| Titre : | Biological Conservation 144(1) - JAN 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Florence Noel, Auteur ;
Daniel Prati, Auteur ;
Mark van Kleunen, Auteur ;
Andreas Gygax, Auteur ;
Daniel Moser, Auteur ;
Markus Fischer, Auteur
In response to ongoing local extinction of species and the current biodiversity crisis, the number of reintroduction programs aiming to establish new populations of rare species in the wild has increased. However, only a small proportion of thes[...]
Article
William F. Laurance, Auteur ;
D. Carolina Useche, Auteur ;
Luke P. Shoo, Auteur ;
Sebastian K. Herzog, Auteur ;
Michael Kessler, Auteur ;
Federico Escobar, Auteur ;
Gunnar Brehm, Auteur ;
Jan C. Axmacher, Auteur ;
I.-Ching Chen, Auteur ;
Lucrecia Arellano Gamez, Auteur ;
Peter Hietz, Auteur ;
Konrad Fiedler, Auteur ;
Tomasz Pyrcz, Auteur ;
Jan Wolf, Auteur ;
Christopher L. Merkord, Auteur ;
Catherine Cardelus, Auteur ;
Andrew R. Marshall, Auteur ;
Claudine Ah-Peng, Auteur ;
Gregory H. Aplet, Auteur ;
M. del Coro Arizmendi, Auteur ;
William J. Baker, Auteur ;
John Barone, Auteur ;
Carsten A. Bruehl, Auteur ;
Rainer W. Bussmann, Auteur ;
Daniele Cicuzza, Auteur ;
Gerald Eilu, Auteur ;
Mario E. Favila, Auteur ;
Andreas Hemp, Auteur ;
Claudia Hemp, Auteur ;
Juergen Homeier, Auteur ;
Johanna Hurtado, Auteur ;
Jill Jankowski, Auteur ;
Gustavo Kattan, Auteur ;
Juergen Kluge, Auteur ;
Thorsten Kroemer, Auteur ;
David C. Lees, Auteur ;
Marcus Lehnert, Auteur ;
John T. Longino, Auteur ;
Jon Lovett, Auteur ;
Patrick H. Martin, Auteur ;
Bruce D. Patterson, Auteur ;
Richard G. Pearson, Auteur ;
Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Auteur ;
Barbara Richardson, Auteur ;
Michael Richardson, Auteur ;
Michael J. Samways, Auteur ;
Feyera Senbeta, Auteur ;
Thomas B. Smith, Auteur ;
Timothy M. A. Utteridge, Auteur ;
James E. Watkins, Auteur ;
Rohan Wilson, Auteur ;
Stephen E. Williams, Auteur ;
Chris D. Thomas, Auteur
Tropical species with narrow elevational ranges may be thermally specialized and vulnerable to global warming. Local studies of distributions along elevational gradients reveal small-scale patterns but do not allow generalizations among geograph[...]
Article
Kaisa Junninen, Auteur ;
Atte Komonen, Auteur
Here we quantitatively summarize the conservation ecology of one group of dead-wood-dependent organisms, the polyporous fungi, in boreal Europe. At the substrate scale, the decay stage is the strongest determinant of species richness, with large[...]
Article
Paul Galpern, Auteur ;
Micheline Manseau, Auteur ;
Andrew Fall, Auteur
Graph theory has become a popular tool for modelling the functional connectivity of landscapes. We conduct a review of studies that use graph theory to model connectivity among patches of habitat (patch-based graphs), with the intention of ident[...]
Article
John M. Goodrich, Auteur ;
Ivan Seryodkin, Auteur ;
Dale G. Miquelle, Auteur ;
Sergei L. Bereznuk, Auteur
In 1999, the Russian Federation created a Tiger Response Team (TRT) to investigate and intervene in human-tiger conflicts. We examined data collected on human-Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) conflicts from January 2000 through February 2009[...]
Article
Jeffrey G. Holmquist, Auteur ;
Jutta Schmidt-Gengenbach, Auteur ;
Michele R. Slaton, Auteur
Invasive plants can eliminate native flora and ultimately have negative indirect effects on fauna and the functional ecology of ecosystems, but understanding of these cascading effects on arthropod assemblages is poor. Desert spring habitats are[...]
