supported fnancially by the Nanseishoto Project of WWFJ,Pro Natura Foundation Japan’s 31st Pro Natura Fund;the Project for Biodiversity Conservation Promotion of the Japan Ministry of the Environment.
There are many short-lived animals,but those displaying a lifecycle with more than one generation per year(multivoltine lifecycle)are rare amongterrestrial vertebrates.The multivoltine lifecycle requires rapid growth ...
supported by MAVA Foundation and Tour du Valat;supported financially by the MAVA Foundation;by the Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust (PONT)。
The analysis of bird ringing data often comes with some potential sources of error and bias,as ring wear and/or loss could affect mark-recapture analyses and produce erroneous estimates of survival.Furthermore,ring we...
the Ethics Committee of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,Spain(ref.:710/2018)and Comunidad de Madrid(ref.:PROEX 040/19);which also extended legal permits for tissue collection for scientific purposes(ref.:10/069513.9/18);This study was funded by FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia,Innovación y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigación,Spain,grant CGL2017-83131-P。
N_(a)tural populations often persist at the landscape scale as metapopulations,with breeding units(subpopulations)experiencing temporal extinction and recolonization events.Important parameters to forecast population ...
Microorganisms on and within organisms are ubiquitous and interactions with their hosts range from mutualistic over commensal, to pathogenic. We hypothesized that microorganisms might affect the ability of barn swallo...
Since its recent introduction into Europe, the yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, has become a major predator of the domestic honeybee, Apis mellifera, but little is known about its hunting behavior. We studied V. ...
Small rodents in general and the multimammate rat Apodemus agrarius in particular, damage crops and cause major economic losses in China. Therefore, accurate predic- tions of the population size of A. agrarius and an ...