| Titre : | Biological Conservation 145(1) - JAN 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Rafael Avila-Flores, Auteur ;
Gerardo Ceballos, Auteur ;
Alejandra de Villa-Meza, Auteur ;
Rurik List, Auteur ;
Erika Marce, Auteur ;
Jesus Pacheco, Auteur ;
G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, Auteur ;
Stan Boutin, Auteur
The area occupied by colonies of the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus; BTPD henceforth) in northwestern Mexico was dramatically reduced between 1988 and 2005. We conducted a quantitative assessment of the distributional changes of [...]
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J. Ross Sinclair, Auteur ;
Nathan Whitmore, Auteur ;
Kenneth Yhuanje, Auteur ;
Tanya Zeriga-Alone, Auteur
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Anna Bucharova, Auteur ;
Jiri Brabec, Auteur ;
Zuzana Muenzbergova, Auteur
The identification of optimal management strategies for a given species is a major challenge of species conservation. It becomes especially challenging when the environmental conditions are expected to change in the future, and the optimal manag[...]
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Joanna T. Staley, Auteur ;
Tim H. Sparks, Auteur ;
Philip J. Croxton, Auteur ;
Katherine C. R. Baldock, Auteur ;
Matthew S. Heard, Auteur ;
Sarah Hulmes, Auteur ;
Lucy Hulmes, Auteur ;
Jodey Peyton, Auteur ;
Sam R. Amy, Auteur ;
Richard F. Pywell, Auteur
Hedgerows provide important habitat and food resources for overwintering birds, mammals and invertebrates. Currently, 41% of managed hedgerow length in England forms part of three Agri-Environment Scheme (AES) options, which specify a reduction [...]
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Thomas A. Spies, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
A. Malcolm Gill, Auteur ;
Scott L. Stephens, Auteur ;
James K. Agee, Auteur
Conserving biodiversity in fire-prone forest ecosystems is challenging for several reasons including differing and incomplete conceptual models of fire-related ecological processes, major gaps in ecological and management knowledge, high variabi[...]
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Tatsuya Amano, Auteur ;
Tamás Székely, Auteur ;
Kazuo Koyama, Auteur ;
Hitoha Amano, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur
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Diogo Verissimo, Auteur ;
Maan Barua, Auteur ;
Paul Jepson, Auteur ;
Douglas C. MacMillan, Auteur ;
Robert J. Smith, Auteur
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G. M. S. Vianna, Auteur ;
M. G. Meekan, Auteur ;
D. J. Pannell, Auteur ;
S. P. Marsh, Auteur ;
J. J. Meeuwig, Auteur
Arguments for conservation of sharks based on their role in the maintenance of healthy marine ecosystems have failed to halt the worldwide decline in populations. Instead, the value of sharks as a fishery commodity has severely reduced the abund[...]
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Alan Vergnes, Auteur ;
Isabelle Le Viol, Auteur ;
Philippe Clergeau, Auteur
Ecological corridors are landscape elements that prevent the negative effects of fragmentation. However, their effectiveness has never been clearly validated in urban landscapes. We analysed the role of green corridors in an urban context by com[...]
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R. J. Hamilton, Auteur ;
M. Giningele, Auteur ;
S. Aswani, Auteur ;
J. L. Ecochard, Auteur
Within the marine conservation community there is considerable interest in combining local knowledge and science to achieve management objectives. Yet there remain few studies which have examined the merits and caveats of local knowledge, or sho[...]
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Adriana Ressurreicao, Auteur ;
James Gibbons, Auteur ;
Michel Kaiser, Auteur ;
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Auteur ;
Tomasz Zarzycki, Auteur ;
Charlotte Bentley, Auteur ;
Melanie Austen, Auteur ;
Daryl Burdon, Auteur ;
Jonathan Atkins, Auteur ;
Ricardo S. Santos, Auteur ;
Gareth Edwards-Jones, Auteur
Understanding the cultural variation in public preference for marine species is a necessary pre-requisite if conservation objectives are to include societal preferences in addition to scientific considerations. We report the results of a conting[...]
