| Titre : | Biological Conservation 150(1) - JUN 2012 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Jonathan M. H. Green, Auteur ;
Neil D. Burgess, Auteur ;
Rhys E. Green, Auteur ;
Seif S. Madoffe, Auteur ;
Pantaleo K. T. Munishi, Auteur ;
Evarist Nashanda, Auteur ;
R. Kerry Turner, Auteur ;
Andrew Balmford, Auteur
Despite chronic underfunding for conservation and the recognition that funds must be invested wisely, few studies have analysed the direct costs of managing protected areas at the spatial scales needed to inform local site management. Using a qu[...]
Article
Yalma L. Vargas-Rodriguez, Auteur ;
William J. Platt, Auteur
Relationships between environmental conditions and persistence of populations at edges of ranges should be useful for predicting consequences of climate change. We characterized environmental conditions of six disjunct sites in Mexico and Guatem[...]
Article
Eduardo A. Silva-Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Kathryn E. Sieving, Auteur
Domestic dogs are the most abundant carnivores worldwide, primarily due to human support. Food and other subsidies to dogs do not necessarily prevent dog predation on wildlife, particularly where dogs are allowed to range freely. Dog impacts on [...]
Article
Yuan-Yuan Li, Auteur ;
Eric Po Keung Tsang, Auteur ;
Min-Yan Cui, Auteur ;
Xiao-Yong Chen, Auteur
Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a famous living fossil. It is one of the most successfully recovered endangered species based on the number of extant individuals and the distribution range. However, previous studies have revealed low genetic var[...]
Article
Hong Liu, Auteur ;
Chang-Lin Feng, Auteur ;
Bao-Shan Chen, Auteur ;
Zhong-Sheng Wang, Auteur ;
Xiao-Qing Xie, Auteur ;
Zheng-Hai Deng, Auteur ;
Xin-Lian Wei, Auteur ;
Shi-Yong Liu, Auteur ;
Zi-Bin Zhang, Auteur ;
Yi-Bo Luo, Auteur
Assisted colonization of endangered species to locations outside their native ranges in response to projected climate change has emerged as a potential, but highly controversial conservation tool. The debate has been largely philosophical and hy[...]
Article
Andres Perez-Figueroa, Auteur ;
Rick L. Wallen, Auteur ;
Tiago Antao, Auteur ;
Jason A. Coombs, Auteur ;
Michael K. Schwartz, Auteur ;
P. J. White, Auteur ;
Gordon Luikart, Auteur
Loss of genetic variation through genetic drift can reduce population viability. However, relatively little is known about loss of variation caused by the combination of fluctuating population size and variance in reproductive success in age str[...]
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Recognition of the invasive species Robinia pseudacacia from combined remote sensing and GIS sources
Imelda Somodi, Auteur ;
Andraz Carni, Auteur ;
Daniela Ribeiro, Auteur ;
Tomaz Podobnikar, Auteur
Monitoring the spread of invasive species is crucial for nature conservation; however regularity can only be assured if cost-effectiveness can be achieved. We aimed at testing low-cost remote sensing sources and simple methodology for recognisin[...]
Article
L. David Mech, Auteur
Historically the wolf (Canis lupus) was hated and extirpated from most of the contiguous United States. The federal Endangered Species Act fostered wolf protection and reintroduction which improved the species' image. Wolf populations reached bi[...]
Article
Leticia M. Ochoa-Ochoa, Auteur ;
Pilar Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Franz Mora, Auteur ;
Oscar Flores-Villela, Auteur ;
Robert J. Whittaker, Auteur
The aim of this article is to characterize at fine scale alpha and beta diversity patterns for Mexican amphibians and analyze how these patterns might change under a moderate climate-change scenario, highlighting the overall consequences for amp[...]
Article
M. A. Cronin, Auteur ;
H. D. Gerritsen, Auteur ;
D. G. Reid, Auteur
Competition between seals and man for valuable fish resources is a long-standing contentious issue and of concern with fish stocks in global decline. Estimating resource overlap between seals and fisheries is difficult and generally achieved by [...]
Article
Sara Kaffashi, Auteur ;
Mad Nasir Shamsudin, Auteur ;
Alias Radam, Auteur ;
Mohd Rusli Yacob, Auteur ;
Khalid Abdul Rahim, Auteur ;
Muhammad Yazid, Auteur
Shadegan International Wetland (SIW) is a unique natural ecosystem with great national and international significance, designated under Ramsar Convention. Located in southern part of Iran, this wetland serves many functions. Among them the rich [...]
