| Titre : | Biological Conservation 184 - APR 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Sean Hoban, Auteur ;
Allan Strand, Auteur ;
Naomi Fraga, Auteur ;
Chris Richards, Auteur ;
Scott Schlarbaum, Auteur
Article
Christophe Cleguer, Auteur ;
Alana Grech, Auteur ;
Claire Garrigue, Auteur ;
Helene Marsh, Auteur
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a powerful tool for conserving marine biodiversity when designed using ecological information and conservation goals and targets. Dugongs (Dugong dugon) were not an explicit target in the design of the network o[...]
Article
Janine E. Robinson, Auteur ;
Richard A. Griffiths, Auteur ;
Freya A. V. St John, Auteur ;
David L. Roberts, Auteur
Biodiversity-rich countries provide wildlife for the exotic pet trade, but the implications of this for conservation, sustainable use and livelihoods remain poorly understood. CITES Appendix II import data from 1996 to 2012 were used to analyse [...]
Article
Celine Rolet, Auteur ;
Nicolas Spilmont, Auteur ;
Dominique Davoult, Auteur ;
Eric Goberville, Auteur ;
Christophe Luczak, Auteur
Shorebird populations are declining worldwide due to the combined effect of climate change and anthropogenic forcing, the ongoing coastal urbanisation amplifying the alteration of their habitat in both rate and magnitude. By focusing on a highly[...]
Article
Lydia K. Guja, Auteur ;
Linda M. Broadhurst, Auteur ;
Anthony H. D. Brown, Auteur ;
David Bush, Auteur ;
Anne Cochrane, Auteur ;
David J. Merritt, Auteur ;
Catherine A. Offord, Auteur ;
Maurizio Rossetto, Auteur ;
Mark J. Wallace, Auteur ;
James Wood, Auteur
Article
Ove Eriksson, Auteur ;
Kjell Bolmgren, Auteur ;
Anna Westin, Auteur ;
Tommy Lennartsson, Auteur
Semi-natural hay meadows are species rich habitats, formed by a long history of management and they have experienced a drastic decline all over Europe. There is a vast literature on conservation and species diversity of semi-natural hay-meadows,[...]
Article
Luiza Figueira, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur ;
Ulisses M. Camargo, Auteur ;
Goncalo Ferraz, Auteur
Forest regeneration may reduce the current loss of species due to tropical deforestation, but little is known about the extent and inter-specific variability of this effect. We compared the probability with which nine parrot species use old-grow[...]
Article
A. P. Moller, Auteur ;
K. Laursen, Auteur
Nutrients are often limiting primary productivity, and fertilizer use by agriculture increases primary and secondary productivity in marine environments. High levels of eutrophication due to fertilizer use can have negative effects on the distri[...]
Article
Edward O. Guerrant, Auteur ;
Kayri Havens, Auteur ;
Pati Vitt, Auteur ;
Peggy L. Fiedler, Auteur ;
Donald A. Falk, Auteur ;
Kingsley Dixon, Auteur
Article
David B. Kittredge, Auteur ;
Anne G. Short Gianotti, Auteur ;
Lucy R. Hutyra, Auteur ;
David R. Foster, Auteur ;
Jackie M. Getson, Auteur
In many parts of the eastern US, the provision of ecosystem services depends on private land. In these regions, decisions about land management and conservation made by private landowners can have significant effects on habitat and other ecosyst[...]
Article
D. Mark Rayan, Auteur ;
Matthew Linkie, Auteur
The unprecedented economic growth occurring across Southeast Asia is causing large tracts of rainforest to be logged, converted to plantations or fragmented by infrastructure development. It also opens up forest to poachers which, in combination[...]
Article
K. Catelotti, Auteur ;
R. T. Kingsford, Auteur ;
G. Bino, Auteur ;
P. Bacon, Auteur
Increasing water abstraction is severely degrading the world's wetlands, which is frequently reflected in the condition of flood dependent organisms. Understanding minimum requirements under which thresholds are crossed from desired to undesired[...]
Article
Andrew J. Dennhardt, Auteur ;
Adam E. Duerr, Auteur ;
David Brandes, Auteur ;
Todd E. Katzner, Auteur
Estimating population size is fundamental to conservation and management. Population size is typically estimated using survey data, computer models, or both. Some of the most extensive and often least expensive survey data are those collected by[...]
