Iterative human and automated identification of wildlife images

Z Miao, Z Liu, KM Gaynor, MS Palmer, SX Yu… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Camera trap** is increasingly being used to monitor wildlife, but this technology typically
requires extensive data annotation. Recently, deep learning has substantially advanced …

Trait-based sensitivity of large mammals to a catastrophic tropical cyclone

RH Walker, MC Hutchinson, JA Becker, JH Daskin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events perturb ecosystems and increasingly threaten biodiversity.
Ecologists emphasize the need to forecast and mitigate the impacts of these events, which …

Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population

JA Becker, MC Hutchinson, AB Potter… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Major disturbances can temporarily remove factors that otherwise constrain population
abundance and distribution. During such windows of relaxed top‐down and/or bottom‐up …

Twitter: more than tweets for undergraduate student researchers

NS Reyna, C Pruett, M Morrison, J Fowler… - … of Microbiology & …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to
communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific …

Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique

T Lüdecke, JN Leichliter, V Aldeias… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The analyses of the stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), and oxygen
(δ18O) in animal tissues are powerful tools for reconstructing the feeding behavior of …

Anthropogenic pressure limits the recovery of a postwar leopard population in central Mozambique

WD Briers‐Louw, T Kendon, MS Rogan… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The population size and conservation status of wildlife in post‐conflict areas is often
uncertain. In Mozambique, decades of armed conflict resulted in large‐scale wildlife …

Limited spatiotemporal niche partitioning among mesocarnivores in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

KL Grabowski, EM Phillips, KM Gaynor - Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Competition drives community composition and structure in many ecosystems. Spatial and
temporal niche partitioning, in which competing species divide the environment in space or …

Recovery of a cultivation grazer: A mechanism for compensatory growth of Thalassia testudinum in a Caribbean seagrass meadow grazed by green turtles

AG Gulick, RA Johnson, CG Pollock… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recovery of green turtles (Chelonia mydas), mega‐herbivores that consume seagrasses, is
resulting in dramatic ecosystem‐wide changes as meadows are returned to a natural grazed …

Integrating herbivore assemblages and woody plant cover in an African savanna to reveal how herbivores respond to ecosystem management

MH Schmitt, K Stears, MK Donovan, DE Burkepile… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
African savannas are experiencing anthropogenically-induced stressors that are
accelerating the increase of woody vegetation cover. To combat this, land managers …

Risk perceptions of wildlife by the resident human population in the Iona National Park, southwest Angola

EC Fabiano, S Verschueren, R Shikangalah - Wildlife Biology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Establishing conservation management requires an understanding of local livelihoods,
human–wildlife interactions, and community risk perceptions of wildlife, particularly in fragile …