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- Human-Carnivore Conflicts and Mitigation Options in Qinghai Province, China
- Source: Journal for Nature Conservation
- Author(s): Yunchuan Dai, Diqiang Li
- Human-carnivore conflicts often result in reduced tolerance by local communities for long-term carnivore species conservation. Increasing conflicts and inefficient resolutions…
- Edge effects on trophic cascades in tropical rainforests
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Michelle Lisa Kiri Harrison, Cristina Banks‐Leite
- The cascading effects of biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning within forested systems have recently become more apparent. However, how edge effects shape these processes has yet to be established. Here we assessed how edge effects alter arthropod populations and the strength of any resultant…
- Biodiversity and wind energy
- Source: Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Author(s): Christian C. Voigt, Tanja M. Straka, Marcus Fritze.
- The location and operation of wind energy plants are often in direct conflict with the legal protection of endangered species. The almost unanimous opinion of experts from local and central government authorities, environmental NGOs and expert offices is that the current mechanisms for the protection…
- Forests face climate change tug of war
- Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Author(s): John S. Sperry et al
- Increased carbon dioxide allows plants to photosynthesize more and use less water. But warmer temperatures drive plants to use more water and photosynthesize less. So, which force, CO2 fertilization or heat stress, wins this climate tug of war? It depends on whether forests and trees are able to adapt…
- Protected areas as potential refugia for biodiversity under climatic change
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Jeffrey Haight, Edd Hammill
- Climate change is among the greatest challenges to biodiversity conservation globally. In response to climatic changes, species around the world have already started to shift…
- Evidence from eleven countries in four continents suggests that protected areas are not associated with higher poverty rates
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Christos Mammides
- Countries across the globe are expanding their networks of protected areas in an effort to address the increasing rates of biodiversity loss. Protected areas, though, have been criticized extensively…
- Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Graham A. Montgomery et al
- In recent decades, entomologists have documented alarming declines in occurrence, taxonomic richness, and geographic range of insects around the world.
- Small forest losses degrade stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Janaina G. Brito et al
- Generally, habitat loss and fragmentation negatively affect biota, often in nonlinear ways. Such nonlinear responses suggest the existence of critical limits for habitat loss beyond which taxa experience substantial changes.
- Protected areas alone rarely predict mammalian biodiversity across spatial scales in an Albertan working landscape
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Frances E.C. Stewart et al
- Protected areas (PA) networks are promoted globally as an effective method of biodiversity conservation…
- Conservation value of tropical forests: Distance to human settlements matters more than management in Central Africa
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Simon Lhoest et al
- Tropical forests in Central Africa host unique biodiversity threatened by human degradation of habitats and defaunation.
- Endangered whales react to environmental changes
- Source: Global Change Biology
- Authors(s): Russell A. Charif et al
- Some ‘canaries’ are 50 feet long, weigh 70 tons, and are nowhere near a coal mine. But the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale is sending the same kind of message about disruptive change in the environment by rapidly altering its use of important habitat areas off the
- Yellowstone’s migrating bison manipulate springtime green-up
- Source: PNAS
- Author(s): Chris Geremi et al
- In effect, the bison graze with such intensity that they turn back the clock on forage green-up, hitting reset on springtime.
- Habitat restoration alone not enough to support threatened caribou
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Erin R. Tattersall, Joanna M. Burgar, Jason T. Fisher, A. Cole Burton.
- New research suggests restoring habitat may not be enough to save threatened woodland caribou — an iconic animal that’s a major part of boreal forests in North America and a key part of the culture and economy of many Indigenous peoples in Canada
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