| Titre : | Biological Conservation 168 - DEC 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Xavier Santos, Auteur ;
Marc Cheylan, Auteur
Wildfires are common disturbances that have a major impact on ecosystems. Recent decades have seen an increase in fire frequency and extension due to the combined effects of climate change and land-use history. We studied the taxonomic and funct[...]
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Aklilu Mekasha, Auteur ;
Lisanework Nigatu, Auteur ;
Kindie Tesfaye, Auteur ;
Alan J. Duncan, Auteur
Global warming is forcing plant and animal species to respond either through pole-ward or upslope migration to adjust to temperature increases, and grassland communities are not an exception to this phenomenon. In this study, we modeled the resp[...]
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Cordula Betz, Auteur ;
Martin Scheuerer, Auteur ;
Christoph Reisch, Auteur
In this study, we evaluated the reinforcement of Pulsatilla vernalis, a rare and endangered plant species which strongly declined in Central Europe during the last decades. Actually, only nine remnant populations of the Spring Pasque flower stil[...]
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Fride Hoistad Schei, Auteur ;
Hans H. Blom, Auteur ;
Ivar Gjerde, Auteur ;
John-Arvid Grytnes, Auteur ;
Einar Heegaard, Auteur ;
Magne Saetersdal, Auteur
Retention of selected trees in clear-felling areas has become an important conservation measure in managed forests. Trees with large size or high age are usually preferred as retention trees. In this paper we investigated whether a single large [...]
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Matts Lindbladh, Auteur ;
Shawn Fraver, Auteur ;
Johannes Edvardsson, Auteur ;
Adam Felton, Auteur
The importance of long-term historical information derived from paleoecological studies has long been recognized as a fundamental aspect of effective conservation. However, there remains some uncertainty regarding the extent to which paleoecolog[...]
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Arjen E. Buijs, Auteur ;
Birgit H. M. Elands, Auteur
Understanding people's way of thought on the natural environment may improve communication and collaboration between professionals and stakeholders from the general public. Focusing on similarities and differences between professionals and the p[...]
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Shu Chen, Auteur ;
Zhuang-Fang Yi, Auteur ;
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Auteur ;
Ming-Yong Chen, Auteur ;
Edward L. Webb, Auteur
Insurance may encourage coexistence between farmers and wildlife by reimbursing farmers' losses. China introduced an insurance scheme to mitigate human-elephant conflict in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan Province, where elepha[...]
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Panu Halme, Auteur ;
Peter Odor, Auteur ;
Morten Christensen, Auteur ;
Andrej Piltaver, Auteur ;
Mirjam Veerkamp, Auteur ;
Ruben Walleyn, Auteur ;
Iren Siller, Auteur ;
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Auteur
Intensive forest management creates habitat degradation by reducing the variation of forest stands in general, and by removing old trees and dead wood in particular. Non-intervention forest reserves are commonly believed to be the most efficient[...]
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Clara Peron, Auteur ;
David Grémillet, Auteur ;
Aurelien Prudor, Auteur ;
Emeline Pettex, Auteur ;
Claire Saraux, Auteur ;
Andrea Soriano-Redondo, Auteur ;
Matthieu Authier, Auteur ;
Jérôme Fort, Auteur
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being established across all marine regions but their validity for the conservation of highly mobile marine vertebrates has been questioned. We tested the hypothesis that French coastal MPAs primarily designed f[...]
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Richard Whittet, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Ellis, Auteur
For lichen epiphytes the loss of trees from a site represents a complete break in the availability of their primary habitat. Epiphytic species are therefore expected to provide powerful indicators for the ecological continuity of woodlands. Suit[...]
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Matthew J. Smith, Auteur ;
Graham J. Forbes, Auteur ;
Matthew G. Betts, Auteur
Reduced movement across a landscape due to habitat loss and fragmentation is considered one of the primary reasons for species' population declines. Gliding mammals, such as the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), are expected to be p[...]
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Reid Tingley, Auteur ;
Rod A. Hitchmough, Auteur ;
David G. Chapple, Auteur
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Kerey K. Barnowe-Meyer, Auteur ;
P. J. White, Auteur ;
Lisette P. Waits, Auteur ;
John A. Byers, Auteur
Individual behavior promotes genetic structure within many mammalian populations, yet few studies have explored coarse- and fine-scale structure associated with migration. Fewer still have considered the conservation implications of such structu[...]
