| Titre : | Biological Conservation 172 - APR 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Petr Heneberg, Auteur ;
Petr Bogusch, Auteur ;
Alena Astapenkova, Auteur
Common reed (Phragmites australis) beds are frequently considered as aggressive and invasive, being subject to numerous conservation management efforts aimed at their eradication by repeated mowing or more aggressive measures. However, the reed [...]
Article
Johan Ekroos, Auteur ;
Ola Olsson, Auteur ;
Maj Rundlof, Auteur ;
Frank Watzold, Auteur ;
Henrik G. Smith, Auteur
Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been introduced to mitigate negative environmental effects caused by increased agricultural intensification in Europe. However, there is still debate on whether currently available incentives are efficiently e[...]
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Maj Rundlof, Auteur ;
Anna S. Persson, Auteur ;
Henrik G. Smith, Auteur ;
Riccardo Bommarco, Auteur
Spatiotemporal resource continuity promotes persistence of mobile animal populations. Current agricultural landscapes are poor in flowers resources for bumble bees. Available forage crops are predominantly early-season mass-flowering crops (MFC)[...]
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Juliane Steckel, Auteur ;
Catrin Westphal, Auteur ;
Marcell K. Peters, Auteur ;
Michaela Bellach, Auteur ;
Christoph Rothenwoehrer, Auteur ;
Stefan Erasmi, Auteur ;
Christoph Scherber, Auteur ;
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Auteur
Intensification of agriculture reduces heterogeneity at local and landscape levels and thereby impact biodiversity and ecosystem processes. We studied a host-antagonist system of cavity-nesting bees, wasps and their antagonists and hypothesised [...]
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Raimo Virkkala, Auteur ;
Risto K. Heikkinen, Auteur ;
Aleksi Lehikoinen, Auteur ;
Jari Valkama, Auteur
Species inhabiting high-latitude environments are anticipated to be exceptionally vulnerable to climate change because of the greater temperature increases projected for these regions. Earlier studies based on bioclimatic envelope models and bir[...]
Article
Tor Arne Oigard, Auteur ;
Tore Haug, Auteur ;
Kjell Tormod Nilssen, Auteur
Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) have been harvested for centuries in the North Atlantic. Estimating abundance and monitoring changes in population size are critical for the management of the species. In March 2012, the hooded seal pup product[...]
Article
Heiko U. Wittmer, Auteur ;
Marc Hasenbank, Auteur ;
L. Mark Elbroch, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Marshall, Auteur
There is increasing evidence that predation can cause the decline and extinction of small populations of prey, and that stochastic predation resulting from variation in prey selection by individual predators can have significant consequences for[...]
Article
N. Midlane, Auteur ;
Mj O'Riain, Auteur ;
G. A. Balme, Auteur ;
H. S. Robinson, Auteur ;
L. T. B. Hunter, Auteur
The African lion has lost more than 75% of its historic range and numbers of wild lions continue to decline. Protected areas are critical to the species' future, yet its conservation status in many of these presumed sanctuaries remains unknown. [...]
Article
David J. Lieske, Auteur ;
David A. Fifield, Auteur ;
Carina Gjerdrum, Auteur
Whether considering the cumulative impact of chronic, small-size oil discharges or accidents associated with marine traffic and offshore oil and gas development, seabirds face a variety of threats in the marine environment. Assessing the vulnera[...]
Article
Nicole Davies, Auteur ;
Galina Gramotnev, Auteur ;
Leonie Seabrook, Auteur ;
Clive McAlpine, Auteur ;
Greg Baxter, Auteur ;
Daniel Lunney, Auteur ;
Adrian Bradley, Auteur
Species, particularly foliovores, at the trailing edge of their geographical range are likely to be most vulnerable to climate change as they respond to physiological stress and the decline in the nutrient richness of their food source. We inves[...]
Article
Ian D. Craigie, Auteur ;
R. L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Megan Barnes, Auteur
Article
Glenn Deliege, Auteur ;
Stijn Neuteleers, Auteur
Article
Mandy Trueman, Auteur ;
Rachel J. Standish, Auteur ;
Richard J. Hobbs, Auteur
In highly modified, or 'novel', ecosystems it is often difficult to decide where limited conservation funds should be spent to reach management goals. We tested a recently-developed decision framework for novel ecosystems to help identify manage[...]
Article
Jaroslav Kolecek, Auteur ;
Matthias Schleuning, Auteur ;
Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ;
Andras Baldi, Auteur ;
Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Auteur ;
Vincent Devictor, Auteur ;
Jose Maria Fernandez-Garcia, Auteur ;
David Hořák, Auteur ;
Chris A. M. Van Turnhout, Auteur ;
Oksana Hnatyna, Auteur ;
Jiri Reif, Auteur
Protecting species is one of the major focuses of conservation efforts. However, large-scale assessments of the effects of species protection on animal populations are rare. Protection has been shown to benefit birds in Western Europe and in the[...]
