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Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the north-western Dinarides [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022
The genus Troglohyphantes Joseph, 1882 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) includes 131 species, mainly distributed across the main European mountain ranges. The Alps and the north-western Dinarides account for 66 species, most of them showing narrow or even point ...
Filippo Milano, Luca Borio, Christian Komposch, Stefano Mammola, Paolo Pantini, Martina Pavlek, Marco Isaia   +6 more
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The system and spatial distribution of protected areas in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Croatia

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2022
Protected areas play a key role in nature conservation but are also crucial for tourism. There are international recommendations in nature conservation (IUCN), and several international conservation conventions exist.
László Mari, Zsófia Tábori, Ivan Šulc, Petra Radeljak Kaufmann, Ranko Milanović, Alena Gessert, Zoltán Imecs, Anetta Baricz, Tamás Telbisz   +8 more
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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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Developing Statements of Compliance for UK protected areas and 'other effective area-based conservation measures' [PDF]

Parks
The Protected Areas Working Group of the IUCN National Committee for the UK assessed 23 types of designation of land and sea for biodiversity conservation against IUCN definitions of 'protected area' and 'other effective area-based conservation ...
James A. Robinson, David A. Stroud, Kate Jennings, Stephen Grady, Chris Mahon, Katherine Hawkins, Pamela Abbott, Ben McCarthy, Mike W. Pienkowski   +8 more
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An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Representation of ecosystems in protected area networks and conservation strategies is a core principle of global conservation priority setting approaches and a commitment in Aichi Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The 2030 Sustainable
Roger Sayre, Deniz Karagulle, Charlie Frye, Timothy Boucher, Nicholas H. Wolff, Sean Breyer, Dawn Wright, Madeline Martin, Kevin Butler, Keith Van Graafeiland, Jerry Touval, Leonardo Sotomayor, Jennifer McGowan, Edward T. Game, Hugh Possingham   +14 more
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The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
Colima is the fourth smallest Mexican state, covering only 0.3% of the surface area of Mexico, but due to the remarkable diversity of physiographic and environmental conditions present in Colima it contains a high biological diversity. We generated an up-
Julio A. Lemos-Espinal, Geoffrey R. Smith, Leland J. S. Pierce, Charles W. Painter   +3 more
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Assessing Protected Area Zoning Effectiveness With Remote Sensing Data: The Case of Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina

Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2022
Protected areas (PAs) remain the most important tool to prevent biodiversity loss and habitat degradation worldwide, but the formal creation of a PA constitutes only the first step.
María Daniela Rivarola, Jacob Dein, Daniel Simberloff, Hannah Victoria Herrero   +3 more
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Evidence for Biodiversity Conservation in Protected Landscapes

Land, 2016
A growing number of protected areas are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as protected landscapes and seascapes, or category V protected areas, one of six protected area categories based on management approach. Category
Nigel Dudley, Adrian Phillips, Thora Amend, Jessica Brown, Sue Stolton   +4 more
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Long-term loss in extent and current protection of terrestrial ecosystem diversity in the temperate and tropical Americas.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Documenting changes in ecosystem extent and protection is essential to understanding status of biodiversity and related ecosystem services and have direct applications to measuring Essential Biodiversity Variables, Targets under the Convention on ...
Patrick J Comer, Jon C Hak, Carmen Josse, Regan Smyth   +3 more
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Gone with the forest: Assessing global woodpecker conservation from land use patterns [PDF]

, 2018
As a result of their ecological traits, woodpeckers (Picidae, Aves) are highly sensitive to forest cover change. We explored the current land cover in areas of high species richness of woodpeckers to determinate regions where urgent conservation actions ...
Aitken, Arango, Bini, Blackburn, Blendinger, Bregman, Brooks, Butchart, Cocker, Daily, Devillers, Diniz-Filho, Drever, Ficetola, Ficetola, Fischer, Foley, Gao, Gibson, Goldewijk, Grecchi, Hansen, Heino, Henle, Hermoso, Hortal, Hoyo, Ilsøe, IUCN & UNEP, Jarić, Jetz, Kitching, Kukkala, Kumar, Lammertink, Lammertink, Laurance, Margules, Martin, Miettinen, Mikusiński, Mikusiński, Minin, Montellano, Montesino Pouzols, Nilsson, Nori, Nori, Olson, Pimm, Pressey, Pressey, Radford, Ribeiro, Roberge, Rodrigues, Rodrigues, Ruggera, Sala, SCBC, Sodhi, Tilman, Tracewski, Trindade-Filho, Uliczka, Vilela, Virkkala, Watson, Winkler, Winkler, Şekercioğlu   +70 more
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