| Titre : | Biological Conservation 159 - MAR 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Meritxell Genovart, Auteur ;
Giacomo Tavecchia, Auteur ;
Juan Jose Ensenat, Auteur ;
Paola Laiolo, Auteur
From childhood to adulthood we receive a lot of information on animal key species with a high charismatic value. Flagships species are also frequently used to raise awareness, stimulate conservation and to increase political support for conserva[...]
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Marieke Sassen, Auteur ;
Douglas Sheil, Auteur ;
Ken E. Giller, Auteur ;
Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Auteur
Protected forests are sometimes encroached by surrounding communities. But patterns of cover change can vary even within one given setting - understanding these complexities can offer insights into the effective maintenance of forest cover. Usin[...]
Article
Tomas E. Murray, Auteur ;
Mary F. Coffey, Auteur ;
Eamonn Kehoe, Auteur ;
Finbarr G. Horgan, Auteur
Worldwide, wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are experiencing marked declines, with potentially up to 11% of species currently under threat. Recent studies from North America suggest that disease transmission from commercially reared bumble bees to[...]
Article
Piotr Skorka, Auteur ;
Magdalena Lenda, Auteur ;
Dawid Moron, Auteur ;
Konrad Kalarus, Auteur ;
Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur
Little is known of the impact of roads on insect mortality. This is a significant gap, because road verges are regarded as an important tool for insect conservation. In this study, we investigated which factors affect the number of roadkills in [...]
Article
Xiaoli Shen, Auteur ;
Sheng Li, Auteur ;
Nyima Chen, Auteur ;
Shengzhi Li, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur ;
Zhi Lu, Auteur
Article
Matthew Hiron, Auteur ;
Ake Berg, Auteur ;
Sonke Eggers, Auteur ;
Tomas Part, Auteur
Farmland biodiversity continues to decline because changes in modern agriculture have led to the degradation and loss of key habitats. One farmland habitat that has received little attention during development of conservation measures is farmste[...]
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Natalie Stoeckl, Auteur ;
Sue Jackson, Auteur ;
Francis Pantus, Auteur ;
Marcus Finn, Auteur ;
Mark J. Kennard, Auteur ;
Bradley J. Pusey, Auteur
We use data and insights from several inter-related but independent projects conducted over 6 years (2006-11) in the Daly River catchment in Australia's Northern Territory to explore the potential impacts of 'development' on Indigenous and non-I[...]
Article
Jesse R. Newby, Auteur ;
L. Scott Mills, Auteur ;
Toni K. Ruth, Auteur ;
Daniel H. Pletscher, Auteur ;
Michael S. Mitchell, Auteur ;
Howard B. Quigley, Auteur ;
Kerry M. Murphy, Auteur ;
Rich DeSimone, Auteur
An understanding of how stressors affect dispersal attributes and the contribution of local populations to multi-population dynamics are of immediate value to basic and applied ecology. Puma (Puma concolor) populations are expected to be influen[...]
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Sarah Bauduin, Auteur ;
Julien Martin, Auteur ;
Holly H. Edwards, Auteur ;
Olivier Gimenez, Auteur ;
Stacie M. Koslovsky, Auteur ;
Daniel E. Fagan, Auteur
Collisions between wildlife and vehicles represent a large source of mortality for many species. To implement effective protection zones, it is important to identify areas in which wildlife-vehicle collisions are likely to occur. We used statist[...]
