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Wilcox, Aidan, and Sara Lewis. "Fluorescence in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): using sentinel prey to investigate a possible aposematic signal." Florida Entomologist 102, no. 3 (2019): 614. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.102.0342.

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Wilcox, Aidan, Lewis, Sara (2019): Fluorescence in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): using sentinel prey to investigate a possible aposematic signal. Florida Entomologist 102 (3): 614, DOI: 10.1653/024.102.0342, URL: https://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-102/issue-3/024.102.0342/Fluorescence-in-Fireflies-Coleoptera--Lampyridae--Using-Sentinel-Prey/10.1653/024.102.0342.full

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Wills, B. D., T. N. Kim, A. F. Fox, C. Gratton, and D. A. Landis. "Reducing Native Ant Abundance Decreases Predation Rates in Midwestern Grasslands." Environmental Entomology 48, no. 6 (2019): 1360–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz127.

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Abstract Diverse and robust predator communities are important for effective prey suppression in natural and managed communities. Ants are ubiquitous components of terrestrial systems but their contributions to natural prey suppression is relatively understudied in temperate regions. Growing evidence suggests that ants can play a significant role in the removal of insect prey within grasslands, but their impact is difficult to separate from that of nonant predators. To test how ants may contribute to prey suppression in grasslands, we used poison baits (with physical exclosures) to selectively

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Ostreiher, Roni, and Aviad Heifetz. "The sentinel behaviour of Arabian babbler floaters." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 2 (2017): 160738. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160738.

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The sentinel behaviour of 38 Arabian babbler adult floaters, who lived alone within a territory belonging to a foreign group, was studied and compared with their own sentinel behaviour in the past, when they were group members. All floaters acted as sentinels and uttered ‘alarm calls’. This suggests that sentinel activity is due at least, in part, to selfish motives. Floaters sentinelled less than they did as group members, with the decrease in sentinel activity sharper for ex-dominants than for ex-subordinates. One possible explanation for these differences is that sentinel activity is aimed

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Henriques, Mohamed, Teresa Catry, João Ricardo Belo, Theunis Piersma, Samuel Pontes, and José Pedro Granadeiro. "Combining Multispectral and Radar Imagery with Machine Learning Techniques to Map Intertidal Habitats for Migratory Shorebirds." Remote Sensing 14, no. 14 (2022): 3260. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14143260.

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Migratory shorebirds are notable consumers of benthic invertebrates on intertidal sediments. The distribution and abundance of shorebirds will strongly depend on their prey and on landscape and sediment features such as mud and surface water content, topography, and the presence of ecosystem engineers. An understanding of shorebird distribution and ecology thus requires knowledge of the various habitat types which may be distinguished in intertidal areas. Here, we combine Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery and a digital elevation model (DEM), using machine learning techniques to map intertidal

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Ricci, B., C. Lavigne, A. Alignier, et al. "Local pesticide use intensity conditions landscape effects on biological pest control." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1904 (2019): 20182898. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2898.

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Complex landscapes including semi-natural habitats are expected to favour natural enemies thereby enhancing natural pest biocontrol in crops. However, when considering a large number of situations, the response of natural biocontrol to landscape properties is globally inconsistent, a possible explanation being that local agricultural practices counteract landscape effects. In this study, along a crossed gradient of pesticide use intensity and landscape simplification, we analysed the interactive effects of landscape characteristics and local pesticide use intensity on natural biocontrol. Durin

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Miksis-Olds, Jennifer L., Kerri D. Seger, and Jennifer J. Johnson. "Understanding the relationship between the Bering Sea Cold Pool and vocal presence of odontocetes in the context of climate change." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155, no. 4 (2024): 2392–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0025466.

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The Cold Pool is a subsurface layer with water temperatures below 2 °C that is formed in the eastern Bering Sea. This oceanographic feature of relatively cooler bottom temperature impacts zooplankton and forage fish dynamics, driving different energetic pathways dependent upon Bering Sea climatic regime. Odontocetes echolocate to find prey, so tracking foraging vocalizations acoustically provides information to understand the implications of climate change on Cold Pool variability influencing regional food web processes. Vocal foraging dynamics of ice-associated and seasonally migrant marine m

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Howe, Andy G., Gösta Nachman, and Gábor L. Lövei. "Predation pressure in Ugandan cotton fields measured by a sentinel prey method." Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 154, no. 2 (2015): 161–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eea.12267.

