Conservation Biology - 25 (2-6), 2010

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Conservation Biology - 25 (2), 2010



Contents:

Editorial

Credibility of REDD and Experiences from Papua New Guinea (pages 359–361)

David Melick


Letters

Extent of the Global Network of Terrestrial Protected Areas (pages 362–363)

Alvaro Soutullo


Imminent Extinctions of Woodland Caribou from National Parks (pages 363–364)

Robert Serrouya and Heiko U. Wittmer


Banff's Mountain Caribou versus Spring Snails (pages 364–365)

Dwayne A.W. Lepitzki and Charlie Pacas


Conservation Practice and Policy

The Role of Landowners in Jaguar Conservation in Sonora, Mexico (pages 366–371)

OCTAVIO C. ROSAS-ROSAS and RAUL VALDEZ


Addressing Climate Change Threats to Endangered Species in U.S. Recovery Plans (pages 372–376)

ANTHONY POVILITIS and KIERÁN SUCKLING


Improving the Performance of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for Nature Conservation (pages 377–381)

WILLIAM F. LAURANCE, LIAN P. KOH, RHETT BUTLER, NAVJOT S. SODHI, COREY J. A. BRADSHAW, J. DAVID NEIDEL, HAZEL CONSUNJI and JAVIER MATEO VEGA


Reviews

Key Features and Context-Dependence of Fishery-Induced Trophic Cascades (pages 382–394)

ANNE K. SALOMON, SARAH K. GAICHAS, NICK T. SHEARS, JENNIFER E. SMITH, ELIZABETH M. P. MADIN and STEVEN D. GAINES


Geography and Recovery under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (pages 395–403)

CARLOS CARROLL, JOHN A. VUCETICH, MICHAEL P. NELSON, DANIEL J. ROHLF and MICHAEL K. PHILLIPS


Essays

A Conceptual Analysis of the Application of Tradable Permits to Biodiversity Conservation (pages 404–411)

SILVIA WISSEL and FRANK WÄTZOLD


The Power of Bioenergy-Related Standards to Protect Biodiversity (pages 412–423)

K. J. HENNENBERG, C. DRAGISIC, S. HAYE, J. HEWSON, B. SEMROC, C. SAVY, K. WIEGMANN, H. FEHRENBACH and U. R. FRITSCHE


The Value of Species and the Ethical Foundations of Assisted Colonization (pages 424–431)

RONALD SANDLER


Motivations for Conserving Urban Biodiversity (pages 432–440)

DONALD C. DEARBORN and SALIT KARK


Contributed Papers

Influence of a Threatened-Species Focus on Conservation Planning (pages 441–449)

SIMON P. DRUMMOND, KERRIE A. WILSON, ERIK MEIJAARD, MATTHEW WATTS, RONA DENNIS, LENNY CHRISTY and HUGH P. POSSINGHAM


Local Land-Use Planning to Conserve Biodiversity: Planners’ Perspectives on What Works (pages 450–460)

DAVID L. STOKES, MARIAN F. HANSON, DEBORAH D. OAKS, JAIME E. STRAUB and AILEEN V. PONIO


Understanding the Lessons and Limitations of Conservation and Development (pages 461–469)

JOHAN A. OLDEKOP, ANTHONY J. BEBBINGTON, DAN BROCKINGTON and RICHARD F. PREZIOSI


Devising Appropriate Policies and Instruments in Support of Private Conservation Areas: Lessons Learned from the Klein Karoo, South Africa (pages 470–478)

LORENA PASQUINI, RICHARD M. COWLING, CHASCA TWYMAN and JOHN WAINWRIGHT


Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities of Coffee Agroforests in the Western Ghats, India (pages 479–488)

CLAUDE A. GARCIA, SHONIL A. BHAGWAT, JABOURY GHAZOUL, CHERYL D. NATH, KONERIRA M. NANAYA, CHEPUDIRA G. KUSHALAPPA, YENUGULA RAGHURAMULU, ROBERT NASI and PHILIPPE VAAST


Hunter Reporting of Catch per Unit Effort as a Monitoring Tool in a Bushmeat-Harvesting System (pages 489–499)

JANNA RIST, E.J. MILNER-GULLAND, GUY COWLISHAW and MARCUS ROWCLIFFE


Testing Hypotheses of Bird Extinctions at Rio Palenque, Ecuador, with Informal Species Lists (pages 500–510)

DAVID L. PEARSON, COREY DEVIN ANDERSON, BRIAN R. MITCHELL, MICHAEL S. ROSENBERG, RONALD NAVARRETE and PAUL COOPMANS


Consistent Ecological Selectivity through Time in Pacific Island Avian Extinctions (pages 511–519)

ALISON G. BOYER


Implications of Urbanization for Artisanal Parrotfish Fisheries in the Western Solomon Islands (pages 520–530)

SHANKAR ASWANI and ARMAGAN SABETIAN


Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines for Biodiversity Conservation (pages 531–540)