Article
W. Marc Jones, Auteur ;
Lauchlan H. Fraser, Auteur ;
P. Jefferson Curtis, Auteur
Wetlands are ecologically and economically important ecosystems with high conservation value. Although wetland vegetation is strongly determined by abiotic factors, grazing disturbance may also be an important influence on this community. We eva[...]
Article
Ryo Sakurai, Auteur ;
Susan K. Jacobson, Auteur ;
Hiromi Kobori, Auteur ;
Richard Primack, Auteur ;
Kohei Oka, Auteur ;
Naoya Komatsu, Auteur ;
Ryo Machida, Auteur
Most global climate change models predict serious ecological and social problems. In Japan, biologists have found climate change is affecting species and ecosystems, including the earlier flowering time of cherry trees which are an important cul[...]
Article
Chris van Swaay, Auteur ;
Dirk Maes, Auteur ;
Sue Collins, Auteur ;
Miguel L. Munguira, Auteur ;
Martina Sasic, Auteur ;
Josef Settele, Auteur ;
Rudi Verovnik, Auteur ;
Martin Warren, Auteur ;
Martin Wiemers, Auteur ;
Irma Wynhoff, Auteur ;
Annabelle Cuttelod, Auteur
The IUCN is the leading authority on assessing species' extinction risks worldwide and introduced the use of quantitative criteria for the compilation of Red Lists of threatened species. Recently, we assessed the threat status of the 483 Europea[...]
Article
Vojtech Jarosik, Auteur ;
Martin Konvicka, Auteur ;
Petr Pyšek, Auteur ;
Tomas Kadlec, Auteur ;
Jiri Benes, Auteur
Factors shaping overall species richness and representation of endangered species of vascular flora and butterflies were determined in
Article
Susan Tandy, Auteur ;
Hilary L. Wallace, Auteur ;
Davey L. Jones, Auteur ;
Mark A. Nason, Auteur ;
Julie C. Williamson, Auteur ;
John R. Healey, Auteur
Restoration of sites degraded by industry to species-rich semi-natural vegetation communities is difficult; it usually involves the addition of soil ameliorants but excessive fertility may favour dominance by competitive species. In a field-expe[...]
Article
The consideration of economic costs can dramatically influence the cost-effective allocation of resources spent on the conservation of biodiversity. In the face of ecological and economic data scarcity, simple rules are needed for the design of [...]
Article
Peter J. Kappes, Auteur ;
Gerard J. McChesney, Auteur ;
Michael W. Parker, Auteur ;
Harry R. Carter, Auteur ;
Stephen W. Kress, Auteur ;
Richard T. Golightly, Auteur
Social attraction is a useful technique for re-establishing or relocating waterbird colonies and other species groups. However, little information exists regarding how newly attending individuals behave when the social environment is influenced [...]
Article
Tara G. Martin, Auteur ;
Peter Arcese, Auteur ;
Nanda Scheerder, Auteur
Declines in forest and woodland birds have largely been attributed to habitat loss and fragmentation. In the past decade, however, the potential for herbivores to influence bird species abundance and community composition via their direct impact[...]
Article
Hans Jacquemyn, Auteur ;
Carmen Van Mechelen, Auteur ;
Rein Brys, Auteur ;
Olivier Honnay, Auteur
Calcareous grasslands, most of which are man made and therefore depend on some kind of human interference for their maintenance, are among the most species-rich communities on Earth at a small scale. For many centuries, most of these grasslands [...]
Article
Anthony Weinberg, Auteur ;
Philip Gibbons, Auteur ;
Sue V. Briggs, Auteur ;
Stephen P. Bonser, Auteur
The process of natural regeneration is critical for sustaining remnant native vegetation and the ecosystem services it supports. We quantified the extent and pattern of Eucalyptus regeneration within remnant vegetation in a fragmented agricultur[...]
