| Titre : | Biological Conservation 194 - FEB 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Luke L. Powell, Auteur ;
Jared D. Wolfe, Auteur ;
Erik I. Johnson, Auteur ;
Philip C. Stouffer, Auteur
Understanding how animals move in a complex habitat mosaic is critical to biodiversity conservation as deforested lands and secondary rainforests accumulate in landscapes previously dominated by primary forests. To visualize the spatiotemporal d[...]
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N. J. Sutton, Auteur ;
S. Cho, Auteur ;
P. R. Armsworth, Auteur
A common focus for conservation planning is to identify locations for siting potential protected areas, something that requires estimates for the costs of setting up these areas and benefits for biodiversity of doing so. When cost data are not a[...]
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Marisa K. Lipsey, Auteur ;
Kevin E. Doherty, Auteur ;
David E. Naugle, Auteur ;
Sean Fields, Auteur ;
Jeffrey S. Evans, Auteur ;
Stephen K. Davis, Auteur ;
Nicola Koper, Auteur
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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 Bree Rosenblum, Auteur ;
Jason F. Shogren, Auteur ;
Ronald R. Swaisgood, Auteur ;
Bernie May, Auteur
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Return on investment of the ecological infrastructure in a new forest frontier in Brazilian Amazonia
Teresa Cristina Albuquerque de Castro Dias, Auteur ;
Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha, Auteur ;
Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva, Auteur
Protected areas anchor the ecological infrastructure that societies need for long-term prosperity and provide benefits to local, national, and global stakeholders. However, these areas continue to go unfunded. In this paper, we have provided the[...]
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Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Auteur ;
Helen Kopnina, Auteur
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Kendall R. Jones, Auteur ;
James E. M. Watson, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Carissa J. Klein, Auteur
To ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity, conservation strategies must account for the entire range of climate change impacts. A variety of spatial prioritisation techniques have been developed to incorporate climate change. Here, we [...]
Article
Rebecca Spake, Auteur ;
Sietse van der Linde, Auteur ;
Adrian C. Newton, Auteur ;
Laura M. Suz, Auteur ;
Martin I. Bidartondo, Auteur ;
C. Patrick Doncaster, Auteur
Setting aside overmature planted forests is currently seen as an option for preserving species associated with old growth forests, such as those with dispersal limitation. Few data exist, however, on the utility of set-aside plantations for this[...]
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Allison S. Catalano, Auteur ;
Andrew T. Knight, Auteur
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Tania Minhos, Auteur ;
Lounes Chikhi, Auteur ;
Claudia Sousa, Auteur ;
Luis M. Vicente, Auteur ;
Maria Ferreira da Silva, Auteur ;
Rasmus Heller, Auteur ;
Catarina Casanova, Auteur ;
Michael W. Bruford, Auteur
The ability of forest-dwelling species to adapt to changes in their habitat is being increasingly challenged by the rapid pace of human-induced forest degradation. Understanding the effect of such environmental changes on biodiversity requires c[...]
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A. Felton, Auteur ;
L. Gustafsson, Auteur ;
J.-M. Roberge, Auteur ;
T. Ranius, Auteur ;
J. Hjaelten, Auteur ;
J. Rudolphi, Auteur ;
M. Lindbladh, Auteur ;
J. Weslien, Auteur ;
L. Rist, Auteur ;
J. Brunet, Auteur ;
A. M. Felton, Auteur
Anthropogenic climate change is altering the management of production forests. These changes are motivated by the need to adapt to the uncertainties and risks of climate change, and by the need to enlist their carbon storage and sequestration ca[...]
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C. L. Gray, Auteur ;
B. I. Simmons, Auteur ;
T. M. Fayle, Auteur ;
D. J. Mann, Auteur ;
E. M. Slade, Auteur
The world's forested landscapes are increasingly fragmented. The effects of fragmentation on community composition have received more attention than the effects on ecological processes, particularly in the tropics. The extent to which population[...]
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Taylor M. Wilcox, Auteur ;
Kevin S. McKelvey, Auteur ;
Michael K. Young, Auteur ;
Adam J. Sepulveda, Auteur ;
Bradley B. Shepard, Auteur ;
Stephen F. Jane, Auteur ;
Andrew R. Whiteley, Auteur ;
Winsor H. Lowe, Auteur ;
Michael K. Schwartz, Auteur
Environmental DNA sampling (eDNA) has emerged as a powerful tool for detecting aquatic animals. Previous research suggests that eDNA methods are substantially more sensitive than traditional sampling. However, the factors influencing eDNA detect[...]
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Christina Fischer, Auteur ;
Christian Wagner, Auteur
During the last decades, agriculture has been rapidly intensified, resulting in a strong decline in species diversity. Therefore the common agricultural policy (CAP) of the EU implemented agri-environmental schemes (AES) for an environmentally-f[...]
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Donna J. Shaver, Auteur ;
Kristen M. Hart, Auteur ;
Ikuko Fujisaki, Auteur ;
Cynthia Rubio, Auteur ;
Autumn R. Sartain-Iverson, Auteur ;
Jaime Pena, Auteur ;
Daniel Gomez Gamez, Auteur ;
Raul de Jesus Gonzales Diaz Miron, Auteur ;
Patrick M. Burchfield, Auteur ;
Hector J. Martinez, Auteur ;
Jaime Ortiz, Auteur
For many marine species, locations of migratory pathways are not well defined. We used satellite telemetry and switching state-space modeling (SSM) to define the migratory corridor used by Kemp's ridley turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) in the Gulf [...]
