Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

RM Pringle, JO Abraham, TM Anderson, TC Coverdale… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Cathemerality: a key temporal niche

DTC Cox, KJ Gaston - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given the marked variation in abiotic and biotic conditions between day and night, many
species specialise their physical activity to being diurnal or nocturnal, and it was long …

Tradeoffs between resources and risks shape the responses of a large carnivore to human disturbance

KL Mills, JL Belant, M Beukes, E Dröge… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Wide-ranging carnivores experience tradeoffs between dynamic resource availabilities and
heterogeneous risks from humans, with consequences for their ecological function and …

Effects of human disturbances on wildlife behaviour and consequences for predator-prey overlap in Southeast Asia

SXT Lee, Z Amir, JH Moore, KM Gaynor… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Some animal species shift their activity towards increased nocturnality in disturbed habitats
to avoid predominantly diurnal humans. This may alter diel overlap among species, a …

Global erosion of terrestrial environmental space by artificial light at night

DTC Cox, KJ Gaston - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts natural light cycles, with biological impacts that span
from behaviour of individual organisms to ecosystem functions, and across bacteria, fungi …

The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)

CJ Brandon, WD Pearse, JP Herrera - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding why some species are more susceptible to extinction than others is critical for
implementing effective conservation strategies. Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) …

Diel niche variation in mammalian declines in the Anthropocene

DTC Cox, AS Gardner, KJ Gaston - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Biodiversity is being eroded worldwide. Many human pressures are most forcefully exerted
or have greatest effect during a particular period of the day. Therefore when species are …

Birds migrate longitudinally in response to the resultant Asian monsoons of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift

W Zhang, Z Gu, Y Chen, R Zhang, X Zhan - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is one of the greatest geological events on Earth,
pivotally sha** biogeographic patterns across continents, especially for migratory species …

Apex Predators in the Anthropocene: African Large Carnivore Ecology at the Human-Wildlife Interface

K Mills - 2023 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
As anthropogenic pressures expand to permeate landscapes worldwide, sometimes with
synergistic impacts, wildlife must navigate human-dominated landscapes and novel …

[CITACE][C] Light effects across species in nature: a focus on solutions

KJ Gaston, JH Meijer - … in the Modern …, 2023 - Cambridge University Press …