| Titre : | Biological Conservation 203 - NOV 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Justin H. Bohling, Auteur
Hybridization poses a complex problem for biodiversity conservation but there has been little discussion of strategies and guidelines designed to address it from a management perspective. In this article I review management approaches aimed at a[...]
Article
Marleen Baling, Auteur ;
Devi Stuart-Fox, Auteur ;
Dianne H. Brunton, Auteur ;
James Dale, Auteur
Habitat suitability is a critical aspect for the successful establishment of a translocated population. Past studies have identified multiple factors that contribute to habitat suitability, including resource availability, presence of invasive s[...]
Article
Jessica M. D. Lea, Auteur ;
Graham I. H. Kerley, Auteur ;
Halszka Hrabar, Auteur ;
Tom J. Barry, Auteur ;
Susanne Shultz, Auteur
Anthropogenic activities have led to long-term range contraction in many species, creating isolated populations in ecologically marginal and suboptimal habitats. 'Refugee' species have a current distribution completely restricted to suboptimal h[...]
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Haydee Hernandez-Yanez, Auteur ;
Justin T. Kos, Auteur ;
Matthew D. Bast, Auteur ;
Janeisha L. Griggs, Auteur ;
Paul A. Hage, Auteur ;
Alex Killian, Auteur ;
M. Isabel Loza, Auteur ;
Matthew B. Whitmore, Auteur ;
Adam B. Smith, Auteur
Characterizing the distribution of threats facing species is a crucial, first step toward designing effective conservation strategy. The last comprehensive analysis of threats facing rare plants in the United States was conducted nearly 20 years[...]
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Elizabeth Oneita Davis, Auteur ;
David O'Connor, Auteur ;
Brian Crudge, Auteur ;
Annemarie Carignan, Auteur ;
Jenny Anne Glikman, Auteur ;
Christine Browne-Nunez, Auteur ;
Matt Hunt, Auteur
The trade in bear bile and other bear parts in Southeast Asia and China is a leading driver in the decline of Asian bear populations, and is a serious conservation challenge. Currently consumption of bear parts is unsustainable, and could lead t[...]
Article
Kim S. Jacobsen, Auteur ;
John D. C. Linnell, Auteur
Human-wildlife conflict is increasingly being recognised as containing strong elements of social conflict. The extent to which stakeholders regard a management system as being just and fair is a key social dimension of conflict. This paper inves[...]
Article
Paul H. Gobster, Auteur ;
Kristin Floress, Auteur ;
Lynne M. Westphal, Auteur ;
Cristy A. Watkins, Auteur ;
Joanne Vining, Auteur ;
Alaka Wali, Auteur
Public support is important to the success of natural areas restoration programs. Support can be especially critical in urban settings where stakeholders recreate in or reside near natural areas but may lack familiarity with practices for managi[...]
Article
Mark J. Costello, Auteur ;
Karen H. Beard, Auteur ;
Richard T. Corlett, Auteur ;
Graeme S. Cumming, Auteur ;
Vincent Devictor, Auteur ;
Rafael Loyola, Auteur ;
Bea Maas, Auteur ;
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Auteur ;
Robin Pakeman, Auteur ;
Richard B. Primack, Auteur
Article
Juan Li, Auteur ;
Thomas M. McCarthy, Auteur ;
Hao Wang, Auteur ;
Byron V. Weckworth, Auteur ;
George B. Schaller, Auteur ;
Charudutt Mishra, Auteur ;
Zhi Lu, Auteur ;
Steven R. Beissinger, Auteur
Rapid warming in High Asia is threatening its unique ecosystem and endemic species, especially the endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia). Snow leopards inhabit the alpine zone between snow line and tree line, which contracts and expands great[...]
Article
Erik Meijaard, Auteur ;
Vincent Nijman, Auteur
Article
Amy Pocewicz, Auteur ;
Edenise Garcia, Auteur
Stream flows and connectivity have been impacted by road crossings and other changes in land use worldwide, with potential negative impacts for aquatic biodiversity. We investigated how pervasive stream flow, habitat, and connectivity alteration[...]
Article
Helen Kopnina, Auteur
Preserving global biodiversity depends upon designating many more large terrestrial and marine areas as strictly protected areas. Yet recent calls for addressing biodiversity loss by setting aside more protected areas have been met with hostilit[...]
Article
Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, Auteur ;
Thomas Mueller, Auteur ;
Samantha Strindberg, Auteur ;
Peter Leimgruber, Auteur ;
Petra Kaczensky, Auteur ;
Todd K. Fuller, Auteur
The Southern Gobi of Mongolia is an iconic ungulate stronghold that supports the world's largest populations of Asiatic wild ass (or khulan - Equus hemionus) and goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa). A growing human population, intensifying e[...]
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Catherine M. Hall, Auteur ;
Kate A. Bryant, Auteur ;
Kathy Haskard, Auteur ;
Taryn Major, Auteur ;
Sarah Bruce, Auteur ;
Michael C. Calver, Auteur
Roaming pet cats Felis catus are a significant conservation issue because they may hunt, harass and compete with wildlife; spread disease, interbreed with cats in feral populations, and hybridise with wild native felids. Studies of the roaming b[...]
