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The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Michael A. Petriello, Lauren Redmore, Aby L. Sène, Dhananjaya Katju, Lilian Barraclough, Sara Boyd, Carly Madge, Anastasia Papadopoulos, Reddi S. Yalamala
Conservationists increasingly position conservation that is mutually beneficial to people and biodiversity on the promise of empowerment of people through participatory discourse, metrics, processes, and outcomes. Empowerment represents multidimensional concepts and theories that permeate the interlinking levels of power, from the psychological to the political, and social scales in which conservation
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Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird–building collisions in a tropical Asian city with ecological niche modeling Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 David J. X. Tan, Nicholas A. Freymueller, Kah Ming Teo, William S. Symes, Shawn K. Y. Lum, Frank E. Rheindt
Bird collisions with buildings are responsible for a large number of bird deaths in cities around the world, yet they remain poorly studied outside North America. We conducted one of the first citywide fine‐scale and landscape‐scale analyses of bird–building collisions in Asia and used maximum entropy modeling (as commonly applied to species distribution modeling) in a novel way to assess the drivers
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Perspectives on the timing of ecosystem collapse in a changing climate Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Alberto J. Alaniz, Pablo A. Marquet, Mario A. Carvajal, Pablo M. Vergara, Darío Moreira‐Arce, Miguel A. Muzzio, David A. Keith
Climate change is one of the most important drivers of ecosystem change, the global‐scale impacts of which will intensify over the next 2 decades. Estimating the timing of unprecedented changes is not only challenging but is of great importance for the development of ecosystem conservation guidelines. Time of emergence (ToE) (point at which climate change can be differentiated from a previous climate)
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Loss of species and functions in a deforested megadiverse tropical forest Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Lisieux Fuzessy, Sandrine Pavoine, Laura Cardador, Joan Maspons, Daniel Sol
Tropical species richness is threatened by habitat degradation associated with land‐use conversion, yet the consequences for functional diversity remain little understood. Progress has been hindered by difficulties in obtaining comprehensive species‐level trait information to characterize entire assemblages and insufficient appreciation that increasing land‐cover heterogeneity potentially compensates
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Application of the integrated threat theory to conservation law enforcement Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mahmood Soofi, Benjamin Ghasemi, Mohsen Ahmadpour, Mobin Soufi, Iman Islami, Alaina Eckert, Mohammad Hossein Gorjian Arabi, Ali T. Qashqaei, Javad Selyari, Kamran Nasirahmadi, Johannes Kamp, Matthias Waltert, Jane Addison, Chris R. Pavey
Interactions between law enforcement agents in conservation (e.g., rangers) and illegal resource users (e.g., illegal hunters) can be violent and sometimes fatal, which negatively affects conservation efforts and people's well‐being. Models from social psychology, such as integrated threat theory (ITT) (intergroup interactions shape intergroup emotions, prejudices and perceived threats leading to hostile
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Consumer characteristics and preferences for mobulid gill plates in China Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Xuehong Zhou, Ami Yang, Zhen Miao, Wei Zhang, Qiang Wang, Douglas C. MacMillan
Mobulid species are endangered globally, and the market trade for gill plates is believed to be a major threat. Successful conservation and the sustainable use of mobulids therefore require an objective understanding of consumer characteristics and preferences for gill plates. Previous studies focused on qualitative descriptions, and reliable quantitative analyses are currently lacking. We used a latent
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Exposure of protected areas in Central America to extreme weather events Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Juan David González‐Trujillo, Diogo Alagador, Pamela González‐del‐Pliego, Miguel B. Araújo
Central America and the Caribbean are regularly battered by megadroughts, heavy rainfall, heat waves, and tropical cyclones. Although 21st‐century climate change is expected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of these extreme weather events (EWEs), their incidence in regional protected areas (PAs) remains poorly explored. We examined historical and projected EWEs across the region based
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Using historical habitat loss to predict contemporary mammal extirpations in Neotropical forests Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Juliano A. Bogoni, Carlos A. Peres, Ana B. Navarro, Vitor Carvalho‐Rocha, Mauro Galetti
Understanding which species will be extirpated in the aftermath of large‐scale human disturbance is critical to mitigating biodiversity loss, particularly in hyperdiverse tropical biomes. Deforestation is the strongest driver of contemporary local extinctions in tropical forests but may occur at different tempos. The 2 most extensive tropical forest biomes in South America—the Atlantic Forest and the
