| Titre : | Biological Conservation 204 - DEC 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Michael Tessler, Auteur ;
Theresa A. Clark, Auteur
Many popular sites for recreational boulder climbing lie within protected natural areas, yet no research has assessed whether bouldering threatens associated vegetation - a diverse community regularly including rare species. This paucity of rese[...]
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Alberto J. Alaniz, Auteur ;
Mauricio Galleguillos, Auteur ;
Jorge F. Perez-Quezada, Auteur
During the last decade, the IUCN has developed criteria analogous to the Red List of Threatened Species to perform similar risk assessment on ecosystems, creating the Red List of Ecosystems methodology. One of the most significant challenges for[...]
Article
Han Meng, Auteur ;
Jamie Carr, Auteur ;
Joe Beraducci, Auteur ;
Phil Bowles, Auteur ;
William R. Branch, Auteur ;
Claudia Capitani, Auteur ;
Jumapili Chenga, Auteur ;
Neil Cox, Auteur ;
Kim Howell, Auteur ;
Patrick Malonza, Auteur ;
Rob Marchant, Auteur ;
Boniface Mbilinyi, Auteur ;
Kusaga Mukama, Auteur ;
Charles Msuya, Auteur ;
Philip J. Platts, Auteur ;
Ignas Safari, Auteur ;
Stephen Spawls, Auteur ;
Yara Shennan-Farpon, Auteur ;
Philipp Wagner, Auteur ;
Neil D. Burgess, Auteur
Assessments of biodiversity patterns and threats among African reptiles have lagged behind those of other vertebrate groups and regions. We report the first systematic assessment of the distribution, threat status, and climate change vulnerabili[...]
Article
Weihua Xu, Auteur ;
Xiaosong Li, Auteur ;
Stuart L. Pimm, Auteur ;
Vanessa Hull, Auteur ;
Jingjing Zhang, Auteur ;
Lu Zhang, Auteur ;
Yi Xiao, Auteur ;
Hua Zheng, Auteur ;
Zhiyun Ouyang, Auteur
Increasing human numbers and aspirations threaten protected areas worldwide. China faces especially strong pressure since many people live inside protected areas. It has sought to balance human needs and conservation goals within them by creatin[...]
Article
Anne Devan-Song, Auteur ;
Paolo Martelli, Auteur ;
David Dudgeon, Auteur ;
Paul Crow, Auteur ;
Gary Ades, Auteur ;
Nancy E. Karraker, Auteur
Translocation of 'nuisance' snakes is frequently employed on a large scale in densely populated areas in order to mitigate human-wildlife conflict. However, the methods used are often applied haphazardly and are rarely evaluated, especially in t[...]
Article
Balazs Deak, Auteur ;
Orsolya Valko, Auteur ;
Peter Toeroek, Auteur ;
Bela Tothmeresz, Auteur
Land use changes have resulted in the loss and isolation of semi-natural habitats worldwide. In intensively used agricultural landscapes the remnants of natural flora only persist in small habitat islands embedded in a hostile matrix. In the ste[...]
Article
Guarino R. Colli, Auteur ;
Jessica Fenker, Auteur ;
Leonardo G. Tedeschi, Auteur ;
Andre F. Barreto-Lima, Auteur ;
Tami Mott, Auteur ;
Siria L. B. Ribeiro, Auteur
Worm lizards remain one of the least known groups of vertebrates, hindering a proper assessment of their levels of threat, especially in tropical regions where worm lizard diversity is highest and habitat destruction-is rampant. We examine trend[...]
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Christina M. Kennedy, Auteur ;
Peter L. Hawthorne, Auteur ;
Daniela A. Miteva, Auteur ;
Leandro Baumgarten, Auteur ;
Kei Sochi, Auteur ;
Marcelo Matsumoto, Auteur ;
Jeffrey S. Evans, Auteur ;
Stephen Polasky, Auteur ;
Perrine Hamel, Auteur ;
Emerson M. Vieira, Auteur ;
Pedro Ferreira Develey, Auteur ;
Çagan H. Sekercioglu, Auteur ;
Ana D. Davidson, Auteur ;
Elizabeth M. Uhlhorn, Auteur ;
Joseph Kiesecker, Auteur
Designing landscapes that can meet human needs, while maintaining functioning ecosystems, it essential for long-term sustainability. To achieve this goal, we must better understand the trade-offs and thresholds in the provision of ecosystem serv[...]
