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Management coverage and spatial gaps for carnivore habitat across Mexico 墨西哥食肉动物栖息地的管理覆盖范围和空间缺口

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70361

Germar González, Nyeema C. Harris

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Shepherds' perception of the effectiveness and feasibility of herd protection measures against wolf predation in Lower Saxony, Germany 德国下萨克森州牧羊人对羊群保护措施的有效性和可行性的看法

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-20 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70374

Elena Kortmann, Eick von Ruschkowski, Michael Schoon, Jacqueline Loos

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Removing wolves did not reliably prevent domestic animal losses 除去狼并不能可靠地防止家畜的损失

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-18 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70388

Adrian Treves, Dror Ben-Ami, Ari M. Cornman, Martin Dul'a, Igor Khorozyan, Miha Krofel, Miroslav Kutal, José V. López-Bao, Rona Nadler Valency, Shlomo Preiss-Bloom, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, Jurģis Šuba, Agrita Žunna

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CITES Appendix III: An underused tool for international wildlife trade regulation CITES附录III：未充分利用的国际野生动物贸易监管工具

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70362

Freyja Watters, Phillip Cassey

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Disparities in delegation size and their implications for equitable participation at CITES CoP meetings 代表团规模的差异及其对公平参与CITES缔约方会议的影响

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70380

Freyja Watters, Phillip Cassey

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Change in habitat over time for the rare, endemic Pediocactus paradinei 随着时间的推移，稀有的，特有的天竺葵栖息地的变化

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70385

Sarah C. Colombo, Sara Souther, Karen A. Haubensak, Clare E. Aslan

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The pantropical biodiversity footprint of oil palm 油棕的泛热带生物多样性足迹

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-21 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70394

Yingtong Zhu, Jacqueline Choo, Cong Xia, Luis Roman Carrasco

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Leveraging urban greenspaces to bolster regional conservation priorities 利用城市绿地加强区域保护重点

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-09 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70373

Cesar O. Estien, Avery P. Hill, Tom Robinson, Rebecca F. Johnson, Christopher J. Schell, Christine E. Wilkinson

{"title":"Leveraging urban greenspaces to bolster regional conservation priorities","authors":"Cesar O. Estien, Avery P. Hill, Tom Robinson, Rebecca F. Johnson, Christopher J. Schell, Christine E. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1111/csp2.70373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70373","url":null,"abstract":"Cities offer viable habitat and are frequently located in biodiversity hotspots, but are often overlooked in conservation planning. Here, we investigated how urban greenspaces can support conservation goals within the Conservation Lands Network, a regional biodiversity conservation plan for the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area, which classifies lands that are either essential for or contributing to meeting biodiversity conservation goals using Marxan model selection. We compared vegetation (normalized difference vegetation index [NDVI]), biodiversity, and connectivity using an indicator species framework for the three most populous cities (Oakland, SF, and San Jose) in the Bay Area in three categories: greenspaces selected by Marxan as essential, greenspaces not selected by Marxan as essential, and all greenspaces. We found that greenspaces selected as essential were significantly larger in area and had a higher mean NDVI than non-essential greenspaces. Indicator species richness was not significantly higher in greenspaces selected as essential in all three cities, while in SF, non-essential and all greenspaces had significantly more biodiversity than essential greenspaces. Connectivity for three indicator species also significantly improved in all cities when incorporating non-essential greenspaces. Our results demonstrate that including urban greenspaces can bolster regional conservation goals, supporting state and federal goals.","PeriodicalId":51337,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Science and Practice","volume":"8 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/csp2.70373","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bovines, buffers and barriers: A social scientific perspective on rewilding in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area 牛、缓冲和屏障：卡万戈-赞比西跨境保护区放归的社会科学视角

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70384

Wisse Van Engelen, Paula Alexiou, Manuel Bollmann, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler, Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs, Michael Bollig

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Small datasets support conservation: Improving detectability for the elusive rusty-spotted cat 小数据集支持保护：提高对难以捉摸的锈斑猫的可探测性

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Conservation Science and Practice Pub Date : 2026-09-11 Epub Date: 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70368

Chandima Fernando, Michael A. Weston, Ravi Corea, Ranawaka A. D. D. Dilip Samaranayake, Anthony R. Rendall

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