Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective DOI Creative Commons
Lilla Lovász, Carolin Sommer‐Trembo, Julia M. I. Barth

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Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 15, 2024

ABSTRACT 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 conservation efforts presents important challenges, which we here explore discuss. These challenges encompass lack consensus on key terms inherent rewilding, entrenched culture strong emotions associated with horses, low genetic diversity high susceptibility hereditary diseases animals under human selection, as well insufficient consideration social behaviour wild‐living populations. addition, management involves intricate welfare, ethics legislative dimensions. Anthropocentric population‐control may be detrimental horse group structures since they tend prioritise individual welfare over health populations To overcome these provide comprehensive recommendations. involve a systematic acquisition information, focus rather than breed purity minimal veterinary intervention Further, advise allowing top‐down bottom‐up control – or, if impossible, simulating this by culling or non‐lethal removal instead using fertility population management. We advocate intensified collaboration between biologists practitioners enhanced communication general public. Decision‐making should informed thorough understanding makeup, common issues dynamics, Such holistic approach is essential reconcile implementation practices that are not only effective but also sustainable long‐term viability functional, biodiverse ecosystems, while rehabilitating species Europe.

Language: Английский

Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals DOI Creative Commons
Kuldeep D. More, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Jaime Lira Garrido

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Molecular Ecology Resources, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 9, 2025

ABSTRACT In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct history domestication. However, key archaeological contexts are not always available or do necessarily preserve enough for a cost‐effective genetic analysis. Here, we develop in‐solution target‐enrichment approach, based on 80‐mer species‐specific RNA probes (ranging from 306 1686 per species) characterise (in single experiments) mitochondrial variation eight domesticated species major economic interest: cattle, chickens, dogs, donkeys, goats, horses, pigs and sheep. We also illustrate how our design can be adapted enrich library content map Y‐chromosomal diversity within Equus caballus . By applying assay extensive panel remains, farm soil, cave sediments spanning 43 kyrs, demonstrate that minimal efforts necessary exhaust complexity mitogenomes average depth‐of‐coverage 19.4 2003.7‐fold. Our further retrieved horse mitogenome Y‐chromosome data Late Pleistocene coprolites, as well bona fide sequences were part probe design, such bison hyena. methodology will prove especially useful minimise costs related analyses maternal paternal lineages wide range wild species, mapping their changes over space time, including environmental samples.

Language: Английский

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Landscape and subsistence in NW Iberia during the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS3): Faunal analysis of Cova Eirós (Triacastela, Galicia, Spain) DOI Creative Commons
Hugo Bal-García, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Arturo de Lombera Hermida

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Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 105149 - 105149

Published: April 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Vegetation and climate changes during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the southwestern Mediterranean: What happened to the last Neanderthals during Heinrich stadial 4? DOI Creative Commons
Liz Charton, Nathalie Combourieu‐Nebout, Adèle Bertini

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Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 359, P. 109345 - 109345

Published: April 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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More than a fingerprint on a pebble: A pigment-marked object from San Lázaro rock-shelter in the context of Neanderthal symbolic behavior DOI Creative Commons
David Álvarez Alonso, Marí­a de Andrés Herrero, Andrés Dı́ez Herrero

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(6)

Published: May 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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Middle Pleistocene hominin presence in the Southern Iberian Plateau: Lithic assemblages from the Cueva de los Toriles site (Carrizosa, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) DOI Creative Commons

Sara Díaz-Pérez,

Irene Megía García,

Rodrigo Paulos‐Bravo

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Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 65, P. 105239 - 105239

Published: May 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective DOI Creative Commons
Lilla Lovász, Carolin Sommer‐Trembo, Julia M. I. Barth

et al.

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 15, 2024

ABSTRACT 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 conservation efforts presents important challenges, which we here explore discuss. These challenges encompass lack consensus on key terms inherent rewilding, entrenched culture strong emotions associated with horses, low genetic diversity high susceptibility hereditary diseases animals under human selection, as well insufficient consideration social behaviour wild‐living populations. addition, management involves intricate welfare, ethics legislative dimensions. Anthropocentric population‐control may be detrimental horse group structures since they tend prioritise individual welfare over health populations To overcome these provide comprehensive recommendations. involve a systematic acquisition information, focus rather than breed purity minimal veterinary intervention Further, advise allowing top‐down bottom‐up control – or, if impossible, simulating this by culling or non‐lethal removal instead using fertility population management. We advocate intensified collaboration between biologists practitioners enhanced communication general public. Decision‐making should informed thorough understanding makeup, common issues dynamics, Such holistic approach is essential reconcile implementation practices that are not only effective but also sustainable long‐term viability functional, biodiverse ecosystems, while rehabilitating species Europe.

Language: Английский

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