ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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How are we monitoring biodiversity? Indicators for evaluating and benchmarking species and habitat monitoring programmes in Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The monitoring of species and habitats is essential to biodiversity conservation. Although guidelines for biodiversity monitoring have been published since at least 1920, we know little on current practices in existing ... -
A Spatial Investigation of Wolf-Human Conflict in Turkey Based on MaxEnt Model
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Large carnivores around the world are under increasing threat due to the human-induced factors according to the recent IUCN report. Through their high dispersal capability, large carnivores generally occupy extensive range ... -
Effects of ecological restoration to promote structural variability in boreal forests
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Ecological restoration of boreal forests aims at re-instating the structure and dynamics of forests that have been degraded by silvicultural management. Forest restoration mimics natural disturbance dynamics to diversity ... -
Filling in knowledge gaps: new reports on distribution and ecological requirements for two Data Deficient East African bat species.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Efforts to sample bat biodiversity in Africa have been patchy, as reflected on the assessments of the IUCN, reporting 22% of the bat species in sub-Saharan Africa as Data Deficient[1]. This is also due to limited funding ... -
Climate change affects Lepidoptera families in different ways
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Climate change and habitat conversion are major drivers of biodiversity loss and community shifts at local scale. The majority of terrestrial biodiversity is represented by insects, which are thought to be especially ... -
Quantifying and assessing the need and potential for assisted migration
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Assisted migration (AM) has been suggested as a conservation strategy for aiding species to reach newly suitable locations as climate changes. The magnitude of decrease in range size and the extent of emerging new areas ... -
A literature review of legal hunting practices
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Humans have always hunted for food, recreation, sport or cultural reasons. However, legal hunting practices are increasingly being challenged on sustainability and animal welfare grounds, even if hunting can contribute to ... -
Biodiversity offsets: can we push the threshold for offsetable impacts by translocation of substrates and species?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Biodiversity offsets: can we push the threshold for offsetable impacts by translocation of substrates and species? Land-use have led to changes in ecosystem structures and processes, biodiversity loss, and declines in ... -
Sex-biased survival of nestlings under unfavourable conditions drives secondary sex ratio in little owls (Athene noctua)
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Identifying variation in key life history traits is crucial to predict population dynamics of endangered species. An increased bias in sex ratio as a result of low habitat quality can reinforce population decline and drive ... -
Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Land-use change is one of the primary drivers of species loss (1), yet little is known about its effect on other components of biodiversity that may be at risk (2). Here, we ask whether, and to what extent, landscape ... -
How much is enough – estimating set-aside areas in naturally disturbed forests
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The amount of naturally disturbed forests in the Northern Hemisphere has increased as a consequence of global change. Natural disturbances, such as wildfires, windstorms and insect outbreaks affect billions of trees and ... -
Association between awareness of environmental consequences, materialism and environmental philanthropic behavior among potential online donors
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Despite its importance for conservation organizations, environmental philanthropic behavior that consists of donations of both money and time, has so far been an understudied phenomenon within pro-environmental behavior ... -
Fostering deadwood enrichment in managed forests – The importance of tree species and sun exposure for saproxylic species
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Central European forests have been shaped by more than 2000 years of human exploitation. During this time, the increasing requirement of timber led to significant structural changes within the ecosystem. Because of declining ... -
Declining populations of European mountain birds
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Mountain areas often hold special species communities and are thus in the high priority list of conservation. Changes in human land use, such as grazing pressure and afforestation, and especially in climate have been ... -
Enhancing conservation of traditional rural biotopes through spatial targeting of management actions - a practical challenge
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Traditional rural biotopes (TRBs), which are biologically and culturally valuable habitats maintained by low-intensity grazing and mowing, are a core element of biodiversity in Europe. During the last decades, TRBs have ... -
Population responses to climate variability: the importance of temporal scale
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)New title: Population responses to observed climate variability across multiple taxa Global climate change is likely to lead to concomitant changes in climate means, variability, and extremes, resulting in more variable ... -
How does manipulation of dead wood affect forest biodiversity? - A systematic review
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Dead wood (DW) provides a critical habitat for thousands of wood-dependent (saproxylic) species in forests. However, intensification of forest management has heavily reduced the amount and diversity of DW. This has resulted ... -
Habitat Suitability Modelling of Endangered Kashmir Grey Langur (Semnopithecus ajax) in North Kashmir, India
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Habitat Suitability Modelling of Endangered Kashmir Grey Langur (Semnopithecus ajax) in North Kashmir, India Zaffar Rais Mir1*, Junid Nazeer Shah2, Riyaz Ahmad3, Khursheed Ahmad1, Athar Noor4, Intesar Suhail5. 1Division ... -
Forest restoration for biodiversity conservation: some case studies from Sweden
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Forest restoration for biodiversity conservation: some case studies from Sweden Because of worldwide forest degradation, eroding biodiversity and ecosystem services, ecological restoration has become a global priority. ... -
A Social Network Analysis of Scottish Goose Conflicts
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Interactions between individuals and groups drive conservation conflict. Interventions to reduce conflict based on altering interaction characteristics such as frequency, type or even existence of an interaction, require ...