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Season as a discriminating factor for faecal metabolomic composition of great tits (Parus major) Ghent University
Predicting post-natal energy intake of lesser black-backed gull chicks by Dynamic Energy Budget modeling Ghent University
The standard Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) model is widely used to describe the physiology of individual animals. Here we parametrized the DEB model for the lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus mainly on the basis of literature data. Next we performed an inverse modeling approach to predict the food intake rate of gull chicks (model input) on the basis of their growth trajectory from hatching to fledging (model output). Food intake rate and ...
Faecal consistency grading in brown bears (Ursus arctos) : deviating from typical domestic carnivore scales Ghent University
Presence of low virulence chytrid fungi could protect European amphibians from more deadly strains Ghent University
Wildlife diseases are contributing to the current Earth’s sixth mass extinction; one disease, chytridiomycosis, has caused mass amphibian die-offs. While global spread of a hypervirulent lineage of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (BdGPL) causes unprecedented loss of vertebrate diversity by decimating amphibian populations, its impact on amphibian communities is highly variable across regions. Here, we combine field data with in vitro ...
Behind the fog : forest degradation despite logging bans in an East African cloud forest Ghent University
Habitat destruction and deterioration are amongst the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Increasing demand for agricultural products, timber and charcoal has caused the rapid destruction of natural forests, especially in the tropics. The Taita Hills in southern Kenya are part of the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot and represent a highly diverse cloud forest ecosystem. However, the cloud forest suffers extremely from wood and timber ...
Forest edges, tree diversity and tree identity change leaf miner diversity in a temperate forest Ghent University
Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies Ghent University
Decades of research suggest that species richness depends on spatial characteristics of habitat patches, especially their size and isolation. In contrast, the habitat amount hypothesis predicts that (1) species richness in plots of fixed size (species density) is more strongly and positively related to the amount of habitat around the plot than to patch size or isolation; (2) habitat amount better predicts species density than patch size and ...
Multi-class analysis of 46 antimicrobial drug residues in pond water using UHPLC-Orbitrap-HRMS and application to freshwater ponds in Flanders, Belgium Ghent University
Increasing anthropogenic pressure and agricultural pollution raises concerns regarding antimicrobial resistance and biodiversity loss in aquatic environments. In order to protect and restore water resources and biodiversity, antimicrobial drug residues should be monitored in all aquatic environments including pond water. Consequently, the objective of this research was to develop and validate a novel multi-residue method for the simultaneous ...