| Titre : | Biological Conservation 181 - JAN 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
T. R. van Andel, Auteur ;
S. Croft, Auteur ;
E. E. van Loon, Auteur ;
D. Quiroz, Auteur ;
A. M. Towns, Auteur ;
N. Raes, Auteur
Sub-Saharan African human populations rely heavily on wild-harvested medicinal plants for their health. The trade in herbal medicine provides an income for many West African people, but little is known about the effects of commercial extraction [...]
Article
Zejin Zhang, Auteur ;
Yujing Yan, Auteur ;
Yu Tian, Auteur ;
Junsheng Li, Auteur ;
Jin-Sheng He, Auteur ;
Zhiyao Tang, Auteur
Orchidaceae, the orchid family, is one of the species richest families and the most endangered plant groups. Most orchids are narrowly distributed in specific habitats because of their mycorrhizal specificity, pollinator specialization and limit[...]
Article
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Mark J. Costello, Auteur
Article
Phillip Cassey, Auteur ;
Carolyn J. Hogg, Auteur
Worldwide, invasive alien species increasingly contribute to environmental change and are a massive drain on social and economic resources. In Australia, the detection of new vertebrate incursions (i.e., alien species not currently established) [...]
Article
E. J. Theobald, Auteur ;
A. K. Ettinger, Auteur ;
H. K. Burgess, Auteur ;
L. B. DeBey, Auteur ;
N. R. Schmidt, Auteur ;
H. E. Froehlich, Auteur ;
C. Wagner, Auteur ;
J. HilleRisLambers, Auteur ;
J. Tewksbury, Auteur ;
M. A. Harsch, Auteur ;
J. K. Parrish, Auteur
The collective impact of humans on biodiversity rivals mass extinction events defining Earth's history, but does our large population also present opportunities to document and contend with this crisis? We provide the first quantitative review o[...]
Article
Ramon Perea, Auteur ;
Rodrigo Perea-Garcia-Calvo, Auteur ;
Carlos G. Diaz-Ambrona, Auteur ;
Alfonso San Miguel, Auteur
Reintroductions of flagship species, including charismatic wild ungulates, are becoming increasingly frequent to protect endangered species or stimulate conservation awareness. However, indicators that go beyond the target species are still need[...]
Article
Hillary S. Young, Auteur ;
Sara M. Maxwell, Auteur ;
Melinda G. Conners, Auteur ;
Scott A. Shaffer, Auteur
Despite many biotic, physical, and political challenges for place-based conservation in open ocean environments, conservation of discrete oceanic regions by designating pelagic marine protected areas (PMPAs) has gained considerable traction. In [...]
Article
Jodi S. Brandt, Auteur ;
Van Butsic, Auteur ;
Benjamin Schwab, Auteur ;
Tobias Kuemmerle, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur
Forests are critically important for life on earth, prompting a variety of efforts to protect them. Protected areas and logging regulations are the most commonly used forest conservation strategies, but local traditions and religious beliefs can[...]
Article
Linsheng Zhong, Auteur ;
Ralf C. Buckley, Auteur ;
Cassandra Wardle, Auteur ;
Lingen Wang, Auteur
China has similar to 8000 protected areas, with different categories and levels of designation. These include many reserves of global conservation significance. There are more numerous but smaller parks in the more heavily populated provinces of[...]
Article
Michelle M. Jackson, Auteur ;
Sarah E. Gergel, Auteur ;
Kathy Martin, Auteur
Wildlife in alpine ecosystems can be elusive and difficult to survey, yet knowledge of their distributions is critical as these habitats are threatened by climate change. Opportunistic "citizen science" observations submitted by hikers in remote[...]
Article
Rima W. Jabado, Auteur ;
Saif M. Al Ghais, Auteur ;
Waleed Hamza, Auteur ;
Aaron C. Henderson, Auteur ;
Julia L. Y. Spaet, Auteur ;
Mahmood S. Shivji, Auteur ;
Robert H. Hanner, Auteur
The rapid growth in the demand for shark products, particularly fins, has led to the worldwide overexploitation of many elasmobranch species. Although there are growing concerns about this largely unregulated and unmonitored trade, little inform[...]
