Less than a quarter of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems remain intact. Protected areas (PA s)
are far exceeded in area by natural habitats that have been transformed for agriculture, and …

Tropical mammals represent some of the most threatened species, but also the least known
because they tend to be difficult to study. To objectively evaluate the conservation status of …

Habitat modeling is one of the most common practices in ecology today, aimed at
understanding complex associations between species and an array of environmental …

Oil palm and biodiversity Page 1 Oil palm and biodiversity A situation analysis by the IUCN Oil
Palm Task Force INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE Meijaard, E …

The biodiversity inhabiting tropical peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia is currently
threatened by commercial logging and agricultural expansion. The occurrence of mammals …

Monitoring population trends of threatened species requires standardized techniques that
can be applied over broad areas and repeated through time. Sun bears Helarctos …

Conflicts between humans and bears have occurred since prehistory. Through time, the
catalogue of human–bear conflicts (HBC) has been changing depending on the values and …

Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) are threatened by habitat loss and poaching,
especially in the tropical portions of their range; reserves serve a crucial role in conserving …

Bite forces (BFs) based on a dry skull static model were computed for 122 specimens of all
eight species of extant ursids. It was found that the giant panda has high BFs for its body …

Con el objetivo de actualizar el conocimiento de las especies registradas dentro de la dieta
del oso andino Tremarctos ornatus en su área de distribución residente (Venezuela …