Showing papers in "Global Ecology and Conservation in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic methodology, benefits, and concerns of eDNA metabarcoding, and systematically cover the applications of the method in global ecology thus far, including biodiversity monitoring across all habitats and taxonomic groups, ancient ecosystem reconstruction, plant-pollinator interactions, diet analysis, invasive species detection, pollution responses, and air quality monitoring.

TL;DR: Findings support the optimal partitioning hypothesis that plants adjust their growth strategy according to different environments, and in particular, tend to partition more biomass to root systems under more stressful, low-nutrient and poor climatic conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the scientific and management literature to explore the application of connectivity in MPAs located in six countries or regions with advanced marine spatial planning and found that only 11% of the 746 MPAs that considered connectivity as an ecological criterion, increasingly so since 2007.

TL;DR: How maximising trade bans; working on human behaviour change and improving regulatory efforts to improve surveillance will decrease the risk of future pandemics, epidemics and outbreaks is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated large carnivore movements in humanized landscapes of Europe and described the movement of 6 GPS-tracked male brown bears, including one of the longest dispersal events recorded in this species.

TL;DR: In this article, a maximum entropy model was used to model the distribution of Zanthoxylum armatum in China, and the results showed that the suitable area for Z. armatum was 85.1-120.8 °E, 20.9-37.7 °N, mainly located in the subtropical zone of China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how climate threats do not necessarily follow latitudinal gradients, such that both risk hotspots and refugia occur in mosaic distributions along species ranges - patterns that may be undetectable without knowledge of biological vulnerabilities at regional and local scales.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of N and K fertilizers on the yield and quality of satsumas were compared to those of P fertilizers, and the best fertilizer combination, determined by comprehensively considering yield, quality and environment, was N0.3P0.2K0.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how human-wildlife conflicts vary across multiple wildlife species, seasons, years, and regions to quantify their extent, causes and consequences using data collected by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) in Narok County of Kenya during 2001-2017.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used neural networks implemented in the Terrset Land Change Modeler (LCM) module to predict and analyze the recent (2007-2016) and future business as usual (BAU2030) and two alternative scenarios for 2030 (PAST50-2030 and TECH_2030), and prognostics for intact forests of the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the trade and international trafficking of African pangolins in the coastal countries around the Gulf of Guinea using data across three tiers: domestic seizures, international seizures, and domestic seizures with other species.

TL;DR: Evidence indicated that fertilization is an important measure to regulate flowering in rice production and can serve as an optimized protocol for future studies about the physiological and molecular mechanism of flower induction by nutrients.

TL;DR: It is indicated that biological and biochemical processes regulate the plant and soil changes in LDAM and MDAM and that physical processes such as water and wind erosion might be responsible for the changes in plants and soils in SDAM and VDAM and restoration strategies should be based on the processes and stages of alpine meadow degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the different mutual benefits that rural and urban areas gain from their linkage from the ecosystem services perspective and explained how rural area ecosystem services can be used to strengthen rural-urban linkages.

TL;DR: The National Secretary of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador (SENESCYT) for the doctoral grant received by Veronica Caballero-Serrano as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors document the extent to which East African protected areas encompass ecoregions and endemic terrestrial vertebrate taxa, and using new land conversion data derived from medium to high spatial resolution satellite images, assess how they have been encroached upon by agriculture and other land use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated and compared four supervised classification algorithms based on Landsat time series imagery to detect mangrove cover in southern Iran, and compared the four different predictions resulting from the applied classification algorithms.

TL;DR: In this article, the intention of a sample of 274 Iranian farmers towards on-farm biodiversity conservation was investigated by applying the theory of Planned Behavior and the extended model of planned behavior on assessing farmers' intention to preserve biodiversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the concept of circuit theory to estimate potential linkages between the habitat patches and quantified spatial connectivity to assess the influence of climate change on the species range for the years 2050 and 2070 under four representative concentration pathways (RCPs) of three general circulation models (GCMs).

TL;DR: A systematic review of traceable efforts used to survey and monitor pangolins to date is presented in this paper, where 87 articles were included in the review, including community interviews, sign-based surveys in arid and open habitats, detection dog teams and targeted camera-trapping.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the literature on roadside plant assemblages is presented, concluding that roadsides are key to maintain native biodiversity, especially in highly modified anthropogenic landscapes, but also serve as landscape corridors for exotic species.

TL;DR: The most recent assessment of animal diversity and status in the Nam Et - Phou Louey National Protected Area (NEPL) is presented in this paper, based on camera trap surveys from 2013 to 2017, facilitating an assessment of protected area management to date.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the lack of mortality may mask two pervasive effects of linear infrastructures on animal populations: past massive mortality, causing local extinctions, or strong barrier effects due to the inability or reluctance of individuals to traverse the infrastructure corridor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared herb and bird species richness and bird abundance between 14 paired patches of native deciduous forest and Eucalyptus plantations in a heterogeneous agro-forest region of NW Spain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review the literature and collate the existing evidence to quantify deforestation spillovers in protected areas (PAs), most of which were found in tropical and subtropical moist forests and in their unprotected adjacent surroundings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a semi-structured questionnaire survey to quantitatively assess livestock losses due to snow leopards, wolves, and other carnivores, and found that livestock losses were related to the sizes and species composition of herds as well as the ecological conditions within the grazing areas.

TL;DR: It is argued that relevant data collected at all stages of translocation, including candidate selection, and during pre-release, release, and post-release monitoring, may inform the establishment of functional social structure post- release in species dependent on social processes.

TL;DR: Lower planting density was beneficial with regard to natural regeneration, plant species diversity, and soil quality and reducing tree density of existing high-density P. massoniana plantations can promote both understory plant species Diversity and tree regeneration to sustain forest ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a global quantification of the relationship between plant SLA (specific leaf area) and climate and soil factors, reflects the trade-off between plant growth and environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the quantitative assessment of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes during 1998, 2008, 2018 and a simulation of 2028 using Landsat imagery, Markov Chain and Cellular Automata.