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William F. Laurance, Auteur ;
Bernard Dell, Auteur ;
Stephen M. Turton, Auteur ;
Michael J. Lawes, Auteur ;
Lindsay B. Hutley, Auteur ;
Hamish Mccallum, Auteur ;
Patricia Dale, Auteur ;
Michael Bird, Auteur ;
Giles Hardy, Auteur ;
Gavin Prideaux, Auteur ;
Ben Gawne, Auteur ;
Clive R. McMahon, Auteur ;
Richard Yu, Auteur ;
Jean-Marc Hero, Auteur ;
Lin Schwarzkopf, Auteur ;
Andrew Krockenberger, Auteur ;
Samantha A. Setterfield, Auteur ;
Michael Douglas, Auteur ;
Ewen Silvester, Auteur ;
Michael Mahony, Auteur ;
Karen Vella, Auteur ;
Udoy Saikia, Auteur ;
Carl-Henrik Wahren, Auteur ;
Zhihong Xu, Auteur ;
Bradley Smith, Auteur ;
Chris Cocklin, Auteur
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Kitessa Hundera, Auteur ;
Raf Aerts, Auteur ;
Matthias De Beenhouwer, Auteur ;
Koen Van Overtveld, Auteur ;
Kenny Helsen, Auteur ;
Bart Muys, Auteur ;
Olivier Honnay, Auteur
The moist evergreen Afromontane forest of SW Ethiopia has become extremely fragmented and most of the remnants are intensively managed for cultivation of coffee (Coffee arabica), with considerable impacts on forest structure, biodiversity and ec[...]
Article
Kadri Runnel, Auteur ;
Raul Rosenvald, Auteur ;
Asko Lohmus, Auteur
The expanding practice of live-tree retention on clear-cuts represents a model case for conservation planning, because the high mortality of those trees requires balancing conflicting management goals in unpredictable conditions over long time f[...]
Article
A. F. Ferreira, Auteur ;
B. R. Quintella, Auteur ;
C. Maia, Auteur ;
C. S. Mateus, Auteur ;
C. M. Alexandre, Auteur ;
C. Capinha, Auteur ;
P. R. Almeida, Auteur
The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis (L), and the European brook lamprey, Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784), are considered highly threatened in Portugal. However, the lack of information about the ecology and distribution of these spec[...]
Article
Simon Hedges, Auteur ;
Arlyne Johnson, Auteur ;
Marissa Ahlering, Auteur ;
Martin Tyson, Auteur ;
Lori S. Eggert, Auteur
Non-invasive DNA-based capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods have been developed to estimate population size and other parameters and have the advantage that samples can be collected without the need to see or disturb the animals. There are, howe[...]
Article
Uttam Babu Shrestha, Auteur ;
Kamaljit S. Bawa, Auteur
Unsustainable trade in wildlife is regarded as a major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Unregulated wildlife trade propels over-exploitation of species, resulting in population declines, and often in combination with other [...]
Article
Carlos P. Carmona, Auteur ;
Francisco M. Azcarate, Auteur ;
Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Auteur ;
Jose A. Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Begona Peco, Auteur
Scattered trees in agricultural landscapes are globally declining due to the intensification of agricultural practices. Dehesas, highly species-diverse Mediterranean open woodlands, are seriously affected by this decline, because of a generalize[...]
Article
Leonie K. Fischer, Auteur ;
Moritz von der Lippe, Auteur ;
Matthias C. Rillig, Auteur ;
Ingo Kowarik, Auteur
In many areas of the world, grassland species have declined due to intensified agriculture and abandonment of unproductive sites. In rural areas, restoration approaches seek to counteract this loss. Additional potential for grassland restoration[...]
Article
Dian Spear, Auteur ;
Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Auteur ;
Hugo Bezuidenhout, Auteur ;
Melodie A. McGeoch, Auteur
Understanding the drivers of biological invasions, across taxa and regions, is important for designing appropriate management interventions. However there has been no work that has examined potential drivers of both plant and animal invasions, f[...]
Article
Martha M. Zarco-Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Octavio Monroy-Vilchis, Auteur ;
Jorge Alaniz, Auteur
Predation on livestock is one of the main factors that cause the felids hunting, in particular for puma and jaguar this conflict with humans is severe. Most studies have assessed the predation impacts on livestock production; however there is a [...]
Article
Catherine Boudreault, Auteur ;
Darwyn Coxson, Auteur ;
Yves Bergeron, Auteur ;
Susan Stevenson, Auteur ;
Mathieu Bouchard, Auteur
In boreal forests, partial cutting is increasingly proposed as a suitable alternative to the widespread use of clearcutting in order to conciliate forest management with habitat conservation for epiphytic species. We compared the growth of two e[...]
