| Titre : | Biological Conservation 147(1) - MAR 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Virgilio Hermoso, Auteur ;
Mark J. Kennard, Auteur
Conservation planning is sensitive to a number of scale-related issues, such as the spatial extent of the planning area, or the size of units of planning. An extensive literature has reported a decline in efficiency of conservation outputs when [...]
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Iris Biebach, Auteur ;
Lukas F. Keller, Auteur
Reintroductions and other conservation translocations have become increasingly important conservation tools, albeit with variable success. Genetic variation is one factor, which may influence reintroduction success. Genetic variation in reintrod[...]
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Eric Guinard, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur ;
Christophe Barbraud, Auteur
Most survey methods developed to estimate abundance of killed animals on motorways may be biased due to the unequal detectability of carcasses, their persistence time on the lanes, and scavengers activities. Unbiased surveys are needed to evalua[...]
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Renato A. F. Lima, Auteur ;
Debora C. Rother, Auteur ;
Ana E. Muler, Auteur ;
Igo F. Lepsch, Auteur ;
Ricardo R. Rodrigues, Auteur
With fast growth rates and clonal reproduction, bamboos can rapidly invade forest areas, drastically changing their original structure. In the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, where recent mapping efforts have shown that woody bamboos dominate large a[...]
Article
Laura M. Young, Auteur ;
Dave Kelly, Auteur ;
Ximena J. Nelson, Auteur
Globally, bird numbers are declining, with potentially serious flow-on effects on ecosystem processes, such as seed dispersal mutualisms. However, management to maintain seed dispersal may be inappropriate if unexpected animals are the most impo[...]
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Aviad Horev, Auteur ;
Reuven Yosef, Auteur ;
Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur ;
Ofer Ovadia, Auteur
Poaching of tigers (Panthera tigris) and its prey base are considered important factors influencing wild tiger populations in India. At present, wild tigers are disappearing even from protected Tiger Reserves. Previous models, designed to unders[...]
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Anna Bond Estes, Auteur ;
Tobias Kuemmerle, Auteur ;
Hadas Kushnir, Auteur ;
Volker Christian Radeloff, Auteur ;
Herman Henry Shugart, Auteur
The growth of human populations around protected areas accelerates land conversion and isolation, negatively impacting biodiversity and ecosystem function, and can be exacerbated by immigration. It is often assumed that immigration around protec[...]
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K. J. Willis, Auteur ;
E. S. Jeffers, Auteur ;
C. Tovar, Auteur ;
P. R. Long, Auteur ;
N. Caithness, Auteur ;
M. G. D. Smit, Auteur ;
R. Hagemann, Auteur ;
C. Collin-Hansen, Auteur ;
J. Weissenberger, Auteur
Whilst there are a number of mapping methods available for determining important areas for conservation within protected areas, there are few tools available for assessing the ecological value of landscapes that are 'beyond the reserves'. A syst[...]
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Thomas A. Schlacher, Auteur ;
Luke Thompson, Auteur
Ocean beaches are prime recreational assets and are becoming increasingly urbanised: more beaches today front metropolitan regions, are mechanically cleaned, and are used for recreation by increasing numbers of residents and tourists. This 'urba[...]
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Jan Christian Habel, Auteur ;
Thomas Schmitt, Auteur
In general, species with large ecological amplitudes are equipped with high genetic diversities. In contrast, more specialised species with narrow ecological amplitudes show low levels of genetic diversity. Generalist species are mostly rather m[...]
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David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Paul J. Johnson, Auteur ;
Lise Albrechtsen, Auteur ;
Sarah Seymour, Auteur ;
Jef Dupain, Auteur ;
Amy Hall, Auteur ;
John E. Fa, Auteur
Exploitation of wildlife for meat in the tropics ('bushmeat') is a critical threat for biodiversity, particularly in Africa. Here, we investigate the importance of protected areas (National Parks and other forest parks) as sources for the trade [...]
Article
R. Brand Phillips, Auteur ;
Brian D. Cooke, Auteur ;
Victor Carrion, Auteur ;
Howard L. Snell, Auteur
Alien species can negatively affect global biodiversity, especially on islands. Significant advances in methods for eradicating mammals from islands have been achieved. In contrast, development of methods for eradicating birds from islands has l[...]
Article
David W. Bradley, Auteur ;
Laura E. Molles, Auteur ;
Sandra V. Valderrama, Auteur ;
Sarah King, Auteur ;
Joseph R. Waas, Auteur
Animal translocation success rate is generally low, with the causes of failure poorly understood without comprehensive and protracted monitoring. Here we examine the outcome of a translocation of endangered North Island kokako (Callaeas wilsoni)[...]
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Shiang-Lin Huang, Auteur ;
Leszek Karczmarski, Auteur ;
Jialin Chen, Auteur ;
Ruilian Zhou, Auteur ;
Wenzhi Lin, Auteur ;
Haifei Zhang, Auteur ;
Haiyan Li, Auteur ;
Yuping Wu, Auteur
Estimates of demographic parameters and predictive modeling of population viability furnish baseline evidence for informed management of species and populations. There are very few examples of such approaches involving cetaceans due to often lim[...]
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Marcin Brzeziński, Auteur ;
Magdalena Natorff, Auteur ;
Andrzej Zalewski, Auteur ;
Michal Zmihorski, Auteur
A behavioral response is usually the first adaptation of animals to environmental changes such as the introduction of an alien invasive species, and it seems to be the most important factor in reducing the negative impact of new predators on nai[...]