REBECCA WEEKS, GARRY R. RUSS, ANGEL C. ALCALA and ALAN T. WHITE


Use of Habitats as Surrogates of Biodiversity for Efficient Coral Reef Conservation Planning in Pacific Ocean Islands (pages 541–552)

MAYEUL DALLEAU, SERGE ANDRÉFOUËT, COLETTE C.C. WABNITZ, CLAUDE PAYRI, LAURENT WANTIEZ, MICHEL PICHON, KIM FRIEDMAN, LAURENT VIGLIOLA and FRANCESCA BENZONI


Genetic Structure of Herpetofauna on Halmahera Island, Indonesia: Implications for Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park (pages 553–562)

MOHAMMAD IQBAL SETIADI, AMIR HAMIDY, ZAINAL ABIDIN, DWI SUSANTO, RAFE M. BROWN, A. TOWNSEND PETERSON, XINGONG LI and BEN J. EVANS


Quantitative Assessment of a Tanzanian Integrated Conservation and Development Project Involving Butterfly Farming (pages 563–572)

THERON MORGAN-BROWN, SUSAN K. JACOBSON, KENNETH WALD and BRIAN CHILD


Priority Wetland Invertebrates as Conservation Surrogates (pages 573–582)

S. J. ORMEROD, ISABELLE DURANCE, AURELIE TERRIER and ALISA M. SWANSON


Estimating the Density of Honeybee Colonies across Their Natural Range to Fill the Gap in Pollinator Decline Censuses (pages 583–593)

RODOLFO JAFFÉ, VINCENT DIETEMANN, MIKE H. ALLSOPP, CECILIA COSTA, ROBIN M. CREWE, RAFFAELE DALL’OLIO, PILAR DE LA RÚA, MOGBEL A. A. EL-NIWEIRI, INGEMAR FRIES, NIKOLA KEZIC, MICHAEL S. MEUSEL, ROBERT J. PAXTON, TAHER SHAIBI, ECKART STOLLE and ROBIN F.A. MORITZ


Traditional Plant Harvesting in Contemporary Fragmented and Urban Landscapes (pages 594–604)

PRISCILLA M. WEHI and WILLIAM L. WEHI


Effects of Harvest of Nontimber Forest Products and Ecological Differences between Sites on the Demography of African Mahogany (pages 605–614)

OROU G. GAOUE and TAMARA TICKTIN


Research Notes

Hindrance of Conservation Biology by Delays in the Submission of Manuscripts (pages 615–620)

RYAN P. O’DONNELL, SARAH R. SUPP and STEPHANIE M. COBBOLD


Importance of Accounting for Detection Heterogeneity When Estimating Abundance: the Case of French Wolves (pages 621–626)

SARAH CUBAYNES, ROGER PRADEL, RÉMI CHOQUET, CHRISTOPHE DUCHAMP, JEAN-MICHEL GAILLARD, JEAN-DOMINIQUE LEBRETON, ERIC MARBOUTIN, CHRISTIAN MIQUEL, ANNE-MARIE REBOULET, CAROLE POILLOT, PIERRE TABERLET and OLIVIER GIMENEZ


Comment

What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap-Neuter-Return: Response to Longcore et al. (pages 627–629)

CHRISTOPHER A. LEPCZYK, NICO DAUPHINÉ, DAVID M. BIRD, SHEILA CONANT, ROBERT J. COOPER, DAVID C. DUFFY, PAMELA JO HATLEY, PETER P. MARRA, ELIZABETH STONE and STANLEY A. TEMPLE


Diversity

From Debate to Insight: Three Models of Immigration to Protected Areas (pages 630–632)

PAUL SCHOLTE and WOUTER T. DE GROOT


Invest in Opportunity, Not Inventory of Hotspots (pages 633–635)

RICHARD M. COWLING, ANDREW T. KNIGHT, SEAN D. J. PRIVETT and GYAN SHARMA


Book Reviews

Redefining Our Relationship with Elephants (pages 636–637)

Paula Kahumbu


Conservation Where Half the World Lives (pages 637–638)

Linda R. Cox


The Plight of Serpents (pages 638–639)

John Thorbjarnarson


Noted with Interest (page 640)


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Conservation Biology - 25 (3), 2010



Contents:

Editorial

Adapting Human Societies to Conservation (pages 641–643)

David Johns


Letters

A REDD Light for Wildlife-Friendly Farming (pages 644–645)

Jaboury Ghazoul, Lian Pin Koh and Rhett A. Butler


Prevention of Secondary Extinctions through Taxon Substitution (pages 645–646)

Christine J. Griffiths and Stephen Harris


Extirpations from Parks: Scaling Conservation Planning to Fit the Problem (pages 646–648)

Kent Prior


Conservation Practice and Policy

Taking the Conservation Biology Perspective to Secondary School Classrooms (pages 649–654)

