| Titre : | Oryx 49(3) - JUL 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Harriet Washington, Auteur ;
Jonathan Baillie, Auteur ;
Carly Waterman, Auteur ;
E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur
It is essential to understand whether conservation interventions are having the desired effect, particularly in light of increasing pressures on biodiversity and because of requirements by donors that project success be demonstrated. Whilst most[...]
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Vincent Nijman, Auteur ;
K. A. I. Nekaris, Auteur ;
Nabajit Das, Auteur ;
Mingxia Zhang, Auteur
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Liina Remm, Auteur ;
Asko Lohmus, Auteur ;
Tiit Maran, Auteur
Conservation of charismatic vertebrates in modern landscapes often includes habitat engineering, which is well supported by the public but lacks a consideration of wider conservation consequences. We analysed a pond management project for an int[...]
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David Beaune, Auteur
Apes, like many frugivorous animals, are crucial allies for the reproduction of several fruiting tree species. Almost all apes, however, including bonobos Pan paniscus, are threatened with extinction. How will this affect tree conservation? How [...]
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Megan E. Cattau, Auteur ;
Simon Husson, Auteur ;
Susan M. Cheyne, Auteur
As peat-swamp forests in Borneo become progressively more fragmented, the species that inhabit them are increasingly threatened, notably the Endangered Bornean orang-utan Pongo pygmaeus. The area of a failed agricultural project known as the Meg[...]
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Jessica V. Bryant, Auteur ;
Samuel T. Turvey, Auteur ;
Michelle H. G. Wong, Auteur ;
Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Auteur
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Marc Ancrenaz, Auteur ;
Felicity Oram, Auteur ;
Laurentius Ambu, Auteur ;
Isabelle Lackman, Auteur ;
Eddie Ahmad, Auteur ;
Hamisah Elahan, Auteur ;
Harjinder Kler, Auteur ;
Nicola K. Abram, Auteur ;
Erik Meijaard, Auteur
The oil palm industry is blamed for the demise of iconic species such as the orang-utan Pongo pygmaeus in Borneo but production of, and demand for, this commodity continue to expand. Therefore, a better understanding of how the orang-utan is ada[...]
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Victoria Price, Auteur ;
Julie Razafimanahaka, Auteur ;
Daudet Andriafidison, Auteur
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Peter J. Brown, Auteur ;
Kevin R. Wormington, Auteur ;
Philip Brown, Auteur
Reintroduction of rare and threatened species often fails to yield quantifiable conservation benefits because insufficient attention is focused on the species' habitat requirements and biology. We demonstrate the value of such data in informing [...]
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S. Natalya Lawrence, Auteur ;
Jennifer C. Daltry, Auteur
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April L. Conway, Auteur ;
Sonia M. Hernandez, Auteur ;
John Carroll, Auteur ;
Gary T. Green, Auteur ;
Lincoln Larson, Auteur
The pygmy hippopotamus Choeropsis liberiensis is an Endangered species found only in the Upper Guinea rainforests of West Africa. Using a two-phase approach, with initial semi-structured interviews followed by more extensive questionnaires, we e[...]
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Jennifer C. Daltry, Auteur ;
Alfred Prospere, Auteur ;
Adams Toussaint, Auteur ;
Jana Gengelbach, Auteur ;
Matthew N. Morton, Auteur
Wild tree resins generate billions of dollars in revenue annually but many species face extinction. The lansan tree Protium attenuatum has disappeared across most of its range as a result of overexploitation for its valuable oleoresin, which is [...]
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Brent Loken, Auteur ;
Chandradewana Boer, Auteur ;
Nunuk Kasyanto, Auteur
There is a lack of information on how the Endangered Bornean orang-utan Pongo pygmaeus morio moves through its environment. Here we report on a camera-trapping study carried out over 2.5 years to investigate the orang-utan's terrestrial behaviou[...]
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Stuart Paterson, Auteur ;
Robyn Dalzen, Auteur
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James Rodriguez-Echeverry, Auteur ;
Cristian Echeverria, Auteur ;
Laura Nahuelhual, Auteur
Land-use change can have negative effects on threatened species by modifying their habitat and population dynamics. The habitat of the Endangered Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides (Mol.) Johnst. (Cupressaceae), a conifer endemic to the te[...]
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Article
Adrienne F. Sussman, Auteur ;
Renee Robinette Ha, Auteur ;
Hilary E. Henry, Auteur
The population of the Critically Endangered Mariana crow Corvus kubaryi on the island of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, has decreased dramatically in recent years. It is unclear to what extent negative practices by people, [...]
