| Titre : | Biological Conservation 143(3) - MAR 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Peter Toeroek, Auteur ;
Balazs Deak, Auteur ;
Eniko Vida, Auteur ;
Orsolya Valko, Auteur ;
Szabolcs Lengyel, Auteur ;
Bela Tothmeresz, Auteur
We studied the effect of sowing low-diversity seed mixtures (containing 2-3 competitive grass species) on the regeneration of vegetation on croplands previously used as alfalfa fields. In four permanent plots in
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J. E. Moore, Auteur ;
T. M. Cox, Auteur ;
R. L. Lewison, Auteur ;
A. J. Read, Auteur ;
R. Bjorkland, Auteur ;
S. L. McDonald, Auteur ;
L. B. Crowder, Auteur ;
E. Aruna, Auteur ;
I. Ayissi, Auteur ;
P. Espeut, Auteur ;
C. Joynson-Hicks, Auteur ;
N. Pilcher, Auteur ;
C. N. S. Poonian, Auteur ;
B. Solarin, Auteur ;
J. Kiszka, Auteur
Recent case studies have highlighted high bycatch mortality of sea turtles and marine mammals in artisanal fisheries, but in most countries there are few data on artisanal fishing effort, catch, or bycatch. With artisanal fisheries comprising >9[...]
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Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Auteur ;
Rowena Cerro, Auteur ;
Trevon Fuller, Auteur ;
Jorge M. Lobo, Auteur ;
Miguel A. Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Sahotra Sarkar, Auteur
Although the conversion of natural vegetation to agriculture threatens biodiversity, post-agricultural lands may provide an opportunity to preserve biodiversity if they are allowed to regenerate. We develop a framework for incorporating abandone[...]
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Chris S. Elphick, Auteur ;
David L. Roberts, Auteur ;
J. Michael Reed, Auteur
Series of sighting records - the years in which a species has been recorded - can be used to infer whether species have gone extinct, and when extinctions occurred. We compiled sighting records for 52 rare bird species, subspecies, and distinct [...]
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Stephen F. Spear, Auteur ;
Andrew Storfer, Auteur
Understanding the influence of habitat alteration on population structure and persistence is critical for effective conservation strategies. Timber harvest and wildfire are two of the most prevalent disturbances across temperate forests, yet the[...]
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Nina Sletvold, Auteur ;
Dag-Inge Oien, Auteur ;
Asbjorn Moen, Auteur
Many orchids are currently red-listed due to changes in land use, and their future persistence will depend on management. Traditional land use like mowing is believed to favour orchids through increased survival and reproduction of established i[...]
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Shawn J. Leroux, Auteur ;
Meg A. Krawchuk, Auteur ;
Fiona Schmiegelow, Auteur ;
Steven G. Cumming, Auteur ;
Kim Lisgo, Auteur ;
Lee G. Anderson, Auteur ;
Mirela Petkova, Auteur
Protected areas are considered fundamental to the preservation of nature. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has standardized categories for protected areas designation, which are intended to represent varying levels of re[...]
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Simon G. Dures, Auteur ;
Graeme S. Cumming, Auteur
There are many variables within an urban landscape that can be expected to influence faunal diversity. We used a mechanistic approach to observe the relative importance of each of these variables in describing the diversity of avian communities [...]
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Cameron W. Barrows, Auteur ;
John T. Rotenberry, Auteur ;
Michael F. Allen, Auteur
Bioclimatic models aimed assessing a species' sensitivity to climate change incorporate mean shifts in climate variables; however the more acute threat to the persistence of species may result from increased frequency of extreme climatic events,[...]