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Rohweder, D. A., and B. D. Lewis. "Day-night foraging behaviour of banded dotterels (Charadrius bicinctus) in the Richmond River estuary, northern NSW, Australia." Notornis 51, no. 3 (2004): 141. https://doi.org/10.63172/862097twgmef.

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The foraging behaviour of banded dotterels during day and night was compared at two sites in the Richmond River estuary, northern New South Wales, Australia. Dotterels foraged during all nights of the survey, although the majority of their food intake came from day feeding. Feeding success rate (no. prey/minute) did not differ significantly between lunar phases or night visibility categories but average feeding success rate was lower at night than during the day. Dotterels foraged on a range of prey including sentinel crabs (Macropthalamus spp.), soldier crabs (Mictyris longicarpus), shrimps (

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Eötvös, Csaba Béla, Gábor L. Lövei, and Tibor Magura. "Predation Pressure on Sentinel Insect Prey along a Riverside Urbanization Gradient in Hungary." Insects 11, no. 2 (2020): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11020097.

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Urbanization is one of the most important global trends which causes habitat reduction and alteration which are, in turn, the main reasons for the well-documented reduction in structural and functional diversity in urbanized environments. In contrast, effects on ecological mechanisms are less known. Predation is one of the most important ecological functions because of its community-structuring effects. We studied six forest habitats along a riverside urbanization gradient in Szeged, a major city in southern Hungary, crossed by the river Tisza, to describe how extreme events (e.g., floods) as

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Greenop, Arran, Andreas Cecelja, Ben A. Woodcock, Andrew Wilby, Samantha M. Cook, and Richard F. Pywell. "Two common invertebrate predators show varying predation responses to different types of sentinel prey." Journal of Applied Entomology 143, no. 4 (2019): 380–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12612.

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Wilcox, Aidan, and Sara Lewis. "Fluorescence in Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Using Sentinel Prey to Investigate a Possible Aposematic Signal." Florida Entomologist 102, no. 3 (2019): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.102.0342.

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Belbel, Fatma, Mehdi Boukheroufa, Valer Micle, Ioana Monica Sur, Feriel Sakraoui, and Irina Smical. "Heavy Metal Accumulation (Cd, As, Zn, Cu, Cr) in Hair and Bones of Small Mammal Prey of the Sentinel Species Common Genet (Genetta genetta) in an Anthropogenic Environment of Edough Mountain Forest, Northeastern Algeria." Animals 15, no. 1 (2025): 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15010114.

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Heavy metal pollution has complex impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, affecting biodiversity, trophic relationships, species health, and the quality of natural resources. This study aims to validate a non-invasive method for detecting heavy metals (Cd, As, Zn, Cu, Cr) in micromammalian prey, which constitute the primary diet of the common genet (Genetta genetta), a mesocarnivore sensitive to habitat degradation. By focusing on prey remains (hair and bones) rather than entire fecal samples, this approach leverages the genet’s selective feeding habits to assess the bioaccumulation of contaminants

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Kolkert, Heidi L., Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, and Nick Reid. "Prey removal in cotton crops next to woodland reveals periodic diurnal and nocturnal invertebrate predation gradients from the crop edge by birds and bats." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 5256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13488601.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Factors influencing the efficacy of insectivorous vertebrates in providing natural pest control services inside crops at increasing distances from the crop edge are poorly understood. We investigated the identity of vertebrate predators (birds and bats) and removal of sentinel prey (mealworms and beetles) from experimental feeding trays in cotton crops using prey removal trials, camera traps and observations. More prey was removed during the day than at night, but prey removal was variable at the crop edge and dependent on the month (

