| Titre : | Biological Conservation 171 - MAR 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Jia-Jia Liu, Auteur ;
J. W. Ferry Slik, Auteur
Deforestation and associated forest fragmentation are main drivers of species loss across the tropics. Many studies have focused on how fragment edge effect, size, isolation and shape, affect species persistence within landscapes. Little attenti[...]
Article
Kym Ottewell, Auteur ;
Judy Dunlop, Auteur ;
Neil Thomas, Auteur ;
Keith Morris, Auteur ;
David Coates, Auteur ;
Margaret Byrne, Auteur
The effectiveness of fauna reintroduction programs has been limited by the availability of source animals and the lack of follow up monitoring to assess whether viable populations have been successfully established, particularly in terms of cons[...]
Article
Ad H. L. Huiskes, Auteur ;
Niek J. M. Gremmen, Auteur ;
Dana M. Bergstrom, Auteur ;
Yves Frenot, Auteur ;
Kevin A. Hughes, Auteur ;
Satoshi Imura, Auteur ;
Kate Kiefer, Auteur ;
Marc Lebouvier, Auteur ;
Jennifer E. Lee, Auteur ;
Megumu Tsujimoto, Auteur ;
Chris Ware, Auteur ;
Bart Van de Vijver, Auteur ;
Steven L. Chown, Auteur
Despite considerable research on biological invasions, key areas remain poorly explored, especially ways to reduce unintentional propagule transfer. The Antarctic represents a microcosm of the situation, with the numbers of established non-nativ[...]
Article
Katalin Szitar, Auteur ;
Gabor Onodi, Auteur ;
Laszlo Somay, Auteur ;
Ildiko Pandi, Auteur ;
Piroska Kucs, Auteur ;
Gyoegy Kroeel-Dulay, Auteur
Exotic pine species are used for afforestation worldwide resulting in negative consequences for biodiversity. Changing economic or conservation priorities are increasingly leading to the removal of these plantations, but the ability of these sta[...]
Article
Kate L. Sanders, Auteur ;
Arne R. Rasmussen, Auteur ;
Michael L. Guinea, Auteur
The viviparous sea snakes include 62 ecologically diverse species, many of which are of very recent evolutionary origin and have overlapping distributions. Peak sea snake diversity and endemism is recorded from the isolated emergent reefs of the[...]
Article
Leo R. Douglas, Auteur ;
Kelvin Alie, Auteur
The relationship between natural resources and conflict is well documented, except for wildlife. We discuss the role that wildlife can play in national and international security interests, including wildlife's role in financing the activities o[...]
Article
Fiorenza Micheli, Auteur ;
Peter J. Mumby, Auteur ;
Daniel R. Brumbaugh, Auteur ;
Kenny Broad, Auteur ;
Craig P. Dahlgren, Auteur ;
Alastair R. Harborne, Auteur ;
Katherine E. Holmes, Auteur ;
Carrie V. Kappel, Auteur ;
Steven Y. Litvin, Auteur ;
James N. Sanchirico, Auteur
Determining how ecosystem function and services are related to diversity is necessary for predicting the consequences of diversity loss and for setting goals and priorities for marine conservation. The consequences of biodiversity loss for ecosy[...]
Article
Laura Rayner, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
Philip Gibbons, Auteur ;
Adrian D. Manning, Auteur
Quantifying the population trends of species is crucial to achieving effective conservation action. However, deriving accurate and reliable indices of change is difficult due to the paucity and complexity of population data. There is a growing n[...]
Article
Appropriate policy development and research needs in response to adventure racing in protected areas
David Newsome, Auteur
Adventure racing is a global activity occurring across a range of land tenures. Activities include running, mountain biking, kayaking and rope courses which may be commercially sponsored and involve hundreds of competitors and spectators. This p[...]
Article
Kevin Kuhlmann Clausen, Auteur ;
Preben Clausen, Auteur
Climate change-induced rising sea levels are expected to affect coastal habitats worldwide, and the associated coastal squeeze in protected coastal areas might significantly alter availability of coastal habitats. This study combines coastal bat[...]
