| Titre : | Biological Conservation 142(10) - OCT 2009 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Jim J. Groombridge, Auteur ;
Deborah A. Dawson, Auteur ;
Terry Burke, Auteur ;
Robert Prys-Jones, Auteur ;
M. de L. Brooke, Auteur ;
Nirmal Shah, Auteur
An important requirement for biologists conserving vulnerable species of wildlife and managing genetic problems associated with small population size is to evaluate existing evidence regarding what is known of a species' recent population histor[...]
Article
Yuichi Yamaura, Auteur ;
Susumu Ikeno, Auteur ;
Makoto Sano, Auteur ;
Kimiko Okabe, Auteur ;
Kenichi Ozaki, Auteur
Although plantation forests have widely replaced native forests worldwide, few studies have examined the effects of plantation forestry on organisms at the landscape level. In this study, we examined the effects of broad-leaved forest patch area[...]
Article
Miguel Clavero, Auteur ;
Lluis Brotons, Auteur ;
Pere Pons, Auteur ;
Daniel Sol, Auteur
The rise of extinction rates associated with human activities has led to a growing interest in identifying extinction-prone taxa and extinction-promoting drivers. Previous work has identified habitat alterations and invasive species as the major[...]
Article
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent, Auteur ;
Christian Dussault, Auteur ;
Jean Ferron, Auteur ;
Rejean Gagnon, Auteur
Habitat loss and fragmentation are recognized as major threats to biodiversity. Their respective effects, however, are sometimes not well distinguished, even though habitat loss is recognized as the most important source of variation affecting s[...]
Article
Laura E. Hannon, Auteur ;
Thomas D. Sisk, Auteur
Recent declines in North American honeybee populations have highlighted the importance of native bee conservation, and the need for research on the ecological requirements of native bees in farmland. In this study, we investigated the value of h[...]
Article
Mattia Brambilla, Auteur ;
Fabio Casale, Auteur ;
Valentina Bergero, Auteur ;
G. Matteo Crovetto, Auteur ;
Riccardo Falco, Auteur ;
Irene Negri, Auteur ;
Paolo Siccardi, Auteur ;
Giuseppe Bogliani, Auteur
Species conservation largely depends on knowledge of habitat needs of target species. GIS-models are increasingly used to assess habitat preferences and distribution of target species, but their accuracy is constrained by availability of digital[...]
Article
Mao A. Amis, Auteur ;
Mathieu Rouget, Auteur ;
Mervyn Lotter, Auteur ;
Jenny Day, Auteur
The integration of freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity priorities in systematic conservation planning is a major challenge to conservation planners. Maintaining upstream-downstream connectivity and the influence of catchments on freshwater e[...]
Article
Matthew J. Carroll, Auteur ;
Barbara J. Anderson, Auteur ;
Tom M. Brereton, Auteur ;
Sarah J. Knight, Auteur ;
Ottakar Kudrna, Auteur ;
Chris D. Thomas, Auteur
Climate change is causing many organisms to migrate to track climatically-suitable habitat. In many cases, this will happen naturally, but in others, human intervention may be necessary in the form of 'assisted colonisation'. Species re-establis[...]
Article
Gillian C. Lye, Auteur ;
Kirsty Park, Auteur ;
Juliet Osborne, Auteur ;
John Holland, Auteur ;
Dave Goulson, Auteur
Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) play a key role within agricultural systems as pollinators of crops and wild flowers. However, this taxon has suffered severe declines as a result of agricultural intensification. Conservation efforts largely focus on pr[...]
Article
Natural regrowth vegetation offers a cost-effective means of restoring some degraded landscapes. Worldwide, policy responses to climate change are increasing the attractiveness of investment in regrowth protection or facilitation which with stra[...]
Article
Matthew J. Struebig, Auteur ;
Tigga Kingston, Auteur ;
Akbar Zubaid, Auteur ;
Steven C. Le Comber, Auteur ;
Adura Mohd-Adnan, Auteur ;
Anthony Turner, Auteur ;
Joanne Kelly, Auteur ;
Monika Bozek, Auteur ;
Stephen J. Rossiter, Auteur
Limestone karst landscapes are important for biodiversity yet are increasingly threatened by development activities such as mining. Furthermore, karsts are often scattered and isolated by agriculture, and are rarely considered in landscape plann[...]
