Biological Conservation最新文献

{"title":"The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database: 20 years of collaboration for marine conservation","authors":"Ana P.B. Carneiro ,&nbsp;Maria P. Dias ,&nbsp;Bethany L. Clark ,&nbsp;Elizabeth J. Pearmain ,&nbsp;Jonathan Handley ,&nbsp;Amy R. Hodgson ,&nbsp;John P. Croxall ,&nbsp;Richard A. Phillips ,&nbsp;Steffen Oppel ,&nbsp;Joanne M. Morten ,&nbsp;Ben Lascelles ,&nbsp;Cleo Cunningham ,&nbsp;Frances E. Taylor ,&nbsp;Mark G.R. Miller ,&nbsp;Philip R. Taylor ,&nbsp;Alice Bernard ,&nbsp;David Grémillet ,&nbsp;Tammy E. Davies","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110813","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110813","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) was established in 2004 to collate tracking data to address the incidental mortality of seabirds in fisheries and to contribute to identification of sites at sea relevant to establishment of Marine Protected Areas. After 20 years, the STDB has grown to hold ca. 39 million locations for 168 species from &gt;450 breeding sites. The STDB has become a powerful tool to support marine conservation by facilitating the compilation of robust multi-species data to address broad-scale questions, made possible by continuous collaboration with the scientific community. The STDB has facilitated major marine conservation outcomes, including the designation of the first marine protected area to be identified solely using tracking data. Advocacy based on analyses demonstrating overlaps between seabirds and fisheries have led to the adoption of seabird-bycatch mitigation measures by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations. The STDB has also provided compelling evidence for migratory connectivity in the ocean, and been crucial in informing many policy instruments at scales from national (e.g. protection and management of important sites identified from tracking data), to regional (e.g. working with Regional Conventions), to global (e.g. the identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas). This review presents an overview of 1) how the STDB started and gained traction, 2) its current status in terms of data coverage and gaps, 3) methodological developments, 4) conservation successes, 5) the opportunities and challenges experienced in managing this global database, and 6) research priorities and future directions for seabird tracking studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110813"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Introduced fish reduce the occurrence of shrews in alpine lakes","authors":"Lucia Bello ,&nbsp;Andreu Albó ,&nbsp;Pere Aymerich ,&nbsp;Teresa Buchaca ,&nbsp;Jennifer Caner ,&nbsp;Elisa Cardarelli ,&nbsp;Anna Corapi ,&nbsp;Laia Nogué ,&nbsp;Víctor Osorio ,&nbsp;Ibor Sabás ,&nbsp;Giacomo Sacchi ,&nbsp;Flavia Suraci ,&nbsp;Marc Ventura ,&nbsp;Rocco Tiberti","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110830","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110830","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Widespread fish introductions into originally fishless mountain lakes have had severe consequences for native biota, including aquatic macroinvertebrates, which provide important food subsidies for terrestrial and semiaquatic insectivores like shrews (Fam. Soricidae). Since both fish and shrews rely on aquatic macroinvertebrates as food, whether in their larval or imaginal stage, we investigated if fish presence had adverse effects on shrews. Baited tubes were deployed to monitor the presence/absence of shrews by collecting their scats in lakes with and without fish in the western Italian Alps. Only two species, the Valais shrew (<em>Sorex antinorii</em>) and the Eurasian water shrew (<em>Neomys fodiens</em>), were found inhabiting the lakes' edges, where they fed on aquatic insect subsidies. The results indicate a significant pattern of exclusion between shrews and introduced fish. This negative association was especially evident in the presence of large-bodied fish (i.e., salmonids), but also of small fish (i.e., cyprinids). Consistently, compared to naturally fishless lakes, those with fish exhibit a lower availability of aquatic prey, representing a significant portion of the diet of both shrew species. Overall, our findings suggest that the impact on shrews may be mediated by a complex interplay of competition and predation between fish and shrews. Fish impacts may extend beyond the lakes to insectivorous mammals in surrounding areas. We recommend that the potential benefits to species and habitats reliant on aquatic subsidies be considered and integrated into conservation and restoration plans, and that these findings be communicated to the public to foster greater support for restoration efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110830"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Connectivity conservation to mitigate climate and land-cover change impacts on Borneo","authors":"Matthew J. Struebig ,&nbsp;Moritz Wenzler ,&nbsp;Rebecca K. Runting ,&nbsp;Elizabeth Law ,&nbsp;Sugeng Budiharta ,&nbsp;David Seaman ,&nbsp;Stephanie Kramer-Schadt","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Enhancing connectivity between protected areas is crucial for facilitating species range shifts in response to climate change. Yet spatial planning for this connectivity often overlooks the combined impacts of climate and land-cover change, particularly in tropical regions where habitat loss is a more immediate biodiversity threat.