| Titre : | Biological Conservation 158 - FEB 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Balazs A. Lukacs, Auteur ;
Gabor Sramko, Auteur ;
Attila Molnar, Auteur
Temporary pools are unusual habitats because they share features of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are habitats of community interests according to the Natura 2000 network (Natura code: 3130 and 3170), and can be found in several clima[...]
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Richard J.-P. Davies, Auteur ;
Molly A. Whalen, Auteur ;
Duncan A. Mackay, Auteur ;
David Taylor, Auteur ;
Philip Pisanu, Auteur
Soil collected from 38 sites on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, containing small remnants of senescent Eucalyptus cneorifolia-dominated mallee, was subject ex situ to both smoke aerosol and heat treatment to simulate burning. Further soil fr[...]
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Florence Noel, Auteur ;
Nathalie Machon, Auteur ;
Alexandre Robert, Auteur
Classical ecological theories state that the viability of small metapopulations is critically related to: (1) the correlation of local population dynamics, (2) the possibility of extinct patch re-colonisation, and (3) the effects of genetic dete[...]
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Josep Rost, Auteur ;
Richard L. Hutto, Auteur ;
Lluis Brotons, Auteur ;
Pere Pons, Auteur
Postfire salvage logging is currently a controversial issue because of the impact that the removal of snags has on ecosystem structure and function. Although it is a common practice worldwide, the absence of comparisons across regions hinders th[...]
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Perrine Gauthier, Auteur ;
Yoann Foulon, Auteur ;
Olivier Jupille, Auteur ;
John D. Thompson, Auteur
Identifying species priorities for management and regional conservation plans requires explicit consideration of the relative vulnerability of their habitats. In this paper we propose an objective methodology to quantify habitat vulnerability ba[...]
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Martin J. Westgate, Auteur ;
Gene E. Likens, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Adaptive Management (AM) is widely considered to be the best available approach for managing biological systems in the presence of uncertainty. But AM has arguably only rarely succeeded in improving biodiversity outcomes. There is therefore an u[...]
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Nancy Shackelford, Auteur ;
Richard J. Hobbs, Auteur ;
Nicole E. Heller, Auteur ;
Lauren M. Hallett, Auteur ;
Timothy R. Seastedt, Auteur
Throughout the history of invasion biology, there has been long-standing and sometimes fierce debate on the perception and management of non-native species. Some argue that non-native species are universally undesirable for their unpredictabilit[...]
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Jodi S. Brandt, Auteur ;
Michelle A. Haynes, Auteur ;
Tobias Kuemmerle, Auteur ;
Donald M. Waller, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur
Worldwide, changing climates and land use practices are escalating woody-plants encroachment into grasslands, reducing biodiversity and altering ecosystem functions. The loss of alpine grasslands is a major conservation concern as they harbor ma[...]
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Travis Longcore, Auteur ;
Catherine Rich, Auteur ;
Pierre Mineau, Auteur ;
Beau MacDonald, Auteur ;
Daniel G. Bert, Auteur ;
Lauren M. Sullivan, Auteur ;
Erin Mutrie, Auteur ;
Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Auteur ;
Michael L. Avery, Auteur ;
Robert L. Crawford, Auteur ;
Albert M. Manville, Auteur ;
Emilie R. Travis, Auteur ;
David Drake, Auteur
Birds migrating to and from breeding grounds in the United States and Canada are killed by the millions in collisions with lighted towers and their guy wires. Avian mortality at towers is highly variable across species, and the importance to eac[...]
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Jennifer K. Costanza, Auteur ;
Jack Weiss, Auteur ;
Aaron Moody, Auteur
Scientifically informed conservation goals do not always align with what is accomplished in practice, leading to the so-called "knowing-doing gap". One reason why the knowing-doing gap exists may be that scientific recommendations often do not a[...]
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Laura Cavallero, Auteur ;
Estela Raffaele, Auteur ;
Marcelo A. Aizen, Auteur
Remnant trees or artificial perches in burned areas can favor passive restoration through the perch effect. Birds consuming fruits in remnant vegetation patches or unburned adjacent communities are expected to defecate or regurgitate seeds as th[...]
