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Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Erick J. Lundgren, Arian D. Wallach, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Martin A. Schlaepfer, Astrid L. A. Andersson, Daniel Ramp
International and national conservation policies almost exclusively focus on conserving species in their historic native ranges, thus excluding species that have been introduced by people and some of those that have extended their ranges on their own accord. Given that many of such migrants are threatened in their native ranges, conservation goals that explicitly exclude these populations may overlook
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Global mismatches between threat mapping research effort and the potential of threat abatement actions to reduce extinction risk Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Francesca A. Ridley, Stephen P. Rushton, Emily J. Hickinbotham, Andrew J. Suggitt, Philip J. K. McGowan, Louise Mair
Threat mapping is a necessary tool for identifying and abating direct threats to species in the ongoing extinction crisis. There are known gaps in the threat mapping literature for particular threats and geographic locations, and it remains unclear if the distribution of research effort is appropriately targeted relative to conservation need. We aimed to determine the drivers of threat mapping research
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Effects of increasing soil moisture on Antarctic desert microbial ecosystems Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Eden Zhang, Sin Yin Wong, Paul Czechowski, Aleks Terauds, Angelique E. Ray, Nicole Benaud, Devan S. Chelliah, Daniel Wilkins, Kate Montgomery, Belinda C. Ferrari
Overgeneralization and a lack of baseline data for microorganisms in high‐latitude environments have restricted the understanding of the microbial response to climate change, which is needed to establish Antarctic conservation frameworks. To bridge this gap, we examined over 17,000 sequence variants of bacteria and microeukarya across the hyperarid Vestfold Hills and Windmill Islands regions of eastern
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Community engagement and power dynamics in conservation philanthropy grant making Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Michele M. Betsill, Rebecca L. Gruby, Jeffrey Blackwatters, Ash Enrici, Elodie Le Cornu, Xavier Basurto, Chad English, Charlotte Hudson, Leah Meth, Imani Fairweather‐Morrison, Dana Okano, David Secord
Funding decisions influence where, how, and by whom conservation is pursued globally. In the context of growing calls for more participatory, Indigenous‐led, and socially just conservation, we undertook the first empirical investigation of how philanthropic foundations working in marine conservation globally engage communities in grant‐making decisions. We paid particular attention to whether and how
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A Palearctic view of a bat fungal disease Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 F. Whiting‐Fawcett, A. S. Blomberg, T. Troitsky, M. B. Meierhofer, K. A. Field, S. J. Puechmaille, T. M. Lilley
The fungal infection causing white‐nose disease in hibernating bats in North America has resulted in dramatic population declines of affected species, since the introduction of the causative agent Pseudogymnoascus destructans. The fungus is native to the Palearctic, where it also infects several bat species, yet rarely causes severe pathology or the death of the host. Pseudogymnoascus destructans infects
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Collective effects of rising average temperatures and heat events on oviparous embryos Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Liang Ma, Dan‐Yang Wu, Yang Wang, Joshua M. Hall, Chun‐Rong Mi, Hong‐Xin Xie, Wei‐Jie Tao, Chao Hou, Kun‐Ming Cheng, Yong‐Pu Zhang, Ji‐Chao Wang, Hong‐Liang Lu, Wei‐Guo Du, Bao‐Jun Sun
Survival of the immobile embryo in response to rising temperature is important to determine a species’ vulnerability to climate change. However, the collective effects of 2 key thermal characteristics associated with climate change (i.e., rising average temperature and acute heat events) on embryonic survival remain largely unexplored. We used empirical measurements and niche modeling to investigate
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Systematic review of the impact of restrictive wildlife trade measures on conservation of iconic species in southern Africa Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Christina Hiller, Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes
Trade restrictions are often advocated and implemented as measures to protect wild species threatened by overexploitation. However, in some instances, their efficacy has been questioned, notably by governments in the southern African (SADC) region, which tend to favor a sustainable use approach to wildlife management. We conducted a systematic review of published literature guided by the PRISMA process
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Effects of coastal development on sawfish movements and the need for marine animal crossing solutions Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Karissa O. Lear, Brendan C. Ebner, Travis Fazeldean, Rebecca L. Bateman, David L. Morgan
Although human‐made barriers to animal movement are ubiquitous across many types of ecosystems, the science behind these barriers and how to ameliorate their effects lags far behind in marine environments compared with terrestrial and freshwater realms. Using juvenile sawfish in an Australian nursery habitat as a model system, we aimed to assess the effects of a major anthropogenic development on the
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Mining threats in high‐level biodiversity conservation policies Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Aurora Torres, Sophus O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, Laetitia M. Navarro, Francisco Ferri‐Yanez, Fernanda Z. Teixeira, Constanze Wittkopp, Isabel M. D. Rosa, Jianguo Liu
Amid a global infrastructure boom, there is increasing recognition of the ecological impacts of the extraction and consumption of construction minerals, mainly processed as concrete, including significant and expanding threats to global biodiversity. We investigated how high‐level national and international biodiversity conservation policies address mining threats, with a special focus on construction
