Search results for "capture-recapture"
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Habitat- and density-dependent demography of a colonial raptor in Mediterranean agro-ecosystems
2016
Agricultural intensification is considered the major cause of decline in farmland bird populations, especially in the Mediterranean region. Food shortage increased by the interaction between agricultural intensification and density-dependent mechanisms could influence the population dynamics of colonial birds.Weused demographic data on lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni), a key species of Mediterranean pseudo-steppes, to understand the importance of land-use changes and density-dependent mechanisms in the light of its fluctuating conservation status in the Western Palearctic. Our analysis indicated an important influence of land uses (artichokes, arable and grassland fields) and colony size on…
Testing hypotheses in evolutionary ecology with imperfect detection: capture-recapture structural equation modeling.
2012
8 pages; International audience; Studying evolutionary mechanisms in natural populations often requires testing multifactorial scenarios of causality involving direct and indirect relationships among individual and environmental variables. It is also essential to account for the imperfect detection of individuals to provide unbiased demographic parameter estimates. To cope with these issues, we developed a new approach combining structural equation models with capture-recapture models (CR-SEM) that allows the investigation of competing hypotheses about individual and environmental variability observed in demographic parameters. We employ Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in a Bayesian frame…
Record of a 10-year old European Wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris Schreber, 1777 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy
2020
Longevity data for wild felids are lacking in the literature. Here we report a camera trap recapture of a European Wildcat Felis silvestris at Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy after nine years. This individual was clearly identifiable as its tail ended with a white ring rather than the typical black ring and had a unique shape of the dorsal stripe. At first capture on 26 May 2009, this cat was assessed as an adult, so that the likely minimum age of this individual at the time of recapture on 10 June 2018 must have been be at least 10 years. This finding represents the oldest known European Wildcat in the wild and provides insight into age structure in wildcat populations.
New insights in Bayesian Survival Analysis in Ecology
2020
La fauna silvestre está asediada. Y ésta no es solo una frase impactante con la que empezar una tesis, tristemente, es una realidad. En el último siglo, muchas especies han disminuido drásticamente, mientras que otras afrontan su extinción debido, principalmente, a los rápidos cambios (y a gran escala) ocurridos tanto en hábitats como en ecosistemas. El cambio climático, las especies invasoras, la caza ilegal y la sobrepesca son sólo algunas de las principales amenazas que afectan a las poblaciones de animales silvestres en la actualidad. Para abordar este problema, se requiere de un compromiso a todos los niveles, desde las comunidades locales hasta los gobiernos, pasando por los expertos,…
Airvaboles Cybister lateralimarginalis De Geer, 1774 sastopamība mikrobiotopos Līņezerā, izmantojot 5 L pudeļu lamatas
2017
Bakalaura darba “Airvaboles Cybister lateralimarginalis De Geer, 1774 sastopamība mikrobiotopos Līņezerā, izmantojot 5 l pudeļu lamatas” izstrāde un materiālu ievākšana notika Garkalnes novada Līņezerā. Materiāls vākts no 2016. gada 5. augusta līdz 2016. gada 1. septembrim. Airvaboles C. lateralimarginalis ķeršanai izmantotas pudeļlamatas, kurās atradās ēsma – vistas gaļa. Lamatu saturs fiksēts 30% etilenglikolā. Ievāktā materiāla analīze notika stacionāri. Pavisam tika ievākti 84 paraugi (72 paraugi vaboļu ķeršanas vietās un 12 paraugi vaboļu iezīmēšanas / atlaišanas vietās). Analizējot paraugu sastāvu, tika konstatēti trīs dažādi zoobentosa taksoni un divas zivju sugas (karūsa un līdaka).…
Occupancy, density, and activity patterns of a Critically Endangered leopard population on the Kawthoolei‐Thailand border
2023
Large carnivores have been largely extirpated from Southeast Asia due to deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and poaching. Estimating the density of endangered carnivore populations, and identifying relationships between species occupancy and both environmental and anthropogenic factors, is essential for effective conservation planning. Recently, the IUCN conservation status of the Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) was upgraded to "Critically Endangered. " We surveyed Kweekoh Wildlife Sanctuary in Kawthoolei, an area administered by the Karen ethnic group in eastern Myanmar, to quantify (1) leopard population density using spatially explicit mark-resight (SMR) models, (2) le…
Sex- and age-related variation in survival and cost of first reproduction in Greater Flamingos
2001
International audience; We analyzed survival of breeding Greater Flamingos, Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, using the capture histories of 2000 breeding birds ringed as chicks and resighted at their natal colony in the Camargue, southern France. As found in previous analyses, recapture probability varied according to year, sex, and age of the bird, and annual survival was strongly affected by winter severity. However, by using a much larger data set than in earlier analyses, we detected previously nonsignificant effects. Indeed, for the first time, sex and age of the bird were found to influence annual survival probability. We tested the hypothesis that the observed sex-related difference in s…
Apomorfina como emético para aves canoras insectívoras: efectividad, efectos post-liberación, sobrevivencia y cambio en masa corporal
2014
[EN] Emetics can be used to obtain food samples from birds, but they can harm birds during or after treatment. Studies to date suggest that apomorphine is a safe emetic for songbirds, but information is needed about possible post-release deleterious effects. From March to July 2012, we collected food samples from insectivorous songbirds using apomorphine. We treated 67 Moustached Warblers (Acrocephalus melanopogon), 56 Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), 15 Great Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus), and 12 Savi's Warblers (Locustella luscinoides). Effectiveness in inducing regurgitation was high (76.7%) and varied among species, being significantly more effective with Reed Warble…
Data from: The dual role of rivers in facilitating or hindering movements of the false heath fritillary butterfly
2016
Background: Species movement responses to landscape structures have been studied using a variety of methods, but movement research is still in need of simple methods that help predicting and comparing movements across structurally different landscapes. We demonstrate how habitat-specific movement models can be used to disentangle causes of differentiated movement patterns in structurally different landscapes and to predict movement patterns in altered and artificial landscapes. In our case study, we studied the role of riparian landscapes to the persistence of the endangered false heath fritillary butterfly (Melitaea diamina) in its newly discovered coastal distribution region in Finland. W…