| Titre : | Biological Conservation 167 - NOV 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Michelle O. Stewart, Auteur ;
Kathryn E. Bushley, Auteur ;
Yang Yongping, Auteur
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Catalina Vasquez-Carrillo, Auteur ;
R. William Henry, Auteur ;
Laird Henkel, Auteur ;
M. Zachariah Peery, Auteur
Population monitoring programs for threatened species are rarely designed to disentangle the effects of movements from changes in birth and death rates on estimated trends in abundance. Here, we illustrate how population and genetic monitoring c[...]
Article
Kristine E. Mazur, Auteur ;
Stanley T. Asah, Auteur
Top-order predator recovery and conservation is notoriously contentious and often leads to research efforts to understand stakeholder attitudes. Where unfavorable attitudes are identified, efforts have focused on changing those attitudes instead[...]
Article
John C. Withey, Auteur
Many terrestrial species of birds have been observed to depend on large contiguous areas of forest; in the tropics this appears to be especially true for terrestrial insectivores. Far less is understood about how more-common species, that are le[...]
Article
Yoan Fourcade, Auteur ;
Jan O. Engler, Auteur ;
Aurélien G. Besnard, Auteur ;
Dennis Roedder, Auteur ;
Jean Secondi, Auteur
The Red List classification of IUCN has become one of the most important evaluations of threats that affect biodiversity at the species level. However, many estimations of species range, one essential factor in the Red List classification, are d[...]
Article
Robert B. Wielgus, Auteur ;
Dana Eleanor Morrison, Auteur ;
Hilary S. Cooley, Auteur ;
Ben Maletzke, Auteur
Carnivore populations are often managed based on the density dependent, compensatory mortality model, which suggests that trophy hunting of males causes an increase in female reproductive success, survival, and population growth. Our previous re[...]
Article
Tomoyo F. Koyanagi, Auteur ;
Takuya Furukawa, Auteur
To integrate monitoring and conservation of biodiversity at multiple spatial scales, biodiversity indicators measured at coarse spatial scales should be linked with anthropogenic pressures reported at finer scales. Applying the Red List Index (R[...]
Article
Uttam Babu Shrestha, Auteur ;
Kamaljit S. Bawa, Auteur
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Lydia C. L. Teh, Auteur ;
Louise S. L. Teh, Auteur ;
Robecca Jumin, Auteur
High human reliance on marine resources in developing countries is a challenge for implementing marine protected areas, which usually seek to limit or restrict fishing in selected areas. Fishers' spatial preferences should be considered during t[...]
Article
Dan E. Chamberlain, Auteur ;
Matteo Negro, Auteur ;
Enrico Caprio, Auteur ;
Antonio Rolando, Auteur
Climate change has resulted in upward elevational shifts in the distribution of animals and plants in many areas. The potential consequences of such changes for alpine bird communities were assessed by modelling data on breeding bird distributio[...]
Article
Alberto Suarez-Esteban, Auteur ;
Miguel Delibes, Auteur ;
Jose M. Fedriani, Auteur
Hypothetical low-quality habitats can hold an overlooked conservation value. Some frugivorous mammals such as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) disperse many viable seeds of fleshy-fruited shrubs along t[...]
Article
B. G. Curley, Auteur ;
T. M. Glasby, Auteur ;
A. J. Curley, Auteur ;
R. G. Creese, Auteur ;
M. J. Kingsford, Auteur
Reviews of global studies suggest that even small no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) can have localized benefits on harvested organisms of varying mobility. The generality of this conclusion, however, has been questioned due to poor experimen[...]
Article
Astrid V. Stronen, Auteur ;
Paul C. Paquet, Auteur
Hybridization processes are widespread throughout the taxonomic range and require conservation recognition. Science can help us understand hybridization processes but not whether and when we ought to conserve hybrids. Important questions include[...]
Article
Audrey Delsink, Auteur ;
Abi T. Vanak, Auteur ;
Sam Ferreira, Auteur ;
Rob Slotow, Auteur
The African elephant is an important keystone species that may have significant effects on ecosystem structure and eco-tourism revenues. In Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa, where elephant populations have been increasing, management hav[...]
