Biodiversity and Conservation in Europe

Chapter 1 Biodiversity gradients in the Alps: the overriding importance of elevation

Chapter 2 Determining high value areas for steppe birds in Spain: hot spots, complementarity and the efficiency of protected areas

Chapter 3 The Berger–Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages

Chapter 4 The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy

Chapter 5 Indicators for plant species richness in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of Germany

Chapter 6 The social negotiation of nature conservation policy: conserving pinewoods in the Scottish Highlands

Chapter 7 Identifying new buffer areas for conserving waterbirds in the Mediterranean basin: the importance of the rice fields in Extremadura, Spain

Chapter 8 Impact of wind turbines on birds in Zeebrugge (Belgium)

Chapter 9 The Iberian ibex is under an expansion trend but displaced to suboptimal habitats by the presence of extensive goat livestock in central Spain

Chapter 10 Testing indicators of epiphytic lichen diversity: a case study in N Italy

Chapter 11 Analysis and evaluation of ecosystem resilience: an economic perspective with an application to the Venice lagoon

Chapter 12 Natural oak forest vs. ancient pine plantations: lizard microhabitat use may explain the effects of ancient reforestations on distribution and conservation of Iberian lizards

Chapter 13 Tracking the effects of one century of habitat loss and fragmentation on calcareous grassland butterfly communities

Chapter 14 The distribution pattern of centipedes in four primeval forests of central Slovakia

Chapter 15 Tuber spp. biodiversity in one of the southernmost European distribution areas

Chapter 16 Multi-scale analysis of butterfly diversity in a Mediterranean mountain landscape: mapping and evaluation of community vulnerability

Chapter 17 Habitat use of booted eagles (Hieraaetus pennatus) in a Special Protection Area: implications for conservation

Chapter 18 Is the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) a threatened species in spain? Sociological constraints in the conservation of species

Chapter 19 Identifying core areas in a species’ range using temporal suitability analysis: an example using little bustards Tetrax Tetrax L. in Spain

Chapter 20 Discovery of a regular nesting area of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta in southern Italy: a new perspective for national conservation

Chapter 21 Benefits of habitat restoration to small mammal diversity and abundance in a pastoral agricultural landscape in mid-Wales

Chapter 22 Modelling habitat use and distribution of golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos in a low-density area of the Iberian Peninsula

Chapter 23 The arctic fox Alopex lagopus in Fennoscandia: a victim of human-induced changes in interspecific competition and predation?

Chapter 24 Do biodiversity patterns in Dutch wetland complexes relate to variation in urbanisation, intensity of agricultural land use or fragmentation?

Chapter 25 Translocation of an endangered insect species, the field cricket (Gryllus campestris Linnaeus, 1758) in northern Germany

Chapter 26 Conservation of taxonomic and biological trait diversity of European stream macroinvertebrate communities: a case for a collective public database

Chapter 27 Ecotourism disturbance to wildfowl in protected areas: historical, empirical and experimental approaches in the Camargue, Southern France

Chapter 28 The effect of femel- and small scale clear-cutting on ground dwelling spider communities in a Norway spruce forest in Southern Germany