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Verniest F, Galewski T, Boutron O, Dami L, Defos du Rau P, Guelmami A, Julliard R, Popoff N, Suet M, Willm L, Abdou W, Azafzaf H, Bendjedda N, Bino T, Borg JJ, Božič L, Dakki M, Hamoumi RE, Encarnação V, Erciyas-Yavuz K, Etayeb K, Georgiev V, Hamada A, Hatzofe O, Ieronymidou C, Langendoen T, Mikuska T, Molina B, Moniz F, Moussy C, Ouassou A, Petkov N, Portolou D, Qaneer T, Sayoud S, Šćiban M, Topić G, Uzunova D, Vine G, Vizi A, Xeka E, Zenatello M, Gaget E, Viol IL. Exposure of wetlands important for nonbreeding waterbirds to sea-level rise in the Mediterranean. Conserv Biol 2024:e14288. [PMID: 38757477 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
Abstract
Sea-level rise (SLR) is expected to cause major changes to coastal wetlands, which are among the world's most vulnerable ecosystems and are critical for nonbreeding waterbirds. Because strategies for adaptation to SLR, such as nature-based solutions and designation of protected areas, can locally reduce the negative effects of coastal flooding under SLR on coastal wetlands, it is crucial to prioritize adaptation efforts, especially for wetlands of international importance for biodiversity. We assessed the exposure of coastal wetlands important for nonbreeding waterbirds to projected SLR along the Mediterranean coasts of 8 countries by modeling future coastal flooding under 7 scenarios of SLR by 2100 (from 44- to 161-cm rise) with a static inundation approach. Exposure to coastal flooding under future SLR was assessed for 938 Mediterranean coastal sites (≤30 km from the coastline) where 145 species of nonbreeding birds were monitored as part of the International Waterbird Census and for which the monitoring area was delineated by a polygon (64.3% of the coastal sites monitored in the Mediterranean region). Thirty-four percent of sites were threatened by future SLR, even under the most optimistic scenarios. Protected study sites and study sites of international importance for waterbirds were, respectively, 1.5 and 2 times more exposed to SLR than the other sites under the most optimistic scenario. Accordingly, we advocate for the development of a prioritization scheme to be applied to these wetlands for the implementation of strategies for adaptation to SLR to anticipate the effects of coastal flooding. Our study provides major guidance for conservation planning under global change in several countries of the Mediterranean region.
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- Fabien Verniest
- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau Cedex, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau Cedex, France
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- Aquabio, 108 Av. du Lac Léman, La Motte-Servolex, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Tour du Valat, Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Arles, France
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- Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, El Maadi Helwan, Egypt
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- Association "Les Amis des Oiseaux" (AAO/BirdLife en Tunisie), Ariana, Tunisia
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, "Ymer Kurti", Olympia Center, Tirana, Albania
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- National Museum of Natural History, Vilhena Palace, Mdina, Malta
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- DOPPS - Birdlife Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Groupe de Recherche pour la Protection des Oiseaux au Maroc (GREPOM), Résidence Oum Hani IV, Salé, Morocco
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- Ecology and Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik, University Hassan II of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
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- Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, IP (ICNF), Centro de Estudos de Migrações e Proteção de Aves (CEMPA), Lisboa, Portugal
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- Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, the University of Tripoli. Alfornaj, Tripoli, Libya
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- Ministry of Environment and Water, National Nature Protection Service Directorate, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, El Maadi Helwan, Egypt
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- Israel Nature and Parks Authority Headquarters Am V'Olamo 3, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Croatian Society for Bird and Nature Protection, Osijek, Croatia
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Lisbon, Portugal
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- LPO-BirdLife France, Fonderies Royales, Rochefort Cedex, France
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- Groupe de Recherche pour la Protection des Oiseaux au Maroc (GREPOM), Résidence Oum Hani IV, Salé, Morocco
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN), Jubaiha, Jordan
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- Direction générale des Forêts, Ben Aknoun, Algeria
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- Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Nase Ptice Ornithological Society, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN), Jubaiha, Jordan
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- History Museum of Montenegro, Trg Vojvode Bećir-bega Osmanagića 16, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, "Ymer Kurti", Olympia Center, Tirana, Albania
