| Titre : | Biological Conservation 182 - FEB 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
John F. Benson, Auteur ;
Kenneth J. Mills, Auteur ;
Brent R. Patterson, Auteur
Eastern wolves (Canis lycaon) are a species of special concern in Canada and their geographic range appears to be restricted mainly to Algonquin Provincial Park (APP) in Ontario, Canada. Previous work showed pup survival was relatively low throu[...]
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Mialy Razanajatovo, Auteur ;
Christine Foehr, Auteur ;
Markus Fischer, Auteur ;
Daniel Prati, Auteur ;
Mark van Kleunen, Auteur
Many animal-pollinated plant species have been introduced to non-native regions without their usual pollinators. Nevertheless, some of these alien species managed to establish reproducing naturalized populations, which might negatively affect na[...]
Article
Brendan P. Kelaher, Auteur ;
Melissa Tan, Auteur ;
Will F. Figueira, Auteur ;
Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Auteur ;
Sean D. Connell, Auteur ;
Simon D. Goldsworthy, Auteur ;
Natasha Hardy, Auteur ;
Melinda A. Coleman, Auteur
Offshore islands are often preferentially selected for marine sanctuaries (no take areas) over inshore reefs on populated coasts because they support relatively unique marine communities and critical habitat for protected marine wildlife and are[...]
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W. Turner, Auteur ;
C. Rondinini, Auteur ;
N. Pettorelli, Auteur ;
B. Mora, Auteur ;
A. K. Leidner, Auteur ;
Z. Szantoi, Auteur ;
G. Buchanan, Auteur ;
S. Dech, Auteur ;
J. Dwyer, Auteur ;
M. Herold, Auteur ;
L. P. Koh, Auteur ;
P. Leimgruber, Auteur ;
H. Taubenboeck, Auteur ;
M. Wegmann, Auteur ;
M. Wikelski, Auteur ;
C. Woodcock, Auteur
Satellite remote sensing is an important tool for monitoring the status of biodiversity and associated environmental parameters, including certain elements of habitats. However, satellite data are currently underused within the biodiversity rese[...]
Article
David Grémillet, Auteur ;
Clara Peron, Auteur ;
Pascal Provost, Auteur ;
Amelie Lescroel, Auteur
Foreign fisheries massively harvest waters off West Africa, plundering local marine economies and threatening African food security. Here we warn that these fisheries might affect both juvenile and adult European seabirds during their autumn mig[...]
Article
Tim McGrath, Auteur ;
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Auteur ;
Jose J. Lahoz-Monfort, Auteur ;
Will Osborne, Auteur ;
David Hunter, Auteur ;
Stephen D. Sarre, Auteur
Reptiles are in global decline with nearly 20% of species currently threatened with extinction. Despite these alarming trends, data documenting detailed changes in reptile populations remain sparse and the methods for detecting those changes are[...]
Article
Tianpei Guan, Auteur ;
Fang Wang, Auteur ;
Sheng Li, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur
Large ungulates commonly perform seasonal or annual movements that encompass considerable land area and various habitat types. Effective conservation of these species relies not only on insights on their basic ecology, but also an understanding [...]
Article
Ben C. Scheele, Auteur ;
David A. Hunter, Auteur ;
Lee F. Skerratt, Auteur ;
Laura A. Brannelly, Auteur ;
Don A. Driscoll, Auteur
The global chytridiomycosis pandemic caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is implicated in the apparent extinction or severe decline of over 200 amphibian species. Many declined species now only persist in isolated remnant [...]
Article
P. Dee Boersma, Auteur ;
Ginger A. Rebstock, Auteur ;
Pablo Garcia-Borboroglu, Auteur
Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) are listed as near threatened by the IUCN. At their largest colony, Punta Tombo, Chubut, Argentina, active nests declined >30% over 30 years. Reproductive success is low, many penguins forage far fro[...]
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Jessica Junker, Auteur ;
Christophe Boesch, Auteur ;
Roger Mundry, Auteur ;
Colleen Stephens, Auteur ;
Menladi Lormie, Auteur ;
Clement Tweh, Auteur ;
Hjalmar S. Kuehl, Auteur
We are in the midst of an unprecedented environmental crisis. Landscapes have become complex social-ecological systems in which anthropogenic activities and biophysical factors interact across multiple scales. The integration of sodo-economic de[...]
