| Titre : | Biological Conservation 198 - JUN 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Jihong Huang, Auteur ;
Jianhua Huang, Auteur ;
Canran Liu, Auteur ;
Jinlong Zhang, Auteur ;
Xinghui Lu, Auteur ;
Keping Ma, Auteur
The flora in China is highly endemic. Decisions about conservation and management of biodiversity based on hotspots and conservation gaps of endemic seed plant species diversity in China are essential. In this paper, based on a species distribut[...]
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Brock J. Bergseth, Auteur ;
David H. Williamson, Auteur ;
Ashley J. Frisch, Auteur ;
Garry R. Russ, Auteur
Marine protected areas are increasingly being implemented to attain a variety of conservation and fisheries management objectives. Although rarely considered, protection of targeted species within these areas may also conserve behaviours (e.g. b[...]
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Melinda L. Moir, Auteur ;
David J. Coates, Auteur ;
W. Jason Kensington, Auteur ;
Sarah Barrett, Auteur ;
Gary S. Taylor, Auteur
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C. Garcia, Auteur ;
B. Rumeu, Auteur ;
M. A. Gonzalez-Perez, Auteur ;
M. Nogales, Auteur
The mutual reinforcement of multiple drivers of global change erodes ecosystem services and accelerates plant population decline worldwide. This is particularly the case for island ecosystems where anthropogenic activity has imperilled insular f[...]
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Simon West, Auteur ;
Rose Cairns, Auteur ;
Lisen Schultz, Auteur
'Success' is a vigorously debated concept in conservation. There is a drive to develop quantitative, comparable metrics of success to improve conservation interventions. Yet the qualitative, normative choices inherent in decisions about what to [...]
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J. L. Bossart, Auteur ;
Josephine B. Antwi, Auteur
Sacred forest groves are often located in some of the world's hottest hotspots of biodiversity, and consequently have high potential conservation value. Recent efforts to quantify their value have focused nearly exclusively on a single component[...]
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Jian Zhang, Auteur ;
Jianbo Hu, Auteur ;
Juyu Lian, Auteur ;
Zongji Fan, Auteur ;
Xuejun Ouyang, Auteur ;
Wanhui Ye, Auteur
Long-term ecological monitoring has contributed substantially towards advancements in theoretical and applied ecology. However, the costs to maintain a long-term monitoring site are enormous. Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones)[...]
Article
Robert L. Beschta, Auteur ;
William J. Ripple, Auteur
During the seven decades of gray wolf (Canis lupus) absence in Yellowstone National Park intensive browsing by Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus) suppressed the growth of young deciduous woody plants within the park's northern ungulate winter r[...]
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Fewer than 250 Asian elephants remain in China, occupying fragmented habitats of Yunnan Province. One such fragmented population of 18-23 individuals occupies the Nangunhe Nature Reserve Area in Lincang City, Yunnan Province, China. The greatest[...]
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Aija S. Kukkala, Auteur ;
Anni Arponen, Auteur ;
Luigi Maiorano, Auteur ;
Atte Moilanen, Auteur ;
Wilfried Thuiller, Auteur ;
Tuuli Toivonen, Auteur ;
Laure Zupan, Auteur ;
Lluis Brotons, Auteur ;
Mar Cabeza, Auteur
The Natura 2000 (N2k) is a network of protected areas, established to implement the Birds and the Habitats Directives of the European Union (EU) with the goal of conservation irrespective of national boundaries. We provide the first assessment o[...]
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Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Auteur ;
Gloria M. Luque, Auteur ;
Celine Bellard, Auteur ;
Nick D. Holmes, Auteur ;
C. Josh Donlan, Auteur
While invasive species eradications are at the forefront of biodiversity conservation, ant eradication failures are common. We reviewed ant eradications worldwide to assess the practice and identify knowledge gaps and challenges. We documented 3[...]
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Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Carolina Rojas, Auteur ;
Romeo A. Saldana-Vazquez, Auteur ;
Kathryn E. Stoner, Auteur
Human-modified landscapes are composed of different types of land covers in differing proportions (landscape composition), and each with differing spatial physiognomy (landscape configuration). Unfortunately, the information on the relative impa[...]
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Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Auteur ;
Jose Manuel Igual, Auteur ;
Giacomo Tavecchia, Auteur ;
Meritxell Genovart, Auteur ;
Daniel Oro, Auteur
Populations of long-lived species are highly sensitive to increases in mortality, but a loss of breeders can be compensated for by recruitment of local individuals or immigrants. Populations maintained through immigration can be sinks, jeopardiz[...]
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Jiri Reif, Auteur ;
Jan Hanzelka, Auteur ;
Tomas Kadlec, Auteur ;
Martin Strobl, Auteur ;
Martin Hejda, Auteur
Invasions of non-native plants often result in impoverished local communities; however, their cascading effects along food chain remain unknown. Here we investigated how the alteration of food resources and habitat structure due to the invasion [...]