Article
Ralf Schmiede, Auteur ;
Eszter Ruprecht, Auteur ;
R. Lutz Eckstein, Auteur ;
Annette Otte, Auteur ;
Tobias W. Donath, Auteur
The transfer of freshly cut seed-containing plant material is a widely applied method to re-establish grassland of high biodiversity. Still, the amount of plant material applied varies greatly across restoration projects. Therefore, we set up a [...]
Article
Catherine Avon, Auteur ;
Yann Dumas, Auteur ;
Laurent Berges, Auteur
The question of the interaction between management practices and road effects on forest biodiversity is of critical interest for sustainable practices and the conservation of forest communities. Forest road improvement and easier access to stand[...]
Article
Mathias W. Tobler, Auteur ;
George V. N. Powell, Auteur
Camera traps have become the main method for estimating jaguar (Panthera onca) densities. Over 74 studies have been carried out throughout the species range following standard design recommendations. We reviewed the study designs used by these s[...]
Article
Tessa Mazor, Auteur ;
Noam Levin, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Yaniv Levy, Auteur ;
Duccio Rocchini, Auteur ;
Anthony J. Richardson, Auteur ;
Salit Kark, Auteur
Artificial night lights pose a major threat to multiple species. However, this threat is often disregarded in conservation management and action because it is difficult to quantify its effect. Increasing availability of high spatial-resolution s[...]
Article
Annette Kolb, Auteur ;
Walter Durka, Auteur
A large threat to biological diversity worldwide is habitat fragmentation, with negative effects on organisms arising as a result of changes in the abiotic or biotic environment and via changes in genetic processes. We examined genetic diversity[...]
Article
Virgilio Hermoso, Auteur ;
Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur
The use of biodiversity surrogates is inevitable in conservation planning due to the frequent lack of consistent data on biodiversity patterns and processes. Top-down environmental classifications (coarse-filter surrogates) are the most common a[...]
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Karel Douda, Auteur
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Willem F. de Boer, Auteur ;
Frank van Langevelde, Auteur ;
Herbert H. T. Prins, Auteur ;
Peter C. de Ruiter, Auteur ;
Julian Blanc, Auteur ;
Marc J. P. Vis, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Iain Douglas Hamilton, Auteur
The densities and survival of many wild animals are presently at risk. Crucial for improving conservation actions is an understanding on a large scale of the relative importance of human and ecological factors in determining the distribution and[...]
Article
Christina K. A. Geijer, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Read, Auteur
Bycatch in fishing gear is one of the most pressing conservation issues facing marine mammals today. In the United States a formal regime to address bycatch of marine mammals was adopted in 1994 as Amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act [...]
Article
Marjaana Toivonen, Auteur ;
Irina Herzon, Auteur ;
Juha Helenius, Auteur
A novel agri-environment scheme for Environmental Fallows (EFs) was introduced in Finland to replace a former obligatory set-aside under the Common Agricultural Policy. It currently keeps fallow at nearly 7% of the agricultural land area and the[...]
Article
Annika M. Felton, Auteur ;
Adam Felton, Auteur ;
Damian I. Rumiz, Auteur ;
Nelly Villaroel, Auteur ;
Colin A. Chapman, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
There is an extensive ecological literature documenting the importance of fig trees (Ficus spp.) as providers of food and other resources for many tropical animals. What is less apparent is that some Fic-us species form free-standing stems that [...]
Article
Jayme L. Waldron, Auteur ;
Shane M. Welch, Auteur ;
Stephen H. Bennett, Auteur ;
Wade G. Kalinowsky, Auteur ;
Timothy A. Mousseau, Auteur
Delayed maturation and age-biased dispersal work in concert under past selection to maximize individual fitness and contribute to population viability; however, these life history attributes can become dysfunctional in a dynamic, anthropogenic l[...]
