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- Strengthening China’s national biodiversity strategy to attain an ecological civilization
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Ruidong Wu et al.
- Abstract: Biodiversity conservation is essential for realizing China’s new vision of an ecological civilization. China has been implementing numerous massive ecological sustainability and protected area (ES&PA) programs across the entire country. These programs have greatly restored degraded ecological…
- Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the ‘Protection Paradox’
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Amanda E. Bates et al.
- Abstract: Protected areas can foster resistance and recovery under climate variability…
- Rare genetic variation and balanced polymorphisms are important for survival in global change conditions
- Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Author(s): Reid S. Brennan, April D. Garrett, Kaitlin E. Huber et al
- For ocean species to survive climate change, large populations needed Reid S. Brennan, April D. Garrett, Kaitlin E. Huber, Heidi Hargarten, Melissa H. Pespeni. Rare genetic variation and balanced polymorphisms are important for survival in global change conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019; 286 (1904): 20190943 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0943
- The uncertain future of protected lands and waters
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Rachel E. Golden Kroner et al.
- Abstract: Protected areas are intended to safeguard biodiversity in perpetuity, yet evidence suggests that widespread legal changes undermine protected area durability and efficacy. We documented these legal changes—protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) events—in the United States and Amazonian countries and compiled available data globally.
- Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): Aelys M. Humphreys et al.
- Abstract: We present a comprehensive, global analysis of modern extinction in plants. Almost 600 species have become extinct, at a higher rate than background extinction, but almost as many have been erroneously declared extinct and then been rediscovered.
- Brown bear attacks on humans: a worldwide perspective
- Source: Scientific Reports
- Author(s): G. Bombieri et al.
- Abstract: The increasing trend of large carnivore attacks on humans not only raises human safety concerns but may also undermine large carnivore conservation efforts.
- Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Siyu Qin et al.
- Abstract: Protected areas (PAs) are expected to conserve nature and provide ecosystem services in perpetuity, yet widespread protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) may compromise these objectives. Even iconic protected areas are vulnerable to PADDD, although these PADDD events…
- Social media data reveal benefits or threats to biodiversity by visitors to nature locations
- Social media data reveal global patterns of visitation rates, attractiveness and pressure to more than 12,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs).
- Africa’s elephant poaching rates in decline, but iconic animal still under threat
- Source: Nature Communications
- Author(s): Severin Hauenstein, Mrigesh Kshatriya, Julian Blanc et al
- Elephant poaching rates in Africa have started to decline after reaching a peak in 2011, an international team of scientists has concluded. But the continent’s elephant population remains threatened.
- Widespread shortfalls in protected area resourcing undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity
- Source: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- Author(s): Lauren Coad, James EM Watson, Jonas Geldmann et al
- A new analysis shows that the world’s protected areas (PAs) are experiencing major shortfalls in staffing and resources and are therefore failing on a massive scale to safeguard wildlife.
- The climate sensitivity of carbon, timber, and species richness covaries with forest age in boreal–temperate North America.
- Source: Global Change Biology
- Author(s): Dominik Thom, Marina Golivets, Laura Edling et al.
- Older forests in eastern North America are less vulnerable to climate change than younger forests, particularly for carbon storage, timber production, and biodiversity, new research finds. The study analyzed how climate change is expected to impact forests across the eastern US and Canada.
- What drives Yellowstone’s massive elk migrations?
- Source: Global Change Biology
- Author(s): Gregory J. M. Rickbeil, Jerod A. Merkle, Greg Anderson et al.
- Yellowstone’s migratory elk rely primarily on environmental cues, including a retreating snowline and the greening grasses of spring, to decide when to make the treks between their winter ranges and summer ranges, researchers show. Their study combined GPS tracking data from more than 400 animals in…
- Identifying national responsibility species based on spatial conservation prioritization
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Aija Kukkala, Luigi Maiorano, Wilfried Thuiller, Anni Arponen
- Abstract: The concept of National responsibility species (NRS) was developed to coordinate the conservation efforts of species occurring in multiple countries….
- Landscape of fear and human-predator coexistence: Applying spatial predator-prey interaction theory to understand and reduce carnivore-livestock conflict
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Jennifer R.B. Miller, Oswald J. Schmitz
- Abstract: In recent decades the ‘landscape of fear’ has grown in popularity to become a central consideration in wildlife management, and has even been reconceptualized as the ‘landscape…
- New policies for a new wildlife: A road map for the wildlife manager of the future
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): A. Martínez-Abraín, J. Jiménez, D. Oro
- Abstract: Historical human persecution of wildlife unintentionally shaped a shy fauna of large bird and mammalian predator and prey species that has survived in ecological refuges until…
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