This research was possible due to the collaboration of the SouSA consortium members that involve multiple institutions.This study was supported by a National Research Foundation grant awarded to T.G.(Grant number:116047);including G.F.’s postdoctoral fellowship and S.D.’s PhD scholarship.O.A.V.-F.was funded by a Nelson Mandela University Postgraduate Research Scholarship(2015-2018)and supported by the MARISCO project(FAIN:2019902/KK2153);which is funded by the Belmont Forum(2021/2022);Research was conducted under a series of research permits issued by the Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries(and its predecessors)to S.E.(RES 2015/94 to 2021/26);O.A.V.-F.(RES 2013/67 AND RES 2015/79);This study was carried out and under ethics clearance from the University of Pretoria Animal Use and Care Committee permit(EC074-15);the Stellenbosch University AUCC(ACU-2021-13330);by Nelson Mandela University animal ethics clearance(A13-SCI-ZOO-001);grateful to Orca Foundation for field work assistance,as well as for the Rufford Foundation,the Society for Marine Mammalogy,and the German Society for Dolphin Conservation(Gesellschaft zur Rettung der Delphine)for financial support in Plettenberg Bay(2013-2015).
Morphological abnormalities in wild animals can be indicators of the underlying health of a population and may be determined through routine photographic surveys.Here,we assess unusual rostrum conditions in Indian Oce...
This study was funded by the Instituto de Ecologıa,A.C.(project INECOL 20030-11189 to F.E).J.B received a PhD scholarship(No 589280)from the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology(CONACYT).
While theory suggests that at conception the sex ratio should be balanced(1:1),this can be variable across space and time in wild populations.Currently,studies of the environmental factors that regulate adult sex rati...
This study was part of a larger monitoring and surveillance project commissioned and funded by the National Parks and Wildlife Service(NPWS);Department of Culture,Heritage and the Gaeltacht(CHG);Republic of Ireland.Natterjack toads were collected under Government license(No.C098/2016).
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List,41%of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction,making them more threatened than any other vertebrate group nowadays.Given t...
supported by the Applied and Engineering Sciences domain,TTW,which is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO);NWO-TTW Grant 14638;co-funded by NAM,the Royal Netherlands Air Force,Birdlife Netherlands and Deltares
Background: Ring wear and loss may have important consequences for mark-recapture studies that aim to estimate survival trends. Our study quantifies the rates of wear and loss from a long-running colour-ringing projec...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372183, 31772447, 31471988)
Phrynocephalus guinanensis has sexual dimorphism in abdominal coloration, but its ontogenetic development of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is unknown. Using mark-recapture data during four days each year from August ...
The Tula foundation has provided generous funding and technical support through the Hakai Institute.Additional funders include TIDES Canada,the Pacific Salmon Foundation,the Vancouver Foundation,and the McLean Foundation.W.Atlas is supported by a Hakai Research Fellowship,and J.Moore receives funding through the Liber Ero Foundation.
Introduction:The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that indigenous people have a fundamental right to contribute to the management of the resources that support their livelihoods.Salmon are vit...
A photo-identification study on Risso’s dolphins was carried out off BardseyIslandinWales(July to September, 1997-2007). Their local abundance was estimated using two different analytical techniques: (1) mark-recaptu...
Field work for this project was conducted under State of Florida Special Activities License Number 05SR-902;provided in part by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program;Delo Research Professor Grant (University of Tampa);the Dana Award Program (University of Tampa);the Biology Department (University of Tampa)
Seagrass ecosystems worldwide have been declining, leading to a decrease in associated fish populations, especially those with low mobility such as syngnathids (pipefish and seahorses). This two-year pilot study inv...