Properties of land mosaics: Implications for nature conservation in agricultural environments

Bennett, Andrew F.; Radford, James Q.; Haslem, Angie

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2006.06.008

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“…To accomplish this, it is more necessary than ever to integrate sociocultural understanding into conservation (WaltnerToews et al 2003, Mooney et al 2013, Redpath et al 2013, Ives and Kendal 2014, Kueffer and KaiserBunbury 2014, Mace 2014, Palomo et al 2014, Poe et al 2014, and to consider flexible strategies enabling the sustained integration of nonhuman species into the novel habitats of anthromes as part of multifunctional landscape management approaches (Antrop 2006, Bennett et al 2006, Kleijn et al 2011, Tomich et al 2011, van Noordwijk et al 2012, Ellis 2013, Jantz et al 2014, Martin et al 2014, Marvier 2014, Quinn et al 2014.…”

Section: Sustaining Nonhuman Nature In An Anthropogenic Biospherementioning

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Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Ellis

2015

Ecological Monographs

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Abstract. Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to understand, predict, or successfully manage ecological pattern, process, or change without understanding why and how humans reshape these over the long term. Here, a general causal theory is presented to explain why human societies gained the capacity to globally alter the patterns, processes, and dynamics of ecology and how these anthropogenic alterations unfold over time and space as societies themselves change over human generational time. Building on existing theories of ecosystem engineering, niche construction, inclusive inheritance, cultural evolution, ultrasociality, and social change, this theory of anthroecological change holds that sociocultural evolution of subsistence regimes based on ecosystem engineering, social specialization, and non-kin exchange, or ''sociocultural niche construction,'' is the main cause of both the long-term upscaling of human societies and their unprecedented transformation of the biosphere. Human sociocultural niche construction can explain, where classic ecological theory cannot, the sustained transformative effects of human societies on biogeography, ecological succession, ecosystem processes, and the ecological patterns and processes of landscapes, biomes, and the biosphere. Anthroecology theory generates empirically testable hypotheses on the forms and trajectories of long-term anthropogenic ecological change that have significant theoretical and practical implications across the subdisciplines of ecology and conservation. Though still at an early stage of development, anthroecology theory aligns with and integrates established theoretical frameworks including social-ecological systems, social metabolism, countryside biogeography, novel ecosystems, and anthromes. The ''fluxes of nature'' are fast becoming ''cultures of nature.'' To investigate, understand, and address the ultimate causes of anthropogenic ecological change, not just the consequences, human sociocultural processes must become as much a part of ecological theory and practice as biological and geophysical processes are now. Strategies for achieving this goal and for advancing ecological science and conservation in an increasingly anthropogenic biosphere are presented.

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Section: Sustaining Nonhuman Nature In An Anthropogenic Biospherementioning

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Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Ellis

2015

Ecological Monographs

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“…There is an increasing appreciation that demographic processes for organisms must be considered at different spatial scales including large 'landscape mosaics' of patches of habitat in matrices of various land-use types (Cushman and McGarigal 2004;Bennett et al 2006). Fortunately, patch-scale habitat data are increasingly available at landscape scales, such as mapping vegetation-cover down to single trees using high-resolution satellites (Levin et al 2009).…”

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Towards modelling persistence of woodland birds: the role of genetics

Sunnucks

2011

Emu - Austral Ornithology

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Abstract. Assessing how environmental change affects the probability of persistence of organisms requires an understanding of dispersal through, and occupation of, landscapes, and the associated demographic outcomes. Projections of differences in persistence probability can then be made under different scenarios of land-use and global environmental change. Rates and distances of dispersal, and demographic change and trajectories, are difficult to measure accurately, but genetic approaches can make major contributions. For two decades the field of molecular ecology has been providing useful life-history information relevant to population management, including key ecological attributes such as disease-resistance and thermal biology, mobility, dispersal and gene flow, habitat connectivity, the spatial and temporal scales of population processes, and demography. Genetic estimators of these factors could be employed to a much greater extent than they are currently. To facilitate this increased use, genetic estimates of functional connectivity (mobility and gene flow of organisms) and demography need to be integrated directly into decision-making processes. Population genetics is well suited to Bayesian approaches, with associated benefits including the ability to consider many factors, and estimation of error and parameter sensitivities. Genetic estimators based on the mobility and reproductive success of individual organisms and their key ecological traits can make unique contributions alongside other types of data into agent-based, spatially explicit modelling approaches of real landscape scenarios at the range of scales needed by managers. Virtually all the tools to do this exist. It is imperative that genetic samples be collected for contemporary and future analyses.

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“…Although little information is available on the distribution of organisms in cultivated environments, it is known that the richness and abundance of animal species are strongly influenced by the size and the surrounding natural environments (Bernnett et al 2006). Regarding the Atlantic Rain Forest, such fragments play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity due to the high levels of endemism observed in this biome, currently threatened by the loss of habitat generated mainly by urbanization and agriculture (Morellato & Haddad 2000).…”

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Anurans of the Reserva Ecológica da Michelin, Municipality of Igrapiúna, State of Bahia, Brazil

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Abstract:We studied the richness and distribution of anuran species on different breeding sites at the Reserva Ecológica da Michelin (13° 50' S and 39° 10' W, approximately 90-400 m above sea level), Municipality of Igrapiúna, Bahia State, Brazil. The reserve includes fragments of Atlantic Rain Forest varying from 140 to 650 ha. Five types of environments were sampled: leaf litter inside forest fragments, streams inside forest fragments, dam on the edge of forest fragment, temporary pond inside forest, and temporary ponds inside banana and rubber groves along the eastern boundary of the reserve. We used active and passive sampling methods for surveys of amphibians, between March 2007 and December 2008. We captured 48 species distributed in 10 families (number of species in parentheses): Aromobatidae (1), Brachycephalidae (4), Bufonidae (2), Craugastoridae (1), Centrolenidae (1), Cycloramphidae (3), Hylidae (29), Leiuperidae (1), Leptodactylidae (3), and Microhylidae (3). Temporary ponds presented the highest number of species in reproductive activity (19 species in native forested areas, and 21 in plantation areas), while leaf litter presented the lowest (6 species). Two species were found in bromeliads (Phyllodytes melanomystax and P. luteolus). Twenty-two species were exclusive to fragments of forest, 11 were found only in anthropized areas (dam, and rubber and banana plantations) and 15 in both environments. Aplastodiscus cavicola and Dendropsophus giesleri had their geographic distribution extended to the State of Bahia. Phasmahyla timbo and Chiasmocleis cordeiroi known only from their type localities were found in the reserve.

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Properties of land mosaics: Implications for nature conservation in agricultural environments

Cited by 467 publications

References 102 publications

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Towards modelling persistence of woodland birds: the role of genetics

Anurans of the Reserva Ecológica da Michelin, Municipality of Igrapiúna, State of Bahia, Brazil

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