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Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa.
Daniel A. Cossey   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using incentive payments to promote human–carnivore coexistence

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract For many large carnivores, minimizing the financial burden they impose on local people is critical to their conservation. Incentive‐based programs that provide people with financial benefits for taking pro‐conservation actions or achieving conservation goals are a promising tool for promoting human–carnivore coexistence. Although the number of
Adam Pekor   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Desarrollo local en contextos metropolitanos

open access: yesPolis, 2009
Most of the documents about local development are mainly about what’s “local” in scales where talking about metropolitan spaces and topics seems impossible or unimaginable.  Due to this, this work pretends to give an  answer to 3 main questions about local development and the metropolitan phenomena, this means, we are trying to answer the following ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Equity considerations in the proposed wildlife protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildlife trafficking poses a critical threat to global biodiversity, contributes to organized crime, and has disproportionate impacts on underserved and Indigenous communities. Although international legal instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and institutional collaborations,
Chad Patrick Osorio
wiley   +1 more source

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