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Marco Pautasso, Auteur ;
Gregor Aas, Auteur ;
Valentin Queloz, Auteur ;
Ottmar Holdenrieder, Auteur
Common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is a keystone tree species throughout temperate Europe whose future existence is threatened by an emerging invasive fungal disease. Ash dieback, which first appeared in Poland in the 1990s, has rapidly spread to m[...]
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Paul Schuette, Auteur ;
Aaron P. Wagner, Auteur ;
Meredith E. Wagner, Auteur ;
Scott Creel, Auteur
Although carnivores are in global decline, diverse carnivore communities are common in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 20 species may co-occur. Though intraguild competition and predation can limit the set of species that coexist, most carni[...]
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Clive R. McMahon, Auteur ;
Robert Harcourt, Auteur ;
Patrick Bateson, Auteur ;
Mark A. Hindell, Auteur
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Vanessa J. Mintzer, Auteur ;
Anthony R. Martin, Auteur ;
Vera M. F. da Silva, Auteur ;
Andrew B. Barbour, Auteur ;
Kai Lorenzen, Auteur ;
Thomas K. Frazer, Auteur
The Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), or boto, is illegally harvested for use as bait in fisheries for the catfish Calophysus macropterus. To determine the effect of this harvest, we estimated apparent survival for a boto population in th[...]
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Ian T. Little, Auteur ;
Philip A. R. Hockey, Auteur ;
Raymond Jansen, Auteur
In this study, we investigated the responses of two faunal groups, birds and arthropods, to varying degrees of disturbance caused by fire and grazing in South Africa, eight study sites of varying fire frequency and stocking density were studied [...]
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L. David Mech, Auteur
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Road verges are refuges for small mammal populations in extensively managed Mediterranean landscapes
Pablo Ruiz-Capillas, Auteur ;
Cristina Mata, Auteur ;
Juan E. Malo, Auteur
Understanding how roads affect the persistence of animal populations is one of the challenges of road ecology. Small mammals are of great interest on account of their value as indicators of environmental impacts and their key role in ecosystems.[...]
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Zoe Austin, Auteur ;
David G. Raffaelli, Auteur ;
Piran C. L. White, Auteur
The management of wildlife and its impacts on biodiversity is likely to be most successful where ecological understanding is integrated with the economic and social drivers for management, and where the attitudes and behaviour of stakeholders ar[...]
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Emily Hanna, Auteur ;
Marcel Cardillo, Auteur
Comparative studies of extinction risk in vertebrate taxa often find that a small geographic range size is the strongest predictor of a high rate of species decline. This suggests that narrowly distributed species are more vulnerable to human im[...]
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Michelle Hang Gi Wong, Auteur ;
Renqiang Li, Auteur ;
Ming Xu, Auteur ;
Yongcheng Long, Auteur
Species with distributions severely restricted and isolated by human-related factors are of a challenge to niche modelers. And for those species that have high dietary plasticity and tolerance to different climatic conditions, such as Yunnan snu[...]
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Kerong Zhang, Auteur ;
Yulong Zhang, Auteur ;
Hua Tian, Auteur ;
Xiaoli Cheng, Auteur ;
Haishan Dang, Auteur ;
Quanfa Zhang, Auteur
The conflicts between ecological sustainability and economic development are difficult to resolve, especially in poverty-stricken rural areas. Unfortunately, extreme poverty and biodiversity hotspots are often geographically coincident. Here, we[...]
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Xue Chang, Auteur ;
Rui-Chang Quan, Auteur ;
Lin Wang, Auteur
Tropical forests support high levels of avian diversity but these areas have been impacted by extensive deforestation. The lowland tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna in southwest China is one such impacted hotspot. In this region, rubber (Heve[...]
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Tanis M. Gieselman, Auteur ;
Karen E. Hodges, Auteur ;
Mark Vellend, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation alters the edges of remnant habitat patches. We examined changes in the plant community and soil in relation to distance from edge and edge type for shrub-steppe and pine savannah grasslands in southern British Columbia, Ca[...]