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Sarah E. Lester, Auteur ;
Karen L. McLeod, Auteur ;
Heather Tallis, Auteur ;
Mary Ruckelshaus, Auteur ;
Benjamin S. Halpern, Auteur ;
Phillip S. Levin, Auteur ;
Francisco P. Chavez, Auteur ;
Caroline Pomeroy, Auteur ;
Bonnie J. McCay, Auteur ;
Christopher Costello, Auteur ;
Steven D. Gaines, Auteur ;
Amber J. Mace, Auteur ;
John A. Barth, Auteur ;
David L. Fluharty, Auteur ;
Julia K. Parrish, Auteur
Declining ocean health, increasing human demands on marine ecosystems, and a history of management focused on individual activities, species or sectors has led to calls for more comprehensive, integrated management that considers entire coupled [...]
Article
Piero Visconti, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Daniel B. Segan, Auteur ;
Brendan A. Wintle, Auteur
Conservation actions frequently need to be scheduled because both funding and implementation capacity are limited. Two approaches to scheduling are possible. Maximizing gain (MaxGain) which attempts to maximize representation with protected area[...]
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Gail Schofield, Auteur ;
Victoria J. Hobson, Auteur ;
Martin K. S. Lilley, Auteur ;
Kostas A. Katselidis, Auteur ;
Charles M. Bishop, Auteur ;
Peter Brown, Auteur ;
Graeme C. Hays, Auteur
We assessed home range size for breeding loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) near the limit of the species range at the Greek island of Zakynthos in the Mediterranean. Thirteen adult females and seven adult males were tracked using GPS units (l[...]
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Maria Beger, Auteur ;
Hedley S. Grantham, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Kerrie A. Wilson, Auteur ;
Eric L. Peterson, Auteur ;
Daniel Dorfman, Auteur ;
Peter J. Mumby, Auteur ;
Reinaldo Lourival, Auteur ;
Daniel R. Brumbaugh, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur
Conservation plans are usually developed for regions that encompass only one environmental realm (terrestrial, freshwater or marine) because of logistical, institutional and political constraints. This is inadequate because these realms often in[...]
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Jocelyn Fonderflick, Auteur ;
Jacques Lepart, Auteur ;
Paul Caplat, Auteur ;
Max Debussche, Auteur ;
Pascal Marty, Auteur
In Europe, land use changes follow public policies, and particularly the Common Agricultural Policy. To predict the effect of policies on agricultural practices, landscape, and ultimately biodiversity, requires understanding of the interactions [...]
Article
Oliver Krueger, Auteur ;
Thomas Gruenkorn, Auteur ;
Bernd Struwe-Juhl, Auteur
Linking age-specific vital rates to population growth through demographic matrix models can enhance our understanding of crucial population processes, vital in a conservation context. The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) population in t[...]
Article
Adam B. Smith, Auteur
Conservation biologists use the species-area relationship for a variety of purposes, including upscaling diversity from small plots to regions, predicting species loss, and for identifying biodiversity hotspots and prioritizing actions to protec[...]
Article
David J. Lawrence, Auteur ;
Jeffery R. Cordell, Auteur
The movement and release of non-indigenous species (NIS) in ship ballast water is a global threat to the conservation of native aquatic species and habitats. One key to successful NIS establishment in coastal waters is propagule pressure - the s[...]
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Matthias Albrecht, Auteur ;
Bernhard Schmid, Auteur ;
Martin K. Obrist, Auteur ;
Beatrice Schuepbach, Auteur ;
David Kleijn, Auteur ;
Peter Duelli, Auteur
An important goal of ecological compensation areas (ECAs) is to increase biodiversity in adjacent intensively managed farmland and the agricultural landscape at large. We tested whether this goal can be achieved in the case of the agri-environme[...]
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Dave Mech, Auteur ;
Matthew A. Cronin, Auteur
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Ryan M. Utz, Auteur ;
Robert H. Hilderbrand, Auteur ;
Richard L. Raesly, Auteur
Human-centered land use causes ecosystem degradation and loss of biodiversity in streams, yet such processes may be highly heterogeneous among species and regions. We quantified fish species sensitivity to several classes of land use and determi[...]