Article
V. H. Klaus, Auteur ;
J. Sintermann, Auteur ;
T. Kleinebecker, Auteur ;
N. Hoelzel, Auteur
Conservation and restoration of floodplain ecosystems and their specific functions often suffer from a deficient knowledge on basic processes and dynamics such as sedimentation and related nutrient inputs. In this study, we present the results o[...]
Article
Susan L. Roberts, Auteur ;
Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Auteur ;
A. Keith Miles, Auteur ;
Douglas A. Kelt, Auteur
The spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) is a late-successional forest dependent species that is sensitive to forest management practices throughout its range. An increase in the frequency and spatial extent of stand-replacing fires in western North[...]
Article
Aurelie Vuidot, Auteur ;
Yoan Paillet, Auteur ;
Frederic Archaux, Auteur ;
Frederic Gosselin, Auteur
Higher densities of tree microhabitats in unmanaged forests may explain biodiversity differences with managed forests. To better understand the determinants of this potential biodiversity indicator, we studied the influence of tree characteristi[...]
Article
Damian R. Michael, Auteur ;
Ross B. Cunningham, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Secondary vegetation, associated with changes in land use, presents a conservation issue in the preservation of biological diversity in agricultural landscapes. We examine the interactive effect of eucalypt regrowth and rock habitat on reptile s[...]
Article
Jean-Yves Meyer, Auteur ;
Marie Fourdrigniez, Auteur
Biological control using host-specific natural enemies is sometimes the only long-term and cost-effective option to contain dominant invasive alien species in natural ecosystems. To assess biocontrol success, most monitoring studies focus on the[...]
Article
Ricardo F. De Lima, Auteur ;
Jeremy P. Bird, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur
Knowledge gap analyses can be useful to highlight imbalances in research and to improve the distribution of conservation research efforts. We used ISI's Web of Knowledge (WoK) and BirdLife International's library catalogue (BLI) to examine the a[...]
Article
Fang Liu, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur ;
David L. Garshelis, Auteur ;
Xiaojian Zhu, Auteur ;
Dajun Wang, Auteur ;
Liangkun Shao, Auteur
Human-wildlife conflicts often spur retaliatory killing, which may be a major threat to some wildlife species. Asiatic black bears depredate crops and livestock and also attack humans. We investigated whether human-bear conflicts in Sichuan Prov[...]
Article
D. B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
R. B. Cunningham, Auteur
Work in many parts of the world has discussed the decline of biodiversity in regions dominated by agriculture. We report the results of a major study documenting the longitudinal profiles of birds between 1998 and 2009 within 66 patches of tempe[...]
Article
Guilad Friedemann, Auteur ;
Yoram Yom-Tov, Auteur ;
Uzi Motro, Auteur ;
Yossi Leshem, Auteur
Until the 1980s, at least 31 pairs of long-legged buzzards (Buten rufinus) nested along the streams of the Judean Mountains in Israel, mostly on rocky cliffs, which - according to existing literature - is the common nesting style of this bird. D[...]
Article
Stefano Grignolio, Auteur ;
Enrico Merli, Auteur ;
Paolo Bongi, Auteur ;
Simone Ciuti, Auteur ;
Marco Apollonio, Auteur
The impact of hunting on wildlife is a complex phenomenon which varies in space and across time, and yet limited knowledge is available on it. This is especially the case of the indirect effects of hunting on the behaviour of target as well as n[...]
Article
Francis D. Buner, Auteur ;
Stephen J. Browne, Auteur ;
Nicholas J. Aebischer, Auteur
Large-scale declines of grey partridges (Perdix perdix) since the 1980s have led to local extinctions in the species range. As part of a UK recovery programme, we aimed to identify the best methods of re-establishing grey partridges through rele[...]
Article
Siriya Sripanomyom, Auteur ;
Philip D. Round, Auteur ;
Tommaso Savini, Auteur ;
Yongyut Trisurat, Auteur ;
George A. Gale, Auteur
Shorebirds are declining worldwide due to loss and degradation of critical breeding and wintering habitats. Some human-modified habitats, particularly salt-pans which are used by shorebirds in many regions of the world, may help substitute for n[...]
