A5045118643- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
University of St Andrews
2016-2025
Institute for Advanced Study
2020
Harvard University
2020
Institute for Advanced Study
2020
Google (United States)
2016
University of Oxford
2005-2015
Indiana University Bloomington
2011
The term ‘biologging’ refers to the use of miniaturized animal-attached tags for logging and/or relaying data about an animal's movements, behaviour, physiology environment. Biologging technology substantially extends our abilities observe, and take measurements from, free-ranging, undisturbed subjects, providing much scope advancing both basic applied biological research. Here, we review highlights from third international conference on biologging science, which was held in California, USA,...
Abstract The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research, especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions how best to match most appropriate and sensor combinations specific biological analyse complex data, mostly ignored. Here, we fill this gap by reviewing optimize use techniques answer in ecology synthesize into an Integrated Biologging Framework (IBF). We highlight that multisensor approaches a new frontier biologging, while identifying...
Understanding the rich social lives of animals benefits international conservation efforts
A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence viable, natural populations wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided genetic, ecological and demographic indicators risk. Emerging evidence animal culture across diverse taxa its role as a driver evolutionary diversification, population structure processes may be essential for augmenting these conventional approaches decision-making. Animal was focus ground-breaking resolution under...
Background Using tools to act on non-food objects—for example, make other tools—is considered be a hallmark of human intelligence, and may have been crucial step in our evolution. One form this behaviour, 'sequential tool use', has observed number non-human primates even one bird, the New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides). While sequential use often interpreted as evidence for advanced cognitive abilities, such planning analogical reasoning, behaviour itself can underpinned by range...
Conservation scientists, national governments, and international conservation groups seek to devise, implement, governance strategies that mitigate human impact on the environment. However, few studies date have systematically investigated performance of different systems in achieving successful outcomes. Here, we use a newly-developed analytic framework conduct analyses suite case studies, linking standardized scores for delivering ecosystem services, sustainable natural resources,...
Abstract Bio‐logging data obtained by tagging animals are key to addressing global conservation challenges. However, the many thousands of existing bio‐logging datasets not easily discoverable, universally comparable, nor readily accessible through repositories and across platforms, slowing down ecological research effective management. A set universal standards is needed ensure discoverability, interoperability translation into management recommendations. We propose a standardisation...
New methods promise transformative insights and conservation benefits.
Abstract The conversion of natural habitats to farmland is a major cause biodiversity loss and poses the greatest extinction risk birds worldwide. Tropical raptors are particular concern, being relatively slow-breeding apex predators scavengers, whose disappearance can trigger extensive cascading effects. Many Africa’s at considerable from habitat conversion, prey-base depletion persecution, driven principally by human population expansion. Here we describe multiregional trends among 42...
1. Despite the accelerating global spread of urbanized habitats and its associated implications for wildlife humans, surprisingly little is known about biology urban ecosystems. 2. Using data from a 60-year study period, this paper provides detailed description how northern goshawk Accipiter gentilis L.--generally considered shy forest species--colonized city Hamburg, Germany. Six non-mutually exclusive hypotheses are investigated regarding environmental factors that may have triggered...
New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) are renowned for using tools extractive foraging, but the ecological context of this unusual behavior is largely unknown. We developed miniaturized, animal-borne video cameras to record undisturbed and foraging ecology wild, free-ranging crows. Our recordings enabled an estimate species' natural efficiency revealed that tool use, choice materials, more diverse than previously thought. Video tracking has potential studying many other bird species shy...
Tool use is a vital component of the human behavioural repertoire. The benefits tool have often been assumed to be self-evident: by extending control over our environment, we increased energetic returns and buffered ourselves from potentially harmful influences. In recent decades, however, study in both humans non-human animals has expanded way think about role tools natural world. This Theme Issue aimed at bringing together this developing body knowledge, gathered across multiple species...
Clever Crows Understanding the adaptive significance of animal tool use requires reliable information on foraging behavior in wild. New Caledonian crows consume a range foods and sticks as tools to extract wood-boring beetle larvae from their burrows. These larvae, with unusual diet, have distinct isotopic signature that can be traced after consumption by crows' feathers blood. By comparing stable isotope profiles tissues those food sources, Rutz et al. (p. 1523 ) estimated proportion crow...
At an estimated $7–10 billion annually, the global trade in illegal wildlife parts is comparable economic value to human trafficking, and smuggling of weapons drugs (Wasser et al. 2008; Wyler & Sheikh 2013). Basic principles supply demand ensure that, as target species become ever rarer, their market continues rise, gradually pushing them towards extinction (Courchamp 2006; Nowell 2012a). One particular problem that anti-poaching rangers often arrive too late at crime scenes arrest...