| Titre : | Biological Conservation 170 - FEB 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Joao Carlos de Castro Pena, Auteur ;
Luciana Hiromi Yoshino Kamino, Auteur ;
Marcos Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Eduardo Mariano-Neto, Auteur ;
Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Auteur
Current techniques for estimating the extent of occurrence (EOO) of species, especially those with a naturally disjunct distribution and limited available data, lead to overestimations of their geographic distributions. Accurate EOO estimates ar[...]
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J. Leighton Reid, Auteur ;
Ellen K. Holste, Auteur ;
Karen D. Holl, Auteur ;
Rakan A. Zahawi, Auteur
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Hon-Ki Chan, Auteur ;
Kevin T. Shoemaker, Auteur ;
Nancy E. Karraker, Auteur
Over 20 species of amphibians are being harvested in Asia with local consumption exceeding the volume of international export in some countries. Over-harvesting is a particular concern for large-bodied species as their life history traits often [...]
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Philip Cafaro, Auteur ;
Richard Primack, Auteur
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Detlev H. Kelm, Auteur
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Lilian Juarez, Auteur ;
Carlos Montana, Auteur ;
Miguel Franco, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation threatens the viability of increasingly isolated populations, particularly in species, such as orchids, with very specific requirements (e.g., pollination and germination). Many orchids undergo dormancy when conditions dete[...]
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Aurelie Albert, Auteur ;
Kim McConkey, Auteur ;
Tommaso Savini, Auteur ;
Marie-Claude Huynen, Auteur
Habitat disturbance has caused a global decline in populations of frugivores, with critical consequences for seed dispersal. Large-seeded plants are especially threatened as they depend on a restricted number of large-bodied dispersers that are [...]
Article
Eva M. Canadas, Auteur ;
Giuseppe Fenu, Auteur ;
Julio Penas, Auteur ;
Juan Lorite, Auteur ;
Efisio Mattana, Auteur ;
Gianluigi Bacchetta, Auteur
Detecting smaller hotspots within larger hotspots could be an essential tool to focus conservation efforts. In this study, we identified hotspots at two scales of analysis within the Mediterranean overall hotspot. Particularly, based on the dist[...]
Article
V. Trivellone, Auteur ;
N. Schoenenberger, Auteur ;
B. Bellosi, Auteur ;
M. Jermini, Auteur ;
F. de Bello, Auteur ;
E. A. D. Mitchell, Auteur ;
M. Moretti, Auteur
It is widely accepted that the concept of biodiversity embraces two essential and complementary components: taxonomic and functional diversity. Our goal is to produce a list of plant species predictive of high taxonomic and functional biodiversi[...]
Article
Duane B. Pool, Auteur ;
Arvind O. Panjabi, Auteur ;
Alberto Macias-Duarte, Auteur ;
Deanna M. Solhjem, Auteur
Grasslands are one of the most imperiled ecosystems worldwide. Conversion to cropland and desertification, including shrub encroachment, are primary factors behind the loss of temperate grasslands across the globe. Governments and conservation o[...]
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Philip S. Hammond, Auteur ;
Douglas Gillespie, Auteur ;
Phil Lovell, Auteur ;
Filipa Samarra, Auteur ;
Rene Swift, Auteur ;
Kelly Macleod, Auteur ;
Mark L. Tasker, Auteur ;
Per Berggren, Auteur ;
David L. Borchers, Auteur ;
Louise Burt, Auteur ;
Charles G. M. Paxton, Auteur ;
Ana Canadas, Auteur ;
Genevieve Desportes, Auteur ;
Greg P. Donovan, Auteur ;
Anita Gilles, Auteur ;
Kristina Lehnert, Auteur ;
Ursula Siebert, Auteur ;
Jonathan Gordon, Auteur ;
Russell Leaper, Auteur ;
Mardik Leopold, Auteur ;
Meike Scheidat, Auteur ;
Nils Oien, Auteur ;
Vincent Ridoux, Auteur ;
Emer Rogan, Auteur ;
Henrik Skov, Auteur ;
Jonas Teilmann, Auteur ;
Olivier Van Canneyt, Auteur ;
Jose Antonio Vazquez, Auteur
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João Paulo Silva, Auteur ;
Jorge Manuel Palmeirim, Auteur ;
Rita Alcazar, Auteur ;
Ricardo Correia, Auteur ;
Ana Delgado, Auteur ;
Francisco Moreira, Auteur
Collisions between birds and overhead power lines are an important cause of human-induced mortality. Mapping collision risk is an important prerequisite to minimise the negative impact of these structures on bird populations, particularly for sp[...]
