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Viability analysis and the importance of fine‐scale variables influencing roadkills of a toad population

The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Fine‐scale population variables better explain roadkill patterns in natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) than habitat proxies, with mortality driven mainly by local abundance, reduced by roadside embankments, and decreasing as the season advanced. Despite high roadkills, population viability analyses indicate no immediate extinction risk under current ...
A. Iglesias‐Donoso, G. Fandos, C. Caballero‐Díaz, R. Megía‐Palma, R. Barrientos   +4 more
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Species conservation profiles of a random sample of world spiders IV: Scytodidae to Zoropsidae [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018
Sini Seppälä, Sérgio Henriques, Michael Draney, Stefan Foord, Alastair Gibbons, Luz Gomez, Sarah Kariko, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Marc Milne, Cor Vink, Pedro Cardoso   +10 more
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Resilience Pathways for Land Degradation Neutrality: How Informal Institutions Shape Community Land Governance Across the Global South

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A decade after Land Degradation Neutrality was incorporated into Sustainable Development Goal 15.3, implementation outcomes across the Global South remain uneven. Mainstream commons research identifies recurring institutional features, whereas critical institutionalism emphasizes their adaptive assembly; both traditions increasingly recognize ...
Tengyuan Yang, Senbao Lu, Jiapeng Dai
wiley   +1 more source

Pteris madhusoodananii (Pteridaceae), a new fern species from India

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Pteris madhusoodananii sp. nov. (Pteridaceae), from the Kolli hills of Eastern Ghats, India, is described. The new taxon is morphologically distinct, characterized by a unique lamina texture and coloration, specific pinna‐pinnule architecture and distinct spore micromorphology.
Kalathil Sethumadhavan Abhilash, Alex Philip Alen, Thekkekara Suresh Gayathri, Veerankutty Suresh, Jose Sojan, V. K. Sreenivas, Lakshmanan Leeja   +6 more
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Lasianthus phucanhensis sp. nov. (Rubiaceae) from Vietnam

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Lasianthus phucanhensis (Rubiaceae), a new species from Hoa Binh Province, northwestern Vietnam, is described and illustrated. In addition, the opportunity is taken to review the typification of all Lasianthus spp. from Vietnam. Three lectotypes are selected for Lasianthus kamputensis Pierre ex Pit., Lasianthus dinhensis Pierre ex Pit.
Viet Hung Dang, Dieu Linh Hoang, Minh Tu To, Duc Trong Nghiem, Van Loc Tran, Thi Mai Huong Pham, Viet Cuong Dang, Van Hieu Nguyen, Minh Khoi Nguyen   +8 more
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Studies on Typhonium (Araceae – Areae) of Thailand VI: Typhonium boonmaesp. nov. from central Thailand

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A species new to science, Typhonium boonmae K.Z.Hein, P.Saensouk and Saensouk, is described and illustrated from Saraburi and Lop Buri Provinces, central Thailand. A detailed description, color plates, comparisons with similar taxa, phenology, distribution, ecology, and a preliminary conservation status assessment are provided.
Piyaporn Saensouk, Surapon Saensouk, Khant Zaw Hein, Sarayut Rakarcha, Khamfa Chanthavongsa   +4 more
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First Records of the Genus Holaptilon (Mantodea: Gonypetidae: Gonypetinae) from Pakistan and Iraq Based on Citizen Science Observations [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران
The dwarf mantid genus Holaptilon Beier, 1964, is a group of small, apterous, ground-dwelling mantids distributed across the Middle East, with species described mainly from Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Turkey. Here, I present the first records of Holaptilon
Zohreh Mirzaee
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A new old species of Tetracera (Dilleniaceae) from Espinhaço Range, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Tetracera is the only genus within Dilleniaceae with a pantropical distribution. During efforts for a taxonomic revision of the neotropical species, we identified incongruences between application of names and their taxonomic identities, based on protologue and type specimen analysis. Here we describe a new species for the genus bearing a single carpel
Michelly D. F. Araújo, João V. L. Monzoli, Leandro L. Giacomin, Claudio N. Fraga   +3 more
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Functional classification of territories of the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine: history of formation and international aspect

Geo&Bio, 2019
The classification system of the Nature Reserve Fund has been developing in Ukraine since 1919, separately from other countries. The parallel development of the network of protected areas in different countries has resulted in a great number of ...
Oleksiy Vasyliuk
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Bauhinia naniflora: a new species of section Amaria (Cercidoideae: Leguminosae) from Colombia

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Bauhinia, the most species‐rich genus of Cercidoideae (Leguminosae), is pantropically distributed and includes four sections in the Americas. During an ongoing taxonomic revision of American Cercidoideae, a new species of Bauhinia sect. Amaria ser. Decandrae currently endemic to Colombia was identified and is here described as Bauhinia naniflorasp nov.
Luis Carlos Casas‐Restrepo, Andrés Fonseca‐Cortés, Rita Fábia da Silva Calixto, Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz, Adilva de Souza Conceição   +4 more
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