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Remote sensing allows for cost- and time-efficient monitoring of landscapes vital to the conservation of natural resources, ecosystems, and biodiversity. This review synthesizes and recommends best practice change detection methods for land mana[...]
Article
Michael L. Wolfe, Auteur ;
David N. Koons, Auteur ;
David C. Stoner, Auteur ;
Patricia Terletzky, Auteur ;
Eric M. Gese, Auteur ;
David M. Choate, Auteur ;
Lise M. Aubry, Auteur
Understanding the interplay between exploitation and natural mortality is essential to guiding sustainable conservation of wildlife. Exploitation of carnivores by humans has long been thought to result in compensatory reductions of natural morta[...]
Article
K. E. Barlow, Auteur ;
P. A. Briggs, Auteur ;
K. A. Haysom, Auteur ;
A. M. Hutson, Auteur ;
N. L. Lechiara, Auteur ;
P. A. Racey, Auteur ;
A. L. Walsh, Auteur ;
S. D. Langton, Auteur
Bats play an important role in ecosystems and are highly relevant as indicators of environmental change. Long-term monitoring of bat populations is therefore fundamental to verifying environmental change over time. Although in the past, signific[...]
Article
Tobias Naaf, Auteur ;
Jens Kolk, Auteur
In many temperate regions worldwide, a large portion of deciduous forest grows on former agricultural land, while a smaller portion is 'ancient' forest on sites with no historical record of agricultural land use. The differences in species diver[...]
Article
J. A. Stabach, Auteur ;
R. B. Boone, Auteur ;
J. S. Worden, Auteur ;
G. Florant, Auteur
Regarded as a keystone species, white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) are found across the grassland savannahs of eastern Africa. Over the past 40 years, however, many local populations have become threatened with extinction. This is [...]
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Amanda G. Stanley, Auteur
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Audrey Muratet, Auteur ;
Benoit Fontaine, Auteur
Private gardens are an important food source and refuge for animals in urban areas because they represent a large part of the green space. It has been shown that garden management regime (water use, floral composition) may impact the species the[...]
Article
Heather L. Hulton VanTassel, Auteur ;
Cameron W. Barrows, Auteur ;
Kurt E. Anderson, Auteur
Anthropogenic activities have resulted in novel disturbance regimes which have unknown impacts on biodiversity. A notable example is the establishment of fire regimes in ecosystems that have not historically burned. These new disturbance regimes[...]
Article
Fraser A. Januchowski-Hartley, Auteur ;
Nicholas A. J. Graham, Auteur ;
Joshua E. Cinner, Auteur ;
Garry R. Russ, Auteur
Fishing is altering aquatic ecosystems through changes in the abundance, species composition and behavior of target species. Changes in fish behavior have received relatively little attention, despite significant evidence of behavioral change dr[...]
Article
Jessica J. Scriven, Auteur ;
Lucy C. Woodall, Auteur ;
Matthew C. Tinsley, Auteur ;
Mairi I. E. Knight, Auteur ;
Paul H. Williams, Auteur ;
James C. Carolan, Auteur ;
Mark J. F. Brown, Auteur ;
Dave Goulson, Auteur
Bumblebees are ecologically and economically important, and some species have. suffered dramatic population declines. The absence of morphological diagnostic characters for the identification of some species creates difficulties for basic ecolog[...]
Article
Jane A. McDonald, Auteur ;
Josie Carwardine, Auteur ;
Liana N. Joseph, Auteur ;
Carissa J. Klein, Auteur ;
Tracy M. Rout, Auteur ;
James E. M. Watson, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Garnett, Auteur ;
Michael A. McCarthy, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur
Native flora and fauna species continue to decline in the megadiverse, wealthy, economically and politically stable nation of Australia despite current efforts in policy and management. Ongoing research is examining these declines, their causes [...]
Article
Vincent Nijman, Auteur ;
Chris R. Shepherd, Auteur
Trade in large cats (Panthera and Neofelis species), and indeed other wild cats, is a clear impediment to their conservation. Myanmar is an important country for cat conservation, both because of the presence of significant populations of threat[...]
