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Avoidance Behaviour of Migrating Raptors Approaching an Offshore Wind Farm
During three seasons, we studied avoidance behaviour of migrating raptors when approaching an offshore wind farm in northern Baltic Sea 20 km from...
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New insights in Neanderthal palaeoecology using stable oxygen isotopes preserved in small mammals as palaeoclimatic tracers in Teixoneres Cave (Moià, northeastern Iberia)
The northeastern region of Iberia constitutes a natural pass-area for arriving populations into the peninsula and becomes a key area to understand...
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Amidst wind, sand and raptors. Small mammal bone remains recovered in open-air archaeological sites from the Monte Desert in Central Western Argentina: taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications
The distinctive characteristic of the Monte Desert, the most arid rangeland of Argentina, is reflected in the varied composition of its small mammal...
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Distinct modes and intensity of bird exploitation at the dawn of agriculture in the Upper Euphrates and Tigris River basins
Early Neolithic avifaunas excavated at the sites of Göbekli Tepe and Gusir Höyük illustrate two entirely different modes of bird exploitation in...
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Biogeochemistry and Conservation Biology
Biogeochemistry, encompassing nearly all the factors for plant and animal ecological, chemical, and physical relations, has a close and even...
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Birdwatching as a New Tourist Activity in El Hierro Geopark
Bird watching is one of the most popular ways of getting close to nature, laying the foundations for what is now known as Birdwatching or Birding,...
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Assessing the ecological impact of beach tourism on crustacean abundance: a case study from West Coast of India
Sandy beaches are vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic disturbances like coastal hydrological disasters, coastal erosion, sea-level rise,...
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Birds and prehistoric humans in North China: a taphonomic analysis of the avian assemblage from Shuidonggou Locality 12
Research undertaken over the last three decades has substantially transformed our understanding of avian exploitation in the prehistory. We now know...
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New evidence on the subsistence of Middle Paleolithic from Tongtian cave, Northwestern China
This paper presents taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of the late Middle Paleolithic occupation layers at Tongtian cave in **njiang,...
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Palimpsest of micromammal deposits in an archaeological rock shelter (Álvarez 4, Late Holocene) from northwestern Patagonia, Argentina
This study provides a taphonomic and paleoenvironmental analysis of the micromammal (˂1 kg) accumulations from the archaeological site Álvarez 4...
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Holistic Design of Wetlands for Mine Water Treatment and Biodiversity: A Case Study
Passive treatment wetlands are conventionally designed with the primary objective of purifying contaminated mine water; any benefit of enhanced...
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Estimating Potential Costs of Cumulative Barrier Effects on Migrating Raptors: A Case Study Using Global Positioning System Tracking in Japan
Wind farms along the migration route of birds act as unnatural barriers, and avoiding them during flight may require the expenditure of extra...
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The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe
With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they...
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Environmental and Productive Applications of Tailor-Made Technosols: Biosphere Learnings
A review of the origin and evolution of the concept, foundations, capabilities, and technology of tailor-made Technosols and reactive wetlands and...
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From owl prey to human food: taphonomy of archaeological small mammal remains from the late Holocene wetlands of arid environments in Central Western Argentina
The present study analyses small mammal bone and tooth accumulations recovered in three open-air archaeological sites from northern Mendoza...
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Post-fire recovery of Puya raimondii, vegetation and birds in the puna of Huascarán National Park, Perú
A large fire of 233 ha in Huascarán National Park in Peru provided an opportunity to compare plant and bird responses in burned and nearby unburned...
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Swarm Intelligence
Examples of sophisticated communications among species include the bee danceBee dance, bird songs, echo sounds of whales and dolphins, possibly not...
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New Records of Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene El Abrón Locality (Cuba)
AbstractA study of new materials on bats from layer VII of the Late Pleistocene karst El Abrón locality (Pinar del Río Province, Cuba) has identified...
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Pay No Attention to the Model Behind the Curtain
Many widely used models amount to an elaborate means of making up numbers—but once a number has been produced, it tends to be taken seriously and its...
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Introduction: From Homo Prometheus to Terra Incognita
Although both the climate crisis and the nuclear peril endanger life on Earth, they arise from somewhat distinct factors: The first from a collective...