| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 27(2) - June 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/06/2017 |
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Article
Thanee Dawrueng, Auteur ;
Dusit Ngoprasert, Auteur ;
George A. Gale, Auteur ;
Stephen Browne, Auteur ;
Tommaso Savini, Auteur
Summary
In Thailand, as for most of South-East Asia, large vertebrates are declining rapidly due to habitat degradation and increasing hunting pressure. Once relatively common in the evergreen forest of Southern Thailand, the Great Argus Argusia[...]
Article
Aimy Caceres, Auteur ;
Martim Melo, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Ricardo Faustino De Lima, Auteur ;
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur
Summary
Natural habitats are being rapidly lost due to human activities. It is therefore vital to understand how these activities influence biodiversity so that suitable guidelines can be established for conservation. This is particularly import[...]
Article
Nicola J. Crockford, Auteur ;
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur
Summary
The last irrefutable record of the Critically Endangered Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris came from 1995. The range of the species is poorly known, but between 2009 and 2011, volunteer observers surveyed more than 680 sites in[...]
Article
James Burnham, Auteur ;
Jeb Barzen, Auteur ;
Anna M. Pidgeon, Auteur ;
Baoteng Sun, Auteur ;
Jiandong Wu, Auteur ;
Guanhua Liu, Auteur ;
Hongxing Jiang, Auteur
Summary
Following an abnormal flood in 2010 at China’s Poyang Lake, we observed wintering Siberian Cranes Leucogeranus leucogeranus switch from foraging in the shallow-water wetlands they typically use to grassland habitats. These previously und[...]
Article
Fei Wu, Auteur ;
Luming Liu, Auteur ;
Jianling Fang, Auteur ;
Rengong Zhang, Auteur ;
Xiaojun Yang, Auteur
Summary
Mountain systems are often recognised as biodiversity hotspots; however, most montane forests are human-modified. Understanding the conservation value of human-modified forests is essential to mountain biodiversity conservation. In this [...]
Article
Lu Zhang, Auteur ;
Xin Wang, Auteur ;
Junjian Zhang, Auteur ;
Zhiyun Ouyang, Auteur ;
Simba Chan, Auteur ;
Mike Crosby, Auteur ;
Doug Watkins, Auteur ;
Jonathan Martinez, Auteur ;
Liying Su, Auteur ;
Yat-tung Yu, Auteur ;
Judit Szabo, Auteur ;
Lei Cao, Auteur ;
Anthony D. Fox, Auteur
Summary
China makes a unique and vital contribution to maintaining global and regional waterbird diversity and conservation. Despite considerable historical conservation efforts, the continued loss of waterbird diversity and abundance necessitat[...]
Article
Masoud Yousefi, Auteur ;
Mohsen Ahmadi, Auteur ;
Elham Nourani, Auteur ;
Ali Rezaei, Auteur ;
Anooshe Kafash, Auteur ;
Ali Khani, Auteur ;
Mohammad Ebrahim Sehhatisabet, Auteur ;
Mohamad Ali Adibi, Auteur ;
Fahimeh Goudarzi, Auteur ;
Mohammad Kaboli, Auteur
Summary
We developed a habitat suitability model for wintering populations of the Asian Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii in Iran and determined environmental variables affecting its occurrence. Our results indicate that various patches in [...]
Article
Natalia A. Cossa, Auteur ;
Laura Fasola, Auteur ;
Ignacio Roesler, Auteur ;
Juan Carlos Reboreda, Auteur
Summary
The Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps has two separate and genetically distinct populations, one sedentary that inhabits the Malvinas/Falklands Islands and another migratory, which inhabits continental southern South America. New [...]
Article
Malcolm Burgess, Auteur ;
Annika Hillers, Auteur ;
Denis Bannah, Auteur ;
Sullay Mohamed, Auteur ;
Mohamed Swaray, Auteur ;
Brima S. Turay, Auteur ;
Juliet Vickery, Auteur ;
Jeremy Lindsell, Auteur
Summary
Most attention on tropical biodiversity conservation has focussed on protected areas. Recognising and enhancing the value of biodiversity outside, as well as inside, protected areas is increasingly important given recognition that biodiv[...]
Article
Rochelle Steven, Auteur ;
Clare Morrison, Auteur ;
J. Guy Castley, Auteur
Summary
Birders are generally nature-oriented; however, their understanding of key bird conservation issues remains under-examined. We surveyed English-speaking birders online and face-to-face, asking questions related to their views on conserva[...]
Article
Wenjuan Wang, Auteur ;
James D. Fraser, Auteur ;
Jiakuan Chen, Auteur
Summary
The middle and lower Yangtze River floodplain is a globally important wintering area for waterbirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Ornithologists have reported on wintering waterbirds in the floodplain since the 1950s. However, a[...]
Article
Masoud Yousefi, Auteur ;
Mohsen Ahmadi, Auteur ;
Elham Nourani, Auteur ;
Ali Rezaei, Auteur ;
Anooshe Kafash, Auteur ;
Ali Khani, Auteur ;
Mohammad Ebrahim Sehhatisabet, Auteur ;
Mohamad Ali Adibi, Auteur ;
Fahimeh Goudarzi, Auteur ;
Mohammad Kaboli, Auteur
We developed a habitat suitability model for wintering populations of the Asian Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii in Iran and determined environmental variables affecting its occurrence. Our results indicate that various patches in central,[...]
Article
Malcolm Burgess, Auteur ;
Annika Hillers, Auteur ;
Denis Bannah, Auteur ;
Sullay Mohamed, Auteur ;
Mohamed Swaray, Auteur ;
Brima S. Turay, Auteur ;
Juliet Vickery, Auteur ;
Jeremy Lindsell, Auteur
Most attention on tropical biodiversity conservation has focussed on protected areas. Recognising and enhancing the value of biodiversity outside, as well as inside, protected areas is increasingly important given recognition that biodiversity t[...]
Article
Natalia A. Cossa, Auteur ;
Laura Fasola, Auteur ;
Ignacio Roesler, Auteur ;
Juan Carlos Reboreda, Auteur
The Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps has two separate and genetically distinct populations, one sedentary that inhabits the Malvinas/Falklands Islands and another migratory, which inhabits continental southern South America. New informat[...]
Article
James Burnham, Auteur ;
Jeb Barzen, Auteur ;
Anna M. Pidgeon, Auteur ;
Baoteng Sun, Auteur ;
Jiandong Wu, Auteur ;
Guanhua Liu, Auteur ;
Hongxing Jiang, Auteur
Following an abnormal flood in 2010 at China’s Poyang Lake, we observed wintering Siberian Cranes Leucogeranus leucogeranus switch from foraging in the shallow-water wetlands they typically use to grassland habitats. These previously undocumente[...]
