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... a Pygmy Spiny-tailed Skink ( Egernia depressa ). This predation event has implications for the susceptibility of the similar-sized juvenile endangered Western Spiny-tailed Skinks, another understudied reptile co-occurring in the Mid West. * [email protected] © 2023 Royal Zoological...

... to weaker immune defences that allow for increased susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections. For example, there is evidence that recent heavy rain events precede oyster disease in estuaries. In addition, climate change is increasing the abundance and virulence of bacterial and viral pathogens...

... habitat features important to each taxon to target survey effort. Eight of the 13 priority taxa were located during surveys, within the burn scar or adjacent intact vegetation, revealing range extensions for five species. Species varied in susceptibility to fire and there is significant concern regarding...

... of these three is classed as a haul-out site. Because N. cinerea is susceptible to mortality from fishery interactions, is strongly philopatric and that small colonies are especially susceptible to extinction, the status of its small aggregations on Kangaroo Island should be taken into consideration when coastal...

...-winged bats may require more energy to fly and forage than eastern bent-winged bats. Consequently, southern bent-winged bats may need to consume more food on a daily basis, potentially increasing their susceptibility to adverse conditions such as drought. body weight eastern bent-winged bat forearm...

.... In this review we show how the speed and scale of coastal development continues to adversely affect the four remaining areas of habitat where the species has been recorded since 2000. As an ecological specialist, the potoroo may be inherently susceptible to decline in a rapidly changing environment...

.... In addition, they provide a thermal and humidity gradient and allow frogs to move within the mound to select the preferred microhabitat conditions. As mounds temperatures are above ambient temperatures during winter, they may also assist in reducing the susceptibility of over-wintering frogs to chytrid...

... stress theory of aging, which has been called the membrane pacemaker theory of aging, derives from the fact that polyunsaturated fats are very susceptible to lipid peroxidation whereas monounsaturated fats are resistant to peroxidation. As a test of the theory we measured the fatty acid composition...

..., that they avoid enteringmuddy areas, stay on paths and follow any directions regarding this pathogen. The impact of the disease can be quite variable depending on the susceptibility of the vegetation, environmental conditions and soil type. For example, in Western Australia the disease is typified by broad losses...

... the distribution of disease in terms of where and in whom it occurs, these three domains determine the situations in which effective contact can occur. Effective contact is the situation in which disease could successfully transmit between two individuals if one were infected and the other susceptible. The least...

... in the tropics or subtropics, there are many more groups of octocorals for which we have little or no information on bleaching susceptibility and resistance. While some patterns have begun to emerge in octocoral responses to heat stress, in other groups these patterns are not as clear. Anemones retract...

..., 25 to 65% of carp develop anti-CyHV3 antibodies, which persist for at least 65 weeks (St-Hilaire et al. 2009). Genetic variation of the carp can affect the susceptibility of a fish to KHVD (Uchii et al. 2012; Boutier et al. 2015). KHVD resistance has been observed with selective breeding (Shapira et...

... = 0.01, F = 0.625, p = 0.432). This suggests that the age of the fish is not related to its susceptibility to parasitization by the leech. The number of leeches on parasitized fish ranged from 1 to 8 in 2004 (Table 1) and 1 to 4 in 2005. A t-test showed that there was no significant difference...

... susceptibility in California sea lions. Nature 422: 35 Inbreeding-dependent pathogen susceptibility in California sea lions Nature 422 35 Anderson R. M. and Mat R. M. 1978. Regulation and stability of host-parasite population interactions. 1 Regulatory processes. Journal of Animal Ecology 47: 219-47...