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Michal Zmihorski, Auteur ;
Dorota Kotowska, Auteur ;
Ake Berg, Auteur ;
Tomas Part, Auteur
To halt the decline of biodiversity in European farmland, two major tools are available: the Natura 2000 network and agri-environment schemes (AES). We investigated the effect of these two measures on local species richness, single species occur[...]
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Jonathan Harry Moore, Auteur ;
Saifon Sittimongkol, Auteur ;
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Auteur ;
Tok Sumpah, Auteur ;
Markus Peter Eichhorn, Auteur
Protected areas are frequently inhabited by people and conservation must be integrated with traditional management systems. Cultivation of fruit gardens is a low-impact agroforestry technique which alters the structure and composition of forest [...]
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Bruce A. Pond, Auteur ;
Glen S. Brown, Auteur ;
Kaitlin S. Wilson, Auteur ;
James A. Schaefer, Auteur
Ecotypes offer an essential framework for conservation and ecological understanding, but their identification can be problematic. These challenges are exemplified by the sedentary and migratory ecotypes of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus car[...]
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Marciel Elio Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Auteur ;
Jose Manuel Ochoa Quintero, Auteur ;
Joao Carlos de Castro Pena, Auteur ;
Diogo Caribe de Sousa, Auteur ;
Paulo De Marco Junior, Auteur
Riparian zones are among the most threatened natural ecosystems, being greatly affected by land use changes across the world. Working in a savanna landscape in the Central-West region of Brazil, we assessed the responses of damselfy (Odonata) co[...]
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Milica Sandalj, Auteur ;
Anna C. Treydte, Auteur ;
Stefan Ziegler, Auteur
Increasing urban wild meat consumption in Vietnam poses a major threat to faunal biodiversity. However, little is known about the numbers, demand, social status, and frequency of wildlife meat consumers in Thua Thien Hue province, where wild mea[...]
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Brett W. A. Howland, Auteur ;
Dejan Stojanovic, Auteur ;
Iain J. Gordon, Auteur ;
Jim Radford, Auteur ;
Adrian D. Manning, Auteur ;
David B. Lindenmayer, Auteur
Restoration of appropriate disturbance regimes is a high conservation priority. However, for most species, little is known about appropriate disturbance regimes to achieve defined conservation outcomes. In this context, trait based approaches ca[...]
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Toshihiro Yamada, Auteur ;
Satoru Yoshida, Auteur ;
Tetsuro Hosaka, Auteur ;
Toshinori Okuda, Auteur
The extraction of large trees by selective logging in tropical production forests often results in a reduction of natural fallen trees for a long period after logging has been completed. This causes a population decrease for various small mammal[...]
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Qing Zhao, Auteur ;
Emily Silverman, Auteur ;
Kathy Fleming, Auteur ;
G. Scott Boomer, Auteur
Reliable ecological forecasts are essential for conservation decision-making to respond to climate change. It is challenging to forecast the spatial structure of wildlife population dynamics because density dependence and environmental effects v[...]
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Megan C. Milligan, Auteur ;
Matthew D. Johnson, Auteur ;
Megan Garfinkel, Auteur ;
Chris J. Smith, Auteur ;
Peter Njoroge, Auteur
Ecosystem services, such as pest control and pollination, are critical benefits of biodiversity important for agricultural production. Predators, including insectivorous birds and ants, can provide important biological controls in agroecosystems[...]
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New range and habitat records for threatened Australian sea snakes raise challenges for conservation
B. R. D'Anastasi, Auteur ;
L. van Herwerden, Auteur ;
J. A. Hobbs, Auteur ;
C. A. Simpfendorfer, Auteur ;
V. Lukoschek, Auteur
Hydrophiine (true) sea snakes are large predatory live-bearing marine reptiles. Australia is a biodiversity hotspot for true sea snakes with almost half of the 70 extant species (including 11 endemics). Two Australian endemics, Aipysurus foliosq[...]
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Sarah A. Hendricks, Auteur ;
Paul R. Sesink Clee, Auteur ;
Ryan J. Harrigan, Auteur ;
John P. Pollinger, Auteur ;
Adam H. Freedman, Auteur ;
Richard Callas, Auteur ;
Peter J. Figura, Auteur ;
Robert K. Wayne, Auteur
Reintroduction is often the only remaining option for recovery of extirpated species. According to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, species should be reintroduced to suitable habitats within their probable historical range. However, accurately d[...]
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Osmo Heikkala, Auteur ;
Petri Martikainen, Auteur ;
Jari Kouki, Auteur
Prescribed burning and retention forestry are used to bring the biological legacies of forest harvesting closer to those of natural disturbances. Although widely used, the effects of these methods on species assemblages in the longer term are st[...]
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Ruth Esteban, Auteur ;
Philippe Verborgh, Auteur ;
Pauline Gauffier, Auteur ;
Joan Gimenez, Auteur ;
Christophe Guinet, Auteur ;
Renaud De Stephanis, Auteur
A complex balance has arisen between the bluefin tuna, killer whales, and human activities in the Strait of Gibraltar. Recent changes in fishing effort have dramatically decreased tuna stocks, breaking this balance. Killer whales exhibit two str[...]
