An (Un)Expected Threat for a Regionally Near-Threatened Species: A Predation Case of a Persian Squirrel on an Insular Ecosystem. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2022 Simple Summary Among introduced alien species, one of the most widespread and successful predators on island ecosystems is the domestic cat. This opportunistic carnivore is considered responsible for numerous island species’ extinctions and species ...
Zevgolis YG +5 more
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Urban aliens and threatened near-naturals: Land-cover affects the species richness of alien- and threatened species in an urban-rural setting [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Urbanisation has strong effects on biodiversity patterns, but impacts vary among species groups and across spatial scales. From a local biodiversity management perspective, a more general understanding of species richness across taxonomic groups is ...
Tanja K. Petersen +3 more
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Dead shrimp blues: a global assessment of extinction risk in freshwater shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 We present the first global assessment of extinction risk for a major group of freshwater invertebrates, caridean shrimps. The risk of extinction for all 763 species was assessed using the IUCN Red List criteria that include geographic ranges, habitats ...
Sammy De Grave +13 more
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A massive tsunami promoted gene flow and increased genetic diversity in a near threatened plant species [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 The magnitude and frequency of disturbances affect species diversity and spatial distributions, but the direct effects of large-scale disturbances on genetic diversity are poorly understood.
Kako Ohbayashi +4 more
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New records of the Near Threatened species <i>Ololygon trapicheiroi</i> (Anura: Hylidae)
Caldasia, 2020 Ololygon trapicheiroi is a small tree frog of the O. catharinae group which inhabits mountainous areas in the Atlantic Rainforest region of Southeastern Brazil. On 30 April 2017, in the area rural of the Municipality of Passa Vinte, State of Minas Gerais,
Henrique Folly +2 more
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Mycoscience, 2022 We describe two new species of Fulvifomes based on morphological observations and phylogenetic investigations. Both species were identified as Phellinus rimosus by former mycologists, but both are morphologically distinct from authenticated specimen of P.
Tsutomu Hattori, Yuko Ota, Kozue Sotome
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A Dataset on the Biodiversity Footprints and Sectoral Differences in China [PDF]
Scientific DataIn the context of industrial regionalization and globalization, biodiversity footprints are potentially transferred through supply chain networks. Current research on biodiversity footprints primarily focuses on global scales or developed regions, with ...
Haiyue Wang +5 more
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Conus: first comprehensive conservation red list assessment of a marine gastropod mollusc genus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Marine molluscs represent an estimated 23% of all extant marine taxa, but research into their conservation status has so far failed to reflect this importance, with minimal inclusion on the authoritative Red List of the International Union for the ...
Howard Peters +4 more
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Ardea, 2019 The Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus is a near threatened raptor that occurs in isolated populations across its range. The only comprehensive genetic study performed so far excluded samples from Turkey, although this area forms a significant part of ...
Emel Çakmak +4 more
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Grass is not always greener: rodenticide exposure of a threatened species near marijuana growing operations [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2018 Marijuana (Cannabis spp.) growing operations (MGO) in California have increased substantially since the mid-1990s. One environmental side-effect of MGOs is the extensive use of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR) to prevent damage to marijuana plants caused ...
Alan B. Franklin +10 more
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