| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 24(2) - JUN 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Rafael Barrientos, Auteur ;
Bernardo Arroyo, Auteur
Investigating habitat selection is a key step in improving the population conservation of forest species in areas managed for different purposes, from timber harvesting to hunting or recreation. Because economic resources allocated to conservati[...]
Article
The endemic Jamaican subspecies of the Golden Swallow Tachycineta euchrysea euchrysea has been rare and locally distributed since its discovery in 1847. By the 1950s, its geographic range had contracted to a small region along the northern front[...]
Article
Tsai-Yu Wu, Auteur ;
Bruno A. Walther, Auteur ;
Yi-Hsiu Chen, Auteur ;
Ruey-Shing Lin, Auteur ;
Pei-Fen Lee, Auteur
Taiwan has 145 breeding bird species, but so far no comprehensive attempt has been made to model their distributions. For the first time, we bring together various datasets to model the distributions of the 116 bird species with sufficient sampl[...]
Article
Bonnie R. Lei, Auteur ;
Jonathan A. Green, Auteur ;
Lorien Pichegru, Auteur
African Penguins Spheniscus demersus naturally breed in guano burrows which provide shelter from predators and extreme weather conditions. Past guano harvesting has removed this habitat and artificial nests of different types have been deployed,[...]
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Sonja C. Krueger, Auteur ;
David G. Allan, Auteur ;
Andrew R. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Arjun Amar, Auteur
Territory occupancy, distribution and density of the isolated Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis population in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains of southern Africa were assessed between two time periods - former (1960-1999) and curren[...]
Article
Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Jacob A. Esselstyn, Auteur
Diagnosing the causes of population declines of highly endangered species is vital to ensure that appropriate conservation measures are undertaken. Although experiments can provide critical information on potential causes, these can be time cons[...]
Article
Steffen Oppel, Auteur ;
Andrew Cassini, Auteur ;
Calvin Fenton, Auteur ;
James Daley, Auteur ;
Gerard Gray, Auteur
Many island endemics are of great conservation concern due to small range and population sizes. The Montserrat Oriole Icterus oberi is a forest passerine endemic to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where recent volcanic activity has destroyed[...]
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The parany is a device used in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) for trapping birds by the use of limed sticks. Between 1988 and 2001 successive Comunidad Valenciana governments authorised the legal trapping of thrushes Turdus spp. in 5,000 parany ea[...]
Article
José A. Alves, Auteur ;
Pedro M. Lourenço, Auteur
Mapping migratory routes and the distribution of species during migration requires information collected over large scales (e.g.survey data), or the ability to follow specific movements (e.g. using tracking devices), which is often limited to a [...]
Article
R. Moreno-Opo, Auteur ;
A. Margalida, Auteur
Detecting and quantifying threats and researching and implementing management actions are key to improving the conservation status of endangered species. Bibliometric analysis can constitute a useful tool for the evaluation of such questions fro[...]
Article
Grzegorz Maciorowski, Auteur ;
Pawel Mirski, Auteur
Wetlands in the Biebrza Valley, north-east Poland, are inhabited by two closely related Aquila species: the more numerous Lesser Spotted Eagle A. pomarina prefers human-transformed landscapes, whereas the very rare Greater Spotted Eagle A. clang[...]
