| Titre : | Biological Conservation 197 - MAY 2016 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Courtney Waugh, Auteur ;
Jon Hanger, Auteur ;
Peter Timms, Auteur ;
Adam Polkinghorne, Auteur
Translocation of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) has been a controversial measure that has been utilised for over a century in the southern states of Australia. Recently, translocation has been suggested as an option in the management of some[...]
Article
Adrian Martin, Auteur ;
Brendan Coolsaet, Auteur ;
Esteve Corbera, Auteur ;
Neil M. Dawson, Auteur ;
James A. Fraser, Auteur ;
Ina Lehmann, Auteur ;
Iokine Rodriguez, Auteur
In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask how the conservation sector should be incorporating concerns for social justice. We focus in particular on 'recognition', because it is the least well understood as[...]
Article
David Luther, Auteur ;
James Skelton, Auteur ;
Christopher Fernandez, Auteur ;
Jeffrey Walters, Auteur
Current rates of species endangerment and extinction are unprecedented in modern times. Conservation efforts aim to slow down, stop, and reverse threats to species and thus the current loss of biodiversity. However, the extinction risk to specie[...]
Article
E. J. Ens, Auteur ;
C. Daniels, Auteur ;
E. Nelson, Auteur ;
J. Roy, Auteur ;
P. Dixon, Auteur
Invasive species can have negative and positive impacts for local communities. Conflict between these different values can complicate and sometimes prevent broad-scale management and decision-making. Multi-functional landscapes and community-bas[...]
Article
Graham W. Prescott, Auteur ;
James J. Gilroy, Auteur ;
Torbjorn Haugaasen, Auteur ;
Claudia A. Medina Uribe, Auteur ;
William A. Foster, Auteur ;
David P. Edwards, Auteur
Large-scale conversion of natural habitats to agriculture reduces species richness and functional diversity, with important implications for the provision of many ecosystem services. We investigated possible solutions to minimise loss of functio[...]
Article
Thomas Webler, Auteur ;
Karin Jakubowski, Auteur
There is widespread consensus that recreational snorkelers are damaging coral reefs, but the magnitude of the issue is unknown. Loss of reefs jeopardizes tourism, which is a significant economic driver. Recreational snorkeling is a popular activ[...]
Article
Ian Engelbrecht, Auteur ;
Mark Robertson, Auteur ;
Marnus Stoltz, Auteur ;
Johan W. Joubert, Auteur
Environmental Diversity (ED) has been proposed as a potential biodiversity surrogate for use in spatial biodiversity planning. The concept is based on the premise that differences in species composition between areas are correlated with differen[...]
Article
Cortni Borgerson, Auteur ;
Margaret A. McKean, Auteur ;
Michael R. Sutherland, Auteur ;
Laurie R. Godfrey, Auteur
The main threats to lemurs are habitat loss and hunting. Conservation policies often assume that people will decrease lemur hunting if they understand government prohibitions on hunting, are educated and/or involved in ecotourism, have access to[...]
Article
Caroline Gagne, Auteur ;
Julien Mainguy, Auteur ;
Daniel Fortin, Auteur
Human activities can impact animal communities by altering species interactions. The influence of forest harvesting on the interaction between threatened boreal caribou, moose, and wolves constitutes a classic example. When conifer forests are l[...]
Article
Michael J. L. Peers, Auteur ;
Daniel H. Thornton, Auteur ;
Yasmine N. Majchrzak, Auteur ;
Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Auteur ;
Dennis L. Murray, Auteur
De-extinction is becoming potentially feasible for restoring extinct species in the wild, but research is required to determine the likelihood of success in light of contemporary and future environmental change. We assessed 1900-2100 change in s[...]
Article
Lorenzo Cattarino, Auteur ;
Virgilio Hermoso, Auteur ;
Lindsay W. Bradford, Auteur ;
Josie Carwardine, Auteur ;
Kerrie A. Wilson, Auteur ;
Mark J. Kennard, Auteur ;
Simon Linke, Auteur
Limited resources available for conservation require prioritizing location and level of conservation management efforts to abate threats to species. Ideally, the optimal level of management effort to allocate to an action should be informed by t[...]
Article
Andrea Santangeli, Auteur ;
Beatriz Arroyo, Auteur ;
Lynn V. Dicks, Auteur ;
Irina Herzon, Auteur ;
Aija S. Kukkala, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur ;
Atte Moilanen, Auteur
The voluntary non-monetary approach to conservation refers to actions that citizens or organizations could voluntarily implement in their area of influence without the incentive of monetary compensations. To be effectively implemented by untrain[...]
