Using a Conservation Biology Blueprint to Protect Seven Species found in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve, Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kelly ◽  
Monica Seidel
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Bald Eagle ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Black Rat ◽  
Great Blue Heron ◽  
Spotted Turtle ◽  
Rat Snake ◽  
Provincial Park

This project developed a conservation biology blueprint for the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve (FABR) region that can be used towards assessing current conservation practices as well as making future recommendations. The findings of the study can be used towards the Ten Year Biosphere Review for UNESCO, which the FABR submits to keep their biosphere designation. By gathering information in real time, appropriate actions can be taken much more quickly than if the information was only gathered every ten years. This means that different actors can alter their actions to preserve species diversity and success as different factors influence those species through time. For this study, seven species (bald eagle, red-headed woodpecker, common five-lined skink, black rat snake, milksnake, spotted turtle, and great blue heron) were mapped in the area between Frontenac Provincial Park and Charleston Lake Provincial Park. The black rat snake, spotted turtle, and great blue heron were specifically explored in an online survey as well. This study area was chosen on the suggestion of the FABR because it connects Crown Land with the provincial parks, making implementing any new policies easier than land found in the North-South corridor of Ontario which contains a high amount of private development. Using the predicted tree species data, county land usage, eBird data, and endangered species general distribution, this paper hopes to identify where key areas of protection are. By quickly locating hotspots for endangered species, stricter conservation regulations can be implemented to help the recovery of these species.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Academic Conservation Biology Literature on Endangered Species Recovery Planning

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stinchcombe ◽  
Leonie C. Moyle ◽  
Brian R. Hudgens ◽  
Philip L. Bloch ◽  
Sathya Chinnadurai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Species Recovery ◽  
Recovery Planning

Diagnosis, treatment and post-release monitoring of an eastern black rat snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) with ophidiomycosis and traumatic injuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e000954
Author(s):  
Jacob Veilleux ◽  
Daniel Steven Dombrowski ◽  
Matthew C Allender ◽  
Gregory Lewbart
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Radio Telemetry ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Veterinary Services ◽  
Traumatic Injuries ◽  
Black Rat ◽  
Traumatic Lesions ◽  
Physical Examinations ◽  
Rat Snake ◽  
Snake Fungal Disease

Ophidiomycosis, historically known as snake fungal disease, is caused by Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and has been reported in over 30 species of snakes. In July 2015, an adult female eastern black rat snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) was found at Prairie Ridge EcoStation, a North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) field site in Raleigh, NC, with traumatic lesions consistent with injuries caused by landscaping equipment. The snake was brought to NCMNS Veterinary Services and tested positive via dermal swabs for O ophiodiicola on quantitative PCR (qPCR). The snake was treated with terbinafine (Terbinafine, 250 mg; InvaGen Pharmaceuticals, Hauppauge, NY, USA) nebulised at 2 mg/ml for 30 min every 24 hours for 30 days, and tested negative on further swabs for O ophiodiicola on qPCR before release. From April 2016 to November 2018, the snake was tracked via radio telemetry with physical examinations, bloodwork and qPCR swabs conducted multiple times a year.

What is your diagnosis? A soft tissue mass in a Black Rat Snake

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-612
Author(s):  
Kyle L. Webb ◽  
Carol Grindem ◽  
Daniel S. Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissue ◽  
Soft Tissue Mass ◽  
Tissue Mass ◽  
Black Rat ◽  
Rat Snake

scholarly journals Little-known in Ukraine species of corticioid fungi from Prypiat-Stokhid National Nature Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-138
Author(s):  
M.V. Shevchenko ◽  
◽  
M.O. Zykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Corticioid Fungi ◽  
Substrate Specialization ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
Single Locality ◽  
Original Drawings