Article
Holly L. Bernardo, Auteur ;
Matthew A. Albrecht, Auteur ;
Tiffany M. Knight, Auteur
Many rare plant and animal species require frequent habitat disturbance to ensure population persistence, but humans often suppress or modify natural disturbance regimes, such as floods and fires, which harms disturbance-adapted species. To mana[...]
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Larisa E. Harding, Auteur ;
Jim Heffelfinger, Auteur ;
David Paetkau, Auteur ;
Esther Rubin, Auteur ;
Jeff Dolphin, Auteur ;
Anis Aoude, Auteur
Mexican wolf recovery planning has spanned >3 decades, yet federal and state planners have not reached consensus on how to structure recovery efforts with the remaining inbred founder lineages to maximize genetic diversity while balancing many o[...]
Article
Jenica M. Allen, Auteur ;
Bethany A. Bradley, Auteur
Identifying invasion risk is critical for regional prioritization of management and monitoring, however, we currently lack a comprehensive assessment of the invasion risk posed by plants for the United States. We aim to quantify geographic invas[...]
Article
B. Maslo, Auteur ;
K. Leu, Auteur ;
C. Faillace, Auteur ;
M. A. Weston, Auteur ;
T. Pover, Auteur ;
T. A. Schlacher, Auteur
Umbrella species are rarely selected systematically from a range of candidate species. On sandy beaches, birds that nest on the upper beach or in dunes are threatened globally and hence are prime candidates for conservation intervention and puta[...]
Article
Nerea Abrego, Auteur ;
Pekka Oivanen, Auteur ;
Ilya Viner, Auteur ;
Jenni Norden, Auteur ;
Reijo Penttila, Auteur ;
Anders Dahlberg, Auteur ;
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Auteur ;
Panu Somervuo, Auteur ;
Otso Ovaskainen, Auteur ;
Dmitry Schigel, Auteur
Reintroduction of locally extinct species is increasingly applied as a conservation tool for re-establishing species within their historical ranges. Thus far, this option has however not been investigated for fungi other than lichens. A large fr[...]
Article
Johanna Eklund, Auteur ;
F. Guillaume Blanchet, Auteur ;
Johannes Nyman, Auteur ;
Ricardo Rocha, Auteur ;
Tarmo Virtanen, Auteur ;
Mar Cabeza, Auteur
Networks of protected areas (PAs) form the backbone for biodiversity conservation worldwide. The effectiveness of protected areas has been studied and it has been shown that confounding factors, such as remoteness and accessibility, correlated w[...]
Article
Nicholas J. C. Gellie, Auteur ;
Martin F. Breed, Auteur ;
Nicole Thurgate, Auteur ;
Shaun A. Kennedy, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Lowe, Auteur
Replanting native vegetation is a broadly accepted method for restoring degraded landscapes. Traditionally, seed used for restoration has been locally sourced to avoid introducing maladapted plants and to minimize the risk of outbreeding depress[...]
Article
David Diaz, Auteur ;
Sandra Mallol, Auteur ;
Ana M. Parma, Auteur ;
Raquel Goni, Auteur
In the absence of a historical baseline, long-term no-take marine reserves can provide a reference to the unfished condition in exploited species of limited mobility. This study documents the recovery of the lobster Palinurus elephas within a la[...]
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Jeffrey L. Peters, Auteur ;
Philip Lavretsky, Auteur ;
Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Auteur ;
Ronald R. Bielefeld, Auteur ;
Jamie C. Feddersen, Auteur ;
Michael D. Sorenson, Auteur
Large multi-locus data sets provide an unprecedented opportunity for detecting fine-scale population structure and identifying populations that warrant independent conservation and management. In this study, we used 3161 polymorphic loci obtaine[...]
Article
Gerard E. Ryan, Auteur ;
Christopher M. Baker, Auteur
Article
Lorna Hernandez-Santin, Auteur ;
Anne W. Goldizen, Auteur ;
Diana O. Fisher, Auteur
Introduced predators such as feral cats (Fells catus) are responsible for declines of many small mammals across the globe. The impact of cats can be exacerbated by mesopredator release, when larger predators (e.g. sands) are suppressed. In respo[...]
Article
Yussuf A. Wato, Auteur ;
Ignas M. A. Heitkonig, Auteur ;
Sipke E. Van Wieren, Auteur ;
Geoffrey Wahungu, Auteur ;
Herbert H. T. Prins, Auteur ;
Frank van Langevelde, Auteur
Elephant inhabiting arid and semi-arid savannas often experience periods of drought, which, if prolonged, may cause mortality. During dry periods, elephant aggregate around water sources and deplete local forage availability. However, the relati[...]
Article
D. D. G. Lagendijk, Auteur ;
A. B. Davies, Auteur ;
P. Eggleton, Auteur ;
R. Slotow, Auteur
Termites and mammalian herbivores might derive mutual benefit from each other through positive feedback loops, but empirical evidence is lacking. One suggested positive feedback loop is between termites and elephant, both ecosystem engineers. Te[...]
