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Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

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Editors:
  1. David L. Hawksworth
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  2. Alan T. Bull
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  • Draws together a wide range of peer-reviewed primary research papers from biodiversity researchers around the world
  • Provides examples from a wide spectrum of issues representing the current state-of-the art in arthropods
  • Provides examples of recent work, usable as case studies for courses in ecology, restoration, biodiversity, conservation
  • Enables specialist researchers to see primary research papers tackling problems in arthropods

Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation (TOBC, volume 5)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Responses of plant and bird communities to prescribed burning in tallgrass prairies

    • Fred Van Dyke, Jamie D. Schmeling, Shawn Starkenburg, Sung Heun Yoo, Peter W. Stewart
    Pages 1-13

  3. Population trends and spatial synchrony in peripheral populations of the endangered Lesser grey shrike in response to environmental change

    • David Giralt, Francisco Valera
    Pages 15-30

  4. Monitoring mammals in the Caxiuanã National Forest, Brazil – First results from the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) program

    • Simone Souza de Martins, James G. Sanderson, José Sousa de Silva-Júnior
    Pages 31-44

  5. Grassland versus non-grassland bird abundance and diversity in managed grasslands: local, landscape and regional scale effects

    • Péter Batáry, András Báldi, Sarolta ErdÅ‘s
    Pages 45-55

  6. Biogeographic patterns of the East African coastal forest vertebrate fauna

    • Ermias T. Azeria, Isabel Sanmartín, Stefan Ã…s, Allan Carlson, Neil Burgess
    Pages 57-86

  7. Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) on Guafo Island: the largest seabird colony in the world?

    • Ronnie Reyes-Arriagada, Paulo Campos-Ellwanger, Roberto P. Schlatter, Cheryl Baduini
    Pages 87-104

  8. Mexico in the international reptile skin trade: a case study

    • Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Ramón Pérez-Gil, Nigel Leader-Williams
    Pages 105-126

  9. Use of forest fragments by blue-winged macaws (Primolius maracana) within a fragmented landscape

    • Maria Flávia Conti Nunes, Mauro Galetti
    Pages 127-141

  10. Commercialization and use of snakes in North and Northeastern Brazil: implications for conservation and management

    • Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves, Gentil Alves Pereira Filho
    Pages 143-159

  11. Philopatry, dispersal patterns and nest-site reuse in Lesser Grey Shrikes (Lanius minor)

    • A. KriÅ¡tín, H. Hoi, F. Valera, C. Hoi
    Pages 161-169

  12. Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian Cerrado

    • José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Luis Mauricio Bini, Míriam Plaza Pinto, Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel, Priscilla Carvalho, Sibelius Lellis Vieira et al.
    Pages 171-182

  13. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina

    • Lisandro Heil, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Daniel Renison, Ana M. Cingolani, Daniel T. Blumstein
    Pages 183-200

  14. Population decline of loggerhead turtles: two potential scenarios for Fethiye beach, Turkey

    • Ç. Ilgaz, O. Türkozan, A. Özdemir, Y. Kaska, M. Stachowitsch
    Pages 201-211

  15. Habitat use, roost selection and conservation of bats in Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar

    • Amyot Kofoky, Daudet Andriafidison, Fanja Ratrimomanarivo, H. Julie Razafimanahaka, Daniel Rakotondravony, Paul A. Racey et al.
    Pages 213-227

  16. Territoriality and Survivorship of the Sierra Madre Sparrow in La Cima, México

    • Adán Oliveras de Ita, Héctor Gómez de Silva
    Pages 229-235

  17. Analysis of the species description process for a little known invertebrate group: the limnoterrestrial tardigrades (Bilateria, Tardigrada)

    • Noemí Guil, Francisco J. Cabrero-Sañudo
    Pages 237-260

  18. Environmental correlates for species richness among amphibians and reptiles in a climate transition area

    • Claudia Soares, José Carlos Brito
    Pages 261-276

  19. Amphibian diversity in East African biodiversity hotspots: altitudinal and latitudinal patterns

    • J. C. Poynton, S. P. Loader, E. Sherratt, B. T. Clarke
    Pages 277-292

  20. China Subregional Avian Endemism and Biodiversity Conservation

    • Fu-Min Lei, Guo-An Wei, Hong-Feng Zhao, Zuo-Hua Yin, Jian-Li Lu
    Pages 293-304
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The structure and function of grasslands worldwide have been disrupted by habitat fragmentation, the removal of native grazers and altered ?re frequency (Samson and Knopf 1994). Such changes threaten the integrity of native grassland communities of plants and animals in many ways and at many levels (Janzen 1983; Collins 2000; Cully and Michaels 2000). Habitat fragmentation alters size, spacing and context of habitat patches, which can result in an increase in the local rate of extinction of plant and animal species by reducing fecundity, population size and colonization of species from similar habitats (Noss and Csuti 1992). Compounding the effects of fragm- tation, extirpation of ?re and loss of populations of native grazers can lead to encroachment of woody vegetation and loss of grassland (Leach and Givnish 1996; Collins et al. 1998). In addition to effects on plant communities, the use of prescribed ?re to enhance grasslands is of increasing relevance as regional losses, isolation and fragmentation of grasslands have led to corresponding declines in local population densities of many species of grassland-dependent birds (Askins 1993; Vickery et al. 1994). Ar- sensitive species in grasslands are especially vulnerable to these effects (Herkert 1994a, b) which can create speci?c physical, environmental and ecological changes (Yahner 1988) that lower habitat quality for area-sensitive species that have been historical specialists of grassland habitats.

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