ECCB 2018: viimeksi lisätyt
Aineistot 501-520 / 712
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Butterflies in the city: ecological filtering of urban landscape
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)With the expansion of urban areas and the increasing valuation of ecosystem services for the citizenship, promoting biodiversity conservation in cities is now a priority. However, urban environments represent one of the ... -
Priority areas for conserving obligate scavengers and preventing bottom-up ecosystem disruptions
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Biodiversity conservation lacks sufficient funding and the evidence-base on what works and where efforts should be focused. Vultures are the sole obligate vertebrate scavengers and play a key role in maintaining the ecosystem ... -
A BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM FOR GOLF COURSES - A national study program to improve the knowledge about biodiversity, its conservation, fostering its establishement on French golf courses
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In France, the total surface occupied by golf courses is of 30 000 ha. On most of golf courses, playing areas represent about 1/2 of the total surface. The remaining areas are usually natural ones such as meadows, ponds, ... -
Spatially explicit analysis of biodiversity loss due to different bioenergy policies in the European Union
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The demand for bioenergy is expected to increase rapidly in the EU, driven by policies aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through bioenergy. The downside of the increased use of bioenergy is the risk to biodiversity ... -
Of people and trees: exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban and periurban dwellers’ social representations of trees.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Almost 40 years ago, Pyle [1] started to warn the scientific community about the progressive disconnection between urban dwellers and nature. This so-called "extinction of experience" may affect individual relationships ... -
Understanding how the scientific community influences grasslands’ management decisions – a social network approach
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Farming landscapes of Europe are vital arenas for social-ecological sustainability because their significant coverage and potential to integrate food production with biodiversity conservation. While the term 'governance' ... -
What are the most popular animals in the world? Using Wikipedia to quantitatively compare interest across 60,000 vertebrates
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Species vary widely in their popularity, and these variations in human interest impact conservation. The popularity of a species, for example, may influence the conservation funding that species receives and affect the ... -
ForAdapt: Supporting collaborative decision making for managing wildlife and ecosystem services in transboundary protected areas of Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Integrating conservation and natural resource management (CNRM) across international borders has been recognized as necessary to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of broad-scale pressures including ... -
Measuring progress towards rewilding
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Human domination of land has transformed ecosystems, modified ecological processes and influenced biodiversity composition across most of the terrestrial biosphere. Nevertheless, this global change does not necessarily ... -
The mechanistic basis of changes in community assembly in relation to anthropogenic disturbance and productivity
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)In the human-dominated world the natural drivers of species diversity, such as productivity and habitat heterogeneity, have been accompanied by anthropogenic disturbance resulting in increased extinction rates at global ... -
Evidence for positive population-level effects of an agri-environment scheme on grassland butterflies
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Many studies have reported positive effects of agri-environment schemes (AES) on species richness and abundance, but studies demonstrating demographic, population-level responses, which is the desired outcome from AES, are ... -
More networking, more local success in plant conservation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Our actual activities in plant conservation are very obvious: we want to restore long-term and healthy populations of species and conservation experts need the results to be more effective on the field, in practice and ... -
The significance of knowing how knowledge performs
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Scientific knowledge is performative, as it not only represents but also constitutes reality. In politically charged fields such as environmental policy and governance, science-policy interactions are often integrated into ... -
Targeting conservation interventions. Understanding drivers of adoption of Wildlife Management Units (UMAs) in Mexico
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)This study focuses on the Wildlife Management Units in Mexico (UMAs), a market-based policy instrument with coupled objectives of biodiversity conservation and rural development through the sustainable use of wildlife. ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of protected areas in southwest China using alternative approaches
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Protected areas (PAs) are at the forefront of conservation efforts, and yet despite considerable progress towards the global target of having 17% of the world's land area within protected areas by 2020, biodiversity ... -
Analysing the road verges as ecological assets - BIodiversity as company
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Using GIS-analysis in identifying valuable habitats on slopes of Finnish traffic network Certain built up or otherwise strongly modified environments may be significant for preserving species in endangered natural habitats. ... -
Biodiversity threats embodied in global trade: Moving beyond species richness loss
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The limited success of traditional conservation practices such as expanding protected areas signals a need for new, integrated approaches to halt biodiversity declines. In particular, biodiversity-benign production methods ... -
Monitoring under the EU habitats directive
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The EU Habitats Directive was adopted in 1992 and requires site protection for selected habitats and species (listed in Annexes I & II), strict protection for selected species (Annex IV) and allows for management ... -
The effect of human-modified landscape structure on forest grouse broods in two landscape types
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The population sizes and the breeding success of Finnish tetraonids have been decreasing for decades. In this study, the presence of a grouse hen with a brood in a landscape was used to indicate habitat-related breeding ... -
Using historical data to highlight population declines in the iconic Australian platypus
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Long-term population data is essential for accurately assessing species status and for the correct management of endangered species. However, not all species are easily monitored and have been historically overlooked, ...