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- Proactive conservation of high-value habitat for woodland caribou and grizzly bears in the boreal zone of British Columbia, Canada
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 230
- Author(s): Nobuya Suzuki, Katherine L. Parker
- Abstract: Unspoiled wildlands of boreal landscapes provide critical habitats for wildlife. With the increase in resource development across Canada’s boreal zone, woodland caribou
- Biodiversity loss is dire, don’t get distracted
- Source: Nature
- Jonathan Davies & Peter Stoett
- Writing on behalf of the authors of the biodiversity section of the latest Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) from the United Nations Environment Programme, to be released in March 2019 (see go.nature.com/2b9fp9o), we are concerned about your discussion on the progress of the IPBES assessment…
- More animal species under threat of extinction, new method shows
- Currently approximately 600 species might be inaccurately assessed as non-threatened on the Red List of Threatened Species. More than a hundred others that couldn’t be assessed before, also appear to be threatened. A new more efficient, systematic and comprehensive approach to assess the extinction risk…
- Developing a global indicator for Aichi Target 1 by merging online data sources to measure biodiversity awareness and engagement
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 230
- Author(s): Matthew W. Cooper, Enrico Di Minin, Anna Hausmann, et al.
- Abstract: Due to the importance of public support in fostering positive outcomes for biodiversity, Aichi Biodiversity…
- Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity?
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 230
- Author(s): Lenore Fahrig, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Joseph R. Bennett et al.
- Abstract: In a review of landscape-scale empirical studies, Fahrig (2017a) found that ecological responses to habitat fragmentation per se (fragmentation independent of habitat amount) were usually non-significant (>70% of responses) and that 76% of significant relationships were positive, with species abundance, occurrence, richness, and other response variables increasing with habitat fragmentation per se.
- Does nature experience matter? Why not to care too much about the link between nature experience and valuing nature
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 231
- Author(s): Stijn Neuteleers, Glenn Deliège
- Fifty years of biological conservation
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 230
- Author(s): Robin J. Pakeman, Amanda Bates, Richard T. Corlett et al.
- Expert-based and correlative models to map habitat quality: Which gives better support to conservation planning?
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 16
- Author(s): M. Di Febbraro, L. Sallustio, M. Vizzarri et al.
- Abstract: Biodiversity loss and habitat degradation are big challenges to be tackled by conservation planning…
Effects of human demand on conservation planning for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Watson et al.
- Abstract: Safeguarding ecosystem services and biodiversity is critical to achieving sustainable development. To date, ecosystem services quantification has focused on the biophysical supply of services with less emphasis on human beneficiaries (“demand”). Only when both occur do ecosystems benefit people,…
- A rule of thumb for widths of conservation corridors
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author: Paul Beier
- Article impact statement: A rule of thumb is that a conservation corridor should be at least 2 km wide to provide long‐term gene flow and recolonization.
- Sharing conservation burdens fairly
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author: Armstrong, C.
- Abstract: We examined how, from the point of view of justice, the burdens of paying for conservation should be shared. I resisted simple answers to the question of who should pay for conservation that lean on a single moral principle. I identified 3 relevant principles that relate to who causes conservation…
- An ecosystem risk assessment of temperate and tropical forests of the Americas with an outlook on future conservation strategies
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): José Rafael Ferrer‐Paris,Irene Zager, David A. Keith et al
- Abstract: Forests of the Americas and the Caribbean are undergoing rapid change as human populations increase and land use intensifies. We applied the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria and simple cost‐efficiency analyses to provide the first regional perspective on patterns of relative risk…
- Progress of implementation on the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in (2011–2020) China
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 230
- Author(s): Hai Ren, Haining Qin, Zhiyun Ouyang et al.
- Abstract: Plants are essential resources for the earth and human survival. Many plant species are threatened by human disturbance and are now in danger of extinction. The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) seeks to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity and species across the globe.
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