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Colin D. Macleod, Auteur
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Rafael A. Magris, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Rebecca Weeks, Auteur ;
Natalie C. Ban, Auteur
Most applications of systematic conservation planning have not effectively incorporated biological processes or dynamic threats. We investigated the extent to which connectivity and climate change have been considered in an ecologically meaningf[...]
Article
Richard Frankham, Auteur ;
Robert C. Lacy, Auteur ;
Jonathan D. Ballou, Auteur ;
Michele R. Dudash, Auteur ;
Mark D. B. Eldridge, Auteur ;
Charles B. Fenster, Auteur ;
Joseph R. Mendelson, Auteur ;
Ingrid J. Porton, Auteur ;
Katherine Ralls, Auteur ;
Oliver A. Ryder, Auteur
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Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Auteur ;
Jodie Martin, Auteur ;
Jon E. Swenson, Auteur
The threatened Himalayan brown bear has a fragmented range in the Himalayas. However, its habitat has never been documented, which hinders conservation efforts. The Deosai Plateau in northern Pakistan has long been recognized as the core area fo[...]
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Janet Nackoney, Auteur ;
Giuseppe Molinario, Auteur ;
Peter Potapov, Auteur ;
Svetlana Turubanova, Auteur ;
Matthew C. Hansen, Auteur ;
Takeshi Furuichi, Auteur
War and civil conflict have been shown to contribute directly to increased wildlife poaching and environmental degradation, especially in developing countries. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffered heightened political instability that[...]
Article
Atte Moilanen, Auteur ;
Jussi Laitila, Auteur ;
Timo Vaahtoranta, Auteur ;
Lynn V. Dicks, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur
We present a novel framework for the structured analysis of conservation strategies, concentrating on their conceptual, causal, logical and qualitative aspects. The analysis both increases our understanding of conservation strategies and provide[...]
Article
Michelle L. Brown, Auteur ;
Therese M. Donovan, Auteur ;
W. Scott Schwenk, Auteur ;
David M. Theobald, Auteur
Forest loss and fragmentation are among the largest threats to forest-dwelling wildlife species today, and projected increases in human population growth are expected to increase these threats in the next century. We combined spatially-explicit [...]
Article
Rebecca M. McCaffery, Auteur ;
Lisa A. Eby, Auteur ;
Bryce A. Maxell, Auteur ;
Paul Stephen Corn, Auteur
Environmental stochasticity can have profound effects on the dynamics and viability of wild populations, and habitat heterogeneity provides one mechanism by which populations may be buffered against the negative effects of environmental fluctuat[...]
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Thibaut Couturier, Auteur ;
Aurélien Besnard, Auteur ;
Albert Bertolero, Auteur ;
Valerie Bosc, Auteur ;
Guillelme Astruc, Auteur ;
Marc Cheylan, Auteur
Major landscape transformations have occurred in the northern Mediterranean over the last decades, including urbanization, agricultural intensification and land abandonment, which, in turn, increase the risk of the propagation of fire. We used r[...]
Article
Maria I. Bogdanova, Auteur ;
Sarah Wanless, Auteur ;
Michael P. Harris, Auteur ;
Jan Lindstroem, Auteur ;
Adam Butler, Auteur ;
Mark A. Newell, Auteur ;
Katsufumi Sato, Auteur ;
Yutaka Watanuki, Auteur ;
Matt Parsons, Auteur ;
Francis Daunt, Auteur
Marine spatial planning aims to deliver sustainable use of marine resources by minimizing environmental impacts of human activities and designating Marine Protected Areas. This poses a challenge where species' distributions show spatio-temporal [...]
