| Titre : | Biological Conservation 186 - JUN 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Chris J. Johnson, Auteur ;
Libby P. W. Ehlers, Auteur ;
Dale R. Seip, Auteur
Habitat change is a major driver of species distribution and persistence, but there have been few recorded extinction events for terrestrial mammals across Canada. Currently, we are observing the decline, extirpation, and perhaps extinction of s[...]
Article
Amanda N. D. Freeman, Auteur ;
Carla P. Catterall, Auteur ;
Kylie Freebody, Auteur
Active restoration of biodiverse forest uses significant resource investment to produce rapid partial recovery of biodiversity, but with unknown longer term outcomes. Here we test the capacity of intensive high diversity rainforest restoration p[...]
Article
R. Gaigher, Auteur ;
J. S. Pryke, Auteur ;
M. J. Samways, Auteur
The maintenance of remnant natural vegetation in agricultural landscapes is an important component of conservation programmes that promote farmland sustainability. Demonstrating the biodiversity value of remnant vegetation can support conservati[...]
Article
Bhagawan R. Dahal, Auteur ;
Clive A. McAlpine, Auteur ;
Martine Maron, Auteur
Forest use practices such as logging, lopping of tree branches for fodder, and grazing do not reduce forest area but disturb forest structure and impact biodiversity. Although such forest disturbances can be key determinants of the biota occupyi[...]
Article
Teresa J. Eyre, Auteur ;
Daniel J. Ferguson, Auteur ;
Michael Kennedy, Auteur ;
Jesse Rowland, Auteur ;
Martine Maron, Auteur
The manipulation of habitat through thinning and logging activities may have cascading effects on fauna because of direct and indirect changes to key habitat features. However, the combined effect of thinning and logging on fauna has not been in[...]
Article
Julien Martin, Auteur ;
Holly H. Edwards, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Auteur ;
Stacie M. Koslovsky, Auteur ;
Craig W. Harmak, Auteur ;
Ted M. Dane, Auteur
Monitoring abundance and distribution of organisms over large landscapes can be difficult. Because of challenges associated with logistics and data analyses uncorrected counts are often used as a proxy for abundance. We present the first statewi[...]
Article
Gerjan J. Piet, Auteur ;
Ruud H. Jongbloed, Auteur ;
Antony M. Knights, Auteur ;
Jacqueline E. Tamis, Auteur ;
Anneke J. Paijmans, Auteur ;
Marieken T. van der Sluis, Auteur ;
Pepijn de Vries, Auteur ;
Leonie A. Robinson, Auteur
This study presents a comprehensive and generic framework that provides a typology for the identification and selection of consistently defined ecosystem-based management measures and allows a coherent evaluation of these measures based on their[...]
Article
Predicting the effect of invertebrate regime shifts on wading birds: Insights from Poole Harbour, UK
Katharine M. Bowgen, Auteur ;
Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ;
Roger J. H. Herbert, Auteur
Regime shifts in benthic invertebrates within coastal ecosystems threaten the survival of wading birds (Charadrii). Predicting how invertebrate regime shifts will affect wading birds allows conservation management and mitigation measures to be i[...]
Article
Rafael Barrientos, Auteur
Biological invasions represent a threat to worldwide diversity, but large scale patterns of their impacts are rarely reported. The population sex-ratio influences many other population parameters such as the effective population size, the mating[...]
Article
Jennifer J. Crees, Auteur ;
Samuel T. Turvey, Auteur
The ability to make decisions regarding a species' native status according to appropriate environmental baselines is of vital importance for current-day environmental management, particularly as non-native, invasive species eradication has emerg[...]
Article
Martin U. Grueebler, Auteur ;
Heidi Schuler, Auteur ;
Reto Spaar, Auteur ;
Beat Naef-Daenzer, Auteur
Harvesting often results in the destruction of both, the nest and the surrounding habitat of ground-nesting farmland birds. While the direct effect of harvesting on nest loss and productivity is well investigated, the behavioural responses of pa[...]