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Kolkert, Heidi L., Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, and Nick Reid. "Prey removal in cotton crops next to woodland reveals periodic diurnal and nocturnal invertebrate predation gradients from the crop edge by birds and bats." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 5256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13488601.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Factors influencing the efficacy of insectivorous vertebrates in providing natural pest control services inside crops at increasing distances from the crop edge are poorly understood. We investigated the identity of vertebrate predators (birds and bats) and removal of sentinel prey (mealworms and beetles) from experimental feeding trays in cotton crops using prey removal trials, camera traps and observations. More prey was removed during the day than at night, but prey removal was variable at the crop edge and dependent on the month (

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Kolkert, Heidi L., Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, and Nick Reid. "Prey removal in cotton crops next to woodland reveals periodic diurnal and nocturnal invertebrate predation gradients from the crop edge by birds and bats." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 5256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13488601.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Factors influencing the efficacy of insectivorous vertebrates in providing natural pest control services inside crops at increasing distances from the crop edge are poorly understood. We investigated the identity of vertebrate predators (birds and bats) and removal of sentinel prey (mealworms and beetles) from experimental feeding trays in cotton crops using prey removal trials, camera traps and observations. More prey was removed during the day than at night, but prey removal was variable at the crop edge and dependent on the month (

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Kolkert, Heidi L., Rhiannon Smith, Romina Rader, and Nick Reid. "Prey removal in cotton crops next to woodland reveals periodic diurnal and nocturnal invertebrate predation gradients from the crop edge by birds and bats." Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 5256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13488601.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Factors influencing the efficacy of insectivorous vertebrates in providing natural pest control services inside crops at increasing distances from the crop edge are poorly understood. We investigated the identity of vertebrate predators (birds and bats) and removal of sentinel prey (mealworms and beetles) from experimental feeding trays in cotton crops using prey removal trials, camera traps and observations. More prey was removed during the day than at night, but prey removal was variable at the crop edge and dependent on the month (

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Amélineau, F., J. Fort, P. D. Mathewson, et al. "Energyscapes and prey fields shape a North Atlantic seabird wintering hotspot under climate change." Royal Society Open Science 5, no. 1 (2018): 171883. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171883.

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There is an urgent need for a better understanding of animal migratory ecology under the influence of climate change. Most current analyses require long-term monitoring of populations on the move, and shorter-term approaches are needed. Here, we analysed the ecological drivers of seabird migration within the framework of the energyscape concept, which we defined as the variations in the energy requirements of an organism across geographical space as a function of environmental conditions. We compared the winter location of seabirds with their modelled energy requirements and prey fields throug

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Matevski, Dragan, Jonas Glatthorn, Peter Kriegel, and Andreas Schuldt. "Non-native Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) promotes sentinel prey attack rates in Central European forests." Forest Ecology and Management 489 (June 2021): 119099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119099.

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McHugh, Niamh M., Steve Moreby, Marjolein E. Lof, Wopke Werf, and John M. Holland. "The contribution of semi‐natural habitats to biological control is dependent on sentinel prey type." Journal of Applied Ecology 57, no. 5 (2020): 914–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13596.

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Geduhn, Anke, Alexandra Esther, Detlef Schenke, Doreen Gabriel, and Jens Jacob. "Prey composition modulates exposure risk to anticoagulant rodenticides in a sentinel predator, the barn owl." Science of The Total Environment 544 (February 2016): 150–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.117.

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GOSSNER, Martin M., Elena GAZZEA, Valeriia DIEDUS, Marlotte JONKER, and Mykola YAREMCHUK. "Using sentinel prey to assess predation pressure from terrestrial predators in water-filled tree holes." European Journal of Entomology 117 (April 28, 2020): 226–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2020.024.

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Prasifka, J. R., N. P. Schmidt, K. A. Kohler, M. E. O’neal, R. L. Hellmich, and J. W. Singer. "Effects of Living Mulches on Predator Abundance and Sentinel Prey in a Corn–Soybean–Forage Rotation." Environmental Entomology 35, no. 5 (2006): 1423–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/0046-225x(2006)35[1423:eolmop]2.0.co;2.