Article
Kamal Kandel, Auteur ;
Falk Huettmann, Auteur ;
Madan Krishna Suwal, Auteur ;
Ganga Ram Regmi, Auteur ;
Vincent Nijman, Auteur ;
K. A. I. Nekaris, Auteur ;
Sonam Tashi Lama, Auteur ;
Arjun Thapa, Auteur ;
Hari Prasad Sharma, Auteur ;
Tulsi Ram Subedi, Auteur
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a globally threatened species living in the multi-national Hindu-Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It has a declining population trend due to anthropogenic pressures. Human-driven climate change is expected to have s[...]
Article
Emilie J. Ens, Auteur ;
Petina Pert, Auteur ;
Philip A. Clarke, Auteur ;
Marita Budden, Auteur ;
Lilian Clubb, Auteur ;
Bruce Doran, Auteur ;
Cheryl Douras, Auteur ;
Jitendra Gaikwad, Auteur ;
Beth Gott, Auteur ;
Sonia Leonard, Auteur ;
John Locke, Auteur ;
Joanne Packer, Auteur ;
Gerry Turpin, Auteur ;
Steve Wason, Auteur
Worldwide, environmental conservation directives are mandating greater inclusion of Indigenous people and their knowledge in the management of global ecosystems. Colonised countries such as the United States of America, New Zealand and Australia[...]
Article
Mei Lin Neo, Auteur ;
William Eckman, Auteur ;
Kareen Vicentuan, Auteur ;
Serena L.-M. Teo, Auteur ;
Peter A. Todd, Auteur
Giant clams (Hippopus and Tridacna species) are thought to play various ecological roles in coral reef ecosystems, but most of these have not previously been quantified. Using data from the literature and our own studies we elucidate the ecologi[...]
Article
R. C. Cope, Auteur ;
P. K. Pollett, Auteur ;
J. M. Lanyon, Auteur ;
J. M. Seddon, Auteur
Understanding the patterns of movement and breeding within and between wildlife populations is important for the assessment of conservation status of endangered species, the development of conservation management strategies and priorities, and t[...]
Article
Yu-Pin Lin, Auteur ;
Dongpo Deng, Auteur ;
Wei-Chih Lin, Auteur ;
Rob Lemmens, Auteur ;
Neville D. Crossman, Auteur ;
Klaus Henle, Auteur ;
Dirk S. Schmeller, Auteur
The purposes of this study are to extract the names of species and places for a citizen-science monitoring program, to obtain crowd-sourced data of acceptable quality, and to assess the quality and the uncertainty of predictions based on crowd-s[...]
Article
Carlos Martorell, Auteur ;
Delfin M. Montanana, Auteur ;
Carolina Ureta, Auteur ;
Maria C. Mandujano, Auteur
Cacti are a priority for conservation because their slow recovery rates and high habitat specificity make their populations particularly susceptible to looters who raid their populations, anthropogenic disturbance and climate change (CC). Identi[...]
Article
Enrico Pirotta, Auteur ;
Nathan D. Merchant, Auteur ;
Paul M. Thompson, Auteur ;
Tim R. Barton, Auteur ;
David Lusseau, Auteur
Assessments of anthropogenic impacts on marine wildlife often concentrate on large-scale displacement. However, changes in the activity patterns of animals that do not flee could also affect their energy balance. Increasing boat traffic raises c[...]
Article
Morena Mills, Auteur ;
Rebecca Weeks, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Mary G. Gleason, Auteur ;
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Auteur ;
Amanda T. Lombard, Auteur ;
Jean M. Harris, Auteur ;
Annette B. Killmer, Auteur ;
Alan White, Auteur ;
Tiffany H. Morrison, Auteur
Guidelines for spatial planning, including those from integrated coastal management, systematic conservation planning, and marine spatial planning, have conceived planning processes as iterative and adaptive. Adaptive spatial planning is advocat[...]
