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How to Define Successful Stocking of Florida’s Freshwater Recreational Fisheries

open access: yesEDIS, 2019
Florida researchers and fisheries management agencies have conducted years of research on stocking, a common and popular but intensive option for improving recreational fisheries, but determining how successful it has been in Florida has been ...
Edward Vincent Camp   +5 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population responses of Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica to expansion of heather Calluna vulgaris cover on a Scottish grouse moor

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2018
Loss of heather Calluna vulgaris-dominated moorland in Britain has been associated with long-term declines in Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica, a gamebird of economic importance. We tested whether restoring heather habitat on a grouse moor in southwest
Sonja C. Ludwig   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tailoring social safeguards in conservation to reflect the local context and level of risk

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2022
David Wilkie   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Back to the wild: Post-translocation GPS monitoring of a rehabilitated ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in a forest-agriculture matrix in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yesNeotropical Biology and Conservation
The sparsity of post-translocation monitoring data for rehabilitated felids leaves a pressing gap in our current understanding of their integration into and use of novel landscapes. Remote monitoring tools such as GPS collars can provide crucial insights
Sarah Wicks   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Circular Economy: A Pathway to Integrated Value Creation for Business and Society

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing environmental pressures and the pressing demand to advance sustainable development, the circular economy (CE) has positioned itself as a transformative business approach capable of safeguarding favourable ecosystem conditions through the application of key R‐strategies.
Saudi‐Yulieth Enciso‐Alfaro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Producing diversity: Agroforests Sustain Avian Richness and Abundance in India's Western Ghats

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Globally, protected areas have long been the corner stone of biodiversity conservation efforts. In India’s Western Ghats, small and isolated protected areas are embedded in a matrix of multiple land-uses, most of which include agroforests.
Krithi K Karanth   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a Business‐Oriented Concept of Natural Capital and Its Measurement in Organizations

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing importance of sustainability in corporate governance, driven by emerging regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the forthcoming ISO 14054, has renewed interest in the concept of natural capital.
Vera Amicarelli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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