| Titre : | Biological Conservation 196 - APR 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval, Auteur ;
Elvia J. Melendez-Ackerman, Auteur ;
Daniel Angles-Alcazar, Auteur
The negative impact of invasive plants on native species has been well documented, but little is known about the specific role that invaders play on the population decline of native species. Here we used demographic models to evaluate how the al[...]
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Lyudmyla Dymytrova, Auteur ;
Silvia Stofer, Auteur ;
Christian Ginzler, Auteur ;
Frank T. Breiner, Auteur ;
Christoph Scheidegger, Auteur
Epiphytic lichens are an important component of forest biodiversity. Many of them are threatened and conservation planning therefore requires comprehensive information about their distribution over space and time. However, besides topo-climatic [...]
Article
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Lucy Zipf, Auteur
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R. Eisner, Auteur ;
L. M. Seabrook, Auteur ;
C. A. McAlpine, Auteur
Global biodiversity loss is driven principally by the expansion of agriculture. This expansion has slowed over the last 50 years as agricultural production has intensified, largely through the use of petrochemical-based fertilisers. The mid-2000[...]
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Dimitris P. Vasilakis, Auteur ;
D. Philip Whitfield, Auteur ;
Stefan Schindler, Auteur ;
Kostantinos S. Poirazidis, Auteur ;
Vassiliki Kati, Auteur
Harnessing wind energy is seen as an environmentally friendly strategy to combat climate change. However, adverse environmental impacts have come to light for species that are prone to collision with wind turbine blades, such as vultures, leadin[...]
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Jonathon C. Dunn, Auteur ;
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ;
R. Will Stein, Auteur ;
Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ;
Philip J. K. Mcgowan, Auteur
International targets have committed governments to expanding the global protected area (PA) network to 17% of the terrestrial surface by 2020. Optimising PA placement in the landscape is challenging due to a poor knowledge of biodiversity distr[...]
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Jon S. Horne, Auteur ;
John J. Hervert, Auteur ;
Susannah P. Woodruff, Auteur ;
L. Scott Mills, Auteur
Sonoran pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis), an endangered subspecies of American pronghorn, are of great conservation concern in the southwestern U. S. Following a dramatic population decline in 2002, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic[...]
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Larissa Rocha-Santos, Auteur ;
Michaele S. Pessoa, Auteur ;
Camila R. Cassano, Auteur ;
Daniela C. Talora, Auteur ;
Rodrigo L. L. Orihuela, Auteur ;
Eduardo Mariano-Neto, Auteur ;
Jose C. Morante-Filho, Auteur ;
Deborah Faria, Auteur ;
Eliana Cazetta, Auteur
Habitat loss is one of the primary drivers of change in forest biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. The synergetic effects of habitat loss and fragmentation might lead to profound impacts on forest structure and composition, conducting[...]
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Bronwyn A. Fancourt, Auteur ;
Nick Mooney, Auteur
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Christopher M. Baker, Auteur ;
Michael Bode, Auteur ;
Michael A. McCarthy, Auteur
Article
Laura Bruppacher, Auteur ;
Jerome Pellet, Auteur ;
Raphaël Arlettaz, Auteur ;
Jean-Yves Humbert, Auteur
Restoring biodiversity-rich grasslands within cultivated matrices represents a real conservation challenge. One set of options consists in adopting less disruptive mowing regimes, as mowing impacts on invertebrates can be considerable. We experi[...]
Article
Helen C. Nash, Auteur ;
Michelle H. G. Wong, Auteur ;
Samuel T. Turvey, Auteur
The use of robust ecological data to make evidence-based management decisions for highly threatened species is often limited by data availability, and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is increasingly seen as an important source of information fo[...]
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E. B. Watson, Auteur ;
K. Szura, Auteur ;
C. Wigand, Auteur ;
K. B. Raposa, Auteur ;
K. Blount, Auteur ;
M. Cencer, Auteur
Already heavily impacted by coastal development, estuarine vegetated habitats (seagrasses, salt marshes, and mangroves) are increasingly affected by climate change via accelerated sea level rise, changes in the frequency and intensity of precipi[...]
Article
Philip S. Miller, Auteur ;
Robert C. Lacy, Auteur ;
Roseanne Medina-Miranda, Auteur ;
Ricardo Lopez-Ortiz, Auteur ;
Hilda Diaz-Soltero, Auteur
Invasive species pose a significant threat to native species persistence worldwide. Effective invasives management requires a detailed understanding of the mechanisms by which they impact native taxa, yet most quantitative models used to inform [...]