Article
Jennifer R. Seavey, Auteur ;
Ben Gilmer, Auteur ;
Kevin M. McGarigal, Auteur
Climate change is raising sea levels, threatening many low-lying coastal areas and associated wildlife. We assessed the threat of sea-level rise (SLR) to the breeding habitat of the federally threatened piping plover on the barrier islands of Su[...]
Article
Andrew J. Tanentzap, Auteur ;
Dawn R. Bazely, Auteur ;
Saewan Koh, Auteur ;
Mika Timciska, Auteur ;
Edward G. Haggith, Auteur ;
Terry J. Carleton, Auteur ;
David A. Coomes, Auteur
High levels of deer browsing can prevent canopy tree regeneration, but little is known about changes to forest size-structure following long-term deer herd reductions. We monitored changes in forest stand structure and composition in southwester[...]
Article
Sarah M. Martin, Auteur ;
Kai Lorenzen, Auteur ;
Robert I. Arthur, Auteur ;
Phaisane Kaisone, Auteur ;
Kanthavong Souvannalangsy, Auteur
Tropical floodplain wetlands and the fish communities they support are subject to great pressure from human demands for water and aquatic living resources. In densely populated agricultural areas where such pressures are greatest, floodplain wet[...]
Article
Amy Pocewicz, Auteur ;
Joseph M. Kiesecker, Auteur ;
George P. Jones, Auteur ;
Holly E. Copeland, Auteur ;
Jody Daline, Auteur ;
Brian A. Mealor, Auteur
Conservation easements are the primary tool used globally by land trusts and governmental agencies to achieve conservation goals on private lands, but empirical evaluations of their effectiveness are lacking. Here we compared biodiversity in sag[...]
Article
Gonzalo Machado-Schiaffino, Auteur ;
Francis Juanes, Auteur ;
Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Auteur
Identification of areas which should be a subject of protection is crucial for safeguarding the marine ecosystems. Amongst the reasons for protecting a region or location, the existence of unique populations or evolutionary significant units for[...]
Article
Previous studies deduced negative effects of urbanization on insect conservation from decline in species richness with increasing built-up areas. This is the first study that investigates insect extinction determined by urbanization using a long[...]
Article
Bruno K. C. Filgueiras, Auteur ;
Luciana Iannuzzi, Auteur ;
Inara R. Leal, Auteur
Habitat loss and fragmentation have turned into the most important threats to biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. Here we investigate the effects of habitat fragmentation and drastic changes in tree communities on dung beetle richness[...]
Article
Lorraine Wilson, Auteur ;
Jared M. Wilson, Auteur ;
Ian Johnstone, Auteur
There has been increasing interest in potential benefits to be gained by restoring damaged peatlands, with the majority of funding currently being driven by the recovery of protected habitats. However, few data are available linking vegetation c[...]
Article
Ascelin Gordon, Auteur ;
William T. Langford, Auteur ;
Matt D. White, Auteur ;
James A. Todd, Auteur ;
Lucy Bastin, Auteur
To reduce global biodiversity loss, there is an urgent need to determine the most efficient allocation of conservation resources. Recently, there has been a growing trend for many governments to supplement public ownership and management of rese[...]
Article
Aurelie Huste, Auteur ;
Thierry Boulinier, Auteur
The ecological processes responsible for the spatial assemblages of breeding bird communities in urban landscapes are more and more investigated. Indeed, understanding these processes is imperative to plan relevant management policies. We invest[...]
Article
Vanessa M. Adams, Auteur ;
Morena Mills, Auteur ;
Stacy D. Jupiter, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur
We present a novel method for calculating the opportunity costs to fishers from their displacement by the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs). We used a fishing community in Kubulau District, Fiji to demonstrate this method. We modell[...]
Article
Felix Eigenbrod, Auteur ;
Stephen J. Hecnar, Auteur ;
Lenore Fahrig, Auteur
Landscape-scale processes (e.g. habitat loss) are major drivers of the global biodiversity crisis, but the complexity and size of landscapes makes study design at this scale difficult. However, the impact of statistical problems associated with [...]
Article
Tibor Eros, Auteur ;
Denes Schmera, Auteur ;
Robert S. Schick, Auteur
Graph theoretic approaches have received increased interest recently in landscape planning and conservation in the terrestrial realm, because these approaches facilitate the effective modelling of connectivity among habitats. We examined whether[...]