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Effects of agriculture and nature reserves on avian behavior in northwestern Costa Rica Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alison Ke, Rahel Sollmann, Luke Frishkoff, Alejandra Echeverri, Jim Zook, Daniel S. Karp
Behavioral changes are often animals’ first responses to environmental change and may act as a bellwether for population viability. Nonetheless, most studies of habitat conversion focus on changes in species occurrences or abundances. We analyzed >14,000 behavioral observations across 55 bird species in communities in northwestern Costa Rica to determine how land use affects reproductive, foraging
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Influence of microclimate and forest management on bat species faced with global change Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Chelsea L. Andreozzi, Todd E. Dawson, Justin Kitzes, Adina M. Merenlender
Climate refugia, areas where climate is expected to remain relatively stable, can offer a near‐term safe haven for species sensitive to warming temperatures and drought. Understanding the influence of temperature, moisture, and disturbance on sensitive species is critical during this time of rapid climate change. Coastal habitats can serve as important refugia. Many of these areas consist of working
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Exploring the potential for online data sources to enhance species threat mapping through the case study of global bat exploitation Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sara Bronwen Hunter, Malik Oedin, Julie Weeds, Fiona Mathews
Expanding digital data sources, including social media and online news, provide a low-cost way to examine human–nature interactions, such as wildlife exploitation. However, the extent to which using such data sources can expand or bias understanding of the distribution and intensity of threats has not been comprehensively assessed. To address this gap, we quantified the geographical and temporal distribution
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Quantitative evaluation of the global impacts of human land modification on raptors Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Taxing Zhang, Yu Xu, Jianghong Ran
Raptors are threatened by anthropogenic land modifications, but targeted quantitative assessment of these impacts is lacking. We conducted the first global quantitative evaluation of the impacts of human‐modified land on raptors. We used eBird data from 2001 to 2020 on 425 raptor species and occupancy models to assess the impacts of human‐modified land on raptor distribution. The mean spatiotemporal
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The influence of social identity on attitudes toward wildlife Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Max H. Birdsong, Alexander L. Metcalf, Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf, Holly Kathleen Nesbitt, Justin A. Gude
Wildlife conservation depends on supportive social as well as biophysical conditions. Social identities such as hunter and nonhunter are often associated with different attitudes toward wildlife. However, it is unknown whether dynamics within and among these identity groups explain how attitudes form and why they differ. To investigate how social identities help shape wildlife‐related attitudes and
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Erratum to Effects of human depopulation and warming climate on bird populations in Japan Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04
Katayama, N., Fujita, T., Ueta, M., Morelli, F., & Amano, T. (2023). Effects of human depopulation and warming climate on bird populations in Japan. Conservation Biology: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14175. The median and range of annual mean temperatures in the breeding range of each species should have been used as measures of temperature niche position and breadth, respectively. The variables that
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Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 David M. Theobald, Aerin L. Jacob, Paul R. Elsen, Erik A. Beever, Libby Ehlers, Jodi Hilty
Conserving mountains is important for protecting biodiversity because they have high beta diversity and endemicity, facilitate species movement, and provide numerous ecosystem benefits for people. Mountains are often thought to have lower levels of human modification and contain more protected area than surrounding lowlands. To examine this, we compared biogeographic attributes of the largest, contiguous
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Patterns of recovery in extant and extirpated seabirds after the world's largest multipredator eradication Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jeremy P. Bird, Richard A. Fuller, Justine D. Shaw
Eradicating invasive predators from islands can result in substantial recovery of seabirds, but the mechanisms that drive population changes remain poorly understood. Meta‐analyses have recently revealed that immigration is surprisingly important to the recovery of philopatric seabirds, but it is not known whether dispersal and philopatry interact predictably to determine rates of population growth
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Understanding variation in impacts from private protected areas across regions and protection mechanisms to inform organizational practices Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sarah Hagen, Christoph Nolte, Yuhe Chang, Seth Morgan, Giulio Boccaletti, Sheila M. W. Reddy
