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2. Protecting those who protect nature by supporting conservationists’ mental health
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Thomas Pienkowski, Aidan Keane, Sofia Castelló y Tickell, Emiel de Lange, Mirjam Hazenbosch, Munib Khanyari, William Arlidge, Gergő Baranyi, Stephanie Brittain, Vena Kapoor, Vik Mohan, Sarah Papworth, Roshni Ravi, Izak Smit, and EJ Milner-Gulland
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Biodiversity conservation work can be challenging but rewarding, with potential consequences for conservationists’ mental health. Yet, little is known about patterns of mental health among conservationists and its associated protective and risk factors. A better understanding may help improve working conditions, supporting conservationists’ job satisfaction, productivity, and engagement, while reducing costs from staff turnover, absenteeism, and presenteeism. We surveyed 2311 conservation professionals working across 122 countries, asking about experiences of psychological distress, personal characteristics, and workplace conditions. Over half were from and worked in Europe and North America, and most had university-level education, were in desk-based academic and practitioner roles, and responded in English. Moderate or severe distress was reported by 27.8% (Kessler Psychological Distress Scale scores over 24). Respondents with low dispositional and conservation-specific optimism, poor physical health, limited social support, women, and early-career professionals were most at risk in our sample. Heavy workload, job demands, and organisational instability were linked to higher distress, but job stability and satisfaction with one’s contributions to conservation were associated with lower distress. We suggest ways employers and others might ‘promote the positives’ and manage the risks of working in the sector, potentially supporting conservationists’ mental health and abilities to protect nature.
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- 2022
3. Protecting those who protect nature by supporting conservationists’ mental wellbeing
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Thomas Pienkowski, Aidan Keane, Sofia Castelló y Tickell, Emiel de Lange, Mirjam Hazenbosch, Munib Khanyari, William Arlidge, Gergő Baranyi, Stephanie Brittain, Vena Kapoor, Vik Mohan, Sarah Papworth, Roshni Ravi, Izak Smit, and EJ Milner-Gulland
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Biodiversity conservation work can be challenging but rewarding, with potential consequences for conservationists’ mental health. Yet, little is known about patterns of mental health among conservationists and its associated protective and risk factors. A better understanding can help improve working conditions, supporting conservationists’ job satisfaction, productivity, and engagement, while reducing costs from staff turnover, absenteeism, and presenteeism. We surveyed 2311 conservationists across 143 countries, asking about experiences of psychological distress, personal characteristics, and workplace conditions. Moderate or severe distress was reported by 27.8%. Respondents with low dispositional and conservation-specific optimism, poor physical health, limited social support, women, and early-career professionals were most at risk. Heavy workload, job demands, and organisational instability were linked to higher distress, but job stability and satisfaction with one’s contributions to conservation were associated with lower distress. We suggest ways employers and others could support conservationists’ mental health and ability to tackle the global ecological crisis.
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- 2022
4. Restoring Rainforest Fragments: Survival of Mixed-Native Species Seedlings under Contrasting Site Conditions in the Western Ghats, India
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T. R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa, and Vena Kapoor
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Tree canopy ,Ecology ,Maesopsis eminii ,Biodiversity ,Introduced species ,Rainforest ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Eucalyptus ,Agronomy ,Deforestation ,Weed ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation - Abstract
Historical fragmentation and a current annual deforestation rate of 1.2% in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot have resulted in a human-dominated landscape of plantations, agriculture, and developed areas, with embedded rainforest fragments that form biodiversity refuges and animal corridors. On private lands in the Anamalai hills, India, we established restoration sites within three rainforest fragments (5, 19, and 100 ha) representing varying levels of degradation such as open meadow, highly degraded sites with dense Lantana camara invasion, abandoned exotic tree plantations (Eucalyptus grandis and Maesopsis eminii), and sites with mixed-native and exotic tree canopy. Between 2000 and 2004, we planted annually during the southwest monsoon 7,538 nursery-raised seedlings of around 127 species in nine sites (0.15–1.0 ha). Seedlings monitored at 6-monthly intervals showed higher mortality over the dry season than the wet season and survival rates over a 2-year period of between 34.4 and 90.3% under different site conditions. Seedling survival was higher in sites with complete weed removal as against partial removal along planting lines and higher in open meadow and under shade than in sites that earlier had dense weed invasion. Of 44 species examined, survival across sites after 24 months for a majority of species (27 species, 61.4%) was higher than 50%. Retaining regenerating native species during weed clearing operations was crucial for rapid reestablishment of a first layer of canopy to shade out weeds and enhance survival of shade-tolerant rainforest seedlings.
