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Biodiversity and Conservation

Issue 1/2024

Content (20 Articles)

Review Paper

Drivers of tropical deforestation: a global review of methodological approaches and analytical scales

Katie P. Bernhard, Aurélie C. Shapiro, Carter A. Hunt

Open Access Original Research

Environmental DNA from soil reveals the presence of a “lost” Afrotherian species

Samantha Mynhardt, Esther Matthew, Jean Pierre le Roux, Ian Little, Paulette Bloomer, Cobus Theron

Original Research

Conservation status of vascular epiphytes in the neotropics

Maria Judith Carmona-Higuita, Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Jorge Antonio Gómez-Díaz, Fabricio Villalobos, Flavio Nunes Ramos, João Pedro Costa Elias, Derio Antonio Jiménez-López, Alejandro Zuluaga, Bruce Holst, Michael Kessler, Guido Mathieu, Alexander Zizka, Gerhard Zotz, Thorsten Krömer

Open Access Original Research

Effects of protected areas on soil nematode communities in forests of the North of Portugal

A. Carolina Duarte, Carlos A. Guerra, Concha Cano-Díaz, Romy Zeiss, Cláudia Carvalho-Santos, Rui P. Carvalho, Sofia R. Costa

Open Access Original Research

From the forest to the city: the persistence of dragonflies and damselflies in the urban jungle

Catalina M. Suárez-Tovar, Maya Rocha-Ortega, Leandro Juen, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar

Original Paper

Life form-specific facilitative interactions determine plant biodiversity in global drylands

Maral Bashirzadeh, Richard P. Shefferson, Hamid Ejtehadi, Mohammad Farzam

Original Research

Extreme predation of eggs and hatchlings for loggerhead turtles in eastern Indian Ocean

Casper Avenant, Scott Whiting, Sabrina Fossette, Peter Barnes, Glenn A. Hyndes

Open Access Original Research

Significant decline in habitat specialists in semi-dry grasslands over four decades

Klára Klinkovská, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Bohumil Trávníček, Milan Chytrý

Original Research

Undestroyed winter cover crop strips support wild bee abundance and diversity in intensive cropping systems

Coralie Triquet, Alexander Wezel, Vincent Tolon, Aurélie Ferrer

Open Access Original Research

Documentation of commercial and subsistence hunting of Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in northeastern Madagascar

Dominik Schüßler, Stephan Michel Rafamantanantsoa, Jonah H. Ratsimbazafy, Torsten Richter, Ute Radespiel

Open Access Original Research

Unravelling the genetic pattern of seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadows in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Victoria Litsi-Mizan, Catalina A. García-Escudero, Costas S. Tsigenopoulos, Kostas Tsiaras, Vasilis Gerakaris, Eugenia T. Apostolaki

Original Research

Identifying priority areas using a multispecies approach for the conservation of marine megafauna species vulnerable to bycatch in commercial gillnet fisheries

Maíra Moita Saüt, Danielle da Silveira Monteiro, Jonatas Henrique Prado, Maria Grazia Pennino, Eduardo Resende Secchi

Original Research

Few havens for threatened Australian animal taxa that are highly susceptible to introduced and problematic native species

John C. Z. Woinarski, David G. Chapple, Stephen T. Garnett, Sarah M. Legge, Mark Lintermans, Ben C. Scheele

Original Research

Dominance and identity of the dominant bee drive bee diversity on flowers

Sangeetha Varma, T. P. Rajesh, K. Manoj, G. Asha, T. Jobiraj, Palatty Allesh Sinu

Original Research

Analysing spatiotemporal patterns of snake occurrence in an Australian city to help manage human-wildlife conflict

Brenton von Takach, Damian Christopher Lettoof, Tom Parkin, Alana de Laive, Luke Allen, Chris J. Jolly

Open Access Original Research

Genetic surfing during the range expansion of an endangered large carnivore

Laura Tensen, Mathias Currat, Harriet Davies-Mostert, Cole du Plessis, Klaus Fischer

Original Research

Regional assessment of diversity and distribution of native tree species in South Asia

Harsh Yadav, Shyam S. Phartyal, Yuki Iwachido, Takehiro Sasaki

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Elevational changes in canopy Collembola community composition are primarily driven by species turnover on Changbai Mountain, northeastern China

Yunga Wu, Zhijing Xie, Zhuoma Wan, Qiao-Qiao Ji, Jingjing Yang, Ting-Wen Chen, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu