| Titre : | Biological Conservation 190 - OCT 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Auteur ;
Ian Craigie, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
Tropical protected areas have variable success in protecting their biodiversity. Many are experiencing biodiversity declines because of pressures such as logging, fire and hunting in their immediate surroundings, and inadequate protection inside[...]
Article
Rishi Kumar Sharma, Auteur ;
Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Auteur ;
Charudutt Mishra, Auteur
Large carnivores commonly prey on livestock when their ranges overlap. Pastoralism is the dominant land use type across the distributional range of the endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia. Snow leopards are often killed in retaliation against[...]
Article
Noa Davidai, Auteur ;
John K. Westbrook, Auteur ;
Jean-Philippe Lessard, Auteur ;
Thomas G. Hallam, Auteur ;
Gary F. McCracken, Auteur
The conversion of natural lands to agriculture is a leading cause of the worldwide loss of biodiversity. In particular, cropland monocultures alter insect abundance and diversity compared to adjacent natural habitats. While agricultural lands ca[...]
Article
Mauro Galetti, Auteur ;
Roger Guevara, Auteur ;
Carolina L. Neves, Auteur ;
Raisa R. Rodarte, Auteur ;
Ricardo S. Bovendorp, Auteur ;
Marcelo Moreira, Auteur ;
John B. Hopkins, Auteur ;
Justin D. Yeakel, Auteur
Most tropical rainforests have been defaunated of large-bodied mammals and the cascading effects of such extirpations have been poorly studied, particularly on other animals. We used a natural experiment in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest to i[...]
Article
Guozhen Shen, Auteur ;
Stuart L. Pimm, Auteur ;
Chaoyang Feng, Auteur ;
Guofang Ren, Auteur ;
Yanping Liu, Auteur ;
Wenting Xu, Auteur ;
Junqing Li, Auteur ;
Xingfeng Si, Auteur ;
Zongqiang Xie, Auteur
The global total of protected areas to conserve biodiversity is increasing steadily, while numerous studies show that they are broadly effective. That said, how will current conservation strategies work, given the current and expected changes to[...]
Article
Kristian Metcalfe, Auteur ;
Pierre Didier Agamboue, Auteur ;
Eric Augowet, Auteur ;
Francois Boussamba, Auteur ;
Floriane Cardiec, Auteur ;
J. Michael Fay, Auteur ;
Angela Formia, Auteur ;
Judicael Regis Kema Kema, Auteur ;
Carmen Kouerey, Auteur ;
Brice Didier Koumba Mabert, Auteur ;
Sara M. Maxwell, Auteur ;
Gianna Minton, Auteur ;
Gil Avery Mounguengui Mounguengui, Auteur ;
Carine Moussounda, Auteur ;
Narcisse Moukoumou, Auteur ;
Jean Churley Manfoumbi, Auteur ;
Anicet Megne Nguema, Auteur ;
Jacob Nzegoue, Auteur ;
Richard J. Parnell, Auteur ;
Philippe du Plessis, Auteur ;
Guy-Philippe Sounguet, Auteur ;
Dominic Tilley, Auteur ;
Sebastian Verhage, Auteur ;
Wynand Viljoen, Auteur ;
Lee White, Auteur ;
Matthew J. Witt, Auteur ;
Brendan J. Godley, Auteur
The management of widely dispersed marine vertebrates can be facilitated by better understanding their distribution, density, population trends and threats. Unfortunately, for some populations of sea turtle spatial and temporal data are often la[...]
Article
Clark L. Gray, Auteur ;
Matthew Bozigar, Auteur ;
Richard E. Bilsborrow, Auteur
Article
Amy Hinsley, Auteur ;
Diogo Verissimo, Auteur ;
David L. Roberts, Auteur
The demand for wildlife products drives an illegal trade estimated to be worth up to $10 billion per year, ranking it amongst the top transnational crimes in terms of value. Orchids are one of the best-selling plants in the legal horticultural t[...]
Article
Lauric Thiault, Auteur ;
Stanislao Bevilacqua, Auteur ;
Antonio Terlizzi, Auteur ;
Joachim Claudet, Auteur
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly used for biodiversity conservation and the management of sustainable fisheries. The use of taxonomic surrogates in routine monitoring of the reserve effects on fish assemblages may represent a promi[...]
Article
Tobias Plieninger, Auteur ;
Tibor Hartel, Auteur ;
Berta Martin-Lopez, Auteur ;
Guy Beaufoy, Auteur ;
Erwin Bergmeier, Auteur ;
Keith Kirby, Auteur ;
Maria Jesus Montero, Auteur ;
Gerardo Moreno, Auteur ;
Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Auteur ;
Jan Van Uytvanck, Auteur
Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a sharp decline all over Europe, mainly due to processes of agricultural int[...]