Article
Ugur S. Zeydanli, Auteur ;
Ayse S. Turak, Auteur ;
Ozge Balkiz, Auteur ;
Deniz Ozut, Auteur ;
Alper Erturk, Auteur ;
Hilary Welch, Auteur ;
Evrim Karacetin, Auteur ;
Didem Ambarli, Auteur ;
Mustafa Durmus, Auteur ;
C. Can Bilgin, Auteur
Butterflies are among the most sensitive groups to environmental changes and are prime subjects for many conservation studies. It is essential to conserve butterflies through identifying important sites, namely "Prime Butterfly Areas" (PBAs). Us[...]
Article
Jessica L. Forrest, Auteur ;
Eric Wikramanayake, Auteur ;
Rinjan Shrestha, Auteur ;
Gopala Areendran, Auteur ;
Kinley Gyeltshen, Auteur ;
Aishwarya Maheshwari, Auteur ;
Sraboni Mazumdar, Auteur ;
Robin Naidoo, Auteur ;
Gokarna Jung Thapa, Auteur ;
Kamal Thapa, Auteur
Climate change is likely to affect the persistence of large, space-requiring species through habitat shifts, loss, and fragmentation. Anthropogenic land and resource use changes related to climate change can also impact the survival of wildlife.[...]
Article
Karsten Wesche, Auteur ;
Benjamin Krause, Auteur ;
Heike Culmsee, Auteur ;
Christoph Leuschner, Auteur
There is growing concern that biodiversity loss in European agricultural landscapes is having negative effects on functional trait diversity. Long-term studies examining vegetation changes from the period before agricultural industrialisation ar[...]
Article
D. M. Shier, Auteur ;
A. J. Lea, Auteur ;
M. A. Owen, Auteur
On-road vehicles have become a pervasive source of low frequency noise in both urban environments and natural protected areas. Because many species rely on low-frequency signals to communicate with conspecifics, they are likely to be especially [...]
Article
D. A. Steen, Auteur ;
J. P. Gibbs, Auteur ;
K. A. Buhlmann, Auteur ;
J. L. Carr, Auteur ;
B. W. Compton, Auteur ;
J. D. Congdon, Auteur ;
J. S. Doody, Auteur ;
J. C. Godwin, Auteur ;
K. L. Holcomb, Auteur ;
D. R. Jackson, Auteur ;
F. J. Janzen, Auteur ;
G. Johnson, Auteur ;
M. T. Jones, Auteur ;
J. T. Lamer, Auteur ;
T. A. Langen, Auteur ;
M. V. Plummer, Auteur ;
J. W. Rowe, Auteur ;
R. A. Saumure, Auteur ;
J. K. Tucker, Auteur ;
D. S. Wilson, Auteur
Because particular life history traits affect species vulnerability to development pressures, cross-species summaries of life history traits are useful for generating management guidelines. Conservation of aquatic turtles, many members of which [...]
Article
Anika Hudewenz, Auteur ;
Alexandra-Maria Klein, Auteur ;
Christoph Scherber, Auteur ;
Lea Stanke, Auteur ;
Teja Tscharntke, Auteur ;
Anja Vogel, Auteur ;
Alexandra Weigelt, Auteur ;
Wolfgang W. Weisser, Auteur ;
Anne Ebeling, Auteur
Agricultural intensification is a major driver of global environmental change. Disentangling the relative impact of losses in plant species richness and intensified management on higher trophic level organisms is important for conservation recom[...]
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Pollution impacts on bird population density and species diversity at four non-ferrous smelter sites
Tapio Eeva, Auteur ;
Eugen Belskii, Auteur ;
Alex S. Gilyazov, Auteur ;
Mikhail V. Kozlov, Auteur
Non-ferrous smelters pose a potential hazard for breeding bird populations, but comprehensive analyses of the impacts on bird population densities around smelter sites are currently lacking. We measured with point counts bird population densitie[...]
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Michelle Thorn, Auteur ;
Matthew Green, Auteur ;
Fredrik Dalerum, Auteur ;
Philip W. Bateman, Auteur ;
Dawn M. Scott, Auteur
Alleviating human-carnivore conflict is central to large carnivore conservation and is often of economic importance, where people co-exist with carnivores. However, effective conflict mitigation requires knowledge of underlying human and environ[...]
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K. C. Prager, Auteur ;
Jonna A. K. Mazet, Auteur ;
Linda Munson, Auteur ;
Sarah Cleaveland, Auteur ;
Christl A. Donnelly, Auteur ;
Edward J. Dubovi, Auteur ;
Micaela Szykman Gunther, Auteur ;
Robin Lines, Auteur ;
Gus Mills, Auteur ;
Harriet T. Davies-Mostert, Auteur ;
J. Weldon McNutt, Auteur ;
Gregory Rasmussen, Auteur ;
Karen Terio, Auteur ;
Rosie Woodroffe, Auteur
Infectious diseases impact African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), but the nature and magnitude of this threat likely varies among populations according to different factors, such as the presence and prevalence of pathogens and land-use characteristi[...]
