| Titre : | Biological Conservation 148(1) - APR 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Caterina Penone, Auteur ;
Nathalie Machon, Auteur ;
Romain Julliard, Auteur ;
Isabelle Le Viol, Auteur
Functional connectivity is essential to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscapes but little attention has been given to structures that can provide it in an urban context. Using both the taxonomic and functional diversity of semi-natura[...]
Article
Sara E. Scanga, Auteur ;
Donald J. Leopold, Auteur
Despite a strong interest in fen management across temperate regions worldwide, fen plant population dynamics have not been examined in relation to succession and disturbance in North America. However, a number of rare perennials in North Americ[...]
Article
Vanessa M. Adams, Auteur ;
Robert L. Pressey, Auteur ;
Natalie Stoeckl, Auteur
Stewardship programs providing financial incentives for conservation on private lands are increasingly common. We estimate the potential costs of a stewardship program in the Daly River catchment, Northern Territory, which would underwrite the c[...]
Article
Brian W. van Wilgen, Auteur ;
Greg G. Forsyth, Auteur ;
David C. Le Maitre, Auteur ;
Andrew Wannenburgh, Auteur ;
Johann D. F. Kotze, Auteur ;
Elna van den Berg, Auteur ;
Lesley Henderson, Auteur
This paper presents an assessment of a large, national-scale alien plant control program that has operated in South Africa for 15 years. We reviewed data from three national-level estimates of the extent of invasion, records of the costs and spa[...]
Article
Nandini Velho, Auteur ;
Krithi K. Karanth, Auteur ;
William F. Laurance, Auteur
Hunting is one of the greatest conservation challenges facing tropical wildlife. Wildlife in Indian tropical forests are vulnerable to hunting, although data on hunting impacts from the region are limited. We use a meta-analysis of 143 hunting s[...]
Article
Thomas Dalang, Auteur ;
Anna M. Hersperger, Auteur
Development pressure on biodiversity reserve networks in densely populated countries may lead to the decision to compensate for biotope loss by improving connectivity. Such a decision makes sense, if creation of new biotopes takes too long and i[...]
Article
Danielle M. Knip, Auteur ;
Michelle R. Heupel, Auteur ;
Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Auteur
Global declines in shark populations have created uncertainty in the future status of many species and conservation efforts are urgently needed. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are used increasingly as conservation tools around the world, but how [...]
Article
Adapting global biodiversity indicators to the national scale: A Red List Index for Australian birds
Judit K. Szabo, Auteur ;
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur ;
Hugh P. Possingham, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Garnett, Auteur
The Red List Index (RLI), which uses information from the IUCN Red List to track trends in the projected overall extinction risk of sets of species, is among the indicators adopted by the world's governments to assess performance under the Conve[...]
Article
Magdalena Lenda, Auteur ;
Piotr Skorka, Auteur ;
Dawid Moron, Auteur ;
Zuzanna M. Rosin, Auteur ;
Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur
Conservation biology often relies on the protection of (semi)natural habitat remnants. However, the ever increasing human population is taking over natural resources and habitats. Here, contrary to most other studies, we ask how human-associated[...]
Article
F. G. Moncada, Auteur ;
L. A. Hawkes, Auteur ;
M. R. Fish, Auteur ;
B. J. Godley, Auteur ;
S. C. Manolis, Auteur ;
Y. Medina, Auteur ;
G. Nodarse, Auteur ;
G. J. W. Webb, Auteur
Conserving and managing populations of marine vertebrates can be complex when they occupy the waters of multiple nations, crossing heterogeneous legal and management landscapes. Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricate) are subject to varying l[...]
Article
R. A. Holland, Auteur ;
W. R. T. Darwall, Auteur ;
K. G. Smith, Auteur
Freshwater ecosystems represent one of the most threatened broad habitat types globally. Despite containing around a third of all vertebrates, area-based approaches to conservation planning rarely include freshwater species as an explicit target[...]