</div><div>We explore the need for connectivity between protected areas to mitigate the dual impacts of climate- and land-cover change on Borneo. Using habitat suitability models and combined climate and land-cover change forecasts, we develop connectivity models for present and future scenarios, identifying optimal connections between protected areas for 81 species. By considering restoration and opportunity economic costs, we also explore the cost-benefit trade-offs of implementing connectivity plans.</div><div>Connectivity solutions varied among species, but often converged on the same connections between protected areas, with contemporary connections traversing 6 to 40 km and comprising 67 % forest cover, on average. By the 2080s there were fewer connections, and while many were shorter, they also comprised poorer quality habitat, reflecting reductions in forest cover and species distributions. As a result, the economic cost of creating corridors between protected areas was estimated to be 65 % higher in 2080 than in 2020.</div><div>Our analysis highlights the urgent need to prioritize connectivity interventions early to maximize long-term benefits for multiple species facing climate-change disruption while minimizing costs. However, conservation planning in tropical regions is complex, given high rates of forest degradation and loss. Implementing our approach at finer spatial scales could help identify cost-effective areas to prioritize landscape connectivity, helping safeguard tropical biodiversity amid changing environmental conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110838"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"‘Endangered’ and ‘threatened’ mean unacceptable extinction risk: A reply to Akçakaya (2024)","authors":"George F. Wilhere","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110806"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Petracca et al. (2024) under-estimates the risk of gray wolf extinction by unscientific value judgments","authors":"Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila ,&nbsp;Bridgett M. vonHoldt ,&nbsp;Adrian Treves","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110760","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110760"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142196532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reply to Thornton and Murray: Models for Canada lynx conservation planning require nuance","authors":"Jacob S. Ivan ,&nbsp;Karen E. Hodges ,&nbsp;Joseph D. Holbrook ,&nbsp;Ron A. Moen ,&nbsp;Lucretia E. Olson ,&nbsp;John R. Squires ,&nbsp;Jennifer H. Vashon","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110836"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot","authors":"Alexandra Zieritz ,&nbsp;Christopher Gibbins ,&nbsp;Yixiong Cai ,&nbsp;Farah Diba ,&nbsp;Lydia X. Gan ,&nbsp;Manuel Lopes-Lima ,&nbsp;Jose Christopher E. Mendoza ,&nbsp;John Morse ,&nbsp;Ting Hui Ng ,&nbsp;Elysia X.P. Toh ,&nbsp;John Pfeiffer ,&nbsp;Bi Wei Low ,&nbsp;Ristiyanti Marwoto ,&nbsp;Khairul Adha A. Rahim ,&nbsp;Brooke Shellman ,&nbsp;Zohrah Sulaiman ,&nbsp;Zhi Wan Tan ,&nbsp;Daisy Wowor ,&nbsp;Noor Syarifuddin Yusuf ,&nbsp;Darren C.J. Yeo","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tropical fresh waters experience one of the highest rates of biodiversity loss globally. Effective tropical freshwater biodiversity conservation requires prioritised and concerted action that is informed by science, but efforts to synthesise the available expertise and knowledge remain lacking to date. Here, we identify the most important challenges for freshwater conservation in the tropical biodiversity hotspot Sundaland, and provide roadmaps towards addressing them. A Delphi technique for consensus building, adopted across a panel of 18 experts, identified challenges under the categories of threats, research needs, and social and policy-related challenges. Threats were ranked by their importance in terms of the spatial extent, severity and persistence, while research needs, and social and policy-related challenges were ranked according to how severely they impede conservation. The top-ranked challenges were (1) threats: deforestation, agriculture, urbanisation, water management; (2) research needs: lack of data on freshwater biodiversity, systematic biology, understanding multiple stressors and resilience of freshwater ecosystems; and (3) social and policy-related challenges: low priority of freshwater biodiversity, lack of expertise, lack of systematic conservation planning, and growth of population and affluence. Addressing these challenges requires an approach that integrates improved communication and collaboration among researchers and stakeholders, scientific outreach to improve public appreciation of freshwater biodiversity and build capacity, implementation of best practices to mitigate negative human impacts, systematic conservation planning, and adoption of novel tools and technologies to address important knowledge gaps. This work can serve as a model for prioritising conservation actions in other regions that lose biodiversity at similarly rapid rates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110839"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Conservation benefits of marine reserves depend on knowledge integration of genotypic and phenotypic diversity","authors":"Barbara Koeck ,&nbsp;Esben Moland Olsen ,&nbsp;Libor Závorka ,&nbsp;Amélie Crespel ,&nbsp;Carla Freitas ,&nbsp;Katja Enberg ,&nbsp;Even Moland ,&nbsp;Marte Sodeland ,&nbsp;Henrik Høiberg Jessen ,&nbsp;Héloïse Marte ,&nbsp;Shaun S. Killen","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conserving intraspecific trait variation is vital for maintaining the viability of species. It ensures a species to adapt to warming and increasingly stochastic environments, and to recover following extreme events. Here we investigate the selective effects of spatial management on intraspecific genetic and phenotypic