YAEL WYNER and ROB DESALLE


Killing Tigers to Save Them: Fallacies of the Farming Argument (pages 655–659)

R. CRAIG KIRKPATRICK and LUCY EMERTON


Review

A Meta-Analytic Review of Corridor Effectiveness (pages 660–668)

LYNNE GILBERT-NORTON, RYAN WILSON, JOHN R. STEVENS and KAREN H. BEARD


Essays

Language Fouls in Teaching Ecology: Why Traditional Metaphors Undermine Conservation Literacy (pages 669–674)

ADRIENNE CACHELIN, RUSSELL NORVELL and ANN DARLING


Proposed Definition of Environmental Damage Illustrated by the Cases of Genetically Modified Crops and Invasive Species (pages 675–681)

ROBERT BARTZ, ULRICH HEINK and INGO KOWARIK


Current Constraints and Future Directions in Estimating Coextinction (pages 682–690)

MELINDA L. MOIR, PETER A. VESK, KARL E.C. BRENNAN, DAVID A. KEITH, LESLEY HUGHES and MICHAEL A. McCARTHY


Contributed Papers

Building a Regionally Connected Reserve Network in a Changing and Uncertain World (pages 691–700)

DANIEL SPRING, JIRI BAUM, RALPH MAC NALLY, MICHAEL MACKENZIE, A. SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA and JAMES R. THOMSON


Use of Land Facets to Plan for Climate Change: Conserving the Arenas, Not the Actors (pages 701–710)

PAUL BEIER and BRIAN BROST


Evaluating Areas of High Conservation Value in Western Oregon with a Decision-Support Model (pages 711–720)

NANCY L. STAUS, JAMES R. STRITTHOLT and DOMINICK A. DELLASALA


Traditional Ecological Knowledge Trends in the Transition to a Market Economy: Empirical Study in the Donana Natural Areas (pages 721–729)

ERIK GÓMEZ-BAGGETHUN, SARA MINGORRÍA, VICTORIA REYES-GARCÍA, LAURA CALVET and CARLOS MONTES


Surrogates for Macrofungi and Mosses in Reservation Planning (pages 730–736)

SAPPHIRE J. M. MCMULLAN-FISHER, JAMIE B. KIRKPATRICK, TOM W. MAY and EMMA J. PHARO


Epiphyte Biodiversity in the Coffee Agricultural Matrix: Canopy Stratification and Distance from Forest Fragments (pages 737–746)

LEIGH C. MOORHEAD, STACY M. PHILPOTT and PETER BICHIER


Effects of an Exotic Plant Invasion on Native Understory Plants in a Tropical Dry Forest (pages 747–757)

AYESHA E. PRASAD


Multispecies and Multiscale Conservation Planning: Setting Quantitative Targets for Red-Listed Lichens on Ancient Oaks (pages 758–768)

HEIDI PALTTO, INGRID THOMASSON and BJÖRN NORDÉN


Management and Recovery Options for Ural River Beluga Sturgeon (pages 769–777)

PHAEDRA DOUKAKIS, ELIZABETH A. BABCOCK, ELLEN K. PIKITCH, ALEXEI R. SHAROV, MIRGALY BAIMUKHANOV, SAGIDEN ERBULEKOV, YELENA BOKOVA and AKHAT NIMATOV


Rapidly Shifting Baselines in Yangtze Fishing Communities and Local Memory of Extinct Species (pages 778–787)

SAMUEL T. TURVEY, LEIGH A. BARRETT, HAO YUJIANG, ZHANG LEI, ZHANG XINQIAO, WANG XIANYAN, HUANG YADONG, ZHOU KAIYA, TOM HART and WANG DING


Effects of Two Amphibian Pathogens on the Developmental Stability of Green Frogs (pages 788–794)

VALÉRIE ST-AMOUR, TRENTON W.J. GARNER, ALBRECHT I. SCHULTE-HOSTEDDE and DAVID LESBARRERES


Effects of Land-Use Change on Community Composition of Tropical Amphibians and Reptiles in Sulawesi, Indonesia (pages 795–802)

THOMAS C. WANGER, DJOKO T. ISKANDAR, IRIS MOTZKE, BARRY W. BROOK, NAVJOT S. SODHI, YANN CLOUGH and TEJA TSCHARNTKE


Ecological Trap for Desert Lizards Caused by Anthropogenic Changes in Habitat Structure that Favor Predator Activity (pages 803–809)

DROR HAWLENA, DAVID SALTZ, ZVIKA ABRAMSKY and AMOS BOUSKILA


Experimental Test of Postfire Management in Pine Forests: Impact of Salvage Logging versus Partial Cutting and Nonintervention on Bird–Species Assemblages (pages 810–819)

JORGE CASTRO, GREGORIO MORENO-RUEDA and JOSÉ A. HÓDAR


Effectiveness of Predator Removal for Enhancing Bird Populations (pages 820–829)

