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• Elephants: trimming the herd: in South Africa, biologists are experimenting with new birth control methods designed to reduce elephant populations humanely

  Author:Victoria ButlerFrom:BioScience (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19984,429 words Article Wildlife officials and biologists in South Africa's Kruger National Park are conducting research on birth control methods which would be used to control the park's elephant population. The birth control methods, while...

• Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle

  Authors:Charles J. Krebs, Stan Boutin, Rudy Boonstra, A.R.E. Sinclair, J.N.M. Smith, Mark R.T. Dale, et al.From:Science (Vol. 269, Issue 5227) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 25, 19953,244 words Article Snowshoe hare populations in the boreal forests of North America go through 10-year cycles. Supplemental food and mammalian predator abundance were manipulated in a factorial design on 1-square-kilometer areas for 8...

• Time series sightability modeling of animal populations

  Authors:Althea A. ArchMiller, Robert M. Dorazio, Katherine St. Clair, and John R. FiebergFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 12, 20187,591 words Report 1660LAuthor(s): Althea A. ArchMiller 1,*, Robert M. Dorazio 2, Katherine St. Clair 3, John R. Fieberg 1 Introduction Long-term monitoring of animal populations is necessary for understanding the impacts of management...

• Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) Population Characteristics in the Little Missouri Badlands of North Dakota

  Authors:Randy D. Johnson, Jonathan A. Jenks, Stephanie A. Tucker, and David T. WilckensFrom:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 181, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20197,336 words Report 1430LMountain lions (Puma concolor) have many impacts on the ecosystems they inhabit, leading to both biological and social ramifications. Yet, clue to the relatively recent natural recolonization by mountain lions of the...

• Not All Sheep Are Equal

  Authors:Jean-Michel Gaillard, Marco Festa-Bianchet, and Nigel G. YoccozFrom:Science (Vol. 292, Issue 5521) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20011,263 words Article Our lives and those of large mammals are inextricably intertwined: We hunt them and spend time in zoos and wildlife parks viewing them; they feed on domestic animals, damage crops, cause traffic accidents, and may even...

• Wildlife resistance and protection in a changing New England landscape

  Authors:Schuyler B. Pearman-Gillman, Matthew J. Duveneck, James D. Murdoch, and Therese M. DonovanFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 24, 20209,292 words Report 1500LRapid changes in climate and land use threaten the persistence of wildlife species. Understanding where species are likely to occur now and in the future can help identify areas that are resistant to change over time...

• Human traffic and habitat complexity are strong predictors for the distribution of a declining amphibian.

  Author:Rachel B. AndersonFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 7, 20196,936 words Report 1490LInvasive species and habitat modification threaten California's native pond-breeding amphibians, including the federally threatened California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii). The relative contributions of invasive...

• A Species' Fate, By the Numbers

  Authors:CHARLES C. MANN and MARK L. PLUMMERFrom:Science (Vol. 284, Issue 5411) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 2, 19991,824 words Article Population viability analysis is a technique used to predict the possible fates of populations of threatened animals. The technique was developed over 20 years ago and a 1999 conference on PVA attracted 330 scientists....

• Survival, acid-base balance, and gaping responses of the Asian oyster Crassostrea ariakensis and the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica during clamped emersion and hypoxic immersion

  Authors:Sara A. Lombardi, Nicole P. Harlan, and Kennedy T. PaynterFrom:Journal of Shellfish Research (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20135,862 words Report 1500LABSTRACT The eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica has a remarkable ability to withstand low oxygen conditions: however, many of the biochemical mechanisms by which that tolerance is accomplished remain poorly...

• Temporal dynamics of teleost populations during the Pleistocene: a report from publicly available genome data.

  Authors:Jia Li, Chao Bian, Yunhai Yi, Hui Yu, Xinxin You, and Qiong ShiFrom:BMC Genomics (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 30, 20216,425 words Report 1360LBackground Global climate oscillation, as a selection dynamic, is an ecologically important element resulting in global biodiversity. During the glacial geological periods, most organisms suffered detrimental selection...

