ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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Finding solutions for the conservation of wood inhabiting fungi
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)A large fraction of wood-inhabiting fungal species have declined because of forest loss and fragmentation, in addition to a decrease in dead wood. Current protected area networks are embedded in low quality matrices which ... -
Breeding habitat of a mysterious forest bird – the woodcock in the Swiss Prealps
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is classified as vulnerable on the Red List of breeding bird species in Switzerland. In the past decades, the woodcock abandoned most breeding habitats in the lowlands and in the eastern ... -
Natural disturbance regime and habitat diversity in pristine forests landscapes (eastern part of Barents Region)
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The boreal forests provides a number of crucial ecosystem services. Unmanaged boreal forests displays high variability in structure and dynamics, which is important for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Preserving ... -
Directions in Conservation Biology Revisited
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In any scientific endeavour, the object is to understand how the natural world works. In applied sciences this endeavour is further motivated by a need to predict the effectiveness of management interventions based on ... -
Searching for snares - How much effort is enough?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The use of wire snares to hunt wildlife is prolific, particularly in the forests of Southeast Asia (1). Tackling this threat is a primary objective of law enforcement operations throughout protected areas, yet often efforts ... -
Working with pastoral communities to conserve threatened wild mammals
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In India, most of the conservation sites have local community and the policy makers as the major stake holders. However, they have been rarely involved in conservation. The alpine and subalpine meadows of Hirpora Wildlife ... -
Can Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes reduce deforestation? A robust evaluation example from the Bolivian Andes.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)There is growing interest in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a habitat conservation approach. Key questions remaining are 1) the extent to which conservation funded is additional (would not have occurred in absence ... -
Large-scale grassland restoration in Estonia – best practice and socio-economic implications
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In the beginning of 20th century, 1/3 of mainland area of Estonia – 18 000 km2 – was covered by semi-natural grasslands. Since then, similarly to all other regions in Europe, changes in land-use resulted in abandonment and ... -
Impact of Anatolian Motorway on Large Mammals: Quantifying the Permeability and Impact Zones
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Roads are one of the major structures that cause habitat fragmentation all over the world. Motorways and highways especially create a greater disturbance due to their size and extent, not only by increasing the fragmentation ... -
Enhancing salmon conservation releases through improved brain development and behaviour
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Captive breeding programmes are based on the practice of taking part of an endangered population to captive environment and releasing the captive-born offspring back to the wild. Despite the vast ecological and economical ... -
Transitions to Sustainable Livelihoods to Reduce Threats to Biodiversity in North Sulawesi, Indonesia: Lessons From the Behaviour Change and Sustainable Transition Research Traditions
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Selamatkan Yaki (SY: Indonesian for “Save the macaques”) is an education, research and conservation programme focused on protecting the Critically Endangered Sulawesi crested black macaque (Macaca nigra) and its native ... -
Assessing mitigation options for an emerging fungal pathogen threatening European and Palearctic salamander diversity
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Emerging wildlife diseases represent both a major driver of global biodiversity loss and one of the greatest challenges to conservation science. In spite of the recognized extent and magnitude of disease-driven declines ... -
Local perceptions of carnivores in Sibiloi National Park, Kenya.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) is increasingly seen as an important data source for informing conservation efforts. However, its use as a guide for the sustainable management of natural resources is still heatedly ... -
A multidisciplinary approach to identify multispecies hotspots of intra-specific diversity
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Conservation efforts are traditionally focused on species diversity, without any explicit consideration of the underlying processes that generated (and maintained in time) that same diversity. In a global change context, ... -
Air Bee n' Bee: a citizen science study of man-made solitary bee hotels as a conservation approach
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)"Air Bee n' Bee" is a citizen-science study exploring the efficacy of man-made bee hotel designs in attracting solitary bee species. The species targeted by the nests are primarily are Osmia (Mason bee) and ... -
Is climate change litigation sustainable?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)A Dutch court recently found against the Dutch State for having failed to do enough to fight climate change. In the ruling, issued in June 2016, a district court of The Hague allowed the claim filed by the environmental ... -
Global implementation of biodiversity offsets - what do we know so far?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)‘No net loss’ (NNL) biodiversity conservation policies are increasingly widespread, and yet highly controversial – and this is particularly true of biodiversity offsets (a key component of achieving NNL). But there have ... -
A new Red Book supplement prepared by the Spanish Plant Conservation Society
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The ‘Guidelines for the monitoring and evaluation of the conservation status of threatened and of special protection species in Spain’ were jointly approved in 2012 by the national and regional governments. This document ... -
What does the science say? The diversity of methods to synthesize knowledge
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Effective, unbiased and transparent methods of knowledge synthesis are a crucial element of science-policy-society interactions. A vast and rapidly expanding body of knowledge is relevant to many policy decisions. This ... -
Practical considerations for evaluating effects of connectivity and harvest on transboundary carnivore populations
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Carnivore ecologists globally have eagerly embraced the remarkable advances in field techniques (eg GPS telemetry, genetic sampling) for studying movements and vital rates of wide-ranging species. However, equally impressive ...