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Efficiency and effectiveness in representative reserve design in Canada: the contribution of existing protected areas [PDF]

, 2009
To be effective, reserve networks should represent all target species in protected areas that are large enough to ensure species persistence. Given limited resources to set aside protected areas for biodiversity conservation, and competing land uses, a
Nudds, Thomas D., Wiersma, Yolanda
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Information-Analytical Center for Natural Specially Protected Areas Support

RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2018
In 2017, which was held in the Russian Federation under the aegis of the Year of Ecology, its 100th anniversary marked the first Barguzin State Natural Biosphere Reserve.
Ilya Sergeevich Prokhorov, Konstantin Vladimirovich Korneevets, Sergei Aleksandrovich Bychkov   +2 more
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Mini-round box as standardized sampling method for orthopterans in alpine and subalpine grasslands: a field study to highlight strengths and weaknesses [PDF]

Contributions to Entomology
Orthopterans are known as suitable ecological indicators in grassland habitats, with their community composition providing useful information about the environmental consequences of management actions, ecological processes, or climate change.
Davide Giuliano, Barbara Rizzioli
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Composition and Diversity of Over-Wintering Aquatic Bird Community on Poyang Lake, China

Diversity, 2020
The present study aimed to investigate the structure, composition and diversity of the over-wintering aquatic bird community of Poyang Lake, including Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve (PNNR), Nanji National Nature Reserve (NNNR) and Duchang Provincial
Megersa Tsegaye Debela, Qingming Wu, Lu Chen, Xueying Sun, Zhuo Xu, Zhe Li   +5 more
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Coexistence mechanisms of sympatric ungulates: Behavioral and physiological adaptations of blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) and red deer (Cervus elaphus alxaicus) in Helan Mountains, China

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Studying the coexistence mechanisms of sympatric wildlife helps to shed light on why the earth has so many different species. When ungulates share ranges, food and habitat requirements may partially or fully overlap.
Zongzhi Li, Jifei Wang, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Xingzhi Han, Peng Liu, Zhensheng Liu, Zhensheng Liu, Liwei Teng, Liwei Teng   +8 more
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Tourism and protected areas: A growing nexus of challenge and opportunity

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2014
How to cite this article: McCool, S.F. & Spenceley, A., 2014, ‘Tourism and protected areas: A growing nexus of challenge and opportunity’, Koedoe 56(2), Art. #1221, 2 pages.
Stephen F. McCool, Anna Spenceley
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Human-Leopard Conflict: An Emerging Issue of North China Leopard Conservation in Tieqiaoshan Provincial Nature Reserve in Shanxi Province, China

Animals, 2020
Livestock depredation by large carnivores is a conventional human–wildlife conflict, both at the local and regional level. Many species of wildlife have become endangered because of this conflict.
Kahindo Tulizo Consolee, Chunyv Gao, Kasereka Vitekere, Chunshi Li, Hua Yan, Guangshun Jiang   +5 more
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First record of Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra Jaeger, 1833 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the coastal waters of the United Arab Emirates [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
The presence of an endangered and economically valuable species of sea cucumber, Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra Jaeger, 1833, was investigated in the Alqurm Wa Lehhfaiiah Protected Area near the city of Kalba in the Emirate of Sharjah.
Fadi Yaghmour, Brendan Whittington-Jones
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Different living environments drive deterministic microbial community assemblages in the gut of Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster)

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Substantial variation in the environment directly causes remodeling of the colonized gut microbiota, controlling community diversity, and functions in the host to tune-up their adaptive states.
Zhirong Zhang, Mengqi Ding, Yujiao Sun, Yujiao Sun, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Junda Chen, Liwei Teng, Liwei Teng, Zhensheng Liu, Zhensheng Liu   +9 more
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Growth Stages and Inter-Species Gut Microbiota Composition and Function in Captive Red Deer (Cervus elaphus alxaicus) and Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur)

Animals, 2023
Blue sheep and red deer, second-class key protected animals in China, are sympatric species with a high degree of overlap of food resources in the Helan Mountains, China.
Yao Zhao, Jia Sun, Mengqi Ding, Romaan Hayat Khattak, Liwei Teng, Zhensheng Liu   +5 more
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