Article
Marko Haapakoski, Auteur ;
Janne Sundell, Auteur ;
Hannu Ylonen, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation is known to cause population declines but the mechanisms leading to the decline are not fully understood. Fragmentation is likely to lead to changes in predation risk, which may cause behavioral responses with possible popu[...]
Article
Colin K. Khoury, Auteur ;
Nora P. Castaneda-Alvarez, Auteur ;
Harold A. Achicanoy, Auteur ;
Chrystian C. Sosa, Auteur ;
Vivian Bernau, Auteur ;
Mulualem T. Kassa, Auteur ;
Sally L. Norton, Auteur ;
L. Jos G. van der Maesen, Auteur ;
Hari D. Upadhyaya, Auteur ;
Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Auteur ;
Andy Jarvis, Auteur ;
Paul C. Struik, Auteur
Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a versatile, stress-tolerant, and nutritious grain legume, possessing traits of value for enhancing the sustainability of dry sub-tropical and tropical agricultural systems. The use of crop wild relative[...]
Article
Marko Debeljak, Auteur ;
Andrej Ficko, Auteur ;
Robert Brus, Auteur
European black poplar (Populus nigra L.) has become threatened by the widespread disappearance of riparian forests in Europe. Gene introgression through hybridization with related, non-indigenous poplar taxa may additionally reduce the populatio[...]
Article
Paquita E. A. Hoeck, Auteur ;
Matthew E. Wolak, Auteur ;
Richard A. Switzer, Auteur ;
Cyndi M. Kuehler, Auteur ;
Alan A. Lieberman, Auteur
Inbreeding can reduce individual or population fitness and is predicted to have particularly severe effects on early life traits. Detecting inbreeding depression remains a challenge, however, especially in endangered specieS or long-lived taxa. [...]
Article
Anais Charbonnel, Auteur ;
Laetitia Buisson, Auteur ;
Marjorie Biffi, Auteur ;
Frank D'Amico, Auteur ;
Aurélien Besnard, Auteur ;
Stéphane Aulagnier, Auteur ;
Frederic Blanc, Auteur ;
Francois Gillet, Auteur ;
Vincent Lacaze, Auteur ;
Johan R. Michaux, Auteur ;
Melanie Nemoz, Auteur ;
Christian Page, Auteur ;
Jose Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Auteur ;
Sabine Sauvage, Auteur ;
Pascal Laffaille, Auteur
As freshwater habitats are among the most endangered, there is an urgent need to identify critical areas for conservation, especially those that are home to endangered species. The Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a semi-aquatic mammal wh[...]
Article
Maria Jose Martinez-Harms, Auteur ;
Brett A. Bryan, Auteur ;
Patricia Balvanera, Auteur ;
Elizabeth A. Law, Auteur ;
Jonathan R. Rhodes, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Kerrie A. Wilson, Auteur
Numerous assessments have quantified, mapped, and valued the services provided by ecosystems that are important for human wellbeing. However, much of the literature does not clarify how the information gathered in such assessments could be used [...]
Article
Scott R. Loss, Auteur ;
Sara S. Loss, Auteur ;
Tom Will, Auteur ;
Peter P. Marra, Auteur
A primary benefit of incorporating public participation in scientific research is the increased ability to use data from multiple localities to address conservation research and management objectives that span national, continental, and even glo[...]
Article
Robert J. Zomer, Auteur ;
Jianchu Xu, Auteur ;
Mingcheng Wang, Auteur ;
Antonio Trabucco, Auteur ;
Zhuoqing Li, Auteur
Climate change is projected to impact on biodiversity conservation and the effectiveness of the existing protected area network in biologically rich Yunnan Province of southwestern China. A statistically derived bioclimatic stratification is use[...]
Article
Marie Baudouin, Auteur ;
Benoit de Thoisy, Auteur ;
Philippine Chambault, Auteur ;
Rachel Berzins, Auteur ;
Mathieu Entraygues, Auteur ;
Laurent Kelle, Auteur ;
Avasania Turny, Auteur ;
Yvon Le Maho, Auteur ;
Damien Chevallier, Auteur
The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is classified as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List since 1986. This species is especially threatened in South America due to bycatch by fisheries along the northeastern coasts. It is particularly crucia[...]
