| Titre : | Biological Conservation 143(5) - MAY 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Heather M. Kharouba, Auteur ;
Jeremy T. Kerr, Auteur
Climate and land-use changes are expected to cause many species to shift into or beyond the boundaries of protected areas, leading to large turnover in species composition. Here, we tested whether long-established protected areas in Canada were [...]
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Nancy E. Karraker, Auteur ;
James Arrigoni, Auteur ;
David Dudgeon, Auteur
Approximately 30% of amphibian species are threatened due to a variety of factors affecting their habitats and physiology, yet contributions that interactions among factors make to population declines are not well-explored. Two factors, introduc[...]
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Joslin L. Moore, Auteur ;
Tracy M. Rout, Auteur ;
Cindy E. Hauser, Auteur ;
Dorian Moro, Auteur ;
Menna Jones, Auteur ;
Chris Wilcox, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur
Removing pests from islands, and then keeping them pest free, is a common management goal. Given that goal we face a decision: how much effort should we invest in quarantine to reduce the risk of a pest arriving vs. surveillance, looking for the[...]
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Matthias Voegeli, Auteur ;
David Serrano, Auteur ;
Fernando Pacios, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur
Metapopulation theory is one of the most popular approaches to identify the factors affecting the spatial and temporal dynamics of populations in fragmented habitat networks. Habitat quality, patch area and isolation are mainly focused on when a[...]
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Roberto Rasero, Auteur ;
Luca Rossi, Auteur ;
Dominga Soglia, Auteur ;
Sandra Maione, Auteur ;
Paola Sacchi, Auteur ;
Luisa Rambozzi, Auteur ;
Stefano Sartore, Auteur ;
Ramon C. Soriguer, Auteur ;
Veronica Spalenza, Auteur ;
Samer Alasaad, Auteur
Ten markers specific to Sarcoptes mites were used in applying microsatellite genotyping to individual Sarcoptes mites collected in three European countries from 15 wild mammal populations belonging to 10 host species. The results showed that geo[...]
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Kerry L. Howell, Auteur
Internationally there is political momentum to establish networks of representative marine protected areas for the conservation of biodiversity. Mapping the distributions of all species, to ensure representation is achieved within a given networ[...]
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Matthew R. Gasner, Auteur ;
Jill E. Jankowski, Auteur ;
Anna L. Ciecka, Auteur ;
Keiller O. Kyle, Auteur ;
Kerry N. Rabenold, Auteur
Significant changes in the climates of Central America are expected over the next century. Lowland rainforests harbor high alpha diversity on local scales (
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Navjot S. Sodhi, Auteur ;
Priya Davidar, Auteur ;
Madhu Rao, Auteur
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Jose V. Lopez-Bao, Auteur ;
Alejandro Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Francisco Palomares, Auteur
Food supplementation is increasingly used as a conservation tool. However, little is known about how much supplemental food is used by target populations or the degree to which the abundance of natural food affects the utilization of supplementa[...]
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Stephanie L. Hazlitt, Auteur ;
Tara G. Martin, Auteur ;
Laura Sampson, Auteur ;
Peter Arcese, Auteur
Theoretical advances in systematic reserve design aim to promote the efficient use of limited conservation resources and to increase the likelihood that reserve networks enhance the persistence of valued species and ecosystems. However, these me[...]
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Rebecca Weeks, Auteur ;
Garry R. Russ, Auteur ;
Abner A. Bucol, Auteur ;
Angel C. Alcala, Auteur
Marine protected area (MPA) networks designed without consideration of the interests of local communities are likely to fail. However, in many regions where conservation action is needed most urgently, socioeconomic data are not available at spa[...]
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Clara Gaspar, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Paulo A. V. Borges, Auteur
This study evaluates the effectiveness of taxonomic, colonization and trophic groups of arthropods from native forests of the Azores archipelago as surrogates of the diversity of other arthropod groups and of the remaining arthropods. Consistenc[...]
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John A. Baker, Auteur ;
Matthew A. Wund, Auteur ;
Rachel Y. Chock, Auteur ;
Lauren Ackein, Auteur ;
Ragan Elsemore, Auteur ;
Susan A. Foster, Auteur
Recent adaptive radiations offer special insight into the processes that generate biodiversity. The loss of unique members of such radiations undermines their collective evolutionary potential, as well as the ability of scientists to compare div[...]
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Lina Tang, Auteur ;
Guofan Shao, Auteur ;
Zhengji Piao, Auteur ;
Limin Dai, Auteur ;
Michael A. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Shaoxian Wang, Auteur ;
Gang Wu, Auteur ;
Jianguo Wu, Auteur ;
Jingzhu Zhao, Auteur
Forest degradation in protected areas has been monitored around the world with remote sensing data, but degradation processes undetectable by widely used satellite sensors have been largely overlooked. Increased human pressures and socioeconomic[...]
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Ronald S. C. Firth, Auteur ;
Barry W. Brook, Auteur ;
John C. Z. Woinarski, Auteur ;
Damien A. Fordham, Auteur
Contemporary fire patterns are considered the most likely cause for regional population decline amongst small to medium mammals in northern tropical Australia. Here we assess the extinction risk faced by a vulnerable north Australian native rode[...]