Article
Susan Galatowitsch, Auteur ;
Lee Frelich, Auteur ;
Laura Phillips-Mao, Auteur
Scenario planning should be an effective tool for developing responses to climate change but will depend on ecological assessments of broad enough scope to support decision-making. Using climate projections from an ensemble of 16 models, we cond[...]
Article
Maaike C. C. De Graaf, Auteur ;
Roland Bobbink, Auteur ;
Nina A. C. Smits, Auteur ;
Rudy Van Diggelen, Auteur ;
Jan G. M. Roelofs, Auteur
The northwest European heathland landscape with its characteristic communities of nutrient-poor and acidic soils has a high nature value, because of its locally high biodiversity and the distinct site conditions. in order to conserve and restore[...]
Article
Naeem Iftikhar Dar, Auteur ;
Riaz Aziz Minhas, Auteur ;
Qamar Zaman, Auteur ;
Matthew Linkie, Auteur
Human-carnivore conflict is considered to be a major conservation and rural livelihood issue because many carnivore species have been heavily persecuted due to elevated conflict levels with communities. To mitigate such conflicts requires a firm[...]
Article
Martina Carrete, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur ;
Guillermo Blanco, Auteur ;
Marcelo Bertellotti, Auteur
Population growth and human development result in biodiversity loss and biological homogenization not only in developed countries, but increasingly in the less developed countries as well. In those countries, where urbanization and agricultural [...]
Article
Kristen Aaltonen, Auteur ;
Andrew A. Bryant, Auteur ;
Jeffrey A. Hostetler, Auteur ;
Madan K. Oli, Auteur
Recovery of the endangered Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) is contingent upon releases of captive-born marmots into natural habitats. Success of such re-introduction programs largely depends on the ability of released animals to[...]
Article
C. J. Stevens, Auteur ;
L. C. Maskell, Auteur ;
S. M. Smart, Auteur ;
S. J. M. Caporn, Auteur ;
N. B. Dise, Auteur ;
D. J. G. Gowing, Auteur
Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen has become a serious concern for nature conservation managers and policy makers. It has the potential to reduce species richness, increase the graminoid component of the sward, encourage species typical of more[...]
Article
Simon J. Attwood, Auteur ;
Sarah E. Park, Auteur ;
Martine Maron, Auteur ;
Stuart J. Collard, Auteur ;
Doug Robinson, Auteur ;
Kathryn M. Reardon-Smith, Auteur ;
Geoff Cockfield, Auteur
Temperate Australia's wheat/sheep zone and much of Western Europe have both experienced dramatic declines in native bird populations associated with agricultural landscapes. We compare recent conservation strategies on private land in the contex[...]
Article
Dulana N. Herath, Auteur ;
Byron B. Lamont, Auteur ;
Neal J. Enright, Auteur ;
Ben P. Miller, Auteur
In many parts of the world, it is inevitable that fire will return as a natural disturbance factor to vegetation restored on anthropogenically-disturbed lands. Therefore, assessment of the ultimate success of restoration programs should include [...]
Article
Marcell K. Peters, Auteur ;
Benjamin Okalo, Auteur
Tropical rainforests are disappearing at a rapid rate. Although several studies have revealed the detrimental effects of forest fragmentation on tropical birds, the ecological mechanisms facilitating the decline of populations have been poorly d[...]
Article
Carolina Ureta, Auteur ;
Carlos Martorell, Auteur
Species frequently have to be preserved in disturbed areas. Restoring their predisturbance population dynamics may increase their population growth rate (lambda) while preventing the development of vulnerable genetic- or age-structures in the po[...]
Article
Nicola C. Okes, Auteur ;
Philip A. R. Hockey, Auteur ;
Lorien Pichegru, Auteur ;
Carl D. van der Lingen, Auteur ;
Robert J. M. Crawford, Auteur ;
David Grémillet, Auteur
In the southern Benguela upwelling ecosystem off the west coast of South Africa, seabird populations are decreasing dramatically because of reduced availability of pelagic fish. We tested the hypothesis that the west coast fishing industry is co[...]
