ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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How do domestic dogs influence intraguild interactions among native canids?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Harvest rates and bowhunter survey data in the Midwestern U.S. suggest both red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) populations have declined, and a recent assessment of mesocarnivore occupancy ... -
The Austrian biodiversity monitoring “ÖBM Kulturlandschaft” and a unified biodiversity number for trend assessments
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Austrian biodiversity monitoring ÖBM-Kulturlandschaft has a focus on habitat and species diversity in Austrian cultural landscapes (including alpine pastures) and started in the year 2017. The stratified random selection ... -
Conspecific attraction boosts local density while causing lags in range expansion despite high dispersal ability: experiments with a reintroduced endangered mammal
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The potential range of many species is shifting, reflecting changing ecological conditions due to climate change or the disappearance of causes of decline. The length of any lag between new habitat becoming available and ... -
Plot-based observations on rare macrofungi confined to peatland habitats in West Siberia
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Conservation of fungi largely depends on conservation of their habitats as many species are host- and habitat-specific. The peatland habitats are characterized by excess of water and acidic pH of soil, hence the mycota ... -
An overview of international legal and institutional frameworks for promoting community action in conservation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In much of the conservation discourse, the interests of humans and biodiversity are still presented as conflicting, in a relationship where satisfying the needs of one would come to the detriment of the other. This trade-off ... -
Organic farming improves the spatiotemporal stability of pollinator species richness
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The spatiotemporal stability of the biodiversity of service providers such as insect pollinators is critical to guarantee high and stable levels of ecosystem services in agroecosystems. The proportion of semi-natural ... -
The role of soft law vs hard law instruments in the enforcement of biodiversity offsets and their impacts on stakeholders
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The enforcement of biodiversity offsets is of utmost important for their effectiveness. According to many studies, the principal reasons offsets fail to achieve their intended purpose in regulatory systems are the lack of ... -
The effects of flower-rich fields on biodiversity-based ecosystem services in the agricultural landscape.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The rising demand of agricultural products has led to agricultural intensification based on external inputs. Therefore, biodiversity and semi-natural habitats in agricultural landscapes have decreased in the last decades. ... -
Cultural Brand or Resource Reserve? : a 'Yellowstone Index' of public interest in National Parks
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The term national park has public meaning and institutional definition. The first derives from an ideal, promoted by prominent citizens between ca. 1850 and 1970 that, through the preservation and enjoyment of spectacular ... -
Integration of evolutionary diversity in conservation planning: recent advances and new perspectives
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Spatial conservation planning has evolved remarkably in past decades, moving from strategies consisting in identifying spatial patterns of species richness, endemism and turnover to sophisticated prioritization frameworks ... -
Ecological intensification: using wildlife-friendly farming to increases crop yield
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Ecologically intensifying arable agricultural systems by manipulating underlying ecosystem services represents a fundamental requirement to reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture. While there is considerable ... -
Can manipulation of ungulate herbivory facilitate biodiversity conservation for forest vegetation and invertebrates?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Livestock grazing and ‘overabundance’ of large wild herbivores in forests have long been perceived as conflicting with the aims of both silviculture and forest conservation; however, herbivory can also help to maintain ... -
Diversity of Bamboos in north-eastern region of India with a note on their flowering occurrences from the area
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Bamboos (Poaceae), the ‘Green Gold’ of India are a wonderful gift of nature to mankind. These tree grasses contribute a significant component of tropical moist deciduous – evergreen forests and temperate – alpine forests ... -
Crops in a Changing World: Hidden Forest-Agriculture Teleconnections
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Advances in climate change modeling have uncovered eco-climate teleconnections where changes in weather or the environment in one location affect distant regions. Recent studies demonstrate that loss of forest cover in one ... -
Disentangling homonyms- using artificial neural networks to separate the cream from the crop in large text corpora
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Recent years have seen a great influx in scientific publications as well other sources of text corpora that are used for conservation research. This surge holds much promise in promoting great advancements in science, but ... -
Citizens may boost primary biodiversity knowledge - insights from the Danish fungal Atlas
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Danish Fungal Atlas ran from 2009-13 and contributed with almost 250.000 records of fruit-body forming Basidiomycota (macrofungi) mainly submitted by volunteer citizen scientists. The data has been utilized in several ... -
Assessing the status, threats and future conservation action for the critically endangered Chinese alligator in Southern Anhui Province, China
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Chinese ecosystems are facing intense biodiversity loss. Pressure on ecosystems is particularly severe in the Yangtze basin, a 220,000 km2 area supporting 300 million people in eastern China. The Chinese alligator (Alligator ... -
Why we will accept your paper in Biological Conservation?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)As the Editor in Chief of Biological Conservation, one of the leading journals of the field, I will outline the major directions of the journal and provide future authors with a tool box to help them with their submission. ... -
Protect Your Roots : Working to Restore and Conserve Native Forests in Ireland Using a Grass Root Approach linking Natural and Cultural Heritage
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Protect Your Roots : Working to Restore and Conserve Native Forests in Ireland Using a Grass root Approach Linking Natural and Cultural Heritage. Andrew St. Ledger - The Woodland League, Ireland The Woodland League: ... -
Trajectory analyses of past human land use as a tool to understand present terrestrial mammals' distribution
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Apart from the known environmental factors influencing species distribution at the global scale, additional anthropogenic factors need to be considered in order to understand their current extents of occurrence. Namely, ...