| Titre : | Biological Conservation 180 - DEC 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Haijing Shi, Auteur ;
David Paull, Auteur ;
Zhongming Wen, Auteur ;
Linda Broome, Auteur
Identifying and protecting microhabitats with conservation value is becoming a high priority for conservationists under projected climate change. Information on the buffering effects of microhabitats and its major drivers is a prerequisite to im[...]
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R. P. Young, Auteur ;
M. A. Hudson, Auteur ;
A. M. R. Terry, Auteur ;
C. G. Jones, Auteur ;
R. E. Lewis, Auteur ;
V. Tatayah, Auteur ;
N. Zuel, Auteur ;
S. H. M. Butchart, Auteur
Global and project-level biodiversity indicators have received considerable attention, but indicators of the conservation actions and impacts of programmes and institutions appear to be under-developed. The IUCN Red List Index (RLI) has potentia[...]
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T. G. O'Connor, Auteur ;
B. R. Page, Auteur
Elephant populations at high density commonly transform their habitat, but a low density population would not be expected to have a marked impact. Re-introduction of elephants into the Venetia-Limpopo Nature Reserve (320 km(2)) in the early 1990[...]
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Justin Roy, Auteur ;
Linda Vigilant, Auteur ;
Maryke Gray, Auteur ;
Edward Wright, Auteur ;
Raymond Kato, Auteur ;
Peter Kabano, Auteur ;
Augustin Basabose, Auteur ;
Emmanuel Tibenda, Auteur ;
Hjalmar S. Kuehl, Auteur ;
Martha M. Robbins, Auteur
Monitoring the population dynamics of endangered species is a critical component of conservation management strategies, but attaining accurate and precise estimates of population sizes using cost and time effective methods can be challenging. Ro[...]
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M. J. J. La Haye, Auteur ;
K. R. R. Swinnen, Auteur ;
A. T. Kuiters, Auteur ;
H. Leirs, Auteur ;
H. Siepel, Auteur
The Common hamster Cricetus cricetus was an agricultural pest in large parts of Europe less than 50 years ago. Currently the species is highly threatened or locally extinct and acknowledged as an important and even iconic species for nature cons[...]
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Per Larsson, Auteur ;
Knut Asbjorn Solhaug, Auteur ;
Yngvar Gauslaa, Auteur
Epiphytic lichens, comprising an important biodiversity component with significant functions in old boreal forests, are susceptible to logging. Leaving retention trees may partly compensate for the adverse effects of logging, but the impact of l[...]
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L. Abade, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
A. J. Dickman, Auteur
Tanzania's Ruaha landscape, centred around Ruaha National Park (RNP), is an international priority area for large carnivores, supporting >10% of the world's lions (Panthera leo) and globally significant populations of leopards (Panthera pardus),[...]
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Chloe Inskip, Auteur ;
Zubair Fahad, Auteur ;
Rowan Tully, Auteur ;
Thomas Roberts, Auteur ;
Douglas MacMillan, Auteur
This paper provides the first in-depth exploration of tiger killing behaviour in communities bordering the Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh. Our findings demonstrate the complexity of carnivore killing behaviour in situations of human-wild[...]
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Adrianne B. Brand, Auteur ;
Amber N. M. Wiewel, Auteur ;
Evan H. Campbell Grant, Auteur
Natural gas production from the Marcellus shale is rapidly increasing in the northeastern United States. Most of the endemic terrestrial salamander species in the region are classified as 'globally secure' by the IUCN, primarily because much of [...]
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Bradley J. Cosentino, Auteur ;
David M. Marsh, Auteur ;
Kara S. Jones, Auteur ;
Joseph J. Apodaca, Auteur ;
Christopher Bates, Auteur ;
Jessica Beach, Auteur ;
Karen H. Beard, Auteur ;
Kelsie Becklin, Auteur ;
Jane Margaret Bell, Auteur ;
Christopher Crockett, Auteur ;
George Fawson, Auteur ;
Jennifer Fjelsted, Auteur ;
Elizabeth A. Forys, Auteur ;
Kristen S. Genet, Auteur ;
Melanie Grover, Auteur ;
Jaimie Holmes, Auteur ;
Katherine Indeck, Auteur ;
Nancy E. Karraker, Auteur ;
Eran S. Kilpatrick, Auteur ;
Tom A. Langen, Auteur ;
Stephen G. Mugel, Auteur ;
Alessandro Molina, Auteur ;
James R. Vonesh, Auteur ;
Ryan J. Weaver, Auteur ;
Anisha Willey, Auteur
Landscape structure is important for shaping the abundance and distribution of amphibians, but prior studies of landscape effects have been species or ecosystem-specific. Using a large-scale, citizen science-generated database, we examined the e[...]
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Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann, Auteur ;
Richard M. Cowling, Auteur ;
Mark Difford, Auteur
The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is a commonly used tool to investigate the degree of ecocentricity of participants, i.e. the extent to which they endorse pro-nature views. Here we used the scale as part of the formative research for a co[...]
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Daniel H. Catlin, Auteur ;
Olga Milenkaya, Auteur ;
Kelsi L. Hunt, Auteur ;
Meryl J. Friedrich, Auteur ;
James D. Fraser, Auteur
The goal of many animal conservation efforts is to improve short-term demography, but there is growing interest in the potential for producing more fit individuals, resulting in long-lasting demographic impacts. The environments that animals exp[...]
