Issue 5/2014
Content (16 Articles)
A continental-scale study of seed lifespan in experimental storage examining seed, plant, and environmental traits associated with longevity
David J. Merritt, Amelia J. Martyn, Phillip Ainsley, Renee E. Young, Leahwyn U. Seed, Michael Thorpe, Fiona R. Hay, Lucy E. Commander, Nancy Shackelford, Catherine A. Offord, Kingsley W. Dixon, Robin J. Probert
Relationships between the diversity patterns of vascular plants, lichens and invertebrates in the Central Asian forest-steppe ecotone
Markus Hauck, Choimaa Dulamsuren, Badamdorj Bayartogtokh, Kaman Ulykpan, Ulzhan D. Burkitbaeva, Erdenechuluun Otgonjargal, Sergei V. Titov, Tojoo Enkhbayar, Agadil K. Sundetpaev, Ulagvan Beket, Christoph Leuschner
Does size matter? Conservation implications of differing woody population sizes with equivalent occurrence and diversity of species for threatened savanna habitats
Henrique A. Mews, José Roberto R. Pinto, Pedro V. Eisenlohr, Eddie Lenza
Biodiversity surrogate effectiveness in two habitat types of contrasting gradient complexity
Jan Myšák, Michal Horsák
Bycatch species composition over time by tuna purse-seine fishery in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean
Edgar Torres-Irineo, Monin Justin Amandè, Daniel Gaertner, Alicia Delgado de Molina, Hilario Murua, Pierre Chavance, Javier Ariz, Jon Ruiz, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa
Ecological impacts of oil palm agriculture on forest mammals in plantation estates and smallholdings
Badrul Azhar, David B. Lindenmayer, Jeff Wood, Joern Fischer, Mohamed Zakaria
Costing conservation: an expert appraisal of the pollinator habitat benefits of England’s entry level stewardship
T. D. Breeze, A. P. Bailey, K. G. Balcombe, S. G. Potts
Eat your orchid and have it too: a potentially new conservation formula for Chinese epiphytic medicinal orchids
Hong Liu, Yi-Bo Luo, Joel Heinen, Mahadev Bhat, Zhong-Jian Liu
Hosting major international events leads to pest redistributions
Shaojian Li, Lei Guo, Shunxiang Ren, Paul J. De Barro, Bao-Li Qiu
Is there a future for the Cactaceae genera Copiapoa, Eriosyce and Eulychnia? A status report of a prickly situation
Isabel Larridon, Kirsty Shaw, Mauricio A. Cisternas, Anna Paizanni Guillén, Suzanne Sharrock, Sara Oldfield, Paul Goetghebeur, Marie-Stéphanie Samain
People move but cultivated plants stay: abandoned farmsteads support the persistence and spread of alien plants
Ildikó Pándi, Károly Penksza, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, György Kröel-Dulay
Big game or big loss? High deer densities are threatening woody plant diversity and vegetation dynamics
Ramón Perea, Marco Girardello, Alfonso San Miguel
Water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae), reduces benthic macroinvertebrate diversity in a protected subtropical lake in South Africa
Julie A. Coetzee, Roy W. Jones, Martin P. Hill
Classifying conservation targets based on the origin of motivation: implications over the success of community-based conservation projects
Tamia Souto, Jessica L. Deichmann, Cecilia Núñez, Alfonso Alonso