Showing papers in "Journal for Nature Conservation in 2016"

TL;DR: A review of the literature on spillover for refining the terminology, detailing the underlying mechanisms and identifying both the existing and needed methodological approaches to measure spillover can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a combination of primary data on annual visitor counts for 205 European National Parks, GIS and statistical regression techniques to analyse how characteristics of National Parks and their surroundings influence total annual recreational visitor numbers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how biophysical (soils, slope, rainfall, rivers) and human-created (roads, towns, parks, quarries) features influence where people choose to fence the land in the Athi-Kaputiei ecosystem of Kenya.

TL;DR: In this article, the role and rationale of the PEBANPA Network, summarize examples of the main results found within the network and provide guidance to decision makers with respect to advancing sustainable land management in southern Patagonia.

TL;DR: A step-by-step framework that helps conservation and development planners and practitioners to identify economic instruments that can promote pro-conservation behaviour in a specific setting and was designed to also address a number of concerns regarding economic approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between primary forest loss and landscape characteristics in the Ucayali region, Peru, and identified seven variables (rivers, elevation, annual precipitation, soil suitability for agriculture, population density, paved roads, and unpaved roads), were identified as potential deforestation drivers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed a structured online survey to investigate the distribution and management of 53 invasive alien plant species in large protected areas, i.e. national parks and biosphere reserves, in eight Central European countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, community use zones (CUZs) were generated using participatory mapping methods that identify place values indicating significant hotspots for ecosystem services, buffered to provide connectivity and to delineate ecosystem service delivery areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted questionnaire surveys in two ecologically and culturally distinct rural areas of Northern Tanzania (Mbulu Plateau highlands and Rift Valley lowlands) to assess how economic, social, and psychological factors affect human perception of wildlife species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess woody invasive alien plant abundance in the island's wet native forests by sampling five of the currently best-preserved sites and find that invasive alien species dominate all forests sampled.

TL;DR: Quiroga et al. as discussed by the authors proposed the Instituto de Biologia Sub Tropical (IBS) as a sub-tropical institution for the study of tropical diseases.

TL;DR: The reliability of regional risk assessment of peripheral and/or narrow populations, which is an effective tool for helping the development of the necessary conservation management, underling a diversified set of solutions for each specific past, present and future threat that could occur in each locality is shown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the relative conservation effectiveness of two distinct management areas linking Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks in Northern Tanzania, and assess seasonal densities of wild and domestic species as well as species richness of large mammals over a 3-plus-year time period.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a method that was developed in collaboration with the City of Quebec to systematically assess the ecological value of wetlands within its boundaries, which resulted in all 1347 wetland complexes in Quebec City being classified based on their ecological value.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the area with suitable climate depends on the taxonomic category used in the model, which in turn affects the interpretation of the importance of different biogeographic barriers and introduces variation into the potential differentiation of Dendrortyx.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the density of natural elements in agricultural landscapes on multi-taxon species richness, including vascular plants, breeding birds, butterflies, hoverflies, dragonflies, and grasshoppers for an entire European country were evaluated.

TL;DR: This paper used palaeoecological techniques to reconstruct the development of a blanket peatland through its entirety with a particular focus on recent land management practices and their impact on vegetation in order to determine and support restoration targets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss a model where, in natural conditions, the possible patterns of spatial occupancy are referred to three basic types: areal, linear and point, and propose an approach to discriminate among different broad categories of plant community-based habitat types and optimise their assessment in the red-listing process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-evaluate the changes in private reserves in Brazil since 2005 and find that there has been an overall increase of 35% in the number of reserves (n = 753) and 3265 km2 of protected land in Brazil.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors detect changes in the spatial distribution of seven orchid species in the tropical dry forest in the department of Valle del Cauca and their significance in terms of conservation planning for climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied systematic conservation planning techniques to identify how to protect biodiversity at the lowest cost to society, and found that three to four times the number of forest species are protected per million € compared with species living in open land natural areas.

TL;DR: The determination of the most common species of amphibians traded as pets was based on a survey of the market in the Czech Republic, and none of these species have reached the invasion potential score of already spreading species X. laevis and Lithobates catesbeianus.

TL;DR: In general, the predictive power of the models was too low when using less than 10 localities; for good predictive power at the local scale, it is suggested that at least 100 localities/100 km 2 are used.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study to understand the habitat selection by Himalayan musk deer and explore any potential impacts of livestock grazing in a conservation area of central Nepal Himalaya.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an online survey to assess the need for project management skills, the demand and supply of project management training, and the barriers to that training in the conservation sector.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Natterjack toad is well established in the intensely managed agricultural landscape, given that (i) large populations are maintained which may act as sources to spatially distributed occurrences, and (ii) the intensively managed landscape is sufficiently interspersed with suitable breeding habitats.

TL;DR: It is found that the scale and impact of biological invasions are steadily increasing across all impact indicators, although societal response in recent years has increased.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated flatback turtles and green turtles' sea-finding ability in response to three standard industrial light sources (high pressure sodium (HPSV), metal halide (MH) and fluorescent white (FW)), positioned at distances of 100, 200, 500 and 800 m.

TL;DR: The ecotype that N. flagelliforme represents deserves to be protected for itself and for the evolutionary process it represents opening up the possibility of implementation of recovery measures and even opportunities to explore its biotechnological production from a different point of view.

TL;DR: In this article, an inventory of 120 priority CWR within Scotland has been produced and identified potential sites suitable for their in situ conservation, most notably a site to the west of Glasgow close to the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, and prioritised these CWR in terms of the urgency for ex situ collection and storage in gene banks.