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Gareth W. Griffith, Auteur ;
Kevin Roderick, Auteur ;
Andrew Graham, Auteur ;
David R. Causton, Auteur
The loss of semi-natural grasslands in Europe, largely though ploughing/reseeding and synthetic fertiliser inputs, has caused a severe reduction in the diversity and abundance of grassland macrofungi. Of these, it is the colourful members of the[...]
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Brenda Molano-Flores, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Bell, Auteur
Land managers primarily collect population counts to track rare plant population trends. These count-based data sets are often used to develop population viability analysis (PVA) to project future status of these populations. Additionally, pract[...]
Article
William J. Ripple, Auteur ;
Robert L. Beschta, Auteur
The 1995/1996 reintroduction of gray wolves (Canis lupus) into Yellowstone National Park after a 70 year absence has allowed for studies of tri-trophic cascades involving wolves, elk (Cervus elaphus), and plant species such as aspen (Populus tre[...]
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Jameal F. Samhouri, Auteur ;
Phillip S. Levin, Auteur
The emerging science and policy arena of marine ecosystem-based management is beset with the challenging question of how to assess the urgency of problems influencing different ecosystem components. In this paper, we introduce a synthetic and ef[...]
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Dirk Maes, Auteur ;
Wouter Vanreusel, Auteur ;
Ilf Jacobs, Auteur ;
Koen Berwaerts, Auteur ;
Hans Van Dyck, Auteur
Red Lists are used to assess the extinction risk of species based on quantitative IUCN criteria. For the compilation of a new Red List of butterflies in Flanders (north Belgium), we collated ca 800,000 distribution records and applied the IUCN R[...]
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Zdenka Lososova, Auteur ;
Milan Chytry, Auteur ;
Lubomír Tichý, Auteur ;
Jiri Danihelka, Auteur ;
Karel Fajmon, Auteur ;
Ondrej Hajek, Auteur ;
Katerina Kintrova, Auteur ;
Deana Lanikova, Auteur ;
Zdenka Otypkova, Auteur ;
Vladimir Rehorek, Auteur
Spread of alien species may result in biotic homogenization, i.e. increasing similarity between biotas of different areas. We examined whether the flora of Central European cities is becoming homogenized because of the spread of alien species, w[...]
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Ales Dolny, Auteur ;
Filip Harabis, Auteur
Human-induced changes negatively affect all components of freshwater ecosystems and comprise the major cause of global loss of diversity and the biotic homogenization of freshwater faunas. The high diversity of dragonflies in heavily industriali[...]
Article
Wen Zheng, Auteur ;
Yu Xu, Auteur ;
Lihuan Liao, Auteur ;
Xuyu Yang, Auteur ;
Xiaodong Gu, Auteur ;
Tao Shang, Auteur ;
Jianghong Ran, Auteur
The Wenchuan earthquake of May 2008 was a severe natural disaster that caused significant damage to the habitat of the endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) inhabiting southwestern China. However, the effect of the earthquake on giant [...]
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Xiaoli Shen, Auteur ;
Sheng Li, Auteur ;
Nyima Chen, Auteur ;
Shengzhi Li, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur ;
Zhi Lu, Auteur
A positive relationship between traditional cultures and biodiversity exists worldwide, but when traditional and formal conservation institutions coexist, how they interact and affect biodiversity remains poorly studied. From 2005 to 2007, we st[...]
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Espen Lie Dahl, Auteur ;
Kjetil Bevanger, Auteur ;
Torgeir Nygard, Auteur ;
Eivin Roskaft, Auteur ;
Bard G. Stokke, Auteur
Climate change scenarios and efforts to reduce CO(2) emissions have increased the focus on wind power and other renewable energy sources. Despite producing "clean" electricity, windfarms do have impacts on the environment. We studied the impact [...]
Article
Yi Ding, Auteur ;
Runguo Zang, Auteur ;
Shirong Liu, Auteur ;
Fangliang He, Auteur ;
Susan G. Letcher, Auteur
Logging and intense shifting cultivation have caused major degradation of tropical forests and loss of biodiversity. Understanding the direct and indirect effects of those land uses on plant biodiversity is essential to the restoration of tropic[...]
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Annabel L. Smith, Auteur ;
C. Michael Bull, Auteur ;
Don A. Driscoll, Auteur
Altered fire regimes threaten the persistence of many animal species globally, thus understanding how fire affects demographic processes is critical for conservation. Using 2 years of mark-recapture data from the Australian gecko Nephrurus stell[...]
