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Using ecological security pattern to identify priority protected areas: A case study in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Protected areas (PAs) play a key role in mitigating ecological crises. Currently, priority protected areas (PPAs) focus on biological conservation, and a few studies have considered the connectivity between patches.
Wen Zeng, Huan Tang, Xun Liang, Zhen Hu, Zhijiang Yang, Qingfeng Guan   +5 more
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Landscape Changes in Protected Areas in Poland [PDF]

Sustainability, 2022
Land-Use Cover Changes (LUCCs) are one of the main problems for the preservation of landscapes and natural biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) do not escape this threat. Poland is among the European leaders in terms of the variety of landscapes and the share of an area designated as a protected area. However, as many as 78% of the habitats have poor or
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Distribution of Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Czech Republic [PDF]

Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2009
This paper summarises all known data about the occurrence and distribution of Bithynia leachii (Sheppard, 1823) and Bithynia troschelii (Paasch, 1842) in the Czech Republic. Both species were already recorded from the Czech Republic in the past, but they
Luboš Beran, Michal Horsák
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The Current Distribution of the Coypu (Myocastor coypus) in Záhorie Region (Slovakia)

Ekológia (Bratislava), 2023
Since its introduction in the 19th century, the coypu was able to spread and colonise numerous parts of Europe. Our research focused mainly on the topic of the spatiotemporal distribution of an invasive rodent, Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782), in ...
Poláčková Ivana, Jureček Rudolf
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Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

Nature, 2023
The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas (PAs) to slow biodiversity declines1. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss, their efficacy at preserving animal diversity and their influence on biodiversity in surrounding unprotected areas remain unclear2-5.
Brodie, JF, Mohd-Azlan, J, Chen, C, Wearn, OR, Deith, MCM, Ball, JGC, Slade, EM, Burslem, DFRP, Teoh, SW, Williams, PJ, Nguyen, A, Moore, JH, Goetz, SJ, Burns, P, Jantz, P, Hakkenberg, CR, Kaszta, ZM, Cushman, S, Coomes, D, Helmy, OE, Reynolds, G, Rodríguez, JP, Jetz, W, Luskin, MS   +23 more
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Expansion or recolonization: Distribution and ecology of the pontic-mediterranean species of genus Acrotylus (Orthoptera) at the northern border of their range [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research
Several thermophilous insect species have shown northward expansion in recent decades, and for some, it is only a matter of the recolonization of historic sites. Acrotylus insubricus and A.
Anton Krištín, Miloš Balla
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Framing the relationship between people and nature in the context of European conservation [PDF]

, 2015
A key controversy in conservation is the framing of the relationship between people and nature. The extent to which the realms of nature and human culture are viewed as separate (dualistic view) or integrated is often discussed in the social sciences. To
Agnoletti, Apollonio, Bauer, Bekoff, Bendrey, Birks, Blanco, Boitani, Castree, Chapron, Cronon, Descola, Descola, Descola, Donlan, Ellen, García, Ghosal, Gunther, Halada, Haraway, Hobbs, Hodder, Ingold, Isselstein, Jones, Kerley, Kirby, Knight, Latour, Latour, Linnartz, Linnell, Liu, Lorimer, López-Bao, Mace, Maffi, Marris, Martin, Marvier, Mattisson, Milton, Monbiot, Mysterud, Navarro, Ordiz, Phalan, Queiroz, Redpath, Robbins, Rubenstein, Schwartz, Selva, Terborgh, Treves, Tsiafouli, Vera, Vos, Watson   +59 more
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Human Impacts on Forest Biodiversity in Protected Walnut-Fruit Forests in Kyrgyzstan [PDF]

, 2014
We used a spatially explicit model of forest dynamics, supported by empirical field data and socioeconomic data, to examine the impacts of human disturbances on a protected forest landscape in Kyrgyzstan.
Abdymomunov R. A., Adrian C. Newton, Alexander Lovegrove, Almaz Orozumbekov, Arnold J., Bengtsson J., Blaser J., CABI, Carey C., Chemonics International Inc, Chyngojoev A., Core E. L., Cremer K., Dzhangaliev A. D., Dzhangaliev A. D., Eastwood A., Elena Cantarello, Ellenberg H., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Greene D. F., Hemery G. E., Herold B., Jahn G., Jennifer Birch, Juniper B. E., Kolov O., Kyrgyz Forest Service, Kyrgyz Forest Service, Lockwood M., Mattock J., Musuraliev T. M., Müller-Schneider P., Müller-Schneider P., Newton A. C., Newton A. C., Niels Brouwers, Orozumbekov A., Orozumbekov A., Paganová V., Peter D., Phillips A., Schmidt K., Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Sherbinina E. N., Spencer W. D., Sukacev V. N., Venglovsky B. I., Wyckoff G. W.   +47 more
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Landscape Functional Zoning of Urban Protected Areas

Environmental Research, Engineering and Management, 2020
The article deals with the need to consider the territory landscape structure during the landscape functional zoning of urban protected areas (UPA) (by example of the Holosiyivskyi National Natural Park (NNP) in Kyiv). The study revealed the shortcomings of the UPA functional zoning procedure without applying a landscape approach, regardless of its ...
Havrylenko, Olena, Shyshchenko, Petro, Tsyhanok, Yevhen   +2 more
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Atlas of Pálava protected landscape area [PDF]

Journal of Maps, 2012
The Palava Protected Landscape Area (PLA) is one of the protected areas in the Czech Republic that is characterized by both natural and cultural heritage. The Atlas of Palava PLA presented in this article has been created as a general publication summarizing a majority of available data and information of the area in an original and uniform style.
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