Article
Tania Minhos, Auteur ;
Emily Wallace, Auteur ;
Maria J. Ferreira da Silva, Auteur ;
Rui M. Sa, Auteur ;
Marta Carmo, Auteur ;
Andre Barata, Auteur ;
Michael W. Bruford, Auteur
Hunting for bushmeat consumption is a major threat to wild populations. Assessing trade at markets provides a commonly used measure of its intensity and impact. However, most carcasses arrive at markets already processed, which can pose serious [...]
Article
J. L. Tella, Auteur ;
A. Rojas, Auteur ;
M. Carrete, Auteur ;
F. Hiraldo, Auteur
The IUCN Red List is challenged with assessing the conservation status of species on which reliable demographic and distribution parameters are lacking. The hotly debated SAFE index, however, measures the "species' ability to forestall extinctio[...]
Article
Jacob R. Hudson, Auteur ;
James L. Hanula, Auteur ;
Scott Horn, Auteur
Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) is an invasive shrub of the Southeastern U.S. that forms dense stands and limits biodiversity. It was removed from heavily infested riparian forests of the Georgia Piedmont in 2005 by mulching machine or chains[...]
Article
Joanna T. Staley, Auteur ;
James M. Bullock, Auteur ;
Katherine C. R. Baldock, Auteur ;
John W. Redhead, Auteur ;
Danny A. P. Hooftman, Auteur ;
Nick Button, Auteur ;
Richard F. Pywell, Auteur
Hedgerows provide key habitat and refuges for wildlife in otherwise intensively-managed landscapes, and may play a role in connecting increasingly fragmented habitats. However, the processes governing changes to the floral biodiversity of hedges[...]
Article
Alexandre Miro, Auteur ;
Marc Ventura, Auteur
High mountain lakes are naturally fishless, although many have had introductions of non-native fish species, predominantly trout. Predation on native fauna by introduced trout involves profound ecological changes. The objective of this study was[...]
Article
Dara M. Wald, Auteur ;
Susan K. Jacobson, Auteur ;
Julie K. Levy, Auteur
Conflict over the management of outdoor cats has contributed to debate between animal welfare and wildlife advocates and stymied efforts to control outdoor cats. We distributed a mail survey to a random sample of participants in Trap-Neuter-Retu[...]
Article
Guy Rotem, Auteur ;
Yaron Ziv, Auteur ;
Itamar Giladi, Auteur ;
Amos Bouskila, Auteur
Intensive agricultural activity over large areas on earth, which is necessary to meet the increasing demand of a growing human population, may lead to biodiversity loss. This loss may be mitigated by keeping natural and semi-natural patches with[...]
Article
M. Bellio, Auteur ;
R. T. Kingsford, Auteur
Many of the world's lagoons and estuaries, representing the most important habitat for shorebirds, are increasingly degraded, often associated with dramatic declines in shorebirds, particularly in Asia. We investigated effects of hydrology on sh[...]
Article
J. Leighton Reid, Auteur ;
Ellen K. Holste, Auteur ;
Rakan A. Zahawi, Auteur
Artificial roosts have been proposed as a tool for augmenting bat populations and catalyzing tropical forest regeneration. In the best case scenario, roosts would attract seed-carrying bats (Family Phyllostomidae) into degraded pastures and form[...]
Article
Zachary A. Schakner, Auteur ;
Daniel T. Blumstein, Auteur
Marine mammal depredation of fisheries is a concern from a scientific, management, and conservation perspective. This conflict has prompted the development of non-lethal deterrents, a management technique that uses aversive stimuli to elicit avo[...]
Article
Nargila G. Moura, Auteur ;
Alexander C. Lees, Auteur ;
Christian B. Andretti, Auteur ;
Bradley J. W. Davis, Auteur ;
Ricardo R. C. Solar, Auteur ;
Alexandre Aleixo, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Joice Ferreira, Auteur ;
Toby A. Gardner, Auteur
Habitat loss and degradation is the most pervasive threat to tropical biodiversity worldwide. Amazonia sits at the frontline of efforts to both improve the productivity of tropical agriculture and prevent the loss of biodiversity. To date our un[...]
