Research on Wildlife Behavior and Biodiversity
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Diversity and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3157
Special Issue Editors
Interests: deer farming; wildlife management; human-animal conflict; wild animals as bioindicators; ethology
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Interests: wildlife behavior; game management; deer farming; ethology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Life, “Wildlife Behavior and Biodiversity”, is linked with the Convention on Biological Diversity. Biodiversity is the variability of all organisms living on Earth in the various ecosystems and ecological complexes of which they are pieces. It also concerns the diversity within the species (genetic diversity) and the behavior associated with it, especially by wild animals in the context of the possibility of manifesting it, coexistence with other species and with humans. As a result of the ongoing climate change and shrinking ecosystems, we can observe changes before our eyes, especially reduced biodiversity due to devastation, leading to the loss of habitats, extinction of species and thus, reduced animal gene pools. Often the first manifestation of this type of phenomena is a change in the behavior of wild fauna. Based on knowledge of the natural behavior of its changes and the anomalies, it is possible to improve the welfare of animals and prevent human–wild animal conflicts. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited.
Dr. Katarzyna Tajchman
Prof. Dr. Pawel Janiszewski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- behavioral abnormalities
- the ability to exhibit natural behavior
- reduced genetic diversity
- habitat lost
- extinction of species
- species rehousing
- coexistence
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