| Titre : | Biological Conservation 155 - OCT 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Mark W. Schwartz, Auteur
Conservation science strives to inform management decisions. Applying niche models in concert with future climate projections to project species vulnerability to extinction, range size loss, or distribution shifts has emerged as a potentially us[...]
Article
J. Maes, Auteur ;
M. L. Paracchini, Auteur ;
G. Zulian, Auteur ;
M. B. Dunbar, Auteur ;
R. Alkemade, Auteur
In the European Union (EU) efforts to conserve biodiversity have been consistently directed towards the protection of habitats and species through the designation of protected areas under the Habitats Directive (92/43/ECC). These biodiversity co[...]
Article
Marian Y. L. Wong, Auteur
Human activities have profoundly changed the abiotic environment, which in many cases has resulted in the deterioration of natural ecosystems. This global problem requires collaborative efforts between scientific disciplines and between academic[...]
Article
Marcelo Tabarelli, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur ;
Felipe P. L. Melo, Auteur
Despite its relevance to contemporary biodiversity conservation, the ecological mechanisms controlling nonrandom species replacements and biotic homogenization of native biotas remain poorly understood. Here, we advocate for the widespread occur[...]
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Malgorzata Bujoczek, Auteur ;
Michal Ciach, Auteur ;
Reuven Yosef, Auteur
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S. M. Brook, Auteur ;
P. van Coeverden de Groot, Auteur ;
C. Scott, Auteur ;
P. Boag, Auteur ;
B. Long, Auteur ;
R. E. Ley, Auteur ;
G. H. Reischer, Auteur ;
A. C. Williams, Auteur ;
S. P. Mahood, Auteur ;
Tran Minh Hien, Auteur ;
G. Polet, Auteur ;
N. Cox, Auteur ;
Bach Thanh Hai, Auteur
Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is among the most threatened large mammal species in the world. Development of rigorous, non-invasive survey techniques is a high priority, to monitor populations and develop informed conservation manageme[...]
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Matthew M. McConnachie, Auteur ;
Richard M. Cowling, Auteur ;
Brian W. van Wilgen, Auteur ;
Dominic A. McConnachie, Auteur
Conservation projects spend billions of dollars clearing invasive alien plants, yet few studies have measured the cost-effectiveness of doing this, especially over larger spatial and temporal scales, relevant to operational contexts. We evaluate[...]
Article
Kayri Havens, Auteur ;
Claudia L. Jolls, Auteur ;
Julie E. Marik, Auteur ;
Pati Vitt, Auteur ;
A. Kathryn McEachern, Auteur ;
Darcy Kind, Auteur
Larinus planus Frabicius (Curculionidae), is a seed-eating weevil that was inadvertently introduced into the US and was subsequently distributed in the US and Canada for the control of noxious thistle species of rangelands. It has been detected [...]
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Marc-Andre Villard, Auteur ;
Samuel Hache, Auteur
Many authors have concluded that habitat loss has a greater influence on biodiversity than habitat fragmentation per se. Yet, several animal species have been shown to be reluctant to move across inhospitable landscape matrices, a phenomenon tha[...]
Article
Rebecca J. Laws, Auteur ;
Dylan C. Kesler, Auteur
Translocation has become increasingly important for conserving island species. Limited tools are available for guiding the selection of translocation sites, however, particularly when establishing rescue populations outside of historic ranges. W[...]
Article
Jens-Eike Taeubert, Auteur ;
Ana Maria Posada Martinez, Auteur ;
Bernhard Gum, Auteur ;
Juergen Geist, Auteur
Successful conservation strategies require consideration of species interactions. In their life cycle, freshwater mussels of the family Unionidae depend on a suitable host fish on which their larvae metamorphose into juveniles. This study invest[...]
Article
Michael A. Patten, Auteur ;
Brenda D. Smith-Patten, Auteur
Species vary in their vulnerability to extirpation or extinction in response to habitat loss, including deforestation. A variety of correlates of vulnerability have been found, but few empirical data have been gathered that provide insight into [...]
Article
Kara N. Youngentob, Auteur ;
Hwan-Jin Yoon, Auteur ;
Nicole Coggan, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Edge effects are widely researched phenomena in ecology. However, little is known about their influence on the competition dynamics of sympatric species. We present a new conceptual model to explain how edge effects and competition dynamics inte[...]
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Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: A multi-site assessment
B. A. Woodcock, Auteur ;
J. M. Bullock, Auteur ;
S. R. Mortimer, Auteur ;
T. Brereton, Auteur ;
J. W. Redhead, Auteur ;
J. A. Thomas, Auteur ;
R. F. Pywell, Auteur
Although grasslands are crucial habitats for European butterflies, large-scale declines in quality and area have devastated many species. Grassland restoration can contribute to the recovery of butterfly populations, although there is a paucity [...]
