Biodiversity and Conservation in Europe - Hawksworth, David L.; Bull, Alan T.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Biodiversity gradients in the Alps: the overriding importance of elevation -- Determining high value areas for steppe birds in Spain: hot spots, complementarity and the efficiency of protected areas -- The Berger-Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages -- The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy -- Indicators for plant species richness in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of Germany -- The social negotiation of nature conservation policy: conserving pinewoods in the Scottish Highlands -- Identifying new buffer areas for conserving waterbirds in the Mediterranean basin: the importance of the rice fields in Extremadura, Spain -- Impact of wind turbines on birds in Zeebrugge (Belgium) -- The Iberian ibex is under an expansion trend but displaced to suboptimal habitats by the presence of extensive goat livestock in central Spain -- Testing indicators of epiphytic lichen diversity: a case study in N Italy -- Analysis and evaluation of ecosystem resilience: an economic perspective with an application to the Venice lagoon -- Natural oak forest vs. ancient pine plantations: lizard microhabitat use may explain the effects of ancient reforestations on distribution and conservation of Iberian lizards -- Tracking the effects of one century of habitat loss and fragmentation on calcareous grassland butterfly communities -- The distribution pattern of centipedes in four primeval forests of central Slovakia -- Tuber spp. biodiversity in one of the southernmost European distribution areas -- Multi-scale analysis of butterfly diversity in a Mediterranean mountain landscape: mapping and evaluation of community vulnerability -- Habitat use of booted eagles (Hieraaetus pennatus) in a Special Protection Area: implications for conservation -- Is the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) a threatened species in spain? Sociological constraints in the conservation of species -- Identifying core areas in a species' range using temporal suitability analysis: an example using little bustards Tetrax Tetrax L. in Spain -- Discovery of a regular nesting area of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta in southern Italy: a new perspective for national conservation -- Benefits of habitat restoration to small mammal diversity and abundance in a pastoral agricultural landscape in mid-Wales -- Modelling habitat use and distribution of golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos in a low-density area of the Iberian Peninsula -- The arctic fox Alopex lagopus in Fennoscandia: a victim of human-induced changes in interspecific competition and predation? -- Do biodiversity patterns in Dutch wetland complexes relate to variation in urbanisation, intensity of agricultural land use or fragmentation? -- Translocation of an endangered insect species, the field cricket (Gryllus campestris Linnaeus, 1758) in northern Germany -- Conservation of taxonomic and biological trait diversity of European stream macroinvertebrate communities: a case for a collective public database -- Ecotourism disturbance to wildfowl in protected areas: historical, empirical and experimental approaches in the Camargue, Southern France -- The effect of femel- and small scale clear-cutting on ground dwelling spider communities in a Norway spruce forest in Southern Germany.
Keywords: Biodiversity; Nature conservation; Plant ecology; Ecology .; Forestry management; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity; Nature Conservation; Plant Ecology; Ecology; Forestry Management; Landscape Ecology