1 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom 2 Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom 3 Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom 4 Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 5 Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada 6 WildTeam ...

Agreements Are Needed to Preserve Vultures and the Crucial Sanitary Service They Provide Antoni Margalida,†,* Raphael̈ Arlettaz,† and Jose ́ A. Donaźar‡ †Division of Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland ‡Department of Conservation Biology, Estacioń Bioloǵica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Ameŕico Vespucio s/n, Isla de la ...

The book written by seventeen experts in the field of rangeland management, this compilation of essays brings to light the latent issues concerning this subject to readers all over the globe. Though technical approaches can address some issues, social processes ultimately prevent the balancing of these matters. Socio-economic and political institutions are often a stumbling block for improving ...

Jens-Christian Svenning, Pil B. M. Pedersen, C. Josh Donlan, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Søren Faurby, Mauro Galetti, Dennis M. Hansen, Brody Sandel, Christopher J. Sandom, John W. Terborgh, and Frans W. M. Vera Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; Advanced Conservation Strategies, Midway, UT 84049; Department of Ecology and Evolu...

The only thing about Nature that is certain and absolute is patchiness in space and time. All landscapes are patchy over a range of scales as consequences of natural and anthropogenic processes. To understand the dynamics of hierarchically structured, heterogeneous systems, models are important in several ways. Models can be used to generate new hypotheses, to clarify and test existing hypothes...

non-parametric method to uncover periodic patterns of space use in animal tracking data” Guillaume Péron, Chris H. Fleming, Rogerio C. de Paula, and Justin M. Calabrese Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, 1500 Remount Rd., Front Royal, VA 22630 Department of Biology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742 ...

1 Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. Tel. +49-331-977-2480 Fax +49-331-977-2092 email: [email protected] 2 Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. 3 Current address: Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management AN...

Uncertainty is pervasive in ecology where the difficulties of dealing with sources of uncertainty are exacerbated by variation in the system itself. Attempts at classifying uncertainty in ecology have, for the most part, focused exclusively on epistemic uncertainty. In this paper we classify uncertainty into two main categories: epistemic uncertainty (uncertainty in determinate facts) and lingu...

Three-dimensional range shifts in biodiversity driven by recent global warming 1 2 Peter Haase, Fengqing Li, Andrea Sundermann, Armin W. Lorenz, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Stefan Stoll 3 4 Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum 5 Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany 6 Department of River and Floodplain Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University o...

1 Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Integrative Ecology Department, Estación Biológica de Doñana Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain 2 Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 4 Departament de Didàctica de les Ciències ...