Article
Paul R. Armsworth, Auteur ;
Lisette Cantu-Salazar, Auteur ;
Mark Parnell, Auteur ;
Zoe G. Davies, Auteur ;
Rob Stoneman, Auteur
Protected area management must be resourced adequately to achieve its conservation objectives. The variability in management costs across candidate sites for protection therefore should inform conservation planning. For example, when considering[...]
Article
Tracey D. Tuberville, Auteur ;
Terry M. Norton, Auteur ;
Bradley J. Waffa, Auteur ;
Cris Hagen, Auteur ;
Travis C. Glenn, Auteur
Population manipulations such as translocation are becoming increasingly important tools in the management of rare and declining species. Evaluating the effectiveness of such manipulations requires comprehensive monitoring of population processe[...]
Article
Robert J. Rolls, Auteur
Water resource development in coastal river catchments contributes to poor fish assemblage health due to the effects of barriers to migration and altered flow regimes. Impacts of migration barriers on fish assemblages depend primarily on the loc[...]
Article
J. Jesus Casas, Auteur ;
Juan S. Sanchez-Oliver, Auteur ;
Ana Sanz, Auteur ;
Miriam Furne, Auteur ;
Cristina Trenzado, Auteur ;
Melchor Juan, Auteur ;
Mariano Paracuellos, Auteur ;
Maria D. Suarez, Auteur ;
Francisca Fuentes, Auteur ;
Irene Gallego, Auteur ;
Carlos Gil, Auteur ;
Jose J. Ramos-Miras, Auteur
We studied the relative value of natural habitats, river and coastal wetlands, and artificial habitats, irrigation canal and ponds, for the conservation of an endangered fish, Iberian toothcarp, in its southernmost area of distribution, characte[...]
Article
Eleanor M. Slade, Auteur ;
Darren J. Mann, Auteur ;
Owen T. Lewis, Auteur
A key challenge for tropical conservation biologists is to assess how forest management practices affect biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions. Dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) provide an ideal focal guild for such studies. We[...]
Article
Robert I. McDonald, Auteur ;
Timothy M. Boucher, Auteur
Land protection has become increasingly common, and global land protection is now greater than 12%. Prediction of future protected area expansion are uncertain, and depend on understanding the factors that have to date explained the historical p[...]
Article
Lyubov E. Burlakova, Auteur ;
Alexander Y. Karatayev, Auteur ;
Vadim A. Karatayev, Auteur ;
Marsha E. May, Auteur ;
Daniel L. Bennett, Auteur ;
Michael J. Cook, Auteur
The biodiversity crisis, particularly dramatic in freshwaters, has prompted further setting of global and regional conservation priorities. Species rarity and endemism are among the most fundamental criteria for establishing these priorities. We[...]
Article
Elizabeth A. Moffitt, Auteur ;
J. Wilson White, Auteur ;
Louis W. Botsford, Auteur
Marine protected areas (MPAs) implemented to conserve biodiversity must protect many species with a broad range of movement characteristics. To meet that goal, size and spacing guidelines have been used in MPA network design as a proxy for expli[...]
Article
Impacts of urbanization on ecological systems are expected to increase during the 21st century, and identifying which species may not survive under urban constraints is of practical importance to conservation biology. I study whether a species' [...]
Article
Antje Ahrends, Auteur ;
Carsten Rahbek, Auteur ;
Mark T. Bulling, Auteur ;
Neil D. Burgess, Auteur ;
Philip J. Platts, Auteur ;
Jon C. Lovett, Auteur ;
Victoria Wilkins Kindemba, Auteur ;
Nisha Owen, Auteur ;
Albert Ntemi Sallu, Auteur ;
Andrew R. Marshall, Auteur ;
Boniface E. Mhoro, Auteur ;
Eibleis Fanning, Auteur ;
Rob Marchant, Auteur
Over the last few decades, resources for descriptive taxonomy and biodiversity inventories have substantially declined, and they are also globally unequally distributed. This could result in an overall decline in the quality of biodiversity data[...]