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- 2009
5. Effects of rainforest fragmentation and shade-coffee plantations on spider communities in the Western Ghats, India
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Vena Kapoor
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Ecology ,Biodiversity ,Rainforest ,Biology ,Belt transect ,Altitude ,Habitat ,Abundance (ecology) ,Insect Science ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Species richness ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Tropical rainforest - Abstract
Studies on the effects of tropical rainforest fragmentation and disturbance have often focussed on plants and vertebrates such as birds and mammals and seldom on invertebrates, despite the latter being among the most biologically diverse groups in these ecosystems. Spiders are one such group of invertebrate predators that are known to be sensitive indicators of environmental change in tropical ecosystems. The present study assesses the spider community structure and responses to rainforest fragmentation and degradation and conversion to shade-coffee plantations in the Anamalai hills, southern Western Ghats, India. Ten rainforest fragments ranging in size from 11 ha to 2,600 ha under varying levels of degradation within the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and private lands of the Valparai plateau, and two shade-coffee plantation sites were sampled for spiders using visual searches along time-constrained belt transects between January and May 2005. Within a total sampled area of 5.76 ha, 4,565 individual spiders (4,300 detections) belonging to 156 morphospecies within 21 families and 8 functional groups were recorded. The estimated total number of understorey spider species in the study area was 192 (±5.15 SD) species, representing around 13% of the total number of spider species so far described from India. Overall spider density, species richness, and species density showed no trend in relation to fragment area across all sites. Specific comparisons among undisturbed sites indicated however that high altitude sites had fewer species than mid-altitude sites and fragments had fewer species than relatively larger continuous forest sites. In contrast to the lack of trend in overall species richness and abundance, species composition changed substantially in relation to habitat alteration and altitude. Cluster analysis of Bray-Curtis similarities among sites in spider species composition revealed four distinct clusters: high altitude undisturbed sites, mid-altitude disturbed sites with an undisturbed mid altitude site, mid-altitude highly disturbed sites with a disturbed site, and shade-coffee plantation sites. Spider species, such as Psechrus torvus and Tylorida culta, that contributed significantly to the dissimilarity between undisturbed and disturbed rainforest sites, and rainforest and shade-coffee sites were identified that serve as useful indicators of habitat alteration.
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- 2007
6. An assessment of spider sampling methods in tropical rainforest fragments of the Anamalai hills, Western Ghats, India
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Vena Kapoor
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Spider ,genetic structures ,ved/biology ,Ecology ,ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species ,Tropics ,Vegetation ,Plant litter ,complex mixtures ,Shrub ,Belt transect ,Geography ,nervous system ,Transect ,Tropical rainforest - Abstract
Spiders are a highly diverse but poorly studied group of invertebrates in the tropics known to be sensitive indicators of habitat alterations. This study in three degraded tropical rainforest fragments in the southern Western Ghats assesses the utility of four sampling methods to document spider communities. Using belt transects, vegetation beating, leaf litter extraction, and pitfall traps, 103 spider morphospecies were detected in the three fragments. More species and individuals were recorded per unit effort in transects than vegetation beating, and in transects in the fragment with higher tree and shrub densities. Transects were also more appropriate for collection of natural history information and for identifying spiders to morphospecies. The composition of spider functional groups varied significantly across the four methods and a combination of methods is likely to yield a more complete inventory of the spider community.
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- 2006
7. The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