Article
Rhiannon E. Meier, Auteur ;
Russell B. Wynn, Auteur ;
Stephen C. Votier, Auteur ;
Miguel McMinn Grive, Auteur ;
Ana Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Louise Maurice, Auteur ;
E. Emiel van Loon, Auteur ;
Alice R. Jones, Auteur ;
Lavinia Suberg, Auteur ;
Jose Manuel Arcos, Auteur ;
Greg Morgan, Auteur ;
Simon A. Josey, Auteur ;
Tim Guilford, Auteur
Unprecedented changes to the marine environment and growth of bio-logging science make detailed study of the movement ecology of threatened marine species timely. Here, we study spatial and temporal patterns of marine space use by a critically e[...]
Article
S. G. Willis, Auteur ;
W. Foden, Auteur ;
D. J. Baker, Auteur ;
E. Belle, Auteur ;
N. D. Burgess, Auteur ;
J. A. Carr, Auteur ;
N. Doswald, Auteur ;
R. A. Garcia, Auteur ;
A. Hartley, Auteur ;
C. Hof, Auteur ;
T. Newbold, Auteur ;
C. Rahbek, Auteur ;
R. J. Smith, Auteur ;
P. Visconti, Auteur ;
B. E. Young, Auteur ;
S. H. M. Butchart, Auteur
To accommodate climate-driven changes in biological communities, conservation plans are increasingly making use of models to predict species' responses to climate change. To date, species distribution models have been the most commonly used appr[...]
Article
Tim S. Doherty, Auteur ;
Chris R. Dickman, Auteur ;
Dale G. Nimmo, Auteur ;
Euan G. Ritchie, Auteur
Invasive species have reshaped the composition of biomes across the globe, and considerable cost is now associated with minimising their ecological, social and economic impacts. Mammalian predators are among the most damaging invaders, having ca[...]
Article
Anders H. Siren, Auteur
Article
Matthew A. McCary, Auteur ;
Jose-Cristian Martinez, Auteur ;
Lauren Umek, Auteur ;
Liam Heneghan, Auteur ;
David H. Wise, Auteur
Restoration of woodlands that have been invaded by exotic plants has primarily focused on restoring vegetation structure by removing invaders and planting native species that have declined in abundance. Management practices to date continue to f[...]
Article
Mikko Kuussaari, Auteur ;
Risto K. Heikkinen, Auteur ;
Janne Heliola, Auteur ;
Miska Luoto, Auteur ;
Marianne Mayer, Auteur ;
Susu Rytteri, Auteur ;
Peter von Bagh, Auteur
Translocations have been advocated as a conservation tool helping species adapt to climate and land-use change, but well-documented examples of invertebrates' translocations are rare. The paper describes a successful translocation of the threate[...]
Article
Helene Vogt-Schilb, Auteur ;
Francois Munoz, Auteur ;
Franck Richard, Auteur ;
Bertrand Schatz, Auteur
In recent decades, many studies have documented local declines of orchid species due to environmental changes. However, few data are available about the changes of orchid species' distributions at large spatial and temporal scales. We aimed to c[...]
Article
T. D. Penman, Auteur ;
D. A. Keith, Auteur ;
J. Elith, Auteur ;
M. J. Mahony, Auteur ;
R. Tingley, Auteur ;
J. B. Baumgartner, Auteur ;
T. J. Regan, Auteur
Climate change directly affects the suitability of habitats for species, but also indirectly alters natural disturbances such as fire, which can negatively impact species' persistence. Developing accurate predictions of climate change impacts re[...]
Article
Le Yu, Auteur ;
Yichuan Shi, Auteur ;
Peng Gong, Auteur
Land cover provides objective and multi scale information on the extent and conditions of habitats both currently and retrospectively. Over four decades since the launch of the first land-observation satellite Landsat-1 in 1972, a tremendous num[...]
Article
Roel F. May, Auteur
The construction and operation of wind-power plants may affect birds through collision mortality, reduced habitat utilization due to disturbance, barriers to movement and habitat modifications, with the nature and magnitude of those effects bein[...]
Article
Federico Morelli, Auteur ;
Frédéric Jiguet, Auteur ;
Jiri Reif, Auteur ;
Sofia Plexida, Auteur ;
Andrea Suzzi Valli, Auteur ;
Piotr Indykiewicz, Auteur ;
Petra Šímová, Auteur ;
Muriel Tichit, Auteur ;
Marco Moretti, Auteur ;
Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur
The use of biodiversity surrogates is an increasingly popular tool, because it provides strong results while reducing the costs of conservation studies. Here, we hypothesize that cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) occurrence may correlate with high bird s[...]
Article
Yiwei Wang, Auteur ;
Maximilian L. Allen, Auteur ;
Christopher C. Wilmers, Auteur
Human-driven declines of apex predators can trigger widespread impacts throughout ecological communities. Reduced apex predator occupancy or activity can release mesopredators from intraguild competition, with unknown repercussions on the ecolog[...]
