Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology

CAF Wascher - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How individuals interact with their environment and respond to changes is a key area of
research in evolutionary biology. A physiological parameter that provides an instant proxy …

Are negative effects of tourist activities on wildlife over-reported? A review of assessment methods and empirical results

PW Bateman, PA Fleming - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a general assumption that animal species that face anthropogenic disturbance
through tourism suffer some negative impacts as a result. We carried out a meta-analysis of …

Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

DT Blumstein - Animal behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The idea that animals may habituate to benign stimuli is an old idea.•Habituation
to human stimuli is important for wildlife conservation/management.•I review generalizations …

The conservation physiology toolbox: status and opportunities

CL Madliger, OP Love, KR Hultine… - Conservation …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
For over a century, physiological tools and techniques have been allowing researchers to
characterize how organisms respond to changes in their natural environment and how they …

Utility of biological sensor tags in animal conservation

ADM Wilson, M Wikelski, RP Wilson… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic tags (both biotelemetry and biologging platforms) have informed conservation
and resource management policy and practice by providing vital information on the spatial …

Happy feet in a hostile world? The future of penguins depends on proactive management of current and expected threats

Y Ropert-Coudert, A Chiaradia, D Ainley… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Penguins face a wide range of threats. Most observed population changes have been
negative and have happened over the last 60 years. Today, populations of 11 penguin …

A colonial-nesting seabird shows no heart-rate response to drone-based population surveys

EA Geldart, AF Barnas, CAD Semeniuk, HG Gilchrist… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Aerial drones are increasingly being used as tools for ecological research and wildlife
monitoring in hard-to-access study systems, such as in studies of colonial-nesting birds …

A meta‐analysis of human disturbance impacts on Antarctic wildlife

BWT Coetzee, SL Chown - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence‐based assessments are increasingly recognized as the best‐practice approach to
determine appropriate conservation interventions, but such assessments of the impact of …

Environmental change, resilience, and adaptation in nature-based tourism: Conceptualizing the social-ecological resilience of birdwatching tour operations

D Kutzner - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience theory has emerged as a holistic concept well suited to analyzing tourism
systems and which promises important insights into the sustainability of tourism destinations …

Identification of priority areas for ecological restoration based on human disturbance and ecological security patterns: A case study of Fuzhou City, China

S Ke, H Pan, B Jin - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The rapid increase in urbanization has brought about a great deal of ecological problems,
and thus the systematic protection of the environment is vital. Ecological security patterns …