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Prasifka, J. R., N. P. Schmidt, K. A. Kohler, M. E. O’neal, R. L. Hellmich, and J. W. Singer. "Effects of Living Mulches on Predator Abundance and Sentinel Prey in a Corn–Soybean–Forage Rotation." Environmental Entomology 35, no. 5 (2006): 1423–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/35.5.1423.

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Nagy, Rebecca K., Nancy A. Schellhorn, and Myron P. Zalucki. "Fresh, frozen or fake: A comparison of predation rates measured by various types of sentinel prey." Journal of Applied Entomology 144, no. 5 (2020): 407–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jen.12745.

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Imboma, Titus S., De-ping Gao, Min-sheng You, Shijun You, and Gabor L. Lövei. "Predation Pressure in Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plantations in Southeastern China Measured by the Sentinel Prey Method." Insects 11, no. 4 (2020): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11040212.

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Tea (Camellia sinensis) is an important food product with thousands of years of human use. Being a non-washable food, no pesticide residues are allowed, which increases the importance of natural means of plant protection. Predation, a component of natural pest control, is an important contributor to this, but its level and sustainability are not known in most of the areas of tea production. We quantified predation intensity using the artificial sentinel prey method in a tea-growing landscape containing remnants of the original forest vegetation in Fujian Province, China. The most common predat

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Carlson, Edward J., Casey W. Schoenebeck, Beth V. Holbrook, and Andrew W. Hafs. "Environmental influences on the size and recruitment of inland Cisco populations in three Minnesota Sentinel lakes." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44, no. 6 (2024): 1512–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.11051.

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AbstractObjectiveCisco Coregonus artedi are a pelagic coldwater fish that are widely distributed throughout many lakes across Canada and the northern Midwest and play an important role as forage for large piscivores. Cisco are sensitive to oxythermal stress caused by a combination of warm epilimnetic temperatures and hypolimnetic hypoxia during peak stratification periods and are at risk from stressors such as climate change and land use changes. We hypothesized that interannual variability in the amount of oxythermal habitat and prey resources were associated with observed differences in size

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Pérez-Puig, Héctor, Alejandro Arias Del Razo, Daniela Ahuatzin Gallardo, and Jaime Bolaños. "The departure of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in response to the declining jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) population in the central portion of the Gulf of California." PeerJ 12 (October 8, 2024): e18117. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18117.

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As sperm whales are important predators that control energy flux in the oceans, changes in their population can be used as a sentinel to measure of ecosystem health. The present study conducted a sperm whale survey of the eastern Midriff Islands Region in the Gulf of California over the course of nine years, recording sightings and collecting photographs of the fluke of sperm whale individuals. A photo-identification catalog was compiled, while individual recapture data were used to estimate the population size in the central portion of the Gulf of California, using a Jolly-Seber POPAN open po

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Lövei, Gábor L., and Marco Ferrante. "A review of the sentinel prey method as a way of quantifying invertebrate predation under field conditions." Insect Science 24, no. 4 (2017): 528–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12405.

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BLAAUW, BRETT R., and RUFUS ISAACS. "Larger wildflower plantings increase natural enemy density, diversity, and biological control of sentinel prey, without increasing herbivore density." Ecological Entomology 37, no. 5 (2012): 386–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01376.x.

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Cepeda-Duque, Juan Camilo, Gabriel Andrade-Ponce, Andrés Montes-Rojas, et al. "Assessing microhabitat, landscape features and intraguild relationships in the occupancy of the enigmatic and threatened Andean tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus pardinoides) in the cloud forests of northwestern Colombia." PLOS ONE 18, no. 7 (2023): e0288247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288247.

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Mesocarnivores play a key role in ecosystem dynamics through the regulation of prey populations and are sensitive to environmental changes; thus, they are often considered good model organisms for conservation planning. However, data regarding the factors that influence the habitat use of threatened small wild felids such as the Andean tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus pardinoides) are scarce. We conducted a two-year survey with 58 camera trap stations to evaluate the determinants of Andean tiger cat habitat use in three protected areas in the Middle Cauca, Colombia. We developed site occupancy mo

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Espín, Silvia, Jovan Andevski, Guy Duke, et al. "A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors." Ambio 50, no. 1 (2020): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01341-9.

