MAMMAL RESPONSES TO HUMAN RECREATION DEPEND ON LANDSCAPE CONTEXT.

Mammal responses to human recreation depend on landscape context.

Rapid growth in outdoor recreation may have important and varied effects on terrestrial mammal communities.Few studies have investigated factors influencing variation in observed responses of multiple mammal species to recreation.We used data from 155 camera traps, in western Alberta (Canada), and a hierarchical Bayesian community modelling framewo

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Morphological variation and a remarkable new sexual dimorphism in the Pseudocyclops xiphophorus population of Lake Faro in northeastern Sicily

The population of P.xiphophorus in Lake Faro Digital Multimeters exhibits variation in the form of caudal seta V.In some specimens of both sexes, this seta is spatulate but in others it is slender and unmodified.Occasional specimens are asymmetrical.In addition to this variation in caudal seta form, the Lake Faro population displays variation in ma

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