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PLoS One
January 2019
CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal.
The importance of targeting ecological and evolutionary processes in reserve design has been widely acknowledged in the literature but rarely implemented on islands. Using Socotran reptiles as models, we aim to relate richness of widespread and restricted-range species directly with landscape variables and to compare the impact of setting conservation targets for lineages versus species. Socotra Island is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, containing high levels of endemism in relation to its area, especially of reptiles, the vertebrates with the most comprehensive available genetic data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur knowledge of ecological interactions that bolster ecosystem function and productivity has broad applications to the management of agricultural systems. Studies suggest that the presence of generalist predators in agricultural landscapes leads to a decrease in the abundance of herbivorous pests, but our understanding of how these interactions vary across taxa and along gradients of management intensity and eco-geographic space remains incomplete. In this study, we assessed the functional response and biocontrol potential of a highly ubiquitous insectivore (lizards in the genus ) on the world's most important coffee pest, the coffee berry borer ().
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvol Appl
September 2015
Université de Montpellier Montpellier, France ; CNRS - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, UMR 5554 UM-CNRS-IRD-EPHE, Station Méditerranéenne de l'Environnement Littoral Sète, France.
Estimating the rate of exchange of individuals among populations is a central concern to evolutionary ecology and its applications to conservation and management. For instance, the efficiency of protected areas in sustaining locally endangered populations and ecosystems depends on reserve network connectivity. The population genetics theory offers a powerful framework for estimating dispersal distances and migration rates from molecular data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi
July 2012
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yinchuan 750004, China.
Objective: To study the biological characteristics of natural reservoirs of Yesinia (Y.) pestis in China.
Methods: Species and genera of natural reservoirs of Y.
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi
June 2012
Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Compared Medical Research Center of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China.
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