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Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L. L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, Adriana De Palma, Helen R. P. Phillips, Rebecca A. Senior, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Argyrios Choimes, David L. P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Morgan Garon, Michelle L. K. Harrison, Daniel J. Ingram, Martin Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Hannah J. White, Job Aben, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Gilbert B. Adum, Virginia Aguilar-Barquero, Marcelo A. Aizen, Marc Ancrenaz, Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Inge Armbrecht, Badrul Azhar, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Lander Baeten, András Báldi, John E. Banks, Jos Barlow, Péter Batáry, Adam J. Bates, Erin M. Bayne, Pedro Beja, Åke Berg, Nicholas J. Berry, Jake E. Bicknell, Jochen H. Bihn, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Teun Boekhout, Céline Boutin, Jérémy Bouyer, Francis Q. Brearley, Isabel Brito, Jörg Brunet, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Erika Buscardo, Jimmy Cabra-García, María Calviño-Cancela, Sydney A. Cameron, Eliana M. Cancello, Tiago F. Carrijo, Anelena L. Carvalho, Helena Castro, Alejandro A. Castro-Luna, Rolando Cerda, Alexis Cerezo, Matthieu Chauvat, Frank M. Clarke, Daniel F. R. Cleary, Stuart P. Connop, Biagio D'Aniello, Pedro Giovâni da Silva, Ben Darvill, Jens Dauber, Alain Dejean, Tim Diekötter, Yamileth Dominguez-Haydar, Carsten F. Dormann, Bertrand Dumont, Simon G. Dures, Mats Dynesius, Lars Edenius, Zoltán Elek, Martin H. Entling, Nina Farwig, Tom M. Fayle, Antonio Felicioli, Annika M. Felton, Gentile F. Ficetola, Bruno K. C. Filgueiras, Steven J. Fonte, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Daisuke Fukuda, Dario Furlani, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Jenni G. Garden, Carla Gheler-Costa, Paolo Giordani, Simonetta Giordano, Marco S. Gottschalk, Dave Goulson, Aaron D. Gove, James Grogan, Mick E. Hanley, Thor Hanson, Nor R. Hashim, Joseph E. Hawes, Christian Hébert, Alvin J. Helden, John-André Henden, Lionel Hernández, Felix Herzog, Diego Higuera-Diaz, Branko Hilje, Finbarr G. Horgan, Roland Horváth, Kristoffer Hylander, Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Masahiro Ishitani, Carmen T. Jacobs, Víctor J. Jaramillo, Birgit Jauker, Mats Jonsell, Thomas S. Jung, Vena Kapoor, Vassiliki Kati, Eric Katovai, Michael Kessler, Eva Knop, Annette Kolb, Ádám Kőrösi, Thibault Lachat, Victoria Lantschner, Violette Le Féon, Gretchen LeBuhn, Jean-Philippe Légaré, Susan G. Letcher, Nick A. Littlewood, Carlos A. López-Quintero, Mounir Louhaichi, Gabor L. Lövei, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Victor H. Luja, Kaoru Maeto, Tibor Magura, Neil Aldrin Mallari, Erika Marin-Spiotta, E. J. P. Marshall, Eliana Martínez, Margaret M. Mayfield, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Jeffrey C. Milder, James R. Miller, Carolina L. Morales, Mary N. Muchane, Muchai Muchane, Robin Naidoo, Akihiro Nakamura, Shoji Naoe, Guiomar Nates-Parra, Dario A. Navarrete Gutierrez, Eike L. Neuschulz, Norbertas Noreika, Olivia Norfolk, Jorge Ari Noriega, Nicole M. Nöske, Niall O'Dea, William Oduro, Caleb Ofori-Boateng, Chris O. Oke, Lynne M. Osgathorpe, Juan Paritsis, Alejandro Parra-H, Nicolás Pelegrin, Carlos A. Peres, Anna S. Persson, Theodora Petanidou, Ben Phalan, T. Keith Philips, Katja Poveda, Eileen F. Power, Steven J. Presley, Vânia Proença, Marino Quaranta, Carolina Quintero, Nicola A. Redpath-Downing, J. Leighton Reid, Yana T. Reis, Danilo B. Ribeiro, Barbara A. Richardson, Michael J. Richardson, Carolina A. Robles, Jörg Römbke, Luz Piedad Romero-Duque, Loreta Rosselli, Stephen J. Rossiter, T'ai H. Roulston, Laurent Rousseau, Jonathan P. Sadler, Szabolcs Sáfián, Romeo A. Saldaña-Vázquez, Ulrika Samnegård, Christof Schüepp, Oliver Schweiger, Jodi L. Sedlock, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Douglas Sheil, Fernando A. B. Silva, Eleanor M. Slade, Allan H. Smith-Pardo, Navjot S. Sodhi, Eduardo J. Somarriba, Ramón A. Sosa, Jane C. Stout, Matthew J. Struebig, Yik-Hei Sung, Caragh G. Threlfall, Rebecca Tonietto, Béla Tóthmérész, Teja Tscharntke, Edgar C. Turner, Jason M. Tylianakis, Adam J. Vanbergen, Kiril Vassilev, Hans A. F. Verboven, Carl
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- 2014
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8. Supplementary Material 2
