Causes, consequences, and conservation of ungulate migration

MJ Kauffman, EO Aikens, S Esmaeili… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Our understanding of ungulate migration is advancing rapidly due to innovations in modern
animal tracking. Herein, we review and synthesize nearly seven decades of work on …

Anomalous diffusion, aging, and nonergodicity of scaled Brownian motion with fractional Gaussian noise: Overview of related experimental observations and models

W Wang, R Metzler, AG Cherstvy - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
How does a systematic time-dependence of the diffusion coefficient D (t) affect the ergodic
and statistical characteristics of fractional Brownian motion (FBM)? Here, we answer this …

The last continuous grasslands on Earth: Identification and conservation importance

R Scholtz, D Twidwell - Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands are the most threatened and least protected biome. Yet, no study has been
conducted to identify the last remaining continuous grasslands on Earth. Here, we used …

Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses

AC Foster, JA Wang, GV Frost… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse
set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes …

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

E Di Minin, R Slotow, C Fink, H Bauer… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
African lions (Panthera leo) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) and forest (L. cyclotis)
elephants pose threats to people, crops, and livestock, and are themselves threatened with …

Animal migration: An overview of one of nature's great spectacles

AM Fudickar, AE Jahn… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in research on animal migration, in
large part due to a technological revolution in tracking and remote-sensing technologies …

Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails

VM Ortega-Jimenez, EJ Challita… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Springtails (Collembola) have been traditionally portrayed as explosive jumpers with
incipient directional takeoff and uncontrolled landing. However, for these collembolans that …

Anthropogenic resistance: accounting for human behavior in wildlife connectivity planning

A Ghoddousi, EK Buchholtz, AM Dietsch… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Maintaining or restoring connectivity among wildlife populations is a primary strategy to
overcome the negative impacts of habitat fragmentation. Yet, current connectivity planning …

Recent advances in the chemistry of bioactive compounds from plants and soil microbes: A review

A Haruna, SM Yahaya - Chemistry Africa, 2021 - Springer
Bioactive compounds derived from plants and microbial sources are required for the survival
of the human race and groundbreaking research must continue in this line. Plants and …

The role of context in elucidating drivers of animal movement

N Lubitz, M Bradley, M Sheaves… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its consequences for ecological processes and population dynamics, intra‐specific
variability is frequently overlooked in animal movement studies. Consequently, the …