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AbstractBirds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale biomonitoring by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities and by building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination and adoption of best practices addressed by the Networking Programme Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON) and now being advanced by the ongoing international COST Action European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. The present perspective introduces a schematic sam

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Thackeray, Stephen J. "Casting your network wide: a plea to scale-up phenological research." Biology Letters 12, no. 6 (2016): 20160181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0181.

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Accumulating scientific evidence has demonstrated widespread shifts in the biological seasons. These shifts may modify seasonal interspecific interactions, with consequent impacts upon reproductive success and survival. However, current understanding of these impacts is based upon a limited number of studies that adopt a simplified ‘bottom-up’ food-chain paradigm, at a local scale. I argue that there is much insight to be gained by widening the scope of phenological studies to incorporate food-web interactions and landscape-scale processes across a diversity of ecosystem types, with the ultima

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Eötvös, Csaba, Gábor Lövei, and Tibor Magura. "Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) react differently to urbanization than other predator groups in a riparian forest in southern Hungary." ARPHA Conference Abstracts 2 (August 7, 2019): e38886. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.2.e38886.

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Urbanization is one of the most important processes shaping our environment, which causes habitat reduction and alteration which are, in turn, the main reasons for the reduced structural and functional diversity in urbanized environments. Predation is one of the most important ecological functions because of its community-structuring effects. Quantification of predation on invertebrate prey is difficult, because the attacks are mostly cryptic and it is rare when evidence is present. Using dummy prey, which is fixed to a surface, the marks left by predators allows us to identify them. Current e

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Mkenda, Prisila A., Patrick A. Ndakidemi, Philip C. Stevenson, et al. "Field Margin Vegetation in Tropical African Bean Systems Harbours Diverse Natural Enemies for Biological Pest Control in Adjacent Crops." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (2019): 6399. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226399.

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Non-crop vegetation around farmland can be valuable habitats for enhancing ecosystem services but little is known of the importance of field margins in supporting natural enemies of insect pests in tropical agriculture. This study was conducted in smallholder bean fields in three elevation zones to assess the importance of field margin vegetation to natural enemy populations and movement to the bean crop for biological pest control. The pests and natural enemies were assessed using different coloured water pan traps (to ensure the capture of insects with different colour preferences) and the i

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Justine Vansynghel, Denise Bertleff, et al. "Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation." Ecological Applications 33, no. 5 (2023): e2886. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13468219.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bird- and bat-mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences for pest biocontrol. We used a full-factorial experiment excluding birds, bats, and ants to assess their effects on (a) the abundance of multiple arthropod groups; (b) predation pressure on arthropods eva

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Justine Vansynghel, Denise Bertleff, et al. "Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation." Ecological Applications 33, no. 5 (2023): e2886. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13468219.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bird- and bat-mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences for pest biocontrol. We used a full-factorial experiment excluding birds, bats, and ants to assess their effects on (a) the abundance of multiple arthropod groups; (b) predation pressure on arthropods eva

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Justine Vansynghel, Denise Bertleff, et al. "Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation." Ecological Applications 33, no. 5 (2023): e2886. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13468219.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bird- and bat-mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences for pest biocontrol. We used a full-factorial experiment excluding birds, bats, and ants to assess their effects on (a) the abundance of multiple arthropod groups; (b) predation pressure on arthropods eva

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Justine Vansynghel, Denise Bertleff, et al. "Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation." Ecological Applications 33, no. 5 (2023): e2886. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13468219.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bird- and bat-mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences for pest biocontrol. We used a full-factorial experiment excluding birds, bats, and ants to assess their effects on (a) the abundance of multiple arthropod groups; (b) predation pressure on arthropods eva

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Justine Vansynghel, Denise Bertleff, et al. "Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation." Ecological Applications 33, no. 5 (2023): e2886. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13468219.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bird- and bat-mediated biocontrol benefits the productivity of tropical commodity crops such as cacao, but the ecological interactions driving these ecosystem services remain poorly understood. Whereas birds and bats prey on herbivorous arthropods, they may also prey on arthropod mesopredators such as ants, with poorly understood consequences for pest biocontrol. We used a full-factorial experiment excluding birds, bats, and ants to assess their effects on (a) the abundance of multiple arthropod groups; (b) predation pressure on arthropods eva