Article
Elaine J. Fraser, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Matthew K. Oliver, Auteur ;
Stuart Piertney, Auteur ;
Xavier Lambin, Auteur
The detrimental effect of invasive species on native ecosystems is well established and motivates management strategies to reduce their impact. Eradication can be difficult in mainland areas but control is often a feasible option, providing reco[...]
Article
Ryan P. Powers, Auteur ;
Nicholas C. Coops, Auteur ;
Trisalyn Nelson, Auteur ;
Michael A. Wulder, Auteur ;
C. Ronnie Drever, Auteur
The creation of large protected areas from naturally functioning ecosystems that are largely without anthropogenic activity is viewed as an important option for maintaining the persistence of biodiversity and for allowing natural ecological and [...]
Article
Taylor C. Cook, Auteur ;
Daniel T. Blumstein, Auteur
As human populations increase, roads are expanded and traffic increases, leading to more opportunities for animal-vehicle collisions. Roadkill is a serious threat to animal populations, and has the potential to drive threatened populations extin[...]
Article
Rohan Arthur, Auteur ;
Nachiket Kelkar, Auteur ;
Teresa Alcoverro, Auteur ;
M. D. Madhusudan, Auteur
Managing human-wildlife conflict is often complicated by apparent mismatches between community perceptions and measures of directly incurred losses. Fishers in Agatti Island (Lakshadweep, India) associate recent increases in green turtle (Chelon[...]
Article
Marco Pautasso, Auteur ;
Gregor Aas, Auteur ;
Valentin Queloz, Auteur ;
Ottmar Holdenrieder, Auteur
Article
Jennyffer Cruz, Auteur ;
Roger P. Pech, Auteur ;
Philip J. Seddon, Auteur ;
Simone Cleland, Auteur ;
Dean Nelson, Auteur ;
Mark D. Sanders, Auteur ;
Richard F. Maloney, Auteur
Identifying factors causing population declines is imperative for conserving Charadriiformes worldwide. Inference of threatening factors from single-species and single-life-stage studies is common, but may be inadequate as sympatric species can [...]
Article
Rajapandian Kanagaraj, Auteur ;
Thorsten Wiegand, Auteur ;
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Auteur ;
Surendra P. Goyal, Auteur
Most rare and endangered large carnivores such as tiger (Panthera tigris) exist in human-dominated landscapes as small, fragmented and isolated populations across their range. Connectivity between the remaining populations in the habitat fragmen[...]
Article
Panu Halme, Auteur ;
Katherine A. Allen, Auteur ;
Ainars Aunins, Auteur ;
Richard H. W. Bradshaw, Auteur ;
Guntis Brumelis, Auteur ;
Vojtech Cada, Auteur ;
Jennifer L. Clear, Auteur ;
Anna-Maria Eriksson, Auteur ;
Gina Hannon, Auteur ;
Esko Hyvarinen, Auteur ;
Sandra Ikauniece, Auteur ;
Reda Irsenaite, Auteur ;
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Auteur ;
Kaisa Junninen, Auteur ;
Santtu Kareksela, Auteur ;
Atte Komonen, Auteur ;
Janne S. Kotiaho, Auteur ;
Jari Kouki, Auteur ;
Timo Kuuluvainen, Auteur ;
Adriano Mazziotta, Auteur ;
Mikko Monkkonen, Auteur ;
Kristiina Nyholm, Auteur ;
Anna Olden, Auteur ;
Ekaterina Shorohova, Auteur ;
Niels Strange, Auteur ;
Tero Toivanen, Auteur ;
Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa, Auteur ;
Tuomo Wallenius, Auteur ;
Anna-Liisa Ylisirnio, Auteur ;
Ewa Zin, Auteur
The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation has raised the need for ecological restoration throughout different biomes and continents. North European forests may appear as one of the least vulnerable ecosystems from a global perspective, since fo[...]
Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ;
Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ;
Michael I. Evans, Auteur ;
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur
Monitoring sites of biodiversity conservation importance is essential for their conservation. It allows threats to be identified and quantified, priorities to be set, responses to be developed, and facilitates adaptive management. Field-based mo[...]
Article
Shobha S. Maharaj, Auteur ;
Mark New, Auteur
Very little empirical work has been done to assess the potential impacts of climate change upon terrestrial biodiversity within small islands, many of which contribute to global species diversity due to high levels of endemicity. This study illu[...]
Article
Grace V. Blackham, Auteur ;
Andri Thomas, Auteur ;
Edward L. Webb, Auteur ;
Richard T. Corlett, Auteur
Forested tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia are important as global carbon stores and for biodiversity conservation yet are being rapidly converted to agriculture or degraded into fire-prone non-forest vegetation. Although large areas have bee[...]
Article
Anita Diaz, Auteur ;
Sally A. Keith, Auteur ;
James M. Bullock, Auteur ;
Danny A. P. Hooftman, Auteur ;
Adrian C. Newton, Auteur
Conservation management that is focused on the scale of individual habitat patches rarely considers the implications for conservation of metacommunities at the regional scale. Here we examine the conservation implications of long-term changes id[...]
Article
M. A. Coleman, Auteur ;
A. Palmer-Brodie, Auteur ;
B. P. Kelaher, Auteur
Marine biodiversity is becoming increasingly threatened worldwide. To help address this, networks of no take marine reserves are being promoted as a means of conserving biodiversity and managing coastal resources. Many studies have demonstrated [...]
Article
T. D. Allendorf, Auteur ;
J. Yang, Auteur
Finding common ground between local residents' livelihoods and the conservation of protected areas in developing countries has been considered a challenge. Recently, ecosystem services have been used as a framework to understand the benefits tha[...]
Article
Kristina Fox, Auteur ;
Pati Vitt, Auteur ;
Kirk Anderson, Auteur ;
Gerald Fauske, Auteur ;
Steven Travers, Auteur ;
Dean Vik, Auteur ;
Marion O. Harris, Auteur
The decline of the threatened western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara Sheviak and Bowles) is associated with destruction of the tallgrass prairie in North America. The role of pollinators in conservation and recovery is not well un[...]
Article
Rahel Sollmann, Auteur ;
Natalia Mundim Torres, Auteur ;
Mariana Malzoni Furtado, Auteur ;
Anah Tereza de Almeida Jacomo, Auteur ;
Francisco Palomares, Auteur ;
Severine Roques, Auteur ;
Leandro Silveira, Auteur
Abundance and density are key pieces of information for questions related to ecology and conservation. These quantities, however, are difficult to obtain for rare and elusive species, where even intensive sampling effort can yield sparse data. H[...]
Article
Iliana Chollett, Auteur ;
Peter J. Mumby, Auteur
Ocean temperature increase is recognised as one of the major threats to the future of coral reefs. During the past 50 years, global mean temperatures have risen by 0.13 degrees C/decade, but in the Caribbean warming trends are greater, and are o[...]
Article
Wiktor Kotowski, Auteur ;
Ewa Jablonska, Auteur ;
Helena Bartoszuk, Auteur
Cessation of traditional mowing management has been the main threat to fen biodiversity for many decades; shrubs and trees expand and target plant and animal species decline. In Biebrza National Park (BNP), the EU's largest conservation area of [...]
Article
Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Auteur ;
Jeffrey S. Evans, Auteur ;
John P. Severson, Auteur ;
David E. Naugle, Auteur ;
Jeremy D. Maestas, Auteur ;
Joseph M. Kiesecker, Auteur ;
Michael J. Falkowski, Auteur ;
Christian A. Hagen, Auteur ;
Kerry P. Reese, Auteur
Conservation investment in management of at-risk species can be less costly than a delay-and-repair approach implemented after species receive legal protection. The United States Endangered Species Act candidate species designation represents an[...]
