Biodiversity and Conservation in Europe

Abstract

Biodiversity gradients in the Alps: the overridingimportance of elevation Sergio.- Determining high value areas for steppe birds in Spain: hot spots, complementarity and the efficiency of protected areas Traba.- The Berger?Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages Caruso.- The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy Luiselli.- Indicators for plant species richness in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of Germany Zerbe.- The social negotiation of nature conservation policy: conserving pinewoods in the Scottish Highlands Midgley.- Identifying new buffer areas for conserving waterbirds in the Mediterranean basin: the importance of the rice fields in Extremadura, Spain Sanchez-Guzman.- Impact of wind turbines on birds in Zeebrugge (Belgium) Everaert.- The Iberian ibex is under an expansion trend but displaced to suboptimal habitats by the presence of extensive goat livestock in central Spain Acevedo.- Testing indicators of epiphytic lichen diversity: a case study in N Italy Nascimbene.- Analysis and evaluation of ecosystem resilience: an economic perspective with an application to the Venice lagoon Vergano.- Natural oak forest vs. ancient pine plantations: lizard microhabitat use may explain the effects of ancient reforestations on distribution and conservation of Iberian lizards Amo.- Tracking the effects of one century of habitat loss and fragmentation on calcareous grassland butterfly communities Polus.- The distribution pattern of centipedes in four primeval forests of central Slovakia Jabin.- spp. biodiversity in one of the southernmost European distribution areas Pomarico.- Multi-scale analysis ofbutterfly diversity in a Mediterranean mountain landscape: mapping and evaluation of community vulnerability Scalercio.- Habitat use of booted eagles () in a special protection area: implications for conservation Martinez.- Is the wild rabbit () a threatened species in spain? Sociological constraints in the conservation of species Virgos.- Identifying core areas in a species? Range using temporal suitability analysis: an example using little Bustards L. in Spain Osborne.- Discovery of a regular nesting area of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta in southern Italy: a new perspective for national conservation Mingozzi.-Benefits of habitat restoration to small mammal diversity and abundance in a pastoral agricultural landscape in mid-Wales Moro.- Modelling habitat use and distribution of golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos in a low-density area of the Iberian Peninsula Tapia.-The arctic fox Alopex lagopus in Fennoscandia: a victim of human-induced changes in interspecific competition and predation? Selas.- Do biodiversity patterns in Dutch wetland complexes relate to variation in urbanisation, intensity of agricultural land use or fragmentation? Vermaat.- Translocation of an endangered insect species, the field cricket (Gryllus campestris Linnaeus, 1758) in northern Germany Hochkirch.- Diversity, geographic variation and conservationof the serpentine flora of Tuscany (Italy) Selvi.- Conservation of taxonomic and biological trait diversity of European stream macroinvertebrate communities: a case for a collective public database Statzner.- Ecotourism disturbance to wildfowl in protected areas: historical, empirical and experimental approaches in the Camargue, southern France Guillemain.- The effect of femel- and small scale clear-cutting on ground dwelling spider communities in a Norway spruce forest