Avian perching maneuvers are one of the most frequent and agile flight scenarios, where highly optimized flight trajectories, produced by rapid wing and tail morphing that generate high angular rates and accelerations, reduce kinetic energy at impact. Wh
forests disturbed by severe storms, may see an increase in the number of large spiders in the lower strata, as possible attachment sites for webs were destroyed in the upper strata, and Taiwan is regularly sub- jected to devastating typhoons. Furthermore, Taiwan has a very active bird-...
G`ARDEN,n. [Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.] 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garde...
Our results are qualitatively robust to different quality checks, namely (i) re-running the analysis using three subsamples of data based solely on photos of males (N = 2531 species), females (N = 1012 species), or of undefined sex (N = 6070 species; largely sexually monomor...
(2017) found that birds of prey in French wildlife centres that had embedded lead projectiles had significantly higher blood lead concentrations than those without (22.4 vs 14.3 µg/dl), suggesting that embedded lead projectiles may release lead and have long-term health effects. In Peru, 6 ...
In sub-Antarctic waters, amphipod pelagic species such as Themisto gaudichaudii Guérin, 1825, and Primno macropa Guérin-Méneville, 1836, form very large swarms, are considered major trophic sources and are the second group of animal prey after euphausiids [2]. In the same way, all the...
Finally, other three projects (“Forest Biodiversity Survey”, “Lowland Biodiversity Survey”, and “Greenway Project”) were performed in restricted sub-areas of the region during a limited period (few years) with the aims of surveying breeding birds living in forests, in agricultural lands and...
Detection and molecular analysis of West Nile virus infections in birds of prey in the eastern part of Austria in 2008 and 2009. Vet. Microbiol. 2011, 149, 358–366. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 48. Hermanowska-Szpakowicz, T.; Grygorczuk, S.; Kondrusik, M.; Zajkowska, J.; Pancewicz, ...