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Joanne M. Monks, Auteur
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Toni Laaksonen, Auteur ;
Aleksi Lehikoinen, Auteur
When many environmental changes take place simultaneously, one of the first challenges for conservation efforts is to identify the species and environments that are in the most need of conservation measures. We studied whether there are differen[...]
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Chris J. Johnson, Auteur
Increasingly, conservation professionals and regulatory agencies are attempting to identify ecological thresholds that define a point at which populations or communities demonstrate a marked response to human disturbance. Such thresholds may ser[...]
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Scott R. Loss, Auteur ;
Tom Will, Auteur ;
Peter P. Marra, Auteur
Wind energy has emerged as a promising alternative to fossil fuels, yet the impacts of wind facilities on wildlife remain unclear. Prior studies estimate between 10,000 and 573,000 fatal bird collisions with U.S. wind turbines annually; however,[...]
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A risk-based approach to rapidly screen vulnerability of cetaceans to impacts from fisheries bycatch
Susie L. Brown, Auteur ;
David Reid, Auteur ;
Emer Rogan, Auteur
The potential risk to cetacean species from direct interaction with fisheries was assessed using a screening procedure based on a Productivity Susceptibility Analysis (PSA). The procedure incorporated productivity attributes specific to cetacean[...]
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K. S. Gopi Sundar, Auteur ;
Swati Kittur, Auteur
Wetlands in tropical agricultural landscapes are maintained largely by local institutions explicitly for human use, which is assumed to deter biodiversity. Conservation efforts have been biased towards protecting large wetlands that are assumed [...]
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Maria Trivino, Auteur ;
Mar Cabeza, Auteur ;
Wilfried Thuiller, Auteur ;
Thomas Hickler, Auteur ;
Miguel B. Araújo, Auteur
Conservation priority areas and programs are often established without consideration of future changes in species distributions. However, global change is expected to threaten the persistence of several species while offering opportunities for r[...]
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Irene M. McKechnie, Auteur ;
Risa D. Sargent, Auteur
The vast majority of plant species, including one-third of crops, require a pollinator in order to set seed. While habitat disturbance has been shown to reduce the abundance and species richness of native bee species, a comprehensive study of th[...]
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Alessandro Catenazzi, Auteur ;
Sarah J. Kupferberg, Auteur
Predicting the vulnerability of species to environmental change requires integrating observations of individual ecophysiological and behavioral responses with community level constraints. To assess the response of stream-breeding frogs (Rana boy[...]
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Doug P. Armstrong, Auteur ;
Nikki McArthur, Auteur ;
Susanne Govella, Auteur ;
Kate Morgan, Auteur ;
Rachel Johnston, Auteur ;
Nic Gorman, Auteur ;
Rhonda Pike, Auteur ;
Yvan Richard, Auteur
Dispersal from release areas is a critical problem for reintroductions. Reliable methods are therefore needed for analysing post-release monitoring data to guide further releases. Radio tracking can greatly improve data quality by distinguishing[...]
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Clara J. Rodriguez-Zarate, Auteur ;
Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares, Auteur ;
Luciano B. Beheregaray, Auteur
Information on the demographic and genetic consequences of overexploitation of large marine vertebrates is often difficult to demonstrate on ecological time scales. We investigate the genetic impacts of recent commercial activities along Mexico'[...]
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Andres Ordiz, Auteur ;
Richard Bischof, Auteur ;
Jon E. Swenson, Auteur
Large terrestrial carnivores, e.g. wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their position at the apex of trophic systems. Changes to their populations reverberate through ecological communities; consequently their widespread decli[...]
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Anthony J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Kyle H. Elliott, Auteur ;
Yan Ropert-Coudert, Auteur ;
Akiko Kato, Auteur ;
Christie A. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Mark L. Mallory, Auteur ;
H. Grant Gilchrist, Auteur
Mapping areas of conservation concern for wildlife in the Arctic is urgently required to evaluate the impact of accelerating development in northern regions. There is substantial evidence that large seabird colonies reduce the availability of fo[...]
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Fred Watson, Auteur ;
Matthew S. Becker, Auteur ;
Rachel McRobb, Auteur ;
Benson Kanyembo, Auteur
Wire-snare poaching is fueling the rapidly growing illegal bushmeat trade in Africa's savanna ecosystems given the region's relatively abundant wildlife, increasing commercial bushmeat demand, and burgeoning human populations; thus understanding[...]