Article
Jennifer N. Solomon, Auteur ;
Michael C. Gavin, Auteur ;
Abu Conteh, Auteur
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Ben Goldsworthy, Auteur ;
Melanie J. Young, Auteur ;
Philip J. Seddon, Auteur ;
Yolanda van Heezik, Auteur
Stomach flushing has been used in diet studies of 17 of 18 species of penguins, and is commonly used to obtain diet samples from fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and other bird species. However, a review of the literature indicates that ther[...]
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Benoit Goossens, Auteur ;
Reeta Sharma, Auteur ;
Nurzhafarina Othman, Auteur ;
Celia Kun-Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Rosdi Sakong, Auteur ;
Marc Ancrenaz, Auteur ;
Laurentius N. Ambu, Auteur ;
Nathaniel K. Jue, Auteur ;
Rachel J. O'Neill, Auteur ;
Michael W. Bruford, Auteur ;
Lounes Chikhi, Auteur
The Bornean elephant population in Sabah, with only 2000 individuals, is currently mainly restricted to a limited number of forest reserves. The main threats to the species' survival are population fragmentation and isolation of the existing her[...]
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Freya A. V. St John, Auteur ;
Daniel Brockington, Auteur ;
Nils Bunnefeld, Auteur ;
Rosaleen Duffy, Auteur ;
Katherine Homewood, Auteur ;
Julia P. G. Jones, Auteur ;
Aidan M. Keane, Auteur ;
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur ;
Ana Nuno, Auteur ;
Julie H. Razafimanahaka, Auteur
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Norbertas Noreika, Auteur ;
D. Johan Kotze, Auteur ;
Olli J. Loukola, Auteur ;
Niina Sormunen, Auteur ;
Anna Vuori, Auteur ;
Jussi Paivinen, Auteur ;
Jouni Penttinen, Auteur ;
Pekka Punttila, Auteur ;
Janne S. Kotiaho, Auteur
Anthropogenic disturbances cause biotic homogenization through the replacement of specialist species with generalists. Restoration has the potential to counteract these negative effects. Recently, restoration in the peatlands of Northern Europe [...]
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L. M. Soanes, Auteur ;
J. A. Bright, Auteur ;
L. P. Angel, Auteur ;
J. P. Y. Arnould, Auteur ;
M. Bolton, Auteur ;
M. Berlincourt, Auteur ;
B. Lascelles, Auteur ;
E. Owen, Auteur ;
B. Simon-Bouhet, Auteur ;
J. A. Green, Auteur
Recent international initiatives have promoted a number of different approaches to identify marine Important Bird and biodiversity Areas (IBAs), which are important areas for foraging, migrating or over-wintering seabirds. The 'Foraging Radius A[...]
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David Costantini, Auteur ;
David P. Edwards, Auteur ;
Mirre J. P. Simons, Auteur
Selectively logged tropical forests retain high species richness and functional diversity, but species composition changes after logging, suggesting that some species are more vulnerable to logging than others. We did a meta-analysis to summaris[...]
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Matthew A. Albrecht, Auteur ;
Rachel E. Becknell, Auteur ;
Quinn Long, Auteur
Inferring habitat requirements of rare plants can be challenging when the few remaining populations occur in sites with divergent successional states. In island-like rock outcrop systems within forest landscapes, edaphic conditions are assumed t[...]
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M. H. Hallfors, Auteur ;
S. Aikio, Auteur ;
S. Fronzek, Auteur ;
J. J. Hellmann, Auteur ;
T. Ryttari, Auteur ;
R. K. Heikkinen, Auteur
Assisted migration (AM) has been suggested as a management strategy for aiding species in reaching newly suitable locations as climate changes. Species distribution models (SDMs) can provide important insights for decisions on whether to assist [...]
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Martin Rejzek, Auteur ;
Martin Svatek, Auteur ;
Jan Sebesta, Auteur ;
Radim Adolt, Auteur ;
Petr Madera, Auteur ;
Radim Matula, Auteur
Dracaena cinnabari, the dominant endemic tree of Socotra Island (Yemen), is in serious decline. The effect this will have on the island's plant diversity remains unknown. We aimed to identify plants associated with Dracaena understorey and asses[...]
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Kimberly A. Riskas, Auteur ;
Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes, Auteur ;
Mark Hamann, Auteur
Bycatch of non-target species in commercial fisheries is a major source of anthropogenic injury and mortality for marine megafauna, including marine turtles. Their long life histories and large-scale habitat use increase the risk of interaction [...]
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Natalie Lowell, Auteur ;
Ryan P. Kelly, Auteur
The United States Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, a law aimed at preventing the extinction of rare species. Since then, the ESA has become increasingly politicized in the U.S., adding to the difficulty of ESA implementa[...]
