| Titre : | AMBIO 44(7) - NOV 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Ana Villa, Auteur ;
Faruk Djodjic, Auteur ;
Lars Bergstrom, Auteur ;
Katarina Kyllmar, Auteur
Identification of vulnerable arable areas to phosphorus (P) losses is needed to effectively implement mitigation measures. Indicators for source (soil test P, STP), potential mobilization by erosion (soil dispersion), and transport (unit-stream [...]
Article
Maria Francisca Archila Bustos, Auteur ;
Ola Hall, Auteur ;
Magnus Andersson, Auteur
Nighttime satellite photographs of Earth reveal the location of lighting and provide a unique view of the extent of human settlement. Nighttime lights have been shown to correlate with economic development and population but little research has [...]
Article
Jay M. Iwasaki, Auteur ;
Barbara I. P. Barratt, Auteur ;
Janice M. Lord, Auteur ;
Alison R. Mercer, Auteur ;
Katharine J. M. Dickinson, Auteur
The Varroa mite (Varroa destructor) is implicated as a major disease factor in honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations worldwide. Honey bees are extensively relied upon for pollination services, and in countries such as New Zealand and Australia [...]
Article
Thomas K. Rudel, Auteur ;
Birthe Paul, Auteur ;
Douglas White, Auteur ;
I. M. Rao, Auteur ;
Rein Van Der Hoek, Auteur ;
Aracely Castro, Auteur ;
Maryline Boval, Auteur ;
Amy Lerner, Auteur ;
Laura Schneider, Auteur ;
Michael Peters, Auteur
The increased use of grain-based feed for livestock during the last two decades has contributed, along with other factors, to a rise in grain prices that has reduced human food security. This circumstance argues for feeding more forages to lives[...]
Article
Julia Robinson Willmott, Auteur ;
Greg M. Forcey, Auteur ;
Lauren A. Hooton, Auteur
A scarcity of baseline data is a significant barrier to understanding and mitigating potential impacts of offshore development on birds and bats. Difficult and sometimes unpredictable conditions coupled with high expense make gathering such data[...]
Article
H. Eden W. Cottee-Jones, Auteur ;
Omesh Bajpai, Auteur ;
Lal B. Chaudhary, Auteur ;
Robert J. Whittaker, Auteur
Many of the world's rural populations are dependent on the local provision of economically and medicinally important plant resources. However, increasing land-use intensity is depleting these resources, reducing human welfare, and thereby constr[...]
Article
Carl Rolff, Auteur ;
Tina Elfwing, Auteur
The study showed that the open water of the Bothnian Sea (BS) is likely to have shifted from altering nitrogen and phosphorous limitations of the spring bloom to more nitrogen-limited conditions during the last 20 years. This is affected by the [...]
Article
Audrey Verma, Auteur ;
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
Anke Fischer, Auteur
Wildlife conservation-related organisations increasingly employ new visual technologies in their science communication and public engagement efforts. Here, we examine the use of such technologies for wildlife conservation campaigns. We obtained [...]
Article
Jharyathri Thiagarajah, Auteur ;
Shermaine K. M. Wong, Auteur ;
Daniel R. Richards, Auteur ;
Daniel A. Friess, Auteur
Cultural ecosystem services are a function of people and place, so may change as a location transitions from rural to urban. Singapore has undergone rapid urbanization after its independence in 1965, with a concomitant decline in natural habitat[...]
Article
Xiaoying Yang, Auteur ;
Shubo Fang, Auteur
Face-to-face interviews (n = 553) were conducted in five counties in East-Central China to study farmers' fertilizer application behaviors, decision-making processes, attitudes towards adopting better fertilizer application technologies, and env[...]
Article
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
Koen Arts, Auteur
Article
Hydroclimatic changes and drivers in the Sava River Catchment and comparison with Swedish catchments
Lea Levi, Auteur ;
Fernando Jaramillo, Auteur ;
Roko Andricevic, Auteur ;
Georgia Destouni, Auteur
In this study, we investigate long-term hydroclimatic changes and their possible relation to regional changes in climate, land-use and water-use over the twentieth century in the transboundary Sava River Catchment (SRC) in South Eastern Europe. [...]