Article
Phumza Ntshotsho, Auteur ;
Heidi E. Prozesky, Auteur ;
Karen J. Esler, Auteur ;
Belinda Reyers, Auteur
Academic scientific literature abounds with critique of natural resource managers for not utilising scientific evidence when making decisions in their day-to-day operations. Little regard is given by the critics to the practical constraints on t[...]
Article
Richard C. Tinsley, Auteur ;
Peter G. Coxhead, Auteur ;
Lucy C. Stott, Auteur ;
Matthew C. Tinsley, Auteur ;
Maya Z. Piccinni, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Guille, Auteur
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is notorious amongst current conservation biology challenges, responsible for mass mortality and extinction of amphibian species. World trade in amphibians is implicated in global disseminat[...]
Article
Matthew G. Hethcoat, Auteur ;
Anna D. Chalfoun, Auteur
Global energy demands continue to result in new and emerging sources of anthropogenic disturbance to populations and systems. Here, we assessed the influence of natural gas development on a critical component of fitness (nest survival) for Brewe[...]
Article
Willem R. M. Meilink, Auteur ;
Jan W. Arntzen, Auteur ;
Jeroen J. C. W. van Delft, Auteur ;
Ben Wielstra, Auteur
Genetic pollution of a native species through hybridization with an invasive species poses an insidious conservation threat. To expose genetic pollution, molecular methods employing multilocus data are required. We present a case study of geneti[...]
Article
Nicholas Tyler, Auteur ;
Karl-Arne Stokkan, Auteur ;
Chris Hogg, Auteur ;
Christian Nellemann, Auteur ;
Arnt-Inge Vistnes, Auteur ;
Glen Jeffery, Auteur
Article
Austin J. Gallagher, Auteur ;
Gabriel M. S. Vianna, Auteur ;
Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Auteur ;
Catherine Macdonald, Auteur ;
Tristan L. Guttridge, Auteur ;
Neil Hammerschlag, Auteur
Shark diving tourism is a burgeoning, global industry. The growing perception that sharks can be worth more alive for tourism than dead in a fish market has become one of the leading contemporary arguments for shark conservation. However, there [...]
Article
Daniel Rubinoff, Auteur ;
Michael San Jose, Auteur ;
Paul Johnson, Auteur ;
Ralph Wells, Auteur ;
Ken Osborne, Auteur ;
Johannes J. Le Roux, Auteur
The Kern Primrose Sphinx moth (Euproserpinus euterpe) is a threatened moth twice thought to have gone extinct. It was historically known only from a small basin in the southern Sierra Nevada of California, but a new putative population was recen[...]
Article
Eigil Reimers, Auteur ;
Kjetil Flydal, Auteur ;
Lars Korslund, Auteur ;
Sindre Eftestol, Auteur ;
Jonathan E. Colman, Auteur ;
Diress Tsegaye, Auteur
Article
Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Auteur ;
Helen Kopnina, Auteur
In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical thought about culture and conservation. There is an ongoing debate playing out over conservation between those who believe conservation threatens c[...]
Article
Michael R. Buchalski, Auteur ;
Asako Y. Navarro, Auteur ;
Walter M. Boyce, Auteur ;
T. Winston Vickers, Auteur ;
Mathias W. Tobler, Auteur ;
Lisa A. Nordstrom, Auteur ;
Jorge Alaniz Garcia, Auteur ;
Daphne A. Gille, Auteur ;
Maria Cecilia T. Penedo, Auteur ;
Oliver A. Ryder, Auteur ;
Holly B. Ernest, Auteur
Within the United States (US), Peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni, PBS) are listed as federally endangered. Despite known metapopulation structure, little is known regarding functional connectivity across the international border [...]
Article
E. V. Bragina, Auteur ;
V. C. Radeloff, Auteur ;
M. Baumann, Auteur ;
K. Wendland, Auteur ;
T. Kuemmerle, Auteur ;
A. M. Pidgeon, Auteur
Economic and social transition periods can have strong negative effects for the environment and for wildlife. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides a striking example of social turmoil and transition to a new society. It is unclear, [...]
Article
Stuart Pell, Auteur ;
Darryl Jones, Auteur
A major conservation objective of wildlife overpasses is to maintain levels of dispersal between fragmented areas of habitat, thereby allowing gene-flow and sustaining population viability of target species. We documented crossing rates of a ran[...]
