Journal: Biodiversity and Conservation

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  • Species richness, taxonomy and peculiarities of the neotropical rust fungi
    Item type: Journal Article
    Berndt, Reinhard (2012)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • People, money, and protected areas: the collection of the caterpillar mushroom Ophiocordyceps sinensis in the Baima Xueshan Nature Reserve, Southwest China
    Item type: Journal Article
    Weckerle, Caroline S.; Yang, Yongping; Huber, Franz K.; et al. (2010)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Rotational fallows as overwintering habitat for grassland arthropods
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schmidt, Michael H.; Rocker, Sabine; Hanafi, Jamal; et al. (2008)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • How do biodiversity and conservation values relate to landscape preferences?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Soliva, Reto; Hunziker, Marcel (2009)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Hotspots and richness pattern of grasshopper species in cultural landscapes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Steck, Claude E.; Buergi, Matthias; Coch, Thomas; et al. (2007)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • An economic analysis of reforestation with a native tree species: the case of Vietnamese farmers
    Item type: Journal Article
    Nguyen, T.T.; Köllner, T.; Le, Q.B.; et al. (2014)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Native faunal communities depend on habitat from non-native plants in novel but not in natural ecosystems
    Item type: Journal Article
    Packer, Jasmin; Delean, Steve; Kueffer, Christoph; et al. (2016)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
    Invasive non-native plants are a major driver of native biodiversity loss, yet native biodiversity can sometimes benefit from non-native species. Depending on habitat context, even the same non-native species can have positive and negative effects on biodiversity. Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus aggregate) is a useful model organism to better understand a non-native plant with conflicting impacts on biodiversity. We used a replicated capture-mark-recapture study across 11 consecutive seasons to examine the response of small mammal diversity and abundance to vegetation structure and density associated with non-native blackberry (R. anglocandicans) in native, hybrid and blackberry-dominated novel ecosystems in Australia. Across the three habitat types, increasing blackberry dominance had a positive influence on mammal diversity, while the strength and direction of this influence varied for abundance. At a microhabitat scale within hybrid and native habitat there were no significant differences in diversity, or the abundance of most species, between microhabitats where blackberry was absent versus dominant. In contrast, in novel ecosystems diversity and abundances were very low without blackberry, yet high (comparable to native ecosystems) within blackberry as it provided functionally-analogous vegetation structure and density to the lost native understory. Our results indicate the ecological functions of non-native plant species vary depending on habitat and need to be considered for management. Comparative studies such as ours that apply a standardized approach across a broad range of conditions at the landscape and habitat scale are crucial for guiding land managers on control options for non-native species (remove, reduce or retain and contain) that are context-sensitive and scale-dependent.
  • The content of historical books as an indicator of past interest in environmental issues
    Item type: Journal Article
    Richards, Daniel R. (2013)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota
    Item type: Journal Article
    Borges, Paulo A.V.; Cardoso, Pedro; Kreft, Holger; et al. (2018)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
    Islands harbour evolutionary and ecologically unique biota, which are currently disproportionately threatened by a multitude of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss, invasive species and climate change. Native forests on oceanic islands are important refugia for endemic species, many of which are rare and highly threatened. Long-term monitoring schemes for those biota and ecosystems are urgently needed: (i) to provide quantitative baselines for detecting changes within island ecosystems, (ii) to evaluate the effectiveness of conservation and management actions, and (iii) to identify general ecological patterns and processes using multiple island systems as repeated ‘natural experiments’. In this contribution, we call for a Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS) for monitoring the remaining native island forests, using bryophytes, vascular plants, selected groups of arthropods and vertebrates as model taxa. As a basis for the GIMS, we also present new, optimized monitoring protocols for bryophytes and arthropods that were developed based on former standardized inventory protocols. Effective inventorying and monitoring of native island forests will require: (i) permanent plots covering diverse ecological gradients (e.g. elevation, age of terrain, anthropogenic disturbance); (ii) a multiple-taxa approach that is based on standardized and replicable protocols; (iii) a common set of indicator taxa and community properties that are indicative of native island forests’ welfare, building on, and harmonized with existing sampling and monitoring efforts; (iv) capacity building and training of local researchers, collaboration and continuous dialogue with local stakeholders; and (v) long-term commitment by funding agencies to maintain a global network of native island forest monitoring plots.
  • How effective are ecological metrics in supporting conservation and management in degraded streams?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mathers, Kate L.; Robinson, Christopher T.; Hill, Matthew; et al. (2024)
    Biodiversity and Conservation
    Biodiversity loss is increasing worldwide, necessitating effective approaches to counteract negative trends. Here, we assessed aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in two river catchments in Switzerland; one significantly degraded and associated with urbanisation and instream barriers, and one in a near-natural condition. Contrary to our expectations, environmental heterogeneity was lower in the near-natural stream, with enhanced productivity in the degraded system resulting in a greater range of environmental conditions. At face value, commonly employed alpha, beta and gamma biodiversity metrics suggested both catchments constituted healthy systems, with greater richness or comparable values recorded in the degraded system relative to the near-natural one. Further, functional metrics considered to be early indicators for anthropogenic disturbance, demonstrated no anticipated differences between degraded and near-natural catchments. However, investigating the identity of the taxa unique to each river system showed that anthropogenic degradation led to replacement of specialist, sensitive species indicative of pristine rivers, by generalist, pollution tolerant species. These replacements reflect a major alteration in community composition in the degraded system compared with the near-natural system. Total nitrogen and fine sediment were important in distinguishing the respective communities. We urge caution in biodiversity studies that employ numerical biodiversity metrics alone. Assessing just one aspect of diversity, such as richness, is not sufficient to track biodiversity changes associated with environmental stress. We advocate that biodiversity monitoring for conservation and management purposes must go beyond traditional richness biodiversity metrics, to include indices that incorporate detailed nuances of biotic communities that relates to taxon identity.
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