Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation (PECON) is a scientific journal devoted to improving theoretical and conceptual aspects of conservation science. It has the main purpose of communicating new research and advances to different actors of society, including researchers, conservationists, practitioners, and policymakers. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation publishes original papers on biodiversity conservation and restoration, on the main drivers affecting native ecosystems, and on nature¿s benefits to people and human wellbeing. This scope includes studies on biodiversity patterns, the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, biological invasion and climate change on biodiversity, conservation genetics, spatial conservation planning, ecosystem management, ecosystem services, sustainability and resilience of socio-ecological systems, conservation policy, among others.
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is the official scientific journal of the Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation. It is an open access journal, supported by the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection, and thus without any charge for authors. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation was previously published, between 2003 and 2016, as 'Natureza & Conservação'.
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Local communities cooperate and participate in CBTH programs due to power-imbalance between strong governments and weak communities who neighbor or live closely with wildlife.
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Contingency propositions that help practitioners and governments to understand and implement projects that seek environmental conservation in collaboration with local communities.
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Key components of community-based trophy hunting programs identified and defined.
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Factors affecting CBTH program’s process that determine the outcomes of CBTH programs.
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Identifying specific and quantitative objectives and linking them to timeframes and budgets.
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Developing strategic monitoring and evaluation programs focussed on MPA performance.
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Enabling local stakeholders to participate in planning processes.
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Explicitly considering MPA costs and leveraging existing sources of funding.
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Decentralizing resource management and empowering local stakeholders to manage resources sustainably.
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The replacement of natural vegetation to agriculture, pastures or urban matrices decreased genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Pallas’s long-tongued bat had a quasi-stable range distribution since the last Glacial Maximum.
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The Quaternary climate changes had no significant effects on the genetic diversity of the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Populations of the Palla’s long-tongued bat was differentiated by isolation-by-distance, but not by environment.
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Our findings point to the maintenance of large areas of natural vegetation to conserve genetic diversity in the Palla’s long-tongued bat.
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Large herbivores cause genetic diversity loss between cohorts in a desert shrub.
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Parental and offspring cohorts showed increasing inbreeding.
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Livestock reduced seed set, seedling emergence and increased offspring mortality.
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Unmanaged large exotic herbivores seriously affect dryland vegetation structure.
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Disturbance jeopardize plant evolutionary potential thought complex effects.
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The zooplankton was the most studied taxon, followed by mollusks and crabs, and it was also dominant across the hydrographic regions.
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Cases about microplastics were reported only in three regions.
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The hydrographic region of Paraná comprised the largest number of cases for the three invertebrate groups.
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It was detected a disproportionately low increase of number of cases in relation to population density in the hydrographic regions.
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Measuring objectively the ecological integrity of an ecosystem is a complex task.
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Deviation of an indicator variable from a reference relationship is a measure of integrity.
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Plant biomass (indicator) is constrained by vegetation height (context variable).
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Fragmentation (indicator) is constrained by the amount of habitats (context variable).
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In the anthropocene, conservation goals must be set without pristine reference states.
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Salix × rubens (hybrid crack willow) is invading Brazilian riparian ecosystems
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Most individuals occurred exclusively along watercourses and floodplains
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Water transport can facilitate hybrid crack willow dissemination
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Cultivation and transport must include measures to prevent biological invasions
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Such measures have still not been established by the government
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Brazilian government liberates the sugarcane plantations in the Pantanal and the Amazon.
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This non-sanctioned crop is likely to become the newest driver of deforestation in these biomes.
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Direct and indirect conversion of forests can create a carbon balance debt that could take centuries to offset.