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- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau Cedex, France
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Leroux C, Le Viol I, Valet N, Kerbiriou C, Barré K. Disentangling mechanisms responsible for wind energy effects on European bats. J Environ Manage 2023; 346:118987. [PMID: 37741193 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/25/2023]
Abstract
Mitigating anthropogenic climate change involves deployments of renewable energy worldwide, including wind energy, which can cause significant impacts on flying animals. Bats have highly contrasted responses to wind turbines (WT), either through attraction increasing collision risks, or avoidance leading to habitat losses. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown despite the expected rapid evolution of WT size and densities. Here, using an extensive acoustic sampling (i.e. 361 sites-nights) up to 1483 m from WT at regional scale, we disentangle the effects of WT size (ground clearance and rotor diameter), configuration (density and distance), and operation (blade rotation speed and wake effect) on hedgerow use by 8 bat species/groups and one vertical community distribution index. Our results reveal that all WT parameters affected bat activity and their vertical distribution. Especially, we show that the relative activity of high-flying species in the community was lower for higher WT density and lower ground clearance. Medium-flying species were sensitive to wind turbine distance, with either attraction or avoidance depending on proximity to the wake area and wind conditions. Specifically, wind turbine distance, wake effect and their interaction each affected the activity of one, three, and three species out of eight, respectively. Blade rotation and rotor diameter affected the activity of four and three species/groups, respectively, and ground clearance affected the activity of five ones. Taken together, WT configuration, operation, and size parameters affected the activity of three, five, and seven out of eight species/groups, respectively. These results call for the consideration of all these factors when assessing the ecological sustainability of future wind farms. The study especially advocates to avoid high WT densities, large rotors, and to site WT as far as possible from optimal habitats such as woody edges and not between them and the source of prevailing winds, in order to limit bats-WT interactions.
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- Camille Leroux
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Station Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France; Auddicé Biodiversité - ZAC du Chevalement, 5 rue des Molettes, 59286, Roost-Warendin, France.
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Station Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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- Auddicé Biodiversité - ZAC du Chevalement, 5 rue des Molettes, 59286, Roost-Warendin, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Station Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Station Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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Froidevaux JSP, Toshkova N, Barbaro L, Benítez-López A, Kerbiriou C, Le Viol I, Pacifici M, Santini L, Stawski C, Russo D, Dekker J, Alberdi A, Amorim F, Ancillotto L, Barré K, Bas Y, Cantú-Salazar L, Dechmann DKN, Devaux T, Eldegard K, Fereidouni S, Furmankiewicz J, Hamidovic D, Hill DL, Ibáñez C, Julien JF, Juste J, Kaňuch P, Korine C, Laforge A, Legras G, Leroux C, Lesiński G, Mariton L, Marmet J, Mata VA, Mifsud CM, Nistreanu V, Novella-Fernandez R, Rebelo H, Roche N, Roemer C, Ruczyński I, Sørås R, Uhrin M, Vella A, Voigt CC, Razgour O. A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond. Sci Data 2023; 10:253. [PMID: 37137926 PMCID: PMC10156679 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02157-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Knowledge of species' functional traits is essential for understanding biodiversity patterns, predicting the impacts of global environmental changes, and assessing the efficiency of conservation measures. Bats are major components of mammalian diversity and occupy a variety of ecological niches and geographic distributions. However, an extensive compilation of their functional traits and ecological attributes is still missing. Here we present EuroBaTrait 1.0, the most comprehensive and up-to-date trait dataset covering 47 European bat species. The dataset includes data on 118 traits including genetic composition, physiology, morphology, acoustic signature, climatic associations, foraging habitat, roost type, diet, spatial behaviour, life history, pathogens, phenology, and distribution. We compiled the bat trait data obtained from three main sources: (i) a systematic literature and dataset search, (ii) unpublished data from European bat experts, and (iii) observations from large-scale monitoring programs. EuroBaTrait is designed to provide an important data source for comparative and trait-based analyses at the species or community level. The dataset also exposes knowledge gaps in species, geographic and trait coverage, highlighting priorities for future data collection.
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- Jérémy S P Froidevaux
- University of Stirling, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, FK9 4LJ, Stirling, UK.
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France.
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, BS8 1TQ, Bristol, UK.
