| Titre : | Biological Conservation 160 - APR 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Vivienne Foroughirad, Auteur ;
Janet Mann, Auteur
To promote close encounters with wildlife, humans sometimes provision wild animals with food. However such practices can be harmful, and the impacts of human provisioning on wild animals can be difficult to determine, especially indirect effects[...]
Article
Charles G. Waters, Auteur ;
Richard Story, Auteur ;
Mark J. Costello, Auteur
Many coral reef ecosystems throughout the Indo-Pacific and Oceania are experiencing rapid declines and local extinctions of Tridacna species of giant clam, a commercially harvested and ecologically significant bivalve. Tridacna maxima, once nume[...]
Article
Belinda Gallardo, Auteur ;
David C. Aldridge, Auteur
Climate change and invasive species are two major biodiversity threats expected to provoke extinctions of many species in the future. This study evaluates the joint threat posed by climate change and two invasive species: the zebra mussel (Dreis[...]
Article
Alessandro Tanferna, Auteur ;
Lidia Lopez-Jimenez, Auteur ;
Julio Blas, Auteur ;
Fernando Hiraldo, Auteur ;
Fabrizio Sergio, Auteur
Preserving large predators is important but challenging because these species are typically wide-ranging, select multiple habitats at different scales and often present spatial or habitat separation between the breeder and floater sectors of a p[...]
Article
Sandra Andraka, Auteur ;
Moises Mug, Auteur ;
Martin Hall, Auteur ;
Maite Pons, Auteur ;
Lucas Pacheco, Auteur ;
Manuel Parrales, Auteur ;
Liliana Rendon, Auteur ;
Maria L. Parga, Auteur ;
Takahisa Mituhasi, Auteur ;
Alvaro Segura, Auteur ;
David Ortega, Auteur ;
Erick Villagran, Auteur ;
Sara Perez, Auteur ;
Celina de Paz, Auteur ;
Salvador Siu, Auteur ;
Velkiss Gadea, Auteur ;
Julian Caicedo, Auteur ;
Luis A. Zapata, Auteur ;
Jimmy Martinez, Auteur ;
Pablo Guerrero, Auteur ;
Michael Valqui, Auteur ;
Nick Vogel, Auteur
Since 2004, governments and non-governmental organizations, together with the fishing communities from nine countries, from Mexico to Peru, have implemented joint efforts to reduce incidental mortality of sea turtles in artisanal longline fisher[...]
Article
Serge Andrefouet, Auteur ;
Simon Van Wynsberge, Auteur ;
Nabila Gaertner-Mazouni, Auteur ;
Christophe Menkes, Auteur ;
Antoine Gilbert, Auteur ;
Georges Remoissenet, Auteur
In 2004, the first no-take area (NTA) dedicated to the conservation of giant clams Tridacna maxima was implemented in Tatakoto Atoll, French Polynesia. This NTA protected a unique area worldwide, with extraordinarily high giant clam densities (u[...]
Article
Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Auteur ;
Sonia M. Hernandez, Auteur ;
John P. Carroll, Auteur ;
Kyler J. Abernathy, Auteur ;
Greg J. Marshall, Auteur
Domestic cats (Fells catus) are efficient and abundant non-native predators. Predation by domestic cats remains a topic of considerable social and scientific debate and warrants attention using improved methods. Predation is likely a function of[...]
Article
Scott M. Pedley, Auteur ;
Aldina M. A. Franco, Auteur ;
Tim Pankhurst, Auteur ;
Paul M. Dolman, Auteur
Creation of ecological networks is advocated to increase the viability of regional populations and their resilience to climatic and land-use change with associated habitat fragmentation and loss. However, management of network elements should be[...]
Article
Joshua H. Schmidt, Auteur ;
Carol L. Mcintyre, Auteur ;
Margaret C. MacCluskie, Auteur
A primary objective of ecological monitoring programs typically includes the efficient detection of population trends. Passerines as a group are important ecological indicators and are often included in such programs to provide information on mu[...]
