Leopard (Panthera pardus) status, distribution, and the
... attributable to habitat productivity (Macdonald & Loveridge, 2010). Such a broad spread makes reliably estimating population numbers from known geographic ranges particularly difficult. Robust estimates of distribution, population size, and threat require greater levels of research. Although they a ...
... attributable to habitat productivity (Macdonald & Loveridge, 2010). Such a broad spread makes reliably estimating population numbers from known geographic ranges particularly difficult. Robust estimates of distribution, population size, and threat require greater levels of research. Although they a ...
7th Annual Symposium - Turtle Survival Alliance
... Welcome to this, the Seventh Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles, generously hosted by the renowned St Louis Zoo. From relatively humble beginnings, this has grown beyond any expectation. It has become more than just a simple turtle conference; it has ...
... Welcome to this, the Seventh Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles, generously hosted by the renowned St Louis Zoo. From relatively humble beginnings, this has grown beyond any expectation. It has become more than just a simple turtle conference; it has ...
Parasitoid Wasps, Natural Enemies of Insects
... parasitoids. Parasitoid wasps are highly diverse and specialized to attack a particular host life stage (egg, larvae, pupae and adults) of most arthropods, mainly insects. They are highly specialized due the tight intimate relationship with their respective hosts. The diversity and radiation of the ...
... parasitoids. Parasitoid wasps are highly diverse and specialized to attack a particular host life stage (egg, larvae, pupae and adults) of most arthropods, mainly insects. They are highly specialized due the tight intimate relationship with their respective hosts. The diversity and radiation of the ...
Special Features in Alberta
... different approaches. The project results will be presented to the provincial co-ordinating committee guiding Alberta’s Special Places Program whose goal is to complete a system of protected areas on provincial land that includes the environmental diversity of Alberta’s six natural regions (Governme ...
... different approaches. The project results will be presented to the provincial co-ordinating committee guiding Alberta’s Special Places Program whose goal is to complete a system of protected areas on provincial land that includes the environmental diversity of Alberta’s six natural regions (Governme ...
Conservation Biology for All
... Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York # Oxford University Press 2010 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (make ...
... Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York # Oxford University Press 2010 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (make ...
Grand Kankakee Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
... wildlife refuge in the Basin. For each Action alternative, the Service identified a set of "focus areas" which constitute subsets of the Basin (Figures A, B, C)(see Chapter 2 also). In this regard focus areas are the first cut in a planning process aimed at narrowing down high potential geographic a ...
... wildlife refuge in the Basin. For each Action alternative, the Service identified a set of "focus areas" which constitute subsets of the Basin (Figures A, B, C)(see Chapter 2 also). In this regard focus areas are the first cut in a planning process aimed at narrowing down high potential geographic a ...
Filling the Gaps
... Protected areas were a visionary and necessary concept, but not one that came without cost. Setting aside land and water means that the resources they contain are “locked up”: while some people gain from the ecosystem services, the chances to see wildlife and the other benefits that protected areas ...
... Protected areas were a visionary and necessary concept, but not one that came without cost. Setting aside land and water means that the resources they contain are “locked up”: while some people gain from the ecosystem services, the chances to see wildlife and the other benefits that protected areas ...
Bog Turtle Business Plan - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
... The USFWS Recovery Plan for the Bog Turtle, Northern Population calls for long-term protection and restoration of the bog turtles wetland habitat and hydrologic processes that create and maintain it, protection of upland habitat buffers and dispersal corridors, and external threat abatement to minim ...
... The USFWS Recovery Plan for the Bog Turtle, Northern Population calls for long-term protection and restoration of the bog turtles wetland habitat and hydrologic processes that create and maintain it, protection of upland habitat buffers and dispersal corridors, and external threat abatement to minim ...
Do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity?
... and net primary productivity may be inextricably related (Tilman et al. 1996), neither is usually considered a surrogate for the other. Here, I expand on critiques of a single (universal) best measure of diversity expounded by Norton (1994) and Hoffmann and Hoffmann (2008), then suggest what value-a ...