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Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community‐based conservation behaviors Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Matt Clark, Haji Masoud Hamad, Jeffrey Andrews, Vicken Hillis, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Approximately one quarter of the earth's population directly harvests natural resources to meet their daily needs. These individuals are disproportionately required to alter their behaviors in response to increasing climatic variability and global biodiversity loss. Much of the ever‐ambitious global conservation agenda relies on the voluntary uptake of conservation behaviors in such populations. Thus
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The potential influence of genome‐wide adaptive divergence on conservation translocation outcome in an isolated greater sage‐grouse population Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Shawna J. Zimmerman, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael A. Schroeder, Jennifer A. Fike, Robert Scott Cornman, Sara J. Oyler‐McCance
Conservation translocations are an important conservation tool commonly employed to augment declining or reestablish extirpated populations. One goal of augmentation is to increase genetic diversity and reduce the risk of inbreeding depression (i.e., genetic rescue). However, introducing individuals from significantly diverged populations risks disrupting coadapted traits and reducing local fitness
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Effects of plant taxonomic position on soil nematode communities in Antarctica Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Anning Zhang, Hongxian Song, Ziyang Liu, Hanwen Cui, Haitao Ding, Shuyan Chen, Sa Xiao, Lizhe An, Pedro Cardoso
Antarctica terrestrial ecosystems are facing the most threats from global climate change, which is altering plant composition greatly. These transformations may cause major reshuffling of soil community composition, including functional traits and diversity, and therefore affect ecosystem processes in Antarctica. We used high‐throughput sequencing analysis to investigate soil nematodes under 3 dominant
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A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Shawan Chowdhury, Sultan Ahmed, Shofiul Alam, Corey T. Callaghan, Priyanka Das, Moreno Di Marco, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Mahzabin Muzahid Labi, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Uri Roll, Valerio Sbragaglia, Asma Siddika, Aletta Bonn
The expanding use of community science platforms has led to an exponential increase in biodiversity data in global repositories. Yet, understanding of species distributions remains patchy. Biodiversity data from social media can potentially reduce the global biodiversity knowledge gap. However, practical guidelines and standardized methods for harvesting such data are nonexistent. Following data privacy
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Testing for concordance between predicted species richness, past prioritization, and marine protected area designations in the western Indian Ocean Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Tim R. McClanahan, Alan M. Friedlander, Julien Wickel, Nicholas A. J. Graham, J. Henrich Bruggemann, Mireille M. M. Guillaume, P. Chabanet, Sean Porter, Michael H. Schleyer, M. Kodia Azali, N. A. Muthiga
Scientific advances in environmental data coverage and machine learning algorithms have improved the ability to make large‐scale predictions where data are missing. These advances allowed us to develop a spatially resolved proxy for predicting numbers of tropical nearshore marine taxa. A diverse marine environmental spatial database was used to model numbers of taxa from ∼1000 field sites, and the
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Challenges and opportunities in human dimensions behind cat–wildlife conflict Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Changjian Fu, Fang Wang, Yumeng Zhao, Qin Zhu, Yunchao Luo, Yuhang Li, Ziye Zhang, Xueting Yan, Taozhu Sun, Yang Liu, Zhongqiu Li
Because global anthropogenic activities cause vast biodiversity loss, human dimensions research is essential to forming management plans applicable to biodiversity conservation outside wilderness areas. Engaging public participation is crucial in this context to achieve social and environmental benefits. However, knowledge gaps remain in understanding how a balance between conservation and public demands
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Hunting for conservation Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 S. Sullivan
Hunting wildlife in the tropics and subtropics. Fa, J.E., S.M. Funk, and R. Nasi. 2022. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 436 pp. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-107-54034-7. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316338704. Trophy hunting. Bichel, N., and A. Hart. 2023. Springer, New York. 386 pp. £32.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-9-811-99978-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9976-5. It would be difficult
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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 : 2024-03-03
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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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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Best practices, errors, and perspectives of half a century of plant translocation in Italy Conserv. Biol. (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Martina D'Agostino, Luigi Cao Pinna, Marta Carboni, Silvia Assini, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Lisa Brancaleoni, Fabrizio Buldrini, Angelino Carta, Bruno Cerabolini, Roberta Maria Ceriani, Umberto Clementi, Donatella Cogoni, Fabio Conti, Roberto Crosti, Alba Cuena-Lombraña, Marcello De Vitis, Attilio Di Giustino, Giuseppe Fabrini, Emanuele Farris, Giuseppe Fenu, Roberto Fiorentin, Bruno
Conservation translocations are becoming common conservation practice, so there is an increasing need to understand 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 last
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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