Article
Renato Crouzeilles, Auteur ;
Maria Lucia Lorini, Auteur ;
Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Auteur
Functional connectivity, which represents the animal movement responses to landscape elements, should be considered when configuring protected areas. Each habitat patch has a different contribution to functional connectivity. Functional connecti[...]
Article
Fabio S. Albuquerque, Auteur ;
Maria Jose T. Assuncao-Albuquerque, Auteur ;
Luis Cayuela, Auteur ;
Regino Zamora, Auteur ;
Blas M. Benito, Auteur
Based on spatial distribution maps for 495 breeding bird species inhabiting mainland Europe, we examined whether bird richness is well represented by the protected areas under the European Birds and Habitats Directives. The former regulates the [...]
Article
Jessica L. O'Connell, Auteur ;
Lacrecia A. Johnson, Auteur ;
Benjamin J. Beas, Auteur ;
Loren M. Smith, Auteur ;
Scott T. McMurry, Auteur ;
David A. Haukos, Auteur
Isolated wetlands are often degraded by agriculture, increasing sediment accretion and altering plant composition. Two common opposing wetland restoration practices are self-design vs. intensive revegetation. Self-design restores hydrogeomorphol[...]
Article
Su Li, Auteur ;
Wen-Yao Liu, Auteur ;
Da-Wen Li, Auteur
Anthropogenic disturbances can severely impact the abundant lichen epiphyte communities of subtropical forests due to habitat loss, fragmentation and alteration. To assess the potential of anthropogenic secondary forests as conservation sites fo[...]
Article
Roy M. Frings, Auteur ;
Susanne C. K. Vaessen, Auteur ;
Harald Gross, Auteur ;
Sebastian Roger, Auteur ;
Holger Schuettrumpf, Auteur ;
Henner Hollert, Auteur
The invasion of non-native signal crayfish into European ecosystems has resulted in a drastic reduction of native European crayfish, with adverse effects on ecosystems and fisheries. This study aimed to determine whether native crayfish can be p[...]
Article
Shanan Atkins, Auteur ;
Geremy Cliff, Auteur ;
Neville Pillay, Auteur
Humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) in South Africa are classified as Vulnerable and one quantifiable threat is accidental mortality in the shark nets in KwaZulu-Natal. We investigated the spatial, temporal and life history patterns of this bycatc[...]
Article
Miguel Ferrer, Auteur ;
Ian Newton, Auteur ;
Roberto Muriel, Auteur
The Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti) is one of the most endangered raptors in the world. The population of Donana National Park (south-western Spain) suffered a dramatic decline from 1990 on, after a long period of stability. The high a[...]
Article
Luke J. Welton, Auteur ;
Cameron D. Siler, Auteur ;
Glades W. Linkem, Auteur ;
Arvin C. Diesmos, Auteur ;
Mae L. Diesmos, Auteur ;
Emerson Sy, Auteur ;
Rafe M. Brown, Auteur
We provide a phylogenetic and population genetic evaluation of the illegal pet and bush meat trade of monitor lizards in the Philippines. We use a molecular dataset assembled from vouchered samples with known localities throughout the country, a[...]
Article
Dolors Armenteras, Auteur ;
Tania Marisol Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Javier Retana, Auteur
The ecological characteristics of forest edges have been intensively studied in the Amazon region, but the occurrence and intensity of fires as large-scale edge effects are less well known, as is the role of different types of management in modi[...]
Article
Miguel Pedrono, Auteur ;
Owen L. Griffiths, Auteur ;
Alison Clausen, Auteur ;
Lora L. Smith, Auteur ;
Christine J. Griffiths, Auteur ;
Lucienne Wilme, Auteur ;
David A. Burney, Auteur
The extinctions of keystone megafauna during the Pleistocene and Holocene continue to affect extant species and ecosystems. This is particularly acute in southern and western Madagascar where two now extinct species of giant tortoises were once [...]