Article
Andrea Santangeli, Auteur ;
Volen Arkumarev, Auteur ;
Niki Rust, Auteur ;
Marco Girardello, Auteur
Effective nature conservation in human-dominated landscapes requires a deep understanding of human behaviors, perceptions and values. Human-wildlife conflicts represent relatively well-studied, global-scale conservation challenges. In Africa, vu[...]
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Emilian Stoynov, Auteur
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Monika Bohm, Auteur ;
Daniel Cook, Auteur ;
Heidi Ma, Auteur ;
Ana D. Davidson, Auteur ;
Andres Garcia, Auteur ;
Benjamin Tapley, Auteur ;
Paul Pearce-Kelly, Auteur ;
Jamie Carr, Auteur
One-fifth of the world's reptiles are currently estimated as threatened with extinction, primarily due to the immediate threats of habitat loss and overexploitation. Climate change presents an emerging slow-acting threat. However, few IUCN Red L[...]
Article
Thomas Ranius, Auteur ;
Anu Korosuo, Auteur ;
Jean-Michel Roberge, Auteur ;
Artti Juutinen, Auteur ;
Mikko Monkkonen, Auteur ;
Martin Schroeder, Auteur
Negative consequences of intensive forest management on biodiversity are often mitigated by setting aside old forest, but alternative strategies have been suggested. We have compared using simulations the consequences of two of these alternative[...]
Article
D. R. Towns, Auteur ;
K. A. Miller, Auteur ;
N. J. Nelson, Auteur ;
D. G. Chapple, Auteur
Globally, one in five reptile species is thteatened with extinction, with invasive species a leading cause of extinction risk. Translocations could alleviate the risk of extinction through the establishment of populations in locations from which[...]
Article
Joao Filipe Riva Tonini, Auteur ;
Karen H. Beard, Auteur ;
Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira, Auteur ;
Walter Jetz, Auteur ;
R. Alexander Pyron, Auteur
Macroevolutionary rates of diversification and anthropogenic extinction risk differ vastly throughout the Tree of Life. This results in a highly heterogeneous distribution of Evolutionary distinctiveness (ED) and threat status among species. We [...]
Article
Nathalie Butt, Auteur ;
Scott Whiting, Auteur ;
Kiki Dethmers, Auteur
Species' response to climate change is already occurring and managers require scenario planning with tangible actions for effective conservation. We address this need by examining the impact of projected changes in maximum temperature and sea le[...]
Article
Mark Auliya, Auteur ;
Sandra Altherr, Auteur ;
Daniel Ariano-Sanchez, Auteur ;
Ernst H. Baard, Auteur ;
Carl Brown, Auteur ;
Rafe M. Brown, Auteur ;
Juan-Carlos Cantu, Auteur ;
Gabriele Gentile, Auteur ;
Paul Gildenhuys, Auteur ;
Evert Henningheim, Auteur ;
Juergen Hintzmann, Auteur ;
Kahoru Kanari, Auteur ;
Milivoje Krvavac, Auteur ;
Marieke Lettink, Auteur ;
Joerg Lippert, Auteur ;
Luca Luiselli, Auteur ;
Goran Nilson, Auteur ;
Truong Quang Nguyen, Auteur ;
Vincent Nijman, Auteur ;
James F. Parham, Auteur ;
Stesha A. Pasachnik, Auteur ;
Miguel Pedrono, Auteur ;
Anna Rauhaus, Auteur ;
Danny Rueda Cordova, Auteur ;
Maria-Elena Sanchez, Auteur ;
Ulrich Schepp, Auteur ;
Mona van Schingen, Auteur ;
Norbert Schneeweiss, Auteur ;
Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Auteur ;
Ruchira Somaweera, Auteur ;
Emerson Y. Sy, Auteur ;
Oguz Turkozan, Auteur ;
Sabine Vinke, Auteur ;
Thomas Vinke, Auteur ;
Raju Vyas, Auteur ;
Stuart Williamson, Auteur ;
Thomas Ziegler, Auteur
Of the 10,272 currently recognized reptile species, the trade of fewer than 8% are regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the European Wildlife Trade Regulations (EWTR). Howev[...]