Article
Kristina L. Cockle, Auteur ;
Alejandro Bodrati, Auteur ;
Martjan Lammertink, Auteur ;
Kathy Martin, Auteur
Cavity-nesting vertebrates are an important component of biodiversity in tropical and subtropical forests, but their persistence will increasingly depend on remnant trees in logged forest and agricultural areas. To identify key habitat features [...]
Article
Sebastian Martinuzzi, Auteur ;
Volker C. Radeloff, Auteur ;
Lucas N. Joppa, Auteur ;
Christopher M. Hamilton, Auteur ;
David P. Helmers, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Plantinga, Auteur ;
David J. Lewis, Auteur
Land use change around protected areas can diminish their conservation value, making it important to predict future land use changes nearby. Our goal was to evaluate future land use changes around protected areas of different types in the United[...]
Article
David Sanchez-Fernandez, Auteur ;
Pedro Abellan, Auteur
One of the main issues in conservation biology is assessing how much biodiversity is currently represented in protected areas (PA). Traditional approaches such as 'gap analysis' require the choice of arbitrary targets and thresholds that can gre[...]
Article
C. A. McAlpine, Auteur ;
M. E. Bowen, Auteur ;
G. C. Smith, Auteur ;
G. Gramotnev, Auteur ;
A. G. Smith, Auteur ;
A. Lo Cascio, Auteur ;
W. Goulding, Auteur ;
M. Maron, Auteur
The conversion of forested landscapes to agriculture commonly results in three main changes to landscape structure: forest loss, fragmentation, and the creation of novel habitats such as forest regrowth. Here we apply a landscape-level survey de[...]
Article
Matthew S. Dietz, Auteur ;
R. Travis Belote, Auteur ;
Gregory H. Aplet, Auteur ;
Jocelyn L. Aycrigg, Auteur
Protected areas, such as wilderness, form the foundation of most strategies to conserve biological diversity. However, the success of protected areas in achieving conservation goals depends partly on how well ecological diversity is represented [...]
Article
Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson, Auteur ;
Paul J. Ferraro, Auteur ;
Clinton N. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Julia P. G. Jones, Auteur
Community Forest Management (CFM) is a widespread conservation approach in the tropics. It is also promoted as a means by which payment for ecosystem services schemes can be implemented. However, evidence on its performance is weak. We investiga[...]
Article
Hampus Eriksson, Auteur ;
Shelley Clarke, Auteur
Global exploitation of sharks and sea cucumbers to meet consumer demand in China is motivating a rising conservation concern. In order to analyze trends in resource exploitation and market dynamics, this paper reviews global production and trade[...]
Article
Ryo Sakurai, Auteur ;
Hiromi Kobori, Auteur ;
Masako Nakamura, Auteur ;
Takahiro Kikuchi, Auteur
The long-term success of conservation projects, particularly in urban areas, often depends on local buy-in and participation. However, it can be difficult to recruit local residents to participate in community-based management. Here we use an ur[...]
Article
Orjan Johansson, Auteur ;
Tom McCarthy, Auteur ;
Gustaf Samelius, Auteur ;
Henrik Andren, Auteur ;
Lkhagvasumberel Tumursukh, Auteur ;
Charudutt Mishra, Auteur
Livestock predation is an important cause of endangerment of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) across its range. Yet, detailed information on individual and spatio-temporal variation in predation patterns of snow leopards and their kill rates of[...]
Article
Cassidy K. van Rensen, Auteur ;
Scott E. Nielsen, Auteur ;
Barry White, Auteur ;
Tim Vinge, Auteur ;
Victor J. Lieffers, Auteur
Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine both their location and extent. Conventional clearing techniques for seismic assessment have left a legacy of linear disturbances that cause habitat fra[...]
Article
Sarah A. Scriven, Auteur ;
Jenny A. Hodgson, Auteur ;
Colin J. McClean, Auteur ;
Jane K. Hill, Auteur
Protected areas (PAs) are key for conserving rainforest species, but many PAs are becoming increasingly isolated within agricultural landscapes, which may have detrimental consequences for the forest biota they contain. We examined the vulnerabi[...]