Article
Thurston C. Hicks, Auteur ;
Sandra Tranquilli, Auteur ;
Hjalmar Kuehl, Auteur ;
Genevieve Campbell, Auteur ;
Jeroen Swinkels, Auteur ;
Laura Darby, Auteur ;
Christophe Boesch, Auteur ;
John Hart, Auteur ;
Steph B. J. Menken, Auteur
With great ape populations in decline across much of their range, it is crucial to obtain a global picture of their distribution and abundance, in order to guide conservation activities and to provide baseline data against which to monitor their[...]
Article
Jason J. Scullion, Auteur ;
Kristiina A. Vogt, Auteur ;
Alison Sienkiewicz, Auteur ;
Stephan J. Gmur, Auteur ;
Cristina Trujillo, Auteur
Despite the many benefits natural forests provide, they are being lost worldwide at unsustainable rates as development frontiers expand. One approach to improving the efficacy of natural forest conservation efforts is to refine local forest cons[...]
Article
Marzia Bo, Auteur ;
Simone Bava, Auteur ;
Simonepietro Canese, Auteur ;
Michela Angiolillo, Auteur ;
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti, Auteur ;
Giorgio Bavestrello, Auteur
Deep-water fishing activities are impacting deep-water habitats worldwide, yet the extent of the damage caused is mainly unseen and not quantified. We used Remotely Operated Vehicle surveys to assess the extent of fishing impacts on rocky substr[...]
Article
Assaf Shwartz, Auteur ;
Anne Turbe, Auteur ;
Laurent Simon, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur
Urbanization is presenting a growing problem for biodiversity conservation, notably by increasingly isolating over half of the world's population from the experience of nature. This separation of people from nature is an important environmental [...]
Article
Heather F. Armitage, Auteur ;
Andrea J. Britton, Auteur ;
Rene van der Wal, Auteur ;
Sarah J. Woodin, Auteur
Nitrogen (N) deposition is a major global threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Increased deposition rates are linked to reduced species richness and vegetation change in a wide range of habitats. Here, we use gradients of N deposition [...]
Article
Klas Andersson, Auteur ;
Karl-Olof Bergman, Auteur ;
Fredrik Andersson, Auteur ;
Erik Hedenstrom, Auteur ;
Nicklas Jansson, Auteur ;
Joseph Burman, Auteur ;
Inis Winde, Auteur ;
Mattias C. Larsson, Auteur ;
Per Milberg, Auteur
The rare beetle Elater ferrugineus was sampled at 47 sites in the county of Ostergotland, Sweden by means of pheromone-baited traps to assess its value as an indicator species for hollow oak stands rich in rare saproxylic beetle species. In addi[...]
Article
Deni Purwandana, Auteur ;
Achmad Ariefiandy, Auteur ;
M. Jeri Imansyah, Auteur ;
Heru Rudiharto, Auteur ;
Aganto Seno, Auteur ;
Claudio Ciofi, Auteur ;
Damien A. Fordham, Auteur ;
Tim S. Jessop, Auteur
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world's largest lizard and endemic to five islands in Eastern Indonesia. The current management of this species is limited by a paucity of demographic information needed to determine key threats to [...]
Article
Robert A. Davis, Auteur ;
Leonie E. Valentine, Auteur ;
Michael D. Craig, Auteur ;
Barbara Wilson, Auteur ;
Wesley J. Bancroft, Auteur ;
Marnie Mallie, Auteur
Invasive plant pathogens have impacted forest and woodland systems globally and can negatively impact biodiversity. The soil-borne plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi is listed as one of the world's worst invasive species and alters plant comm[...]
Article
Rocio Marquez-Ferrando, Auteur ;
Jordi Figuerola, Auteur ;
Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur
Over the last decades the Continental European population of black-tailed godwits, Limosa limosa limosa, has shown steep declines as a consequence of agricultural intensification on the breeding grounds. Although numbers have also declined in th[...]
Article
John C. Kilgo, Auteur ;
Mark A. Vukovich, Auteur
Thresholds in response by cavity-nesting bird populations to variations in the snag resource are poorly understood. In addition, limited information exists on the value of artificially created snags for cavitynesting birds. Therefore, uncertaint[...]
Article
William F. A. van Dijk, Auteur ;
Jasper van Ruijven, Auteur ;
Frank Berendse, Auteur ;
Geert R. De Snoo, Auteur
The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes (AES) in enhancing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is still strongly debated. In the Netherlands, one of the most widely implemented AES is the management of ditch banks to enhance plant spec[...]
