| Titre : | Biological Conservation 144(4) - APR 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
Article
Mark Colyvan, Auteur ;
James Justus, Auteur ;
Helen M. Regan, Auteur
Conservation problems typically involve groups with competing objectives and strategies. Taking effective conservation action requires identifying dependencies between competing strategies and determining which action optimally achieves the appr[...]
Article
Richard T. Kingsford, Auteur ;
Harry C. Biggs, Auteur ;
Sharon R. Pollard, Auteur
Aquatic ecosystems are connected over large spatial scales, have varied drivers, strong and often conflicting societal interests and interacting management processes. Many of the world's protected areas (> 100,000, similar to 42% of land) includ[...]
Article
William J. M. Probert, Auteur ;
Cindy E. Hauser, Auteur ;
Eve McDonald-Madden, Auteur ;
Michael C. Runge, Auteur ;
Peter W. J. Baxter, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur
The quality of environmental decisions should be gauged according to managers' objectives. Management objectives generally seek to maximize quantifiable measures of system benefit, for instance population growth rate. Reaching these goals often [...]
Article
David A. Keith, Auteur ;
Tara G. Martin, Auteur ;
Eve McDonald-Madden, Auteur ;
Carl Walters, Auteur
Adaptive management of natural resources is widely supported, but in biodiversity conservation there have been few practical applications of the approach in its entirety. Some of the contributions to this special publication examine progress in [...]
Article
L. Rumpff, Auteur ;
D. H. Duncan, Auteur ;
P. A. Vesk, Auteur ;
D. A. Keith, Auteur ;
B. A. Wintle, Auteur
Adaptive Management (AM) is widely advocated as an approach to dealing with uncertainty in natural resource management as it provides an explicit framework for motivating, designing and interpreting the results of monitoring. One of the major fa[...]
Article
Jose Manuel Briceno-Linares, Auteur ;
Jon Paul Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Kathryn M. Rodriguez-Clark, Auteur ;
Franklin Rojas-Suarez, Auteur ;
Pablo Antonio Millan, Auteur ;
Eleonora G. Vittori, Auteur ;
Mar Carrasco-Munoz, Auteur
The yellow-shouldered parrot (Amazona barbadensis) is listed in Venezuela as Endangered and internationally as Vulnerable, primarily due to poaching for the illegal pet trade. Various interventions have been implemented to reduce poaching (incre[...]
Article
Michael C. Runge, Auteur ;
Sarah J. Converse, Auteur ;
James E. Lyons, Auteur
Natural resource management is plagued with uncertainty of many kinds, but not all uncertainties are equally important to resolve. The promise of adaptive management is that learning in the short-term will improve management in the long-term; th[...]
Article
Michael J. Conroy, Auteur ;
Michael C. Runge, Auteur ;
James D. Nichols, Auteur ;
Kirk W. Stodola, Auteur ;
Robert J. Cooper, Auteur
The broad physical and biological principles behind climate change and its potential large scale ecological impacts on biota are fairly well understood, although likely responses of biotic communities at fine spati-temporal scales are not, limit[...]
Article
B. W. van Wilgen, Auteur ;
H. C. Biggs, Auteur
This paper uses five inter-related topics (the management of rivers, fire regimes, invasive alien species, rare antelope and elephants) to assess 15 years of adaptive management in the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa. The importance of [...]