REBECCA K. SMITH, ANDREW S. PULLIN, GAVIN B. STEWART and WILLIAM J. SUTHERLAND


Use of Abundance of One Species as a Surrogate for Abundance of Others (pages 830–840)

SAMUEL A. CUSHMAN, KEVIN S. McKELVEY, BARRY R. NOON and KEVIN McGARIGAL


Evaluation of Selective Culling of Infected Individuals to Control Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease (pages 841–851)

SHELLY LACHISH, HAMISH McCALLUM, DYDEE MANN, CHRISSY E. PUKK and MENNA E. JONES


Using Ecological Function to Develop Recovery Criteria for Depleted Species: Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in the Aleutian Archipelago (pages 852–860)

JAMES A. ESTES, M. TIM TINKER and JAMES L. BODKIN


Assessing Sustainability at Multiple Scales in a Rotational Bushmeat Hunting System (pages 861–871)

NOËLLE F. KÜMPEL, E. J. MILNER-GULLAND, GUY COWLISHAW and J. MARCUS ROWCLIFFE


Patterns of Citations of Open Access and Non-Open Access Conservation Biology Journal Papers and Book Chapters (pages 872–880)

MICHAEL C. CALVER and J. STUART BRADLEY


Research Notes

Contrasting Colonist and Indigenous Impacts on Amazonian Forests (pages 881–885)

FLORA LU, CLARK GRAY, RICHARD E. BILSBORROW, CARLOS F. MENA, CHRISTINE M. ERLIEN, JASON BREMNER, ALISSON BARBIERI and STEPHEN J. WALSH


Species Inequality in Scientific Study (pages 886–890)

MORGAN J. TRIMBLE and RUDI J. VAN AARDE


Sexual Predators, Energy Development, and Conservation in Greater Yellowstone (pages 891–896)

JOEL BERGER and JON P. BECKMANN


Comments

Estimating the Impact of Disease in Species Threatened by Amphibian Chytrid Fungus: Comment on Murray et al. (pages 897–899)

BENEDIKT R. SCHMIDT


Evidence of Effects of Endemic Chytridiomycosis on Host Survival, Behavior, and Emigration: Reply to Schmidt (pages 900–902)

KRIS A. MURRAY, LEE F. SKERRATT, RICK SPEARE and HAMISH McCALLUM


Diversity

Biophilia as a Universal Ethic for Conserving Biodiversity (pages 903–906)

JOHN P. SIMAIKA and MICHAEL J. SAMWAYS


Ecosystem Services as a Stakeholder-Driven Concept for Conservation Science (pages 907–909)

SUSANNE MENZEL and JACK TENG


Book Reviews

Of Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! (page 910)

Rodrigo A. Medellin


Conservation Genetics (pages 911–912)

Steven M. Chambers


Caves and Conservation (pages 912–913)

Tony Whitten


Noted with Interest (pages 913–914)

Article first published online: 14 MAY 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01519.x

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Conservation Biology - 25 (4), 2010



Contents:

Editorial

Save the Whales? Save the Rainforest? Save the Data! (pages 915–917)

Andrew S. Pullin and Nick Salafsky


Conservation Practice and Policy

Dealing with the Clandestine Nature of Wildlife-Trade Market Surveys (pages 918–923)

SHANNON M. BARBER-MEYER


Kibale Forest Wild Coffee: Challenges to Market-Based Conservation in Africa (pages 924–930)

ROBERT J. LILIEHOLM and W. PAUL WEATHERLY


The Quagga Mussel Crisis at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada (U.S.A.) (pages 931–937)

VALERIE HICKEY


Review

How Area Sensitivity in Birds is Studied (pages 938–947)

TRINA S. BAYARD and CHRIS S. ELPHICK


Essays

The Impending Peak and Decline of Petroleum Production: an Underestimated Challenge for Conservation of Ecological Integrity (pages 948–956)

BÁLINT CZÚCZ, JOSEPH P. GATHMAN and GUY R. McPHERSON


Conservation Planning as a Transdisciplinary Process (pages 957–965)

BELINDA REYERS, DIRK J. ROUX, RICHARD M. COWLING, AIMEE E. GINSBURG, JEANNE L. NEL and PATRICK O’ FARRELL


From Adaptive Management to Adjustive Management: A Pragmatic Account of Biodiversity Values (pages 966–973)

VIRGINIE MARIS and ARNAUD BÉCHET


Contributed Papers

Bayesian Networks and Adaptive Management of Wildlife Habitat (pages 974–983)

ALISON L. HOWES, MARTINE MARON and CLIVE A. MCALPINE


On Valuing Information in Adaptive-Management Models (pages 984–993)

ALANA L. MOORE and MICHAEL A. McCARTHY


A Matrix-Calibrated Species-Area Model for Predicting Biodiversity Losses Due to Land-Use Change (pages 994–1001)