Article
Lucie M. Bland, Auteur ;
Monika Bohm, Auteur
We have no information on the risk of extinction of 21% of reptiles listed as Data Deficient on the Sampled Red List Index (SRLI), an indicator developed to track global change in species status. Data Deficient species are of high research prior[...]
Article
Sebastian Seibold, Auteur ;
Claus Baessler, Auteur ;
Petr Baldrian, Auteur ;
Lena Reinhard, Auteur ;
Simon Thorn, Auteur ;
Michael D. Ulyshen, Auteur ;
Ingmar Weiss, Auteur ;
Joerg Mueller, Auteur
Restoring dead-wood amounts in forests is an increasingly and successfully applied conservation measure to counteract negative effects of intensive logging on biodiversity of saproxylic taxa. By contrast, if and how dead-wood addition benefits t[...]
Article
Krystal A. Tolley, Auteur ;
Graham J. Alexander, Auteur ;
William R. Branch, Auteur ;
Philip Bowles, Auteur ;
Bryan Maritz, Auteur
The assimilation of information on taxonomy, distribution, basic ecology and conservation status of Africa's reptiles lags far behind that for most other continents. Many regions of mainland Africa are rarely surveyed, resulting in severe knowle[...]
Article
C. Mellin, Auteur ;
M. Lurgi, Auteur ;
S. Matthews, Auteur ;
M. A. MacNeil, Auteur ;
M. J. Caley, Auteur ;
N. Bax, Auteur ;
R. Przeslawski, Auteur ;
D. A. Fordham, Auteur
Biological invasions are one of the most significant threats to marine biodiversity, and can be facilitated and amplified by climate change. Among all aspects of invasion biology, biotic interactions between invaders and native species are of pa[...]
Article
Haijing Shi, Auteur ;
Zhongming Wen, Auteur ;
David Paull, Auteur ;
Minghang Guo, Auteur
The importance of microhabitat, a localized environment with a microclimate that is distinct from the regional climate, is increasingly recognized in ecological conservation planning. Although there is a growing body of literature on microhabita[...]
Article
Uri Roll, Auteur ;
John C. Mittermeier, Auteur ;
Gonzalo I. Diaz, Auteur ;
Maria Novosolov, Auteur ;
Anat Feldman, Auteur ;
Yuval Itescu, Auteur ;
Shai Meiri, Auteur ;
Richard Grenyer, Auteur
Modern conservation operates at the nexus of biological and social influences. While the importance of social and cultural factors is often mentioned, defining, measuring and comparing these factors remains a significant challenge. Here, we expl[...]
Article
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Daniel S. Karp, Auteur ;
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Auteur ;
Péter Batáry, Auteur ;
Fabrice DeClerck, Auteur ;
Claudio Gratton, Auteur ;
Lauren Hunt, Auteur ;
Anthony Ives, Auteur ;
Mattias Jonsson, Auteur ;
Ashley Larsen, Auteur ;
Emily A. Martin, Auteur ;
Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Auteur ;
Timothy D. Meehan, Auteur ;
Megan O'Rourke, Auteur ;
Katja Poveda, Auteur ;
Jay A. Rosenheim, Auteur ;
Adrien Rusch, Auteur ;
Nancy Schellhorn, Auteur ;
Thomas C. Wanger, Auteur ;
Stephen Wratten, Auteur ;
Wei Zhang, Auteur
Ecologists and farmers often have contrasting perceptions about the value of natural habitat in agricultural production landscapes, which so far has been little acknowledged in ecology and conservation. Ecologists and conservationists often appr[...]
