| Titre : | Biological Conservation 143(10) - OCT 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Using a largely temperate forest perspective, this article briefly reviews four often inter-related types of landscape change which can have significant impacts on tropical and temperate forest biodiversity: logging, fire, forest clearing, and p[...]
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William J. Bond, Auteur ;
Catherine L. Parr, Auteur
Forests and grassy vegetation (savannas and grasslands) are alternative ecosystem states in many tropical landscapes. Relative to forests the grassy ecosystems are poorly known and poorly conserved, partly because they were thought to be product[...]
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Mitchell T. Irwin, Auteur ;
Patricia C. Wright, Auteur ;
Christopher Birkinshaw, Auteur ;
Brian L. Fisher, Auteur ;
Charlie J. Gardner, Auteur ;
Julian Glos, Auteur ;
Steven M. Goodman, Auteur ;
Paul Loiselle, Auteur ;
Pascal Robeson, Auteur ;
Jean-Luc Raharison, Auteur ;
Marie Jeanne Raherilalao, Auteur ;
Daniel Rakotondravony, Auteur ;
Achille Raselimanana, Auteur ;
Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Auteur ;
John S. Sparks, Auteur ;
Lucienne Wilme, Auteur ;
Joerg U. Ganzhorn, Auteur
Five main conclusions arise from this review of the responses of species to anthropogenic disturbance in Madagascar: First, species' reactions to anthropogenic disturbance are generally negative, but remain poorly known. Our knowledge is patchy [...]
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The fragmented island realm of Oceania includes a relatively small proportion of the world's tropical forests, but those forests support unusual richness of narrowly endemic species. In common with tropical forests across most of the world, trop[...]
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Navjot S. Sodhi, Auteur ;
Lian Pin Koh, Auteur ;
Reuben Clements, Auteur ;
Thomas C. Wanger, Auteur ;
Jane K. Hill, Auteur ;
Keith C. Hamer, Auteur ;
Yann Clough, Auteur ;
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Mary Rose C. Posa, Auteur ;
Tien Ming Lee, Auteur
Southeast Asia experiences one of the highest rates of deforestation in the tropics due to agricultural expansion, logging, habitat fragmentation and urbanization, which are expected to result in species declines and extinctions. In particular, [...]
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Carlos A. Peres, Auteur ;
Toby A. Gardner, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Jansen Zuanon, Auteur ;
Fernanda Michalski, Auteur ;
Alexander C. Lees, Auteur ;
Ima C. G. Vieira, Auteur ;
Fatima M. S. Moreira, Auteur ;
Kenneth J. Feeley, Auteur
Amazonia (sensu lato) is by far the largest tropical forest region, but has succumbed to the highest absolute rates of tropical deforestation and forest degradation, driven by rapid frontier expansion, road-building, and spontaneous or governmen[...]
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Ken Norris, Auteur ;
Alex Asase, Auteur ;
Ben Collen, Auteur ;
Jim Gockowksi, Auteur ;
John Mason, Auteur ;
Ben Phalan, Auteur ;
Amy Wade, Auteur
The biodiversity of West African rainforests is globally significant but poorly described, little understood in terms of its functional significance, and under threat from forest loss and degradation. Estimates suggest that about 10 million ha o[...]
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Neal M. Williams, Auteur ;
Elizabeth E. Crone, Auteur ;
T'ai H. Roulston, Auteur ;
Robert L. Minckley, Auteur ;
Laurence Packer, Auteur ;
Simon G. Potts, Auteur
The ability to predict the responses of ecological communities and individual species to human-induced environmental change remains a key issue for ecologists and conservation managers alike. Responses are often variable among species within gro[...]
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Marcelo Tabarelli, Auteur ;
Antonio Venceslau Aguiar, Auteur ;
Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Auteur ;
Jean Paul Metzger, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur
Recent global assessments have shown the limited coverage of protected areas across tropical biotas, fuelling a growing interest in the potential conservation services provided by anthropogenic landscapes. Here we examine the geographic distribu[...]
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Jason M. Tylianakis, Auteur ;
Etienne Laliberte, Auteur ;
Anders Nielsen, Auteur ;
Jordi Bascompte, Auteur
Recent work has shown that antagonist (e.g. predator-prey food web) and mutualist (e.g. pollinator-plant) network structure can be altered by global environmental change drivers, and that these alterations may have important ecosystem-level cons[...]
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Fabrice A. J. DeClerck, Auteur ;
Robin Chazdon, Auteur ;
Karen D. Holl, Auteur ;
Jeffrey C. Milder, Auteur ;
Bryan Finegan, Auteur ;
Alejandra Martinez-Salinas, Auteur ;
Pablo Imbach, Auteur ;
Lindsay Canet, Auteur ;
Zayra Ramos, Auteur
Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed landscapes because of its geography, history of human intervention, and present conservation and development initiatives. The long and narrow form of the Mesoamerican[...]
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Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Jason Tylianakis, Auteur
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Toby A. Gardner, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Navjot S. Sodhi, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur
The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity is linked to the management of human-modified forest landscapes in the humid tropics. This Special Issue presents the first pan-tropical synthesis of research on the prospects for biodiver[...]
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Deborah L. Finke, Auteur ;
William E. Snyder, Auteur
Organisms at higher trophic levels often face a disproportionate risk of local or regional extinction, while at the same time many ecosystems are being invaded by non-native predators. Global environmental change fosters both processes, further [...]
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Jeffrey A. Harvey, Auteur ;
Tibor Bukovinszky, Auteur ;
Wim H. van der Putten, Auteur
Invasive species represent one of the most important threats to biodiversity worldwide, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and the delivery of important ecological services to society. Several hypotheses have been generated to explain t[...]
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M. O. Anand, Auteur ;
Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Auteur ;
Ajith Kumar, Auteur ;
Archana Bali, Auteur
Human-modified tropical landscapes under semi-natural or agro-ecosystems often harbor biodiversity of significant conservation value. In the Western Ghats of India, these ecosystems also provide connectivity between protected areas and other rem[...]