LIAN PIN KOH* and JABOURY GHAZOUL


Terrestrial Reserve Networks Do Not Adequately Represent Aquatic Ecosystems (pages 1002–1011)

MATTHEW E. HERBERT, PETER B. MCINTYRE, PATRICK J. DORAN, J. DAVID ALLAN and ROBIN ABELL


National Red Listing Beyond the 2010 Target (pages 1012–1020)

TARA J. ZAMIN, JONATHAN E. M. BAILLIE, REBECCA M. MILLER, JON PAUL RODRÍGUEZ, ANA ARDID and BEN COLLEN


Safeguarding Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Little Karoo, South Africa (pages 1021–1030)

BENIS N. EGOH, BELINDA REYERS, JOSIE CARWARDINE, MICHAEL BODE, PATRICK J. O'FARRELL, KERRIE A. WILSON, HUGH P. POSSINGHAM, MATHIEU ROUGET, WILLEM De LANGE, DAVID M. RICHARDSON and RICHARD M. COWLING


Ecological-Niche Modeling and Prioritization of Conservation-Area Networks for Mexican Herpetofauna (pages 1031–1041)

J. NICOLÁS URBINA-CARDONA and OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA


Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits (pages 1042–1051)

SUSANNE A. FRITZ and ANDY PURVIS


Evolutionary Distinctiveness, Threat Status, and Ecological Oddity in Primates (pages 1052–1058)

DAVID W. REDDING, CURT V. DeWOLFF and ARNE O. MOOERS


Roads, Interrupted Dispersal, and Genetic Diversity in Timber Rattlesnakes (pages 1059–1069)

RULON W. CLARK, WILLIAM S. BROWN, RANDY STECHERT and KELLY R. ZAMUDIO


Birds as Suppliers of Seed Dispersal in Temperate Ecosystems: Conservation Guidelines from Real-World Landscapes (pages 1070–1079)

DANIEL GARCIA, REGINO ZAMORA and GUILLERMO C. AMICO


Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Effective Dispersal of Florida Scrub-Jays (pages 1080–1088)

AURÉLIE COULON, JOHN W. FITZPATRICK, REED BOWMAN and IRBY J. LOVETTE


Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Seed Dispersal and Seedling Establishment in Ornithochorous Trees (pages 1089–1098)

JOSÉ MANUEL HERRERA and DANIEL GARCÍA


Latent Extinction and Invasion Risk of Crayfishes in the Southeastern United States (pages 1099–1110)

ERIC R. LARSON and JULIAN D. OLDEN


Optimal Allocation of Conservation Resources to Species That May be Extinct (pages 1111–1118)

TRACY M. ROUT, DEAN HEINZE and MICHAEL A. McCARTHY


Effect of Local Cultural Context on the Success of Community-Based Conservation Interventions (pages 1119–1129)

KERRY A. WAYLEN, ANKE FISCHER, PHILIP J. K. MCGOWAN, SIMON J. THIRGOOD and E. J. MILNER-GULLAND


Coexistence of Fisheries with River Dolphin Conservation (pages 1130–1140)

NACHIKET KELKAR, JAGDISH KRISHNASWAMY, SUNIL CHOUDHARY and DIPANI SUTARIA


Research Notes

Invasive Non-Native Species’ Provision of Refugia for Endangered Native Species (pages 1141–1147)

SATOSHI CHIBA


Local Extinction of Dragonfly and Damselfly Populations in Low- and High-Quality Habitat Patches (pages 1148–1153)

JUKKA SUHONEN, MILLA HILLI-LUKKARINEN, ESA KORKEAMÄKI, MARKKU KUITUNEN, JOHANNA KULLAS, JOUNI PENTTINEN and JUKKA SALMELA


Comments

Flawed Meta-Analysis of Biodiversity Effects of Forest Management (pages 1154–1156)

PANU HALME, TERO TOIVANEN, MERJA HONKANEN, JANNE S. KOTIAHO, MIKKO MÖNKKÖNEN and JONNA TIMONEN


Compromises in Data Selection in a Meta-Analysis of Biodiversity in Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Response to Halme et al. (pages 1157–1160)

YOAN PAILLET, LAURENT BERGES, JOAKIM HJÄLTÉN, PÉTER ÓDOR, CATHERINE AVON, MARKUS BERNHARDT-RÖMERMANN, RIENK-JAN BIJLSMA, LUC DE BRUYN, MARC FUHR, ULF GRANDIN, ROBERT KANKA, LARS LUNDIN, SANDRA LUQUE, TIBOR MAGURA, SILVIA MATESANZ, ILONA MÉSZÁROS, M.-TERESA SEBASTIA, WOLFGANG SCHMIDT, TIBOR STANDOVÁR, BÉLA TÓTHMÉRÉSZ, ANNELI UOTILA, FERNANDO VALLADARES, KAI VELLAK and RISTO VIRTANEN


Obituary

A Tribute to Devra Kleiman, a Pioneer in Conservation Biology (pages 1161–1163)