Article
Wayne E. Thogmartin, Auteur ;
Carol A. Sanders-Reed, Auteur ;
Jennifer A. Szymanski, Auteur ;
Patrick C. McKann, Auteur ;
Lori Pruitt, Auteur ;
R. Andrew King, Auteur ;
Michael C. Runge, Auteur ;
Robin E. Russell, Auteur
White-nose syndrome, a novel fungal pathogen spreading quickly through cave-hibernating bat species in east and central North America, is responsible for killing millions of bats. We developed a stochastic, stage-based population model to foreca[...]
Article
Iris E. Hendriks, Auteur ;
Simone Tenan, Auteur ;
Giacomo Tavecchia, Auteur ;
Nuria Marba, Auteur ;
Gabriel Jorda, Auteur ;
Salud Deudero, Auteur ;
Elvira Alvarez, Auteur ;
Carlos M. Duarte, Auteur
The decline of important coastal habitats, like seagrass meadows, is likely to influence populations of associated species, like the noble pen shell, Pinna nobilis. Here we used a Bayesian formulation of individual covariate models to derive a r[...]
Article
Elizabeth H. Parlato, Auteur ;
Doug P. Armstrong, Auteur
For any reintroduction it is important to maximise the probability of released individuals establishing in the target area (settling and surviving to breed). Factors influencing establishment have typically been studied at single sites, making i[...]
Article
America P. Duran, Auteur ;
Jason Rauch, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur
The global protected area (PA) system has a key role to play in biological conservation, and it is thus vital to understand the factors that are likely to limit this potential. Attention to date has focused foremost on the consequences of biases[...]
Article
Peter Andrew Lindsey, Auteur ;
Guy Balme, Auteur ;
Matthew Becker, Auteur ;
Colleen Begg, Auteur ;
Carlos Bento, Auteur ;
Clara Bocchino, Auteur ;
Amy Dickman, Auteur ;
Richard W. Diggle, Auteur ;
Heather Eves, Auteur ;
Philipp Henschel, Auteur ;
Dale Lewis, Auteur ;
Kelly Marnewick, Auteur ;
Jaco Mattheus, Auteur ;
J. Weldon McNutt, Auteur ;
Rachel McRobb, Auteur ;
Neil Midlane, Auteur ;
James Milanzi, Auteur ;
Robert Morley, Auteur ;
Michael Murphree, Auteur ;
Vincent Opyene, Auteur ;
Joe Phadima, Auteur ;
Gianetta Purchase, Auteur ;
Dennis Rentsch, Auteur ;
Christopher Roche, Auteur ;
Joanne Shaw, Auteur ;
Hugo van der Westhuizen, Auteur ;
Nathalie Van Vliet, Auteur ;
Patience Zisadza-Gandiwa, Auteur
The bushmeat trade, or the illegal acquisition and exchange of wild meat, has long been recognised as a severe problem in forest biomes, but receives little attention in savannas, perhaps due to a misconception that bushmeat hunting is a low-imp[...]
Article
Sara E. Kuebbing, Auteur ;
Martin A. Nunez, Auteur ;
Daniel Simberloff, Auteur
Though biological invasion studies have proliferated in recent decades, a consistent emphasis remains on the study of single-species invasions. Here, we juxtapose the number of invasive plants reported as co-occurring within conservation habitat[...]
Article
Todd C. Stevenson, Auteur ;
Brian N. Tissot, Auteur ;
William J. Walsh, Auteur
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been implemented across the globe to protect marine biodiversity, critical habitats, and to enhance commercially harvested fish stocks. Although ecological effects of MPAs are well documented, their impacts on [...]
Article
Arvid Bergsten, Auteur ;
Orjan Bodin, Auteur ;
Frauke Ecke, Auteur
Conservation planning is challenging in landscapes where reoccurring habitat destruction and subsequent recovery affect metapopulation persistence, because different species respond differently to landscape change. By building on a graph-theoret[...]
Article
Mattia Brambilla, Auteur ;
Marco Gustin, Auteur ;
Claudio Celada, Auteur
Conservation of animal species should start from real needs of protection and intervention shown by species and their habitats, but it is often driven by the perception which humans have of species, as the latter enables fund raising and attract[...]
Article
Bruce C. Chessman, Auteur
Trait analysis has potential to identify species that are vulnerable to climate change, but its predictive strength has not been adequately examined. Conditions during the recent 'Millennium Drought' in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin resembled[...]