Private land protection is an important and growing tool to address biodiversity loss and climate change. Thus, better empirical evidence on the effectiveness of private land protection and organizational practices, such as targeting of lands for protection and choice of protection mechanism (i.e., fee simple land acquisition and conservation easements), is needed. We addressed this gap by estimating
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A meta-analysis of the effect of visiting zoos and aquariums on visitors’ conservation knowledge, beliefs, and behavior Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xavier McNally, Thomas L. Webb, Charlotte Smith, Andrew Moss, Jilly Gibson-Miller
Zoos and aquariums are well placed to connect visitors with the issues facing biodiversity globally and many deliver interventions that seek to influence visitors’ beliefs and behaviors with respect to conservation. However, despite primary studies evaluating the effect of such interventions, the overall effect of engaging with zoos and the factors that influence this effect remain unclear. We conducted
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Historical insight into British and Irish wildlife Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. Raye, Lee. 2023. Pelagic Publishing, London, UK. 398 pp. £45 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-78427-407-8. If citation scores matter to publishers, this book will do well because it will undoubtedly become an essential reference for anyone writing academic accounts of the 151 vertebrate and invertebrate
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Noted with interest Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-22
Rescuing the planet. Protecting half the land to heal the earth. Hiss, T. 2021. A. A. Knopf, New York, NY, U.S.A. xii + 307 pp. US$28.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-525-65481-0. This book is a thought-provoking exploration of the concept of setting aside half the Earth for nature and wilderness. On the positive side, Hiss presents a collection of inspiring stories primarily focused on the Americas. The
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The geographic extent of bird populations affected by renewable-energy development Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Hannah B. Vander Zanden, David M. Nelson, Tara J. Conkling, Taber D. Allison, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Thomas V. Dietsch, Amy L. Fesnock, Scott R. Loss, Patricia A. Ortiz, Robin Paulman, Krysta H. Rogers, Peter M. Sanzenbacher, Todd E. Katzner
Bird populations are declining globally. Wind and solar energy can reduce emissions of fossil fuels that drive anthropogenic climate change, yet renewable-energy production represents a potential threat to bird species. Surveys to assess potential effects at renewable-energy facilities are exclusively local, and the geographic extent encompassed by birds killed at these facilities is largely unknown
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Best practices, errors and perspectives of half a century of plant translocation in Italy Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 D'Agostino Martina, Cao Pinna Luigi, Carboni Marta, Assini Silvia, Bacchetta Gianluigi, Bartolucci Fabrizio, Brancaleoni Lisa, Buldrini Fabrizio, Carta Angelino, Cerabolini Bruno, Ceriani Roberta Maria, Clementi Umberto, Cogoni Donatella, Conti Fabio, Crosti Roberto, Cuena-Lombraña Alba, De Vitis Marcello, Di Giustino Attilio, Fabrini Giuseppe, Farris Emanuele, Fenu Giuseppe, Fiorentin Roberto, Foggi
Conservation translocations are becoming common conservation practice, so there is an increasing need of understanding the drivers of plant translocation performance through reviews of cases at global and regional levels. The establishment of the Italian Database of Plant Translocation (IDPlanT) provides the opportunity to review the techniques used in 186 plant translocation cases performed in the
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Conservation museomics Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Mary E. Blair
Article Impact Statement: Conservation museomics leverages natural history collections and interdisciplinary expertise to advance conservation science and innovation
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Leakage of biodiversity risks under the European Union Biodiversity Strategy 2030 Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Richard Fischer, Eliza Zhunusova, Sven Günter, Susanne Iost, Franziska Schier, Jörg Schweinle, Holger Weimar, Matthias Dieter
The European Union Biodiversity Strategy 2030 (EUBDS) aims to regain biodiversity through enhanced forest conservation and protection, which may lead to increased timber harvest in non-EU countries. We aimed to identify the potential leakage of biodiversity risks as induced by the EUBDS. We created an indicator framework that allows one to quantify vulnerability of forest biodiversity. The framework
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A case for stronger integration of physical landscape processes in conservation science and practice Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Piotr Cienciala
In this perspective, I argue that the dynamic nature of contemporary landscape-shaping (geomorphic) processes deserves more consideration within conservation science and practice. I begin by presenting a simple bibliometric analysis of the Web of Science, which reveals that, during last two decades, key geomorphic terms have appeared in a small fraction (<2%) of the conservation biology literature
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A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Giordano Mancini, Luca Santini, Victor Cazalis, H. Reşit Akçakaya, Pablo M. Lucas, Thomas M. Brooks, Wendy Foden, Moreno Di Marco