Article
Davi Castro Tavares, Auteur ;
Dernetrio Luis Guadagnin, Auteur ;
Jailson Fulgencio de Moura, Auteur ;
Salvatore Siciliano, Auteur ;
Agostino Merico, Auteur
Tropical coastal lagoons are among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth due to multiple factors. The loss and degradation of coastal lagoons can adversely affect waterbirds, which depend crucially on wetland habitats. This study investigates [...]
Article
W. Peters, Auteur ;
M. Hebblewhite, Auteur ;
M. Cavedon, Auteur ;
L. Pedrotti, Auteur ;
A. Mustoni, Auteur ;
F. Zibordi, Auteur ;
C. Groff, Auteur ;
M. Zanin, Auteur ;
F. Cagnacci, Auteur
Large carnivores are declining worldwide and few examples of successful reintroductions exist, because of their large home-ranges, low reproductive rates, and penchant for human-wildlife conflict that is the main cause of their decline. Moreover[...]
Article
Voahirana C. Randriamamonjy, Auteur ;
Aidan Keane, Auteur ;
H. Julie Razafimanahaka, Auteur ;
Richard K. B. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Julia P. G. Jones, Auteur
Mining can have serious biodiversity consequences and many mining operations take steps to mitigate their impacts. Evaluating their success poses a significant challenge because appropriate counterfactuals (what would have happened in the absenc[...]
Article
Nicole Sweaney, Auteur ;
Don A. Driscoll, Auteur ;
D. B. Lindenmayer, Auteur ;
Nicholas Porch, Auteur
Following landscape change, species invasions and extinctions may lead to biotic homogenisation, resulting in increased taxonomic and functional similarity between previously distinct biotas. Biotic homogenisation is more likely to occur in land[...]
Article
Anthony D. Griffiths, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Garnett, Auteur ;
Barry W. Brook, Auteur
Patch-mosaic burning is a widely accepted practical approach to managing biodiversity, whereby spatial and temporal diversity of fire is manipulated to benefit biotic diversity. We use simulation experiments based on stochastic population viabil[...]
Article
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Auteur ;
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur
An important topic in the scientific publication process is how well reviewers evaluate the quality of papers and how their recommendations influence editors' decisions to accept or reject papers. Additionally, a particular concern for researche[...]
Article
J. Phelps, Auteur ;
Edward L. Webb, Auteur
Conservation and environmental management often rely heavily on official statistics, but there are often concerns over accuracy and reliability, particularly true when dealing with sensitive issues such as illegal harvest and trade. A growing nu[...]
Article
Anne-Christine Monnet, Auteur ;
Yves Hingrat, Auteur ;
Frédéric Jiguet, Auteur
The success of translocation programs aiming to boost the effective population size of a declining species is conditioned by the ability of released individuals to survive and breed effectively while they share the ecological niche of wild indiv[...]
Article
Chris B. Thaxter, Auteur ;
Viola H. Ross-Smith, Auteur ;
Willem Bouten, Auteur ;
Nigel A. Clark, Auteur ;
Greg J. Conway, Auteur ;
Mark M. Rehfisch, Auteur ;
Niall H. K. Burton, Auteur
The marine environment is increasingly pressured from human activities, such as offshore renewable energy developments. Offshore wind farms may pose direct risks to seabirds at protected breeding sites. However, changes in food availability may [...]
Article
Rakan A. Zahawi, Auteur ;
Jonathan P. Dandois, Auteur ;
Karen D. Holl, Auteur ;
Dana Nadwodny, Auteur ;
J. Leighton Reid, Auteur ;
Erle C. Ellis, Auteur
Large areas of tropical lands are being removed from agriculture and restored to address conservation goals. However, monitoring the ecological value of these efforts at the individual land-owner scale is rare, owing largely to issues of cost an[...]