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Tibor Magura, Frank M. Clarke, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Carsten F. Dormann, Lars Edenius, Teja Tscharntke, Yamileth Domínguez-Haydar, Helen Phillips, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Jochen H. Bihn, Jonathan P. Sadler, Edgar C. Turner, John E. Banks, Morgan Garon, Thibault Lachat, Juan Paritsis, Ben Darvill, Jake E. Bicknell, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Lionel Hernández, Felix Herzog, Pedro Beja, Navjot S. Sodhi, Kaoru Maeto, Andy Purvis, Birgit Jauker, Paolo Giordani, Aaron D. Gove, Adrián B Azpiroz, Anelena L Carvalho, Carlos A. López Quintero, Ulrika Samnegård, Victoria Kemp, Jort Verhulst, Loreta Rosselli, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Mick E. Hanley, Oliver Schweiger, Víctor J. Jaramillo, Gilbert B. Adum, Victoria Lantschner, Jeffrey C. Milder, Sara Contu, Ádám Kőrösi, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Violette Le Féon, Pedro Giovâni da Silva, Eliana M. Cancello, Konstans Wells, Rolando Cerda, Romeo A. Saldaña Vázquez, Ramón A. Sosa, Paola J. Isaacs-Cubides, Kristoffer Hylander, Isabel Brito, Dario Furlani, Bertrand Dumont, Erika Marin-Spiotta, John C. Z. Woinarski, Matthew J. Struebig, Marc Ancrenaz, William Oduro, Ben Phalan, Guiomar Nates-Parra, Neil Aldrin D. Mallari, Yanping Wang, Thor Hanson, Erika Buscardo, Tony R. Walker, Nor Rasidah Hashim, Eileen F. Power, Jason M. Tylianakis, Robert M. Ewers, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, T. Keith Philips, Sydney A. Cameron, Igor Lysenko, Yana T. Reis, Drew W. Purves, Jérémy Bouyer, Stephen J. Rossiter, Lynne M. Osgathorpe, Nick A. Littlewood, Lawrence N. Hudson, Olivia Norfolk, Eduardo Somarriba, María Calviño-Cancela, Julie Day, Jens Dauber, Michelle L K Harrison, Thomas S. Jung, Nina Farwig, Caragh G. Threlfall, Christof Schüepp, Ben Collen, Nicolás Pelegrin, Danilo Bandini Ribeiro, Antonio Felicioli, Zoltán Elek, Jenni G. Garden, Christian Hébert, Shoji Naoe, Alvin J. Helden, Yik Hei Sung, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Dave Goulson, Stuart Connop, Adam J. Vanbergen, Carlos A. Peres, Eliana Martínez, Rebecca K. Tonietto, Muchai Muchane, Marco Silva Gottschalk, Jimmy Cabra-García, Tim Newbold, Gábor L. Lövei, Simon G. Dures, Carmen T Jacobs, Hans Verboven, Mats Dynesius, Ben A. Woodcock, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Matthieu Chauvat, E J P Marshall, Francis Q. Brearley, Gretchen LeBuhn, Jos Barlow, Caleb Ofori-Boateng, Job Aben, Marino Quaranta, Carolina L. Morales, Daisuke Fukuda, Mary N Muchane, Allan H. Smith Pardo, Vassiliki Kati, Martin Jung, Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Nicole M. Nöske, Jodi L. Sedlock, Niall O'Dea, Badrul Azhar, John-André Henden, Roland Horváth, Callum D. Martin, Georgina M. Mace, Tiago F. Carrijo, Eva Knop, Diego Higuera-Diaz, Víctor H. Luja, Daniel F. R. Cleary, Alain Dejean, Jane C. Stout, Simonetta Giordano, Rebecca A. Senior, Åke Berg, Masahiro Ishitani, Branko Hilje, Carolina A. Robles, Lander Baeten, Douglas Sheil, András Báldi, Bruno K. C. Filgueiras, Helena Castro, Michael Kessler, Daniel J. Ingram, Pablo M. Vergara, Douglas W. Yu, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Carlos H. Vergara, Hannah J. White, T'ai H. Roulston, James R. Miller, Theodora Petanidou, Jean-Philippe Légaré, Nicholas J. Berry, Annette Kolb, Norbertas Noreika, Erin M. Bayne, Mounir Louhaichi, Michael J. Richardson, Szabolcs Sáfián, James I. Watling, Yuan Pan, Anna Persson, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Teun Boekhout, Steven J. Presley, H. Alejandro Parra, Steven J. Fonte, Margaret M. Mayfield, Inge Armbrecht, Adam J. Bates, J. Leighton Reid, Laurent Rousseau, Robin Naidoo, Carolina Quintero, David L P Correia, Vânia Proença, Vena Kapoor, Biagio D'Aniello, Susan G. Letcher, Grzegorz Mikusiński, Nicola A. Redpath Downing, Annika M. Felton, Argyrios Choimes, Michael R. Willig, Akihiro Nakamura, Kiril Vassilev, Barbara A. Richardson, Fernando A. B. Silva, Carla Gheler-Costa, Joseph E Hawes, Jörg Brunet, Virginia Aguilar-Barquero, Jan H. D. Wolf, Martin H. Entling, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Alejandro A. Castro Luna, Finbarr G. Horgan, Jorge Ari Noriega, Samantha L. L. Hill, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Eric Katovai, Adriana De Palma, Marcelo A. Aizen, Tom M. Fayle, Mats Jonsell, Katja Poveda, Luz Piedad Romero-Duque, Alexis Cerezo, Dario A Navarrete Gutierrez, Christopher D. Williams, James Grogan, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Pé ter Batáry, Chris O. Oke, Jörg Römbke, Bé la Tóthmérész, Tim Diekötter, Céline Boutin, Eleanor M. Slade, and Katrin Böhning-Gaese
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Cultural Studies ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Chemistry ,Anthropology ,Cystolith ,medicine ,Bladder stones ,Magnesium ammonium phosphate ,medicine.disease ,Nuclear chemistry - Published
- 2012
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