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DE FELICE, ANDREA, MAGDALENA IGLESIAS, CLAIRE SARAUX, et al. "Environmental drivers influencing the abundance of round sardinella (Sardinella aurita) and European sprat (Sprattus sprattus) in different areas of the Mediterranean Sea." Mediterranean Marine Science 22, no. 4 (2021): 812. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.25933.

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Data on Sardinella aurita (round sardinella) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat) in the Mediterranean Sea are limited due to their scarce commercial interest, at least in European countries. Yet, these two small pelagic fish, sitting at opposite ends of the thermal range, could be interesting sentinel species to monitor the effects of climate change in the basin. Using the Mediterranean International Acoustic Surveys (MEDIAS) – the most extensive source of information on these species – we analyzed their biomass in several geographical subareas of the central and western Mediterranean Sea i

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Zharikov, Yuri, and Gregory A. Skilleter. "Sex-specific intertidal habitat use in subtropically wintering Bar-tailed Godwits." Canadian Journal of Zoology 80, no. 11 (2002): 1918–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z02-178.

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Habitat use by sexually dimorphic Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) was examined in an Australian estuary during the midwintering (NovemberDecember) and premigratory (March) periods of a nonbreeding season. In an area with two available habitats, Zostera seagrass beds and unvegetated sand flats, males occurred almost exclusively in seagrass, whereas the females occurred at equal densities in both habitats. Estimates of intake rates seemed greater for individuals foraging in seagrass (0.1140.128 g dry mass (DM)·min1) than on sand (0.0640.087 g DM·min1). Males appeared less well adapted

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Castagna, Fabio, Luigi Montano, Renato Lombardi, et al. "Understanding Environmental Contamination Through the Lens of the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)." Environments 11, no. 12 (2024): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments11120264.

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The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) stands out as a crucial sentinel species for assessing environmental contamination, owing to its widespread distribution, high position in the food chain, and susceptibility to pollutants. As apex predators, these remarkable birds accumulate various contaminants found in their prey, thus serving as valuable indicators of ecological health. The historical application of organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT, resulted in alarming population declines, highlighting the significant vulnerability of peregrines to environmental hazards. Recent research has she

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Holland, John, Philippe Jeanneret, Anna-Camilla Moonen, et al. "Approaches to Identify the Value of Seminatural Habitats for Conservation Biological Control." Insects 11, no. 3 (2020): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11030195.

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Invertebrates perform many vital functions in agricultural production, but many taxa are in decline, including pest natural enemies. Action is needed to increase their abundance if more sustainable agricultural systems are to be achieved. Conservation biological control (CBC) is a key component of integrated pest management yet has failed to be widely adopted in mainstream agriculture. Approaches to improving conservation biological control have been largely ad hoc. Two approaches are described to improve this process, one based upon pest natural enemy ecology and resource provision while the

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Sirot, Etienne. "Negotiation may lead selfish individuals to cooperate: the example of the collective vigilance game." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1739 (2012): 2862–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0097.

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Game-theoretical models have been highly influential in behavioural ecology. However, these models generally assume that animals choose their action before observing the behaviour of their opponents while, in many natural situations, individuals in fact continuously react to the actions of others. A negotiation process then takes place and this may fundamentally influence the individual attitudes and the tendency to cooperate. Here, I use the classical model system of vigilance behaviour to demonstrate the consequences of such behavioural negotiation among selfish individuals, by predicting pa

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Lebrero, María Eugenia, José Villora, María Asunción Gómez, et al. "Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Wild European and American Mink (Mustela lutreola and Neogale vison) from Spain." Pathogens 14, no. 5 (2025): 427. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens14050427.

