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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2022 The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based plural valuation framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood ...
Ortmann-Ajkai Adrienne +6 more
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Forest Systems, 2022 Aim of study: To survey a yew tree grove and to evaluate its conservation status to ascertain whether its proposal to class it as Habitat 9580* is appropriate. Area of study: Eastern end of Central Mountain Range, Spain.
Rodrigo Balaguer-Romano +4 more
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Benthic habitat mapping of Plazh Gradina – Zlatna ribka (Black Sea) and Karpathos and Saria Islands (Mediterranean Sea) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Habitat mapping is nеcessary for the efficient conservation and protection of marine ecosystems. In addition, it is a requirement for EU Member States as stated in the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), as well as necessary for the ...
Stamatina Nikolopoulou +8 more
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European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines
Conservation Letters, 2023 Strong biodiversity declines have been reported across the European Union, especially in insects, despite conservation policy such as the Habitats Directive that aims to halt biodiversity loss. Using 50 years of observational data, we examined indicators
Eva Katharina Engelhardt +2 more
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Bioacoustic Detection of Wolves: Identifying Subspecies and Individuals by Howls
Animals, 2022 Wolves (Canis lupus) are generally monitored by visual observations, camera traps, and DNA traces. In this study, we evaluated acoustic monitoring of wolf howls as a method for monitoring wolves, which may permit detection of wolves across longer ...
Hanne Lyngholm Larsen +6 more
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Relevant habitats neglected by the Directive 92/43 EEC: the contribution of Vegetation Science for their reappraisal in Sicily [PDF]
Plant Sociology, 2021 Field investigation carried out by the Sicilian botanists in the last 20 years enabled them to identify eight habitat types of high biogeographic and conservation interest, neglected by the Directive 92/43, which deserve ad hoc conservation measures. For
Riccardo Guarino +15 more
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Building the European Union’s Natura 2000 network
Nature Conservation, 2012 In the second half of the 20th Century there was a growing awareness of environmental problems, including the loss of species and habitats, resulting in many national and international initiatives, including the creation of organisations, such as the ...
Douglas Evans
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Nature Conservation, 2018 Since the beginning of the 1990s, monitoring of habitats has been a widespread tool to record and assess changes in habitat quality, for example due to land use change.
Götz Ellwanger +8 more
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Revue Forestière Française, 2016 La directive n° 92/43/CEE du 21 mai 1992, dite « directive Habitats, Faune, Flore », a introduit dans la politique de protection de la nature en Europe une notion de conservation d’un échantillon représentatif de certains habitats naturels présents sur ...
Fabienne Benest +3 more
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Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions [PDF]
Hydrobiologia, 2011 Habitat complexity is one of the most important factors structuring biotic assemblages, yet we still lack basic understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Although it is one of the primary targets in conservation management, no methods are available for comparing complexity across ecosystems, and system-specific qualitative assessment predominates ...
Kovalenko, Katya E. +2 more
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