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Total response models as a conceptual management framework for conserving vulnerable secondary prey
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Many of the world's native fauna suffer unsustainable losses from invasive mammalian predators. Conservation managers control predators on the premise that if large numbers are removed, prey will respond. This is sometimes true, but not always. Empirical
Grant L. Norbury, James T. Reardon
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Ecosphere, 2020 Longitudinal studies of wildlife are urgently needed in South‐East Asia to understand population responses to the high poaching pressure that characterizes this region.
Worrapan Phumanee +5 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Estuaries provide a suite of ecosystem services to people but are also under heavy stress from human development including excess nutrient loading and alterations in benthic habitat that affect nutrient cycling.
R. S. Fulford +3 more
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Floodplains provide important amphibian habitat despite multiple ecological threats
Ecosphere, 2019 Floodplain ponds and wetlands are productive and biodiverse ecosystems, yet they face multiple threats including altered hydrology, land use change, and non‐native species.
Meredith A. Holgerson +6 more
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Managing second-growth forests as caribou habitat
Rangifer, 1990 Habitat management for woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in southeastern British Columbia has generally focussed on protecting old-growth forests from logging.
Susan K. Stevenson
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Greater sage‐grouse use of mechanical conifer reduction treatments in northwest utah
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017 A potential consequence of climate change, altered fire regimes, and a legacy of resource exploitation in western North America is increased displacement of desirable sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities by invasive plant species.
Avery A. Cook +2 more
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The impact of disturbance from photographers on the Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi)
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2017 Human disturbance may cause significant declines in animal populations. The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Garrulax courtoisi) is critically endangered and restricted to a small area in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, China. Disturbance from photographers in the
Weiwei Zhang +3 more
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Not only the butterflies: managing ants on road verges to benefit Phengaris (Maculinea) butterflies [PDF]
, 2010 Obligate myrmecophilic butterfly species, such as Phengaris (Maculinea) teleius and P. nausithous, have narrow habitat requirements. Living as a caterpillar in the nests of the ant species Myrmica scabrinodis and M.
Gestel, R., van +3 more
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Ecology of greater sage-grouse populations inhabiting the northwestern Wyoming Basin
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Range-wide population declines of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) have been largely attributed to habitat loss and fragmentation. However, the specific conservation threats affecting the ecology of sage-grouse populations may
Casey J. Cardinal, Terry A. Messmer
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Diversity, 2023 Pine rockland habitat of South Florida is among the most highly threatened terrestrial ecosystems in the neo-subtropics and is among the rarest worldwide.
Adrian Figueroa +4 more
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