Wild and farmed animals are key elements of natural managed ecosystems that deliver functions such as pollination, pest control nutrient cycling within the broader roles they play in contributing to biodiversity every category ecosystem services. They subjected global changes with a profound impact on range viability animal species, emergence spatial distribution pathogens, land use, services f...

Claudio Carere1,2), Piet J. Drent3), Jaap M. Koolhaas4) & Ton G.G. Groothuis1,5) (1 Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2 Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Behavioural Neuroendocrinology Research Group, University of Liege, Belgium; 3 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands; 4 Department of An...

Among ecologists, historians of science, and environmentalists there is growing interest in the history of ecology. The editor of theJournal of the History of Biology therefore requested that I write a new bibliographic essay to supplement the one published in 1977. My earlier essay, which covered relevant writings from ancient to recent times, concentrated on general ecology and population eco...

The analysis of wild collected feces is a fundamental ecological tool, applied in studies about population size, diet analysis and to identify the presence of a species in a certain area. Moreover, it is useful when it is necessary to monitor those species which are elusive, difficult to observe, threatened, nocturnal or sympatric, or exist in low densities. The identification can be done by ex...

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