Article
Jan Plue, Auteur ;
Sara A. O. Cousins, Auteur
Despite a good understanding on how dispersal in space structures plant communities in fragmented landscapes, we know little about dispersal in time. Empirical evidence on temporal dispersal - the soil seed bank - is lacking, with only trait-bas[...]
Article
Pauline E. Quesnelle, Auteur ;
Lenore Fahrig, Auteur ;
Kathryn E. Lindsay, Auteur
Worldwide declines in wetland birds and turtles are attributed to landscape-scale habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic land use. However, due to multi-collinearity, the relative importance of these factors is largely unknown. We[...]
Article
Amanda D. Rodewald, Auteur ;
Laura J. Kearns, Auteur ;
Daniel P. Shustack, Auteur
In contrast to the well-documented changes in avian community structure in urbanizing areas, the demographic consequences of urbanization remain less understood. As such, we examined the extent to which an urbanizing landscape matrix affected av[...]
Article
Anni Arponen, Auteur ;
Risto K. Heikkinen, Auteur ;
Riikka Paloniemi, Auteur ;
Juha Poyry, Auteur ;
Jukka Simila, Auteur ;
Mikko Kuussaari, Auteur
Agricultural intensification is a major driver of biodiversity decline throughout Europe. Agri-environment schemes governed by EU regulation are a significant tool in combating this decline but despite high spending, experiences of their effecti[...]
Article
Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Auteur ;
Barbara I. P. Barratt, Auteur ;
Cor J. Vink, Auteur ;
Adrian M. Paterson, Auteur ;
Robert H. Cruickshank, Auteur ;
Colin M. Ferguson, Auteur ;
Diane M. Barton, Auteur
Restoration programs for human-disturbed ecosystems rely on a good understanding of how recovery occurs. This requires elucidating the underlying succession process, which depends on species adaptations, their interactions, and the spatiotempora[...]
Article
Neal M. Williams, Auteur ;
Rachael Winfree, Auteur
Habitat loss from urban development threatens native plant populations in many regions of the world. In addition to direct plant mortality, urban intensification potentially impacts pollinator communities and in turn disrupts the pollination mut[...]
Article
Ruben G. Mateo, Auteur ;
Manuel de la Estrella, Auteur ;
Angel M. Felicisimo, Auteur ;
Jesus Munoz, Auteur ;
Antoine Guisan, Auteur
Knowledge about spatial biodiversity patterns is a basic criterion for reserve network design. Although herbarium collections hold large quantities of information, the data are often scattered and cannot supply complete spatial coverage. Alterna[...]
Article
S. Hamel, Auteur ;
S. T. Killengreen, Auteur ;
J.-A. Henden, Auteur ;
N. G. Yoccoz, Auteur ;
R. A. Ims, Auteur
Ecosystems alterations can profoundly affect species occurrence and distribution, thereby influencing trophic and/or competitive interactions. Arctic foxes have been fully protected in Fennoscandia following their drastic decline in the early 19[...]
Article
Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Auteur ;
Colleen T. Webb, Auteur ;
Stewart W. Breck, Auteur ;
Kenneth R. Wilson, Auteur
Human-dominated landscapes offer spatially concentrated and reliable food resources that attract wildlife and lead to human-wildlife conflicts. Conflict management is often directed at humans (e.g., education) to reduce attractants, or foraging [...]
Article
Caroline A. Polgar, Auteur ;
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Ernest H. Williams, Auteur ;
Sharon Stichter, Auteur ;
Colleen Hitchcock, Auteur
The effect of climate change on the phenology of plants and birds of eastern North America has been well studied in recent years, but insects have received less attention. In this study we investigated whether the response to climate warming of [...]
Article
Hilary Gilbert, Auteur
This paper examines the relationship between scientific research, political understandings and conservation policy. It presents a case, the St Katherine Protectorate, South Sinai, Egypt, where conservation policy has been driven by a dominant na[...]
Article
William J. Ripple, Auteur ;
Aaron J. Wirsing, Auteur ;
Christopher C. Wilmers, Auteur ;
Mike Letnic, Auteur
Herein, we posit a link between the ecological extinction of wolves in the American West and the expansion in distribution, increased abundance, and inflated ecological influence of coyotes. We investigate the hypothesis that the release of this[...]