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Jennifer Smart, Auteur ;
Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Innes M. W. Sim, Auteur ;
Brian Etheridge, Auteur ;
Duncan Cameron, Auteur ;
George Christie, Auteur ;
Jeremy D. Wilson, Auteur
The re-introduction of extirpated species is a valuable conservation tool. Red kites Milvus milvus are declining over much of their European range and have been re-introduced to England and Scotland, following their extinction due to widespread [...]
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Heather S. Galbraith, Auteur ;
Daniel E. Spooner, Auteur ;
Caryn C. Vaughn, Auteur
Human alterations to aquatic ecosystems are leading to decreases in species richness and biomass and subsequent changes in community composition. In many cases species losses are non-random: species with traits poorly adapted to the new environm[...]
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Deahn M. Donner, Auteur ;
Christine A. Ribic, Auteur ;
John R. Probst, Auteur
Habitat colonization and abandonment affects the distribution of a species in space and time, ultimately influencing the duration of time habitat is used and the total area of habitat occupied in any given year. Both aspects have important impli[...]
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Filippo Barbanera, Auteur ;
Oliver R. W. Pergams, Auteur ;
Monica Guerrini, Auteur ;
Giovanni Forcina, Auteur ;
Panicos Panayides, Auteur ;
Fernando Dini, Auteur
Introduction of wildlife for game restocking is one major pathway of genetic homogenization. The red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa, Phasianidae), a small game bird native to south-western Europe, is in high demand by hunters and natural popul[...]
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J. Stephen Ferketic, Auteur ;
Andrew M. Latimer, Auteur ;
John A. Silander, Auteur
Conservation justice, a concept analogous to environmental justice, suggests that local communities are entitled to receive fair treatment and meaningful involvement in the development and implementation of conservation policy. In this study, of[...]
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Daniel Brito, Auteur ;
Ruth Grace Ambal, Auteur ;
Thomas Brooks, Auteur ;
Naamal De Silva, Auteur ;
Matthew Foster, Auteur ;
Wang Hao, Auteur ;
Craig Hilton-Taylor, Auteur ;
Adriano Paglia, Auteur ;
Jon Paul Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Jose Vicente Rodriguez, Auteur
For more than four decades the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been assessing the global threat status for species and publishing the results in the periodically updated IUCN Red List of threatened species. Addition[...]
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Taku Kadoya, Auteur ;
Izumi Washitani, Auteur
To develop effective strategies for managing biological invasions, it is important to understand and be able to predict patterns of invasion and range expansion, and particularly the rate of spread and factors controlling this rate. To predict t[...]
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William R. Wengeler, Auteur ;
Douglas A. Kelt, Auteur ;
Michael L. Johnson, Auteur
The introduction of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) to Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park has contributed to a significant decline in the endangered Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki bouvieri), leading to concern over[...]
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Tibor Hartel, Auteur ;
Oliver Schweiger, Auteur ;
Kinga Oellerer, Auteur ;
Dan Cogalniceanu, Auteur ;
Jan W. Arntzen, Auteur
A massive decline of biodiversity is caused by land-use changes. Efforts must therefore be made to better understand the factors that govern organismal distribution, especially for countries where traditional management is about to be intensifie[...]
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Anne Laita, Auteur ;
Mikko Monkkonen, Auteur ;
Janne S. Kotiaho, Auteur
Woodland key habitats (WKHs) represent a potentially cost-efficient means to protect biodiversity in managed forests. The Forest Act of Finland defines 13 habitat types of WKHs, which enjoy legal protection. It has been argued that WKHs are too [...]
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Sarah A. Boyle, Auteur ;
Andrew T. Smith, Auteur
Habitat loss and fragmentation are global conservation concerns, but animal species do not respond to these threats in the same manner. At the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located 80 km north of Manaus, Amazonas, Braz[...]
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Julio Louzada, Auteur ;
Toby Gardner, Auteur ;
Carlos Peres, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur
Understanding how biodiversity is partitioned among alternative land-uses is an important first step for developing effective conservation plans in multiple-use landscapes. Here, we analysed nestedness patterns of species composition for nine di[...]
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Birgit Seifert, Auteur ;
Markus Fischer, Auteur
Supporting species persistence may involve (re)connecting suitable habitats. However, for many declining species habitat suitability and drivers of establishment are poorly known. We addressed this experimentally for a declining flagship species[...]
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Margherita Gioria, Auteur ;
Andre Schaffers, Auteur ;
Giovanni Bacaro, Auteur ;
John Feehan, Auteur
Ponds are among the most diverse and yet threatened components of freshwater biodiversity. The conservation of ponds would greatly benefit from the identification of surrogate taxa in preliminary assessments aimed at detecting ponds of potential[...]
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Carrie A. Denning, Auteur ;
Robert I. McDonald, Auteur ;
Jon Christensen, Auteur
One widely asserted proposition is that land protection in a metropolitan region can contribute to a scarcity of housing by reducing the total housing stock. However, much land protection occurs on land that is less suitable for development, as [...]
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Sandra Namoff, Auteur ;
Chad E. Husby, Auteur ;
Javier Francisco-Ortega, Auteur ;
Larry R. Noblick, Auteur ;
Carl E. Lewis, Auteur ;
M. Patrick Griffith, Auteur
Conservation is increasingly central to the botanic garden mission. Living plant collections are important components of conservation. Critical evaluation of living conservation collections with population genetic analysis can directly inform ex[...]
