Invasions by alien plants are one of the main threats to biodiversity. As eradication could be expensive and inefficient, invasions prevention is one of the most adequate strategies. Fishtail palms ( Caryota L.) have been widely used as ornamental and has become invasive in some places. Herein, we use ecological niche modeling (ENM) to map the most vulnerable areas to C. mitis and C. urens invasion in the Neotropical region an...

Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a “Green List of Species” (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species’ progress toward recovery, published in 2018, proposed 2 separate but interlinked components: a standardized method (i.e., measurement aga...

The daggertooth pike conger, M uraenesox cinereus ( F orsskål), has become an important fish resource in the western S eto I nland S ea, J apan, since the 1990s. However, introducing sustainable fisheries resource management for this species is difficult in this region because stock assessments have not been performed, and official fisheries statistics for this stock were discontinued after 2007. This study used existing limit...

From the climatologic data bases (SICLIM and CLICOM) built by the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) of Mexico, we have defined two normals: one called Period I, from 1950 to 1975, and the other called Period II, from 1976 to 2000. The objective of the present work is to make an estimation of the annual volume of superficial available water in Periods I and II, and the changes between them, in two important hydrologic regio...