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Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Chaplin, Gerrard, Watson, Master, Flack
From the text (p. 161)...'Assessing the distribution of species at risk by looking only at their presence within individual states, as we have done in chapter 5, is useful for broadly identifying the magnitude of the conservation challenge in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Pollet, Omi
From the Management Implications (p.139-140)... 'Our findings indicate that fuel treatments do mitigate fire severity. Treatments provide a window of opportunity for effective fire suppression and protecting high-value areas. Although topography and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Yool, Miller, Balice, Oswald, Edminster
Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies support the goals of the Los Alamos region to use current technology in expanding information to reduce fire hazard within its wildland urban interface. The forests and woodlands on…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Clark, Yool
The Madrean Archipelago of sky islands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico relies on fire to help regulate and maintain biodiversity, yet only limited fire research has been conducted in the region. Developing new tools and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Carroll
Recently, McGowan et al. (1995) completed a worldwide conservation strategy for all species of partridges, quails, and francolins. They identified priority species and projects for the next 5 years. Mexico was identified as a critical country in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Gall, Kuvlesky, Gee
Efforts to reestablish the endangered masked bobwhite (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) to its former historic range have been a primary focus on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) since it was established in 1986. Prerelease…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Kuvlesky, Gall, Dobrott, Tolley, Guthery, DeStefano, King, Nolte, Silvy, Lewis, Gee, Luders, Engle-Wilson
The masked bobwhite (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) is an endangered species currently numbering <1500 individuals and restricted to 2 locales in southeastern Arizona and northcentral Sonora, Mexico. The subspecies' endangered status is attributed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Poiani, Richter, Anderson, Richter
From the text...'Approaches to conservation and natural resource management are maturing rapidly in response to changing perceptions of biodiversity and ecological systems. In past decades,biodiversity was viewed largely in terms of species richness…
Year: 2000
Type: Document