Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

1. Front Matter

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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 Erdős

   Pages 45-55

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

   • Ermias T. Azeria, Isabel Sanmartín, Stefan Ås, 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. Krištín, 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

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.

• Animal ecology
• Biodiversity
• Conservation biology
• Ecology
• Fauna
• Hotspot
• Species richness
• Terrestrial ecology
• Vertebrates
• environment
• wetland
• Model vertebrates

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