Biodiversity and Conservation

Preparation for propagation: understanding germination of giwa (Astrocaryum standleyanum), wagara (Sabal mauritiiformis), and eba (Socratea exorrhiza) for future cultivation

Catherine Potvin, Rogelio Cansari, Jane Hutton, Inocencio Caisamo, Bonarge Pacheco

Ground spider diversity in the Kenting uplifted coral reef forest, Taiwan: a comparison between habitats receiving various disturbances

Yu-Lung Hsieh, Yao-Sung Lin, I-Min Tso

Potential invasion of China by exotic insect pests associated with tree seeds

Alain Roques, Jiang-Hua Sun, Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg, Ouyang Hua

Effects of restoration with cattle grazing on plant species composition and richness of semi-natural grasslands

Juha Pykälä

Genebank biodiversity assessments regarding optimal sample size and seed harvesting techniques for the regeneration of carrot accessions

Valerie Le Clerc, Mathilde Briard, Jacky Granger, Jerome Delettre

Hotspots and ecoregions: a test of conservation priorities using taxonomic data

Gary A. Krupnick, W. John Kress

A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

Hans Ter Steege, Nigel Pitman, Daniel Sabatier, Hernan Castellanos, Peter Van Der Hout, Douglas C. Daly, Marcos Silveira, Oliver Phillips, Rodolfo Vasquez, Tinde Van Andel, Joost Duivenvoorden, Alexandre Adalardo De Oliveira, Renske Ek, Ramesh Lilwah, Raquel Thomas, Jessica Van Essen, Claudia Baider, Paul Maas, Scott Mori, John Terborgh, Percy NúÑez Vargas, Hugo Mogollón, Wilfried Morawetz

Bird community composition in an actively managed savanna reserve, importance of vegetation structure and vegetation composition

A.L. Skowno, W.J. Bond

Plant diversity in managed sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn.) forests of Gorakhpur, India: species composition, regeneration and conservation

S.K. Pandey, R.P. Shukla

A case study to quantify the value of voucher specimens for invertebrate conservation: ant records in Lower Austria

Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Florian M. Steiner, Stefan Schödl

Les chauves-souris de Guyane