Duan Biggs, Rosie Cooney, Dilys Roe, Holly Dublin et al.
The escalating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most high-profile conservation challenges today. The crisis has attracted over US$350 million in donor and government funding in recent years, primarily directed at increased enforcement. There is growing recognition among practitioners and p...
Eric Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, John Seidensticker, Susan Lumpkin et al.
Abstract In an unprecedented response to the rapid decline in wild tiger populations, the Heads of Government of the 13 tiger range countries endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in November 2010, pledging to double the wild tiger population. We conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to ...
Kathleen M. Morrill, Jessica P. Hekman, Xue Li, Jesse McClure et al.
Behavioral genetics in dogs has focused on modern breeds, which are isolated subgroups with distinctive physical and, purportedly, behavioral characteristics. We interrogated breed stereotypes by surveying owners of 18,385 purebred and mixed-breed dogs and genotyping 2155 dogs. Most behavioral trait...
Joseph O. Ogutu, Hans‐Peter Piepho, Holly Dublin, Nina Bhola et al.
1. Rainfall is the prime climatic factor underpinning the dynamics of African savanna ungulates, but no study has analysed its influence on the abundance of these ungulates at monthly to multiannual time scales. 2. We report relationships between rainfall and changes in age- and sex-structured abund...
Doug P. Armstrong, Isabel Castro, Richard Griffiths
Summary Adaptive management involves the development of predictive models, strategic manipulation of management actions to gain information, and subsequent updating of the models and management. The paradigm has several characteristics that make it an effective approach for determining requirements ...
Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammed Alamgir, Md. Shawkat Islam Sohel, Petina L. Pert et al.
The Sundarbans, in southern coastal Bangladesh, is the world's largest surviving mangrove habitat and the last stronghold of tiger adapted to living in a mangrove ecosystem. Using MaxEnt (maximum entropy modeling), current distribution data, land-use/land cover and bioclimatic variables, we modeled ...
Benito A. González, R. Eduardo Palma, Beatriz Zapata, Juan Carlos Valdez Marín
ABSTRACT We review the status of the four currently recognized guanaco Lama guanicoe subspecies, and provide information about their taxonomy and distribution. The success of guanaco in inhabiting open habitats of South America is based mainly on the flexibility of their social behaviour and ecophys...
Clément Tisseuil, Jean‐François Cornu, Olivier Beauchard, Sébastien Brosse et al.
Whereas global patterns and predictors of species diversity are well known for numerous terrestrial taxa, our understanding of freshwater diversity patterns and their predictors is much more limited. Here, we examine spatial concordance in global diversity patterns for five freshwater taxa (i.e. aqu...
Daniel Simberloff, Tamar Dayan, Carl G. Jones, Go Ogura
In western parts of its native range, the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) is sympatric with one or both of two slightly larger congeners. In the eastern part of its range, these species are absent. The small Indian mongoose was introduced, about a century ago, to the West Indies, the Haw...
Walter Poduschka
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Chelmala Srinivasulu, Paul A. Racey, Shahroukh Mistry
A checklist and dichotomous key to 128 species of bats known from South Asia including Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives is provided. Character matrices for families, genera and species are also included. This article also briefly reviews their distribut...
Grant R. Singleton, Steven R. Belmain, Peter Brown, Ken Aplin et al.
Since 2007, a spate of rodent outbreaks has led to severe food shortages in Asia, affecting highly vulnerable and food-insecure families. Little has been documented about wildlife-management issues associated with these outbreaks. The aims of the present study were to synthesise what we know about r...
Charles L. Nunn, Sonia Altizer, Wes Sechrest, Kate E. Jones et al.
Coevolutionary interactions such as those between hosts and parasites have been regarded as an underlying cause of evolutionary diversification, but evidence from natural populations is limited. Among primates and other mammalian groups, measures of host diversification rates vary widely among linea...
Claude Gascon, Thomas M. Brooks, Topiltzin Contreras‐MacBeath, Nicolas Heard et al.
Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries to establish the value that society derives from the natural world such that the true cost of proposed development actions becomes apparent ...
Michael D. Gumert
The long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) population spreads over one of the widest geographical ranges of any primate, trailing only humans (Homo sapiens) and rhesus macaques (M. mulatta) (Wheatley,1999) (Figure 1.1). According to Fooden (1995, 2006), the population extends across the majority ...