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Biodiversity and Conservation

Issue 10/2023

Content (22 Articles)

Open Access Review Paper

The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka: history and present status

Thakshila D. Gunawansa, Kithsiri Perera, Armando Apan, Nandita K. Hettiarachchi

Review Paper

Bridging global knowledge gaps in biodiversity databases: a comprehensive data synthesis on tree diversity of India

Muzamil Ahmad Mugal, Sajad Ahmad Wani, Firdous Ahmad Dar, Tajamul Islam, Ruquia Gulzar, Akhtar Hussain Malik, Chintala Sudhakar Reddy, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo

Original Research

Passive acoustic monitoring in difficult terrains: the case of the Principe Scops-Owl

Bárbara Freitas, Yves Bas, Aloïs Robert, Claire Doutrelant, Martim Melo

Open Access Original Research

Disentangling the effects of fishing and temperature to explain increasing fish species richness in the North Sea

D. Ieuan Jones, Tanja Miethe, Elizabeth D. Clarke, C. Tara Marshall

Open Access Original Research

Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Piero Zannini, Gianluca Piovesan, Nicola Alessi, Alberto Basset, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Michele Di Musciano, Richard Field, John M. Halley, Samuel Hoffmann, Jacopo Iaria, Athanasios Kallimanis, Gabor L. Lövei, Albert Morera, Antonello Provenzale, Duccio Rocchini, Ole R. Vetaas, Alessandro Chiarucci

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Piero Zannini, Gianluca Piovesan, Nicola Alessi, Alberto Basset, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Michele Di Musciano, Richard Field, John M. Halley, Samuel Hoffmann, Jacopo Iaria, Athanasios Kallimanis, Gabor L. Lövei, Albert Morera, Antonello Provenzale, Duccio Rocchini, Ole R. Vetaas, Alessandro Chiarucci

Open Access Original Research

Effect of local climate anomalies on giraffe survival

Monica L. Bond, Arpat Ozgul, Derek. E. Lee

Open Access Original Research

Using heterogeneous camera-trapping sites to obtain the first density estimates for the transboundary Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population in the Dinaric Mountains

Urša Fležar, Malin Aronsson, Rok Černe, Aleš Pičulin, Matej Bartol, Matija Stergar, Andrej Rot, Lan Hočevar, Ira Topličanec, Magda Sindičić, Tomislav Gomerčić, Vedran Slijepčević, Miha Krofel

Open Access Original Research

Anthropogenic activities affect forest structure and arthropod abundance in a Kenyan biodiversity hotspot

Gladys Nyakeru Kung’u, Laurence Cousseau, Mwangi Githiru, Jan Christian Habel, Mwangi Kinyanjui, Kennedy Matheka, Christine B. Schmitt, Tobias Seifert, Mike Teucher, Luc Lens, Beate Apfelbeck

Open Access Original Research

Spatial patterns and drivers of benthic community structure on the northern Adriatic biogenic reefs

Fabrizio Gianni, Eva Turicchia, Marco Abbiati, Barbara Calcinai, Annalisa Caragnano, Saul Ciriaco, Federica Costantini, Sara Kaleb, Luigi Piazzi, Stefania Puce, Stefano Querin, Fabio Rindi, Cosimo Solidoro, Vinko Bandelj, Massimo Ponti, Annalisa Falace

Open Access Original Research

Evaluation of a potential umbrella species using favourability models: the case of the endangered little bustard (Tetrax tetrax) and steppe birds

Manuel B. Morales, Ángela Merencio, Eladio L. García de la Morena

Open Access Original Research

Forest fragmentation and its associated edge-effects reduce tree species diversity, size, and structural diversity in Madagascar’s transitional forests

Daniel Hending, Heriniaina Randrianarison, Niaina Nirina Mahefa Andriamavosoloarisoa, Christina Ranohatra-Hending, Marc Holderied, Grainne McCabe, Sam Cotton

Open Access Original Research

Saproxylic beetles respond to habitat variables at different spatial scales depending on variable type and species’ mobility: the need for multi-scale forest structure management

Nathalie Winiger, Anna-Lena Hendel, Selina Ganz, Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner, Gernot Segelbacher, Veronika Braunisch

Original Research

Local and landscape contrasts of the occurrence of native and invasive marmosets in the Atlantic forest biome

Carla Cristina Gestich, Geanne Conceição de Souza, Clarissa Rosa, Marcelo Passamani, Érica Hasui, Rogério Grassetto Teixeira da Cunha

Original Research

Island characteristics and species traits predict mammal diversity across islands of the great lakes of North America

Nathaniel H. Wehr, Hailey M. Boone, Samuel R. Wehr, Jerrold L. Belant

Open Access Original Research

Documenting the biodiversity of edible grasshoppers in South Africa with traditional knowledge, classic taxonomy and genetic information

Michaela O’Hare, Sylvain Hugel, Megan Hendrickse, Christi Greyling, Bronwyn Egan, Barbara van Asch