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Perceptions Of Animal Personality Compared With Objective Measures Of Animal Personality In Captive Ungulates And Carnivores, Rebecca Edwards
Perceptions Of Animal Personality Compared With Objective Measures Of Animal Personality In Captive Ungulates And Carnivores, Rebecca Edwards
The Plymouth Student Scientist
The two most widely used methods for animal personality assessment include observational coding of behaviour and the rating of traits through questionnaires. Here the two are assessed side by side in order to determine whether or not they are consistent with one another. Six zoo keepers from one zoo were asked to rate the personality of 12 individuals they cared for. Animals studied included a range of carnivores and ungulate species which consisted of Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos), Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), European pine marten (Martes martes), Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), Eurasian wolf (Canis …
Wildlife Underpass Use And Environmental Impact Assessment: A Southern California Case Study, Travis Longcore, Lindsay Almaleh, Brittany Chetty, Kathryn Francis, Robert Freidin, Ching-Sheng Huang, Brooke Pickett, Diane Schreck, Brooke Scruggs, Elise Shulman, Alissa Swauger, Alison Tashnek, Michael Wright, Erin E. Boydston
Wildlife Underpass Use And Environmental Impact Assessment: A Southern California Case Study, Travis Longcore, Lindsay Almaleh, Brittany Chetty, Kathryn Francis, Robert Freidin, Ching-Sheng Huang, Brooke Pickett, Diane Schreck, Brooke Scruggs, Elise Shulman, Alissa Swauger, Alison Tashnek, Michael Wright, Erin E. Boydston
Cities and the Environment (CATE)
Environmental planners often rely on transportation structures (i.e., underpasses, bridges) to provide connectivity for animals across developed landscapes. Environmental assessments of predicted environmental impacts from proposed developments often rely on literature reviews or other indirect measures to establish the importance of wildlife crossings. Literature-based evaluations of wildlife crossings may not be accurate, and result in under-estimation of impacts or establishment of inappropriate mitigation measures. To investigate the adequacy of literature-based evaluations, we monitored wildlife use of a freeway underpass that had been identified as critically important to wildlife connectivity, and which was evaluated in an environmental review document. Photographs were …
Interactions And Pathogen Transmission Between Carnivores In Madagascar, Fidisoa Rasambainarivo
Interactions And Pathogen Transmission Between Carnivores In Madagascar, Fidisoa Rasambainarivo
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Introduced carnivores exert considerable pressure on native predators through predation, competition and disease transmission. Improved understanding of determinant factors of interactions and pathogen transmission between introduced and endemic wildlife may help to predict disease emergence, avoid pathogen spillover and help control outbreaks. Using non-invasive camera traps, I identified areas where transmission of pathogens might happen through records of shared space-use within a protected area in Eastern Madagascar. I showed that indirect interactions between animals were more likely to occur near the research station which may constitute a disease transmission hotspot for carnivores in the landscape. Secondly, I investigated the associations …
A Conceptual Model For The Integration Of Social And Ecological Information To Understand Human-Wildlife Interactions, Stacy A. Lischka, Tara L. Teel, Heather E. Johnson, Sarah E. Reed, Stewart Breck, Andrew Don Carlos, Kevin R. Crooks
A Conceptual Model For The Integration Of Social And Ecological Information To Understand Human-Wildlife Interactions, Stacy A. Lischka, Tara L. Teel, Heather E. Johnson, Sarah E. Reed, Stewart Breck, Andrew Don Carlos, Kevin R. Crooks
United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications
There is growing recognition that interdisciplinary approaches that account for both ecological and social processes are necessary to successfully address human-wildlife interactions. However, such approaches are hindered by challenges in aligning data types, communicating across disciplines, and applying social science information to conservation actions. To meet these challenges, we propose a conceptual model that adopts a social-ecological systems approach and integrates social and ecological theory to identify the multiple, nested levels of influence on both human and animal behavior. By accounting for a diverse array of influences and feedback mechanisms between social and ecological systems, this model fulfills a need …