Conservation planning

Identifying priority areas for restoring mountain ungulates in the Caucasus ecoregion
Mountain ungulates around the world have been decimated to small, fragmented populations. Restoring these species often is limited by …
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Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco
Habitat destruction and overexploitation are the main threats to biodiversity and where they co-occur, their combined impact is often …
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Mapping connectivity and conflict risk to identify safe corridors for the Persian leopard

Context

Many large carnivores depend on habitat patches outside protected areas, as well as safe corridors between them. However, …

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Untangling the imprints of climate, geography and land use/cover on bird diversity in the South American Gran Chaco

Aim

To evaluate the structure of bird communities throughout the South American Gran Chaco determining the effects of climate, …

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A pivotal year for Bolivian conservation policy
As Bolivia approaches presidential elections in October 2019, the country’s environmental leadership is at stake. We discuss urgent …
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Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas
Populations of large ungulates are dwindling worldwide. This is especially so for wild sheep, which compete with livestock for forage, …
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Biodiversity loss in deforestation frontiers: Linking occupancy modelling and physiological stress indicators to understand local extinctions
Tropical deforestation is a main driver of the global biodiversity crisis. Impact assessments typically focus on species’ …
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Conservation Telecouplings
Local threats to biodiversity are increasingly caused by distal drivers. Likewise, conservation responses are increasingly shaped by …
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Habitat loss and overhunting synergistically drive the extirpation of jaguars from the Gran Chaco
Understanding how habitat loss and overhunting impact large carnivores is important for broad-scale conservation planning. We aimed to …
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Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
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