Issue 1/2012
Content (19 Articles)
Common names of species, the curious case of Capra pyrenaica and the concomitant steps towards the ‘wild-to-domestic’ transformation of a flagship species and its vernacular names
Mathieu Sarasa, Samer Alasaad, Jesús M. Pérez
Determinants of the diversity of plants, birds and mammals of coastal islands of the Humboldt current systems: implications for conservation
Guillermo Luna-Jorquera, Claudia E. Fernández, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira
Diversity of wood-decaying fungi under different disturbance regimes—a case study from spruce mountain forests
Claus Bässler, Jörg Müller, Miroslav Svoboda, Anna Lepšová, Christoph Hahn, Heinrich Holzer, Václav Pouska
The missing wetlands: using local ecological knowledge to find cryptic ecosystems
Amber L. Pitt, Robert F. Baldwin, Donald J. Lipscomb, Bryan L. Brown, Joanna E. Hawley, Cora M. Allard-Keese, Paul B. Leonard
Predicting the distribution of cryptic species: the case of the spur-thighed tortoise in Andalusia (southern Iberian Peninsula)
José C. Báez, Alba Estrada, Davinia Torreblanca, Raimundo Real
Improving representativeness of genebank collections through species distribution models, gap analysis and ecogeographical maps
M. Parra-Quijano, J. M. Iriondo, E. Torres
Diversity and distribution of terricolous lichens as indicator of habitat heterogeneity and grazing induced trampling in a temperate-alpine shrub and meadow
Himanshu Rai, D. K. Upreti, Rajan K. Gupta
Predicting spatially explicit coral reef fish abundance, richness and Shannon–Weaver index from habitat characteristics
Jesús Ernesto Arias-González, Gilberto Acosta-González, Néstor Membrillo, Joaquín Rodrigo Garza-Pérez, José Manuel Castro-Pérez
Communicating old-growth forest through an educational trail
Emanuele Ziaco, Alfredo Alessandrini, Silvia Blasi, Alfredo Di Filippo, Steve Dennis, Gianluca Piovesan
Methods in sustainable monitoring: plot sampling versus interviews
Lars O. Mortensen, Maj Brit Jensen
A reassessment of historical records of avian introductions to Australia: no case for propagule pressure
Michael P. Moulton, Wendell P. Cropper Jr., Linda E. Moulton, Michael L. Avery, David Peacock
Why are some biodiversity policies implemented and others ignored? Lessons from the uptake of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation by botanic gardens
Sophie J. Williams, Julia P. G. Jones, Colin Clubbe, Suzanne Sharrock, James M. Gibbons
Bringing indices of species vulnerability to climate change into geographic space: an assessment across the Coronado national forest
Jennifer E. Davison, Sharon Coe, Deborah Finch, Erika Rowland, Megan Friggens, Lisa J. Graumlich
The importance of timing and number of surveys in fungal biodiversity research
Panu Halme, Janne S. Kotiaho
Hunting, use and conservation of birds in Northeast Brazil
Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira, Sanjay Veiga Mendonça, Ciro Albano, Felipe Silva Ferreira, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
Attitudes of local people towards collective action for forest management: the case of participatory forest management in Dodola area in the Bale Mountains, Southern Ethiopia
Yemiru Tesfaye, Anders Roos, Folke Bohlin
Seasonal environments, episodic density compensation and dynamics of structure of chiropteran frugivore guilds in Paraguayan Atlantic forest
Richard D. Stevens, Heidi N. Amarilla-Stevens
Direct and indirect effects of ski run management on alpine Orthoptera
Teresa Keßler, Arne Cierjacks, Raffael Ernst, Frank Dziock
Historical records of passerine introductions to New Zealand fail to support the propagule pressure hypothesis
Michael P. Moulton, Wendell P. Cropper Jr., Michael L. Avery