• A plague of deer: unchecked deer populations are causing a decline in forest diversity. Overbrowsing by deer leaves only the few plant species deer can't digest as survivors. Managing deer populations through revised hunting practices, however, meets strong resistance

  Author:Sharon LevyFrom:BioScience (Vol. 56, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20062,220 words Article 1490LOn the crest of tall boulder grows a wild garden, bright with the blooms of trillium, mayflower, and Solomon's seal, and shaded by maple, birch, and hemlock trees. The plant life sheltering high on this rock in...

• Monitoring populations of plants and animals

  Authors:James P. Gibbs, Sam Droege, and Paige EagleFrom:BioScience (Vol. 48, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19983,830 words Article Computerized monitoring programs have been developed to keep track of changes in plants and animal populations. Tests on the validity of these programs seek to verify if the sampling methods used were unbiased and...

• Ocelot Population Status in Protected Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  Authors:Rodrigo Lima Massara, Ana Maria de Oliveira Paschoal, Paul Francis Doherty, Andre Hirsch, and Adriano Garcia ChiarelloFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 11, 20158,860 words Report 1500LForest fragmentation and habitat loss are detrimental to top carnivores, such as jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), but effects on mesocarnivores, such as ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), are less clear....

• Genetic divergence and fine scale population structure of the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, Montagu) found in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador

  Authors:Rosa de los Angeles Bayas-Rea, Fernando Felix, and Rommel MontufarFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 9, 201813,406 words Report 1350LThe common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, is widely distributed along the western coast of South America. In Ecuador, a resident population of bottlenose dolphins inhabits the inner estuarine area of the Gulf...

• Demographic, ecological, and physiological responses of ringed seals to an abrupt decline in sea ice availability

  Authors:Steven H. Ferguson, Brent G. Young, David J. Yurkowski, Randi Anderson, Cornelia Willing, and Ole NielsenFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 2, 20176,660 words Report 1490LTo assess whether demographic declines of Arctic species at the southern limit of their range will be gradual or punctuated, we compared large-scale environmental patterns including sea ice dynamics to ringed seal (Pusa...

• The genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on a wild gorilla population.

  Authors:Claudia Fontsere, Peter Frandsen, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, Jonas Niemann, Camilla Hjorth Scharff-Olsen, Dominique Vallet, et al.From:BMC Genomics (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 11, 20217,904 words Report 1550LBackground Numerous Ebola virus outbreaks have occurred in Equatorial Africa over the past decades. Besides human fatalities, gorillas and chimpanzees have also succumbed to the fatal virus. The 2004 outbreak at the...

• Handed behavior in hagfish-an ancient vertebrate lineage and a survey of lateralized behaviors in other invertebrate chordates and elongate vertebrates

  Authors:Tetsuto Miyashiita and A. Richard PalmerFrom:The Biological Bulletin (Vol. 226, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20145,028 words Report 1200LHagfish represent an ancient lineage of boneless and jawless vertebrates. Among several curious behaviors they exhibit, solitary individuals in one dominant genus of hagfish (Eptatretus spp.) regularly rest in a tightly...

• Juvenile Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) utilization distributions in the Gulf of Alaska

  Authors:Amanda Bishop, Casey Brown, Michael Rehberg, Leigh Torres, and Markus HorningFrom:Movement Ecology (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  May 15, 20188,231 words Report 1520LBackground A utilization distribution quantifies the temporal and spatial probability of space use for individuals or populations. These patterns in movement arise from individualsâ internal state and from their...

• Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep

  Authors:T. Coulson, E. A. Catchpole, S. D. Albon, B. J. T. Morgan, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock, et al.From:Science (Vol. 292, Issue 5521) Peer-Reviewed

  May 25, 20012,370 words Article Quantifying the impact of density, extrinsic climatic fluctuations, and demography on population fluctuations is a persistent challenge in ecology. We analyzed the effect of these processes on the irregular pattern of...

• Animals thrive at Chernobyl

  From:Nature (Vol. 526, Issue 7572) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 8, 2015133 words Brief article 1380LWildlife populations seem to be increasing near the Chernobyl nuclear-disaster site, which people abandoned after a reactor explosion in 1986. Jim Smith at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and his colleagues found...