FABRIZIO SERGIO ,*† IAN NEWTON,‡ LUIGI MARCHESI† and PAOLO PEDRINI† *Department of Applied Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda. María Luisa s/n, Pabellón del Perú, 41013 Seville, Spain; †Raptor Conservation Research Unit, Trento Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Calepina 14, 38100 Trento, Italy; and ‡Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridges...

A major problem in conservation biology is to decide the target of conservation: should conservation efforts aim to preserve species or ecosystems? The traditional approach has, by necessity, focused on particular species threatened by extinction. With the increasing attention on preserving biodiversity at large, for which the species-by-species approach falls short, a trend is now emerging tha...

Chris Wilcox1, C. Josh Donlan2,3 and Sean Pascoe 1 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, 7001, Tasmania, Australia 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853 USA. [email protected] 3 Advanced Conservation Strategies, P.O. Box 6819, Ithaca, NY 14851 USA 4 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Cleveland, 4163, Queensland, Au...

Elasmobranchs, the taxonomic group comprising sharks, skates and rays, play important roles in society and marine ecology but several species in this subclass are under threat.  This collection aims to be an open access hub for articles concerning all areas of elasmobranch biology and conservation. The collection is indefinitely open to further submissions and so will continue to grow as additi...

study of fishes on aquatic ecosystems in many respects, including ecology, behavior, biology, conservation and management of water resources, exploitation of resources and training are important. so in the autumn 2011, the population structure of barilius mesopotamicus was studied. in this order, 69 samples of the mentioned fish from seimareh (34 samples), changoleh (20 samples) and siahgave (1...

Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA (DTB, JCD) The Cooperative Research Centre for the Conservation and Management of Marsupials, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia (DTB, JCD) Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia ...

1Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg Zoo, Mølleparkvej 63, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark 2Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA, Roma, Italy 3Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 4Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherla...

59 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università di Firenze, Firenze 1 , Italy 60 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield 1 , UK 61 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Rice University, 1 USA 62 Department of Conservation Biology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala 1 , Sweden 63 Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva, Università di Siena, Sie...

WILLIAM H. CLEMENTS*, DONNA R. KASHIAN † , PETER M. KIFFNEY AND ROBERT E. ZUELLIG *Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, U.S.A. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology, Mukilteo, WA, U.S.A. U.S. Geo...

Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (LLG) Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, 110 Newins-Ziegler Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA (MKO) Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 81820, USA (JEH) Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA (BM)