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William E. Peterman, Auteur ;
Sheena M. Feist, Auteur ;
Raymond D. Semlitsch, Auteur ;
Lori S. Eggert, Auteur
Peripheral populations of wide-ranging species are often of special conservation concern, and knowledge of genetic diversity, gene flow, and historical population dynamics are critical to informed management of these populations. In this study w[...]
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T. J. Drinan, Auteur ;
G. N. Foster, Auteur ;
B. H. Nelson, Auteur ;
J. O'Halloran, Auteur ;
S. S. C. Harrison, Auteur
Small blanket bog lakes can contain many rare and threatened aquatic invertebrate species. Their conservation value, however, is threatened throughout Europe by peat extraction and particularly conifer afforestation, which can compromise the phy[...]
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Arliss J. Winship, Auteur ;
Michael R. O'Farrell, Auteur ;
Michael S. Mohr, Auteur
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation method commonly used to evaluate the expected performance of harvest strategies with respect to target populations. However, MSE is also useful for evaluating strategies designed to manage inc[...]
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Noam Levin, Auteur ;
James E. M. Watson, Auteur ;
Liana N. Joseph, Auteur ;
Hedley S. Grantham, Auteur ;
Liat Hadar, Auteur ;
Naomi Apel, Auteur ;
Avi Perevolotsky, Auteur ;
Niv DeMalach, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Salit Kark, Auteur
Active and dynamic management of biodiversity is of utmost importance in the face of increasing human pressures on nature. Current approaches for site selection of protected areas often assume that both conservation features and management actio[...]
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Fabricio Villalobos, Auteur ;
Andres Lira-Noriega, Auteur ;
Jorge Soberon, Auteur ;
Hector T. Arita, Auteur
Current claims of biodiversity crisis call for immediate conservation actions. These require the identification of priority sites for conservation based on an assessment of biodiversity patterns. Patterns of species richness are crucial in such [...]
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Anne Villemey, Auteur ;
Aurélien Besnard, Auteur ;
Jimmy Grandadam, Auteur ;
Julien Eidenschenck, Auteur
Animal restocking is a widely used conservation tool to restore relict populations of endangered species. However, success of such operations is often low due to poor short-term survival and experimental evidence is required to improve restockin[...]
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W. D. Riley, Auteur ;
P. I. Davison, Auteur ;
D. L. Maxwell, Auteur ;
B. Bendall, Auteur
There has been a decline in the abundance of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) despite significant conservation measures designed to reduce fishing mortality. Populations at the southern edge of their historical distribution, where anthropogenic imp[...]
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Juliette C. Young, Auteur ;
Andrew Jordan, Auteur ;
Kate R. Searle, Auteur ;
Adam Butler, Auteur ;
Daniel S. Chapman, Auteur ;
Peter Simmons, Auteur ;
Allan D. Watt, Auteur
The establishment of protected areas, such as Natura 2000, is a common approach to curbing biodiversity loss. But many of these areas are owned or managed by private actors. Policies indicate that their involvement should be encouraged to ensure[...]
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Frederico V. Faleiro, Auteur ;
Ricardo B. Machado, Auteur ;
Rafael D. Loyola, Auteur
Creating and managing protected areas is critical to ensure the persistence of species but dynamic threats like land-use change and climate change may reduce the effectiveness of protected areas planned under a static approach. Here we defined s[...]
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Francois Chiron, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur
Control to limit damage caused by undesirable organisms at the country level is a common management practice but its effects on the target populations are usually unknown. Monitoring consequences of control is however important to design and mea[...]
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Christopher A. Searcy, Auteur ;
Emilio Gabbai-Saldate, Auteur ;
H. Bradley Shaffer, Auteur
There have been many studies of microhabitat use in forest-dwelling amphibians, but very few for grassland specialists. This study examines habitat use of the endangered California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense), which inhabits grass[...]
