Issue 5/2009
Themed issue: Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation
Content (22 Articles)
Annelids, arthropods or molluscs are suitable as surrogate taxa for selecting conservation reserves in estuaries
Mohammad Reza Shokri, William Gladstone, Andrew Kepert
Species’ surrogacy for conservation planning: caveats from comparing the response of three arboreal rodents to habitat loss and fragmentation
Alessio Mortelliti, Giulia Santulli Sanzo, Luigi Boitani
Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland
John R. Gollan, Michael B. Ashcroft, Gerasimos Cassis, Andrew P. Donnelly, Scott A. Lassau
Collembola as bioindicators of restoration in mined sand dunes of Northeastern Brazil
Douglas Zeppelini, Bruno Cavalcante Bellini, Antônio José Creão-Duarte, Malva Isabel Medina Hernández
An easy-to-use index of ecological integrity for prioritizing freshwater sites and for assessing habitat quality
John P. Simaika, Michael J. Samways
Changes in arthropod diversity along a land use driven gradient of shrub cover in savanna rangelands: identification of suitable indicators
Niels Blaum, Colleen Seymour, Eva Rossmanith, Monika Schwager, Florian Jeltsch
Developing a scuba trail vulnerability index (STVI): a case study from a Mediterranean MPA
Antonio Di Franco, Agnese Marchini, Pasquale Baiata, Marco Milazzo, Renato Chemello
Monitoring large herbivore diversity at different scales: comparing direct and indirect methods
Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt, Susan J. van Rensburg, Rampal S. Etienne, Han Olff
A comparison of Australia’s anuran records against the reserve system
Francis Lemckert, Dan Rosauer, Cameron Slatyer
Sustainable biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta: a practical approach to conservation site selection
P. O. Phil-Eze, I. C. Okoro
Rarity and site selection for bryophyte conservation
Des A. Callaghan, Paul A. Ashton
Implications of location specific data and their usefulness in conservation planning: an example from Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)
Gayatri Mahar, U. Dhar, R. S. Rawal, I. D. Bhatt
Assessing habitat/landscape predictors of bird diversity in managed deciduous forests: a seasonal and guild-based approach
Enrico Caprio, Ivan Ellena, Antonio Rolando
A statistical methodology for tracking long-term change in reporting rates of birds from volunteer-collected presence–absence data
Ross Cunningham, Penny Olsen
Scenario-based assessment of future land use change on butterfly species distributions
Michael Lütolf, Janine Bolliger, Felix Kienast, Antoine Guisan
Does illegal hunting affect density and behaviour of African grassland birds? A case study on ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Flora John Magige, Tomas Holmern, Sigbjørn Stokke, Charles Mlingwa, Eivin Røskaft
A rapid and cost-effective tool for managing habitats of the European Natura 2000 network: a case study in the Italian Alps
Rossi Graziano, Parolo Gilberto, Ferrarini Alessandro
Markov models of territory occupancy: implications for the management and conservation of competing species
Pascual López-López, Alvaro Soutullo, Clara García-Ripollés, Vicente Urios, Luis Cadahía, Miguel Ferrer
Estimating historical commercial rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) catch inside Australian State territorial waters for marine protected area assessment: the binomial likelihood method
Richard McGarvey, Adrian Linnane
How bryophytes came out of the cold: successful cryopreservation of threatened species
J. K. Rowntree, M. M. Ramsay
Understanding investment in biodiversity conservation in Mexico
Ramón Pérez Gil Salcido, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Roberto Romero Ramírez