Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?

MA Cowan, MN Callan, MJ Watson… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial refuges are human‐made structures that aim to create safe places for animals to
breed, hibernate, or take shelter in lieu of natural refuges. Artificial refuges are used across …

The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: implications for adaptation to a changing climate

C Soravia, BJ Ashton, A Thornton… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Feasibility analyses of real-time detection of wildlife using UAV-derived thermal and RGB images

S Lee, Y Song, SH Kil - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wildlife monitoring is carried out for diverse reasons, and monitoring methods have
gradually advanced through technological development. Direct field investigations have …

Chainsaw-carved cavities better mimic the thermal properties of natural tree hollows than nest boxes and log hollows

SR Griffiths, PE Lentini, K Semmens, SJ Watson… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
The creation of supplementary habitats that effectively mimic the physical and thermal
characteristics of natural tree hollows should be a key priority for landscape restoration and …

Bat boxes and climate change: testing the risk of over-heating in the Mediterranean region

G Martin Bideguren, A López-Baucells… - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
Habitat loss and forest fragmentation are currently substantially reducing the availability of
natural bat roosts worldwide. However, since bat populations have been recognized as …

Microclimate shifts in nest‐boxes and natural cavities throughout reproduction

J Sudyka, I Di Lecce, M Szulkin - Journal of Avian Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animals breeding in nest‐boxes experience nesting environments in which they did not
originally evolve. Despite the central importance of nesting microclimate for offspring fitness …

Artificial tree hollow creation for cavity-using wildlife–Trialling an alternative method to that of nest boxes

N Rueegger - Forest Ecology and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Tree hollow scarcity is a threat to cavity-dependent vertebrate wildlife world-wide across
many landscapes. Currently, only nest boxes are commonly used to mitigate or offset lost …

Avoiding a conservation pitfall: Considering the risks of unsuitably hot bat boxes

RD Crawford, JM O'Keefe - Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bat boxes are commonly deployed to mitigate the loss of bat roosting habitat. Due to a
dearth of microclimate research, numerous untested commercially available bat boxes, and …

Bat boxes are not a silver bullet conservation tool

SR Griffiths, R Bender, LN Godinho, PE Lentini… - Mammal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nest boxes are often promoted as substitute structures for hollow‐dependent fauna, but are
they generally effective? In a long‐term bat‐box monitoring project in south‐eastern …

Artificial refuges to combat habitat loss for an endangered marsupial predator: How do they measure up?

MA Cowan, JA Dunlop, JM Turner… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
One technique used to combat the growing global species extinction crisis has been to
create artificial refuges—human‐made replacements for natural refuges destroyed during …