Eugenie Regan, Luca Santini, Lisa Ingwall‐King, Michael Hoffmann et al.
Abstract Biodiversity is declining, with direct and indirect effects on ecosystem functions and services that are poorly quantified. Here, we develop the first global assessment of trends in pollinators, focusing on pollinating birds and mammals. A Red List Index for these species shows that, overal...
Jean‐Nicolas Pradervand, Anne Dubuis, Loïc Pellissier, Antoine Guisan et al.
Recent advances in remote sensing technologies have facilitated the generation of very high resolution (VHR) environmental data. Exploratory studies suggested that, if used in species distribution models (SDMs), these data should enable modelling species’ micro-habitats and allow improving predictio...
Robyn E. Shaw, Katherine A. Farquharson, Michael W. Bruford, David Coates et al.
, we need to understand relationships between threats, conservation management and genetic diversity change. Here we conduct a global analysis of genetic diversity change via meta-analysis of all available temporal measures of genetic diversity from more than three decades of research. We show that ...
Vincent J. Kalkman, R. Babu, Matjaž Bedjanič, K. CONNIFF et al.
A checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies occurring in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (including Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is presented. In total 588 (including 559 full species) taxa are known to occur in the region of which 251 taxa (species subspecies) are single...
Molly K. Grace, H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Thomas M. Brooks et al.
Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a "Green List of Species" (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species' progres...
Stefan M. Eberhard, Stuart Halse, Matthew R. Williams, Michael D. Scanlon et al.
Summary 1. Identifying the existence of short or narrow range endemic species is an important issue when planning for conservation of groundwater fauna in the face of threats to groundwater quantity and quality. 2. Fourteen bores were sampled six times over 3 or 4 years to assess the reliability of ...
Peter G. Hepper, Deborah L. Wells
Dogs have the ability to determine the direction of an odour trail left by a human. This study examined how much olfactory information from this trail is required by dogs to determine direction. Six dogs, able to determine direction, were tested on a 21 footstep trail laid on 21 individual carpet sq...
Sandra Tranquilli, Michael Abedi‐Lartey, Fidèle Amsini, L Arranz et al.
Abstract A network of resource management areas (RMAs) exists across tropical Africa to protect natural resources. However, many are poorly managed and weakly protected. We evaluated how the lack of conservation effort influences the extinction risk of African great apes. We compiled information on ...
Achara Simcharoen, Tommaso Savini, George A. Gale, Saksit Simcharoen et al.
Abstract Tigers Panthera tigris are highly threatened and continue to decline across their entire range. Actions to restore and conserve populations need to be based on science but, in South-east Asia, information on ecology and behaviour of tigers is lacking. This study reports the relationship bet...
Annie Simpson, Catherine S. Jarnevich, J. D. Madsen, Randy G. Westbrooks et al.
Abstract Accurate analysis of present distributions and effective modeling of future distributions of invasive alien species (IAS) are both highly dependent on the availability and accessibility of occurrence data and natural history information about the species. Invasive alien species monitoring a...
Kamal Kandel, Falk Huettmann, Madan Krishna Suwal, Ganga Ram Regmi et al.
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a globally threatened species living in the multi-national Hindu-Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It has a declining population trend due to anthropogenic pressures. Human-driven climate change is expected to have substantial impacts. However, quantitative and transpare...
John G. Ewen, Pritpal S. Soorae, Stefano Canessa
Abstract Reintroductions and other conservation translocations are an important but often controversial form of wildlife management. Some authors have suggested the low success rates may reflect poor planning and decision‐making. In this study, we used examples of herpetofaunal reintroductions, publ...
Vanya G. Rohwer, James S. Y. Law
Nesting structures are important for successful reproduction in most birds, and, because of this, geographic variation in nest morphology and composition are usually interpreted as adaptations to breeding in different environments. We compared the structure of nests of Yellow Warblers (Dendroica pet...
Martin Beal, Maria P. Dias, Richard A. Phillips, Steffen Oppel et al.
Migratory marine species cross political borders and enter the high seas, where the lack of an effective global management framework for biodiversity leaves them vulnerable to threats. Here, we combine 10,108 tracks from 5775 individual birds at 87 sites with data on breeding population sizes to est...
Axel Hochkirch, Melanie Bilz, Catarina Ferreira, Anja Danielczak et al.
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge and minimizing extinction rates is the goal of several multilateral environmental agreements. Policy decisions require comprehensive, spatially explicit information on species' distributions and threats. We present an analysis of the conservation status ...