| Titre : | Biological Conservation 130(4) - JUL 2006 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Andreas Mueller, Auteur ;
Stefan Diener, Auteur ;
Simone Schnyder, Auteur ;
Katharina Stutz, Auteur ;
Claudio Sedivy, Auteur ;
Silvia Dorn, Auteur
Knowledge about the quantitative pollen requirements of solitary bees is crucial for the preservation of endangered bee species and the understanding of the evolution of bee-flower relationships. We estimate the number of flowers required to rea[...]
Article
Valerie Roy, Auteur ;
Sylvie de Blois, Auteur
Linear habitats such as hedgerows can constitute important refuges for native flora and fauna, possibly providing connectivity between landscape elements. The effectiveness of these functions, however, depends on the ability of linear habitats t[...]
Article
Timothy Beechie, Auteur ;
Eric Buhle, Auteur ;
Mary Ruckelshaus, Auteur ;
Aimee Fullerton, Auteur ;
Lisa Holsinger, Auteur
Life history diversity of imperiled Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. substantially contributes to their persistence, and conservation of such diversity is a critical element of recovery efforts. Preserving and restoring diversity of life history[...]
Article
Lauren M. Pintor, Auteur ;
Daniel A. Soluk, Auteur
Failure to consider both the consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on prey can lead to erroneous conclusions about the net effect of the relationship. The predatory devil crayfish, Cambarus diogenes Girard functions as an ecosyste[...]
Article
Paulo Oliveira, Auteur ;
Dilia Menezes, Auteur ;
Martin Jones, Auteur ;
Manuel Nogales, Auteur
This study was conducted over a two year period in the north west of Madeira Island (Macaronesian Atlantic Islands, Portugal). It investigates the relationship between fruiting patterns in the indigenous forest and the use by the Madeira laurel [...]
Article
Antoinette Botes, Auteur ;
Melodie A. McGeoch, Auteur ;
Berndt J. van Rensburg, Auteur
High African elephant stocking rates in nature reserves in southern Africa have been shown to have significant impacts on vegetation structure and diversity. However, the direct and indirect effects of elephants on fauna, particularly invertebra[...]
Article
Susie E. Molony, Auteur ;
Claire V. Dowding, Auteur ;
Philip J. Baker, Auteur ;
Innes C. Cuthill, Auteur ;
Stephen Harris, Auteur
Translocation is frequently used to return rehabilitated animals to the wild, and is an important tool for the population management of endangered species. Whilst experimental field manipulations are important in determining optimal rehabilitati[...]
Article
Philip W. Atkinson, Auteur ;
Graham E. Austin, Auteur ;
Mark M. Rehfisch, Auteur ;
Helen Baker, Auteur ;
Peter Cranswick, Auteur ;
Mel Kershaw, Auteur ;
James Robinson, Auteur ;
Rowena H. W. Langston, Auteur ;
David A. Stroud, Auteur ;
Chris Van Turnhout, Auteur ;
Ilya M. D. Maclean, Auteur
To manage and conserve wildlife populations effectively it is necessary to use methods that identify the often non-linear trends in populations, have an inbuilt assessment of trend quality and can analyse count data from a range of spatial scale[...]
Article
Cristian Echeverria, Auteur ;
David Coomes, Auteur ;
Javier Salas, Auteur ;
Jose Maria Rey-Benayas, Auteur ;
Antonio Lara, Auteur ;
Adrian Newton, Auteur
The temperate forests of Chile are classified a biological "hotspot" as a result of their high species diversity and high endemism. However, they are being rapidly destroyed, with significant negative impacts on biodiversity. Three land-cover ma[...]
Article
Derek J. Hamer, Auteur ;
Simon D. Goldsworthy, Auteur
Australian fur seals are known to interact directly (i.e. operational interactions) with trawlers fishing in the winter blue grenadier trawl fishery of western Tasmania, Australia. The purpose of this study was to identify the environmental and [...]
Article
Martha E. Van der Voort, Auteur ;
James B. McGraw, Auteur
When long-term, intense levels of harvest nearly extirpated Chinese ginseng (Panax ginseng C. Meyer) in the early 18th century, commercial harvest of American ginseng (P. quinquefolius L.) began and large quantities of the roots were exported to[...]
Article
Mathieu Denoel, Auteur ;
Anthony Lehmann, Auteur
Recent studies in population dynamics suggest that landscape processes and habitat quality. act at different scales on population abundances, but very few have modelled their simultaneous effects. However, at a time of large declines in natural [...]
Article
D. Philip Whitfield, Auteur ;
Alan H. Fielding, Auteur ;
David R. A. McLeod, Auteur ;
Paul F. Haworth, Auteur ;
Jeff Watson, Auteur
Conservation strategies have three elements: species protection, site protection and, the most challenging component, conservation in the wider environment. Watson and Whitfield [Watson, J., Whitfield, P., 2002. A conservation framework for the [...]
