Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity

Abstract

1. Responses of plant and bird communities to prescribed burning in tallgrass prairies F. van Dyke et al.- 2. Population trends and spatial synchrony in peripheral populations of the endangered Lesser grey shrike in response to environmental change D. Giralt, F. Valera.- 3. Monitoring mammals in the Caxiuana National Forest, Brazil - First results from the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) program S. de Souza Martins et al.- 4. Grassland versus non-grassland bird abundance and diversity in managed grasslands: local, landscape and regional scale effects P. Batary et al.- 5. Biogeographic patterns of the East African coastal forest vertebrate fauna E.T. Azeria et al.- 6. Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) on Guafo Island: the largest seabird colony in the world? R. Reyes-Arriagada et al.- 7. Mexico in the international reptile skin trade: a case study I. Arroyo-quiroz et al.- 8. Use of forest fragments by blue-winged macaws (Primolius maracana) within a fragmented landscape M. Flavia Conti Nunes, M. Galetti.- 9. Commercialization and use of snakes in North and Northeastern Brazil: implications for conservation and management R. Romeu da Nobrega Alves, G. Alves Pereira Filho.- 10. Philopatry, dispersal patterns and nest-site reuse in Lesser Grey Shrikes (Lanius minor) A. Kristin et al.- 11. Conservation biogeography of anurans in Brazilian Cerrado J.A. Felizola Diniz-Filho et al.- 12. Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Cordoba Mountains, Argentina L. Heil et al.- 13. Population decline of loggerhead turtles: two potentialscenarios for Fethiye beach, Turkey C. Ilgaz et al.- 14. Habitat use, roost selection and conservation of bats in Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar A. Kofoky et al.- 15. Territoriality and survivorship of the Sierra Madre sparrow in La Cima, Mexico A. Oliveras de Ita, H. Gomez de Silva.- 16. Analysis of the species description process for a little known invertebrate group: the limnoterrestrial tardigrades (Bilateria, Tardigrada) N. Guil, F.J. Cabrero-Sanudo.- 17. Environmental correlates for species richness among amphibians and reptiles in a climate transition area C. Soares, J. Carlos Brito.- 18. Amphibian diversity in East African biodiversity hotspots: altitudinal and latitudinal patterns J.C. Poynton et al.- 19. China subregional avian endemism and biodiversity conservation F.-M. Lei et al.- 20. How resilient are Andean montane forest bird communities to habitat degradation? N. O'Dea, R.J. Whittaker.- 21. Human and natural impacts on forests along lower Tana river, Kenya: implications towards conservation and management of endemic primate species and their habitat N. Nthenya Moinde-Fockler et al.- 22. Fragmentation causes rarity in common marmosets in the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil A.R. Mendes Pontes et al.- 23. Distribution, abundance, and habitat use of introduced Boa constrictor threatening the native biota of Cozumel Island, Mexico I. Romero-Najera et al.- 24. Camera-trap studies of maned wolf density in the Cerrado and the Pantanal of Brazil M. Trolle et al.- 25. Mammal survey at a ranch of the Brazilian Cerrado M. Trolle et al.- 26. Surveying carnivores at