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Toxoplasmosis, caused by the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii, affects a wide range of warm-blooded animals, including humans. Domestic and wild felines serve as definitive hosts, excreting oocysts that contaminate the environment. Intermediate hosts, such as the endangered European mink (Mustela lutreola) and the non-native American mink (Neogale vison), can become infected primarily through the ingestion of tissue cysts present in prey, while the ingestion of oocysts from contaminated soil or water plays a secondary role. This study analyzed the seroprevalence of T. gondii in 179 min

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Nivedita Priyadarshini, K., V. Sivashankari, and S. Shekhar. "AN ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER CHANGE DYNAMICS OF GAJA CYCLONE IN COASTAL TAMIL NADU, INDIA USING SENTINEL 1 SAR DATASET." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W8 (August 22, 2019): 323–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w8-323-2019.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Land cover change is a dynamic phenomenon addressing environmental issues including natural calamities. Recent advancements in geospatial technology and availability of remote sensor data have fostered monitoring and mapping of land cover changes more precisely. Remote sensing is widely used where emerging research findings are focused mainly on coastal hazard studies. Tropical cyclones being an extreme weather event are more powerful and hazardous to southern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Aftermath of the cyclone is extreme causing land cove

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Ferrante, Marco, Gabor L. Lövei, Lambert Lavigne, et al. "Flowering Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) Strips Do Not Enhance Ecosystem Services in Azorean Orchards." Insects 14, no. 7 (2023): 634. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14070634.

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The effect of flower strips on ecosystem services (ESs) and disservices (EDs) is routinely assessed following changes in service provider densities without measuring the associated levels of ES/EDs. By using the sentinel approach (i.e., exposing a plant, seeds, and prey models in a standardized way), we tested how coriander (Coriandrum sativum) strips planted in mixed orchards on Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) affected herbivory on lettuce plants, seed predation on wheat and weed seeds, and predation on artificial caterpillars. Vertebrates had more influence than invertebrates on ESs/EDs.

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Delord, K., A. Kato, A. Tarroux, et al. "Antarctic petrels ‘on the ice rocks’: wintering strategy of an Antarctic seabird." Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 4 (2020): 191429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191429.

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There is a paucity of information on the foraging ecology, especially individual use of sea-ice features and icebergs, over the non-breeding season in many seabird species. Using geolocators and stable isotopes, we defined the movements, distribution and diet of adult Antarctic petrels Thalassoica antarctica from the largest known breeding colony, the inland Svarthamaren, Antarctica. More specifically, we examined how sea-ice concentration and free-drifting icebergs affect the distribution of Antarctic petrels. After breeding, birds moved north to the marginal ice zone (MIZ) in the Weddell sec

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González, Ezequiel, Miroslav Seidl, Martin Štrobl, Tomáš Kadlec, Marco Ferrante, and Michal Knapp. "Pest and weed seed predation in field defects within oilseed rape crops." ARPHA Conference Abstracts 2 (June 14, 2019): e37075. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.2.e37075.

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Non-crop habitats can act as refuge for insects in agricultural landscapes and increase ecosystem services (ESs) in neighboring arable fields. Among the different types of non-crop habitats, field defects are temporary patches where sown plants are poorly developed and other plant species emerge. These defects can be common and large in years with extreme weather conditions. However, their relevance as habitat for beneficial insects and ESs provision is unknown. Here, we quantified two ESs (pest and weed seed predation) in field defects within oilseed rape crops and related ESs levels with the

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Forbes, Rachel C., Clovis Pitchford, Jean F. Simpson, Glen C. Balch, and Mark C. Kelley. "Selective Use of Intraoperative Touch Prep Analysis of Sentinel Nodes in Breast Cancer." American Surgeon 71, no. 11 (2005): 955–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000313480507101110.

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Imprint cytology (touch prep) is often used for intraoperative examination of sentinel nodes in breast cancer. This allows axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) to be performed immediately for tumor-positive nodes. We evaluated the accuracy of touch prep examination of sentinel nodes and its role in the surgical treatment of breast cancer. We analyzed 169 breast cancer patients who underwent 170 lymphatic mapping procedures with intraoperative touch prep examination. Results from the touch prep were correlated with histopathology and clinical variables. There were 115 true-negative, 35 true-po

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