Lou Ann Dietz


Book Reviews

Moving Birds Around, at Great Peril (pages 1164–1165)

Steve Zack


Conservation and Farmland Birds (pages 1165–1166)

Martin Dieterich


Complexity, Resilience, and Conservation (pages 1166–1167)

James Watson


Noted with Interest (page 1168)


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Conservation Biology - 25 (5), 2010



Contents:

Editorial

A Call to Action for Conserving Biological Diversity in the Face of Climate Change (pages 1169–1171)

Malcolm Hunter Jr., Eric Dinerstein, Jon Hoekstra and David Lindenmayer


Letter

Metaphor and the Idea of a Dominant Conservation Ethic (pages 1172–1173)

Laura Martin


Conservation Practice and Policy

Application of Modified Threat Reduction Assessments in Lebanon (pages 1174–1181)

DIANE A. MATAR and BRANDON P. ANTHONY


Evaluating Private Land Conservation in the Cape Lowlands, South Africa (pages 1182–1189)

AMREI VON HASE, MATHIEU ROUGET and RICHARD M. COWLING


Review

Male Mutation Bias and Possible Long-Term Effects of Human Activities (pages 1190–1197)

SAMUEL COTTON and CLAUS WEDEKIND


Essays

Costs of Integrating Economics and Conservation Planning (pages 1198–1204)

ANNI ARPONEN, MAR CABEZA, JOHANNA EKLUND, HEINI KUJALA and JOONA LEHTOMÄKI


Conservation by Design (pages 1205–1211)

MEREDITH ROOT-BERNSTEIN and RICHARD J. LADLE


Science or Slaughter: Need for Lethal Sampling of Sharks (pages 1212–1218)

M. R. HEUPEL and C. A. SIMPFENDORFER


Contributed Papers

Living at the Edge: Local versus Positional Factors in the Long-Term Population Dynamics of an Endangered Orchid (pages 1219–1229)

MARÍA B. GARCÍA, DANIEL GONI and DAVID GUZMÁN


The Paradox of the Long-Term Positive Effects of a North American Crayfish on a European Community of Predators (pages 1230–1238)

ZULIMA TABLADO, JOSÉ L. TELLA, JOSÉ A. SÁNCHEZ-ZAPATA and FERNANDO HIRALDO


Ants as a Measure of Effectiveness of Habitat Conservation Planning in Southern California (pages 1239–1248)

MILAN J. MITROVICH, TRITIA MATSUDA, KRISTA H. PEASE and ROBERT N. FISHER


Quantitative Determination of Rarity of Freshwater Fishes and Implications for Imperiled-Species Designations (pages 1249–1258)

JEREMY J. PRITT and EMMANUEL A. FRIMPONG


Effects of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus on Individual Survival Probability in Wild Boreal Toads (pages 1259–1267)

DAVID S. PILLIOD, ERIN MUTHS, RICK D. SCHERER, PAUL E. BARTELT, PAUL STEPHEN CORN, BLAKE R. HOSSACK, BRAD A. LAMBERT, REBECCA MCCAFFERY and CHRISTOPHER GAUGHAN


A Contemporary, Sex-Limited Change in Body Size of an Estuarine Turtle in Response to Commercial Fishing (pages 1268–1277)

MATTHEW E. WOLAK, GEORGE W. GILCHRIST, VICTORIA A. RUZICKA, DANIEL M. NALLY and RANDOLPH M. CHAMBERS


Effects of Drainage-Basin Geomorphology on Insectivorous Bird Abundance in Temperate Forests (pages 1278–1289)

TOMOYA IWATA, JOTARO URABE and HIROMUNE MITSUHASHI


Deforestation and Avian Extinction on Tropical Landbridge Islands (pages 1290–1298)

NAVJOT S. SODHI, DAVID S. WILCOVE, TIEN MING LEE, CAGAN H. SEKERCIOGLU, R. SUBARAJ, HENRY BERNARD, DING LI YONG, SUSAN L. H. LIM, DEWI M. PRAWIRADILAGA and BARRY W. BROOK


Conservation Implications of Drastic Reductions in the Smallest and Most Isolated Populations of Giant Pandas (pages 1299–1306)

LIFENG ZHU, XIANGJIANG ZHAN, HUA WU, SHANNING ZHANG, TAO MENG, MICHAEL W. BRUFORD and FUWEN WEI


Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Strengthen Evidence for Reduced Genetic Diversity among Endangered Tetrapods (pages 1307–1315)

PATRICK A. FLIGHT


Making a Model Meaningful to Coral Reef Managers in a Developing Nation: a Case Study of Overfishing and Rock Anchoring in Indonesia (pages 1316–1326)

JEFFREY A. MAYNARD, KENNETH R. N. ANTHONY, SIHAM AFATTA, NANCY DAHL-TACCONI and OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG


Effect of Small-Scale Heterogeneity of Prey and Hunter Distributions on the Sustainability of Bushmeat Hunting (pages 1327–1337)

