Emerging conflict between conservation programmes: when a threatened vertebrate facilitates the dispersal of exotic species in a rare plant community

• Published in: Animal Conservation
• Main Authors: Sigaud, Marie, Mason, T, Barnier, F, Cherry, S, Fortin, D
• Other Authors: Université Laval Québec (ULaval), Kyoto University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: bison; fescue grasslands; invasive species; spatial ecology; zoochory; ecological integrity; exotic plant species; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.EE.IEO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Symbiosis; Wallows; Bison bison bison; Plains Bison
• Online Access: https://hal-mnhn.archives-ouvertes.fr/mnhn-03890814; https://hal-mnhn.archives-ouvertes.fr/mnhn-03890814/document; https://hal-mnhn.archives-ouvertes.fr/mnhn-03890814/file/Sigaud%20et%20al.%20-%202020%20-%20Emerging%20conflict%20between%20conservation%20programmes.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12579

International audience As an ever-increasing variety of conservation programmes are applied in human-altered environments, there is a growing risk that different conservation actions with conflicting objectives may impede one another. Preventing and resolving the negative impacts of such conflicting...