Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA, Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Ecology, Charles University, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic, Center for Theoretical Study...

Issues in Ecology is designed to report, in language understandable by non-scientists, the consensus of a panel of scientific experts on issues relevant to the environment. Issues in Ecology was initially supported by the Pew Scholars in Conservation Biology program and is currently supported by the Ecological Society of America. It is published at irregular intervals, as reports are completed....

Biodiversity surrogates are commonly used in conservation biology. Here we review how fungi have been used as such in forest conservation, emphasizing proposed surrogate roles and practical applications. We show that many fungal surrogates have been suggested based on field experience and loose concepts, rather than on rigorously collected scientific data. Yet, they have played an important rol...

Received 07 May 2012 Accepted 12 December 2012 Abstract The well-documented re-colonisation of the French large river basins of Loire and Rhone by European otter and beaver allowed the analysis of explanatory factors and threats to species movement in the river corridor. To what extent anthropogenic disturbance of the riparian zone influences the corridor functioning is a central question in th...

Valuation studies about environmental goods, e.g. biodiversity, often use characteristics and indicators that seem ecologically sound. But ecological value and public value are not necessarily the same. Therefore, combining ecological indicators with public knowledge and language in framing valuation studiesmay improve the consistency of outcomes. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods...

ANTHONY B. RYLANDS*, ECKHARD W. HEYMANN, JESSICA LYNCH ALFARO, JANET C. BUCKNER, CHRISTIAN ROOS, CHRISTIAN MATAUSCHEK, JEAN P. BOUBLI, RICARDO SAMPAIO and RUSSELL A. MITTERMEIER Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA Department of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, G€ ottingen, Germany Institute for Society and Genetics an...

1 Wildlife Research Unit, Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 3 Greena Ecological Consultancy, Cullompton, UK, 4 Urban Ecology & Wildlife Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 5 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Institute for Fores...

M. E. S. Bracken ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA 93923-2525, USA. – H. Hillebrand, Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Schleusenstrasse 1, DE-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany. – E. T. Borer and E. W. Seabloom, Dept of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota, M...

the systematics, morphology, distribution, biology, economic importance and conservation of the spiny eel ( mastacembelus mastacembelus ) of iran are described, the species is illustrated, and a bibliography on this fish is provided. the single species is distributed in southern iranian basins, including karkheh, karun, jarrahi and helleh river basins, mostly part of the tigris river and persia...

Biological research on birds of the grouse family has become increasingly related to conservation. We review trends in grouse biology, analysing the representation of species and topics in the titles of 2,788 papers published since 1930. Ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus, the most frequently studied species before 1960, was overtaken by willow ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus in the 1970s, after which bla...