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- The emergence of private land conservation in scientific literature: A review
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 237
- Author(s): Gonzalo Cortés Capano, Tuuli Toivonen, Alvaro Soutullo, Enrico Di Minin
- Abstract: Private land conservation (PLC) is an important means for achieving global conservation targets. We reviewed peer-reviewed literature focussing…
- Biodiversity offsetting: Certainty of the net loss but uncertainty of the net gain
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 237
- Author(s): Magali Weissgerber, Samuel Roturier, Romain Julliard, Fanny Guillet
- Abstract: Biodiversity offsetting is usually the last step in the mitigation hierarchy and aims to compensate for impacts of development projects on biodiversity….
- A review of the relation between species traits and extinction risk
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 237
- Author(s): Filipe Chichorro, Aino Juslén, Pedro Cardoso
- Abstract: Biodiversity is shrinking rapidly, and despite our efforts only a small part of it has been assessed for extinction risk. Identifying the traits that make species…
- Landscape connectivity and spatial prioritization in an urbanising world: A network analysis approach for a threatened amphibian
- Source: Biological Conservation, Volume 237
- Author(s): Cátia Matos, Silviu O. Petrovan, Philip M. Wheeler, Alastair I. Ward
- Abstract: Habitat fragmentation affects amphibian populations worldwide. Urban expansion and associated infrastructure are a main cause of habitat degradation…
- Assessing conservation management practices within South Africa’s private game reserves
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 20
- Author(s): Peet van der Merwe, Beatriz Soares Vitoriano Maia
- The South African Yearbook (2005/2006:570) states that more visitors are coming to South Africa to have a wildlife experience than in the past. With this growth in tourists, managers of protected areas would like to sustain these wildlife areas and thus need to have proper management plans in place for the activities…
- Climate change and deforestation together push tropical species towards extinction
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Author(s): Rebecca A. Senior, Jane K. Hill, David P. Edwards
- Only 38 per cent of tropical forest is ‘wildlife friendly’ as a result of deforestation, increasing the likelihood that vulnerable species will go extinct, say scientists.
- Persecuting, protecting or ignoring biodiversity under climate change
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Author(s): Brett R. Scheffers and Gretta Pecl
- Abstract: A climate-driven global redistribution of species is currently underway. As species alter their geographical distributions under climate change, many will not only cross into new habitats but also new geopolitical areas…
- Transforming Protected Area Management in China
- Source: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Author(s): Weihua Xu et al.
- Abstract: We discuss institutional reforms to China’s protected area management. Currently (as elsewhere), protected areas suffer fragmented management, lack of a comprehensive classification, inadequate coverage of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and divided, inconsistent legislation. We recommend establishing…
- Highway medians are a source of food for wildlife
- Source: Wildlife Society Bulletin
- Author(s): April Robin Martinig and Ashley A. D. Mclaren
- Vegetated highway medians are a proverbial buffet for small mammals, according to biologists. Animals such as weasels, mink, and chipmunks use the roadside bands of vegetation as habitat to find food.
- Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction
- Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Author(s): Daniel H. Rothman
- Carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences, study finds.
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