Article
Colin M. Miskelly, Auteur ;
Graeme A. Taylor, Auteur ;
Helen Gummer, Auteur ;
Rex Williams, Auteur
Development of seabird translocation techniques is required to meet species recovery objectives, to improve conservation status, and to restore ecological processes. During 1997-2008 we undertook translocation trials on eight petrel species of f[...]
Article
Dhruba Naug, Auteur
In spite of the tremendous public interest in the recent large honeybee losses attributed to colony collapse disorder, there is still no definitive explanation for the phenomenon. With the hypothesis that nutritional stress due to habitat loss h[...]
Article
Samrat Mondol, Auteur ;
K. Ullas Karanth, Auteur ;
N. Samba Kumar, Auteur ;
Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Auteur ;
Anish Andheria, Auteur ;
Uma Ramakrishnan, Auteur
There is often a conservation need to estimate population abundances of elusive, low-density, wide-ranging carnivore species. Because of logistical constraints, investigators often employ non-invasive 'captures' that may involve 'genetic' or 'ph[...]
Article
Iva Schoedelbauerova, Auteur ;
David L. Roberts, Auteur ;
Pavel Kindlmann, Auteur
Efficient allocation of conservation resources will be achieved only if the priorities for biodiversity conservation - the "hotspots" - are correctly defined. To achieve this we need to pinpoint the main determinants of species diversity. Area, [...]
Article
Adele M. Reid, Auteur ;
Louise Morin, Auteur ;
Paul O. Downey, Auteur ;
Kristine French, Auteur ;
John G. Virtue, Auteur
Invasive alien plants of natural ecosystems, commonly referred to as weeds, can reduce the abundance and diversity of native flora and fauna, and alter ecosystem processes. Using Australia's 20 'Weeds of National Significance' (WoNS), we investi[...]
Article
Ivan Castro-Arellano, Auteur ;
Steven J. Presley, Auteur ;
Michael R. Willig, Auteur ;
Joseph M. Wunderle, Auteur ;
Luiz N. Saldanha, Auteur
Because global timber demands continue to threaten tropical rain forests, identification of sustainable-use forest management protocols that meet human needs while preserving biodiversity is critical. Reduced-impact logging (RIL) protocols are i[...]
Article
Responses of small rodents to habitat restoration and management for the imperiled Florida Scrub-Jay
Alexis A. Suazo, Auteur ;
John E. Fauth, Auteur ;
James D. Roth, Auteur ;
Christopher L. Parkinson, Auteur ;
I. Jack Stout, Auteur
Debate about the relative merits of single-species management versus more comprehensive approaches has intensified in recent years. In east-central Florida, USA, land managers use prescribed burns and mechanical cutting to manage and restore scr[...]
Article
Jacqueline M. Bishop, Auteur ;
Alison J. Leslie, Auteur ;
Sven L. Bourquin, Auteur ;
Colleen O'Ryan, Auteur
Unchecked exploitation of wildlife resources is one of the major factors influencing species persistence throughout the world today. A significant consequence of exploitation is the increasing rate at which genetic diversity is lost as populatio[...]
Article
Christine B. Schmitt, Auteur ;
Neil D. Burgess, Auteur ;
Lauren Coad, Auteur ;
Alexander Belokurov, Auteur ;
Charles Besancon, Auteur ;
Lauriane Boisrobert, Auteur ;
Alison Campbell, Auteur ;
Lucy Fish, Auteur ;
Derek Gliddon, Auteur ;
Kate Humphries, Auteur ;
Valerie Kapos, Auteur ;
Colby Loucks, Auteur ;
Igor Lysenko, Auteur ;
Lera Miles, Auteur ;
Craig Mills, Auteur ;
Susan Minnemeyer, Auteur ;
Till Pistorius, Auteur ;
Corinna Ravilious, Auteur ;
Marc Steininger, Auteur ;
Georg Winkel, Auteur
This study presents a global analysis of forest cover and forest protection. An updated Global Forest Map (using MODIS2005) provided a current assessment of forest cover within 20 natural forest types. This map was overlaid onto WWF realms and e[...]
