P. Andreas Svensson, Christophe Pélabon, Jonathan D. Blount, Elisabet Forsgren, Bjørn Bjerkeng, and Trond Amundsen Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway, Department of Biology, Centre for Conservation Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, School of Bioscien...

PETER J. HUNDT*, PETER B. BERENDZEN and ANDREW M. SIMONS Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul MN, 55108, USA Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul MN, 55108, USA Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Avenue, ...

J. Lenoir ([email protected]), The Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, Dept of Biological Sciences, Aarhus Univ., Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark and AgroParisTech, UMR1092 AgroParisTech-INRA, Laboratoire d’Etude des Ressources Forêt-Bois (LERFoB), 14 rue Girardet, FR-54000 Nancy, France. J.-C. Gégout, AgroParisTech, UMR1092 AgroParisTech-INRA, Laboratoire d’Etude des Ressource...

The January 2011 Special Issue is the first major compilation of studies on systematic conservation planning in fresh waters (Turak & Linke, 2011). The papers in this Special Issue consolidate freshwater conservation planning as a field within both conservation science and freshwater ecology. This progress is largely a result of key advances in both disciplines (Linke, Turak & Nel, 2011). Many ...

Public information is an emerging major topic in ecology and evolution. We review the literature about the role of public information in ecology and conservation while mainly focusing on inadvertent social information (ISI), which constitutes a major form of public information. We first define the terms of biological information that we use. We then review the accruing evidence for ISI use in m...

Grand Challenges in Migration Biology Melissa S. Bowlin,* Isabelle-Anne Bisson, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Jonathan D. Reichard, Nir Sapir, Peter P. Marra, Thomas H. Kunz, David S. Wilcove, Anders Hedenström,* Christopher G. Guglielmo, Susanne Åkesson,** Marilyn Ramenofsky and Martin Wikelski Department of Biology, Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 22362; Smithsoni...

The recent increase in interest about effects of trawling and dredging on seafloor ecosystems and their fisheries can be understood by examining three phases in the history of conservation thinking. The primary focus in nonmarine conservation thinking and management worldwide is on maintaining biodiversity, while marine managers are still focused mainly on use of marine life. Marine conservatio...

1Department of Biology, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA [[email protected]]; 2Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045 USA [[email protected]]; 3Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia 23909 USA [[email protected]]; 4Department of Ec...

Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa, Environmental Resource Management Department (ERMD), Westlake Conservation Office, City of Cape Town, Ou Kaapse Weg, Tokai 7966, Cape Town, South Africa, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden, Stellenbosch Institute for A...

Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074 Hubei, China, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239, USA, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Z€ urcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Faculty of Life and E...