Consequences and costs of conservation corridors
There are few controlled data with which to assess the conservation role of corridors connecting refuges. If corridors were used sufficiently, they could alleviate threats from inbreeding depression...
View ArticleHuman-carnivore conflict and perspectives on carnivore management worldwide
Carnivore conservation depends on the sociopolitical landscape as much as the biological landscape. Changing political attitudes and views of nature have shifted the goals of carnivore management from...
View ArticlePredicting human-carnivore conflict: a spatial model derived from 25 years of...
Many carnivore populations escaped extinction during the twentieth century as a result of legal protections, habitat restoration, and changes in public attitudes. However, encounters between...
View ArticleThe Global Village: Linkages between international coffee markets and grazing...
India's heritage of natural habitats and wild species is under growing threat from its biomass-dependent rural peoples and its consumeristic urban economy. As the mainstay of its wildlife conservation...
View ArticleGeographic range size and extinction risk assessment in nomadic species
Geographic range size is often conceptualized as a fixed attribute of a species and treated as such for the purposes of quantification of extinction risk; species occupying smaller geographic ranges are
View ArticleArctic marine mammal population status, sea ice habitat loss, and...
Arctic marine mammals (AMMs) are icons of climate change, largely because of their close association with sea ice. However, neither a circumpolar assessment of AMM status nor a standardized metric of sea
View ArticleKey role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation
Modern society uses massive amounts of energy. Usage rises as population and affluence increase,and energy production and use often have an impact on biodiversity or natural areas. To avoid a...
View ArticleGlobal population collapse in a superabundant migratory bird and illegal...
Persecution and overexploitation by humans are major causes of species extinctions. Rare species, often confined to small geographic ranges, are usually at highest risk, whereas extinctions of...
View ArticleProfiling unauthorized natural resource users for better targeting of...
Unauthorized use of natural resources is a key threat to many protected areas. Approaches to reducing this threat include law enforcement and integrated conservation and development (ICD) projects,
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