In much of southern Africa, the leopard (Panthera pardus) is last remaining large carnivore outside protected areas. We collected scat (n = 82) opportunistically to determine diet leopards on small livestock farms and an adjacent national park in semi-arid Namaqualand, South Africa. quantified prey availability using camera traps 163 stations) 810 km2 grid. Leopards strongly preferred (D > 0.5)...

In this editorial, the importance of VBNC in clinical practice and future researches interests has been pinpointed. Accurate detection of VBNC, especially for major mentioned pathogens, is the future research gap. 

Abstract The jaguar Panthera onca has lost 85% of its habitat in the Atlantic Forest, where it persists small and isolated populations largest fragments. In absence recent records, had previously been presumed extinct large Forest fragments Serra do Mar southern Brazil. However, as this region is mountainous, densely forested difficult to access, could still be present, but undetected. We carri...

The notion of resilience, which attempts to explain the phenomenon of positive adaptation (coping) of people exposed to adversities or traumatic events, is becoming a significant area of research in Poland. It is a complex and multidimensional notion, on the borderline between genetics, neurophysiology, anthropology of culture, sociology, medicine, political science, developmental psychology an...

The search for traits that make alien species invasive has mostly concentrated on comparing successful invaders and different comparison groups with respect to average trait values. By contrast, little attention has been paid to trait variability among invaders. Here, we combine an analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive species with a comparison of multidimensional trai...