Article
Emmy Libois, Auteur ;
Olivier Gimenez, Auteur ;
Daniel Oro, Auteur ;
Eduardo Minguez, Auteur ;
Roger Pradel, Auteur ;
Ana Sanz-Aguilar, Auteur
Nowadays seabirds are among the most threatened animal taxa. Due to introduction by humans of mammalian predators on large islands, Mediterranean Storm Petrels are now confined to islets and considered locally vulnerable, especially threatened b[...]
Article
Kevin Leleu, Auteur ;
Brice Remy-Zephir, Auteur ;
Roger Grace, Auteur ;
Mark J. Costello, Auteur
Time-series studies have reported trophic cascades in land, freshwater and marine environments in many geographic areas. However, the spatial extent of habitats, a key metric of ecosystem structure, has not been mapped in these studies. Marine r[...]
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Seth B. Magle, Auteur ;
Victoria M. Hunt, Auteur ;
Marian Vernon, Auteur ;
Kevin R. Crooks, Auteur
Despite expanding urban areas and increased awareness of urbanization impacts on wildlife, trends in urban wildlife studies have not been evaluated systematically. We performed a thorough assessment of such research, evaluating urban wildlife pu[...]
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Martine Maron, Auteur ;
Richard J. Hobbs, Auteur ;
Atte Moilanen, Auteur ;
Jeffrey W. Matthews, Auteur ;
Kimberly Christie, Auteur ;
Toby A. Gardner, Auteur ;
David A. Keith, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
Clive A. McAlpine, Auteur
The science and practice of ecological restoration are increasingly being called upon to compensate for the loss of biodiversity values caused by development projects. Biodiversity offsetting compensating for losses of biodiversity at an impact [...]
Article
Grzegorz Orlowski, Auteur
Article
Raphael K. Didham, Auteur ;
Robert M. Ewers, Auteur
An accurate estimate of the impact of edge effects is essential for the conservation management of threatened species in isolated habitat fragments. In a seminal paper, Laurance and Yensen (1991) developed the first generalized predictive model [...]
Article
Linda Y. Rutledge, Auteur ;
Paul J. Wilson, Auteur ;
Cornelya F. C. Kluetsch, Auteur ;
Brent R. Patterson, Auteur ;
Bradley N. White, Auteur
The use of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in wildlife conservation is growing rapidly and promises to revolutionize the field of population genetics. However, genomic data should not be interpreted in isolation of other biolo[...]
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Norman W. H. Mason, Auteur ;
Anne-Gaelle E. Ausseil, Auteur ;
John R. Dymond, Auteur ;
Jake McC Overton, Auteur ;
Robbie Price, Auteur ;
Fiona E. Carswell, Auteur
Ecological restoration is crucial for increasing biodiversity in highly modified landscapes, but non-biodiversity objectives, such as environmental impact reduction, are increasingly being used to set restoration priorities. While there is some [...]
Article
Nathan B. Piekielek, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Hansen, Auteur
U.S. National Park Service land managers face a variety of challenges to preserving the biodiversity in their parks. A principle challenge is to minimize the impacts of surrounding land use on park condition and biodiversity. In the absence of i[...]
Article
Michael Schaub, Auteur
Energy production with wind turbines is increasing, because this form of energy production is CO(2) neutral and renewable, and because wind power is subsidised in many countries. However, wind turbines are not without impact on biodiversity, rat[...]
Article
Mark W. Schwartz, Auteur ;
Kristy Deiner, Auteur ;
Tavis Forrester, Auteur ;
Patrick Grof-Tisza, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Muir, Auteur ;
Maria J. Santos, Auteur ;
Levi E. Souza, Auteur ;
Marit L. Wilkerson, Auteur ;
Maxine Zylberberg, Auteur
The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (OS), and its software platform Miradi, are becoming central tools for conservation management. There is, however, very little literature on either after 5 years of widespread implementation. W[...]
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Line B. Djupstrom, Auteur ;
Jan Weslien, Auteur ;
Jan ten Hoopen, Auteur ;
Leif Martin Schroeder, Auteur
Forest restoration measures, such as dead wood retention and creation at the time of final felling, increase the amount of dead trees and should benefit a large proportion of species dependent on sun-exposed dead wood. In this study, the value o[...]
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Scott A. Heppell, Auteur ;
Brice X. Semmens, Auteur ;
Stephanie K. Archer, Auteur ;
Christy V. Pattengill-Semmens, Auteur ;
Philippe G. Bush, Auteur ;
Croy M. McCoy, Auteur ;
Selina S. Heppell, Auteur ;
Bradley C. Johnson, Auteur
Many spawning aggregations of marine fishes have been fished beyond the point of sustainability, leading to increased calls for protection through seasonal and/or site-specific fishery closures. Once a closure has been put in place, monitoring t[...]
