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Determinant factors of fire recurrence in Cerrado

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
The occurrence and propagation of fire is determined by several factors such as meteorological conditions, seasonality, topography and accumulation of biomass fuel.
Ana Clara Caixeta Queiroz Pôrto, Camila S. Silva, Juan Carlos O. Filho, Jonathan V. Braga, Angela B. Garda, Christian N. Berlinck   +5 more
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Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity [PDF]

, 2017
Conservation priorities that are based on species distribution, endemism, and vulnerability may underrepresent biologically unique species as well as their functional roles and evolutionary histories.
Brum, F. T., Costa, G. C., Davidson, A. D., Graham, C. H., Hedges, S. B., Loyola, R., Penone, C., Radeloff, V. C., Rondinini, C.   +8 more
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Integrated fire management

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
The fire management went through a ripening process. Initially, the exclusion of fire was the strategy of environmental preservation, but it resulted in accumulation of biomass fuel and severe fires.
Camila Souza Silva, Sarah Fontoura, Marcello Silva, Christian Berlinck   +3 more
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Biodiversity Loss and the Taxonomic Bottleneck: Emerging Biodiversity Science [PDF]

, 2006
Human domination of the Earth has resulted in dramatic changes to global and local patterns of biodiversity. Biodiversity is critical to human sustainability because it drives the ecosystem services that provide the core of our life-support system. As we,
A Baldi, A Balmford, A Balmford, A Dobson, AH Wortley, AJ Symstad, C Czuzdi, C Jeroen, C Kremen, C Lundmark, C Scherber, CB Field, CJ Humphries, CL Redman, CS Straub, D Foddai, D Pimentel, D Schluter, DA Heemsbergen, DC Coleman, DM Debinski, DU Hooper, E Mayr, EO Wilson, EO Wilson, EO Wilson, EO Wilson, F Berkes, G Musser, GC Daily, GM Mace, GW Hopkins, H Salwasser, HCJ Godfray, J Fischer, J Liu, J Lovelock, J Pellet, JB Alcorn, JC Biesmeijer, JD Olden, JE Cohen, JM Savage, JR Miller, JS Huxley, KA Wilson, KC Kim, KC Kim, Ke Chung Kim, KH Redford, KJ Gaston, KJ Gaston, L Broberg, Loren B. Byrne, LR Brown, M Giampetro, M Loraeu, MA Cavigelli, MA Palmer, MB Mascia, ML Hunter, ML Imhoff, ML McKinney, ML Rosenzweig, MW Schwartz, N Myers, N Myers, N Myers, N Rooney, N Shigesata, Nature Editor’s Summary, NC Stenseth, NJ Gotelli, NL Christensen, NS Sodhi, PH Raven, PM Hammond, PM Vitousek, PR Ehrlich, PR Ehrlich, PR Ehrlich, QD Wheeler, QD Wheeler, R Constanza, R Dirzo, R Dower, RD Holt, RE Grumbine, RE Grumbine, RE Ricklefs, RM Warwick, S Farber, S Knapp, S Levin, S Naheem, SJ Grove, SL Pimm, SL Tuxen, SR Kellert, T Prugh, WH Schlesinger, WR Turner, WV Reid, Y Bertrand   +103 more
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Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation [PDF]

, 2012
During the last three decades, the arena of biodiversity conservation has largely aligned itself with the globally dominant political ideology of neoliberalism and associated governmentalities.
Adams B., Adams W., Angelis M., Baudrillard J., Berkes F., Bram Büscher, Brockington D., Brockington D., Brockington D., Brockington D., Burkett P., Caldecott B., Castree N., Child M., Curry P., Dan Brockington, De Landa M., Debord G., Deleuze G., Dowie M., Dowie M., Dowie M., Duffy R., Fairhead J., Ferguson J., Foster J.B., Foster J.B., Foucault M., Geertz C., Graeber D., Gramsci A., Gudeman, Hajer M., Harper J., Harvey D., Harvey D., Heynen N., Heynen N., Igoe J., Igoe J., Jim Igoe, Katja Neves, Kovel J., Larner W., Latour B., Latour B., Latour B., Laughling T.J., Leach M., MacDonald C., Marx K., McAfee K., McQueen H., Mosse D., Neves K., O'Connor J., O'Connor M., Paudel N., Posey D., Saad-Filho A., Sian Sullivan, Simon H., Sklair L., Smith N., Stott P., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Thrift N.   +69 more
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Biodiversity Conservation

Abstract The University of Tokyo Hokkaido Forest (UTHF) manages extensive areas of mature natural forests using the Stand-based Silvicultural Management System, which provides a favorable environment for forest organisms. In addition to forest reserves, where no silvicultural management or logging is conducted, there are other areas where ...
Dai Fukui, Satoshi N. Suzuki
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Sustainable development and conservation of biological heritage in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]

, 1999
The aim of this paper is to encourage greater attention by planners to conservation of native or indigenous biodiversity. It explains what is meant by indigenous, or native, biodiversity and why indigenous biodiversity conservation must become an on ...
Jay, Grace Mairi M.
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Coral Communities on Marginal High-Latitude Reefs in West Australian Marine Parks

Diversity, 2021
Many temperate reefs are experiencing a shift towards a greater abundance of tropical species in response to marine heatwaves and long-term ocean warming worldwide.
Claire L. Ross, Ben French, Emily K. Lester, Shaun K. Wilson, Paul B. Day, Michael D. Taylor, Neville Barrett   +6 more
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CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]

, 2020
Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha, Hiller, Anne, Kowarik, Ingo, Lippe, Moritz von der, Seitz, Birgit   +4 more
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Recovery of threatened plant species and their habitats in the biodiversity hotspot of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region

Plant Diversity, 2019
The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is a global biodiversity hotspot with high plant diversity and endemism and a broad range of threatening processes. An outcome of this is a high proportion of rare and threatened plant species.
Leonie Monks, Sarah Barrett, Brett Beecham, Margaret Byrne, Alanna Chant, David Coates, J. Anne Cochrane, Andrew Crawford, Rebecca Dillon, Colin Yates   +9 more
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