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Milles A, Banitz T, Bielcik M, Frank K, Gallagher CA, Jeltsch F, Jepsen JU, Oro D, Radchuk V, Grimm V. Local buffer mechanisms for population persistence. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:1051-1059. [PMID: 37558537 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
Abstract
Assessing and predicting the persistence of populations is essential for the conservation and control of species. Here, we argue that local mechanisms require a better conceptual synthesis to facilitate a more holistic consideration along with regional mechanisms known from metapopulation theory. We summarise the evidence for local buffer mechanisms along with their capacities and emphasise the need to include multiple buffer mechanisms in studies of population persistence. We propose an accessible framework for local buffer mechanisms that distinguishes between damping (reducing fluctuations in population size) and repelling (reducing population declines) mechanisms. We highlight opportunities for empirical and modelling studies to investigate the interactions and capacities of buffer mechanisms to facilitate better ecological understanding in times of ecological upheaval.
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- Alexander Milles
- Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Am Muhlenberg 3, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; Nationalparkamt Hunsrück-Hochwald, Research, Biotope- and Wildlife Management, Brückener Straße 24, 55765 Birkenfeld, Germany.
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- Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Altensteinstr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; University of Osnabrück, Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Barbarastr. 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Am Muhlenberg 3, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Am Muhlenberg 3, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Arctic Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Fram Centre, Hjalmar Johansens gt.14, 9007 Tromsø, Norway
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB - CSIC), Acces Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain.
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- Ecological Dynamics Department, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10315 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Am Muhlenberg 3, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstr. 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Sergio F, Tavecchia G, Blas J, Tanferna A, Hiraldo F, Korpimaki E, Beissinger SR. Hardship at birth alters the impact of climate change on a long-lived predator. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5517. [PMID: 36167683 PMCID: PMC9515099 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33011-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme events, such as droughts or hurricanes, with substantial impacts on human and wildlife communities. Extreme events can affect individuals through two pathways: by altering the fitness of adults encountering a current extreme, and by affecting the development of individuals born during a natal extreme, a largely overlooked process. Here, we show that the impact of natal drought on an avian predator overrode the effect of current drought for decades, so that individuals born during drought were disadvantaged throughout life. Incorporation of natal effects caused a 40% decline in forecasted population size and a 21% shortening of time to extinction. These results imply that climate change may erode populations more quickly and severely than currently appreciated, suggesting the urgency to incorporate “penalties” for natal legacies in the analytical toolkit of impact forecasts. Similar double impacts may apply to other drivers of global change. The long-term effects of extreme climate events in early life are largely overlooked in forecasts of climate change impacts. Here, the authors show that raptorial red kites born during drought are disadvantaged throughout life, and including this climate legacy leads to substantial decreases in forecasted population size and time to extinction.
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- Fabrizio Sergio
- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, 41092, Seville, Spain.
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- Population Ecology Group, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMEDEA), CSIC-UIB, 07190, Esporles, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC, 41092, Seville, Spain
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- Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, CA, USA.,Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, CA, USA
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Mattsson BJ, Mateo-Tomás P, Aebischer A, Rösner S, Kunz F, Schöll EM, Åkesson S, De Rosa D, Orr-Ewing D, Bodega DDL, Ferrer M, Gelpke C, Katzenberger J, Maciorowski G, Mammen U, Kolbe M, Millon A, Mionnet A, Puente JDL, Raab R, Vyhnal S, Ceccolini G, Godino A, Crespo-Luengo G, Sanchez-Agudo JA, Martínez J, Iglesias-Lebrija JJ, Ginés E, Cortés M, Deán JI, Calmaestra RG, Dostál M, Steinborn E, Viñuela J. Enhancing monitoring and transboundary collaboration for conserving migratory species under global change: The priority case of the red kite. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 317:115345. [PMID: 35642814 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Calls for urgent action to conserve biodiversity under global change are increasing, and conservation of migratory species in this context poses special challenges. In the last two decades the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) has provided a framework for several subsidiary instruments including action plans for migratory bird species, but the effectiveness and transferability of these plans remain unclear. Such laws and policies have been credited with positive outcomes for the conservation of migratory species, but the lack of international coordination and on-ground implementation pose major challenges. While research on migratory populations has received growing attention, considerably less emphasis has been given to integrating ecological information throughout the annual cycle for examining strategies to conserve migratory species at multiple scales in the face of global change. We fill this gap through a case study examining the ecological status and conservation of a migratory raptor and facultative scavenger, the red kite (Milvus milvus), whose current breeding range is limited to Europe and is associated with agricultural landscapes and restricted to the temperate zone. Based on our review, conservation actions have been successful at recovering red kite populations within certain regions. Populations however remain depleted along the southern-most edge of the geographic range where many migratory red kites from northern strongholds overwinter. This led us to a forward-looking and integrated strategy that emphasizes international coordination involving researchers and conservation practitioners to enhance the science-policy-action interface. We identify and explore key issues for conserving the red kite under global change, including enhancing conservation actions within and outside protected areas, recovering depleted populations, accounting for climate change, and transboundary coordination in adaptive conservation and management actions. The integrated conservation strategy is sufficiently general such that it can be adapted to inform conservation of other highly mobile species subject to global change.
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- Brady J Mattsson
- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria.
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- Biodiversity Research Institute (University of Oviedo-CSIC-Principality of Asturias), Mieres, Spain, and Center for Functional Ecology (CFE), Coimbra University, Portugal
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- Faculty of Biology, Department of Conservation Ecology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
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- ARDEA- Associazione per La Ricerca, La Divulgazione e L'Educazione Ambientale, Via Ventilabro 6, 80126, Naples, Italy
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- Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scotland, UK
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- Doñana Biological Station, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Department of Game Management and Forest Protection, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- ÖKOTOP Halle, MEROS (Monitoring of European Raptors and Owls), Halle, Germany
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- Rotmilanzentrum am Museum Heineanum, Halberstadt, Germany
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS-IRD-Avignon Univ, Institut Méditerranean Biodiversité Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Ligue pour La Protection des Oiseaux (LPO), Champagne-Ardenne, Outines, France
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- Technical Office for Biology, Deutsch-Wagram, Austria
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Diversidad Humana y Biología Animal, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Diversidad Humana y Biología Animal, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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- GREFA (Grupo de Rehabilitación de La Fauna Autóctona y su Hábitat), Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio Provincial de Agricultura, Ganadería y Medio Ambiente, Gobierno de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre de La Alfranca, Gobierno de Aragón, Pastriz (Zaragoza), Spain
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- Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales Gorosti, Pamplona, Spain
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- Subdirección General de Biodiversidad Terrestre y Marina, Dirección General de Biodiversidad, Bosques y Desertificación, Ministerio para La Transición Ecológica y El Reto Demográfico, Madrid, Spain
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- University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Rotmilanzentrum am Museum Heineanum, Halberstadt, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC; CSIC-UCLM-JCCM). Ronda de Toledo 12, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain
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