Article
Sarah J. Converse, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Shelley, Auteur ;
Steve Morey, Auteur ;
Jeffrey Chan, Auteur ;
Andrea LaTier, Auteur ;
Carolyn Scafidi, Auteur ;
Deborah T. Crouse, Auteur ;
Michael C. Runge, Auteur
The resources available to support conservation work, whether time or money, are limited. Decision makers need methods to help them identify the optimal allocation of limited resources to meet conservation goals, and decision analysis is uniquel[...]
Article
Christopher W. Hoagstrom, Auteur ;
James E. Brooks, Auteur ;
Stephen R. Davenport, Auteur
Regions with unique habitats often harbor endemic taxa associated with temporally stable habitats. We identified such habitats that sustain endemic fishes in the plains of North America. We also summarized threats to their conservation and ident[...]
Article
Justyna Zofia Paplinska, Auteur ;
David A. Taggart, Auteur ;
Tony Corrigan, Auteur ;
Mark D. B. Eldridge, Auteur ;
Jeremy J. Austin, Auteur
Use of DNA from museum samples is a powerful tool to directly establish historical ESU boundaries in areas where populations of a species have been extirpated. The brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) has suffered extensive reductio[...]
Article
Sandra Burmeier, Auteur ;
R. Lutz Eckstein, Auteur ;
Annette Otte, Auteur ;
Tobias W. Donath, Auteur
Plant material transfer is a well-established technique for overcoming dispersal limitation during grassland restoration. As restoration sites are frequently more abundant than donor sites, the plant material is often applied as patches or strip[...]
Article
Juan C. Alvarez-Yepiz, Auteur ;
Martin Dovciak, Auteur ;
Alberto Burquez, Auteur
Conservation of rare species is frequently complicated by their narrow niches and poor competitive abilities which limit their distribution to a few small populations. We studied how population size and structure of an endemic cycad of northwest[...]
Article
Ryan J. Fisher, Auteur ;
Stephen K. Davis, Auteur
Loss and degradation of native grasslands on the North American landscape are some of the key factors influencing population declines of grassland songbirds. It is unclear what role anthropogenic grasslands play in the conservation of grassland [...]
Article
Cindy Q. Tang, Auteur ;
Yongchuan Yang, Auteur ;
Masahiko Ohsawa, Auteur ;
Arata Momohara, Auteur ;
Masatoshi Hara, Auteur ;
Shaolin Cheng, Auteur ;
Shenghou Fan, Auteur
The relict dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu et Cheng is endemic to the region bordering Hubei and Hunan provinces and Chongqing municipality in south-central China. It is critically endangered. We investigated its population size and[...]
Article
Ayesha Tulloch, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Kerrie Wilson, Auteur
Objective approaches are needed to select species for monitoring management effectiveness and to justify conservation investments. We develop and apply two approaches for selecting the most cost-effective and informative indicator species with a[...]
Article
Zeke Davidson, Auteur ;
Marion Valeix, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Loveridge, Auteur ;
Hillary Madzikanda, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur
Hunting of individuals from a population can affect its demography and socio-spatial parameters. This study provided opportunities to assess such effects, and may help to improve the conservation of populations threatened by conflict and over-us[...]
Article
Rebecca K. Smith, Auteur ;
Andrew S. Pullin, Auteur ;
Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur
Evidence suggests that nest predation is a serious problem for the conservation of bird populations. Managers are, therefore, faced with decisions of whether to intervene to reduce this impact and if so what interventions to use. Nest predator e[...]
Article
Andreas Ensslin, Auteur ;
Tobias M. Sandner, Auteur ;
Diethart Matthies, Auteur
Ex situ collections in botanic gardens have great potential in contributing to the conservation of rare plants. However, little is known about the effects of cultivation on the genetic diversity and fitness of garden populations, about genetic c[...]
Article
Scott R. Loss, Auteur ;
Lauren A. Terwilliger, Auteur ;
Anna C. Peterson, Auteur
Global climate change poses an immense challenge for conservation biologists seeking to mitigate impacts to species and ecosystems. Species persistence will depend on geographic range shifts or adaptation in response to warming patterns as novel[...]
