Badger Ecology and Conservation
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7119
Special Issue Editors
Interests: avian predatory behaviour; zoo; ecology and biology of badgers; bird populations
Interests: mammal behaviour; ecology and conservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The European badger (Meles meles) is one of Europe’s most enigmatic land mammals. Its status as a meso-carnivore, its semi-social habits and adaptability to local conditions, along with its unfortunate association with bovine tuberculosis, engenders widespread interest in its ecology and behaviour. It is hugely diverse in the population densities at which it is found across its distribution, and this alters the badger’s sociality, diet, breeding and ranging behaviours in largely unexplored ways. In addition to all this variability, the badger has one of the rarest and most fascinating breeding biologies of any European mammal, with delayed implantation and superfetation allowing the females to collect embryos from matings all year, then bear cubs in Spring with several different fathers represented in the same litter.
This Special Issue on the ecology and conservation of the badger will bring together the latest research on all aspects of European badger biology, including behaviour, physiology, ecology, parasitology, genetics, epidemiology and conservation, to form a substantial body of knowledge invaluable to conservationists, policy-makers, wildlife enthusiasts and scientists alike. We, therefore, invite submissions in the form of original research papers or reviews on any aspect of European badger biology. Submissions on other Meles species will also be considered.
Prof. Dr. Nicola Marples
Dr. Aoibheann Gaughran
Dr. Enda Mullen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- European badger
- Meles
- conservation
- ecology
- behaviour
- parasitology
- disease ecology
- physiology
- genetics
- ranging
