ECCB 2018: viimeksi lisätyt
Aineistot 481-500 / 712
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Red List of Ecosystems: assessing the quality of boreal forests in Finland
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)IUCN recently published guidelines for Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) risk assessment [1]. The RLE criteria include consideration of changes in an area and the geographic distribution of ecosystems but also of changes in the ... -
Genetic, genomic, synthetic - new approaches for biodiversity conservation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)With the rapid development of genomic tools we are now able to assess genetic diversity as one of the three components of biodiversity in much higher accuracy. At the same time these tools allow us also to write and ... -
Disturbance ecology and management of temperate forests in Southeastern Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Forest management that emulates the processes and structures that arise from a natural disturbance regime require a quantitative description of the regime for a given forest region. This has been particularly challenging ... -
‘Nature inclusive’ agriculture requires a systemic transition of the agricultural sector
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)European agriculture, and Dutch agriculture in particular, is at a crossroads. Due to rationalisation, including intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides, biodiversity in rural areas is declining at an unprecedented ... -
Environmental information provision and preferences for marine and coastal protection in the case of plastic waste
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The immediate reduction of plastic waste in the marine and coastal environment is deemed crucial in order to ensure and preserve environmental sustainability and ecosystem services for human well-being. Public information ... -
Towards a more nature-based silviculture: effects of experimental forestry treatments on forest regeneration in an oak-hornbeam stand
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Conservational concerns are increasingly important in timber production forest management. Besides clear-cutting and shelterwood forestry systems the more nature-based continuous cover forestry is spreading in temperate ... -
Conservation values and threats in the Mediterranean North Africa
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Mediterranean basin is the second largest hotspot in the world, the largest of the world’s five Mediterranean-climate regions and the third richest hotspot in the world in terms of plant diversity. Inside this hotspot ... -
Documenting Biogeographical and Socio-Economic Patterns of Illegal Wildlife Trade worldwide
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Currently, illegal wildlife trade is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity conservation. Understanding the causes that make some countries participate as wildlife suppliers or consumers is crucial to fight this ... -
The underestimated role of winter microclimate for Arctic tundra vegetation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Assessing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and developing climate-wise conservation planning requires in-depth understanding of the key drivers of species distributions and assemblages. This is particularly ... -
Biodiversity assessment of vanilla plantations and surrounding areas in the SAVA region of Madagascar
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Conversion of land for agriculture can have catastrophic impacts on natural ecosystems and can drastically reduce biodiversity, especially in the tropics. However, different crop cultivation methods have different effects ... -
Functional plasticity of ground beetles can presume the changes in their community composition by forestry treatments
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Although the functional trait approach can facilitate the understanding of mechanisms that underline both community responses to habitat alternation and ecosystem functioning, only few studies are available exploring the ... -
A quarter of a century of the Habitat Directive: balance for Spanish plants
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Habitat Directive (DH) was approved in 1992 and listed plant species in three sections: Annex II taxa for including their core areas in the Natura 2000 network; Annex IV taxa to apply a strict protection within and ... -
Protected areas enhance expanding populations and mitigate declines on range edges under climate change
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Warming climate is changing geographical distributions of species. However, keeping pace with the climate may be complicated. The climate is indeed changing faster than species are capable of following it. Other environmental ... -
National and transboundary perspectives of large carnivore conservation and management in Finland
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Finland’s large carnivore (LC) populations have been increasing and expanding during the last 20 years; brown bear and wolverine populations have doubled, and populations of Eurasian lynx and grey wolf many-folded. However, ... -
Scientific background of ex-situ conservation and reintroduction of endemic plant species Minuartia smejkalii
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Ex-situ conservation and species reintroduction is a standard approach in many conservation actions. These actions should ensure that the new populations will be genetically diverse and will not suffer from loss of fitness ... -
Project LIFE Saimaa Seal - Safeguarding the Saimaa ringed seal
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is one of the most endangered and rarest seals in the world. The current population size is ca. 370 individuals, and the Saimaa seal is the only endemic mammal in Finland. ... -
Increasing influence of the surrounding landscape on saproxylic beetle communities over 10 years succession in dead wood
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In a previous study of saproxylic beetle fauna on fresh artificially created high stumps of spruce and birch on 20 clear-cuts (whereof 10 in hotspots) we found only weak relations between beetle fauna and forest-landscape ... -
Forest indicator species correlate only weakly with richness of red-listed species and perform poorly compared to simple stand variables
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In the face of worldwide biodiversity declines, a variety of conservation measures are being implemented to preserve species and their habitats. Due to imperfect ecological knowledge and limited economic resources, these ... -
Shared threats to endemic Yangtze finless porpoises, fisheries, and community livelihoods in the middle-lower Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, China.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Understanding causes of population decline is essential to inform effective conservation of endangered species, but attention must also be given to the social and economic context of the system in which the species exists ... -
Simulating eutrophication in a metacommunity landscape – an aquatic model ecosystem
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Community ecology has long focused on processes that regulate patterns of species distribution and abundance. Facing an era of anthropogenic global change and biodiversity loss, strategies for conservation biology are ...