Article
Ruben Moreno-Opo, Auteur ;
Ana Trujillano, Auteur ;
Angel Arredondo, Auteur ;
Luis Mariano Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Antoni Margalida, Auteur
Supplementary feeding is one of the most common techniques used to alleviate threats to scavengers species related to the quality and availability of food resources. Because supplementary feeding may have undesired effects, the management of sup[...]
Article
Nathan P. Snow, Auteur ;
William F. Porter, Auteur ;
David M. Williams, Auteur
Conflicts from wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) pose serious challenges for managing and conserving large ungulates throughout the world. However, underreporting of large proportions of WVCs (i.e., two-thirds of WVCs in some cases) creates con[...]
Article
Fiona E. Carswell, Auteur ;
Norman W. H. Mason, Auteur ;
Jacob McC Overton, Auteur ;
Robbie Price, Auteur ;
Lawrence E. Burrows, Auteur ;
Robert B. Allen, Auteur
Increased afforestation of non-productive land could deliver win-win solutions for greenhouse gas mitigation through carbon sequestration and biodiversity gains, referred to here as increased 'ecological integrity'. We examined the potential tra[...]
Article
Divya Vasudev, Auteur ;
Robert J. Fletcher, Auteur
Connectivity is increasingly of conservation concern due to ongoing habitat fragmentation, land-use dynamics and climate change. Connectivity patterns result from interactions between dispersers and the environment. However, connectivity assessm[...]
Article
G. Taylor, Auteur ;
J. P. W. Scharlemann, Auteur ;
M. Rowcliffe, Auteur ;
N. Kuempel, Auteur ;
M. B. J. Harfoot, Auteur ;
J. E. Fa, Auteur ;
R. Melisch, Auteur ;
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur ;
S. Bhagwat, Auteur ;
K. A. Abernethy, Auteur ;
A. S. Ajonina, Auteur ;
L. Albrechtsen, Auteur ;
S. Allebone-Webb, Auteur ;
E. Brown, Auteur ;
D. Brugiere, Auteur ;
C. Clark, Auteur ;
M. Colell, Auteur ;
G. Cowlishaw, Auteur ;
D. Crookes, Auteur ;
E. De Merode, Auteur ;
J. Dupain, Auteur ;
T. East, Auteur ;
D. Edderai, Auteur ;
P. Elkan, Auteur ;
D. Gill, Auteur ;
E. Greengrass, Auteur ;
C. Hodgkinson, Auteur ;
O. Ilambu, Auteur ;
P. Jeanmart, Auteur ;
J. Juste, Auteur ;
J. M. Linder, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
A. J. Noss, Auteur ;
P. U. Okorie, Auteur ;
V. J. J. Okouyi, Auteur ;
S. Pallier, Auteur ;
J. R. Poulsen, Auteur ;
M. Riddell, Auteur ;
J. Schleicher, Auteur ;
B. Schulte-Herbruetiggen, Auteur ;
M. Starkey, Auteur ;
N. van Vliet, Auteur ;
C. Whitham, Auteur ;
A. S. Willcox, Auteur ;
D. S. Wilkie, Auteur ;
J. H. Wright, Auteur ;
L. M. Coad, Auteur
Unsustainable hunting threatens both biodiversity and local livelihoods. Despite high levels of research effort focused on understanding the dynamics of bushmeat trade and consumption, current research is largely site specific. Without synthesis[...]
Article
Marjaana Toivonen, Auteur ;
Irina Herzon, Auteur ;
Mikko Kuussaari, Auteur
Long-term grassland fallow and short-term meadow fallow represent alternative fallowing strategies for biodiversity conservation on farmland. Conventional grassland mixtures are used to establish long-term grassland fallows, whereas short-term m[...]
Article
Ascelin Gordon, Auteur
Developing conservation policy is a challenging process, often impeded by a lack of clear objectives and a limited understanding of the pathways to achieve them. Here, the utility of target-based 'backcasting' is demonstrated for developing effe[...]