Article
Simona Susnik Bajec, Auteur ;
Gasper Pustovrh, Auteur ;
Dušan Jesenšek, Auteur ;
Ales Snoj, Auteur
Marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) is an extensively managed salmonid taxon threatened by historical introductions of non-native brown trout (Salmo trutta) of different origins into habitats in the northern part of its distribution, namely the Po r[...]
Article
Emilia Carrara, Auteur ;
Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Jorge H. Vega-Rivera, Auteur ;
Jorge E. Schondube, Auteur ;
Sandra M. de Freitas, Auteur ;
Lenore Fahrig, Auteur
With accelerated land-use change throughout the tropics, an increasing proportion of global biodiversity is located in human-modified landscapes. Understanding the relative effects of landscape composition and configuration on biodiversity is ne[...]
Article
Francisco Botello, Auteur ;
Sahotra Sarkar, Auteur ;
Victor Sanchez-Cordero, Auteur
Mexico is considered a country of biological megadiversity because of its exceptional species richness and endemism. However, much of Mexico's biodiversity is under threat due to a variety of factors, in particular, habitat loss. The Mexican leg[...]
Article
Michael J. Liles, Auteur ;
Markus J. Peterson, Auteur ;
Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Auteur ;
Eduardo Altamirano, Auteur ;
Ana V. Henriquez, Auteur ;
Alexander R. Gaos, Auteur ;
Velkiss Gadea, Auteur ;
Jose Urteaga, Auteur ;
Perla Torres, Auteur ;
Bryan P. Wallace, Auteur ;
Tarla Rai Peterson, Auteur
Conservation biologists frequently use data from the same or related species collected in diverse geographic locations to guide interventions in situations where its applicability is uncertain. There are dangers inherent to this approach. The ne[...]
Article
Mariah H. Meek, Auteur ;
Caitlin Wells, Auteur ;
Katharine M. Tomalty, Auteur ;
Jaime Ashander, Auteur ;
Esther M. Cole, Auteur ;
Daphne A. Gille, Auteur ;
Breanna J. Putman, Auteur ;
Jonathan P. Rose, Auteur ;
Matthew S. Savoca, Auteur ;
Lauren Yamane, Auteur ;
Joshua M. Hull, Auteur ;
Deborah L. Rogers, Auteur ;
Erica Lree Rosenblum, Auteur ;
Jason F. Shogren, Auteur ;
Ronald R. Swaisgood, Auteur ;
Bernie May, Auteur
The potential for extirpation of extremely small populations (ESPs) is high due to their vulnerability to demographic and environmental stochasticity and negative impacts of human activity. We argue that conservation actions that could aid ESPs [...]
Article
Jesse D'Elia, Auteur ;
Susan M. Haig, Auteur ;
Matthew Johnson, Auteur ;
Bruce G. Marcot, Auteur ;
Richard Young, Auteur
Ecological niche models can be a useful tool to identify candidate reintroduction sites for endangered species but have been infrequently used for this purpose. In this paper, we (1) develop activity-specific ecological niche models (nesting, ro[...]
Article
Jennifer C. Pierson, Auteur ;
Philip S. Barton, Auteur ;
Peter W. Lane, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Surrogates are commonly used for monitoring biodiversity under a wide range of scenarios. However, surrogates are not often evaluated under diverse ecological conditions, and this hinders the identification of spatial and temporal boundaries of [...]
Article
Diana Rubene, Auteur ;
Martin Schroeder, Auteur ;
Thomas Ranius, Auteur
Understanding patterns of species diversity at different spatial scales is important for adapting management and conservation efforts. We have therefore studied wild bee and wasp (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) diversity structure in forest landscapes a[...]
Article
Annelie M. Jonsson, Auteur ;
Johan Ekroos, Auteur ;
Juliana Danhardt, Auteur ;
Georg K. S. Andersson, Auteur ;
Ola Olsson, Auteur ;
Henrik G. Smith, Auteur
Pollinator populations have suffered severe declines in many industrialised countries due to reduced floral and nesting resources, brought on by agricultural intensification. One potential method of mitigating these effects is creating flower st[...]
Article
Justin H. Bohling, Auteur ;
Lisette P. Waits, Auteur
Understanding the mechanisms that govern interspecific hybridization is vital to mitigating its impacts on endangered species. Research suggests that behavioral mechanisms such as mate choice and social disruption can regulate the rate at which [...]