variation of two sympatric but genetically distinct Atlantic cod ecotypes in a Norwegian fjord. We found that phenotypic differences between sympatric cod genotypes were mainly driven by morphological and metabolic traits. Offshore cod had higher metabolic maintenance costs at cool temperatures but lower aerobic capacity at warm acclimation than coastal ecotypes, indicative of thermal constraint of aerobic physiological processes beyond metabolic maintenance. Offshore cod also had larger and thicker peduncles and better body condition. We found that protection benefits from the no-take zone (NTZ) of the Tvedestrand marine protected area were independent of individual space-use size, but instead resulted from ecotype-specific differences in habitat occupation. Results specifically show that the current delimitations of the NTZ do not cover habitats occupied by the coastal and highly resident cod ecotype which shows greater metabolic thermal tolerance but is considered to already be in a depleted state. Our study exemplifies why protecting intraspecific diversity is directly relevant for management implementations aimed at reducing the impact of further selection pressures such as ongoing environmental change. Careful investigation of intraspecific diversity and integration of such knowledge to fisheries management and design of protected areas may prevent unwanted additional selective pressures and contribute to offer broad protection to genotypes and phenotypes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110831"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Monitoring the trade in bat taxidermy and specimens on e-commerce platforms","authors":"Sara Bronwen Hunter ,&nbsp;Julie Weeds ,&nbsp;Fiona Mathews","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wildlife trade is a major economic activity but can pose a threat to many species. Previous research has focused on the trade of bats (Chiroptera) for food and medicine but little is known about the online, international trade in bat taxidermy and specimens, which is thought to be an emerging threat. We aimed to characterise this trade by sampling two major e-commerce platforms over an 18-month period. We used an automated pipeline, whereby data were accessed programmatically; filtered using a neural-network classifier; and the locations and species mentioned in relevant listings were identified using Named Entity Recognition. We retrieved 40,412 relevant results, representing 2363 and 2116 unique listings from Etsy and eBay, respectively. Although the accuracy of listings could not be verified, most (57 %) provided species-level information. Hence, 47 bat species were listed for sale, of which 32 are not currently identified by the IUCN Red List as traded for any purpose. The highest number of listings were sold from USA, Hong Kong and the UK, whilst traded species' ranges were predominantly located in South East Asia. We provide one of the first longitudinal datasets on the online bat trade, indicating that several species are being traded at potentially high volumes, with demand from North America and Europe driving exploitation in South East Asia. This is concerning for highly-traded species which occur at low densities, such as the painted wooly bat <em>Kerivoula picta</em>. Our automated pipeline can be used for subsequent monitoring of this trade, or could be adapted for monitoring of trade in other taxa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110827"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}

{"title":"Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species","authors":"Jian Zhou ,&nbsp;Zijie Zhong ,&nbsp;Huiyuan Liu ,&nbsp;Feiling Yang ,&nbsp;Jinyi Luo ,&nbsp;Haining Qin ,&nbsp;Ruidong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The coverage of protected areas (PAs) remains far from the Kunming-Montreal target and degraded ecosystems are greatly limiting the conservation efficiency of PAs. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to identify conservation and restoration priority areas to supplement existing PAs. A case study was conducted focusing on Yunnan, southwestern China, which intersects with three world biodiversity hotspots. First, the spatial ranges for 3768 representative conservation plant species were mapped using species distribution models. Subsequently, planning units were classified into three restorability categories, namely no-need restoration, potentially restorable and non-restorable units, according to land cover changes between 2000 and 2020. Then, conservation and restoration priority areas were identified by applying a two-step systematic conservation planning process. Finally, replacement cost analysis was applied to compare the effectiveness of existing PAs and the overall 30 % priority areas. Northwestern, southwestern, and southeastern Yunnan have high biodiversity conservation values. Especially in eastern and southeastern Yunnan, large amounts of restoration priority areas were identified. Conservation and restoration priority areas account for 15.80 % and 3.69 % of Yunnan's land, respectively. Compared to existing PAs, conservation priority areas can increase the number of species covered from 2461 to 3277, and further to 3566 when including restoration priority areas. Compared to existing PAs, the mean species coverage in the overall 30 % priority areas has increased from 27.28 % to 72.69 %. Notably, 12.86 % of existing PAs were identified as restoration priority areas. This study indicates that in addition to conservation measures, implementing restoration strategies in high conservation-value areas is equally important.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110826"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}