Article
Carlos De Angelo, Auteur ;
Agustin Paviolo, Auteur ;
Thorsten Wiegand, Auteur ;
Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Auteur ;
Mario S. Di Bitetti, Auteur
Habitat models constitute useful instruments for understanding species-habitat interactions and can constitute helpful conservation tools. The Upper Parana Atlantic Forest (UPAF) of South America still holds the world's southernmost jaguar (Pant[...]
Article
Andrew Solow, Auteur ;
Sugoto Roy, Auteur ;
Christina Bell, Auteur ;
Jo Milborrow, Auteur ;
David Roberts, Auteur
Although there is general agreement that the pine marten was recently introduced to the Isle of Mull, there is uncertainty about when. According to a persistent local rumor, the species was clandestinely introduced in 1986. A novel statistical a[...]
Article
Petra Lindemann-Matthies, Auteur ;
Thomas Marty, Auteur
Private gardens can incorporate a diversity of habitats for wild species and also provide a valuable network for meta-populations. Recently, attempts have been made to promote garden practices that increase native biodiversity and structural het[...]
Article
Katie Leach, Auteur ;
Samy Zalat, Auteur ;
Francis Gilbert, Auteur
Concerns about the impacts of climate change loom large among biodiversity scientists. A pressing issue is the role of Protected Area networks under future climate change, because of the shifting of species distributions polewards due to climate[...]
Article
Alessandro Catenazzi, Auteur ;
Rudolf von May, Auteur ;
Vance T. Vredenburg, Auteur
The amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is causing population declines and species extirpations worldwide. Montane amphibians in tropical and temperate regions are especially vulnerable to chytridiomycosis. High-elevation amph[...]
Article
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur
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Belinda J. Newman, Auteur ;
Philip Ladd, Auteur ;
Mark Brundrett, Auteur ;
Kingsley W. Dixon, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation can significantly affect plant reproductive success and ultimately population viability, but little is known about the magnitude, direction or time scale of these impacts on plant-pollinator mutualisms. In this study, four [...]
Article
Gerardo Jimenez, Auteur ;
Leandro Melendez, Auteur ;
Guillermo Blanco, Auteur ;
Paola Laiolo, Auteur
The study of the mechanisms involved in phenotypic adaptations or plasticity to environmental stressors may serve to evaluate contemporary ecological and evolutionary dynamics in threatened or growing wildlife populations. By addressing human di[...]
Article
Mathias W. Tobler, Auteur ;
Samia E. Carrillo-Percastegui, Auteur ;
Alfonso Zuniga Hartley, Auteur ;
George V. N. Powell, Auteur
Over 80% of the currently occupied range of the jaguar (Panthera onca) lies in the Amazon. However, few density estimates exist for this habitat. Between 2005 and 2010 we carried out six camera trap surveys at three different sites in the depart[...]
Article
Jens-Eike Taeubert, Auteur ;
Bernhard Gum, Auteur ;
Juergen Geist, Auteur
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Kylie Soanes, Auteur ;
Melissa Carmody Lobo, Auteur ;
Peter A. Vesk, Auteur ;
Michael A. McCarthy, Auteur ;
Joslin L. Moore, Auteur ;
Rodney van der Ree, Auteur
Wildlife crossing structures are commonly used to mitigate the barrier and mortality impacts of roads on wildlife. For arboreal mammals, canopy bridges, glider poles and vegetated medians are used to provide safe passage across roads. However, t[...]
Article
Fiona E. Hogan, Auteur ;
Catriona Campbell, Auteur ;
Katherine A. Harrisson, Auteur ;
David Milledge, Auteur ;
Raylene Cooke, Auteur
Masked owls, reputedly all of the Tasmanian race (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops) were introduced onto Lord Howe Island (LHI) in the 1920s in an attempt to control the black rat (Rattus rattus). This attempt, however, has been unsuccessful and a[...]
Article
Alejandro Martinez-Abrain, Auteur ;
Daniel Oro, Auteur
The application of management practices based on dogmas may lead to unexpected results, and hence to the bad allocation of economic resources. This is an especially relevant subject today given that, in a context of deep economic crisis, conserv[...]
