Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

RY Oliver, F Iannarilli, J Ahumada… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Growing threats to biodiversity demand timely, detailed information on species occurrence,
diversity and abundance at large scales. Camera traps (CTs), combined with computer …

[HTML][HTML] Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics

FB Morton, M Gartner, EM Norrie, Y Haddou… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Urbanization is the fastest form of landscape transformation on the planet, but researchers'
understanding of the relationships between urbanization and animal behaviour is still in its …

Not only climate: The importance of biotic interactions in shaping species distributions at macro scales

F Cosentino, ECJ Seamark… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abiotic factors are usually considered key drivers of species distribution at macro scales,
while biotic interactions are mostly used at local scales. A few studies have explored the role …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of the Andes in the evolutionary radiation of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae), the most diverse group of mammals in the Neotropics

P Vallejos-Garrido, K Pino, N Espinoza-Aravena… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Andean mountains stand out for their striking species richness and endemicity that
characterize many emblematic Neotropical clades distributed in or around these mountains …

[HTML][HTML] A review of emerging health threats from zoonotic New World mammarenaviruses

A Lendino, AA Castellanos, DM Pigott, BA Han - BMC microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Despite repeated spillover transmission and their potential to cause significant morbidity and
mortality in human hosts, the New World mammarenaviruses remain largely understudied …

The potential of ecoregional range maps for boosting taxonomic coverage in ecology and conservation

S Pinkert, YV Sica, K Winner, W Jetz - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Expert range maps (ExpRMs) are frequently used to inform species distributions, but often
incomplete or missing for many species, particularly among plants and invertebrates. Many …

Socio-ecological gap analysis to forecast species range contractions for conservation

NC Harris, A Murphy, AR Green… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Conservation requires both a needs assessment and prioritization scheme for planning and
implementation. Range maps are critical for understanding and conserving biodiversity, but …

Whole-genome analysis reveals contrasting relationships among nuclear and mitochondrial genomes between three sympatric bat species

VN Laine, T Sävilammi, N Wahlberg… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding mechanisms involved in speciation can be challenging, especially when
hybridization or introgression blurs species boundaries. In bats, resolving relationships of …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing the relationship between non-human primates and mangrove forests at the global, national, and local scales

SE Hamilton, A Presotto, AJ Lembo Jr - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Global and spatially explicit information about the interaction between habitat and wildlife
species is critical to enhancing conservation efforts. Despite the recognized importance of …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting host range expansion in parasitic mites using a global mammalian-acarine dataset

PB Klimov, Q He - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Multi-host parasites pose greater health risks to wildlife, livestock, and humans than single-
host parasites, yet our understanding of how ecological and biological factors influence a …