Article
Maureen H. Murray, Auteur ;
Daniel J. Becker, Auteur ;
Richard J. Hall, Auteur ;
Sonia M. Hernandez, Auteur
Humans provide supplemental food to wildlife under many contexts, ranging from professional feeding areas for game species to backyard bird feeders. Such resources benefit wildlife by providing reliable resources during periods of food shortages[...]
Article
Shai Meiri, Auteur ;
David G. Chapple, Auteur
Reptiles represent the world's most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates (similar to 10,300 recognized species). Knowledge of their conservation status, however, lags behind that of birds, mammals and amphibians. Only similar to 40% of the w[...]
Article
Steffen Oppel, Auteur ;
Alexander L. Bond, Auteur ;
Michael de L. Brooke, Auteur ;
Gavin Harrison, Auteur ;
Juliet A. Vickery, Auteur ;
Richard J. Cuthbert, Auteur
Operations to eradicate non-native invasive predators from islands generally have large conservation benefits, but may put native species at risk where poison bait is used for eradication. Whether the risk of unintentionally poisoning native spe[...]
Article
Andrea Holzschuh, Auteur
Rock climbing has increased in popularity over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, there have been increasing calls for restrictions on rock climbing due to concerns about the impact of climbing on cliff biodiversity. However, the biological impacts o[...]
Article
Reid Tingley, Auteur ;
Shai Meiri, Auteur ;
David G. Chapple, Auteur
Reptiles are the most species-rich group of terrestrial vertebrates, yet we lack a comprehensive understanding of their extinction risk. Only 45% of described reptile species have been assessed by IUCN to date (4648 of 10,400 species); of these,[...]
Article
Jacy Bernath-Plaisted, Auteur ;
Nicola Koper, Auteur
Western North America's grasslands have undergone a rapid expansion of conventional oil and natural gas development, the effects of which are largely unknown for nesting songbirds. Understanding mechanisms that drive ecological responses to infr[...]
Article
Gopal Khanal, Auteur ;
Kulbhushansingh Ramesh Suryawanshi, Auteur ;
Keshav Dutt Awasthi, Auteur ;
Maheshwar Dhakal, Auteur ;
Naresh Subedi, Auteur ;
Dipendra Nath, Auteur ;
Ram Chandra Kandel, Auteur ;
Nachiket Kelkar, Auteur
Riverine species are adapted to natural habitat changes caused by seasonal flood-pulses. However, abrupt river channel changes following flooding events intersect with social systems of land and water management (e.g. agriculture, fisheries) and[...]
Article
Clarice Borges-Matos, Auteur ;
Susan Aragon, Auteur ;
Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Auteur ;
Marie-Josee Fortin, Auteur ;
William E. Magnusson, Auteur
Patch-size and connectivity effects on organisms are usually strong, but may be positive or negative, depending on the landscape context. A binary habitat/non-habitat perspective that fails to consider matrix heterogeneity often explains these i[...]
Article
Karen Ikin, Auteur ;
Ding Li Yong, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Woodland birds are a commonly used taxonomic surrogate for other species groups in agricultural landscapes as they are relatively diverse, easily-studied, and charismatic. Yet, other taxa can respond to native vegetation on farms differently to [...]
Article
Haifeng Zheng, Auteur ;
Guoqiang Shen, Auteur ;
Linyuan Shang, Auteur ;
Xianguo Lv, Auteur ;
Qiang Wang, Auteur ;
Neil McLaughlin, Auteur ;
Xingyuan He, Auteur
Climate change can lead to habitat loss and degradation, and consequently endangers species in a specific region. Besides addressing the priority areas of species distribution, an urgent consideration is to identify suitable conservation options[...]
