Artificial refuges are human‐made structures that aim to create safe places for animals to
breed, hibernate, or take shelter in lieu of natural refuges. Artificial refuges are used across …

With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Wildlife monitoring is carried out for diverse reasons, and monitoring methods have
gradually advanced through technological development. Direct field investigations have …

The creation of supplementary habitats that effectively mimic the physical and thermal
characteristics of natural tree hollows should be a key priority for landscape restoration and …

Tree hollow scarcity is a threat to cavity-dependent vertebrate wildlife world-wide across
many landscapes. Currently, only nest boxes are commonly used to mitigate or offset lost …

Habitat loss and forest fragmentation are currently substantially reducing the availability of
natural bat roosts worldwide. However, since bat populations have been recognized as …

Artificial nest boxes are placed to attract birds to nest and breed in a specific location, and
they are widely used in avian ecology research and in the attraction of insectivorous birds …

Animals breeding in nest‐boxes experience nesting environments in which they did not
originally evolve. Despite the central importance of nesting microclimate for offspring fitness …

Bat boxes are commonly deployed to mitigate the loss of bat roosting habitat. Due to a
dearth of microclimate research, numerous untested commercially available bat boxes, and …

Nest boxes are often promoted as substitute structures for hollow‐dependent fauna, but are
they generally effective? In a long‐term bat‐box monitoring project in south‐eastern …