NATHALIE VAN VLIET, E. J. MILNER-GULLAND, FRANCOIS BOUSQUET, MEHDI SAQALLI and ROBERT NASI


Use of an Action-Selection Framework for Human-Carnivore Conflict in the Bangladesh Sundarbans (pages 1338–1347)

ADAM C. D. BARLOW, CHRISTINA J. GREENWOOD, ISHTIAQ U. AHMAD and JAMES L. D. SMITH


Mapping Human and Social Dimensions of Conservation Opportunity for the Scheduling of Conservation Action on Private Land (pages 1348–1358)

ANDREW T. KNIGHT, RICHARD M. COWLING, MARK DIFFORD and BRUCE M. CAMPBELL


A Phylogenetic Approach to Conserving Amazonian Biodiversity (pages 1359–1366)

FEDERICO LÓPEZ-OSORIO and DANIEL RAFAEL MIRANDA-ESQUIVEL


The Effectiveness of Surrogate Taxa for the Representation of Biodiversity (pages 1367–1377)

ADAM S. LEWANDOWSKI, REED F. NOSS and DAVID R. PARSONS


Use of Coarse-Resolution Models of Species’ Distributions to Guide Local Conservation Inferences (pages 1378–1387)

A. MÁRCIA BARBOSA, RAIMUNDO REAL and J. MARIO VARGAS


Site-Occupancy Distribution Modeling to Correct Population-Trend Estimates Derived from Opportunistic Observations (pages 1388–1397)

MARC KÉRY, J. ANDREW ROYLE, HANS SCHMID, MICHAEL SCHAUB, BERNARD VOLET, GUIDO HÄFLIGER and NIKLAUS ZBINDEN


Effect of Information Availability on Assessment and Designation of Species at Risk (pages 1398–1406)

JAMES R. LUKEY, STEPHEN S. CRAWFORD and DANIEL GILLIS


Confronting Uncertainty and Missing Values in Environmental Value Transfer as Applied to Species Conservation (pages 1407–1417)

SONIA AKTER and R. QUENTIN GRAFTON


Research Notes

Shift of Spawning Season and Effects of Climate Warming on Developmental Stages of a Grayling (Salmonidae) (pages 1418–1423)

CLAUS WEDEKIND and CHRISTOPH KÜNG


Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Fishing Communities (pages 1424–1429)

MICHAEL B. MASCIA, C. ANNE CLAUS and ROBIN NAIDOO


Book Reviews

Would You Start from Here? (pages 1430–1431)

Gabor L. Lövei


Two Views on the Ecology and Economics of Intervention against Invasive Species (pages 1431–1432)

John Parkes


The 2010 International Year of Extinction (pages 1432–1434)

Jonathan E. M. Baillie


Noted with Interest (page 1434)


Contents

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Conservation Biology - 25 (6), 2010



Contents:

Editorial

Birds and Bees for Biologists (pages 1435–1436)

Richard Grossman


Letter

Cautious Optimism over Norway-Indonesia REDD Pact (pages 1437–1438)

Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Jeffrey Sayer, Agni K. Boedhihartono, Oscar Venter, Thomas Lovejoy, Lian Pin Koh and William F. Laurance


Editor's Acknowledgments

Editor's Acknowledgments (page 1439)


Essays

What Every Conservation Biologist Should Know about Economic Theory (pages 1440–1447)

JOHN GOWDY, CHARLES HALL, KENT KLITGAARD and LISI KRALL


Use of a Business Excellence Model to Improve Conservation Programs (pages 1448–1458)

SIMON BLACK and JIM GROOMBRIDGE


Some Guiding Concepts for Conservation Biology (pages 1459–1468)

DAVID LINDENMAYER and MALCOLM HUNTER


Contributed Papers

Using Cost-Effective Targeting to Enhance the Efficiency of Conservation Investments in Payments for Ecosystem Services (pages 1469–1478)

XIAODONG CHEN, FRANK LUPI, ANDRÉS VINA, GUANGMING HE and JIANGUO LIU


Estimating the Value of Non-Use Benefits from Small Changes in the Provision of Ecosystem Services (pages 1479–1487)

ADAM DUTTON, GARETH EDWARDS-JONES and DAVID W. MACDONALD


Impact of a Community-Based Payment for Environmental Services Intervention on Forest Use in Menabe, Madagascar (pages 1488–1498)

MATTHEW SOMMERVILLE, E.J. MILNER-GULLAND, MICHAEL RAHAJAHARISON and JULIA P.G. JONES


Economic and Social Dimensions of Environmental Behavior: Balancing Conservation and Development in Bhutan (pages 1499–1509)

JEREMY S. BROOKS


Distribution and Use of Income from Bushmeat in a Rural Village, Central Gabon (pages 1510–1518)