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Joerg Mueller, Auteur ;
Martin M. Gossner, Auteur
Global conventions on biological diversity force governments to develop region-wide conservation strategies. Such strategies are difficult to design for all taxa because little is known about the important spatial scales. Here we applied additiv[...]
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John A. Vucetich, Auteur ;
Rolf O. Peterson, Auteur ;
Michael P. Nelson, Auteur ;
Jannikke Raikkonen, Auteur
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Antonia Zurbuchen, Auteur ;
Lisa Landert, Auteur ;
Jeannine Klaiber, Auteur ;
Andreas Mueller, Auteur ;
Silke Hein, Auteur ;
Silvia Dorn, Auteur
To preserve populations of endangered bee species, sound knowledge of their maximum foraging distance between nest and host plants is crucial. Previous investigations predicted maximum foraging distances of 100-200 m for small bee species and up[...]
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Daniela H. Haarmeyer, Auteur ;
Ute Schmiedel, Auteur ;
Juergen Dengler, Auteur ;
Britta M. Boesing, Auteur
The Knersvlakte in the Succulent Karoo Biome (South Africa) is known for its high plant diversity and endemism. In the course of establishing a conservation area there, we assessed baseline data for future management. We investigated the effects[...]
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H. Gibb, Auteur ;
S. A. Cunningham, Auteur
Restoration of managed landscapes is critical for the conservation of biodiversity and function at a landscape scale. We tested effects of revegetation of grazing land formerly vegetated by eucalyptus woodland on trophic groups of epigaeic beetl[...]
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Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in a land-bridge island system
Sergio Estrada-Villegas, Auteur ;
Christoph F. J. Meyer, Auteur ;
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation causes drastic changes in the biota and it is crucial to understand these modifications to mitigate its consequences. While studies on Neotropical bats have mainly targeted phyllostomid bats, impacts of fragmentation on the[...]
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Kevin Lambeets, Auteur ;
Peter Breyne, Auteur ;
Dries Bonte, Auteur
Habitat patches along river systems are often highly isolated and characterised by a high degree of heterogeneity at different spatio-temporal scales. The connectivity between river bank arthropod populations directly adjoining the river channel[...]
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Adam Felton, Auteur ;
Emma Knight, Auteur ;
Jeff Wood, Auteur ;
Charlie Zammit, Auteur ;
David Lindenmayer, Auteur
We conducted a systematic global review of differences between timber plantations and pasture lands in terms of animal and plant species richness and abundance, and assessed the results using meta-analysis techniques. Our principal aim was to te[...]
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Lei Cao, Auteur ;
Yong Zhang, Auteur ;
Mark Barter, Auteur ;
Gang Lei, Auteur
Eastern China's Anatidae are globally important, occurring in large numbers and exhibiting very high diversity; however populations have declined greatly since the 1950s due to habitat loss and degradation, and poaching. To meet the urgent need [...]
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Jacek Radwan, Auteur ;
Aleksandra Biedrzycka, Auteur ;
Wieslaw Babik, Auteur
Loss of genetic variation may render populations more vulnerable to pathogens due to inbreeding depression and depletion of variation in genes responsible for immunity against parasites. Here we review the evidence for the significance of variat[...]
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John P. Parkes, Auteur ;
David S. L. Ramsey, Auteur ;
Norman Macdonald, Auteur ;
Kelvin Walker, Auteur ;
Sean McKnight, Auteur ;
Brian S. Cohen, Auteur ;
Scott A. Morrison, Auteur
Eradication of invasive alien species from islands is often necessary to protect native biota. The rapidity in which eradication projects are implemented can help reduce risk they will fail. We describe the eradication of feral pigs (Sus scrofa)[...]
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Helen Smith, Auteur ;
Ruth E. Feber, Auteur ;
Michael D. Morecroft, Auteur ;
Michele E. Taylor, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur
Field margins have been widely advocated as a means of integrating agronomic and biodiversity objectives and are included in agri-environment schemes across Europe. However, information on the long-term development of field margin plant communit[...]
