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There are billions of animals living in close proximity to humans around the world from pets and livestock to laboratory, draught and zoo animals. The interactions these animals have with humans in captivity influence their ...

Climate change is challenging marine ecosystems worldwide, severely straining the tolerance of marine species and likely leading to distributional shifts. In the brackish-water Baltic Sea, there is a strong salinity ...

In low-productive tundra systems, both small and large herbivores exert strong control over plant biomass and community composition. They may also modulate ecosystem process rates, including availability and cycling of ...

Hoarding behaviour (storing food for later use) has evolved to reduce the risk of starvation when resources are scarce. In this thesis, I studied the food-hoarding behaviour of Eurasian pygmy owls (Glaucidium passerinum) ...

Human activities can negatively impact biodiversity, including bats, leading to excessive mortality, population declines and potentially species extinction. Amongst these threats, wind power and light pollution are both ...

Amazonia is the largest remaining tropical rainforest. As such, it is globally important both in terms of carbon and water cycles as well as biodiversity. As in most areas of the tropics, deforestation is also alarmingly ...

Individuals within populations often show repeatable behavioural differences which reflect variation in personality. In contrast to human personality, which has been extensively studied by psychologists ...

ABSTRACT Understanding the factors affecting the distribution of species lies at the core of ecology and is becoming increasingly important in the field of applied ecology, such as conservation biology and wildlife ...

Knowledge on flyway structures, year-round spatiotemporal distributions and migration strategies is a key for understanding the ecology of migratory populations and the evolution of migratory behaviours. Knowledge on these ...

Phenotypic plasticity allows the same genotype to produce distinctly different morphological, physiological or behavioural characteristics depending on the environmental conditions the individual, and even its parents or ...