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Open AccessThe bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses
Sub-Saharan Africa is under-represented in global biodiversity datasets, particularly regarding the impact of land use on species’ population abundances. Drawing on recent advances in expert elicitation to ens...
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Open AccessFirst substantial evidence for Old World vultures (Aegypiinae, Accipitridae) from the early Palaeolithic and Iberomaurusian of Morocco
Remains of at least three species of large aegypiine vultures from early Palaeolithic and Iberomaurusian of Ifri n’Ammar, Morocco are the first substantial fossil record of these taxa in the Maghreb. They can ...
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Open AccessFood and Ornament: Use of Shellfish at Ifri Oudadane, a Holocene Settlement in NE Morocco
Recent excavations of Ifri Oudadane, a prehistoric rockshelter on the Mediterranean coast of NW Morocco, yielded a rich marine and terrestrial fauna. We present an analysis of the shellfish remains (exoskeleto...
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A History of Mammal Research in Europe
A review is given on the historical development of mammal research in Europe. The term Mammalia was coined by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758 for animals bearing mammae. While he named 77 species, a current list coun...
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A History of Mammal Research in Europe
A review is given on the historical development of mammal research in Europe. The term Mammalia was coined by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758 for animals bearing mammae. While he named 77 species, a current list coun...
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Dioramas of Marine Bird Colonies: History, Design, and Educational Importance
Birds played a crucial role in the development of museum displays and their most sophisticated examples, the habitat dioramas. Breeding colonies of marine birds were among their first subjects and served as ro...
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Open AccessIndigenous house mice dominate small mammal communities in northern Afghan military bases
Small mammals are important reservoirs for pathogens in military conflicts and peacekee** operations all over the world. This study investigates the rodent communities in three military bases in Northern Afg...
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Testing heterogeneous base composition as potential cause for conflicting phylogenetic signal between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in the land snail genus Theba Risso 1826 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea)
Several pitfalls can mislead phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data, including heterogeneous base composition. Previous work has revealed conflicting topologies in analyses of the land snail genus Theba Ri...
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Visual history: Group pictures taken at annual meetings of the DGS
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Larger vertebrates of the Iberomaurusian site Ifri El Baroud, NE Morocco
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Forgotten treasure: Lives and fates of members of the German Society of Mammalogy (DGS) forced to resign after 1933
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Open AccessPhylogeography and evolutionary history of the Crocidura olivieri complex (Mammalia, Soricomorpha): from a forest origin to broad ecological expansion across Africa
This study aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of African shrews referred to the Crocidura olivieri complex. We tested the respective role of forest retraction/expansion during the Pleistocene, rivers (a...
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Habitat Dioramas as Historical Documents: A Case Study
Habitat dioramas are often treated as mere natural history taxidermy, and many were dismantled or destroyed due to changing didactic concepts, architectural necessities, or ignorance. Here I argue that good ha...
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White chest in the west: pelage colour and mitochondrial variation in the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) across Europe
The common hamster (Cricetus cricetus L.), a rodent of the Eurasian steppes and agricultural areas, is threatened by habitat loss. Remnant populations in Western and Central Europe are small, isolated and genetic...
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Phylogeography of an invasive land snail: natural range expansion versus anthropogenic dispersal in Theba pisana pisana
The invasive land snail Theba pisana pisana has been widely dispersed through human activities. The Mediterranean and adjacent Atlantic coasts are considered as natural range of this species, which also occurs no...
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Diet of the extinct Lava mouse Malpaisomys insularis from the Canary Islands: insights from dental microwear
Malpaisomys insularis is a mouse-like rodent endemic to the eastern Canary Islands. It became extinct during the fourteenth century. It was a remarkable species living under hyperarid conditions. A dental microwe...
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Differences in abundance and species richness between shrews and rodents along an elevational gradient in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Small mammals (shrews and rodents) were surveyed along an elevational transect in the Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Trap lines and pitfall lines were installed at 600, 910...
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Geographic Variation in the West African Scaly-Tailed Squirrel anomalurus Pelii (Schlegel and Müller, 1845) and Description of a New Subspecies (Rodentia: Anomaluridae)
Coat colour variation of Anomalurus pelii, the largest and most striking species of scaly-tailed squirrels in Africa, was studied based on the examination of 142 skins. Within a relatively small distribution area...
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First results on the feeding ecology of sympatric shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae) in the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast
The feeding ecology of a multi-species community of shrews inhabiting secondary forest and cacao-coffee plantations in the Tai National Park (Ivory Coast) was investigated. A total of 553 shrews were captured ...
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Morphometric, biochemical and molecular traits in Caucasian wood mice (podemus/Sylvaemus), with remarks on species divergence
We analysed Caucasian wood mice from Georgia (n = 60) and supplementary reference material of theApodemus/Sylvaemus species group to evaluate the reliability of taxon identification. Traditional “expert knowledge...
