| Titre : | Biological Conservation 165 - SEP 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Ricardo Dobrovolski, Auteur ;
Rafael D. Loyola, Auteur ;
Francois Guilhaumon, Auteur ;
Sidney F. Gouveia, Auteur ;
José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Auteur
Global conservation prioritization must address conflicting land uses. We tested for spatial congruence between agricultural expansion in the 21st century and priority areas for carnivore conservation worldwide. We evaluated how including agricu[...]
Article
Jordan A. Thomson, Auteur ;
Andrew B. Cooper, Auteur ;
Derek A. Burkholder, Auteur ;
Michael R. Heithaus, Auteur ;
Lawrence M. Dill, Auteur
Effective conservation requires reliable data on the abundance and distribution of animals in space and time. During ship-based or aerial surveys for diving marine vertebrates such as sea turtles and marine mammals, a proportion of animals in a [...]
Article
Reid Tingley, Auteur ;
Rod A. Hitchmough, Auteur ;
David G. Chapple, Auteur
A species' vulnerability to extinction depends on extrinsic threats such as habitat loss, as well as its intrinsic ability to respond or adapt to such threats. Here we investigate the relative roles of extrinsic threats and intrinsic biological [...]
Article
Orin J. Robinson, Auteur ;
Nina H. Fefferman, Auteur ;
Julie L. Lockwood, Auteur
Invasive predators can have substantial effects on their native prey and often there is a need for rapid action to quell this impact. Conservation action is often employed on behalf of the native prey by means of predator removal or birth contro[...]
Article
G. W. W. Wamelink, Auteur ;
B. de Knegt, Auteur ;
R. Pouwels, Auteur ;
C. Schuiling, Auteur ;
R. M. A. Wegman, Auteur ;
A. M. Schmidt, Auteur ;
H. F. van Dobben, Auteur ;
M. E. Sanders, Auteur
Many habitats and species have their existence threatened, especially in densely populated areas such as Western Europe. To stop the decline of biodiversity, the Natura 2000 network is being set-up. The ultimate objective is to get all habitat t[...]
Article
Douglas J. McCauley, Auteur ;
Eleanor A. Power, Auteur ;
Douglas W. Bird, Auteur ;
Alex McInturff, Auteur ;
Robert B. Dunbar, Auteur ;
William H. Durham, Auteur ;
Fiorenza Micheli, Auteur ;
Hillary S. Young, Auteur
Remote areas harbor some of the world's most undisturbed ecosystems. Major conservation gains can be made by effectively protecting nature in these remote zones. Conducting conservation work in remote settings presents both unique challenges and[...]
Article
Tara G. Martin, Auteur ;
Peter Arcese, Auteur ;
Petra M. Kuhnert, Auteur ;
Anthony J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Jean-Louis Martin, Auteur
Prior scientific knowledge inspires ecological research, hypotheses and debate but is rarely used explicitly to formulate predictive models. Bayesian statistics provide a formal way to include informative priors and evaluate their influence on p[...]
Article
Akira S. Mori, Auteur ;
Thomas A. Spies, Auteur ;
Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Auteur ;
Angela Andrade, Auteur
Climate change is one of the significant concerns in land and resource management, creating an urgent need to build social-ecological capacity to address widespread and uncertain environmental changes. Given the diversity and complexity of ecolo[...]
Article
Melissa J. Bruton, Auteur ;
Clive A. McAlpine, Auteur ;
Martine Maron, Auteur
Protection of passive regrowth, or secondary vegetation, offers the potential to cost-effectively alleviate biodiversity declines caused by deforestation. This potential often goes unrealised because the habitat value of regrowth is generally co[...]
Article
A. Marm Kilpatrick, Auteur ;
Ryan J. Peters, Auteur ;
Alan P. Dupuis, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Jones, Auteur ;
Peter Daszak, Auteur ;
Peter P. Marra, Auteur ;
Laura D. Kramer, Auteur
Numerous diseases of wildlife have recently emerged due to trade and travel. However, the impact of disease on wild animal populations has been notoriously difficult to detect and demonstrate, due to problems of attribution and the rapid disappe[...]
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Modeling harvest rates and numbers from age and sex ratios: A demonstration for elephant populations
Karpagam Chelliah, Auteur ;
Harshvardhan Bukka, Auteur ;
Raman Sukumar, Auteur
Illegal harvest rates of wildlife populations are often unknown or difficult to estimate from field data due to under-reporting or incomplete detection of carcasses. This is especially true for elephants that are killed for ivory or in conflicts[...]
Article
Azusa Makino, Auteur ;
Maria Beger, Auteur ;
Carissa J. Klein, Auteur ;
Stacy D. Jupiter, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur
Coral reefs are threatened by human activities both on the land and in the sea. However, standard approaches for prioritizing locations for marine and terrestrial reserves neglect to consider connections between ecosystems. We demonstrate an int[...]