Article
Raghunandan Singh Chundawat, Auteur ;
Koustubh Sharma, Auteur ;
Neel Gogate, Auteur ;
Pradeep K. Malik, Auteur ;
Abi Tamim Vanak, Auteur
India harbours the largest wild tiger population in the world and Tropical Dry Forest areas constitute the largest habitat for them. Recent extinctions, however, from two high profile tiger reserves, highlight the vulnerability of tiger in this [...]
Article
Hayley S. Clements, Auteur ;
Julia Baum, Auteur ;
Graeme S. Cumming, Auteur
Analyses of institutions (rules, laws, traditions) and their relevance for conservation are increasingly common in conservation contexts. By contrast, the organizations that operate within the framework provided by institutions are less research[...]
Article
Sergi Perez-Jorge, Auteur ;
Ines Gomes, Auteur ;
Kirsty Hayes, Auteur ;
Graham Corti, Auteur ;
Maite Louzao, Auteur ;
Meritxell Genovart, Auteur ;
Daniel Oro, Auteur
Many marine top predators are experiencing significant declines due to anthropogenic impacts, and therefore reliable monitoring is essential to understand their population dynamics. We used Pollock's robust design capture recapture modelling to [...]
Article
Comparison of environmental DNA metabarcoding and conventional fish survey methods in a river system
Jennifer L. A. Shaw, Auteur ;
Laurence J. Clarke, Auteur ;
Scotte D. Wedderburn, Auteur ;
Thomas C. Barnes, Auteur ;
Laura S. Weyrich, Auteur ;
Alan Cooper, Auteur
Regular biological surveys are essential for informed management of freshwater ecosystems. However, current morphology-based biodiversity surveys can be invasive, time-consuming, and financially expensive. Recently, environmental DNA (eDNA) sequ[...]
Article
Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar, Auteur ;
Jos Barlow, Auteur ;
Alan N. Andersen, Auteur ;
Jose H. Schoereder, Auteur ;
Erika Berenguer, Auteur ;
Joice N. Ferreira, Auteur ;
Toby Alan Gardner, Auteur
Quantifying and understanding the main drivers of biodiversity responses to human disturbances at multiple scales is key to foster effective conservation plans and management systems. Here we report on a detailed regional assessment of the respo[...]
Article
Hae Yeong Ryu, Auteur ;
Kevin T. Shoemaker, Auteur ;
Eva Kneip, Auteur ;
Anna M. Pidgeon, Auteur ;
Patricia J. Heglund, Auteur ;
Brooke L. Bateman, Auteur ;
Wayne E. Thogmartin, Auteur ;
H. Resit Akcakaya, Auteur
Population viability analysis (PVA) is a powerful tool for biodiversity assessments, but its use has been limited because of the requirements for fully specified population models such as demographic structure, density dependence, environmental [...]
Article
Blaise Piedallu, Auteur ;
Pierre-Yves Quenette, Auteur ;
Coralie Mounet, Auteur ;
Nicolas Lescureux, Auteur ;
Maylis Borelli-Massines, Auteur ;
Etienne Dubarry, Auteur ;
Jean-Jacques Camarra, Auteur ;
Olivier Gimenez, Auteur
Human dimension is an important component of large carnivore management and conservation. Here, we focus on the human-wildlife conflict related to depredation of livestock by Pyrenean brown bears (Ursus arctos), despite the population being amon[...]
Article
Kristin A. Sesser, Auteur ;
Matthew E. Reiter, Auteur ;
Daniel A. Skalos, Auteur ;
Khara M. Strum, Auteur ;
Catherine M. Hickey, Auteur
There are many benefits of agricultural landscapes for wildlife. In California's Central Valley, post-harvest flooding of rice fields increases the decomposition of rice stubble and provides habitat for over 50 species of waterbirds. These field[...]
Article
Drew T. Cronin, Auteur ;
Cirilo Riaco, Auteur ;
Joshua M. Linder, Auteur ;
Richard A. Bergl, Auteur ;
Mary Katherine Gonder, Auteur ;
Michael P. O'Connor, Auteur ;
Gail W. Hearn, Auteur
Bushmeat hunting is among the principal threats to larger-bodied vertebrate species, such as primates, in central Africa. However, species vary in their response to differing levels of hunting intensity, making it difficult to not only quantify [...]