Article
Andrew Legault, Auteur ;
Jörn Theuerkauf, Auteur ;
Vivien Chartendrault, Auteur ;
Sophie Rouys, Auteur ;
Maurice Saoumoe, Auteur ;
Ludovic Verfaille, Auteur ;
Frederic Desmoulins, Auteur ;
Nicolas Barré, Auteur ;
Roman Gula, Auteur
Knowing the distribution and abundance of species is critical for conservation, yet field surveys are often limited in their spatial extent. In this study, we use ecological niche models to infer the current and future distribution of New Caledo[...]
Article
David S. Jachowski, Auteur ;
Rob Slotow, Auteur ;
Joshua J. Millspaugh, Auteur
Wildlife populations occur in increasingly fragmented landscapes, making corridor ecology important to conservation managers. Human disturbance has been identified as a proximate cause of limiting corridor use or increasing streaking behavior by[...]
Article
Colin M. Beale, Auteur ;
Sue van Rensberg, Auteur ;
William J. Bond, Auteur ;
Mike Coughenour, Auteur ;
Richard Fynn, Auteur ;
Angela Gaylard, Auteur ;
Rina Grant, Auteur ;
Brian Harris, Auteur ;
Trevor Jones, Auteur ;
Simon Mduma, Auteur ;
Norman Owen-Smith, Auteur ;
Anthony R. E. Sinclair, Auteur
Knowledge of the success or otherwise of conservation interventions is often locked within localised networks, resulting in mistakes being replicated unnecessarily. The savannahs of eastern and southern Africa are home to spectacular ecosystems [...]
Article
D. B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
W. Blanchard, Auteur ;
L. McBurney, Auteur ;
D. Blair, Auteur ;
S. C. Banks, Auteur ;
D. Driscoll, Auteur ;
A. L. Smith, Auteur ;
A. M. Gill, Auteur
Although fire is a major form of natural disturbance worldwide, both fire-derived landscape context effects and the impacts of fire severity are poorly known for many species. To address this knowledge gap, we quantified the response of Australi[...]
Article
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Auteur ;
Hans Henrik Bruun, Auteur ;
Rasmus Ejrnaes, Auteur
Article
Daniel J. Hocking, Auteur ;
Kimberly J. Babbitt, Auteur ;
Mariko Yamasaki, Auteur
In forested ecosystems timber harvesting has the potential to emulate natural disturbances, thereby maintaining the natural communities adapted to particular disturbances. We compared the effects of even-aged (clearcut and patch cut) and uneven-[...]
Article
Nicola Weber, Auteur ;
Sam B. Weber, Auteur ;
Brendan J. Godley, Auteur ;
Jacqui Ellick, Auteur ;
Matthew Witt, Auteur ;
Annette C. Broderick, Auteur
Accurate estimates of abundance are fundamental to the conservation of threatened species, but are often difficult to obtain directly. Population size assessments of marine turtles are often based on counts of nests, which are then related to ab[...]
Article
Holly Vincent, Auteur ;
John Wiersema, Auteur ;
Shelagh Kell, Auteur ;
Hannah Fielder, Auteur ;
Samantha Dobbie, Auteur ;
Nora P. Castaneda-Alvarez, Auteur ;
Luigi Guarino, Auteur ;
Ruth Eastwood, Auteur ;
Blanca Leon, Auteur ;
Nigel Maxted, Auteur
The potentially devastating impacts of climate change on biodiversity and food security, together with the growing world population, means taking action to conserve crop wild relative (CWR) diversity is no longer an option it is an urgent priori[...]
Article
Brittany W. Marsden, Auteur ;
Katharina A. M. Engelhardt, Auteur ;
Maile C. Neel, Auteur
The selection of seed stock for restoration remains a complex issue. Using local stock reduces the chances of outbreeding depression or genetic dilution, whereas mixing sources may increase diversity and counteract inbreeding depression. Evaluat[...]
Article
Cleo Bertelsmeier, Auteur ;
Gloria M. Luque, Auteur ;
Franck Courchamp, Auteur
Species distribution models (SDMs) have become an important tool to predict the impact of climate change on the distribution of a given species. Generally, projections for a chosen time horizon in the future are compared with the size of the spe[...]
