The prevalence of threatened species in predator scats has often been used to gauge the risks that predators pose to threatened species, with the infrequent occurrence of a given species often considered indicative of negligible predation risks. In this study, data from 4087 dingo (Canis lupus dingo and hybrids) scats were assessed alongside additional information on predator and prey distribut...

Soil fauna can be an important regulator of community parameters and ecosystem processes, but there have been few quantitative syntheses of the role of soil fauna in terrestrial soil communities and ecosystems. Here, we conducted a metaanalysis to investigate the impacts of invertebrate soil microand mesofauna (grazers and predators) on plant productivity and microbial biomass. Overall our resu...

leishmania infantum, an etiologic agent of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (vl), is spreading in iran. dogs are the main reservoirs but l.infantum has been detected in jackals, foxes and wild rodents too. despite high number of rodents in the world, the exact role of them in epidemiology of vl is not clear. in recent years the number of sporadic cases of dogs and humans vl has been increased in...

in this study, we investigated the importance of vegetation and elevation in the determination of the diversity and abundance of rodents in geno biosphere reserve, hormozgan province. the study area was divided into seven plant types and four elevation classes. the binary similarity coefficients were used for the investigation of the plant types similarity base on the presence of rodents. the m...

abstract background: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is one of the most important vector-borne diseases in iran. wild rodents play as a reservoir. the main aim of this study was to determine spatial analyses of the relationship between rodent’s active burrows and incidence of zcl in golestan province, north east of iran . methods : the cross-sectional study was conducted in 59 rural dist...

Rodents are a danger to farmers because they damage farm crops. For the last 100 years, chemical pesticides have been used kill rodents, but these chemicals harm ecosystem, humans, and all sorts of wildlife, including migratory birds. Barn owls may be solution! These nocturnal birds prey common over most world can act as biological pest-control agents. nest near in fields specialize hunting rod...

Small concretions and specimens embedded in the matrix have yielded a new Pliocene crustacean fauna from the Kowai Formation near Makikihi, South Canterbury, New Zealand. The fauna is relatively robust, with five identifiable taxa. Three new species are named herein, including the isopod Cirolana makikihi and the decapods Upogebia kowai and Austrohelice manneringi. one new genus and species of ...

Collections of23 macroinvertebrate taxa associated with Durvillaea antarctica hold fasts and 58 invertebrate taxa associated with artificial substrata coliectots are described flOm shallow-water and intertidd habitats at Heard Island. The fauna strong biogeographic affinities with the Kerguelen Island fauna and, to a slightly lesser extent, the fauna recorded at Macquarie Island but negligible ...