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1. Prescribed fire and conservation of a threatened mountain grassland specialist: a capture-recapture study on the Orsini's viper in the French alps

Author:
Lyet, A.; Cheylan, M.; Prodon, R.; Besnard, A.
Source:
Animal conservation 2009 v.12 no.3 pp. 238-248
ISSN:
1367-9430
Subject:
endangered species; grazing; vegetation cover; land use; grasslands; prescribed burning; grazing lands; ecosystems; issues and policy; body condition; fauna; wildland fire management; autumn; woody plants; predation; biodiversity; Vipera ursinii; mortality; grasshoppers; landscapes; snakes; habitats; France; Alps region
Abstract:
... Burning has traditionally been used in the southern French Alps to maintain open lands for grazing. In the context of land use abandonment, prescribed burning may be the only realistic practical tool available to oppose encroachment by woody plants in numerous mountainous landscapes. Although only recently developed as a modern tool for wildfire prevention and management of pastoral grasslands, th ...
DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00245.x

2. Response of Mediterranean coralline algae to ocean acidification and elevated temperature

Author:
MARTIN, SOPHIE; GATTUSO, JEAN-PIERRE
Source:
Global change biology 2009 v.15 no.8 pp. 2089-2100
ISSN:
1354-1013
Subject:
Lithophyllum; acidification; aquariums; autumn; biodiversity; biogeochemistry; calcification; carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide enrichment; death; light intensity; necrosis; summer; temperature; thallus; winter
Abstract:
... The effects of elevated partial pressure of CO₂ (pCO₂) and temperature, alone and in combination, on survival, calcification and dissolution were investigated in the crustose coralline alga Lithophyllum cabiochae. Algae were maintained in aquaria during 1 year at near-ambient conditions of irradiance, at ambient or elevated temperature (+3 °C) and at ambient [ca. 400 parts per million (ppm)] or el ...
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01874.x

3. Restoring a keystone predator may endanger a prey species in a human‐altered ecosystem: the return of the snow leopard to Sagarmatha National Park

Author:
S. Lovari; R. Boesi; I. Minder; N. Mucci; E. Randi; A. Dematteis; S. B. Ale
Source:
Animal conservation 2009 v.12 no.6 pp. 559-570
ISSN:
1367-9430
Subject:
Moschus; Panthera uncia; autumn; biodiversity; birth rate; cats; cattle; deer; diet; ecosystems; extinction; national parks; predation; risk; single nucleotide polymorphism; summer
Abstract:
... Twenty‐five years ago, the snow leopard Uncia uncia, an endangered large cat, was eliminated from what is now Sagarmatha National Park (SNP). Heavy hunting pressure depleted that area of most medium–large mammals, before it became a park. After three decades of protection, the cessation of hunting and the recovery of wild ungulate populations, snow leopards have recently returned (four individuals ...
DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00285.x

4. Small mammal populations in a eucalypt forest affected by fire and drought. I. Long-term patterns in an era of climate change

Author:
Recher, Harry F.; Lunney, Daniel; Matthews, Alison
Source:
Wildlife research 2009 v.36 no.2 pp. 143-158
ISSN:
1035-3712
Subject:
Antechinus; Eucalyptus; Mus musculus; Rattus; autumn; biodiversity; breeding; climate change; drought; fires; forests; ground vegetation; population dynamics; rain; rodents; small mammals; winter; Australia
Abstract:
... This paper reports a study of ground-dwelling, small mammals in coastal eucalypt forest in south-eastern Australia from 1970 through 2005. During this time, the study area burnt in an intense fire in December 1972 and was partially burnt in November 1980. Both fires were associated with prolonged drought. The mammals studied comprised two dasyurid marsupials, Antechinus agilis and A. swainsonii, t ...
DOI:
10.1071/WR08086