| Titre : | Biological Conservation 143(4) - APR 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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J. M. Kolowski, Auteur ;
A. Alonso, Auteur
The western Amazon is experiencing unprecedented levels of oil and gas exploration, a trend of particular concern given the high levels of biodiversity found in this relatively pristine and unstudied region Despite the widespread use of seismic [...]
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Tobias Kuemmerle, Auteur ;
Kajetan Perzanowski, Auteur ;
Oleh Chaskovskyy, Auteur ;
Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Auteur ;
Lubos Halada, Auteur ;
Andriy-Taras Bashta, Auteur ;
Ivan Kruhlov, Auteur ;
Patrick Hostert, Auteur ;
Donald M. Waller, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur
European Bison (Bison bonasus) barely escaped extinction in the early 20th century and now only occur in small isolated herds scattered across Central and Eastern Europe. The species survival in the wild depends on identifying suitable habitat f[...]
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Asko Lohmus, Auteur ;
Piret Lohmus, Auteur
Live retention trees are expected to support the recovery of epiphytes in regenerating stands by retaining a part of the populations in cutover sites and receiving propagules from adjacent forests So far, the research has been focused on immedia[...]
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Ondine Filippi-Codaccioni, Auteur ;
Vincent Devictor, Auteur ;
Yves Bas, Auteur ;
Jean Clobert, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur
Increases in farming practice intensity and landscape simplification are two well-known threats for many farmland bird species. Nevertheless, the effects of these two factors may differ strongly among species Here, we propose to use the speciali[...]
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Richard M. Smith, Auteur ;
Ken Thompson, Auteur ;
Philip H. Warren, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur
Private, residential gardens form a substantial proportion of the undeveloped land in urban areas. Evaluating them role in supporting biodiversity is crucial to (i) predicting which plant and animal species can persist in towns and cities, (ii) [...]
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Loni J. Beyer, Auteur ;
Cheryl B. Schultz, Auteur
The Grass skipper subfamily (Hesperiinae) includes many at risk species across the globe Conservation efforts for these skippers are hindered by insufficient Information about their basic biology Mardon skipper (Pokes mardon) is declining throug[...]
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Jean-Baptiste Mihoub, Auteur ;
Olivier Gimenez, Auteur ;
Philippe Pilard, Auteur ;
Francois Sarrazin, Auteur
In the context of attested global changes, accurate estimation of whether climatic fluctuations impact on population demographic parameters is needed for adequate management, especially for migratory species. We present a capture-recapture analy[...]
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Piotr Skorka, Auteur ;
Magdalena Lenda, Auteur ;
Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur
Invasive alien plants constitute a major threat to local biodiversity. Moreover, their appearance often coincides with land use change. Many endangered groups of organisms suffer from habitat loss, which is often a consequence of the invasion of[...]
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Dominic Moran, Auteur ;
Helen Laycock, Auteur ;
Piran C. L. White, Auteur
Strategies for biodiversity conservation require society to make choices between competing outcomes. However, these choices are complicated by an incomplete understanding of the ecological significance of different species and the lack of robust[...]
Article
Tobias Naaf, Auteur ;
Monika Wulf, Auteur
In European temperate forests, changes in the compositional similarity among local plant communities (beta diversity) have rarely been studied due to the lack of adequate baseline data Several studies, however, report the spread of common, gener[...]
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Evan H. Girvetz, Auteur
Spatially-explicit population viability analysis (PVA) is a powerful method for modeling the extinction risk of populations that show variation over space and time. It is especially effective for comparing relative effect of different management[...]
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Neal Hockley, Auteur
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Luisa I. Rabanal, Auteur ;
Hjalmar S. Kuehl, Auteur ;
Roger Mundry, Auteur ;
Martha M. Robbins, Auteur ;
Christophe Boesch, Auteur
Resource extraction is increasingly affecting protected areas worldwide However, aside from studies on logging, limited information is available about the effect this has on wildlife, which may be of great consequence, especially when endangered[...]
