Sil A. Westra

ORCID: 0000-0003-0120-0250
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  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Muridae such as rats and mice are important hosts of (zoonotic) pathogens in urbanized environments. Controlling their population size is an component public health policies to reduce human disease risk. Recent studies suggest that rodent populations may increase due urban greening, but this could also be counteracted by domestic cats wild predators inhabit greenspaces. Here, we assessed how the presence brown (Rattus norvegicus) (i.e., house mouse (Mus musculus), wood (Apodemus sylvaticus),...

10.1007/s11252-024-01645-8 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Urban Ecosystems 2024-11-22

Abstract The Boé region in the south‐east of Guinea‐Bissau has remained untouched by large‐scale human influence and development due to its isolated location. consists mainly savannah interspersed with gallery forests hosts a unique valuable biodiversity though very little is known small terrestrial mammal diversity. In 2013, live trapping survey was conducted around Béli, village South region. Five locations three ecotypes were selected, combination pitfall traps used capture release...

10.1111/aje.13044 article EN African Journal of Ecology 2022-06-28
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