Frank Momberg
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Abishek Harihar, Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Douglas C. MacMillan
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Abishek Harihar, Pranav Chanchani, Milind Pariwakam, Barry R. Noon, John Goodrich
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2017)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Matthew Linkie, Debbie Martyr, Abishek Harihar, Sofi Mardiah, Timothy Hodgetts, Dian Risdianto, Moehd Subchaan, David Macdonald
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2018)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeanne E. McKay, Freya A. V. St John, Abishek Harihar, Deborah Martyr, Nigel Leader-Williams, Betty Milliyanawati, Ika Agustin, Yulian Anggriawan, Karlina, Erlinda Kartika, Fachruddin Mangunjaya, Matthew J. Struebig, Matthew Linkie
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Abishek Harihar, Pranav Chanchani, Jimmy Borah, Rachel Jane Crouthers, Yury Darman, Thomas N. E. Gray, Shariff Mohamad, Benjamin Miles Rawson, Mark Darmaraj Rayan, Jennifer Lucy Roberts, Robert Steinmetz, Sunarto Sunarto, Febri Anggriawan Widodo, Meraj Anwar, Shiv Raj Bhatta, Jayam Peter Prem Chakravarthi, Youde Chang, Gordon Congdon, Chittaranjan Dave, Soumen Dey, Boominathan Durairaj, Pavel Fomenko, Harish Guleria, Mudit Gupta, Ghana Gurung, Bopanna Ittira, Jyotirmay Jena, Alexey Kostyria, Krishna Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Phurba Lhendup, Peiqi Liu, Sabita Malla, Kamlesh Maurya, Vijay Moktan, Nguyen Dao Ngoc Van, Karmila Parakkasi, Rungnapa Phoonjampa, Worrapan Phumanee, Anil Kumar Singh, Carrie Stengel, Samundra Ambuhang Subba, Kanchan Thapa, Tiju C. Thomas, Christopher Wong, Michael Baltzer, Dipankar Ghose, Sejal Worah, Joseph Vattakaven
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Ruby An, Ramana Athrey, Udayan Borthakur, Pranav Chanchani, Dilip Chetry, Aparajita Datta, Abishek Harihar, Krithi K. Karanth, Dincy Mariyam, Dhananjai Mohan, Malvika Onial, Uma Ramakrishnan, V. V. Robin, Ajai Saxena, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Prachi Thatte, Varsha Vijay, Kristen Wacker, Vinod B. Mathur, Stuart L. Pimm, Trevor D. Price
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Dipankar Lahkar, M. Firoz Ahmed, Ramie H. Begum, Sunit Kumar Das, Abishek Harihar
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Eric Ash, Chris Hallam, Prawatsart Chanteap, Zaneta Kaszta, David W. Macdonald, Wiroj Rojanachinda, Tim Redford, Abishek Harihar
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
D. Lahkar, M. F. Ahmed, R. H. Begum, S. K. Das, A. Harihar
Summary: The study assessed the utilization of space, time, and prey resources by tigers, leopards, and dholes in Manas National Park, India. The results suggest that these predators segregate through fine-scale spatio-temporal avoidance rather than displaying population-level changes in space-use, activity patterns, or food habits.
ANIMAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Abishek Harihar, Bivash Pandav, Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, John Goodrich
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
A. Harihar, D. Lahkar, A. Singh, S. Kumar Das, M. F. Ahmed, R. H. Begum
Summary: This study applied SMR models to estimate leopard densities at Manas National Park in India, with a high proportion of melanistic leopards captured. The research highlights the potential of SMR models for revisiting past camera trap survey data and generating valuable information on populations.
ANIMAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Uttara Mendiratta, Anand M. Osuri, Sarthak J. Shetty, Abishek Harihar
Summary: Armed conflicts have significant impacts on wildlife conservation, with conflicts occurring within ranges of threatened species leading to declining population trends, emphasizing the need for greater understanding and assessment of conflict threats in species conservation.
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Dincy Mariyam, Mahi Puri, Abishek Harihar, Krithi K. Karanth
Summary: Studies have shown that landowners are more willing to participate in wildlife-friendly land-use programs, especially in short-term plans with higher payment amounts. Landowners with larger landholdings, a longer history of living next to protected areas, and growing fewer commercial crops are more likely to prefer enrolling larger parcels of land. With shrinking wildlife habitats, wildlife-friendly land use could be a promising conservation strategy in developing economies like India.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Nasir Uddin, Sam Enoch, Abishek Harihar, Rob S. A. Pickles, Tasnim Ara, Alice C. Hughes
Summary: Illegal wildlife trade is a major cause of decline in high-value species. This study examines a case of perpetrator replacement following an intervention, providing lessons for conservation strategies. The successful counter-pirate campaign inadvertently removed the dominant tiger poaching type, resulting in the emergence of specialist tiger-poaching teams.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
