Moss cover and browsing scores as sustainability indicators of mountain ungulate populations in Mediterranean environmentsBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 31 - Trang 2741-2761 - 2022
P. Refoyo, M. Peláez, M. García-Rodríguez, A. López-Sánchez, R. Perea
Here, we aimed to define ecological indicators of environmental change for monitoring the effect of a reintroduced species, the Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica), over the vegetation of a natural protected area with contrasting habitats. This species was reintroduced 30 years ago in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, Spain, and its population has since grown exponentially, reaching high densitie...... hiện toàn bộ
Persistence through tough times: fixed and shifting refuges in threatened species conservationBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 28 - Trang 1303-1330 - 2019
April E. Reside, Natalie J. Briscoe, Chris R. Dickman, Aaron C. Greenville, Bronwyn A. Hradsky, Salit Kark, Michael R. Kearney, Alex S. Kutt, Dale G. Nimmo, Chris R. Pavey, John L. Read, Euan G. Ritchie, David Roshier, Anja Skroblin, Zoe Stone, Matt West, Diana O. Fisher
It may be possible to avert threatened species declines by protecting refuges that promote species persistence during times of stress. To do this, we need to know where refuges are located, and when and which management actions are required to preserve, enhance or replicate them. Here we use a niche-based perspective to characterise refuges that are either fixed or shifting in location over ecolog...... hiện toàn bộ
Morphological grouping of Mexican butterfliesin relation to habitat associationBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 7 - Trang 927-944 - 1998
Roberto De La Maza, Jorge Soberón
Current rates of destruction of natural ecosystems call for rapid and efficient ways of assessing the successional state or degree of perturbation, and of monitoring management efforts. In this paper we propose that butterfly species, grouped by morphological and ethological traits, can be used for these purposes. The groups, each composed of species from many taxa, appear to be strongly correlate...... hiện toàn bộ
Linking local ecological knowledge and habitat modelling to predict absolute species abundance on large scalesBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 19 - Trang 1443-1454 - 2009
José Daniel Anadón, Andrés Giménez, Rubén Ballestar
Assessing the spatial structure of abundance of a species is a basic requirement to carry out adequate conservation strategies. However, existing attempts to predict species abundance, particularly in absolute units and on large scales, are scarce and have led to weak results. In this work we present a scheme to obtain, in an affordable way, a predictive model of absolute animal abundance on large...... hiện toàn bộ
Protecting the Cerrado: where should we direct efforts for the conservation of bat-plant interactions?Biodiversity and Conservation - Tập 28 - Trang 2765-2779 - 2019
H. F. M. Oliveira, N. F. Camargo, Y. Gager, R. L. Muylaert, E. Ramon, R. C. C. Martins
Cerrado is a biodiversity hotspot composed of a vegetation mosaic landscape ranging from grasslands to forests. It holds a high endemicity of plants and vertebrate species suffering from high habitat destruction rates. We aimed at characterizing the mutualistic interactions between bats and the plant species present in their diet in the different habitats of the Cerrado to determine which habitats...... hiện toàn bộ
Synergistic effect of habitat loss and chronic anthropogenic disturbances on ant species richnessBiodiversity and Conservation - - Trang 1-15 - 2023
Anderson Dantas, Carlos Roberto Fonseca
Habitat loss is an important factor in global biodiversity loss, but categorizing human-modified landscapes as fragments of natural or anthropogenic habitats may underestimate our impact on biodiversity since most natural fragments suffer from chronic anthropogenic disturbances. Here, we tested the synergistic effect between habitat loss and chronic anthropogenic disturbances on ant communities of...... hiện toàn bộ
Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapesBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 27 - Trang 2681-2698 - 2018
Alison Ke, Muzi D. Sibiya, Chevonne Reynolds, Robert A. McCleery, Ara Monadjem, Robert J. Fletcher
There is an ongoing need to integrate agricultural production with wildlife conservation to maintain biodiversity, especially in developing countries. The landscape heterogeneity hypothesis identifies a potential means for promoting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes by emphasizing that increasing heterogeneity can increase biodiversity. However, the importance of landscape heterogeneity rela...... hiện toàn bộ
Sustainable biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta: a practical approach to conservation site selectionBiodiversity and Conservation - Tập 18 - Trang 1247-1257 - 2008
P. O. Phil-Eze, I. C. Okoro
The rich biodiversity repository of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is under severe threat from diverse sources such as deforestation, inadequate farming practices, invasive alien species, urbanization and oil and gas exploration and development activities. This biodiversity “hot spot” is the second most sensitive environment in Africa. The over 70 Protected Areas (PAs) here have lost substantia...... hiện toàn bộ