Biodiversity and Conservation in Europe

Biodiversity gradients in the Alps: the overridingimportance of elevation; Sergio.- Determining high value areas for steppe birds in Spain: hot spots, complementarity and the efficiency of protected areas; Traba.- The Berger?Parker index as an effective tool for monitoring the biodiversity of disturbed soils: a case study on Mediterranean oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) assemblages; Caruso.- The effects of fire on communities, guilds and species of breeding birds in burnt and control pinewoods in central Italy; Luiselli.- Indicators for plant species richness in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of Germany; Zerbe.- The social negotiation of nature conservation policy: conserving pinewoods in the Scottish Highlands; Midgley.- Identifying new buffer areas for conserving waterbirds in the Mediterranean basin: the importance of the rice fields in Extremadura, Spain; Sánchez-Guzmán.- Impact of wind turbines on birds in Zeebrugge (Belgium); Everaert.- The Iberian ibex is under an expansion trend but displaced to suboptimal habitats by the presence of extensive goat livestock in central Spain; Acevedo.- Testing indicators of epiphytic lichen diversity: a case study in N Italy; Nascimbene.- Analysis and evaluation of ecosystem resilience: an economic perspective with an application to the Venice lagoon; Vergano.- Natural oak forest vs. ancient pine plantations: lizard microhabitat use may explain the effects of ancient reforestations on distribution and conservation of Iberian lizards; Amo.- Tracking the effects of one century of habitat loss and fragmentation on calcareous grassland butterfly communities; Polus.- The distribution pattern of centipedes in four primeval forests of central Slovakia; Jabin.- spp. biodiversity in one of the southernmost European distribution areas; Pomarico.- Multi-scale analysis ofbutterfly diversity in a Mediterranean mountain landscape: mapping and evaluation of community vulnerability; Scalercio.- Habitat use of booted eagles () in a special