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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
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The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ranger patrols are a cornerstone of wildlife protection efforts around the world and occur across all ecological governance systems. Evidence that patrols reduce threats to wildlife and enable their recovery has not been systematically examined previously.
Trina Rytwinski, Robert S. A. Pickles, Matthew J. Muir, Steven J. Cooke, Joseph R. Bennett, Lisa A. Kelly, Adrienne Smith, Cynthia Cadet, Dwi N. Adhiasto, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Mark D. Booton, Daphne P. Carlson, Drew T. Cronin, Anthony Dancer, Meredith L. Gore, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Stephen F. Pires, Amy Pokempner, James Slade, Andrew M. Lemieux   +19 more
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A preliminary treatment of the Central American species of Octoblepharum (Musci: Calymperaceae) [PDF]

, 1991
The species of Octoblepharum occurring in Central America have been critically examined. Six are recognized as valid species: O. albidum, O. cocuiense, O. cylindricum, O. erectifolium, O. pulvinatum and O. stramineum. Synonyms are given for these species:
Allen, Noris Salazar
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Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon, Malgorzata Lagisz, Sheeraja Sridharan, David F. Westneat, Kimberley J. Mathot   +4 more
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ENSAMBLES DE AVES EN EL DESIERTO DE ATACAMA, NORTE GRANDE DE CHILE AVIAN ASSEMBLAGES OF ATACAMA DESERT, FAR NORTH OF CHILE

Gayana, 2009
Se evaluó la riqueza y composición de especies de aves en el desierto de Atacama, Norte Grande de Chile, entre 1996 y 1998. Mediante transectos lineales se estimó la riqueza de especies de aves en 9 localidades del desierto de Atacama agrupadas en cuatro
Alberto Gantz, Jaime Rau, Enrique Couve
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Spatial differentiation of compensation payments for biodiversity enhancing land-use measures [PDF]

Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation, considerations of allocational efficiency call for spatially differentiated compensation payments for such measures.
Drechsler, Martin, Wätzold, Frank
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The ecomics of ecosystems and biodiversity: scoping the scale [PDF]

, 2008
The G8 decided in March 2007 to initiate a “Review on the economics of biodiversity loss”, in the so called Potsdam Initiative: 'In a global study we will initiate the process of analysing the global economic benefit of biological diversity, the costs of
Balmford, A., Braat, L.C., Brink, P., ten, Groot, R., Kettunen, M., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Walpole, M.   +6 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structure of Bee Communities in Marginal Lands of the Puget Sound, USA

Ecology and Evolution
Wild bee communities in urban ecosystems are often challenged by habitat fragmentation and low floral diversity. In such settings, marginal land surrounding airports or in power line corridors may support bees, even with small habitat patches.
Evan Sugden, Will Peterman, Robert Redmond, Riley M. Anderson, David W. Crowder   +4 more
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Characterizing Fisheries Habitat Along the California Continental Margin

, 2002
Biologists have long recognized that fishes are not uniformly distributed up and down the coast but insteadc ongregate in certain environments. This somewhat obvious fact has gone relatively unstudied because of the technical difficulties of imaging underwater landscapes.
Greene, Gary, Kvitek, Rikk
openaire   +1 more source