October 2011
Conservation effectiveness of protected areas in Mexico: Effects on medium and large mammals at local and regional scales
Several threats are affecting biodiversity at both spatial and temporal scales. Protected areas (PAs) are one of the most popular conservation tools to protect biodiversity from those threats. However, PAs are often isolated by anthropogenic barriers and are not effective maintaining biodiversity and then it is necessary to assess the effectiveness of current PAs. Here we analyzed the representativeness of...
October 2011
Status of snow leopard Uncia uncia and its conservation in the tumor peak natural reserve in Xinjiang, China
Field surveys were carried out by the International Snow Leopard project team to estimate snow leopard abundance and density in the Tumor Peak Natural Reserve in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), China. A total of 48 linear transects with a total length of 48.92 km were surveyed at 5 potential distribution sites during October to November 2004, and we observed 101 snow leopard signs to try to...
October 2011
Ecology and biodiversity in Pangong Tso (lake) and its inlet stream in Ladakh, India
Pangong Tso is a land locked lake situated in eastern part of Ladakh (Indian Tibet), at an altitude of 4,266 m A.S.L. and remains frozen for about three months during winter. There is no outlet to the lake and loss of water is only through evapotranspiration. The lake was found to be highly alkaline (pH ≤ 9.0) with high conductivity (≥ 1639 mS) and nutrients (NH4-N ≥ 54 mg/L; NO3-N ≥ 299...
October 2011
Study of genetic relationships between wild and domesticated grapevine in the north of Morocco
In Morocco, knowledge about the wild grapevines has been absent. Until now, no accurate inventory was available and the characterization of this wild grapevine group was lacking. In the present work, prospecting conducted in the North of Morocco (Rif) permitted us to inventory 18 sites with wild grapevines (10 to 50 km away from each other). A total of 168 individuals have been found. This material was...
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