Article
Richard A. Seidel, Auteur ;
Brian K. Lang, Auteur ;
David J. Berg, Auteur
Biodiversity conservation and the identification of conservation units among invertebrates are complicated by low levels of morphological difference, particularly among aquatic taxa. Accordingly, biodiversity is often underestimated in communiti[...]
Article
Adrian D. Manning, Auteur ;
Iain J. Gordon, Auteur ;
William J. Ripple, Auteur
The absence of an organism from a landscape for a long time can be a major barrier to the restoration of that species due to factors such as environmental conditions changing since extinction. This can make it difficult to assess the feasibility[...]
Article
Irene Bisang, Auteur ;
Ariel Bergamini, Auteur ;
Luc Lienhard, Auteur
Traditionally managed arable fields host a specialised flora adapted to regular disturbance through tillage. Agricultural intensification during the 20th century resulted in a pronounced biodiversity decline in European agroecosystems. Anthocero[...]
Article
Nancy E. Karraker, Auteur ;
James P. Gibbs, Auteur
Many amphibian species are plastic in their selection of breeding sites and use both short- and longer-hydroperiod wetlands. Understanding which wetland types are most important to amphibian production is critical for focusing conservation effor[...]
Article
Judith L. Fisher, Auteur ;
William A. Loneragan, Auteur ;
Kingsley Dixon, Auteur ;
Julie Delaney, Auteur ;
Erik J. Veneklaas, Auteur
Relationships between fire history, vegetation structure and composition, and invasion by introduced plant species have received limited attention in Australian woodlands. A study in a Mediterranean, fire adapted urban Banksia woodland remnant i[...]
Article
Jinze Noordijk, Auteur ;
Katrien Delille, Auteur ;
Andre P. Schaffers, Auteur ;
Karle V. Sykora, Auteur
The decline of flower-visiting insects is a threat to ecological processes and to the services these insects provide. Roadside verges in the Netherlands span approximately 80,000 km and are often covered with semi-natural grasslands. As such, th[...]
Article
Brian L. Sullivan, Auteur ;
Christopher L. Wood, Auteur ;
Marshall J. Iliff, Auteur ;
Rick E. Bonney, Auteur ;
Daniel Fink, Auteur ;
Steve Kelling, Auteur
New technologies are rapidly changing the way we collect, archive, analyze, and share scientific data. For example, over the next several years it is estimated that more than one billion autonomous sensors will be deployed over large spatial and[...]
Article
Jessica S. Veysey, Auteur ;
Kimberly J. Babbitt, Auteur ;
Andrew Cooper, Auteur
Upland buffer zones are the primary proposed management tool for vernal-pool-breeding amphibians; however, experimental validation of the utility of buffers is lacking. We used clear cutting to experimentally manipulate upland buffer widths at 1[...]
Article
Divya Karnad, Auteur ;
Kavita Isvaran, Auteur ;
Chandrasekhar S. Kar, Auteur ;
Kartik Shanker, Auteur
Sea-finding behavior in sea turtle hatchlings is modified by the visual cues provided by artificial beach front lighting. The consequent landward movement of hatchlings in response to coastal electric lighting reduces their survival rates. We as[...]
Article
Pauline Teillac-Deschamps, Auteur ;
Romain Lorrilliere, Auteur ;
Veronique Servais, Auteur ;
Virginie Delmas, Auteur ;
Antoine Cadi, Auteur ;
Anne-Caroline Prevot-Julliard, Auteur
A number of recent authors have emphasised the increasing disconnection from conservation issues among urban dwellers. In a global increase of urbanisation, this disconnect can have an impact on conservation practices. Here, we discuss how manag[...]
Article
Clinton N. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Lucas Joppa, Auteur
Under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the world's governments set a goal of protecting 10% of all ecological regions by 2010. We evaluated progress toward that goal for the world's major terrestrial biomes, realms, and ecoregions. Total [...]
Article
Viorel D. Popescu, Auteur ;
James P. Gibbs, Auteur
Mink frogs (Rana septentrionalis) are cold-adapted, climate-sensitive amphibians occurring above the 43rd parallel in North America. We conducted repeated night call surveys at 46 ponds near the southern edge of the species' range to collect pre[...]
