ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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Grassroots economics for conservation: instruments and alliances for a new economic order
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Economic frameworks in conservation have so far mostly focused on the macro scale of human-environmental relations and top-down policy instruments. These approaches have been invaluable in streamlining ecological discourse ... -
Intermodel comparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services projections for the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Scenarios are powerful tools to envision how nature might respond to different pathways of future human development and policy choices. Potential global trajectories for drivers of ecosystem change have been recently ... -
Conditions for sustainable human societies
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)All populations, including humans, are sustained by fluxes of energy and materials from a finite environment. Physical constraints on biological design result in ubiquitous and predictable "allometric scaling laws" ... -
A policy analysis of biodiversity conservation in the Overseas Entities of the European Union
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The European Union (EU) includes 34 Overseas Entities (OEs): nine Outermost Regions and 25 Overseas Countries and Territories. As most OEs are tropical islands, over 80 % of the EU’s biodiversity resides in OEs, with an ... -
Conservation, local well-being and ecosystem services inside the Bwabwata National Park
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)On a global scale, high biodiversity areas show a large overlap with the indigenous people's traditional territories, hence approaches in biodiversity conservation shifted from exclusion to involvement of local people into ... -
Abandonment or ambition: Sustaining nature and society through pastoralism in 21st century Abruzzo, Italy
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The abandonment of rural and peripheral areas has been a dominant trend in Southern Europe since the rapid modernization of the 1960s. At the social level, this trend is leading to the disintegration of local communities ... -
Both organic farming and flower strips support biodiversity, but organic farming is more profitable at field scale
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been introduced to counteract the negative environmental effects caused by increased agricultural intensification in Europe (1). AES approaches can be also classified according to whether ... -
Paris Agreement commitments and EU regulation of the LULUCF-sector - implications to forests in Finland and beyond
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Paris Agreement sets a goal to limit the global average temperature increase to well-below 2°C above the pre-industrial level. This would require balance between GHG emissions and sinks within a few decades and even ... -
Lessons learnt from industry: achieving net gain outcomes for biodiversity
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Development plays a major role in stopping biodiversity loss. But the ‘silo species’ protection of legislation (where certain species are protected while many are not) means that development can be legally compliant yet ... -
The effect of natural habitat and human activities on large cat’s predation risk in a tropical landscape: including spatial and temporal scales in a two-dimensional approach
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Livestock predation by large cats represents a threat both to livestock production and to large cat conservation when retaliation occurs. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence the occurrence of attacks and ... -
Can natural enemy diversity ensure stable biological control in the future?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Natural enemy diversity generally strengthens biological control, but individual studies have found anything from positive to negative effects. However, most studies investigating the impacts of natural enemy diversity on ... -
Voluntary vs. compliance regimes for the implementation of biodiversity offsets
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The discussion about voluntary vs. mandatory offsets has risen to particular attention with the planned No Net Loss initiative of the EU and the envisaged introduction of a mandatory compensation scheme at EU level. However, ... -
Estimation of grasslands species diversity from their spectro-temporal heterogeneity using satellite image time series with high spatial and temporal resolutions
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Grasslands represent a significant source of biodiversity in farmed landscapes because of their plant and animal diversity. However, this biodiversity is threatened by the intensification of agriculture. It is therefore ... -
Development and use of radiometric indexes for assessing Mediterranean wetland functions and human well being
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Wetland ecosystems in Mediterranien regions, especially coastal, are cradles of biological diversity, providing water and primary productivity upon which countless species of plants, animals depend for survival. They offer ... -
Practical aspects in the relocation of Hermit beetle Osmoderma barnabita miropopulations in Latvia
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Hermit beetle Osmoderma barnabita is a species of beetle protected in Latvia and Europe. In accordance with the data of the report to the European Commission on the situation of habitat and species protection in Latvia for ... -
Insect assemblages of urban grasslands
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Grassland habitats of the temperate region are of critical importance for the conservation of biodiversity. In Finland, 28% of threatened species, 30% of threatened butterfly species, 25% of threatened vascular plant ... -
A highly-endangered species on the edge: distribution, habitat use and outlook for Colias myrmidone in newly established Natura 2000 areas in Romania.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Romania is one of the last strongholds of the Danube Clouded Yellow (Colias myrmidone), which is the most critically endangered and rapidly declining butterfly species in Europe. Recently, three Natura 2000 sites were ... -
Scientific basis for developing key environmental criteria of FSC forest certification standard
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Developing certification criteria requires solid scientific knowledge. An extensive review of scientific literature was carried out by the author for WWF Finland. The aim of the study is to improve eight key environmental ... -
Promoting co-existence of Saimaa ringed seal and commercial fisheries by developing a seal-safe fyke net
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is a critically endangered species, which lives only in the Saimaa lake area. Both commercial and recreational fisheries are common in the Saimaa lake area, and gillnets are one ... -
Developing a rapid assessment tool to promote voluntary private land conservation in productive landscapes
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Conservation assessments and biodiversity monitoring are key for adaptive management and are part of any conservation policy. However, designing and implementing comprehensive and affordable assessment programs remains a ...