A5087737295- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Heavy metals in environment
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Marine animal studies overview
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Clay minerals and soil interactions
- Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
- Health and Medical Studies
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
Spital Muri
2014-2024
Stiftung Empiris
2024
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2023
University of Basel
2014-2023
Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum e.V.
2023
Körber Foundation
2022
University of Washington
1984-2011
University of California, Davis
1995
Yale University
1989-1991
Seattle University
1987
SUMMARY Over the last decade, hundreds of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programmes have been initiated around world, but evidence their environmental benefits remains limited. In this study, two PES operating in municipality Coatepec (Mexico) were evaluated to assess effectiveness protecting region's endangered upland forests. Landsat satellite data analysed changes forest cover before and after programme implementation using a difference-in-differences estimator. Additionally,...
Abstract Context Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people shared landscapes. Landscape composition might determining how adapt to occurring alongside humans, yet broad-scale analyses investigating adjustments of across gradients human pressure and landscape are lacking. Objectives Here, we investigate Eurasian lynx ( Lynx ) response varying availability refuge habitats (i.e., forests rugged terrain) modification. Methods...
Human related mortality is a major threat for large carnivores all over the world and there increasing evidence that predators respond to human risks in similar way as prey predation risk. This insight recently led conceptual development of landscape coexistence can be used identify areas which sustain predator populations dominated landscapes. In this study we applied concept Europe. We investigated what extent Eurasian lynx Lynx habitat selection affected by disturbance landscape. More...
Restricting movements to familiar areas should increase individual fitness as it provides animals with information about the spatial distribution of resources and predation risk. While benefits familiarity for locating have been reported previously, potential value avoidance has accorded less attention. It suggested that be beneficial anti-predator behaviour when direct cues risk are unclear do not allow prey identify well-defined refuges. However, our knowledge, this hypothesis yet tested....
ABSTRACT For conservation or management programs, basic data on vital rates are important but often hard to acquire for long‐lived and elusive wildlife species such as large carnivores. In this study, we analyzed long‐term changes in survival different sexes age classes (juvenile, subadult, adult) three reintroduced Swiss lynx populations (Alps, Jura, Northeastern Switzerland). A novel modeling approach allowed us combine picture from camera trapping pictures resulting chance observations,...
Determining the ubiquity of top-down control effects predators on their prey and ecosystem processes is important for understanding community ecosystem-level consequences that may result from predator loss. We conducted experiments at two spatial scales to investigate terrestrial frogs ( Eleutherodactylus coqui ) aerial litter invertebrates, plant growth herbivory, decomposition. At both scales, reduced invertebrates leaf but had no effect invertebrates. smaller scale, increased foliage...
Predators can indirectly affect prey survival and reproduction by evoking costly antipredator responses. Such nonconsumptive effects may be as strong or stronger than consumptive predator effects. However, evidence for this in large terrestrial vertebrate systems is equivocal few studies quantify the actual fitness costs of Here, we investigated whether elicited Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), a predator, reduced an ungulate prey, European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). To reveal behavioral...
Root and shoot biomass mycorrhizal development were examined for white spruce (Piceaglauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings naturally regenerating in four floodplain communities the boreal forest. Mean seedling was highest open community lowest community. Seedlings growing had higher root:shoot ratios (0.50) compared with willow (0.34), alder (0.20), (0.24) communities. Essentially all short roots of infected by fungi throughout season.
Abstract Predator‐prey theory predicts that in the presence of multiple types predators using a common prey, predator facilitation may result as consequence contrasting prey defense mechanisms, where reducing risk from one increases other. While is well established natural predator‐prey systems, little attention has been paid to situations human hunters compete with for same prey. Here, we investigate hunting‐mediated hunter‐predator‐prey system. We found hunter avoidance by roe deer (...
A potential indirect technique for determining fine root biomass and production is reported Douglas-fir. Present data show a direct correlation between the starch content of 1 cm wide band living bark at breast height per hectare (r 2 = 0.85).
Aboveground net primary production (ANPP) and N P use patterns were determined for western larch (Larix occidentalis Nutt.), a deciduous conifer, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.), an evergreen in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, USA. Western retranslocated 87 66% foliage 66 78% P, respectively. At stand level, efficiency was greater than that pine, whereas larch. comparable ANPP (ANPP/foliage mass) if needle longevity is considered. The similarity may be...
Heida L. Diefenderfer, Ronald M. Thom, Gary E. Johnson, John R. Skalski, Kristiina A. Vogt, Blaine D. Ebberts, G. Curtis Roegner and Earl Dawley
The ecology and evolution of reproductive timing synchrony have been a topic great interest in evolutionary for decades. Originally motivated by questions related to behavioral adaptation environmental conditions, the has acquired new relevance face climate change. However, there relatively little research on phenology mammalian carnivores. Eurasian lynx (
Abstract When wild‐caught Eurasian lynx ( Lynx ) from the Slovak Carpathian Mountains were reintroduced to Central Switzerland in early 1970s and spread through north‐western Swiss Alps (NWA), they faced a largely unfamiliar landscape with strongly fragmented forests, high elevations, intense human land use. For more than 30 years, radio‐collared have been monitored during three different project periods (in 1980s, 1990s, 2010s). Our study explored, how over generations learned adjust alpine...