Data on the population dynamics and threats to large carnivores are vital to conservation efforts, but these are hampered by a paucity of studies. For some species, such as the leopard (Panthera pardus), there is such uncertainty in population trends that leopard trophy hunting has been banned in South Africa since 2016 while further data on leopard abundance are collected. We present one of th...

EEP Tops Tower 19-12 The Great Dane harr iers of Albany State rolled to their seventh straight victory and eighh over-all Saturday, when they soundly defeated Oneonta State by he score of 20-40, in a meet held at the New Campus course. In an afternoon affair on the same day, State's freshman runners copped a third place trophy in the first Albany | S l Run for frosh and junior colleges. Boston ...

Amy was awarded the 2013 Connect trophy and a cheque for £3,000 for her project which investigated the primary culture of porcine intestinal epithelial cells, while Camilla received a cheque for £2,000 for her project which assessed the effect of turn direction on body lean angle in the horse in trot and canter. Alissa was awarded a prize of £1,000 for her study of grey squirrels in Scotland as...

We investigated the response of the microbial components of the pelagic food web to re-oligotrophication of large, deep Lake Constance where total phosphorus concentrations during mixing decreased from a maximum of 2.81 mmol L 1 in 1979 via 1.87 mmol L 1 in 1987 to 0.26 mmol L 1 in 2007. Measurements of heterotrophic bacteria, autotrophic picoplankton (APP) and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HN...

In turn, the anthropological definition of trepanation is an intentional and planned opening of the skull, carried out with instruments designed for this purpose (Campillo 1994:41-42; Pahl 1993:20-22). This operation is distinct from cephalic surgery, which is destined to operate on the tissues inside the skull. Not included in this definition are posthumous cranial apertures, like trophy skull...

BACKGROUND Cooperation is indispensable in human societies, and much progress has been made towards understanding human pro-social decisions. Formal incentives, such as punishment, are suggested as potential effective approaches despite the fact that punishment can crowd out intrinsic motives for cooperation and detrimentally impact efficiency. At the same time, evolutionary biologists have lon...

Human harvests can unwittingly drive evolution on morphology and life history, and these selective effects may be detrimental to the management of natural resources. Although theory suggests that harvest refuges, as sources of unselected animals, could buffer the effects of human exploitation on wild populations, few studies have assessed their efficiency. We analyzed records from >7000 trophy ...

Elucidating the genetic basis of fitness-related traits is a major goal of molecular ecology. Traits subject to sexual selection are particularly interesting, as non-random mate choice should deplete genetic variation and thereby their evolutionary benefits. We examined the genetic basis of three sexually selected morphometric traits in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis): horn length, horn base ci...

Selective harvest, such as trophy hunting, can shift the distribution of a quantitative character such as body size. If the targeted character is heritable, then there will be an evolutionary response to selection, and where the trait is not, then any response will be plastic or demographic. Identifying the relative contributions of these different mechanisms is a major challenge in wildlife co...

Biogenic silica (BSi) and phosphorous (P) accumulation were investigated in sediment cores from Karlskärsviken, a bay of Lake Mälaren. The aim was to make use of BSi and P relations in sediment stratigraphies in order to investigate the historical nutrient trophy in a near shore lake environment since the Middle Ages, with focus on industrial times, and to evaluate anthropogenic influences on t...