ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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Wildlife restoration needs more effort to mitigate conservation conflicts: the case of large carnivore damages in Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)After centuries of decline, numbers and ranges of large carnivores have recently increased in Europe, due to the recovery of habitats and prey populations and an increased support for conservation efforts (1). A key issue ... -
How woodpeckers can save the Białowieża Forest?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Economic benefits of woodpecker watching at the Białowieża Forest Białowieża Forest (BF) is very famous for bison, beautiful old-growth stands and rich avifauna (e.g., woodpecker, owls, birds of prey, flycatchers). That's ... -
Long-term bird population changes in the protected areas of Finland under climate change
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Long-term bird population changes in the protected areas of Finland under climate change Climate warming causes poleward shifts of species ranges and populations. Also in Finland both ranges (Ref. 1) and mean weighted ... -
Quantifying climate impacts and biodiversity effects of increased forest biomass harvests – an integrated assessment
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Increasing forest biomass harvests to combat climate change by replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy may pose a trade-off with climate regulation services of forests and biodiversity conservation. Previous forest bioenergy ... -
Cleanliness, order and beauty are central values influencing the acceptance of biodiverse lawns across Europe - a cross-continental interview study
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Regularly managed lawns are emblematic features of urban green spaces. They provide utility and aesthetic values, but often exhibit low species-richness and high management costs. Management interventions that convert such ... -
Management of human-induced contemporary evolution to maintain and restore genetic diversity in brown trout
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Maintaining genetic diversity and integrity of animal populations is a key challenge in conservation. While ecological population declines can be reversed, loss of genetic diversity and original trait distribution is often ... -
Global and national biodiversity initiatives, socio-economic potential, and scalability of reintroduction of fungi into dead wood
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Data sharing, data archival and data citation are new, but increasingly important elements of the scholarly activities. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) aggregates data, shared by a global network of publishing ... -
The three-toed woodpecker: an important biodiversity indicator and model species for the conservation of biodiversity in boreal forests.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The use of biodiversity indicators have been proposed as a comprehensive method for assessing conservation values at the stand scale. In the boreal biome, the three-toed woodpecker have been proposed as an indicator for ... -
Feeding Ecology of Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Himalaya
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Mr. Anil Regmi Many threatened and endangered animals face nutritional challenges that must be considered when designing strategies for their conservation and recovery, both for wild and captive populations. Here, the diet ... -
Ecological solidarity as an avatar of Animist spirituality
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Animism is a worldview of Siberian origin that diffused out in the Americas thousands of years ago. Shamanism is its main spiritual expression, but it is also perceptible in hunting and gathering practices. It relies on ... -
Applying Systematic Reviews and Systematic Maps for devising management recommendations
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Systematic reviews and maps are becoming a golden standard for evidence synthesis in conservation and environmental management. Building upon previous studies, these research methods for collating research evidence are ... -
An Evaluation of the Impact of Payments for Ecosystem Services using a Randomized Control Trial
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) aim to incentivize land users to manage their land in ways which benefit society. However, as with many complex socio-ecological interventions, robust evaluation of PES is challenging ... -
Helping society to mitigate logging impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services of burned forests
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Over the last decades, an average of 213,000 ha of European forest has been affected by fire every year, with 90% of this area corresponding to Mediterranean countries. The timber of the burned forests is harvested by ... -
Effective conservation planning: The perception of high level stakeholders in Australia
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The discipline of systematic conservation planning began gaining popularity in the 2000s [1] and is now widely used to assess trade-offs between potential conservation actions. Almost two decades on it is now possible to ... -
Changes in species interactions within the cavity-using community in managed forest landscapes of the boreal mixedwood forest in eastern Canada
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Over the last 50 years the intensive use of even-aged management practices in the boreal forest of Canada has generated extensive landscapes of aggregated clear-cuts, which have considerably skewed the age structure of the ... -
Genetics And Introgression: The Use Of Genetics And Genomics To Manage Interactions Between Wild And Non-Native Atlantic Salmon.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Atlantic salmon in Europe inhabit a diverse range of habitats: from cold northern to warm southern rivers, from high mountain streams to lowland farmland, and from rich eutrophic to nutrient poor oligotrophic waters. Such ... -
Implementation of the land-sharing and land-sparing framework in agro-ecological corridors
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Maintaining adequate food supply while conserving biodiversity is one of the great challenges in conservation today. There is a fundamental controversy between land sparing and land sharing[1]: Land sparing favors intensive ... -
Extreme droughts as a threat to a critically endangered species in southern Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Climate change may impair the survival of rare species. In this study we used populations of the critically endangered pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) colonizing several rivers in the North of ... -
Evaluating and improving representation of ecoregions and habitat types in the Natura 2000 network of protected areas
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In order to stop biodiversity loss, the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted in 1992. The current Strategic Plan for Biodiversity contains 20 so-called Aichi targets that each signatory nation is expected to reach ... -
Metrics and tools for evaluating conservation target achievement in protected area networks
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi Target 11 calls for 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas to be in “effective and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected” protected areas by ...