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Flying high for conservation: opportunities and challenges of operating drones within the oldest national park in the alps.

Published online: 04 Jul 2024

Authors: Rossi, C. & Wiesmann, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Drones have emerged as an essential tool in various conservation applications. Despite the great potential, drone use by protected area managers is st...

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Targeted conservation grazing using molasses to increase preferential consumption of old growth pasture grasses.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Grange, I. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

High conservation value grasslands, which are usually marginal and agriculturally poor, are often difficult to manage appropriately for biodiversity e...

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Are threatened plant species specialists, or just more vulnerable to disturbance?

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Monks, A. & Burrows, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many studies report an association between species rarity and/or threat status, and habitat specialization. However, specialization is often inferred ...

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Predicting bird-window collisions with weather radar.

Published online: 05 Oct 2021

Authors: Elmore, J. A. & Riding, C. S. & Horton, K. G. & O'Connell, T. J. & Farnsworth, A. & Loss, S. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Up to 1 billion birds die annually in the U.S. from window collisions; most of these casualties represent migratory native species. Because this major...

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Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Europe: enhancing coherence of the knowledge base, policies and practices.

Published online: 11 Apr 2018

Content type: Bulletin

This report assesses current practices and level of know-how, and highlights emerging innovative tools national, regional and local authorities are us...

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Monitoring salt stress in grapevines: are measures of plant trait variability useful?

Published online: 05 Nov 2003

Authors: Sinclair, C. & Hoffmann, A. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Measures of trait variability, in particular fluctuating asymmetry (FA), have been proposed as biological tools for monitoring environmental quality, ...

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Using hidden Markov models to inform conservation and management strategies in ecosystems exhibiting alternative stable states.

Published online: 03 Jun 2021

Authors: Vitense, K. & Hanson, M. A. & Herwig, B. R. & Zimmer, K. D. & Fieberg, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Successful conservation of ecosystems exhibiting alternative stable states requires tools to accurately classify states and quantify state transition ...

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Pre-closure fishing pressure predicts effects of marine protected areas.

Published online: 26 Jul 2020

Authors: Jaco ErinM. & Steele, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Marine protected areas (MPAs) can be effective tools for marine resource management. However, despite evidence of the positive effects of MPAs, such a...

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Wireless sensor networks and analytics as emerging tools for a paradigm shift on environmental monitoring.

Published online: 21 Feb 2018

Authors: Sanchez-Azofeifa, A.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

This paper evaluates the evolution of scientific paradigms in the context of environmental monitoring, presents the concept of wireless sensor network...

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The importance of species selection and seed sourcing in forest restoration for enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change: Colombian tropical dry forest as a model.

Published online: 21 Feb 2018

Authors: Thomas, E. & Alcazar, C. & Moscoso H., L. G. & Vasquez, A. & Fernando Osorio, L. & Salgado-Negret, B. & Gonzalez, M. & Parra-Quijano, M. & Bozzano, M. & Loo, J. & Jalonen, R. & Ramirez, W.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Forest restoration projects can derive great benefit from integrating climate modeling, functional trait analysis and genetic considerations in the se...

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