Biodiversity, particularly insects, faces considerable threats in intensively managed agricultural landscapes. Agroforestry systems (AFS), which integrate woody elements into agricultural land, can enhance biodiversity. This study aims to identify management factors influencing orthopteran richness and abundance in AFS. Additionally, it evaluates the utility of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for orthopteran detection by com...

The European Reference Networks (ERNs) for rare and complex diseases offer significant potential for building, maintaining and evaluating patient partnership, for which the recently developed ERN Patient Partnership Framework may serve as guidance. This scoping review aims to identify and describe relevant frameworks published in scientific literature, capturing key learning points to inform future updates of the ERN Patient P...

Yersinia pestis is a historically important vector-borne pathogen causing plague in humans and other mammals. Contemporary zoonotic infections with Y. pestis still occur in sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania and Madagascar, but receive relatively little attention. Thus, the role of wildlife reservoirs in maintaining sylvatic plague and spillover risks to humans is largely unknown. The multimammate rodent Mastomys natalensi...

Climate change and climate‐driven increases in infectious disease threaten wildlife populations globally. Gut microbial responses are predicted to either buffer or exacerbate the negative impacts of these twin pressures on host populations. However, examples that document how gut microbial communities respond to long‐term shifts in climate and associated disease risk, and the consequences for host survival, are rare. Over the...

It has long been recognized that the patterning of social interactions within a group can give rise to a social structure that holds very different places for different individuals. Such within-group variation in sociality correlates with fitness proxies in fish, birds, and mammals. Broader integration of this research has been hampered by the lack of agreement on how to integrate information from a plethora of dyadic interact...

Ranging behavior has been studied extensively in eastern ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and western ( P. t. verus ) chimpanzees, but relatively little is known regarding home ranges of the other two subspecies ( P. t. ellioti; P. t. troglodytes ). In this study, we determined the home range size and space use of a habituated community (Rekambo) of central chimpanzees living in a habitat mosaic in Loango National Park, Gabon...

Intercommunity competition in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) has been widely studied in eastern ( P. t. schweinfurthii ) and western ( P. t. verus ) communities. Both subspecies show hostility towards neighboring communities but differ in rates of lethal attacks and female involvement. However, relatively little is known about the territorial behavior of the two other subspecies, central ( P. t. troglodytes ) and Nigeria-Came...

The predation and consumption of animals are common behaviours in chimpanzees across tropical Africa. To date, however, relatively little is known concerning the hunting behaviour of central chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes ). Here, we provide the first direct observations of hunting behaviour by individuals of the newly habituated Rekambo community in the Loango National Park, Gabon. Over a period of 23 months (May 2...

Ecology Letters (2011) Abstract Understanding the sensitivity of tundra vegetation to climate warming is critical to forecasting future biodiversity and vegetation feedbacks to climate. In situ warming experiments accelerate climate change on a small scale to forecast responses of local plant communities. Limitations of this approach include the apparent site‐specificity of results and uncertainty about the power of short‐term...