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A regulation-based classification system for marine protected areas: A response to Dudley et al. [9] [PDF]

, 2017
Dudley et al. [9] commented on our paper [11], arguing that the current IUCN objective-based categorization of protected areas, which is also used in marine protected areas (MPAs), should not be abandoned and replaced by the new regulation-based ...
Agardy, Al-Abdulrazzak, Anthony Caro, Barbara Horta e Costa, Boonzaier, Carr, Costello, Day, Devillers, Dudley, Emanuel J. Gonçalves, Fitzsimons, Gustavo Franco, Horta e Costa, Joachim Claudet, Karim Erzini, Kearney   +16 more
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The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems: motivations, challenges, and applications [PDF]

, 2015
In response to growing demand for ecosystem-level risk assessment in biodiversity conservation, and rapid proliferation of locally tailored protocols, the IUCN recently endorsed new Red List criteria as a global standard for ecosystem risk assessment ...
Adler, Akçakaya, Alvarez-Filip, Austin, Boitani, Brooks, Burgman, Burns, Butchart, Cardinale, Carwardine, Costanza, Council of the European Communities, Dallimer, Einstein, Estes, Faber-Langendoen, Folke, Gaston, Gorrod, Green, Hobbs, Hobday, Hooper, IUCN, Jennings, Jerde, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Knapp, Kontula, Kuczera, Lester, Levins, Lindenmayer, Lindgaard, Mace, Mackey, Mant, Margules, Marshall, Martin, May, Micklin, Nicholson, Nicholson, Noss, Pisanu, Plagányi, Preston, Ramirez-Llodra, Regan, Republic of South Africa, Riecken, Rodrigues, Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Rodrıguez, Sabo, Schmitz, Scott, Sutherland, Tozer, Weston, Wiens, Williams, Wunder   +69 more
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A global map to aid the identification and screening of critical habitat for marine industries [PDF]

, 2015
Marine industries face a number of risks that necessitate careful analysis prior to making decisions on the siting of operations and facilities. An important emerging regulatory framework on environmental sustainability for business operations is the ...
Angelini, Ardron, B. Lascelles, Baker, Ball, Beaulieu, C.J. Mcowen, C.S. Martin, Crosby, D. Stanwell-Smith, D.P. Tittensor, Davies, Dunn, E. Farmer, Ekstrom, Estes, Freiwald, Giri, H.L. Thomas, Halpern, J.D. Pilgrim, J.H. van Bochove, J.L. Geffert, J.M. Hutton, J.M.M. Ekstrom, J.P.W. Scharlemann, Kareiva, Kaschner, Keith, M.J. Tolley, Merrifield, Mora, Mora, Rainey, Tittensor, Tittensor, Webb, Wedding, Wessel, Willis, Worm, Yesson, Yesson   +42 more
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Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide [PDF]

, 2014
Ecological trait data are essential for understanding the broad-scale distribution of biodiversity and its response to global change. For animals, diet represents a fundamental aspect of species’ evolutionary adaptations, ecological and functional roles,
Dalby, Lars, Fløjgaard, Camilla, Kissling, Wilm Daniel, Lenoir, Jonathan, Sandel, Brody, Sandom, Christopher, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Trøjelsgaard, Kristian   +7 more
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Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants [PDF]

, 2015
Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis for all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to all other groups of organisms including humans. Decline in plant diversity has been hard to
Albuquerque, S, Aletrari, E, Andrews, AK, Atchison, G, Bachman, SP, Baloch, E, Barlozzini, B, Brummitt, NA, Brunazzi, A, Carretero, J, Celesti, M, Chadburn, H, Cianfoni, E, Cockel, C, Coldwell, V, Concetti, B, Contu, S, Crook, V, Donaldson, JS, Dyson, P, Farjon, A, Gardiner, L, Ghanim, N, Greene, H, Griffiths-Lee, J, Groom, A, Harker, R, Hilton-Taylor, C, Hopkins, D, Khela, S, Lakeman-Fraser, P, Lindon, H, Lockwood, H, Loftus, C, Lombrici, D, Lopez-Poveda, L, Lutz, M, Lyon, J, Malcolm-Tompkins, P, McGregor, K, Meagher, TR, Moat, JF, Moreno, L, Murray, L, Nazar, K, Nic Lughadha, EM, Power, E, Quiton Tuijtelaars, M, Salter, R, Segrott, R, Thacker, H, Thomas, LJ, Tingvoll, S, Watkinson, G, Wojtaszekova, K   +54 more
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Leiocephalus onaneyi [PDF]

, 2017
Number of pages: 7Geological SciencesIntegrative ...
Garrido, Orlando H., Powell, Robert, Torres, Javier   +2 more
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Sacred groves: a traditional way of conserving plant diversity in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
Sacred groves are forest patches conserved by the local people interwined with their socio-cultural and religious practices.  An extricable link between the past and present society in terms of religion, socio-culture, heritage and biodiversity exists in
Uday Kumar Sen
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Crocodylus rhombifer [PDF]

, 1998
Number of Pages: 18Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Ross, Franklin D.
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Monitoring the snow leopard population in the Altai Mountains (Chikhachev Ridge, Siberia)

Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2023
The snow leopard population has been monitored on the Chikhacvhev Ridge for 10 years since 2011 using camera traps. In 2021, a male was recorded. We recorded several concurrent predatory species, like red fox, Pallas’s cat, wolverine, and brown bear, and
Maksim R. Parkhomenko, Tatyana V. Antonenko, Alex V. Matsyura, Sergey V. Spitsyn   +3 more
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]

, 2017
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A., Fauchald, Per, Hausner, Vera, Schmidt, Jennifer   +3 more
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