| Titre : | Biological Conservation 134(4) - FEB 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Trevon Fuller, Auteur ;
Victor Sanchez-Cordero, Auteur ;
Patricia Illoldi-Rangel, Auteur ;
Miguel Linaje, Auteur ;
Sahotra Sarkar, Auteur
Though Neotropical countries are the most species rich in the world, their biodiversity is threatened by the loss of native vegetation. Land conversion in Mexico during the last 30 years has been extensive and is representative of that of other [...]
Article
Sebastian Klimek, Auteur ;
Anne Richter gen. Kemmermann, Auteur ;
Martina Hofmann, Auteur ;
Johannes Isselstein, Auteur
Decline of grassland diversity throughout Europe within the last decades is threatening biological diversity and is a major conservation problem. There is an urgent need to determine the underlying factors that control vascular plant species ric[...]
Article
C. A. McAlpine, Auteur ;
T. A. Spies, Auteur ;
P. Norman, Auteur ;
A. Peterson, Auteur
As the area of the world's forests shrinks, the management of production forests is becoming increasingly paramount for biodiversity conservation. In the United States and Australia, public debate and controversy about the management of producti[...]
Article
A. J. Loveridge, Auteur ;
A. W. Searle, Auteur ;
F. Murindagomo, Auteur ;
D. W. Macdonald, Auteur
Between 1999 and 2004 we undertook an ecological study of African lions (Panthera leo) in Hwange National Park, western Zimbabwe to measure the impact of sport-hunting beyond the park on the lion population within the park, using radio-telemetry[...]
Article
Eigil Reimers, Auteur ;
Bjorn Dahle, Auteur ;
Sindre Eftestol, Auteur ;
Jonathan E. Colman, Auteur ;
Eldar Gaare, Auteur
Linear infrastructures such as roads, pipelines and power lines can hinder Rangifer migration and reduce the total amount of area available for foraging. We studied the barrier and aversion effect of a 66 kV power line transecting the range of w[...]
Article
Atte Moilanen, Auteur
The most widespread reserve selection strategy is target-based planning, as specified under the framework of systematic conservation planning. Targets are given for the representation levels of biodiversity features, and site selection algorithm[...]
Article
Hania Lada, Auteur ;
James R. Thomson, Auteur ;
Ralph Mac Nally, Auteur ;
Greg Horrocks, Auteur ;
Andrea C. Taylor, Auteur
Regulation of river flows has altered floodplain ecosystems around the world. Floods are less frequent, which leads to reduction of favourable environmental conditions for many terrestrial and aquatic organisms adapted to natural flooding regime[...]
Article
Eva Bellemain, Auteur ;
Muhammad Ali Nawaz, Auteur ;
Alice Valentini, Auteur ;
Jon E. Swenson, Auteur ;
Pierre Taberlet, Auteur
Asian bears face major threats due to the impact of human activities as well as a critical lack of knowledge about their status, distribution and needs for survival. Once abundant in northern Pakistan, the Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isab[...]
Article
Nisikawa Usio, Auteur
Japan's only native crayfish species Cambaroides japonicus has been declining dramatically in the past few decades. For the purpose of conservation planning, twenty-two coastal streams were surveyed to investigate summer distributions of crayfis[...]
Article
Chris A. M. Van Turnhout, Auteur ;
Ruud P. B. Foppen, Auteur ;
Rob S. E. W. Leuven, Auteur ;
Henk Siepel, Auteur ;
Hans Esselink, Auteur
Changes in breeding bird diversity in the Netherlands between 1973-1977 and 1998-2000 were evaluated by testing three hypotheses related to the loss of biodiversity: (1) species diversity is declining, (2) biotic homogenization is increasing and[...]
Article
David L. A. Gaveau, Auteur ;
Hagnyo Wandono, Auteur ;
Firman Setiabudi, Auteur
Much of the forest cover in southern Sumatra, Indonesia has been cleared since the early 1970s, but accurate estimates of the scales and rates of loss are lacking. This study combined high-quality remote sensing applications and extensive field [...]
Article
Laura Bonesi, Auteur ;
Santiago Palazon, Auteur
We examine the distribution of American mink Mustela uison in 28 European countries, and we review the impacts of this invasive species and the efforts made so far in controlling it. Our study reveals that, although mink farms are mostly concent[...]
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P. A. Lindsey, Auteur ;
P. A. Roulet, Auteur ;
S. S. Romanach, Auteur
There is a lack of consensus among some conservation NGOs and African governments concerning the acceptability and effectiveness of trophy hunting as a conservation tool. This lack of consensus is due partly to a lack of reliable information on [...]