Article
Julian R. W. Reid, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Colloff, Auteur ;
Anthony D. Arthur, Auteur ;
Heather M. McGinness, Auteur
River regulation and water resource development have resulted in significant deterioration in aquatic ecosystems worldwide, including reductions in wetland extent, changed flow regimes, and declines in biodiversity. The impacts on the compositio[...]
Article
Youbing Zhou, Auteur ;
Christina D. Buesching, Auteur ;
Chris Newman, Auteur ;
Yayoi Kaneko, Auteur ;
Zongqiang Xie, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur
Despite economic benefits, particularly in developing countries, ecotourism can have unintended negative consequences for wildlife conservation in protected areas (PAs). We report the effects of tourist Trail-Type and -Use on the incidence of ma[...]
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Frederic Beaudry, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur ;
Anna M. Pidgeon, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Plantinga, Auteur ;
David J. Lewis, Auteur ;
David Helmers, Auteur ;
Van Butsic, Auteur
Land use is driven by socio-economic factors that must be understood in order to mitigate habitat loss. Econometric land-use models describe how land use is affected by socio-economic factors, such as financial returns to different uses of land,[...]
Article
Claire Christian, Auteur ;
David Ainley, Auteur ;
Megan Bailey, Auteur ;
Paul Dayton, Auteur ;
John Hocevar, Auteur ;
Michael LeVine, Auteur ;
Jordan Nikoloyuk, Auteur ;
Claire Nouvian, Auteur ;
Enriqueta Velarde, Auteur ;
Rodolfo Werner, Auteur ;
Jennifer Jacquet, Auteur
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Hyohyemi Lee, Auteur ;
Josu G. Alday, Auteur ;
Angus Rosenburgh, Auteur ;
Michael Harris, Auteur ;
Hugh McAllister, Auteur ;
Rob H. Marrs, Auteur
Moorlands on blanket bog are high-priority ecosystems from a conservation viewpoint in the British Isles; they are often managed through using prescribed burning to increase their productivity for sheep and Red grouse. However, there is an incre[...]
Article
Lawrence Damnyag, Auteur ;
Olli Saastamoinen, Auteur ;
Dominic Blay, Auteur ;
Francis K. Dwomoh, Auteur ;
Luke C. N. Anglaaere, Auteur ;
Ari Pappinen, Auteur
Although protected areas in Africa contain possibly the highest repositories of carbon and thus can play a role in mitigating the effects of climate change through carbon sequestration, they are threatened due to increasing levels of deforestati[...]
Article
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Liana N. Joseph, Auteur ;
Judit Szabo, Auteur ;
Tara G. Martin, Auteur
Citizen science is on the rise. Aided by the internet, the popularity and scope of citizen science appears almost limitless. For citizens the motivation is to contribute to "real" science, public information and conservation. For scientists, cit[...]
Article
Nicolas L. Gutierrez, Auteur ;
David J. Agnew, Auteur
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Anna Brueniche-Olsen, Auteur ;
Christopher P. Burridge, Auteur ;
Jeremy J. Austin, Auteur ;
Menna E. Jones, Auteur
Infectious diseases of wildlife reduce population size and may erode genetic diversity, constituting an extinction threat. The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is threatened with extinction by an infectious cancer, the devil facial tumour [...]
Article
Mario Ferreira, Auteur ;
Pedro Beja, Auteur
In farmland landscapes, amphibians often breed in artificial water bodies, which may offset at least partly the loss of natural wetlands associated with agricultural intensification. It is possible, however, that artificial habitats provide cond[...]
Article
Alejandro Martinez-Abrain, Auteur ;
Covadonga Viedma, Auteur ;
Juan Antonio Gomez, Auteur ;
Miguel Angel Bartolome, Auteur ;
Juan Jimenez, Auteur ;
Meritxell Genovart, Auteur ;
Simone Tenan, Auteur
Information on the effectiveness of wildlife management actions is scarce, despite the great relevance of this type of information for maximizing conservation goals while minimizing resource expenditure. Here we assess the management effectivene[...]
Article
Thomas W. Bonnot, Auteur ;
Frank R. Thompson, Auteur ;
Joshua J. Millspaugh, Auteur ;
D. Todd Jones-Farrand, Auteur
Efforts to conserve regional biodiversity in the face of global climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation will depend on approaches that consider population processes at multiple scales. By combining habitat and demographic modeling, landsc[...]
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Moreno Di Marco, Auteur ;
Carlo Rondinini, Auteur ;
Luigi Boitani, Auteur ;
Kris A. Murray, Auteur
Anthropogenic threats drive species to extinction and are the focus of extinction risk analyses and conservation planning. Threats are often quantified through higher level proxies, such as the human footprint (HF). We tested the effects that mu[...]
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Giulia Sozio, Auteur ;
Alessio Mortelliti, Auteur ;
Luigi Boitani, Auteur
A crucial factor in determining the persistence of animal populations in fragmented landscapes is the individual's ability to move through a hostile man-made environment (the agricultural matrix). Previous studies suggested appropriate orientati[...]