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List is a central tool for extinction risk monitoring and influences global biodiversity policy and action. But, to be effective, it is crucial that it consistently accounts for each driver of extinction. Climate change is rapidly becoming a key extinction driver, but consideration of climate change information remains challenging for the
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Three major steps toward the conservation of freshwater and riparian biodiversity Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jacqueline H. T. Hoppenreijs, Jeffery Marker, Ronald J. Maliao, Henry H. Hansen, Erika Juhász, Asko Lõhmus, Vassil Y. Altanov, Petra Horká, Annegret Larsen, Birgitta Malm-Renöfält, Kadri Runnel, John J. Piccolo, Anne E. Magurran
Freshwater ecosystems and their bordering wetlands and riparian zones are vital for human society and biological diversity. Yet, they are among the most degraded ecosystems, where sharp declines in biodiversity are driven by human activities, such as hydropower development, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. Because freshwater ecosystems are characterized by strongly reciprocal linkages with surrounding
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Use of bird-borne radar to examine shearwater interactions with legal and illegal fisheries Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Leia Navarro-Herrero, Sarah Saldanha, Teresa Militão, Diego Vicente-Sastre, David March, Jacob González-Solís
Seabirds interact with fishing vessels to consume fishing discards and baits, sometimes resulting in incidental capture (bycatch) and the death of the bird, which has clear conservation implications. To understand seabird–fishery interactions at large spatiotemporal scales, researchers are increasing their use of simultaneous seabird and fishing vessel tracking. However, vessel tracking data can contain
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Experimentally testing animal responses to prescribed fire size and severity Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Tim S. Doherty, Daniel F. Bohórquez Fandiño, Darcy J. Watchorn, Sarah M. Legge, Chris R. Dickman
Deserts are often highly biodiverse and provide important habitats for many threatened species. Fire is a dominant disturbance in deserts, and prescribed burning is increasingly being used by conservation managers and Indigenous peoples to mitigate the damaging effects of climate change, invasive plants, and land-use change. The size, severity, and patchiness of fires can affect how animals respond
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Avoiding novel, unwanted interactions among species to decrease risk of zoonoses Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jorge Galindo-González
Circumstances that precipitate interactions among species that have never interacted during their evolutionary histories create ideal conditions for the generation of zoonoses. Zoonotic diseases have caused some of the most devastating epidemics in human history. Contact among species that come from different ecosystems or regions creates the risk of zoonoses. In certain situations, humans are generating
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Social valuation of biodiversity relative to other types of assets at risk in wildfire Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 John C. Z. Woinarski, Stephen T. Garnett, Kerstin K. Zander
Environmental crises, such as wildfires, can cause major losses of human life, infrastructure, biodiversity, and cultural values. In many such situations, incident controllers must make fateful choices about what to protect—and hence what to abandon. With an online representative survey of >2000 adult Australians, we investigated social attitudes to this dilemma. We used best–worst scaling to assess
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Using the IUCN Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa to inform decision-making Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Sabrina Kumschick, Sandro Bertolino, Tim M. Blackburn, Giuseppe Brundu, Katie E. Costello, Maarten de Groot, Thomas Evans, Belinda Gallardo, Piero Genovesi, Tanushri Govender, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Katharina Lapin, John Measey, Ana Novoa, Ana L. Nunes, Anna F. Probert, Petr Pyšek, Cristina Preda, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Helen E. Roy, Kevin G. Smith, Elena Tricarico, Montserrat Vilà, Giovanni Vimercati, Sven
The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) is an important tool for biological invasion policy and management and has been adopted as an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) standard to measure the severity of environmental impacts caused by organisms living outside their native ranges. EICAT has already been incorporated into some national and local decision-making
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Erratum to “Conceptual frameworks and key questions for assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to shark and ray conservation” Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07
In the February 2022 issue of Conservation Biology (volume 36, issue 1) in “Guiding Principles of Rewilding” by Carver et al. (https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13730), the following author was inadvertently left off the list of authors: Sören Faurby, Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre (GGBC), University