... and net primary productivity may be inextricably related (Tilman et al. 1996), neither is usually considered a surrogate for the other. Here, I expand on critiques of a single (universal) best measure of diversity expounded by Norton (1994) and Hoffmann and Hoffmann (2008), then suggest what value-a ...
the Biodiversity Plan - Western Port Biosphere Reserve
... Corridors Regionally to Create a Biodiverse Resilient Western Port Biosphere project, the Growing Connections project was made possible with support from the Australian Government. The Plan is based on the principles of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB), which aims to identify and assess ...
... Corridors Regionally to Create a Biodiverse Resilient Western Port Biosphere project, the Growing Connections project was made possible with support from the Australian Government. The Plan is based on the principles of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB), which aims to identify and assess ...
Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability
... equilibrium and/or stable depends on the features under consideration and the scale at which the system is described. Vernal pools that exist for perhaps a dozen weeks each year and then dry up are ephemeral on a time scale of months but constant if the scale is years. Integrity is also used in a va ...
... equilibrium and/or stable depends on the features under consideration and the scale at which the system is described. Vernal pools that exist for perhaps a dozen weeks each year and then dry up are ephemeral on a time scale of months but constant if the scale is years. Integrity is also used in a va ...
native vegetation - Department of Environment Regulation
... Taxon diversity (species, subspecies, variety and forms) is an alternative approach to address this issue where genetic diversity data are not available. The EPA has noted that ecosystem diversity is harder to measure than species or genetic diversity because the boundaries of communities (ie. varie ...
... Taxon diversity (species, subspecies, variety and forms) is an alternative approach to address this issue where genetic diversity data are not available. The EPA has noted that ecosystem diversity is harder to measure than species or genetic diversity because the boundaries of communities (ie. varie ...
Individual dispersal, landscape connectivity and
... in the landscape. We suggest that habitat selection should not be considered only as a species-specific feature. Indeed, dispersing individuals of the same species will select different places to settle according to their particular phenotypes; this ‘habitat-matching’ process clearly influences how ...
... in the landscape. We suggest that habitat selection should not be considered only as a species-specific feature. Indeed, dispersing individuals of the same species will select different places to settle according to their particular phenotypes; this ‘habitat-matching’ process clearly influences how ...
Forest genetic resources conservation and management
... broad sense stated above—considered to be of potential value for humans at present or in the future. Different conservation strategies and practices have been developed. In situ (‘in place’) conservation implies the continuing maintenance of a population within the environment where it originally ev ...
... broad sense stated above—considered to be of potential value for humans at present or in the future. Different conservation strategies and practices have been developed. In situ (‘in place’) conservation implies the continuing maintenance of a population within the environment where it originally ev ...
The characteristics and success of vertebrate translocations within
... The bird species most translocated included Noisy Scrub Bird, Malleefowl, Bush Thick-knee, Orange bellied Parrot, Black-eared Miner, and Helmeted Honeyeater. All, bar the Bush Thick-knee are threatened at the national level. Roughly equal numbers of individuals of threatened and non-threatened bird ...
... The bird species most translocated included Noisy Scrub Bird, Malleefowl, Bush Thick-knee, Orange bellied Parrot, Black-eared Miner, and Helmeted Honeyeater. All, bar the Bush Thick-knee are threatened at the national level. Roughly equal numbers of individuals of threatened and non-threatened bird ...
RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE BERMUDA SKINK, Eumeces longirostris
... severe decline. The species has been listed by the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) as Critically Endangered (IUCN 1996; 2005) and, more recently has been listed under Bermuda law (Protected Species Act 2003) as Critic ...
... severe decline. The species has been listed by the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) as Critically Endangered (IUCN 1996; 2005) and, more recently has been listed under Bermuda law (Protected Species Act 2003) as Critic ...
East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
... Melanesian Islands Hotspot holds exceptional cultural and linguistic diversity. Vanuatu, for example, has 108 living languages: more per unit area than any other country. Because many languages are spoken by only a few hundred people, they are disappearing, leading to a rapid erosion of traditional ...
... Melanesian Islands Hotspot holds exceptional cultural and linguistic diversity. Vanuatu, for example, has 108 living languages: more per unit area than any other country. Because many languages are spoken by only a few hundred people, they are disappearing, leading to a rapid erosion of traditional ...
report - Wildlife Research and Management
... threatened at the national level. Roughly equal numbers of individuals of threatened and nonthreatened bird species were translocated. Little Penguin was the bird species with the most individuals translocated – over 800 were translocated following an oil spill off the coast of Tasmania. The major f ...