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Jon P. Beckmann, Auteur ;
Kim Murray, Auteur ;
Renee G. Seidler, Auteur ;
Joel Berger, Auteur
To manage America's 991,479 km(2) (245 million acres) of public BLM lands for such mixed uses as natural resource extraction, wildlife, and recreation requires knowledge about effects of habitat alterations. Two of North America's largest natura[...]
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Yoram Yom-Tov, Auteur ;
Ohad Hatzofe, Auteur ;
Eli Geffen, Auteur
During the course of the 20th century many changes took place in the area encompassing Israel and the Palestinian Authority (hereafter Israel; ca. 28,000 km(2)): the human population grew from ca. 650,000 inhabitants during 1900-1903 (Rupin, 192[...]
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Silvio Marchini, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur
The killing of jaguars by ranchers in Amazonia and the Pantanal is a major threat to the species. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior to examine the role of ranchers' perceptions, norms, attitudes and intentions concerning jaguar killing, in [...]
Article
Manuela de Lucas, Auteur ;
Miguel Ferrer, Auteur ;
Marc J. Bechard, Auteur ;
Antonio R. Munoz, Auteur
Wind is increasingly being used as a renewable energy source around the world. Avian mortality is one of the negative impacts of wind energy and a new technique that reduces avian collision rates is necessary. Using the most frequently-killed sp[...]
Article
Joelle Taillon, Auteur ;
Marco Festa-Bianchet, Auteur ;
Steeve D. Cote, Auteur
Industrial development, expansion of human populations and climate change increasingly affect habitats of migratory species. Effective protection of critical habitats is urgently required because several large migratory species have declined ove[...]
Article
Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Auteur ;
David Draper, Auteur ;
David Nogues-Bravo, Auteur
Area of Occupancy (AOO), is a measure of species geographical ranges commonly used for species red listing. In most cases, AOO is estimated using reported localities of species distributions at coarse grain resolution, providing measures subject[...]
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Manuel Castellote, Auteur ;
Christopher W. Clark, Auteur ;
Marc O. Lammers, Auteur
Non-lethal behavioural effects of underwater noise in marine mammals are difficult to measure. Here we report acoustic and behavioural changes by fin whales in response to two different types of anthropogenic noise: shipping and airgun noise. Ac[...]
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Giulia Capotorti, Auteur ;
Domenico Guida, Auteur ;
Vincenzo Siervo, Auteur ;
Daniela Smiraglia, Auteur ;
Carlo Blasi, Auteur
The aims of this study are to describe the ecological classification of land in Italy and to show how the resulting land units can act as reliable frameworks for coarse scale environmental analyses that can be used to implement national conserva[...]
Article
Trina Rytwinski, Auteur ;
Lenore Fahrig, Auteur
Efforts to mitigate road effects are now common in new highway construction projects. For effective mitigation of road effects it is important to identify the species whose populations are reduced by roads, so that mitigation efforts can be tail[...]
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Craig M. Costion, Auteur ;
Jolie Liston, Auteur ;
Ann H. Kitalong, Auteur ;
Akiko Iida, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Lowe, Auteur
The need for a global priority list for threatened plants has been widely recognized by the conservation community, yet the threatened status of the majority of the world's plants species remains poorly known. This is especially true in the trop[...]
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Jessica A. Lyons, Auteur ;
Daniel J. D. Natusch, Auteur
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G. Z. Sass, Auteur ;
M. Wheatley, Auteur ;
D. A. Aldred, Auteur ;
A. J. Gould, Auteur ;
I. F. Creed, Auteur
Surface and near-surface hydrological conditions are not generally considered in the selection of protected-area boundaries: however, these hydrological conditions may be critical in the maintenance of hydrologically driven biodiversity areas an[...]
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Petter Hedberg, Auteur ;
Wiktor Kotowski, Auteur ;
Peter Saetre, Auteur ;
Kalle Malson, Auteur ;
Hakan Rydin, Auteur ;
Sebastian Sundberg, Auteur
Large peatland areas have been drained for forestry and agricultural purposes, resulting in the decline of characteristic biodiversity. Two measures commonly suggested for restoring drained fens is ditch blocking and tree removal to raise the gr[...]
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Aurore Lassauce, Auteur ;
Francois Lieutier, Auteur ;
Christophe Bouget, Auteur
Converting fossil-based energy systems into carbon-neutral systems is an essential strategy to the reach targets set by the Kyoto Protocol. For nations with an active logging industry, salvaging logging residues or slash to produce bioenergy has[...]
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Marco Andrello, Auteur ;
Jean-Philippe Bizoux, Auteur ;
Morgane Barbet-Massin, Auteur ;
Myriam Gaudeul, Auteur ;
Florence Nicole, Auteur ;
Irene Till-Bottraud, Auteur
Extreme climatic events like the 2003 summer heatwave and inappropriate land management can threaten the existence of rare plants. We studied the response of Eryngium alpinum, a vulnerable species, to this extreme climatic event and different ag[...]
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Rita Bastos, Auteur ;
Mário Santos, Auteur ;
Jaime Albino Ramos, Auteur ;
Joana Vicente, Auteur ;
Carlos Guerra, Auteur ;
Joaquim Alonso, Auteur ;
Joao Honrado, Auteur ;
Ricardo Santos Ceia, Auteur ;
Sergio Timoteo, Auteur ;
João Alexandre Cabral, Auteur
The Azores bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina) is an endemic bird of Sao Miguel island (Azores Archipelago, Portugal), currently threatened by two of the major causes of biodiversity loss worldwide: invasion of native habitats by exotic plants and habit[...]