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Christopher J. Ellis, Auteur ;
Sally Eaton, Auteur ;
Marios Theodoropoulos, Auteur ;
Brian J. Coppins, Auteur ;
Mark R. D. Seaward, Auteur ;
Janet Simkin, Auteur
Characterising the future risk to biodiversity across multiple environmental drivers is fraught with uncertainty and is a major conservation challenge. Scenario planning - to identify robust decisions across a range of plausible futures - can ai[...]
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Emily A. Kalnicky, Auteur ;
Mark W. Brunson, Auteur ;
Karen H. Beard, Auteur
Non-native species introductions have the ability to affect both ecological and social systems, thus to address those outcomes both ecological and social influences on an invasion need to be understood. We use a social ecological systems approac[...]
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Leonie A. Gough, Auteur ;
Tone Birkemoe, Auteur ;
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Auteur
The debate about whether proactive (focused on irreplaceable species) or reactive (focused on vulnerable species) conservation is more effective usually focuses on the global or multinational scale and knowledge of how these principles interact [...]
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Omar Vidal, Auteur ;
Eduardo Rendon-Salinas, Auteur
There are two breeding migratory populations of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in North America. A comparatively small, Western population migrates from states west of the Rocky Mountains to California, and a large Eastern population m[...]
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Natalie C. Ban, Auteur ;
Chris McDougall, Auteur ;
Martina Beck, Auteur ;
Anne K. Salomon, Auteur ;
Ken Cripps, Auteur
While efforts to meet international commitments to counter biodiversity declines by establishing networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) continue, assessments of MPAs rarely take into account measures of effectiveness of different categories o[...]
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Cameron W. Barrows, Auteur ;
Mark Fisher, Auteur
Understanding how species and species assemblages will respond to climate shifts is critical for predicting the impacts of modern warming on biodiversity. Addressing this question, we collected location data for four sympatric Sceloporus lizard [...]
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Josie A. Galbraith, Auteur ;
Jacqueline R. Beggs, Auteur ;
Darryl N. Jones, Auteur ;
Ellery J. McNaughton, Auteur ;
Cheryl R. Krull, Auteur ;
Margaret C. Stanley, Auteur
The practice of feeding wild birds is a widespread phenomenon, but there has been little consideration of both human and ecological dimensions of the impacts. We used a comprehensive approach to investigate the practice of bird feeding in the un[...]
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Yufang Gao, Auteur ;
Susan G. Clark, Auteur
Poaching of African elephants is threatening the species viability. International non-governmental organizations and media often attribute the basic problem to China's domestic ivory market. We present quantitative and qualitative information on[...]
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Jessica C. Stanton, Auteur
The precipitous decline and extinction of the passenger pigeon one century ago helped galvanize implementation of national policies and international cooperation on wildlife management. Having a clear understanding of past conservation failures [...]
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Jennifer Shepperson, Auteur ;
Lee G. Murray, Auteur ;
Sally Cook, Auteur ;
Holly Whiteley, Auteur ;
Michel J. Kaiser, Auteur
Despite the potential of local knowledge (LK) to provide reliable, quick, and low cost data, its use has been limited due to the lack of understanding of the accuracy and biases. We compared fishers' spatial
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Veronica de Novaes e Silva, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Ricardo B. Machado, Auteur ;
Jeremy VanDerWal, Auteur ;
Helga C. Wiederhecker, Auteur ;
Fernanda P. Werneck, Auteur ;
Guarino R. Colli, Auteur
Species gap analyses that adopt conservation targets based on individual species attributes recognize that some biodiversity features need more protection than others and should lead to better outcomes than uniform conservation targets. In the B[...]
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Elias Rosenblatt, Auteur ;
Matthew S. Becker, Auteur ;
Scott Creel, Auteur ;
Egil Droge, Auteur ;
Thandiwe Mweetwa, Auteur ;
Paul A. Schuette, Auteur ;
Fred Watson, Auteur ;
Johnathan Merkle, Auteur ;
Henry Mwape, Auteur
Large carnivores are in rapid global decline, with a broad array of consequences for the ecosystems they inhabit. To efficiently detect and address these declines requires unbiased and precise demographic data. Unfortunately, the characteristics[...]
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Shixiong Cao, Auteur ;
Hua Ma, Auteur ;
Wenping Yuan, Auteur ;
Xin Wang, Auteur
Global environmental problems have significant natural and socioeconomic consequences. However, the consequences are often evaluated independently by ecologists and social scientists. In an effort to integrate the consequences of the two types o[...]
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Richard Primack, Auteur ;
Sandra Broerse, Auteur
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Brenee L. Muncy, Auteur ;
Steven J. Price, Auteur ;
Simon J. Bonner, Auteur ;
Christopher D. Barton, Auteur
Mountaintop removal mining with valley fills (MTR/VF) is a ubiquitous form of land conversion in central Appalachia, USA and threatens the integrity of stream ecosystems. We investigated the effects of MTR/VF on stream salamander occupancy and o[...]
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Alan Robley, Auteur ;
Andrew M. Gormley, Auteur ;
David M. Forsyth, Auteur ;
Barbara Triggs, Auteur
Management agencies commonly control non-native mammalian predators to protect native prey populations, but there are few robust examples of such control enhancing native prey populations. We conducted a 9-year landscape-scale management experim[...]