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Honoring the legacy of a conservation champion: Bob Pressey (1953–2023) Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero, Vanessa M. Adams, Natalie C. Ban, Morena Mills, Piero Visconti
On 5 July 2023, we lost a champion for conservation—Professor Robert (Bob) Pressey. His passion was a simple one—make a difference for biodiversity conservation. He fought fiercely for evidence- and outcomes-based conservation. Bob discovered (some might say invented) conservation planning in the late 1980s and quickly became one of the premier scientists in this field (Pressey, 2002). In the 1990s
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An island conservation odyssey from a pioneer in the field Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Doug P. Armstrong, Kevin A. Parker
Ahuahu: A conservation journey in Aotearoa New Zealand. Towns, D. 2023. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. 384 pp. NZ$79.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-98-850326-4. There have been many notable books about islands. Examples that immediately come to mind include The Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin, 1845), The Malay Archipelago (Wallace, 1869), and, more recently, 40 Years of Evolution
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Measuring ecosystem services and ecological sensitivity for comprehensive conservation in Giant Panda National Park Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Cheng Li, Rong Hou, Ziqiang Bao, Wei Wu, Jacob R. Owens, Wenlei Bi, Qiang Xu, XiaoDong Gu, Zuofu Xiang, Dunwu Qi
China announced the development of its first 5 national parks in 2021, the primary objective of which is to conserve the natural state and integrity of natural ecosystems. As such, ecosystem services and biodiversity levels are crucial assessment factors for the parks. For Giant Panda National Park (GPNP), we evaluated ecological sensitivity based on water and soil erosion and rocky desertification;
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Why the lack of environmental progress Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 B. V. E. Hyde
Obstacles to environmental progress: A U.S. perspective. Schulze, P. C. 2022. UCL Press, London, United Kingdom. 378 pp. £30.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-800-08207-6. Under a white sky: The nature of the future. Kolbert, E. 2022. Crown, New York, NY. 272 pp. $17.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-593-13628-7. “We have a serious problem,” writes Peter Schulze at the beginning of his book, Obstacles to Environmental
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Pressure from insect-resistant maize on protected butterflies and moths Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mathias Otto, Phillip Papastefanou, Lorenz Fahse
Intensification in agriculture affects many insect species, including butterflies. Insect-resistant crops, such as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) maize, which produces a toxin active against Lepidoptera, are an alternative to insecticide sprays. Genetically modified crops are regulated in most countries and require an environmental risk assessment. In the European Union, such assessments include the use
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Noted with interest Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22
Koala: A natural history and an uncertain future. Clode, D. 2023. W.W. Norton & Co., New York, NY. 288 pp. $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-324-03683-8. Danielle Clode is a biologist, author, and natural historian, perhaps not in that order but certainly a leading Australian proponent of the discipline of natural history. In her latest book, she explores the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) through an
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Effects of protection and temperature variation on temporal stability in a marine reserve network Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Griffin Srednick, Stephen E. Swearer
Understanding the drivers of ecosystem stability has been a key focus of modern ecology as the impacts of the Anthropocene become more prevalent and extreme. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are tools used globally to promote biodiversity and mediate anthropogenic impacts. However, assessing the stability of natural ecosystems and responses to management actions is inherently challenging due to the complex
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Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Cheng Chen, Alys Granados, Jedediah F. Brodie, Roland Kays, T. Jonathan Davies, Runzhe Liu, Jason T. Fisher, Jorge Ahumada, William McShea, Douglas Sheil, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Bernard Agwanda, Mahandry H. Andrianarisoa, Robyn D. Appleton, Robert Bitariho, Santiago Espinosa, Melissa M. Grigione, Kristofer M. Helgen, Andy Hubbard, Cindy M. Hurtado, Patrick A. Jansen, Xuelong Jiang, Alex Jones, Elizabeth
Reliable maps of species distributions are fundamental for biodiversity research and conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) range maps are widely recognized as authoritative representations of species’ geographic limits, yet they might not always align with actual occurrence data. In recent area of habitat (AOH) maps, areas that are not habitat have been removed from
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Combating parachute science in Latin America through Indigenous agency Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Emily Utset