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A. Vujic, Auteur ;
S. Radenkovic, Auteur ;
T. Nikolic, Auteur ;
D. Radisic, Auteur ;
S. Trifunov, Auteur ;
A. Andric, Auteur ;
Z. Markov, Auteur ;
S. Jovicic, Auteur ;
S. Mudri Stojnic, Auteur ;
M. Jankovic, Auteur ;
P. Lugonja, Auteur
Hoverffies are a valuable group of species in need of conservation and monitoring, due to their large contribution to pollination, biological control, and role as indicators of ecosystem change. Though hoverflies are a well-known group of insect[...]
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Ilpo Kojola, Auteur ;
Ville Hallikainen, Auteur ;
Kari Mikkola, Auteur ;
Eliezer Gurarie, Auteur ;
Samuli Heikkinen, Auteur ;
Salla Kaartinen, Auteur ;
Ari Nikula, Auteur ;
Vesa Nivala, Auteur
Large carnivorous mammals, such as the gray wolf (Canis lupus) have been recently expanding to human dominated landscapes in many regions. Although wolves tend to avoid human infrastructure, visitations close to human residences might be unavoid[...]
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Laura Sandberger-Loua, Auteur ;
Joseph Doumbia, Auteur ;
Mark-Oliver Roedel, Auteur
Conservation efforts should be directed to species and areas in particular need. Several concepts for conservation prioritization exist. Following appropriate measures, we determined the World Heritage Site (WHS) "Nimba Mountains" and its flagsh[...]
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D. Moser, Auteur ;
T. Ellmauer, Auteur ;
D. Evans, Auteur ;
K. P. Zulka, Auteur ;
M. Adam, Auteur ;
S. Dullinger, Auteur ;
F. Essl, Auteur
Public acceptance of conservation measures and measuring the effectiveness of conservation efforts essentially depends on the agreement among experts on the conservation status of species. Here we provide the first European Union-wide comparison[...]
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Christos Mammides, Auteur ;
Uromi M. Goodale, Auteur ;
Richard T. Corlett, Auteur ;
Jin Chen, Auteur ;
Kamaljit S. Bawa, Auteur ;
Hetal Hariya, Auteur ;
Frith Jarrad, Auteur ;
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Harry Ewing, Auteur ;
Xue Xia, Auteur ;
Eben Goodale, Auteur
Tropical countries are important to conservation because of the threats to the high levels of biodiversity there, but research on conservation science in these mostly developing countries has traditionally been written by foreigners. This discon[...]
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Richard O'Rorke, Auteur ;
Brenden S. Holland, Auteur ;
Gerry M. Cobian, Auteur ;
Kapono Gaughen, Auteur ;
Anthony S. Amend, Auteur
One strategy to safeguard endangered species against extinction is raising subpopulations in ex situ facilities. Feeding animals ex situ is difficult when their diet is cryptic. We present a combined molecular and behavioral approach to assess t[...]
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Claire Tancell, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur ;
Richard A. Phillips, Auteur
Tracking of seabirds at sea is valuable for marine spatial planning. Many seabirds are of conservation concern, including albatrosses and large petrels (Procellariiformes) which face a major threat from mortality in fisheries. We examine how imp[...]
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Evan R. Buechley, Auteur ;
Çagan H. Sekercioglu, Auteur
Vultures, which are the only obligate vertebrate scavengers, have experienced the most rapid decline in conservation status of any group of birds over the past decade and comprise the most threatened avian functional guild in the world. Of the 2[...]
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Steffen Oppel, Auteur ;
Vladimir Dobrev, Auteur ;
Volen Arkumarev, Auteur ;
Victoria Saravia, Auteur ;
Anastasios Bounas, Auteur ;
Elzbieta Kret, Auteur ;
Theodora Skartsi, Auteur ;
Metodija Velevski, Auteur ;
Stoycho Stoychev, Auteur ;
Stoyan C. Nikolov, Auteur
Assessing the effectiveness of conservation measures to reverse population declines is essential to evaluate management strategies. Management solutions such as direct protection or supplementary feeding typically aim at reducing mortality or in[...]
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Yoan Fourcade, Auteur ;
David S. Richardson, Auteur ;
Oskars Keišs, Auteur ;
Michal Budka, Auteur ;
Rhys E. Green, Auteur ;
Sergei Fokin, Auteur ;
Jean Secondi, Auteur
Understanding patterns of genetic structure, gene flow and diversity across a species range is required to determine the genetic status and viability of small peripheral populations. This is especially crucial in species distributed across a lar[...]
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Arthur B. Muneza, Auteur ;
Robert A. Montgomery, Auteur ;
Julian T. Fennessy, Auteur ;
Amy J. Dickman, Auteur ;
Gary J. Roloff, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur
Large mammals have drastically declined in the past few decades yet we know little about their ecology. Giraffe numbers for instance, have dropped by more than 40% in the last 15 years and recently, a skin disease,,has been observed in numerous [...]