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Freya A. V. ST John, Auteur ;
Gareth Edwards-Jones, Auteur ;
James M. Gibbons, Auteur ;
Julia P. G. Jones, Auteur
Many approaches to conserving and managing natural resources depend upon rules, but the existence of rules alone does not guarantee compliance Information on rule breaking behaviour is needed for designing interventions to improve compliance. Ho[...]
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Orjan Fritz, Auteur ;
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Auteur
Identification of trees with key microhabitats as well as knowledge of their ecological formation is important for the conservation of epiphytic bryophytes and lichens on beech Based on the hypothesis that certain types of stem damage are crucia[...]
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Laurissa P. Hamilton, Auteur ;
Patrick A. Kelly, Auteur ;
Daniel F. Williams, Auteur ;
Douglas A. Kelt, Auteur ;
Heiko U. Wittmer, Auteur
The riparian brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani riparius) is an endangered species found in dense, brushy habitat in the California's Central Valley. We implemented a reintroduction program to bolster populations at a Federal Wildlife Refuge and [...]
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Clinton N. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Maria Alice S. Alves, Auteur ;
Stuart L. Pimm, Auteur
Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil has one of the most diverse and most endangered avifaunas in the continental Americas. Many of these endangered birds are endemic to the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, and some even endemic to Rio de Janeiro[...]
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Todd R. Lookingbill, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Elmore, Auteur ;
Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Auteur ;
John B. Churchill, Auteur ;
J. Edward Gates, Auteur ;
Joshua B. Johnson, Auteur
Parks and other protected lands can provide important source habitat and act as valuable dispersal corridors in urbanizing environments. However, most wetlands within protected areas are managed in isolation without consideration of the broader [...]
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J. R. Leathwick, Auteur ;
A. Moilanen, Auteur ;
S. Ferrier, Auteur ;
K. Julian, Auteur
We demonstrate a novel method for spatial conservation prioritization at a community-level that takes account of: (i) an environmentally-based classification of the landscape into community classes; (ii) similarities between community classes to[...]
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Kathryn Fiorella, Auteur ;
Alison Cameron, Auteur ;
Wes Sechrest, Auteur ;
Rachael Winfree, Auteur ;
Claire Kremen, Auteur
Although data quality and weighting decisions impact the outputs of reserve selection algorithms, these factors have not been closely studied. We examine these methodological issues in the use of reserve selection algorithms by comparing. (1) qu[...]
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E. K. Espeland, Auteur ;
K. J. Rice, Auteur
Effective population size (N(e)) is a critical indicator of the vulnerability of a population to allele loss via genetic drift, and it can also be used to assess the evolutionary potential of a population While some plant conservation plans have[...]
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Benjamin Zuckerberg, Auteur ;
William F. Porter, Auteur
Mitigating the effects of habitat loss requires estimating the minimum amount of habitat necessary for the persistence of wildlife populations in a changing landscape Assessing minimum habitat amounts. however, relies on identifying ecological t[...]
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P. J. Bellingham, Auteur ;
S. K. Wiser, Auteur ;
A. E. Wright, Auteur ;
E. K. Cameron, Auteur ;
L. J. Forester, Auteur
Many remote islands are degraded as a result of deforestation and browsing of vegetation by introduced goats. Goat eradication is therefore a focus for island restoration, but there are few long-term records of change on islands after eradicatio[...]
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Alan Rabinowitz, Auteur ;
Kathy A. Zeller, Auteur
Large, wide-ranging carnivores face greater threats and more persistent declines than most other mammal species An important conservation tool for these carnivores has been range-wide priority-setting exercises that have helped identify critical[...]
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Inger Auestad, Auteur ;
Knut Rydgren, Auteur ;
Eelke Jongejans, Auteur ;
Hans de Kroon, Auteur
Road verges have been proposed as refuges for vulnerable grassland species in the modern, changing landscape, but little comparative knowledge exists on how management regimes affect population dynamics of such species. We compared the effects o[...]