INTRODUCTION Through their access to resources and their powerful and influential institutions, highly developed countries have an outsized global influence on conservation and conservation research on a global scale (Friedman et al., 2018). Scientists from the Global South have begun to speak up about their experiences with parachute science (de Vos, 2022). Parachute science occurs when scientists
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Systematic nature positive markets Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Alex Bush, Katherine Hannah Simpson, Nick Hanley
Environmental markets are a rapidly emerging tool to mobilize private funding to incentivize landholders to undertake more sustainable land management. How units of biodiversity in these markets are measured and subsequently traded creates key challenges ecologically and economically because it determines whether environmental markets can deliver net gains in biodiversity and efficiently lower the
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Implications of the scale of detection for inferring co-occurrence patterns from paired camera traps and acoustic recorders Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Juliana Vélez, William McShea, Budhan Pukazhenthi, Pablo Stevenson, John Fieberg
Multifunctional landscapes that support economic activities and conservation of biological diversity (e.g., cattle ranches with native forest) are becoming increasingly important because small remnants of native forest may comprise the only habitat left for some wildlife species. Understanding the co-occurrence between wildlife and disturbance factors, such as poaching activity and domesticated ungulates
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Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area-based conservation Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Shauna L. Mahajan, Samson Obiene, Lenice Ojwang, Nasser Olwero, Abel Valdivia, Adaoma Wosu, Emily Adrid, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Gildas Andriamalala, Natalie C. Ban, Nathan J. Bennett, Jessica Blythe, Samantha H. Cheng, Emily Darling, Matheus De Nardo, Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Graham Epstein, Robert Y. Fidler, Kim Fisher, Jonas Geldmann, David A. Gill, Rachel Golden Kroner, Georgina Gurney, Arundhati
Monitoring the governance and management effectiveness of area-based conservation has long been recognized as an important foundation for achieving national and global biodiversity goals and enabling adaptive management. However, there are still many barriers that prevent conservation actors, including those affected by governance and management systems from implementing conservation activities and
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A multitaxonomic assessment of Natura 2000 effectiveness across European biogeographic regions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Lorenzo Ricci, Michele Di Musciano, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Alessandro Chiarucci, Piero Zannini, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Anna Walentowitz, Alexandra Lawrence, Anna Rita Frattaroli, Samuel Hoffmann
The Natura 2000 (N2K) protected area (PA) network is a crucial tool to limit biodiversity loss in Europe. Despite covering 18% of the European Union's (EU) land area, its effectiveness at conserving biodiversity across taxa and biogeographic regions remains uncertain. Testing this effectiveness is, however, difficult because it requires considering the nonrandom location of PAs, and many possible confounding
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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Améline Vallet, Bruno Locatelli, Merelyn Valdivia-Díaz, Yésica Quispe Conde, Gerardina Matencio García, Alejandrina Ramos Criales, Francisca Valverde Huamanñahui, Santusa Ramos Criales, David Makowski, Sandra Lavorel
Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that biodiversity and ecosystem assessments need to capture. Despite efforts
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Influence of interactive effects on long-term population trajectories in multispecies reintroductions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Katherine E. Moseby, John L. Read, Katherine Tuft, Leanne K. Van der Weyde
Reintroduced populations are typically considered to progress through establishment, growth, and regulatory phases. However, most reintroduction programs do not monitor intensively enough to test this conceptual model. We studied population indices derived from track activity of 4 threatened species (greater bilby [Macrotis lagotis], burrowing bettong [Bettongia lesueur], greater stick-nest rat [Leporillus
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Prioritizing conservation efforts based on future habitat availability and accessibility under climate change Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jie Liang, Wanting Wang, Qing Cai, Xin Li, Ziqian Zhu, Yeqing Zhai, Xiaodong Li, Xiang Gao, Yuru Yi
The potential for species to shift their ranges to avoid extinction is contingent on the future availability and accessibility of habitats with analogous climates. To develop conservation strategies, many previous researchers used a single method that considered individual factors; a few combined 2 factors. Primarily, these studies focused on identifying climate refugia or climatically connected and
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Selection of planning unit size in dynamic management strategies to reduce human–wildlife conflict Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Heather Welch, Owen R. Liu, Leena Riekkola, Briana Abrahms, Elliott L. Hazen, Jameal F. Samhouri
