Animal Conservation

FEATURE PAPER
Mapping the potential extinction debt of butterflies in a modern city: implications for conservation priorities in urban landscapes
M. Soga and S. Koike

COMMENTARIES
Extinction debt at different spatial scales
I. Hanski

Setting conservation priorities when what you see is not what you get
M. Vellend and Heather M. Kharouba

RESPONSE
From ecological pessimism to conservation chance: reviving living dead in changing landscapes
M. Soga, Y. Yamaura and S. Koike

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ANIMOVE Summer School
11-25 August 2013

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany The ANIMOVE summer school will focus will be on interdisciplinary approaches linking animal movement, environmental factors and conservation. Advanced theoretical lectures and seminars will be complemented by daily hands-on work using methods and practical conservation activities to balance between practical skills and state-of-the-art theoretical background. The course will be exclusively based on open source software (R, GRASS) and will provide participants the necessary skills to integrate remote sensing and species movement into wildlife management and conservation approaches.
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Animal Conservationsponsored poster prizes at the ICCB and ACES in 2011. Read more

Excerpts from the 6th World Conference on Herpetology
This special issue of Animal Conservation comprises a selection of papers representing the main themes from the symposia of the World Congress of Herpetology: Invasive reptiles and amphibians, the role of disease and conservation genetics in herpetology.

Virtual Issue - Protected Areas

In the battle to reduce the unprecedented levels of species extinction and biodiversity loss, few weapons are known to be as old and as widely implemented as protected areas Read more

Distribution patterns of Yangtze finless porpoises in the Yangtze River: implications for reserve management has been highlighted on BBC News

Habitat selection guiding agri-environment schemes for a farmland specialist, the brown hare has been highlighted in PhysOrg

The social side of human–wildlife interaction: wildlife can learn harmful behaviours from each other has been highlighted in PhysOrg

Predation of Atlantic Petrel chicks by house mice on Gough Island has been highlighted in Planet Earth Online and io9

Rainfall-related population growth and adult sex ratio change in the Critically Endangered Raso lark (Alauda razae) has been highlighted in Science

Bird functional diversity and wildfires in the Amazon: the role of forest structure has been highlighted on Physorg and Planet Earth Online

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