Article
Shoko Sakai, Auteur ;
Yee Keong Choy, Auteur ;
Keiko Kishimoto-Yamada, Auteur ;
Kohei T. Takano, Auteur ;
Masahiro Ichikawa, Auteur ;
Hiromitsu Samejima, Auteur ;
Yumi Kato, Auteur ;
Ryoji Soda, Auteur ;
Masayuki Ushio, Auteur ;
Izuru Saizen, Auteur ;
Tohru Nakashizuka, Auteur ;
Takao Itioka, Auteur
Supply of non-timber Forest Products (NTFPs) is an important provisioning ecosystem service. It is often argued that forest conservation contributes to poverty alleviation through provisioning of NTFPs to the poor. However, implicit assumptions [...]
Article
Vladimir Zyval, Auteur ;
Zdenka Krenova, Auteur ;
Pavel Kindlmann, Auteur
The question, whether the forest management adopted in several European national parks following natural disturbances (windstorms, bark beetle) is in the long term the optimal one is currently widely discussed in a panEuropean context. Instead o[...]
Article
F. J. F. Maseyk, Auteur ;
L. P. Barea, Auteur ;
R. T. T. Stephens, Auteur ;
H. P. Possingham, Auteur ;
G. Dutson, Auteur ;
M. Maron, Auteur
Biodiversity offsetting is a mechanism aimed at achieving biodiversity gains to compensate for the residual impacts of development activities on biodiversity. Estimating the ecological equivalence of biodiversity lost to development with that ga[...]
Article
Kenneth B. Raposa, Auteur ;
Kerstin Wasson, Auteur ;
Erik Smith, Auteur ;
Jeffrey A. Crooks, Auteur ;
Patricia Delgado, Auteur ;
Sarah H. Fernald, Auteur ;
Matthew C. Ferner, Auteur ;
Alicia Helms, Auteur ;
Lyndie A. Hice, Auteur ;
Jordan W. Mora, Auteur ;
Brandon Puckett, Auteur ;
Denise Sanger, Auteur ;
Suzanne Shull, Auteur ;
Lindsay Spurrier, Auteur ;
Rachel Stevens, Auteur ;
Scott Lerberg, Auteur
Tidal marshes and the ecosystem services they provide may be at risk from sea-level rise (SLR). Tidal marsh resilience to SLR can vary due to differences in local rates of SLR, geomorphology, sediment availability and other factors. Understandin[...]
Article
D. Mark Rayan, Auteur ;
Matthew Linkie, Auteur
Managing populations of large carnivore species that are threatened yet in competition with each other presents a conservation challenge over which species to prioritise. We investigated interspecific competition between the Endangered tiger and[...]
Article
Dejid Nandintsetseg, Auteur ;
Petra Kaczensky, Auteur ;
Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar, Auteur ;
Peter Leimgruber, Auteur ;
Thomas Mueller, Auteur
In resource-poor environments many large herbivores do not perform seasonal migrations but show unpredictable, long-range movements within a given season. The few studies that have examined drivers for within season long-range movements suggest [...]
Article
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
Article
Nicolás Gálvez, Auteur ;
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Auteur ;
Byron J. T. Morgan, Auteur ;
Zoe G. Davies, Auteur
Camera-traps are increasingly used to survey threatened mammal species and are an important tool for estimating habitat occupancy. To date, cost-efficient occupancy survey effort allocation studies have focused on tradeoffs between number of sam[...]
Article
Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Auteur ;
Brooke L. Bateman, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur
Maintaining habitat and its connectivity is a major conservation goal, especially for large carnivores. Assessments of habitat connectivity are typically based on the output of habitat suitability models to first map potential habitat, and then [...]
Article
Stefano Canessa, Auteur ;
Paolo Genta, Auteur ;
Riccardo Jesu, Auteur ;
Luca Lamagni, Auteur ;
Fabrizio Oneto, Auteur ;
Sebastiano Salvidio, Auteur ;
Dario Ottonello, Auteur
Captive breeding and reintroduction programs remain a powerful but divisive tool for management of threatened species, with a proven potential to avoid extinction, but low long-term success rates and high resource requirements. Monitoring the re[...]