Article
Chrystal S. Mantyka-Pringle, Auteur ;
Tara G. Martin, Auteur ;
David B. Moffatt, Auteur ;
James Udy, Auteur ;
Jon Olley, Auteur ;
Nina Saxton, Auteur ;
Fran Sheldon, Auteur ;
Stuart E. Bunn, Auteur ;
Jonathan R. Rhodes, Auteur
Freshwater ecosystems are declining under climate change and land-use change. To maximize the return on investment in freshwater conservation with limited financial resources, managers must prioritize management actions that are most cost-effect[...]
Article
Miha Krofel, Auteur ;
Klemen Jerina, Auteur
Interspecific interactions are among the key factors influencing the structure of animal communities and have high relevance for conservation. However, managers, conservationists and decision-makers rarely consider the potential side-effects of [...]
Article
Stefan Ziegler, Auteur ;
Stefan Merker, Auteur ;
Bruno Streit, Auteur ;
Markus Boner, Auteur ;
Dorrit E. Jacob, Auteur
We present here new isotopic data (delta C-13, delta N-15, delta O-18, delta H-2, and delta S-34) from pulverised ivory powder, measured by continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry from an unprecedented large dataset of 507 ivory samples,[...]
Article
Marcel P. Huijser, Auteur ;
Elizabeth R. Fairbank, Auteur ;
Whisper Camel-Means, Auteur ;
Jonathan Graham, Auteur ;
Vicki Watson, Auteur ;
Pat Basting, Auteur ;
Dale Becker, Auteur
Wildlife fencing in combination with crossing structures is commonly regarded as the most effective and robust strategy to reduce large mammal-vehicle collisions while also maintaining wildlife connectivity across roads. However, fencing and ass[...]
Article
Justine S. Alexander, Auteur ;
Chengcheng Zhang, Auteur ;
Kun Shi, Auteur ;
Philip Riordan, Auteur
Successful conservation of the endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia) relies on the effectiveness of monitoring programmes. We present the results of a 19-month camera trap survey effort, conducted as part of a long-term study of the snow leop[...]
Article
Thomas A. Morrison, Auteur ;
William A. Link, Auteur ;
William D. Newmark, Auteur ;
Charles A. H. Foley, Auteur ;
Douglas T. Bolger, Auteur
The hyper-abundance of migratory wildlife in many ecosystems depends on maintaining access to seasonally available resources. In Eastern and Southern Africa, land-use change and a loss of connectivity have coincided with widespread declines in t[...]
Article
Pengju Chen, Auteur ;
Yufang Gao, Auteur ;
Andy T. L. Lee, Auteur ;
Lhaba Cering, Auteur ;
Kun Shi, Auteur ;
Susan G. Clark, Auteur
Livestock depredation by large carnivores is frequently reported in Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) National Nature Reserve, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Seeking to minimize conflicts, we assessed depredation patterns and ways to upgrade the compe[...]
Article
Travis Gallo, Auteur ;
Liba Pejchar, Auteur
Habitat alteration to benefit hunted species has been implemented for centuries. These practices are most prevalent on public and private lands where management is funded through hunting licenses and hunting tourism. Habitat management for game [...]
Article
Scott Wilson, Auteur ;
Marine C. Gil-Weir, Auteur ;
Robert G. Clark, Auteur ;
Gregory J. Robertson, Auteur ;
Mark T. Bidwell, Auteur
Management efforts for endangered species are enhanced by knowledge of the causes and extent of demographic variation, but this information is often lacking even when abundance is well known. We developed an integrated population model to study [...]
Article
Shalynn M. Pack, Auteur ;
Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, Auteur ;
Roopa Krithivasan, Auteur ;
Jennifer Murrow, Auteur ;
Enrico Bernard, Auteur ;
Michael B. Mascia, Auteur
Protected areas (PM) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Brazil, home to one-third of the world's tropical forests and 12% of its PM, is a global leader in PA creation and management. Despite this leadership, evidence suggests that B[...]
Article
Dean E. Pearson, Auteur ;
Yvette K. Ortega, Auteur ;
Justin B. Runyon, Auteur ;
Jack L. Butler, Auteur
Exotic plant invasions present a global threat to natural ecosystems, yet the efficacy of management efforts in mitigating invader impacts remains unclear. A rapidly emerging problem is that of secondary invasion - an increase in abundance of no[...]