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Yoshitaka Oishi, Auteur
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Erin Muths, Auteur ;
Larissa L. Bailey, Auteur ;
Mary Kay Watry, Auteur
Quantitative evaluations of reintroductions are infrequent and assessments of milestones reached before a project is completed, or abandoned due to lack of funding, are rare. However, such assessments, which are promoted in adaptive management f[...]
Article
Douglas J. McCauley, Auteur ;
Hillary S. Young, Auteur ;
Eleanor A. Power, Auteur ;
Douglas W. Bird, Auteur ;
William H. Durham, Auteur
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Jerome Cimon-Morin, Auteur ;
Marcel Darveau, Auteur ;
Monique Poulin, Auteur
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Melanie A. Smith, Auteur ;
Nathan J. Walker, Auteur ;
Christopher M. Free, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Kirchhoff, Auteur ;
Gary S. Drew, Auteur ;
Nils Warnock, Auteur ;
Iain J. Stenhouse, Auteur
Effective marine bird conservation requires identification of at-sea locations used by populations for foraging, staging, and migration. Using an extensive database of at-sea survey data spanning over 30 years, we developed a standardized and da[...]
Article
Martin Diekmann, Auteur ;
Ute Jandt, Auteur ;
Didier Alard, Auteur ;
Albert Bleeker, Auteur ;
Emmanuel Corcket, Auteur ;
David J. G. Gowing, Auteur ;
Carly J. Stevens, Auteur ;
Cecilia Dupre, Auteur
We aimed to answer the question of whether the species richness and composition of calcareous grasslands in North-western Germany had changed over the last 70 years as a result of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition. In total, 1186 plots of Fest[...]
Article
Alana Westwood, Auteur ;
Emilie Reuchlin-Hugenholtz, Auteur ;
David M. Keith, Auteur
At present, the concepts of 'recovery' and 'recovered state' are poorly defined and often confused within academic literature and legislation. These definitional inconsistencies result in global ad hoc attempts at recovery and recovery plans tha[...]
Article
Victor Johansson, Auteur ;
Thomas Ranius, Auteur ;
Tord Snall, Auteur
Abandoned management of wooded grasslands leads to development of secondary woodland. We investigated how this development affects the colonization-extinction dynamics and persistence of epiphytic lichens associated with old trees. We modelled c[...]
Article
Jonathan Q. Richmond, Auteur ;
Adam R. Backlin, Auteur ;
Patricia J. Tatarian, Auteur ;
Ben G. Solvesky, Auteur ;
Robert N. Fisher, Auteur
Demographic declines and increased isolation of peripheral populations of the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) have led to the formation of internal range boundaries at opposite ends of the species' distribution. While the [...]
Article
Mark W. Neff, Auteur ;
Brendon M. H. Larson, Auteur
Assisted colonization is a contentious climate change adaptation strategy, but we have limited understanding of the bases of disagreement amongst scientists and far less has been done to understand the views of other stakeholders. To establish a[...]
Article
Zhigang Mei, Auteur ;
Xinqiao Zhang, Auteur ;
Shiang-Lin Huang, Auteur ;
Xiujiang Zhao, Auteur ;
Yujiang Hao, Auteur ;
Lin Zhang, Auteur ;
Zhengyi Qian, Auteur ;
Jinsong Zheng, Auteur ;
Kexiong Wang, Auteur ;
Ding Wang, Auteur
For the conservation of endangered animals to be effective, information on population distribution and abundance requires regular updating from census efforts. The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) has recent[...]
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Tjisse van der Heide, Auteur ;
Elske Tielens, Auteur ;
Els M. van der Zee, Auteur ;
Ellen J. Weerman, Auteur ;
Sander Holthuijsen, Auteur ;
Britas Klemens Eriksson, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur ;
Johan van de Koppel, Auteur ;
Han Olff, Auteur
Bivalves are key components of coastal ecosystems because they link pelagic and benthic food webs, and shape the landscape through habitat modification. Nevertheless, many bivalve stocks have dramatically declined, and recruitment failure due to[...]
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Kathryn Shutt, Auteur ;
Michael Heistermann, Auteur ;
Adetayo Kasim, Auteur ;
Angelique Todd, Auteur ;
Barbora Kalousova, Auteur ;
Ilona Profosouva, Auteur ;
Klara Petrzelkova, Auteur ;
Terrence Fuh, Auteur ;
Jean-Francais Dicky, Auteur ;
Jean-Bruno Bopalanzognako, Auteur ;
Joanna M. Setchell, Auteur
Wildlife tourism is proliferating worldwide and has the potential to raise revenue for conservation as well as public awareness of conservation issues. However, concerns are growing about the potentially negative influence of such tourism on the[...]
Article
David Beauchesne, Auteur ;
Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Auteur ;
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent, Auteur
Boreal caribou, an ecotype of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), are closely associated with the boreal forest, which has been significantly modified by anthropogenic activities over the last century. The species' response to disturba[...]
Article
Hua Zhang, Auteur ;
Steven M. Gorelick, Auteur
We develop a predictive multi-process framework to quantitatively assess the spatially variable, inter-linked dynamics of sea-level rise, wetland transition, habitat suitability and connectivity, and shorebird distribution and abundance. Bird be[...]