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Arielle Waldstein Parsons, Auteur ;
Christina Bland, Auteur ;
Tavis Forrester, Auteur ;
Megan C. Baker-Whatton, Auteur ;
Stephanie G. Schuttler, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur ;
Robert Costello, Auteur ;
Roland Kays, Auteur
The establishment of protected areas is a key strategy for preserving biodiversity. However, human use of protected areas can cause disturbance to wildlife, especially in areas that allow hunting and if humans are accompanied by dogs (Canis fami[...]
Article
Lauren E. Walker, Auteur ;
John M. Marzluff, Auteur ;
David A. Cimprich, Auteur
A thorough understanding of the effects of spatially and temporally variable demographic drivers of population processes is necessary to accurately evaluate potential source-sink dynamics, estimate long-term population viability, and devise effe[...]
Article
Jordan Goetze, Auteur ;
Tim Langlois, Auteur ;
Joachim Claudet, Auteur ;
Fraser Januchowski-Hartley, Auteur ;
Stacy D. Jupiter, Auteur
Periodically harvested closures (PHCs) are small fisheries closures with objectives such as sustaining fisheries and conserving biodiversity and have become one of the most common forms of nearshore marine management in the Western Pacific. Alth[...]
Article
Franck Trolliet, Auteur ;
Adeline Serckx, Auteur ;
Pierre-Michel Forget, Auteur ;
Roseline C. Beudels-Jamar, Auteur ;
Marie-Claude Huynen, Auteur ;
Alain Hambuckers, Auteur
Forested landscapes are increasingly affected by human activities, but little is known about the role of large endangered frugivores as seed dispersers in such ecosystems. We investigated the role played by the bonobo (Pan paniscus) in a human-a[...]
Article
Vivitskaia J. D. Tulloch, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Brown, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Stacy D. Jupiter, Auteur ;
Joseph M. Maina, Auteur ;
Carissa Klein, Auteur
Clearing forests for oil palm plantations is a major threat to tropical terrestrial biodiversity, and may potentially have large impacts on downstream marine ecosystems (e.g., coral reefs). However, little is known about the impacts of runoff fr[...]
Article
Agnieszka Nobis, Auteur ;
Michal Zmihorski, Auteur ;
Dorota Kotowska, Auteur
Plant invasions and land cover changes are two important threats to biodiversity. River valleys, which are considered as hotspots of biodiversity, have been subjected to the both threats for centuries. Here we examined the impact of river bed pr[...]
Article
Ana Ruiz-Navarro, Auteur ;
Phillipa K. Gillingham, Auteur ;
J. Robert Britton, Auteur
The implications of climate change for terrestrial and aquatic taxa are for their dispersal pole-wards and/or to higher altitudes as they track their climate niches. Here, bioclimatic models are developed to predict how projected climate change [...]
Article
Masashi Soga, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Tomoyo F. Koyanagi, Auteur ;
Kiyo Kurisu, Auteur ;
Keisuke Hanaki, Auteur
Today's children have less direct contact with nature than ever before, resulting in an "extinction of experience". Research has suggested that such loss of daily interactions decreases people's appreciation of the natural world, but this remain[...]
Article
Peter J. Olsoy, Auteur ;
Kathy A. Zeller, Auteur ;
Jeffrey A. Hicke, Auteur ;
Howard B. Quigley, Auteur ;
Alan R. Rabinowitz, Auteur ;
Daniel H. Thornton, Auteur
The impact of extensive changes in land use and climate on species has led to an increasing focus on large-scale conservation planning. However, these plans are often static conservation prescriptions set against a backdrop of rapidly changing e[...]
Article
William S. Beatty, Auteur ;
Chadwick V. Jay, Auteur ;
Anthony S. Fischbach, Auteur ;
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Auteur ;
Rebecca L. Taylor, Auteur ;
Arny L. Blanchard, Auteur ;
Stephen C. Jewett, Auteur
Sea ice dominates marine ecosystems in the Arctic, and recent reductions in sea ice may alter food webs throughout the region. Sea ice loss may also stress Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), which feed on benthic macroinvertebrates [...]
Article
R. Whitlock, Auteur ;
H. Hipperson, Auteur ;
D. B. A. Thompson, Auteur ;
R. K. Butlin, Auteur ;
T. Burke, Auteur
Conservation biologists have drawn up a range of guidelines for the conservation of genetic diversity to maximise the chances that populations of threatened species persist, and to conserve this variation for its potential utility. However, our [...]
Article
Orjan Johansson, Auteur ;
Geir Rune Rauset, Auteur ;
Gustaf Samelius, Auteur ;
Tom McCarthy, Auteur ;
Henrik Andren, Auteur ;
Lkhagvasumberel Tumursukh, Auteur ;
Charudutt Mishra, Auteur
Conserving large carnivores in an increasingly crowded planet raises difficult challenges. A recurring debate is whether large carnivores can be conserved in human used landscapes (land sharing) or whether they require specially designated areas[...]
