Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press.
Frequency: Quarterly
Country: England
Language: English
Author(s):
Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Start Year:1935 -
ISSN:
1464-7931 (Print)
1469-185X (Electronic)
0006-3231 (Linking)
1469-185X (Electronic)
0006-3231 (Linking)
Impact Factor
10
2022
| NLM ID: | 0414576 |
| (DNLM): | B17020000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 06328354 |
| Coden: | BRCPAH |
| LCCN: | 27004191 |
| Classification: | W1 BI756 |
Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective. In recent decades, the integration of horses (Equus ferus) in European rewilding initiatives has gained widespread popularity due to their potential for regulating vegetation and restoring natural ecosystems. However, employing horses in conservation efforts presents important challenges, which we here explore and discuss. These challenges encompass the lack of consensus on key terms inherent to conservation and rewilding, the entrenched culture and strong emotions associated with horses, low genetic diversity and high susceptibility to hereditary diseases in animals under human selection, as ...
Adaptive explanation in socio-ecology: lessons from the Equidae. Socio-ecological explanations for intra- and interspecific variation in the social and spatial organization of animals predominate in the scientific literature. The socio-ecological model, developed first for the Bovidae and Cervidae, is commonly applied more widely to other groups including the Equidae. Intraspecific comparisons are particularly valuable because they allow the role of environment and demography on social and spatial organization to be understood while controlling for phylogeny or morphology which confound interspecific comparisons. Feral horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758) p...