Conservation planning traditionally relies upon static reserves; however, there is increasing emphasis on dynamic management (DM) strategies that are flexible in space and time. Due to its novelty, DM lacks best practices to guide design and implementation. We assessed the effect of planning unit size in a DM tool designed to reduce entanglement of protected whales in vertical ropes of surface buoys
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Species-level correlates of land-use responses and climate-change sensitivity in terrestrial vertebrates Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Adrienne Etard, Tim Newbold
Land-use and climate change are major pressures on terrestrial biodiversity. Species’ extinction risk and responses to human pressures relate to ecological traits and other characteristics in some clades. However, large-scale comparative assessments of the associations between traits and responses to multiple human pressures across multiple clades are needed. We investigated whether a set of ecological
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Identifying global conservation priorities for terrestrial vertebrates based on multiple dimensions of biodiversity Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yu Cui, Carlos Pérez Carmona, Zhiheng Wang
The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity calls for an expansion of the current protected areas (PAs) to cover at least 30% of global land and water areas by 2030 (i.e., the 30×30 target). Efficient spatial planning for PA expansion is an urgent need for global conservation practice. A spatial prioritization framework considering multiple dimensions
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A global meta-analysis of the impacts of forest fragmentation on biotic mutualisms and antagonisms Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Tovah Siegel, Ainhoa Magrach, William F. Laurance, David Luther
Forest fragmentation is a grave threat to biodiversity. Forests are becoming increasingly fragmented with more than 70% now < 1 km from forest edge. Although much is known about the effects of forest fragmentation on individual species, much less is understood about its effects on species interactions (i.e., mutualisms, antagonisms, etc.). In 2014, a previous meta-analysis assessed the impacts of forest
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The importance of equity in payments to encourage coexistence with large mammals Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Joseph Hamm, George Holmes, Julia Martin-Ortega
Large mammals often impose significant costs such as livestock depredation or crop foraging on rural communities, and this can lead to the retaliatory killing of threatened wildlife populations. One conservation approach—payments to encourage coexistence (PEC)—aims to reduce these costs through financial mechanisms, such as compensation, insurance, revenue sharing, and conservation performance payments
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Using explainable machine learning methods to evaluate vulnerability and restoration potential of ecosystem state transitions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 John T. Delaney, Danelle M. Larson
Ecosystem state transitions can be ecologically devastating or be a restoration success. State transitions are common within aquatic systems worldwide, especially considering human-mediated changes to land use and water use. We created a transferable conceptual framework to enable multiscale assessments of state resilience and early warnings of state transitions that can inform strategic restorations
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Attributes of preemptive conservation efforts for species precluded from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Annabelle E. Stanley, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Tyler Treakle, Gwenllian D. Iacona
Preemptive conservation efforts to reduce threats have been credited with precluding the need to list some imperiled species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Such efforts can result in outcomes where species are conserved and regulatory costs associated with ESA listing are avoided. Yet, the extent and type of conservation effort involved in achieving preclusion from listing are not well
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Evaluating hybrid speciation and swamping in wild carnivores with a decision-tree approach Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Laura Tensen, Klaus Fischer
Hybridization is an important evolutionary force with a principal role in the origin of new species, known as hybrid speciation. However, ongoing hybridization can create hybrid swamping, in which parental genomes are completely lost. This can become a biodiversity threat if it involves species that have adapted to certain environmental conditions and occur nowhere else. Because conservation scientists
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Achieving biodiversity net gain by addressing governance gaps underpinning ecological compensation policies Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Emily E. Rampling, Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, Isobel Hawkins, Joseph W. Bull
Biodiversity compensation policies have emerged around the world to address the ecological harms of infrastructure expansion, but historically compliance is weak. The Westminster government is introducing a requirement that new infrastructure developments in England demonstrate they achieve a biodiversity net gain (BNG). We sought to determine the magnitude of the effects of governance gaps and regulator