The article outlines the details on several noteworthy records of corticoid fungi discovered in the course of mycological observations in Prypiat-Stokhid National Nature Park (Liubeshiv District, Volyn Region) in October, 2019. In Ukraine, Byssocorticium atrovirens is apparently known only from a single record of A. Pilat, 1933, from the present-day territory of Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. Piloderma bicolor has been earlier recorded only once from Skole Beskids National Nature Park, while Tomentella lilacinogrisea has been previously found in a single locality in Carpathian Biosphere Reserve. The data on detailed morphological descriptions, ecological peculiarities, substrate specialization, general distribution, photographs of basidiomata and original drawings of microstructures are provided.

scholarly journals Terrestrial Heteroptera (Hemiptera) from Moconá Provincial Park (Misiones, Argentina)

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo M. Dellapé ◽  
María Cecilia Melo ◽  
Sara I. Montemayor ◽  
Gimena Dellapé ◽  
Harry Brailovsky
Keyword(s):  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Provincial Park

Moconá Provincial Park was created to protect the Paranaense forest including the Moconá Falls Natural National Monument. Knowledge of the insect fauna in the park is scarce and the Heteroptera have never been studied. In this work, 134 species from 17 families of Heteroptera collected in Moconá Provincial Park and surrounding areas included in the Yabotí Biosphere Reserve, are listed. The reduviids Arilus gallus (Stål, 1872), Repipta taurus (Fabricius, 1803), and Zelus nugax Stål, 1862; the tingids Leptodictya (Hanuala) paspalii Drake & Hambleton, 1934, and Leptopharsa vittipennis (Stål, 1873); the coreids Camptischium niger (Stål, 1870), Leptoglossus ingens (Mayr, 1865), Chariesterus cuspidatus Distant, 1892 and Cebrenis supina Brailovsky, 1995; the pentatomids Alveostethus pseudopolitus (Ruckes, 1957) and Dryptocephala integra Walker, 1867; and the blissid Xenoblissus lutzi Barber, 1954 are first records from Argentina.

Wildlife and conservation biology.

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Paul A. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Reserve Design ◽  
Nature Reserve Design ◽  
Management And Conservation

Abstract This chapter contains questions about wildlife management and conservation, endangered species, nature reserve design and the role of zoos in conservation. The questions are arranged by topic and divided into three levels: foundation, intermediate and advanced.

Evolutionary Conservation Biology

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W. Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Inbreeding Depression ◽  
Genetic Drift ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Populations ◽  
Desert Bighorn Sheep ◽  
Endangered Fish ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects

Conservation biology as a discipline focused on endangered species is young and dates only from the late 1970s. Although conservation of endangered species encompasses many different biological disciplines, including behavior, ecology, and genetics, evolutionary considerations always have been emphasized (e.g., Frankel and Soule 1981). Many of the applications of evolutionary concepts to conservation are ones related to genetic variation in small or subdivided populations. However, the critical status of many endangered species makes both more precision and more caution necessary than the general findings for evolutionary considerations. On the other hand, the dire situations of many endangered species often require recommendations to be made on less than adequate data. Overall, one can think of the evolutionary aspects of conservation biology as an applied aspect of the evolution of small populations with the important constraint that any conclusions or recommendations may influence the actual extinction of the populations or species under consideration. From this perspective, all of the factors that influence continuing evolution (i.e., selection, inbreeding, genetic drift, gene flow, and mutation; e.g., Hedrick 2000) are potentially important in conservation. The evolutionary issues of widest concern in conservation biology—inbreeding depression and maintenance of genetic variation— can be seen in their simplest form as the joint effects of inbreeding and selection, and of genetic drift and mutation, respectively. However, even in model organisms such as Drosophila, the basis of inbreeding depression and the maintenance of genetic variation are not clearly understood. In addition, findings from model laboratory organisms may not provide good insight into problems in many endangered species, the most visible of which are generally slowly reproducing, large vertebrates with small populations. Here we will first focus on introductions to two important evolutionary aspects of conservation biology: the units of conservation and inbreeding depression. Then, we will discuss studies in two organisms as illustrations of these and related principles—an endangered fish species, the Gila topminnow, and desert bighorn sheep—to illustrate some evolutionary aspects of conservation. In the discussion, we will mention some of the other evolutionary topics that are relevant to conservation biology.

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