| Titre : | Biological Conservation 141(6) - JUN 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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E. Nichols, Auteur ;
S. Spector, Auteur ;
J. Louzada, Auteur ;
T. Larsen, Auteur ;
S. Amequita, Auteur ;
M. E. Favila, Auteur
Clear understanding of the links between ecological functions and biodiversity is needed to assess and predict the true environmental consequences of human activities. Several key ecosystem functions are provided by coprophagous beetles in the s[...]
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Anita Diaz, Auteur ;
Iain Green, Auteur ;
Mark Tibbett, Auteur
Understanding the factors that drive successful re-creation and restoration of lowland heaths is crucially important for achieving the long-term conservation of this threatened habitat type. In this study we investigated the changes in soil chem[...]
Article
Isabelle Le Viol, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur ;
Christian Kerbiriou, Auteur ;
Louis de Redon, Auteur ;
Nathalie Carnino, Auteur ;
Nathalie Machon, Auteur ;
Emmanuelle Porcher, Auteur
Road verges should play a crucial role as a refuge for native flora and fauna in human dominated landscapes. However, the influence of construction choices, such as plantation of woody species, on the biodiversity supported by roadsides has rece[...]
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D. Mouillot, Auteur ;
J. M. Culioli, Auteur ;
D. Pelletier, Auteur ;
J. A. Tomasini, Auteur
Changes in biodiversity may disrupt the ecological functions performed by species assemblages. Hence, we urgently need to examine the implications of biodiversity loss not only in terms of species conservation but also in terms of sustainability[...]
Article
Treuon Fuller, Auteur ;
Dauid P. Morton, Auteur ;
Sahotra Sarkar, Auteur
This analysis presents a conservation planning framework for decisions under uncertainty and applies it to the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Uncertainty arises from variable distributional shifts of species' ranges due to climate change. The p[...]
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Gabriela Nunez-Iturri, Auteur ;
Ola Olsson, Auteur ;
Henry F. Howe, Auteur
Hunting with firearms decimates primates of large and medium body size (> 2 kg) that disperse the seeds of large-seeded trees. In continuous, un-fragmented forests of southeastern Peru regularly hunted with firearms for 30-40 years, large primat[...]
Article
Magda Jonasova, Auteur ;
Karel Prach, Auteur
Changes in the herb and moss layers of mountain spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) forests after bark beetle (lps typographus (L.)) outbreak were compared with and without forestry intervention. The study area is situated in the Sumava National Pa[...]
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Jean-Michel Roberge, Auteur ;
Per Angelstam, Auteur ;
Marc-Andre Villard, Auteur
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Stephen Polasky, Auteur ;
Erik Nelson, Auteur ;
Jeff Camm, Auteur ;
Blair Csuti, Auteur ;
Paul Fackler, Auteur ;
Eric Lonsdorf, Auteur ;
Claire Montgomery, Auteur ;
Denis White, Auteur ;
Jeff Arthur, Auteur ;
Brian Garber-Yonts, Auteur ;
Robert Haight, Auteur ;
Jimmy Kagan, Auteur ;
Anthony Starfield, Auteur ;
Claudine Tobalske, Auteur
Expanding human population and economic growth have led to large-scale conversion of natural habitat to human-dominated landscapes with consequent large-scale declines in biodiversity. Conserving biodiversity, while at the same time meeting expa[...]
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Mandar R. Trivedi, Auteur ;
Michael D. Morecroft, Auteur ;
Pamela M. Berry, Auteur ;
Terence P. Dawson, Auteur
Mountain ecosystems are often identified as being particularly sensitive to climate change, however this has rarely been investigated at the scale of individual mountain ranges using local relationships between plants and climate. This study use[...]
Article
Anita M. Glover, Auteur ;
John D. Altringham, Auteur
Caves are an important resource to a large proportion of temperate bat species, primarily as mating and hibernation sites. However, information on bat use exists for only a small fraction of caves in many parts of the temperate world, in part be[...]
Article
Dieter Liebsch, Auteur ;
Marcia C. M. Marques, Auteur ;
Renato Goldenbeg, Auteur
We evaluated floristic and ecological changes in plant communities after disturbance in Southern Atlantic Rain Forests, in the Brazilian states of Rio cle Janeiro, Sio Paulo, Parang and Santa Catarina. We compiled data for 410 tree species from [...]