Article
Timothy Jones, Auteur ;
Robert J. Davidson, Auteur ;
Jonathan P. A. Gardner, Auteur ;
James J. Bell, Auteur
Monitoring is essential for effective conservation and management but the ability of monitoring to deliver accurate and precise measures of changes in abundance is often not evaluated, particularly in marine studies. Here we use long-term datase[...]
Article
Elizabeth A. Law, Auteur ;
Erik Meijaard, Auteur ;
Brett A. Bryan, Auteur ;
Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Auteur ;
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur ;
Kerrie A. Wilson, Auteur
Land sparing and land sharing are contrasting strategies often aimed at improving both agricultural production and biodiversity conservation in multifunctional landscapes. These strategies are embodied in land management policies at local to int[...]
Article
Fang Wang, Auteur ;
William J. McShea, Auteur ;
Dajun Wang, Auteur ;
Sheng Li, Auteur
Interactions between sympatric species may negatively affect a species' fitness, and complicate management of species assemblages in protected areas. An example of the need to quantify the strength and direction of the species interactions is gi[...]
Article
Zdenka Krenova, Auteur ;
Pavel Kindlmann, Auteur
Natura 2000 is a unique EU-wide network of protected areas, which aims to maintain European biodiversity or at least prevent its worsening based on two Directives: Bird Directive 79/409/EEC and Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC. It is assumed that th[...]
Article
Miriam Teuscher, Auteur ;
Miriam Vorlaufer, Auteur ;
Meike Wollni, Auteur ;
Ulrich Brose, Auteur ;
Yeni Mulyani, Auteur ;
Yann Clough, Auteur
Global land-use change has drastic consequences for biodiversity leading to losses of ecological functioning, ecosystem services and human well-being. While species dependent on undisturbed natural habitat are most affected by conversion to agri[...]
Article
Wei Wei, Auteur ;
Yonggang Nie, Auteur ;
Zejun Zhang, Auteur ;
Yibo Hu, Auteur ;
Li Yan, Auteur ;
Dunwu Qi, Auteur ;
Xinhai Li, Auteur ;
Fuwen Wei, Auteur
Food resources are patchily distributed in the environment and carnivores and herbivores have adopted different foraging strategies to maximize feeding efficiency. One interesting strategy is that of the giant panda, a member of the Carnivora th[...]
Article
Maximilien Gueze, Auteur ;
Ana Catarina Luz, Auteur ;
Jaime Paneque-Galvez, Auteur ;
Manuel J. Macia, Auteur ;
Marti Orta-Martinez, Auteur ;
Joan Pino, Auteur ;
Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Auteur
Understanding how indigenous peoples' management practices relate to biological diversity requires addressing contemporary changes in indigenous peoples' way of life. This study explores the association between cultural change among a Bolivian A[...]
Article
Andrew D. Crosby, Auteur ;
R. Dwayne Elmore, Auteur ;
David M. Leslie, Auteur ;
Rodney E. Will, Auteur
Changes in land use and land cover throughout the eastern half of North America have caused substantial declines in populations of birds that rely on grassland and shrubland vegetation types, including socially and economically important game bi[...]
Article
Merav Vonshak, Auteur ;
Deborah M. Gordon, Auteur
Urban habitats are undergoing a faunal and floral homogenization process worldwide. We investigated how such homogenization influences ant communities. We monitored ant species richness and abundance in natural, semi-natural, urban, and agricult[...]
Article
Melissa Braham, Auteur ;
Tricia Miller, Auteur ;
Adam E. Duerr, Auteur ;
Michael Lanzone, Auteur ;
Amy Fesnock, Auteur ;
Larry LaPre, Auteur ;
Daniel Driscoll, Auteur ;
Todd Katzner, Auteur
Renewable energy is expanding quickly with sometimes dramatic impacts to species and ecosystems. To understand the degree to which sensitive species may be impacted by renewable energy projects, it is informative to know how much space individua[...]