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Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) energetic requirements: Implications for conserving wild tigers
C. S. Miller, Auteur ;
M. Hebblewhite, Auteur ;
Y. K. Petrunenko, Auteur ;
I. V. Seryodkin, Auteur ;
J. M. Goodrich, Auteur ;
D. G. Miquelle, Auteur
The Global Tiger Recovery Program has identified increasing prey populations as a crucial component of recovering wild tiger numbers because prey density is a key determinant of tiger density, especially for Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica)[...]
Article
David L. Stokes, Auteur ;
P. Dee Boersma, Auteur ;
Javier Lopez de Casenave, Auteur ;
Pablo Garcia-Borboroglu, Auteur
Conservation of migratory species requires an understanding of their migration path and pattern. We used band returns and satellite tracking to characterize the seasonal migration of Magellanic penguins breeding in southern Argentina, with the p[...]
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David J. Kurz, Auteur ;
A. Justin Nowakowski, Auteur ;
Morgan W. Tingley, Auteur ;
Maureen A. Donnelly, Auteur ;
David S. Wilcove, Auteur
Different human land uses are not uniform in their ecological effects on remnant faunas. Explicitly recognizing the relative habitat value of prevalent land uses in comparison to forest will help improve conservation theory and practice in human[...]
Article
Allison MacKay, Auteur ;
Maxime Allard, Auteur ;
Marc-Andre Villard, Auteur
Conifer plantations are thought to provide lower-quality habitat for many old forest specialists because of their simplified stand structure and relative paucity of habitat elements such as dead wood. However, at the landscape scale, plantations[...]
Article
Sergio A. Lambertucci, Auteur ;
Pablo A. E. Alarcon, Auteur ;
Fernando Hiraldo, Auteur ;
Jose A. Sanchez-Zapata, Auteur ;
Guillermo Blanco, Auteur ;
Jose A. Donazar, Auteur
Current changes in the environment and increases in threats to wildlife have prompted the need for a better understanding of species' conservation requirements. Strategies for the conservation of large-sized animal species with large home ranges[...]
Article
Frederic Baudron, Auteur ;
Ken E. Giller, Auteur
Global demand for agricultural products is expected to double in the next decades, putting tremendous pressure on agriculture to produce more. The bulk of this increase will come from developing countries, which host most biodiversity-rich areas[...]
Article
Guy Pe'er, Auteur ;
Mariana A. Tsianou, Auteur ;
Kamila W. Franz, Auteur ;
Yiannis G. Matsinos, Auteur ;
Antonios D. Mazaris, Auteur ;
David Storch, Auteur ;
Lenka Kopsova, Auteur ;
Jana Verboom, Auteur ;
Michel Baguette, Auteur ;
Virginie M. Stevens, Auteur ;
Klaus Henle, Auteur
The Minimum Area Requirements (MAR) of species is a concept that explicitly addresses area and therefore can be highly relevant for conservation planning and policy. This study compiled a comprehensive database of MAR estimates from the literatu[...]
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Michelle M. Casey, Auteur ;
Gregory P. Dietl, Auteur ;
David M. Post, Auteur ;
Derek E. G. Briggs, Auteur
Benthic communities in Long Island Sound (LIS) have experienced over 150 years of commercial shellfishing and excess nutrient loading (eutrophication) which causes hypoxia. We established an ecological baseline using a combination of live, dead,[...]
Article
Mireia Valle, Auteur ;
Guillem Chust, Auteur ;
Andrea del Campo, Auteur ;
Mary S. Wisz, Auteur ;
Steffen M. Olsen, Auteur ;
Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Auteur ;
Angel Borja, Auteur
In future decades, coastal ecosystems are expected to be exposed to increased risk of experiencing adverse consequences related to climate change, exacerbated by human induced pressures. The seagrass Zostera noltii forms meadows mainly within th[...]
Article
Ben C. Scheele, Auteur ;
Fiorenzo Guarino, Auteur ;
William Osborne, Auteur ;
David A. Hunter, Auteur ;
Lee F. Skerratt, Auteur ;
Don A. Driscoll, Auteur
The disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is a key driver of global amphibian declines. While chytridiomycosis can cause extinction, many susceptible species persist after an initial period [...]
