| Titre : | Biological Conservation 133(2) - NOV 2006 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Andrew F. Bennett, Auteur ;
James Q. Radford, Auteur ;
Angie Haslem, Auteur
Agricultural landscapes are mosaics of different land uses. Their vast extent throughout the world means that they have a key role in the conservation of biodiversity. To provide a sound basis for management, it is important to recognise the eme[...]
Article
Dries Adriaens, Auteur ;
Olivier Honnay, Auteur ;
Martin Hermy, Auteur
Long transient times in response to decreasing habitat area and increasing isolation may cause the present plant species distribution to reflect the historical rather than the present landscape configuration, resulting in a so-called extinction [...]
Article
Burghard Wittig, Auteur ;
Anne Richter gen Kemmermann, Auteur ;
Dietmar Zacharias, Auteur
Agri-environmental subsidies for grasslands of high conservation interest are usually associated with fairly strict management rules, but have not always been successful in terms of the preservation of species. A new approach now links the subsi[...]
Article
Brian D. Todd, Auteur ;
Betsie B. Rothermel, Auteur
Forest clearcutting is a form of habitat alteration that drastically alters the landscape and may contribute to declines in amphibian populations. indeed, many studies have documented decreases in amphibian abundances and species richness in cle[...]
Article
Bradley S. Law, Auteur ;
Mark Chidel, Auteur
To guide tree planting for restoration in southern Australia bats were sampled in revegetation from a wide variety of shapes, sizes, age and isolation. Young and old age-classes were sampled and these were stratified by size and shape. Where pos[...]
Article
Raffael Ernst, Auteur ;
K. Eduard Linsenmair, Auteur ;
Mark-Oliver Roedel, Auteur
Assessing the effects of logging on different aspects of biodiversity and general ecosystem properties is of prime importance if the few remaining areas of intact tropical forest are to be efficiently protected. Commonly used measures of biodive[...]
Article
Danny I. Rogers, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur ;
Chris J. Hassell, Auteur
High tides force shorebirds from their intertidal feeding areas to refuges known as roosts. This paper explores the energetic costs of roost disturbance of great knot (Calidris tenuirostris) and red knot (C. canutus) at Roebuck Bay, North-wester[...]
Article
Alexander C. Lees, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur
The combined effects of rapid habitat loss, fragmentation and disturbance on tropical forest avifaunas have not been examined to date. The southern Amazonian 'arc of deforestation' marks the boundary of the most aggressive agricultural frontier [...]
Article
Susan C. Baker, Auteur ;
Alastair M. M. Richardson, Auteur ;
Leon A. Barmuta, Auteur ;
Russell Thomson, Auteur
Reserve corridors in production forestry landscapes are frequently concentrated in riparian areas. This study describes the numerical response of ground-dwelling beetles to increasing distance from streams, with the aim of evaluating the effecti[...]
Article
Trevon Fuller, Auteur ;
Mariana Munguia, Auteur ;
Michael Mayfield, Auteur ;
Victor Sanchez-Cordero, Auteur ;
Sahotra Sarkar, Auteur
The interdigitation of the Nearartic and Neotropical biogeographic zones in the Transvolcanic Belt (TVB) of central Mexico provides the region with high faunal richness and endemicity. Biodiversity conservation in the TVB must accommodate the re[...]
Article
J. L. Kelley, Auteur ;
A. E. Magurran, Auteur ;
C. Macias Garcia, Auteur
We compared the behaviour of wild and captive-bred butterfly splitfins (Ameca splendens), an endangered freshwater fish, to investigate whether captive breeding results in the behavioural divergence of wild and captive individuals. In a first ex[...]