Article
Rahel Sollmann, Auteur ;
Azlan Mohamed, Auteur ;
Hiromitsu Samejima, Auteur ;
Andreas Wilting, Auteur
Camera-traps are a widely applied to monitor wildlife populations. For individually marked species, capture-recapture models provide robust population estimates, but for unmarked species, inference is often based on relative abundance indices (R[...]
Article
Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Auteur ;
Vicente Salinas-Melgoza, Auteur ;
Timothy F. Wright, Auteur
Behavioral plasticity is a strategy employed by many species to cope with both naturally occurring and human-mediated environmental variability. Such plasticity may be especially important for long-lived and wide-ranging species, such as parrots[...]
Article
Javier Nori, Auteur ;
Julian N. Lescano, Auteur ;
Patricia Illoldi-Rangel, Auteur ;
Nicolas Frutos, Auteur ;
Mario R. Cabrera, Auteur ;
Gerardo C. Leynaud, Auteur
Agricultural expansion generates problems to ecosystems and hinders conservation efforts. Although several researchers worldwide are working to develop efficient approaches for conserving biodiversity adequately, certain decisions should be take[...]
Article
Thomas Fartmann, Auteur ;
Cornelia Mueller, Auteur ;
Dominik Poniatowski, Auteur
During the past 150 years traditional forest management practices have been neglected in most parts of Central Europe with severe consequences for biodiversity. Coppicing has in the past been one of the most important forms of management for bro[...]
Article
Rick S. Taylor, Auteur ;
Simon J. Watson, Auteur ;
Andrew F. Bennett, Auteur ;
Michael F. Clarke, Auteur
Managing fire regimes for conservation of biodiversity is a global challenge. We examined the responses of birds to fire mosaics (4-km diameter landscapes) comprising different compositions of fire age-classes, and used these results to evaluate[...]
Article
J. L. Silcock, Auteur ;
T. P. Piddocke, Auteur ;
R. J. Fensham, Auteur
The rapid spread of pastoralism across Australian and North American rangelands and the lack of reference sites mean that recurring arguments about the cause and magnitude of landscape change are frustrated by the rarity of records that predate [...]
Article
Benjamin L. Allen, Auteur ;
Peter J. S. Fleming, Auteur ;
Lee R. Allen, Auteur ;
Richard M. Engeman, Auteur ;
Guy Ballard, Auteur ;
Luke K.-P. Leung, Auteur
Top-predators have been reported to have an important role in structuring food webs and maintaining ecological processes for the benefit of biodiversity at lower trophic levels. This is thought to be achieved through their suppressive effects on[...]
Article
Joyce Maschinski, Auteur ;
Samuel J. Wright, Auteur ;
Suzanne Koptur, Auteur ;
Elena C. Pinto-Torres, Auteur
Creating self-sustaining populations resilient to stochastic events is the goal of conservation reintroductions. Concern about disrupting locally co-adapted gene complexes, outbreeding depression, and hybridization has led to a "local is best pa[...]
Article
Tanya C. Skurski, Auteur ;
Bruce D. Maxwell, Auteur ;
Lisa J. Rew, Auteur
Controlling non-native plants in natural areas should, ideally, not only reduce target species' abundance, but also benefit broader management objectives such as conserving native species, improving wildlife habitat, and maintaining ecosystem fu[...]
Article
Daniela Vetter, Auteur ;
Gerta Ruecker, Auteur ;
Ilse Storch, Auteur
Numerous studies have analyzed predation risk on bird nests along forest edges, but results are inconsistent and contributing factors not well understood. Few of these studies have been carried out in tropical regions, where predator communities[...]
Article
Shinji Sugiura, Auteur ;
Ryusei Tanaka, Auteur ;
Hisatomo Taki, Auteur ;
Natsumi Kanzaki, Auteur
Forest loss and degradation can impact on ecosystem functions. Decomposition of vertebrate carcasses is an important ecosystem function in forests, and burying beetles and scavenging vertebrates is known to contribute to the provision of this fu[...]