Article
Richard Frankham, Auteur ;
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Auteur ;
Barry W. Brook, Auteur
Conservation managers typically need to make prompt decisions based on limited information and resources. Consequently, generalisations have essential roles in guiding interventions. Here, we (i) critique information on some widely accepted gene[...]
Article
Robert J. Zomer, Auteur ;
Antonio Trabucco, Auteur ;
Mingcheng Wang, Auteur ;
Rong Lang, Auteur ;
Huafang Chen, Auteur ;
Marc J. Metzger, Auteur ;
Alex Smajgl, Auteur ;
Philip Beckschaefer, Auteur ;
Jianchu Xu, Auteur
An analysis and multi-model approach, based on a statistically derived Global Environmental Stratification (GEnS) and using a downscaled ensemble (n = 63) of CIMP5 Earth System Models applied across four representative concentration pathways (RC[...]
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David Lesbarreres, Auteur ;
Sara L. Ashpole, Auteur ;
Christine A. Bishop, Auteur ;
Gabriel Blouin-Demers, Auteur ;
Ronald J. Brooks, Auteur ;
Pierre Echaubard, Auteur ;
Purnima Govindarajulu, Auteur ;
David M. Green, Auteur ;
Stephen J. Hecnar, Auteur ;
Tom Herman, Auteur ;
Jeff Houlahan, Auteur ;
Jacqueline D. Litzgus, Auteur ;
Marc J. Mazerolle, Auteur ;
Cynthia A. Paszkowski, Auteur ;
Pamela Rutherford, Auteur ;
Danna M. Schock, Auteur ;
Kenneth B. Storey, Auteur ;
Stephen C. Lougheed, Auteur
The scientific community is increasingly aware that many amphibian and reptile species have experienced dramatic decreases in abundance and distribution, with at least 43% of amphibian species exhibiting population declines and 19% of all reptil[...]
Article
Andrew D. Barnes, Auteur ;
Rowan M. Emberson, Auteur ;
Hazel M. Chapman, Auteur ;
Frank-T. Krell, Auteur ;
Raphael K. Didham, Auteur
External threats from agricultural intensification, fire encroachment, species invasion and illegal harvesting present major conservation challenges in isolated tropical forest remnants. These processes can greatly exacerbate the magnitude of ed[...]
Article
Mi Yoon Chung, Auteur ;
John D. Nason, Auteur ;
Jordi Lopez-Pujol, Auteur ;
Tadashi Yamashiro, Auteur ;
Bo-Yun Yang, Auteur ;
Yi-Bo Luo, Auteur ;
Myong Gi Chung, Auteur
Population genetics theory predicts that fragmented plant populations do exhibit less genetic diversity, greater genetic divergence, and higher rates of inbreeding than well-preserved, continuous populations. We investigated the effects of habit[...]
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Michael A. Russello, Auteur ;
George Amato, Auteur
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Kyle S. Van Houtan, Auteur ;
John N. Kittinger, Auteur
Biodiversity conservation is often limited by short-term records of abundance, geographic distribution, and population dynamics. Historical information can provide a context for assessing current population status and defining recovery, especial[...]
Article
Liliana M. Davalos, Auteur ;
Jennifer S. Holmes, Auteur ;
Nelly Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Dolors Armenteras, Auteur
For decades, pastures have replaced Amazon forests, threatening biodiversity. Two dominant hypotheses explain this process. First, according to the hamburger connection beef markets promote conversion of forests into cattle ranches resulting in [...]
Article
Seth Stapleton, Auteur ;
Stephen Atkinson, Auteur ;
Daryll Hedman, Auteur ;
David Garshelis, Auteur
Capture-based studies of the Western Hudson Bay (WH) polar bear population in Canada have reported declines in abundance, survival, and body condition, but these findings are inconsistent with the perceptions of local people. To address this unc[...]
Article
Heli Suurkuukka, Auteur ;
Risto Virtanen, Auteur ;
Ville Suorsa, Auteur ;
Janne Soininen, Auteur ;
Lauri Paasivirta, Auteur ;
Timo Muotka, Auteur
Riparian forests are biodiversity hotspots and key habitats for forest conservation, yet it is not known if the protection of these habitats also provides protection for stream organisms. We used data from 50 headwater stream-forest systems in n[...]
