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Assessing the importance of multiple threats to an endangered globose cactus in Mexico: Cattle grazing, looting and climate change

Carlos Martorell, Auteur ; Delfin M. Montanana, Auteur ; Carolina Ureta, Auteur ; Maria C. Mandujano, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (181 JAN 2015)

Cacti are a priority for conservation because their slow recovery rates and high habitat specificity make their populations particularly susceptible to looters who raid their populations, anthropogenic disturbance and climate change (CC). Identi[...]

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Are populations of the candy barrel cactus (Echinocactus platyacanthus) in the desert of Tehuacan, Mexico at risk? Population projection matrix and life table response analysis

Cecilia Jimenez-Sierra, Auteur ; Maria C. Mandujano, Auteur ; Luis E. Eguiarte, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (135(2) MAR 2007)

Echinocactus platyacanthus is a candy barrel cactus endemic to Mexico and an endangered species owing to its exploitation and the destruction of its habitat. The population dynamic of this species is analyzed using matrix models. Three consecuti[...]

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