Article
Manel Puigcerver, Auteur ;
Ines Sanchez-Donoso, Auteur ;
Caries Vila, Auteur ;
Francesc Sarda-Palomera, Auteur ;
Eduardo García-Galea, Auteur ;
Jose Domingo Rodriguez-Teijeiro, Auteur
Restocking with non-native species for hunting purposes is a widespread practice in some Galliformes species that may result in the introgression of maladaptive alleles into native populations. Quails farmed for restocking are produced by interb[...]
Article
Sebastián Jiménez, Auteur ;
Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ;
Alejandro Brazeiro, Auteur ;
Omar Defeo, Auteur ;
Andrés Domingo, Auteur
Pelagic longline fisheries in the southwest Atlantic are a major conservation concern for several threatened seabirds, including four species of great albatrosses: wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), Tristan albatross (Diomedea dabbenena), s[...]
Article
Samantha M. Wilson, Auteur ;
Graham D. Raby, Auteur ;
Nicholas J. Burnett, Auteur ;
Scott G. Hinch, Auteur ;
Steven J. Cooke, Auteur
There is a widely recognized need to understand and reduce the incidental effects of marine fishing on non-target animals. Previous research on marine bycatch has largely focused on simply quantifying mortality. However, much less is known about[...]
Article
Evaluating the reintroduction project of Przewalski's horse in China using genetic and pedigree data
Gang Liu, Auteur ;
Aaron B. A. Shafer, Auteur ;
Waltraut Zimmermann, Auteur ;
Defu Hu, Auteur ;
Wenting Wang, Auteur ;
Hongjun Chu, Auteur ;
Jie Cao, Auteur ;
Chongxue Zhao, Auteur
Przewalski's horse went extinct in the wild in the mid 1960s. Starting in 1985, individuals were brought from western zoos to two centers in China and breeding programs were initiated. With the increasing size of captive populations, two reintro[...]
Article
B. A. Woodcock, Auteur ;
J. Savage, Auteur ;
J. M. Bullock, Auteur ;
M. Nowakowski, Auteur ;
R. Orr, Auteur ;
J. R. B. Tallowin, Auteur ;
R. F. Pywell, Auteur
Across N.W. Europe intensive agricultural management has increased productivity to the detriment of floral resources vital for insect pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies. While the creation of wildflower habitats has been widely us[...]
Article
An estimated 31% of the native plant species in the United States are considered at risk of extinction, and 11% receive protection under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). But with current and projected threats, many at risk non-listed pl[...]
Article
Paula Casanovas, Auteur ;
Heather J. Lynch, Auteur ;
William F. Fagan, Auteur
Lack of field time, access to experts, and the challenges associated with research permits make traditional approaches for determining species richness (comprehensive collection and determination of biological specimens) impractical in many situ[...]
Article
Kwek Yan Chong, Auteur ;
Siyang Teo, Auteur ;
Buddhima Kurukulasuriya, Auteur ;
Yi Fei Chung, Auteur ;
Subaraj Rajathurai, Auteur ;
Hugh Tiang Wah Tan, Auteur
It has been suggested that provision of greenery can ameliorate the hostility of the urban environment for wildlife, but greenery can either be in the form of regenerating or remnant patches of natural vegetation, or as cultivated tree, shrub, a[...]
Article
Ben Gooden, Auteur ;
Kris French, Auteur
Alien plant invaders frequently reduce biodiversity of native communities, but the mechanisms of impact remain poorly understood. We used the seedling emergence method to assess impacts of invasion by an alien, clonal grass (Stenotaphrum secunda[...]
Article
Thomas Cherico Wanger, Auteur ;
Kevin Darras, Auteur ;
Sara Bumrungsri, Auteur ;
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Alexandra-Maria Klein, Auteur
Sustainable rice production is critical to food security especially in Asia. Effective biocontrol of major rice pests such as the White-Backed Planthopper (Sogatella furcifera, Horvath; WBP) is, hence, of eminent importance. We use newly compile[...]
Article
Nicolas Lescureux, Auteur ;
John D. C. Linnell, Auteur
Although both wolves and dogs have been the subjects of numerous studies in many disciplines, the complex relationships between them have not yet been synthesized within a common review, and neither has it been placed in a holistic conservation [...]