Article
Clinton N. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Kyle S. Van Houtan, Auteur
The ocean holds much of the planet's biodiversity, yet
Article
Gabriela Castellanos-Morales, Auteur ;
Yocelyn T. Gutierrez-Guerrero, Auteur ;
Niza Gamez, Auteur ;
Luis E. Eguiarte, Auteur
An important step in species conservation is to identify populations that significantly contribute to it. Considering both in situ and ex situ populations provides an integrated approach to the preservation of a species' evolutionary potential. [...]
Article
Bryan Maritz, Auteur ;
Johannes Penner, Auteur ;
Marcio Martins, Auteur ;
Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Auteur ;
Stephen Spear, Auteur ;
Laura R. V. Alencar, Auteur ;
Jesus Sigala-Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Kevin Messenger, Auteur ;
Rulon W. Clark, Auteur ;
Pritpal Soorae, Auteur ;
Luca Luiselli, Auteur ;
Chris Jenkins, Auteur ;
Harry W. Greene, Auteur
Vipers are among the most misunderstood and persecuted animals. They occupy most terrestrial ecosystems around the world, often at high population densities. However, certain aspects of their biology (e.g., low fecundity and slow growth) have re[...]
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Examining the shifting patterns of poaching from a long-term law enforcement intervention in Sumatra
Dian Risdianto, Auteur ;
Deborah J. Martyr, Auteur ;
Rudijanta T. Nugraha, Auteur ;
Abishek Harihar, Auteur ;
Hariyo T. Wibisono, Auteur ;
Iding A. Haidir, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Neil D'Cruze, Auteur ;
Matthew Linkie, Auteur
Current levels of illegal wildlife trade for many in-demand species are unsustainable and place them at a heightened risk of extinction. While several Asian protected areas standout for their remarkable successes in tackling poaching, the threat[...]
Article
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
Christopher MacGregor, Auteur ;
Jeff Wood, Auteur ;
Martin J. Westgate, Auteur ;
Karen Ikin, Auteur ;
Claire Foster, Auteur ;
Fred Ford, Auteur ;
Rick Zentelis, Auteur
Military training areas (MTAs) cover 6% of the earth's land surface, but the impact on biodiversity of weapons use in MTAs remains largely unknown. We quantified the effects of military training on vertebrates in a 5-year study at Beecroft Weapo[...]
Article
Henry Travers, Auteur ;
Tom Clements, Auteur ;
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur
In this paper, we demonstrate how predictive methods can be used to investigate the effectiveness of conservation interventions prior to their implementation and ensure that limited resources are invested in those interventions that will achieve[...]
Article
D. F. Rosauer, Auteur ;
M. P. K. Blom, Auteur ;
G. Bourke, Auteur ;
S. Catalano, Auteur ;
S. Donnellan, Auteur ;
G. Gillespie, Auteur ;
E. Mulder, Auteur ;
P. M. Oliver, Auteur ;
S. Potter, Auteur ;
Rc Pratt, Auteur ;
D. L. Rabosky, Auteur ;
P. L. Skipwith, Auteur ;
C. Moritz, Auteur
Article
A. J. Loveridge, Auteur ;
M. Valeix, Auteur ;
G. Chapron, Auteur ;
Z. Davidson, Auteur ;
G. Mtare, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur
Large predators are in decline globally with growing concerns over the impacts of human activity on conservation status and range of many populations. The role of trophy hunting in the conservation or decline of predators is hotly debated, thoug[...]
Article
Pascal Dumas, Auteur ;
Gregoire Moutardier, Auteur ;
Jayven Ham, Auteur ;
Rocky Kaku, Auteur ;
Sompert Gereva, Auteur ;
Jerome Lefevre, Auteur ;
Mehdi Adjeroud, Auteur
In Pacific countries, outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (COTS) raise increasing conservation concerns in areas where people heavily depend upon coral reefs for their livelihoods. Small-scale cleanups are often used in [...]