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Wiebke Neumann, Auteur ;
Goran Ericsson, Auteur ;
Holger Dettki, Auteur ;
Nils Bunnefeld, Auteur ;
Nicholas S. Keuler, Auteur ;
David P. Helmers, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur
Human-wildlife conflicts like wildlife-vehicle collisions pose major challenges for the management and conservation of mobile wildlife in human-dominated landscapes, particularly when large species are involved. Mitigation measures to reduce ris[...]
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Eric Katovai, Auteur ;
Alana L. Burley, Auteur ;
Margaret M. Mayfield, Auteur
Anthropogenic activities have resulted in extensive deforestation and forest degradation on many tropical oceanic islands. For instance, some islands in the Solomon archipelago have as little as 10% of primary forests remaining with few of these[...]
Article
Martina Carrete, Auteur ;
Jose A. Sanchez-Zapata, Auteur ;
Jose R. Benitez, Auteur ;
Manuel Lobon, Auteur ;
Francisco Montoya, Auteur ;
Jose A. Donazar, Auteur
Wind-farms have negative impacts on the environment, mainly through habitat destruction and bird mortality, making it urgent to design predictive tools to use in landscape planning. A frequent assumption of wind-farm assessment studies is that b[...]
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Winsor H. Lowe, Auteur
Amphibian declines have been documented worldwide and several have been linked to climate change, but the long-term data needed to detect declines are largely restricted to pond-breeding species. This limits our knowledge of population trends in[...]
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Tsipe Aavik, Auteur ;
Peter J. Edwards, Auteur ;
Rolf Holderegger, Auteur ;
Rene Graf, Auteur ;
Regula Billeter, Auteur
Sowing with seed mixtures is a common practice in restoring species-rich communities in areas with impoverished species pools. The potential genetic consequences of using these mixtures, however, are poorly understood and often not considered in[...]
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Greg J. Holland, Auteur ;
Jerry S. A. Alexander, Auteur ;
Peter Johnson, Auteur ;
Andrew H. Arnold, Auteur ;
Merril Halley, Auteur ;
Andrew F. Bennett, Auteur
Ecological monitoring is widely used to measure change through time in ecosystems. The current extinction crisis has resulted in a wealth of monitoring programs focussed on tracking the status of threatened species, and the perceived importance [...]
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D. A. P. Hooftman, Auteur ;
J. M. Bullock, Auteur
Intensification of human activities has caused drastic losses in semi-natural habitats, resulting as well in declining connectivity between remaining fragments. Successful future restoration should therefore increase both habitat area and connec[...]
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Kristen M. Hart, Auteur ;
Margaret M. Lamont, Auteur ;
Ikuko Fujisaki, Auteur ;
Anton D. Tucker, Auteur ;
Raymond R. Carthy, Auteur
Designing conservation strategies that protect wide-ranging marine species is a significant challenge, but integrating regional telemetry datasets and synthesizing modeled movements and behavior offer promise for uncovering distinct at-sea areas[...]
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Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Ian R. Court, Auteur ;
Martin Davison, Auteur ;
Steve Downing, Auteur ;
Trevor Grimshaw, Auteur ;
Terry Pickford, Auteur ;
David Raw, Auteur
Wildlife crime can be difficult to quantify, and its true impact on populations can be underestimated if rates are under-recorded. The illegal killing of birds of prey is an important form of wildlife crime, which in the UK, is often associated [...]
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Takumi Akasaka, Auteur ;
Munemitsu Akasaka, Auteur ;
Futoshi Nakamura, Auteur
Conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is an urgent issue. The effective conservation of biodiversity requires plans based on species' habitat preferences at multiple spatial scales. We examined how the foraging habitat selection of [...]
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Ruben Liminana, Auteur ;
Álvaro Soutullo, Auteur ;
Beatriz Arroyo, Auteur ;
Vicente Urios, Auteur
Populations of migratory birds can be affected by events happening at both breeding and wintering grounds. The Sahel is a vast region holding a large number of wintering trans-Saharan migratory European birds, and current land-use changes there [...]