Article
Flock size and human disturbance affect vigilance of endangered red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis)
Zhi Wang, Auteur ;
Zhongqiu Li, Auteur ;
Guy Beauchamp, Auteur ;
Zhigang Jiang, Auteur
Vigilance is used to detect predators and monitor rivals. We studied red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) in Yancheng Biosphere Reserve, China, to examine changes in the allocation of time to vigilance as a function of flock size in areas with d[...]
Article
Andrew T. Knight, Auteur ;
Richard M. Cowling, Auteur ;
Andre F. Boshoff, Auteur ;
Sharon L. Wilson, Auteur ;
Shirley M. Pierce, Auteur
Spatial prioritisations are increasingly being undertaken to allocate the investment of limited conservation resources. These techniques are highly effective at identifying where important areas for conservation are located, but of limited use f[...]
Article
C. Blasi, Auteur ;
M. Marignani, Auteur ;
R. Copiz, Auteur ;
M. Fipaldini, Auteur ;
S. Bonacquisti, Auteur ;
E. Del Vico, Auteur ;
L. Rosati, Auteur ;
L. Zavattero, Auteur
Three hundred and twelve Important Plant Areas (IPAs) have been identified in Italy using a grid-based ranking system to pinpoint areas of high richness and conservation value, alongside the more frequently used expert-based selection of sites. [...]
Article
The widespread invasive rodents Rattus norvegicus, R. rattus, R. exulans and Mus musculus have been implicated in the decline and extinction of hundreds of island endemic vertebrates, but their effects on island invertebrates are less well-known[...]
Article
Matthew J. Smith, Auteur ;
Hesiquio Benitez-Diaz, Auteur ;
Margarita Africa Clemente-Munoz, Auteur ;
John Donaldson, Auteur ;
Jon M. Hutton, Auteur ;
H. Noel McGough, Auteur ;
Rodrigo A. Medellin, Auteur ;
David H. W. Morgan, Auteur ;
Colman O'Criodain, Auteur ;
Thomasina E. E. Oldfield, Auteur ;
Uwe Schippmann, Auteur ;
Richard J. Williams, Auteur
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) came into effect in 1975 to protect certain species of wild fauna and flora against over-exploitation through international trade. Determining which trad[...]
Article
Atte Moilanen, Auteur ;
Anni Arponen, Auteur
Target-based spatial prioritization is the default approach in conservation resource allocation. Here, we clarify a poorly known feature of target-based spatial prioritization that may lead to an unbalanced allocation of resources between specie[...]
Article
Rosalind Bryce, Auteur ;
Matthew K. Oliver, Auteur ;
Llinos Davies, Auteur ;
Helen Gray, Auteur ;
Jamie Urquhart, Auteur ;
Xavier Lambin, Auteur
Successful eradications of harmful invasive species have been mostly confined to islands while control programs in mainland areas remain small, uncoordinated and vulnerable to recolonisation. To allow the recovery of threatened native species, i[...]
Article
Francesco Angeloni, Auteur ;
N. Joop Ouborg, Auteur ;
Roosa Leimu, Auteur
Inbreeding is common in plants and can have considerable effects on population viability, because of inbreeding depression. Understanding what determines the magnitude of inbreeding depression is of fundamental importance for conservation biolog[...]
Article
William F. Laurance, Auteur ;
Jose L. C. Camargo, Auteur ;
Regina C. C. Luizao, Auteur ;
Susan G. Laurance, Auteur ;
Stuart L. Pimm, Auteur ;
Emilio M. Bruna, Auteur ;
Philip C. Stouffer, Auteur ;
G. Bruce Williamson, Auteur ;
Julieta Benitez-Malvido, Auteur ;
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Auteur ;
Kyle S. Van Houtan, Auteur ;
Charles E. Zartman, Auteur ;
Sarah A. Boyle, Auteur ;
Raphael K. Didham, Auteur ;
Ana Andrade, Auteur ;
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Auteur
We synthesize findings to date from the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the past 32 years, Amazonian forest fragments ranging from 1 to 100 ha have experienced a [...]