Article
Amy G. Vandergast, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Bohonak, Auteur ;
Stacie A. Hathaway, Auteur ;
Joshua Boys, Auteur ;
Robert N. Fisher, Auteur
Reserves are often designed to protect rare habitats, or "typical" exemplars of ecoregions and geomorphic provinces. This approach focuses on current patterns of organismal and ecosystem-level biodiversity, but typically ignores the evolutionary[...]
Article
Johlene Zietsman, Auteur ;
Leanne L. Dreyer, Auteur ;
Karen J. Esler, Auteur
About twenty-five percent of all southern African Oxalis species are rare/endangered and highly localized, making them especially vulnerable to extinction through inbreeding, low genetic variation, disrupted biological interactions and stochasti[...]
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Tatsuya Amano, Auteur ;
Yoshinobu Kusumoto, Auteur ;
Yoshinori Tokuoka, Auteur ;
Susumu Yamada, Auteur ;
Eun-Young Kim, Auteur ;
Shori Yamamoto, Auteur
Agricultural landscapes with spatial and temporal variations interact with each other to affect the existing biodiversity. Though rice fields provide important habitats for birds all over the world, studies so far have rarely explored the effect[...]
Article
Mason J. Ryan, Auteur ;
Karen R. Lips, Auteur ;
Michael W. Eichholz, Auteur
We conducted a mark-recapture study of three subpopulations of Crougastor punctariolus at a mid-elevation site in central Panama between 1999 and 2005. The study spans a period over which the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd)[...]
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R. J. Fensham, Auteur ;
R. J. Fairfax, Auteur
Commercial grazing is possible over much of and Australia due to a high density of artificial watering points. The broadscale supplementation of drinking water has not only enhanced densities of sheep (Ovies aries), cattle (Bos taurus, Bos indic[...]
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Robert I. McDonald, Auteur ;
Peter Kareiva, Auteur ;
Richard T. T. Formana, Auteur
Due to human population growth and migration, there will be nearly 2 billion new urban residents by 2030, yet the consequences of both current and future urbanization for biodiversity conservation are poorly known. Here we show that urban growth[...]
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David Sanchez-Fernandez, Auteur ;
David T. Bilton, Auteur ;
Pedro Abellan, Auteur ;
Ignacio Ribera, Auteur ;
Josefa Vezasco, Auteur ;
Andres Millan, Auteur
One of the most serious environmental problems is the current acceleration in the rate of species extinction associated with human activities, which is occurring particularly rapidly in freshwaters. Here we examine whether endemic water beetles [...]
Article
Rob Marrs, Auteur
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Pejman Tahmasebi Kohyani, Auteur ;
Beatrijs Bossuyt, Auteur ;
Dries Bonte, Auteur ;
Maurice Hoffmann, Auteur
In nature management, the introduction of large herbivores into human-influenced grasslands is thought to be effective to maintain or enhance plant diversity. In order to test the validity of this assumption, we studied the effectof grazingby la[...]
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Karine A. Viaud-Martinez, Auteur ;
Robert L. Brownell, Auteur ;
Anastasia Komnenou, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Bohonak, Auteur
The Black Sea is a semi-enclosed body of water that differs from the adjacent Mediterranean Sea in terms of its biodiversity, oceanographical and ecological characteristics. There is growing international concern about pollution in the Black Sea[...]
Article
Lixin Zhang, Auteur ;
Warren Y. Brockelman, Auteur ;
Michael A. Allen, Auteur
We used size-structured Lefkovitch projection matrix analysis to predict future trends in the survival of Aquilaria crassna (Thymelaeaceae), a tropical evergreen forest tree that has been highly sought after for its valuable aromatic wood (agarw[...]
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Cheryl A. Logan, Auteur ;
S. Elizabeth Alter, Auteur ;
Alison J. Haupt, Auteur ;
Katharine Tomalty, Auteur ;
Stephen R. Palumbi, Auteur
Concern over the collapse of many wild-caught fisheries has led to a recent focus on seafood-certification and consumer-driven support of sustainable seafood. However, such conservation strategies depend critically on the accurate labeling of se[...]
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Jean J. Enneson, Auteur ;
Jacqueline D. Litzgus, Auteur
Reptiles are in decline globally, and one-third of turtle species are considered endangered or vulnerable. Conservation of turtles presents special challenges, as turtles are long-lived, and have delayed sexual maturity, making long-term study n[...]
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Erin Muths, Auteur ;
David S. Pilliod, Auteur ;
Lauren J. Livo, Auteur
Amphibian populations continue to be imperiled by the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Understanding where B. dendrobatidis (Bd) occurs and how it may be limited by environmental factors is critical to our ability to effectively [...]