L. COAD, K. ABERNETHY, A. BALMFORD, A. MANICA, L. AIREY and E. J. MILNER-GULLAND


Effects of Fisheries Closures and Gear Restrictions on Fishing Income in a Kenyan Coral Reef (pages 1519–1528)

TIMOTHY R. McCLANAHAN


Conservation Planning when Costs Are Uncertain (pages 1529–1537)

JOSIE CARWARDINE, KERRIE A. WILSON, STEFAN A. HAJKOWICZ, ROBERT J. SMITH, CARISSA J. KLEIN, MATT WATTS and HUGH P. POSSINGHAM


Hierarchical Bayesian Spatial Models for Multispecies Conservation Planning and Monitoring (pages 1538–1548)

CARLOS CARROLL, DEVIN S. JOHNSON, JEFFREY R. DUNK and WILLIAM J. ZIELINSKI


A Multiscale Network Analysis of Protected-Area Connectivity for Mammals in the United States (pages 1549–1558)

EMILY S. MINOR and TODD R. LOOKINGBILL


Defining Historical Baselines for Conservation: Ecological Changes Since European Settlement on Vancouver Island, Canada (pages 1559–1568)

ANNE D. BJORKMAN and MARK VELLEND


Quantifying Purported Competition with Individual- and Population-Level Metrics (pages 1569–1577)

ERIC L. WALTERS and FRANCES C. JAMES


Use of Acoustic Tools to Reveal Otherwise Cryptic Responses of Forest Elephants to Oil Exploration (pages 1578–1585)

PETER H. WREGE, ELIZABETH D. ROWLAND, BRUCE G. THOMPSON and NIKOLAS BATRUCH


Using Expert Opinion Surveys to Rank Threats to Endangered Species: A Case Study with Sea Turtles (pages 1586–1595)

C. JOSH DONLAN, DANA K. WINGFIELD, LARRY B. CROWDER and CHRIS WILCOX


Genetic Bottlenecks Driven by Population Disconnection (pages 1596–1605)

THOMAS BROQUET, SONIA ANGELONE, JULIE JAQUIERY, PIERRE JOLY, JEAN-PAUL LENA, THIERRY LENGAGNE, SANDRINE PLENET, EMILIEN LUQUET and NICOLAS PERRIN


Effects of Controlled Fire and Livestock Grazing on Bird Communities in East African Savannas (pages 1606–1616)

NATHAN C. GREGORY, RYAN L. SENSENIG and DAVID S. WILCOVE


Inbreeding Depression Accumulation across Life-History Stages of the Endangered Takahe (pages 1617–1625)

CATHERINE E. GRUEBER, REBECCA J. LAWS, SHINICHI NAKAGAWA and IAN G. JAMIESON


Amphibian Encounter Rates on Roads with Different Amounts of Traffic and Urbanization (pages 1626–1635)

RONALD W. SUTHERLAND, PHILLIP R. DUNNING and WHIT M. BAKER


Breeding Periodicity for Male Sea Turtles, Operational Sex Ratios, and Implications in the Face of Climate Change (pages 1636–1643)

GRAEME C. HAYS, SABRINA FOSSETTE, KOSTAS A. KATSELIDIS, GAIL SCHOFIELD and MIKE B. GRAVENOR


Reducing the Maladaptive Attractiveness of Solar Panels to Polarotactic Insects (pages 1644–1653)

GÁBOR HORVÁTH, MIKLÓS BLAHÓ, ÁDÁM EGRI, GYÖRGY KRISKA, ISTVÁN SERES and BRUCE ROBERTSON


Effects of Pioneer Tree Species Hyperabundance on Forest Fragments in Northeastern Brazil (pages 1654–1663)

MARCELO TABARELLI, ANTONIO V. AGUIAR, LUCIANA C. GIRAO, CARLOS A. PERES and ARIADNA V. LOPES


Consequences of Buffelgrass Pasture Development for Primary Productivity, Perennial Plant Richness, and Vegetation Structure in the Drylands of Sonora, Mexico (pages 1664–1673)

KIMBERLY FRANKLIN and FRANCISCO MOLINA-FREANER


Research Notes

Population Bottlenecks and Increased Hatching Failure in Endangered Birds (pages 1674–1678)

SOL HEBER and JAMES V. BRISKIE


Validity of the Prey-Trap Hypothesis for Carnivore-Ungulate Interactions at Wildlife-Crossing Structures (pages 1679–1685)

ADAM T. FORD and ANTHONY P. CLEVENGER


Diversity

Ecological Connectivity for a Changing Climate (pages 1686–1689)

MEADE KROSBY, JOSHUA TEWKSBURY, NICK M. HADDAD and JONATHAN HOEKSTRA


Book Reviews

Parasitology Is Dead. Long Live Parasitology! (pages 1690–1691)

Richard S. Ostfeld and Felicia Keesing


Eternal Grasslands, Shifting Paradigms (pages 1692–1693)

James H. Shaw


Noted with Interest (page 1693)


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