Title Participants "Editorial - Celebrating 50 years of Butterfly Conservation: a special issue on the ecology and conservation of butterflies and moths" "Nigel Bourn, Dirk Maes, Jorge L. Léon-Cortés, James S. Pryke" "Aplicación del modelo USLE en parcelas de erosión bajo prácticas de conservación de suelos y aguas en San Pedro de Melipilla, Chile = Application USLE model on erosion plots under soil conservation practices and water in San Pedro de Melipilla, Chile" "Barlin Olivares, Deyanira Lobo, Koen Verbist" "This study evaluated the USLE model in estimating water erosion in an Alfisol located in the town San Pedro, Chile's Metropolitan Region, with the use of erosivity values (R) obtained by approximating Arnoldus (IFM) and equations proposed by the Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICONA) in Spain, adapted to the conditions of Chile. For the assessment of soil loss were used sediment data for each rainfall event during the period 1996-2000, measured in experimental plots tilled treatments, infiltration trenches and natural prairie. We compared the estimated erosion values with those measured on erosion plots in terms of basic statistics and indices based on difference and regression through the computerized system IRENE (Integrated Resources for Evaluating Numerical Estimates). In the descriptive and comparative analysis of the selected equations was determined that the estimated soil loss with the USLE equation using rainfall erosivity of ICONA, obtained with data from other locations, provided values that fit well with the values recorded in the study area, with slight variations. According to the results of the model was able to establish USLE approaches with respect to the tendency of the data, ie the estimated data were consistent and followed the same pattern from the data collected in the field." "Fostering sustainability in European nature conservation – NATURA 2000 habitat monitoring based on Earth observation services" "Stefan Lang, Lena Pernkopf, Jeroen Vanden Borre, Michael Förster, Birgen Haest, Oliver Buck, Annett Frick" "Working professionally as a textile conservator within a central department for conservation and restoration" "Elsje Janssen" "Phubbing behavior in conversations and its relation to perceived conversation intimacy and distraction : an exploratory observation study" "Mariek Vanden Abeele, Andrew T. Hendrickson, Monique M.H. Pollmann, Rich Ling" "Are Conservatism and Feminism Mutually Exclusive? A Study of ‘Feminist Conservative’ Voters in Belgium" "Conservation in violent environments : introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict" "Esther Marijnen, Lotje de Vries, Rosaleen Duffy" "The role of science in contemporary art conservation : a study into the conservation and presentation of food-based art" "Julie Gilman" "The conservation of contemporary food-based art appeared to be problematic. Due to the perishable nature, long-term preservation and short-term exposition periods can be problematic in terms of food deterioration and loss of sensorial properties (visual appearance, smell, texture). For instance, for contemporary food-based art the decay processes of the food materials are often intrinsic to the meaning of the artwork. Because of the perishable nature of the food, sometimes, they need to be recreated. In both cases (preservation and recreation), food preservation methods, applied in the food industry, and knowledge on food science offer art conservators more possibilities to develop a suitable conservation strategy. Throughout this PhD research the role of science in the context of conservation of contemporary food-based art was investigated, with a primary emphasis on applicability and sustainability in a museum context. By introducing the knowledge of food science, the deterioration mechanisms of food in art became clear and compatible treatment options were given." "‘Facing conservation' or 'Conservation with a human face'? People-park relations in southern Ethiopia" "Stefaan Dondeyne, Jozef A. Deckers, Miet Maertens" "Whereas some conservationists argue that ‘people-oriented approaches’ failed to achieve conservation goals, Nechisar National Park presents a case where ‘strict conservation approaches’ have at best been only partly successful. Nechisar National Park, heralded as a success in the 1990s, today shows a collapsed population of the endemic Swayne’s hartebeest and severe degradation of the emblematic grasslands of the plains. The park is also heavily under pressure from firewood collectors and fish stocks have plummeted. Drawing on the concepts of ‘indirect’ and ‘direct’ costs/benefits of conservation areas – as proposed by Richard Bell – we wanted to get beyond the ‘strict’ versus ‘people-oriented’ conservation debate. Based on semi-structured interviews (12 women, 4 men) and oral testimonies (19 women, 17 men) we analyse how access to natural resources evolved under different political regimes and conservation strategies. The strict conservation approach resulted in strong opposition against the park. By considering both the ‘indirect’ costs (such as loss of land) and the ‘direct’ costs’ (such as historical and cultural ties with the land) important insights for a conservation strategy with a ‘human face’ could be gained. Conservation with a human face will require: first formally involving the local people in the management of the park; second, that the historical rights of the pastoralists and the farmers over the area, as well as the legitimacy of their grievances with regard to the past management, are recognised. Such a new conservation strategy will however require political commitment and strong institutions at all levels." "Conservation of ecosystem services does not secure the conservation of birds in a Peruvian shade coffee landscape" "Raf Aerts" "Agricultural intensification in shade coffee farms has strong impacts on the structure and diversity of the agroforest, with negative consequences for forest specialist birds, understory insectivores and their associated ecosystem services. Utilizing variable distance transect counts, we sampled the bird community in a multiple-certified yet changing shade coffee landscape in the Peruvian East Andean foothills, to evaluate bird functional diversity and to assess potential impacts of coffee production on avian ecosystem services. We used bird count data to calculate relative abundances of functional groups. To account for incomplete detection, we also calculated expected species richness per functional group, and to evaluate the effect of future species losses, we derived reduced bird communities by subsampling our data using a Monte Carlo procedure. We compared the relative abundances of functional groups based on preferred diets in the observed, expected and reduced bird communities to global functional signatures of tropical bird assemblages of forest, agroforests and agriculture. The birds in the shade coffee landscape were predominantly birds of secondary and disturbed forest habitats, indicating, as expected, strong human impact on the forest structure. Yet, the diet signatures of the observed, expected and simulated bird communities were not significantly different from global diet signatures of forest and agroforest bird communities of mixed tropical landscapes. Our results suggest that avian ecological function can be conserved at bird community level despite intensive human ecosystem use and associated losses of forest specialist and other less resilient bird species. These results underscore that forest management strategies or certification audits focused solely at ecosystem services may be insufficient to support conservation of rare or threatened bird species and that shade coffee systems can in no way replace the role of protected natural forests."