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Lifting the Veil of Darkness: Thermal Technology Facilitates Collection of Flight‐Initiation Distances by Night Open

Anthony R. Rendall, Roan D. Plotz, Kaori Yokochi, Jochen Krauß, Aaron Pengelly , et al. · 2024

Flight‐Initiation Distance (FID)—a direct measure of an individual animal's escape response—is a widely used method to study escape ecology in fauna. The technique has primarily been applied to bird species that are active by day. Indexing…

Traditional knowledge for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands Open

Patrick D. Nunn, Roselyn Kumar, Hannah Barrowman, Lynda E. Chambers, Laitia Fifita , et al. · 2024

Pacific Islands, many relatively remote and small, have been occupied by people for more than 3000 years during which time they experienced climate‐driven environmental changes (both slow and rapid onset) that challenged human survival and…

Leash Status of Approaching Dogs Mediates Escape Modality but Not Flight-Initiation Distance in a Common Urban Bird Open

Skye C. Barnett, Wouter F. D. van Dongen, Roan D. Plotz, Michael A. Weston · 2023

Controversy exists around owned dogs’ impacts in public open spaces, with concerns about dogs’ impact on wildlife, including birds. Leashing dogs in public open spaces offers a tractable way of reducing dogs’ deleterious impacts on birds. …

Standardised data on initiatives—STARDIT: Beta version Open

Jack Nunn, Thomas Shafee, Steven Chang, Richard Stephens, Jim Elliott , et al. · 2022

Standardised Data on Initiatives – STARDIT: Beta Version Open

Jack Nunn, Thomas Shafee, Steven Chang, Richard Stephens, Jim Elliot , et al. · 2021

BackgroundThere is currently no standardised way to share information across disciplines about initiatives, including fields such as health, environment, basic science, manufacturing, media and international development. All problems, incl…

Seasonal Calendars Enhance Climate Communication in the Pacific Open

Lynda E. Chambers, Roan D. Plotz, Siosinamele Lui, Faapisa Aiono, Tile Tofaeono , et al. · 2020

Traditional calendars document seasonal cycles and the communities’ relationships to their biophysical environment and are often used by communities, particularly subsistence farmers, to synchronize their livelihood activities with the tim…

Oxpeckers Help Rhinos Evade Humans Open

Roan D. Plotz, Wayne L. Linklater · 2020

Calculations of undetected untagged rhino that avoided us Open

Roan D. Plotz · 2020

To study the role that oxpeckers might play in helping rhino evade humans, we recorded the number of oxpeckers seen on two groups of the rhinos we encountered. Rhinos tagged with radio transmitters- which allowed us to track them using rad…

Human approach trials on tagged rhino raw data Open

Roan D. Plotz · 2020

We ran a human approach experiment, where one researcher would walk towards the rhino from crosswind while another recorded the rhino’s behaviour. We recorded the number of oxpecker carried, the rhinos’ behaviour upon approach, and the dis…

Traditional or contemporary weather and climate forecasts: reaching Pacific communities Open

Lynda E. Chambers, Siosinamele Lui, Roan D. Plotz, David Hiriasia, Philip Malsale , et al. · 2019

Linking forecasts and end users: perspectives from a Pacific Aid Program Open

Roan D. Plotz, L Chambers · 2017

A database for traditional knowledge of weather and climate in the <span>P</span>acific Open

Lynda E. Chambers, Roan D. Plotz, Tom Dossis, David Hiriasia, Philip Malsale , et al. · 2017

Growing interest in traditional knowledge ( TK ), particularly in relation to the prediction of weather or climate extremes, raises issues concerning the appropriate storage and management of the information collected. The T raditional K n…

Too Close and Too Far: Quantifying Black Rhino Displacement and Location Error During Research Open

Roan D. Plotz, W. James Grecian, Graham I. H. Kerley, Wayne L. Linklater · 2017

Observer impacts on animal behaviour concern conservation managers and researchers of critically endangered species, like black rhino (Diceros bicornis). Repeated observations are sometimes necessary, but may distress and displace animals.…

Neocolonial Conservation: Is Moving Rhinos to Australia Conservation or Intellectual Property Loss Open

Matt W. Hayward, William J. Ripple, Graham I. H. Kerley, Marietjie Landman, Roan D. Plotz , et al. · 2017

The Australian Rhino Project ( http://www.theaustralianrhinoproject.org ) proposes importing 80 rhinos from South Africa to Australia by 2019 at a cost of over $US4 million, with the first six due to have been moved in 2016. This project h…

Standardising Home Range Studies for Improved Management of the Critically Endangered Black Rhinoceros Open

Roan D. Plotz, W. James Grecian, Graham I. H. Kerley, Wayne L. Linklater · 2016

Comparisons of recent estimations of home range sizes for the critically endangered black rhinoceros in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), South Africa, with historical estimates led reports of a substantial (54%) increase, attributed to over-s…

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