... threatened at the national level. Roughly equal numbers of individuals of threatened and nonthreatened bird species were translocated. Little Penguin was the bird species with the most individuals translocated – over 800 were translocated following an oil spill off the coast of Tasmania. The major f ...
Bounceback 20 year report - Natural Resources South Australia
... only threaten native species, but their impacts may result in irreversible or difficult-to-reverse changes to ecosystem function. When native vegetation is removed from the landscape, wind and water strip away fragile topsoil and open up the country to erosion. As well as losing the structural compo ...
... only threaten native species, but their impacts may result in irreversible or difficult-to-reverse changes to ecosystem function. When native vegetation is removed from the landscape, wind and water strip away fragile topsoil and open up the country to erosion. As well as losing the structural compo ...
Optimization of supplementary feeding programs for European
... Supplementary feeding for scavengers can be defined as the set of activities around the provision of carrion by humans for its exploitation by the targeted species through a wide variation of procedures and protocols. These include the management of fenced feeding sites with abundant and predictable ...
... Supplementary feeding for scavengers can be defined as the set of activities around the provision of carrion by humans for its exploitation by the targeted species through a wide variation of procedures and protocols. These include the management of fenced feeding sites with abundant and predictable ...
The Economic and Social Aspects of Biodiversity Benefits and Costs
... A marginal value allows us to begin to determine how much we should be spending on biodiversity protection. If we have an angle on the benefits, then we can assess how far these benefits exceed the amounts that are currently being spent on relevant policies, or vice-versa. Naturally, we also need t ...
... A marginal value allows us to begin to determine how much we should be spending on biodiversity protection. If we have an angle on the benefits, then we can assess how far these benefits exceed the amounts that are currently being spent on relevant policies, or vice-versa. Naturally, we also need t ...
Stable Isotope Analysis Reveals That Agricultural Habitat Provides
... been directly quantified. We quantified the proportional use that Calidris alpina pacifica (Dunlin) made of estuarine vs. terrestrial farmland resources on the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia, using stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N) of blood from 268 Dunlin over four winters, 1997 through 20 ...
... been directly quantified. We quantified the proportional use that Calidris alpina pacifica (Dunlin) made of estuarine vs. terrestrial farmland resources on the Fraser River Delta, British Columbia, using stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N) of blood from 268 Dunlin over four winters, 1997 through 20 ...
mop4_31_ssap_black_tailed_godwit_0
... The Black-tailed Godwit has a widespread but disjunct distribution in the Western Palearctic. Two subspecies occur in this area; islandica which breeds mainly in Iceland and limosa with a main breeding range from The Netherlands to Russia. The populations of both subspecies are migratory and have se ...
... The Black-tailed Godwit has a widespread but disjunct distribution in the Western Palearctic. Two subspecies occur in this area; islandica which breeds mainly in Iceland and limosa with a main breeding range from The Netherlands to Russia. The populations of both subspecies are migratory and have se ...
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... human interventions may influence these stock-dependent interactions, so that management or exploitation of one species that does not account for interspecies interactions will generate spillover effects impacting other valued species. That is, human interventions may cause efficiency-reducing ecosy ...
... human interventions may influence these stock-dependent interactions, so that management or exploitation of one species that does not account for interspecies interactions will generate spillover effects impacting other valued species. That is, human interventions may cause efficiency-reducing ecosy ...
Lichen Conservation - tn
... •Inventorying, documenting the lichen rich environments in areas of Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Mangroves and other forest areas to devise ‘Doable Lichen Centric’ conservation strategies. •Implementation of clean air acts. •Biologically rich fragmented sites in lichen rich locations require specia ...
... •Inventorying, documenting the lichen rich environments in areas of Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Mangroves and other forest areas to devise ‘Doable Lichen Centric’ conservation strategies. •Implementation of clean air acts. •Biologically rich fragmented sites in lichen rich locations require specia ...
Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the scientific study of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on natural and social sciences, and the practice of natural resource management.The conservation ethic is based on the findings of conservation biology.