Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

TOPICS IN BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Volume 5

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

Edited by

David L. Hawksworth
and
Alan T. Bull

Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 16:4 (2007)

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Contents

Vertebrate Conservation and

Biodiversity
FRED VAN DYKE, JAMIE D. SCHMELING, SHAWN STARKENBURG, SUNG
HEUN YOO and PETER W. STEWART / Responses of plant and bird
communities to prescribed burning in tallgrass prairies
DAVID GIRALT and FRANCISCO VALERA / Population trends and spatial
synchrony in peripheral populations of the endangered Lesser grey shrike in
response to environmental change
SIMONE DE SOUZA MARTINS, JAMES G. SANDERSON and JOS
DE SOUSA E SILVA-JNIOR / Monitoring mammals in the Caxiuan
National Forest, Brazil First results from the Tropical Ecology,
Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) program
S / Grassland versus
PTER BATRY, ANDRS BLDI and SAROLTA ERDO
non-grassland bird abundance and diversity in managed grasslands: local,
landscape and regional scale effects
ERMIAS T. AZERIA, ISABEL SANMARTN, STEFAN S, ALLAN CARLSON
and NEIL BURGESS / Biogeographic patterns of the East African coastal
forest vertebrate fauna
RONNIE REYES-ARRIAGADA, PAULO CAMPOS-ELLWANGER, ROBERTO
P. SCHLATTER and CHERYL BADUINI / Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus
griseus) on Guafo Island: the largest seabird colony in the world?
INS ARROYO-QUIROZ, RAMN PREZ-GIL and NIGEL LEADERWILLIAMS / Mexico in the international reptile skin trade: a case study
MARIA FLVIA CONTI NUNES and MAURO GALETTI / Use of forest
fragments by blue-winged macaws (Primolius maracana) within a
fragmented landscape
RMULO ROMEU DA NBREGA ALVES and GENTIL ALVES PEREIRA
FILHO / Commercialization and use of snakes in North and Northeastern
Brazil: implications for conservation and management
A. KRITN, H. HOI, F. VALERA and C. HOI / Philopatry, dispersal patterns and
nest-site reuse in Lesser Grey Shrikes (Lanius minor)
JOS ALEXANDRE FELIZOLA DINIZ-FILHO, LUIS MAURICIO BINI,
MRIAM PLAZA PINTO, THIAGO FERNANDO L. V. B. RANGEL,
PRISCILLA CARVALHO, SIBELIUS LELLIS VIEIRA and ROGRIO
PEREIRA BASTOS / Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian
Cerrado
LISANDRO
HEIL,
ESTEBAN
FERNNDEZ-JURICIC,
DANIEL
RENISON, ANA M. CINGOLANI and DANIEL T. BLUMSTEIN / Avian
responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Crdoba
Mountains, Argentina
. ILGAZ, O. TRKOZAN, A. ZDEMIR, Y. KASKA and M. STACHOWITSCH /
Population decline of loggerhead turtles: two potential scenarios for Fethiye
beach, Turkey

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AMYOT KOFOKY, DAUDET ANDRIAFIDISON, FANJA RATRIMOMANARIVO,
H. JULIE RAZAFIMANAHAKA, DANIEL RAKOTONDRAVONY,
PAUL A. RACEY and RICHARD K. B. JENKINS / Habitat use, roost selection and conservation of bats in Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park,
Madagascar
ADN OLIVERAS DE ITA and HCTOR GMEZ DE SILVA / Territoriality and
survivorship of the Sierra Madre sparrow in La Cima, Mxico
NOEM GUIL and FRANCISCO J. CABRERO-SAUDO / Analysis of the species
description process for a little known invertebrate group: the limnoterrestrial
tardigrades (Bilateria, Tardigrada)
CLAUDIA SOARES and JOS CARLOS BRITO / Environmental correlates for
species richness among amphibians and reptiles in a climate transition area
J. C. POYNTON, S. P. LOADER, E. SHERRATT and B. T. CLARKE / Amphibian
diversity in East African biodiversity hotspots: altitudinal and latitudinal
patterns
FU-MIN LEI, GUO-AN WEI, HONG-FENG ZHAO, ZUO-HUA YIN and JIAN-LI
LU / China subregional avian endemism and biodiversity conservation
NIALL ODEA and ROBERT J. WHITTAKER / How resilient are Andean montane
forest bird communities to habitat degradation?
NANCY NTHENYA MOINDE-FOCKLER, NICHOLAS OTIENOH OGUGE,
GENESIO MUGAMBI KARERE, DANIEL OTINA and MBARUK
ABDALLA SULEMAN / Human and natural impacts on forests along lower
Tana river, Kenya: implications towards conservation and management of
endemic primate species and their habitat
ANTONIO R. MENDES PONTES, IRAN C. NORMANDE, AMARO
C. A. FERNANDES, PATRCIA F. ROSAS RIBEIRO and MARINA L.
SOARES / Fragmentation causes rarity in common marmosets in the
Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil
IRENE ROMERO-NJERA, ALFREDO D. CUARN and CRISTOPHER
GONZLEZ-BACA / Distribution, abundance, and habitat use of
introduced Boa constrictor threatening the native biota of Cozumel Island,
Mexico
MOGENS TROLLE, ANDREW J. NOSS, EDSON DE S. LIMA and JULIO C.
DALPONTE / Camera-trap studies of maned wolf density in the Cerrado
and the Pantanal of Brazil
MOGENS TROLLE, MARCOS CESAR BISSARO and HELBERT MEDEIROS
PRADO / Mammal survey at a ranch of the Brazilian Cerrado
JOS MIGUEL BAREA-AZCN, EMILIO VIRGS, ELENA BALLESTEROSDUPERN, MARCOS MOLEN and MANUEL CHIROSA / Surveying
carnivores at large spatial scales: a comparison of four broad-applied
methods
DEMETRIO LUIS GUADAGNIN and LEONARDO MALTCHIK / Habitat and
landscape factors associated with neotropical waterbird occurrence and richness in wetland fragments
ROSIE WOODROFFE, LAURENCE G. FRANK, PETER A. LINDSEY, SYMON
M. K. OLE RANAH and STEPHANIE ROMAACH / Livestock
husbandry as a tool for carnivore conservation in Africas community rangelands: a casecontrol study
CLEM TISDELL and HEMANATH SWARNA NANTHA / Comparison of funding
and demand for the conservation of the charismatic koala with those for the
critically endangered wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii

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GILBERTO PASINELLI / Nest site selection in middle and great spotted woodpeckers Dendrocopos medius & D. major: implications for forest management
and conservation
DAVID I. KING, MARTIN D. HERNANDEZ-MAYORGA, RICHARD TRUBEY,
RAUL RAUDALES and JOHN H. RAPPOLE / An evaluation of the
contribution of cultivated allspice (Pimenta Dioca) to vertebrate biodiversity
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Introduction
Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

This book brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and
Conservation addressing aspects of the conservation of vertebrates and biodiversity,
especially those in terrestrial habitats1. Vertebrates are, along with plants, the bestknown and most intensively studied components of biological diversity on Earth. As
such, studies on vertebrates may be expected to provide models for other groups, but
at the same time they pose particular problems because of their relative mobility,
which can be transcontinental in migratory birds. In addition, many mammals and
sh are also subject to extensive human exploitation for food or sport.
Two contributions consider the issue of habitat modication in relation to birds,
mammals and also reptiles, one carried out in East African coastal forests, and the
other a planted tree crop in Nicaragua; in both cases primary and relict forests were
critical to the survival of the most specialized species.
The articles concerned with mammals cover the conict caused by large carnivores
attacking livestock in Africa, mammals in ranches and other habitats in the Brazilian
Cerrado, mammals in the Caxiuana National Forest in Brazil (monitored using a
camera phototrapping programme), koalas and a wombat in Australia, the maned
wolf in the Brazilian Cerrado and Pantanal, bats in Madagascar, marmosets in Brazil,
and endemic primates in Kenya. Problems of surveying carnivores at dierent scales
are revealed by the comparison of dierent methods in the Mediterranean.
The contributions on birds included here fall into two main categories: the relationships of the avifauna to habitat types and changes, and studies on particular
species. In the former category are studies comparing abundance and diversity in
grassland and non-grassland habitats in Hungary, birds in wetland fragments in the
neotropics, responses to prescribed burning in prairies in the USA, relationships to
human activities in the Cordoba Mountains of Argentina, and ones in montane forests
of dierent degrees of modication in Ecuador. The studies on particular species
presented encompass ones on the Lower Grey Shrike in France and Spain, the migratory Lesser Grey Shrike in Europe, Great Spotted Woodpeckers in Switzerland,
the Sooty Shearwater on the South American coast, the Sierra Madre Sparrow in
Mexico, and Blue-winged Macaws in Brazil. Also included is a critical study of bird
endemism and biodiversity in the dierent subregions of China which may help direct
conservation eorts in the country.
1
A series of contributions including ones on sh was included in a previous volume of collected papers
in this series, Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation [Topics in Biodiversity and
Conservation Vol. 4], edited by D. L. Hawksworth & A. T. Bull (Springer, Dordrecht, 2006; 399 pp.,
ISBN 10: 1 4020 5733 4, 13: 978 1 4020 5633).

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Reptiles and amphibians include many of the most endangered vertebrates, with
anuran decline being an issue of ongoing major world concern. The situation with
anurans is exemplied here by a study of 131 species in the Brazilian Cerrado leading
to the design of a network of conservation areas. Other investigations reported on
these groups here include ones on amphibian diversity hot-spots in the Tanzanian
mountains, characterization of factors favouring these organisms in a National Park
in Portugal, and the decline of Loggerhead Turtles on a beach in Turkey. The issue of
exploitation is also represented by reports on the reptile skin trade in Mexico, and the
sale of snakes in markets and stores in Brazil as pets, sources of traditional medicines,
or uses in religious rites. Another aspect is the eect of introduced species on others,
exemplied here by the threat posed to native species by the Boa constrictor on a
Mexican island.
This series of studies is presented together here to provide an indication of current
research activities, that will be of value to students undertaking courses in aspects of
biodiversity and conservation. They can be viewed as a series of case studies that will
expose students to primary research being conducted now. As such they will complement the necessarily less-detailed specic information in textbooks and secondary
review articles.

DAVID L. HAWKSWORTH
Editor-in-Chief Biodiversity and Conservation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
22 March 2007

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