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IMPACTS OF DEPREDATION BY LARGE-BILLED CROWS CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS ON THE COLONY OF JAPANESE MURRELETS SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS WUMIZUSUME AT EBOSHIJIMA, JAPAN
Full text linkEboshijima, Japan is a small island in the Tsushima Strait that hosts a small colony of Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume, an endangered seabird that breeds in the warm Kuroshio Current region around Japan and South Korea. We conducted a study to investigate the effects of depredation by Large-billed Crows Corvus macrorhynchos on murrelets after discovering 29 carcasses and 50 eggshells depredated by crows in four survey plots at Eboshijima in 2022. Trail cameras captured crows during daylight hours from 06h59 to 16h45. To estimate the existing population of Japanese Murrelet and predict scenarios that demonstrate the effects of corvid depredation on the murrelet population, we used a return-time (RET) capture-mark-recapture model. We evaluated the murrelet population using the best-fitting RET model and the capture histories of 187 murrelets mist-netted on Eboshijima during 2013–2022. We then simulated 1 000 iterations of a 50-year population using scenarios based on the parameters obtained from the best-fitting model. Our simulations indicate that corvid depredation could lead to the extirpation of the murrelet population, with no individuals remaining within 17 years. However, by reducing the corvid depredation effect by 50%, the probability of extinction can be lowered to less than 50% over the next 50 years. Therefore, we recommend implementing a crow translocation or removal program to protect the Eboshijima murrelet population. Additionally, further research should be conducted to identify breeding and non-breeding individuals, as well as active nesting sites.Marine Ornithology, 51(2), pp.169-178; 2023journal articl
IMPACTS OF DEPREDATION BY LARGE-BILLED CROWS CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS ON THE COLONY OF JAPANESE MURRELETS SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS WUMIZUSUME AT EBOSHIJIMA, JAPAN
No full textEboshijima, Japan is a small island in the Tsushima Strait that hosts a small colony of Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume, an endangered seabird that breeds in the warm Kuroshio Current region around Japan and South Korea. We conducted a study to investigate the effects of depredation by Large-billed Crows Corvus macrorhynchos on murrelets after discovering 29 carcasses and 50 eggshells depredated by crows in four survey plots at Eboshijima in 2022. Trail cameras captured crows during daylight hours from 06h59 to 16h45. To estimate the existing population of Japanese Murrelet and predict scenarios that demonstrate the effects of corvid depredation on the murrelet population, we used a return-time (RET) capture-mark-recapture model. We evaluated the murrelet population using the best-fitting RET model and the capture histories of 187 murrelets mist-netted on Eboshijima during 2013–2022. We then simulated 1 000 iterations of a 50-year population using scenarios based on the parameters obtained from the best-fitting model. Our simulations indicate that corvid depredation could lead to the extirpation of the murrelet population, with no individuals remaining within 17 years. However, by reducing the corvid depredation effect by 50%, the probability of extinction can be lowered to less than 50% over the next 50 years. Therefore, we recommend implementing a crow translocation or removal program to protect the Eboshijima murrelet population. Additionally, further research should be conducted to identify breeding and non-breeding individuals, as well as active nesting sites.Marine Ornithology, 51(2), pp.169-178; 202
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No full textEboshijima, Japan is a small island in the Tsushima Strait that hosts a small colony of Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume, an endangered seabird that breeds in the warm Kuroshio Current region around Japan and South Korea. We conducted a study to investigate the effects of depredation by Large-billed Crows Corvus macrorhynchos on murrelets after discovering 29 carcasses and 50 eggshells depredated by crows in four survey plots at Eboshijima in 2022. Trail cameras captured crows during daylight hours from 06h59 to 16h45. To estimate the existing population of Japanese Murrelet and predict scenarios that demonstrate the effects of corvid depredation on the murrelet population, we used a return-time (RET) capture-mark-recapture model. We evaluated the murrelet population using the best-fitting RET model and the capture histories of 187 murrelets mist-netted on Eboshijima during 2013–2022. We then simulated 1 000 iterations of a 50-year population using scenarios based on the parameters obtained from the best-fitting model. Our simulations indicate that corvid depredation could lead to the extirpation of the murrelet population, with no individuals remaining within 17 years. However, by reducing the corvid depredation effect by 50%, the probability of extinction can be lowered to less than 50% over the next 50 years. Therefore, we recommend implementing a crow translocation or removal program to protect the Eboshijima murrelet population. Additionally, further research should be conducted to identify breeding and non-breeding individuals, as well as active nesting sites
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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