Article
Yiyuan Qin, Auteur ;
Philip J. Nyhus, Auteur ;
Courtney L. Larson, Auteur ;
Charles J. W. Carroll, Auteur ;
Jeff Muntifering, Auteur ;
Thomas D. Dahmer, Auteur ;
Lu Jun, Auteur ;
Ronald L. Tilson, Auteur
Human-caused biodiversity loss is a global problem, large carnivores are particularly threatened, and the tiger (Panthera tigris) is among the world's most endangered large carnivores. The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) is the mos[...]
Article
Renqiang Li, Auteur ;
Ming Xu, Auteur ;
Michelle Hang Gi Wong, Auteur ;
Shuai Qiu, Auteur ;
Xinhai Li, Auteur ;
Davis Ehrenfeld, Auteur ;
Dianmo Li, Auteur
It is increasingly recognized that biotic interactions could play a significant role in species distribution modelling. To assess the conservation effectiveness of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) reserves in a changing climate, we combi[...]
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Clark L. Gray, Auteur ;
Matthew Bozigar, Auteur ;
Richard E. Bilsborrow, Auteur
Wild product harvesting by forest-dwelling peoples, including hunting, fishing, forest product collection and timber harvesting, is believed to be a major threat to the biodiversity of tropical forests worldwide. Despite this threat, few studies[...]
Article
Karin Johst, Auteur ;
Martin Drechsler, Auteur ;
Melanie Mewes, Auteur ;
Astrid Sturm, Auteur ;
Frank Waetzold, Auteur
Several billion euros are spent in Europe every year on agri-environment schemes to compensate farmers for (costly) conservation measures such as specific mowing and grazing regimes. These measures can impact grassland species during their repro[...]
Article
Jeffrey W. Ackley, Auteur ;
Jianguo Wu, Auteur ;
Michael J. Angilletta, Auteur ;
Soe W. Myint, Auteur ;
Brian Sullivan, Auteur
Fourteen native lizard species inhabit the desert surrounding Phoenix, AZ, USA, but only two occur within heavily developed areas. This pattern is best explained by a combination of socioeconomic status, landcover, and location. Lizard diversity[...]
Article
A. Theresa Ruehl, Auteur ;
R. Lutz Eckstein, Auteur ;
Annette Otte, Auteur ;
Tobias W. Donath, Auteur
As a result of the intensification of agriculture in Central Europe, many arable weed species have declined. Global climate change may further challenge the adaptability of arable weeds since plants may be more often subjected to higher temperat[...]
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Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg, Auteur ;
Gorm Pilgaard Jorgensen, Auteur ;
Kristian Mandsberg Nielsen, Auteur ;
Morten Lauge Pedersen, Auteur ;
Jens-Christian Svenning, Auteur ;
Rasmus Ejrnaes, Auteur
Naturally disturbed coastal dunes have become strongly reduced during the last century due to the cessation of grazing by domestic herbivores, dune stabilization initiatives, and increasing nitrogen deposition, all promoting encroachment by gras[...]
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John M. Holland, Auteur ;
Barbara M. Smith, Auteur ;
Jonathan Storkey, Auteur ;
Peter J. W. Lutman, Auteur ;
Nicholas J. Aebischer, Auteur
Agri-environment scheme habitats can support declining pollinators, but optimum approaches for deployment remain uncertain. The impact of three management treatments (project-, farm-managed and organic farming) alongside habitat type, quantity o[...]
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Herb layer extinction debt in highly fragmented temperate forests - Completely paid after 160 years?
Jens Kolk, Auteur ;
Tobias Naaf, Auteur
The time-delayed extinction of plant species following habitat fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in ecology. The length of the relaxation time until this 'extinction debt' is paid (i.e., until extinctions cease) depends on the ecosystem, [...]
Article
Brooke L. Talley, Auteur ;
Carly R. Muletz, Auteur ;
Vance T. Vredenburg, Auteur ;
Robert C. Fleischer, Auteur ;
Karen R. Lips, Auteur
The fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians and is responsible for the worst epizootics in vertebrate history. In some regions of the world (e.g., the Neotropics and Western United [...]
Article
Christian Smit, Auteur ;
Jasper L. Ruifrok, Auteur ;
Roe van Klink, Auteur ;
Han Olff, Auteur
Rewilding is a novel nature management type that aims at restoring natural processes with minimal human intervention. It is increasingly employed on abandoned agricultural lands in Europe, but empirical studies are scarce. Rewilding may lead to [...]