Article
P. M. Hoffmann, Auteur ;
C. T. Blum, Auteur ;
S. J. E. Velazco, Auteur ;
D. J. C. Gill, Auteur ;
M. Borgo, Auteur
Ecological restoration of trees is often constrained by limited knowledge of the biology, propagation and management requirements of individual species. Consequently, restoration initiatives rarely incorporate less well-known species or those th[...]
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Kate Richardson, Auteur ;
Isabel C. Castro, Auteur ;
Dianne H. Brunton, Auteur ;
Doug P. Armstrong, Auteur
Reintroduction success depends in part on the release strategy used. Benefits are attributed to particular release strategies but few studies have tested these assumptions. We examined the effect of delayed release (a form of so-called soft rele[...]
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Nicole Cavender, Auteur ;
Murphy Westwood, Auteur ;
Catherine Bechtoldt, Auteur ;
Gerard Donnelly, Auteur ;
Sara Oldfield, Auteur ;
Martin Gardner, Auteur ;
David Rae, Auteur ;
William McNamara, Auteur
With 10% of trees (>8,000 species) threatened with extinction there is an urgent need for botanical gardens to protect threatened trees in dedicated conservation collections. Species conservation is mentioned in the mission statements of most ma[...]
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Chunfa Zhou, Auteur ;
Jiliang Xu, Auteur ;
Zhengwang Zhang, Auteur
The current status and distribution of the Vulnerable Reeves's pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii, endemic to central China, is poorly known. To obtain updated information on its status we selected 89 candidate sites in six provinces and one municipal[...]
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Adrian Newton, Auteur ;
Sara Oldfield, Auteur ;
Malin Rivers, Auteur ;
Jennifer Mark, Auteur ;
George Schatz, Auteur ;
Natalia Tejedor Garavito, Auteur ;
Elena Cantarello, Auteur ;
Duncan Golicher, Auteur ;
Luis Cayuela, Auteur ;
Lera Miles, Auteur
Although trees have high economic, cultural and ecological value, increasing numbers of species are potentially at risk of extinction because of forest loss and degradation as a result of human activities, including overharvesting, fire and graz[...]
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E. R. Cressey, Auteur ;
G. J. Measey, Auteur ;
K. A. Tolley, Auteur
Rose's mountain toad Capensibufo rosei survives in a few isolated montane populations in the south-western Cape of South Africa. It comprises several cryptic species but it is uncertain whether the lineage on the Cape Peninsula is distinct. We t[...]
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Natalia Tejedor Garavito, Auteur ;
Adrian C. Newton, Auteur ;
Sara Oldfield, Auteur
The Tropical Andes are characterized by a high level of endemism and plant species richness but are under pressure from human activities. We present the first regional conservation assessment of upper montane tree species in this region. We iden[...]
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James Probert, Auteur ;
Ben Evans, Auteur ;
Sam Andanje, Auteur ;
Richard Kock, Auteur ;
Rajan Amin, Auteur
The Critically Endangered hirola Beatragus hunteri exists in two populations, a natural population on the Kenyan-Somali border and a translocated population in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. The Tsavo population is becoming increasingly import[...]
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P. J. Stephenson, Auteur ;
Sheila O'Connor, Auteur ;
Will Reidhead, Auteur ;
Jonathan Loh, Auteur
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Stefan Michel, Auteur ;
Tatjana Rosen Michel, Auteur ;
Abdusattor Saidov, Auteur ;
Khalil Karimov, Auteur ;
Munavvar Alidodov, Auteur ;
Ismoil Kholmatov, Auteur
Heptner's markhor Capra falconeri heptneri is an Endangered wild goat occurring in disjunct populations in southern Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Surveys to determine the total population in Tajikistan were conducted duri[...]
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Lukasz Peksa, Auteur ;
Michal Ciach, Auteur
Until recently animals inhabiting mountain areas were relatively free from disturbance by people but they are now coming under increasing pressure. Tourism, especially that involving large numbers of people, is having an ever more detrimental ef[...]
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Mauro E. Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Antonio Lara, Auteur
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Peter J. Haskell, Auteur ;
Andrew McGowan, Auteur ;
Anna Westling, Auteur ;
Adriana Mendez-Jimenez, Auteur ;
Christoph A. Rohner, Auteur ;
Kym Collins, Auteur ;
Marcela Rosero-Caicedo, Auteur ;
Jodi Salmond, Auteur ;
Ara Monadjem, Auteur ;
Andrea D. Marshall, Auteur ;
Simon J. Pierce, Auteur
The whale shark Rhincodon typus is a popular focal species in the marine tourism industry. We analysed 689 encounters with at least 142 individual sharks during 2008-2010 to assess their behaviour in the presence of swimmers at Tofo Beach, Mozam[...]