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Beatrice Conradie, Auteur ;
Martina Treurnicht, Auteur ;
Karen Esler, Auteur ;
Mirijam Gaertner, Auteur
The conservation opportunity literature increasingly emphasises opportunity cost as an important determinant of willingness to engage in conservation on private land. We investigated the explanatory power of a group of opportunity cost variables[...]
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Maryke Gray, Auteur ;
Justin Roy, Auteur ;
Linda Vigilant, Auteur ;
Katie Fawcett, Auteur ;
Augustin Basabose, Auteur ;
Mike Cranfield, Auteur ;
Prosper Uwingeli, Auteur ;
Innocent Mburanumwe, Auteur ;
Edwin Kagoda, Auteur ;
Martha M. Robbins, Auteur
Monitoring changes in the population dynamics of endangered species is crucial to effective conservation strategies. The mountain gorilla population of the Virunga Massif has been the subject of intensive conservation efforts, research and sever[...]
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Nino Maag, Auteur ;
Theresa Karpati, Auteur ;
Kurt Bollmann, Auteur
River engineering and the subsequent loss and fragmentation of riparian habitats during recent centuries have had serious impacts on the distribution and population size of many riverine species. Thus it is important to identify the characterist[...]
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Jennifer K. Frey, Auteur
It is widely accepted that the red fox subspecies of southeastern North America (Vulpes vulpes fulva) is descended from red foxes imported from Europe to the American colonies for sport hunting. Thus, V. v. fulva is considered an exotic invasive[...]
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Yanbo Li, Auteur ;
Wenjun Li, Auteur ;
Chengcheng Zhang, Auteur ;
Mingming Fan, Auteur
Many studies conducted a decade ago indicated that funding shortages were a major constraint on the effective management of China's nature reserves. However, with the rapid growth of China's economy, both the number of reserves and the correspon[...]
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Elizabeth H. Boughton, Auteur ;
Patrick J. Bohlen, Auteur ;
Christen Steele, Auteur
Semi-natural grasslands have become increasingly important to conservation in both temperate and subtropical regions due to their diversity and escalating pressures toward conversion or abandonment. As more semi-natural grasslands are incorporat[...]
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Eileen S. Burns, Auteur ;
Sandor F. Toth, Auteur ;
Robert G. Haight, Auteur
Reserve site selection models can be enhanced by including habitat conditions that populations need for food, shelter, and reproduction. We present a new population protection function that determines whether minimum areas of land with desired h[...]
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Matthew Becker, Auteur ;
Rachel McRobb, Auteur ;
Fred Watson, Auteur ;
Egil Droge, Auteur ;
Benson Kanyembo, Auteur ;
James Murdoch, Auteur ;
Catherine Kakumbi, Auteur
Wire snare snare poaching is widespread in Africa yet snaring trends, patterns and the impacts of by-catch on non-target threatened species such as elephant (Loxodonta africana), lion (Panthera leo) and African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) are poorl[...]
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Lisa Mandle, Auteur ;
Tamara Ticktin, Auteur
Most of the world's remaining terrestrial biodiversity exists in tropical ecosystems affected by human activities. Despite the threats to seasonally dry tropical ecosystems, little is known about the impact of human land use change on their cons[...]
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Beth A. Middleton, Auteur
Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing. The objective of this review was to compare notes on the historical and current management of ecosy[...]
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Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, Auteur ;
Rikke Guldborg Hansen, Auteur ;
Kristin Westdal, Auteur ;
Randall R. Reeves, Auteur ;
Anders Mosbech, Auteur
There is great interest in exploring and exploiting hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic, and one of the main methods of locating and assessing such resources is seismic survey. Marine seismic surveys involve the use of airguns that introduce hig[...]
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A. Falcucci, Auteur ;
L. Maiorano, Auteur ;
G. Tempio, Auteur ;
L. Boitani, Auteur ;
P. Ciucci, Auteur
The wolf is naturally recolonizing the Alpine range. Potentially, eight different countries are affected, clearly calling for transboundary management planning. In this framework, using the partitioned Mahalanobis distance, and considering envir[...]