Article
McKenzie F. Johnson, Auteur ;
Nina Kanderian, Auteur ;
Christopher C. Shank, Auteur ;
Haqiq Rahmani, Auteur ;
David Lawson, Auteur ;
Peter Smallwood, Auteur
Planning for protected area networks is often done on an ad hoc basis, especially in data-poor countries. Afghanistan, a country mired in conflict for the past 30 years, has little of the relevant data to plan a protected area network, and secur[...]
Article
Classical metapopulation theory as a useful paradigm for the conservation of an endangered amphibian
Geoffrey W. Heard, Auteur ;
Michael P. Scroggie, Auteur ;
Brian S. Malone, Auteur
Classical metapopulation theory (CMT) has proven an attractive paradigm for ecologists concerned with the conservation of aquatic-breeding amphibians, given its apparent fit with the population dynamics of these animals, and the opportunities th[...]
Article
Michael A. MacDonald, Auteur ;
Michal Maniakowski, Auteur ;
Gail Cobbold, Auteur ;
Philip V. Grice, Auteur ;
Guy Q. A. Anderson, Auteur
Two-hectare unsown, tilled fallow plots put in place under agri-environment schemes for stone curlews Burhinus oedicnemus in England were surveyed for other bird species, brown hares Lepus europaetts, carabid beetles, vascular plants, butterflie[...]
Article
In northwestern Mexico, large tracts of native desert scrub and thorn scrub vegetation are being converted to non-native grass pastures at an increasing rate in an effort to increase cattle production. Pasture development has large impacts on ve[...]
Article
Thomas H. White, Auteur ;
Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ;
Ron J. Moorhouse, Auteur ;
Virginia Sanz, Auteur ;
Eric D. Stolen, Auteur ;
Donald J. Brightsmith, Auteur
With 28% of the 350 species of parrots considered threatened, numerous conservation efforts have been initiated for these species. Among these, the restoration or establishment of new populations has increasingly relied on reintroductions as a c[...]
Article
R. M. Guillem, Auteur ;
F. P. Drijfhout, Auteur ;
S. J. Martin, Auteur
The large blue butterfly (Phengaris anion) is an endangered Palaearctic species that was reintroduced into the British Isles after becoming extinct in 1979. The conservation of this butterfly in Britain is extremely important as it is a priority[...]
Article
Sanjay Gubbi, Auteur
Success stories in Indian conservation also carry opportunity costs in the form of human-wildlife conflicts, especially to people living in close proximity with wildlife. In India, human-wildlife conflict is a serious challenge to wildlife conse[...]
Article
Gregorio M. Toral, Auteur ;
Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ;
Simone Santoro, Auteur ;
Jordi Figuerola, Auteur
Artificial wetlands provide alternative habitats for waterbirds. The Donana rice fields (SW Spain) are extensively used as a foraging site by the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus). The aim of this study was to develop an individual-based model [...]
Article
Vladimir Remes, Auteur ;
Beata Matysiokova, Auteur ;
Andrew Cockburn, Auteur
Predation is a major factor in ecology, evolution and conservation and thus its understanding is essential for insights into ecological processes and management of endangered populations of prey. Here we conducted a spatially (main island throug[...]
Article
Mariana Fernandez-Olalla, Auteur ;
Alejandro Martinez-Abrain, Auteur ;
Jordi Canut, Auteur ;
Diego García-Ferré, Auteur ;
Ivan Afonso, Auteur ;
Luis Mariano Gonzalez, Auteur
Capercaillie populations are declining in most of its distribution area and are especially vulnerable in southern Europe. There, the causes of decline have not been properly identified and conservation decisions are too frequently based on poor [...]
Article
Çagan H. Sekercioglu, Auteur ;
Richard B. Primack, Auteur ;
Janice Wormworth, Auteur
Birds are among the most widely studied organisms on earth and represent an important indicator group for learning about the effects of climate change - particularly in regard to the effects of climate change on tropical ecosystems. In this revi[...]