Article
Wei Gao, Auteur ;
Dennis P. Swaney, Auteur ;
Bongghi Hong, Auteur ;
Robert W. Howarth, Auteur ;
Yong Liu, Auteur ;
Huaicheng Guo, Auteur
The environmental degradation of lakes in China has become increasingly serious over the last 30 years and eutrophication resulting from enhanced nutrient inputs is considered a top threat. In this study, a quasi-mass balance method, net anthrop[...]
Article
Kaoru Saito, Auteur ;
Kazuhiko Nakamura, Auteur ;
Mutsuyuki Ueta, Auteur ;
Reiko Kurosawa, Auteur ;
Akio Fujiwara, Auteur ;
Hill Hiroki Kobayashi, Auteur ;
Masaya Nakayama, Auteur ;
Ayako Toko, Auteur ;
Kazuyo Nagahama, Auteur
We have developed a system that streams and archives live sound from remote areas across Japan via an unmanned automatic camera. The system was used to carry out pilot bird censuses in woodland; this allowed us to examine the use of live sound t[...]
Article
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
Helen Anderson, Auteur ;
Annie Robinson, Auteur ;
Nirwan Sharma, Auteur ;
Chris Mellish, Auteur ;
Stuart Roberts, Auteur ;
Ben Darvill, Auteur ;
Advaith Siddharthan, Auteur
To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined bumblebee records from the UK's national repository (National Biodivers[...]
Article
Scott Newey, Auteur ;
Paul Davidson, Auteur ;
Sajid Nazir, Auteur ;
Gorry Fairhurst, Auteur ;
Fabio Verdicchio, Auteur ;
R. Justin Irvine, Auteur ;
Rene van der Wal, Auteur
The availability of affordable 'recreational' camera traps has dramatically increased over the last decade. We present survey results which show that many conservation practitioners use cheaper 'recreational' units for research rather than more [...]
Article
Steve Kelling, Auteur ;
Daniel Fink, Auteur ;
Frank A. La Sorte, Auteur ;
Alison Johnston, Auteur ;
Nicholas E. Bruns, Auteur ;
Wesley M. Hochachka, Auteur
Data from well-designed experiments provide the strongest evidence of causation in biodiversity studies. However, for many species the collection of these data is not scalable to the spatial and temporal extents required to understand patterns a[...]
Article
Chris Sandbrook, Auteur
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or 'drones', appear to offer a flexible, accurate and affordable solution to some of the technical challenges of nature conservation monitoring and law enforcement. However, little attention has been given to their poss[...]
Article
Carlos Galan-Diaz, Auteur ;
Peter Edwards, Auteur ;
John D. Nelson, Auteur ;
Rene van der Wal, Auteur
Nature conservation organisations increasingly turn to new digital technologies to help deliver conservation objectives. This has led to collaborative forms of working with academia to spearhead digital innovation. Through in-depth interviews wi[...]
Article
Georgina Maffey, Auteur ;
Hilary Homans, Auteur ;
Ken Banks, Auteur ;
Koen Arts, Auteur
The application of digital technology in conservation holds much potential for advancing the understanding of, and facilitating interaction with, the natural world. In other sectors, digital technology has long been used to engage communities an[...]
Article
Koen Arts, Auteur ;
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
William M. Adams, Auteur
Digital technology is changing nature conservation in increasingly profound ways. We describe this impact and its significance through the concept of 'digital conservation', which we found to comprise five pivotal dimensions: data on nature, dat[...]
Article
Lucas N. Joppa, Auteur
Information age technology has the potential to change the game for conservation by continuously monitoring the pulse of the natural world. Whether or not it will depends on the ability of the conservation sector to build a community of practice[...]
Article
Guillaume Chapron, Auteur
Research in wildlife management increasingly relies on quantitative population models. However, a remaining challenge is to have end-users, who are often alienated by mathematics, benefiting from this research. I propose a new approach, 'wildlif[...]
Article
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
Cheng Zeng, Auteur ;
Danny Heptinstall, Auteur ;
Kapila Ponnamperuma, Auteur ;
Chris Mellish, Auteur ;
Stuart Ben, Auteur ;
Advaith Siddharthan, Auteur
Analysis of satellite-telemetry data mostly occurs long after it has been collected, due to the time and effort needed to collate and interpret such material. Delayed reporting reduces the usefulness of such data for nature conservation where ti[...]