Article
Joanna T. Staley, Auteur ;
Sam R. Amy, Auteur ;
Nigel P. Adams, Auteur ;
Roselle E. Chapman, Auteur ;
Jodey M. Peyton, Auteur ;
Richard F. Pywell, Auteur
Hedgerows provide key wildlife habitat in intensive agricultural landscapes, but are declining in length and structural condition due to a lack of rejuvenation management, neglect and over-frequent trimming with mechanised flails. Here, we test [...]
Article
Claire A. Pernollet, Auteur ;
Anis Guelmami, Auteur ;
Andy J. Green, Auteur ;
Antoni Curco Masip, Auteur ;
Bosco Dies, Auteur ;
Giuseppe Bogliani, Auteur ;
Franco Tesio, Auteur ;
Anne Brogi, Auteur ;
Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Auteur ;
Matthieu Guillemain, Auteur
Agricultural lands can provide suitable habitat for birds under some conditions. In particular, waterfowl sometimes rely on ricefields as nocturnal foraging habitat during winter if post-harvest practices make food accessible. To assess whether [...]
Article
Rochelle Constantine, Auteur ;
Mark Johnson, Auteur ;
Leena Riekkola, Auteur ;
Stephanie Jervis, Auteur ;
Lily Kozmian-Ledward, Auteur ;
Todd Dennis, Auteur ;
Leigh G. Torres, Auteur ;
Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Auteur
Collisions between traffic and wildlife can have population-level consequences and carry economic costs. Vessel-strike may threaten the viability of whale populations especially where habitat overlaps with frequent vessel traffic; as seen in the[...]
Article
Fernando A. Campos, Auteur ;
Katharine M. Jack, Auteur ;
Linda M. Fedigan, Auteur
Tropical dry forests are among the world's most imperiled biomes, and most long-lived and large-bodied animals that inhabit tropical dry forests persist in small, fragmented populations. Long-term monitoring is necessary for understanding the ex[...]
Article
Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Auteur ;
Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Auteur ;
Larisa Avens, Auteur ;
Lisa R. Goshe, Auteur ;
S. Hoyt Peckham, Auteur ;
Juan M. Rguez-Baron, Auteur ;
Kalyn Bickerman, Auteur ;
Carolyn M. Kurle, Auteur
For migratory marine animals, like sea turtles, effective conservation can be challenging because key demographic information such as duration of life stages and exposure to spatially explicit threats in different habitats are often unknown. In [...]
Article
Elias Bader, Auteur ;
Kirsten Jung, Auteur ;
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Auteur ;
Rachel A. Page, Auteur ;
Raul Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Thomas Sattler, Auteur
Habitat loss due to anthropogenic activities is a critical threat to biodiversity. Understanding which factors determine species persistence in degraded environments is essential for conservation management. Here, we investigated how aerial inse[...]
Article
E. Martin Osterling, Auteur ;
Hakan Soderberg, Auteur
Habitat fragmentation is a major reason for the decline and extinction of migratory species. Many host populations for parasites are partly migratory, consisting of both migratory and resident individuals, and we asked the question whether these[...]
Article
Steven H. Pearson, Auteur ;
Harold W. Avery, Auteur ;
James R. Spotila, Auteur
Invasive species are a significant cause of biodiversity declines on a global scale with novel species interactions often causing ecological damage through predation or competition. Red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) have been [...]
Article
Robert Heinsohn, Auteur ;
Matthew Webb, Auteur ;
Robert Lacy, Auteur ;
Aleks Terauds, Auteur ;
Rachael Alderman, Auteur ;
Dejan Stojanovic, Auteur
Identifying the impact of introduced predators on endangered prey populations is critical for conservation management. Population viability analysis (PVA) becomes a valuable tool for quantifying such impacts when high quality life history data a[...]
