| Titre : | Biological Conservation 135(4) - APR 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Raymond A. Saumure, Auteur ;
Thomas B. Herman, Auteur ;
Rodger D. Titman, Auteur
In North America, the spatio-temporal scale of deforestation has resulted in a 94% decrease in temperate forests within 360 years. Despite the enormous scale of this disturbance, agriculture is so pervasive in modern society that its impacts are[...]
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Eva Rossmanith, Auteur ;
Niels Blaum, Auteur ;
Volker Grimm, Auteur ;
Florian Jeltsch, Auteur
in population viability analysis we are often faced with a lack of knowledge of survival rates in animal populations. In particular, survival of recruits is usually hard to assess. However, data on population structure might be considered as pat[...]
Article
M. F. Schmitz, Auteur ;
I. A. Sanchez, Auteur ;
I. De Aranzabal, Auteur
Hedgerows are an important component of the cultural landscape and may have an invaluable role in maintaining biological diversity. Adjacent land use potentially has an important influence on the species composition of hedgerows. In the Mediterr[...]
Article
Kim Alan Chapman, Auteur ;
Peter B. Reich, Auteur
Bird species' community responses to land use in the suburbanizing Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA, were contrasted among reserves, rural lands, and suburbs. For each land use type, bird composition, diversity, and abundance were recorded for 2 year[...]
Article
Tomas Holmern, Auteur ;
Julius Nyahongo, Auteur ;
Eivin Roskaft, Auteur
Human-carnivore conflict is a serious management issue often causing opposition towards conservation efforts. In a survey of 481 households in seven different villages outside the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, 67.4% of respondents owned l[...]
Article
P. J. White, Auteur ;
Troy L. Davis, Auteur ;
Kerey K. Barnowe-Meyer, Auteur ;
Robert L. Crabtree, Auteur ;
Robert A. Garrott, Auteur
Spring migration may facilitate survival and recruitment in mammals by reducing predation risk and increasing access to higher-quality forage. The Yellowstone pronghorn Antilocapra americana population (
Article
J. L. Gardner, Auteur ;
R. G. Heinsohn, Auteur
The effects of habitat fragmentation on the Australian avifauna have been widespread with species richness and abundance declining with reduced remnant size and habitat quality and increased habitat isolation. The speckled warbler, Chthonicola s[...]
Article
Simon Hodgkison, Auteur ;
Jean-Marc Hero, Auteur ;
Jan Warnken, Auteur
Habitat remnants on urban green-space areas (i.e. parks, gardens and golf courses) sometimes provide refuge to urban-avoiding wildlife, leading some to suggest these areas may play a role in wildlife conservation if they are appropriately design[...]
Article
Tony L. Goldberg, Auteur ;
Thomas R. Gillespie, Auteur ;
Innocent B. Rwego, Auteur ;
Emily Wheeler, Auteur ;
Elizabeth L. Estoff, Auteur ;
Colin A. Chapman, Auteur
Ecological overlap may increase the risks of microbial exchange between humans and wild non-human primates. Escherichia coli bacteria were collected from chimpanzees and humans in Kibale National Park, western Uganda, in May and June 2004, in or[...]
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Michele Thieme, Auteur ;
Bernhard Lehner, Auteur ;
Robin Abell, Auteur ;
Stephen K. Hamilton, Auteur ;
Josef Kellndorfer, Auteur ;
George Powell, Auteur ;
Juan Carlos Riveros, Auteur
Using the 160,000-km(2) drainage basin of the Madre de Dios and Orthon rivers in the southwest Amazon as a test case, we piloted an approach for large-scale conservation planning for freshwater systems characterized by a near-complete lack of bi[...]
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Siw T. Killengreen, Auteur ;
Rolf A. Ims, Auteur ;
Nigel G. Yoccoz, Auteur ;
Kari Anne Brathen, Auteur ;
John-Andre Henden, Auteur ;
Tino Schott, Auteur
We conducted a large-scale, campaign-based survey in Finnmark, northern Norway to evaluate the proposition that declining Arctic fox populations at the southern margin of the Arctic tundra biome result from fundamental changes in the state of th[...]
Article
Martine Maron, Auteur ;
James A. Fitzsimons, Auteur
The global trend toward more intensive forms of agriculture is changing the nature of matrix habitat in agricultural areas. Removal of components of matrix habitat can affect native biota at the paddock and the landscape scale, particularly wher[...]
