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Spatial priority conservation areas for vegetation habitat across the Upper Reaches of Min River located in Sichuan Province, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Considered as a hotspot for biodiversity in the upstream of Yangtze River, many vegetation habitats have been seriously damaged in Upper Reaches of Min River located in Sichuan Province, China due to the continuous deterioration of ecosystems.
Li Chen, Min Fan, Qing Wang
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Application of habitat thresholds in conservation: Considerations, limitations, and future directions

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015
Habitat thresholds are often interpreted as the minimum required area of habitat, and subsequently promoted as conservation targets in natural resource policies and planning.
Yntze van der Hoek, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Lisa L. Manne   +2 more
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Global habitat suitability modeling reveals insufficient habitat protection for mangrove crabs

Scientific Reports, 2022
Mangrove crabs are important components of mangrove forests however their large scale habitat suitability and conservation received little attention. The Metopograpsus thukuhar/cannicci species complex is a mangrove dwelling species occurs in the Indo ...
Masoud Yousefi, Reza Naderloo
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Metapopulation perspective to institutional fit: maintenance of dynamic habitat networks

Ecology and Society, 2017
Species living in metapopulations depend on connected habitat networks for their survival. If habitat networks experience fast temporal dynamics, species conservation requires preventing habitat discontinuities that could lead to metapopulation ...
Henna Fabritius, Ari Jokinen, Mar Cabeza
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Monarch Habitat in Conservation Grasslands

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
There is strong evidence that a major driver of the decline of eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is the loss of breeding habitat in the upper midwestern United States.
Laura Lukens, Laura Lukens, Kyle Kasten, Kyle Kasten, Carl Stenoien, Alison Cariveau, Alison Cariveau, Wendy Caldwell, Wendy Caldwell, Karen Oberhauser, Karen Oberhauser   +10 more
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Conservation outcome assessment of Wuyishan protected areas based on InVEST and propensity score matching

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Protected areas (PAs) are crucial for biodiversity conservation, but doubts are rising regarding their effectiveness in conserving habitat quality. This study used the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model to analyse the
Xue Zhang, Lingyun Liao, Yiyang Huang, Qinhua Fang, Siren Lan, Mengwei Chi   +5 more
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Identification of Environmental Factors Influencing the Population of Endangered Epilobium hirsutum L. in Korea

Biology
Epilobium hirsutum has been identified as a Class II endangered species in Korea. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop habitat conservation and improvement strategies for the protection of E. hirsutum.
Rae-Ha Jang, Sunryoung Kim, Minhan Kim
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Recovery of tigers in India: Critical introspection and potential lessons

People and Nature, 2021
In a world where biodiversity is on the decline, examples of conservation success especially of large carnivores are of interest to policy makers and conservation practitioners. Herein, we elucidate the conservation actions that have been responsible for
Yadvendradev Jhala, Rajesh Gopal, Vaibhav Mathur, Prodipto Ghosh, Himmat Singh Negi, Sunita Narain, Satya Prakash Yadav, Amit Malik, Rajendra Garawad, Qamar Qureshi   +9 more
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Pier pressure: 23 years of incidental sea turtle captures at recreational fishing piers along Florida’s Gulf coastline

Frontiers in Marine Science
Incidental captures of sea turtles during fishing activities affect their populations worldwide. Previous research has documented the impacts of commercial fisheries in nearshore and offshore waters, and research-based minimization measures are now ...
Robby J. Brannum, Karrie Minch, Morgan Wideroff, Meghan E. Koperski, Colin P. Shea, Allen M. Foley, Robbin N. Trindell   +6 more
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A subtropical embayment serves as essential habitat for sub-adults and adults of the critically endangered smalltooth sawfish [PDF]

, 2015
Date of Acceptance: 06/03/2015Identifying essential habitat for large, mobile endangered species is difficult, particularly marine species where visual observations are limited.
Carlson, J.K., Papastamatiou, Y.P., Burgess, G.H., Dean Grubbs, R., Imhoff, J.L., Gulak, S.J.B.   +5 more
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