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria
- National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
- DYNAFOR, INRAE-INPT, University of Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
- Department of Zoology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO-7491, Norway
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, 4558, Australia
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- Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Evolution (AnEcoEvo), Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Università, 100, 80055, Portici (Napoli), Italy.
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- Jasja Dekker Dierecologie BV, Arnhem, the Netherlands
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- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Evolution (AnEcoEvo), Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Università, 100, 80055, Portici (Napoli), Italy
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Environmental Research and Innovation, 41 rue du Brill, L-4422, Belvaux, Luxemburg
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- Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Migration, Am Obstberg 1, 78315, Radolfzell, Germany
- University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, Universitätsstr. 10, 78464, Konstanz, Germany
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432, Ås, Norway
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- Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Institute for Environment and Nature, Radnička cesta 80, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
- Croatian Biospeleological Society, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- Department Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, 28220, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 8499000, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
- Auddicé Biodiversité- ZAC du Chevalement, 5 rue des Molettes, 59286, Roost-Warendin, France
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- Institute of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Ciszewskiego 8, 02-787, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
- Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MNHN, IRD, 61 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- Conservation Biology Research Group, Biology Department, University of Malta, MSD2080, Msida, Malta
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- Technical University of Munich, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department for Life Science Systems, School of Life Sciences, Freising, Germany
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
- ESS, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Campus do IPS - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal
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- Bat Conservation Ireland, Carmichael House, 4-7, North Brunswick Street, Dublin, D07 RHA8, Ireland
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO, UMR 7204), CNRS, MNHN, Sorbonne-Université, 29900 Concarneau, 75005, Paris, France
- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Stoczek 1, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO-7491, Norway
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- Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, P. J, Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- Conservation Biology Research Group, Biology Department, University of Malta, MSD2080, Msida, Malta
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- Department Evolutionary Ecology, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17, 10315, Berlin, Germany
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- Biosciences, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Hatherly Laboratories, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK.
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Verniest F, Galewski T, Julliard R, Guelmami A, Le Viol I. Coupling future climate and land‐use projections reveals where to strengthen the protection of Mediterranean Key Biodiversity Areas. Conservat Sci and Prac 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Fabien Verniest
- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Paris France
- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes Tour du Valat, le Sambuc Arles France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes Tour du Valat, le Sambuc Arles France
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Paris France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes Tour du Valat, le Sambuc Arles France
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Paris France
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Barré K, Froidevaux JSP, Leroux C, Mariton L, Fritze M, Kerbiriou C, Le Viol I, Bas Y, Roemer C. Over a decade of failure to implement
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guidelines in wind energy planning: A call for action. Conservat Sci and Prac 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/csp2.12805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Kévin Barré
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
- Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling UK
- School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
- Auddicé Biodiversité–ZAC du Chevalement Roost‐Warendin France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
- Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement Paris France
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- German Bat Observatory Berlin Germany
- Applied Zoology and Nature Conservation University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Montpellier France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- CEFE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD Montpellier France
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Mariton L, Kerbiriou C, Bas Y, Zanda B, Le Viol I. Even low light pollution levels affect the spatial distribution and timing of activity of a "light tolerant" bat species. Environ Pollut 2022; 305:119267. [PMID: 35398157 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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By disrupting nocturnal landscapes worldwide, light pollution caused by Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) is recognized as a major threat to biodiversity. As even low light intensities might affect some taxa, concerns are arising about biological responses to widespread low light levels. We used data from a French citizen science bat monitoring program (1894 full-nights monitored on 1055 sites) to explore the landscape-scale effects of light on an open-space-foraging bat species, the Serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus). We assessed this species' abundance and timing of night-time activity (median time of activity) at foraging sites. ALAN, and to a lesser extent moonlight, reduced E. serotinus abundance. ALAN delayed activity, and this delay was amplified during overcast nights. On the contrary, where there was no ALAN, the higher the cloud cover, the earlier the activity occurred. Cloud cover likely darkened the night sky in rural locations, whereas it amplified skyglow in light-polluted places, increasing ALAN effects on bats. Interestingly, moonlight also delayed activity but this effect was weakened where there was ALAN. Our study shows that even fine variations of light levels could affect the spatiotemporal distribution of a common species usually considered to be "light tolerant", with potential cascading effects on individual fitness and population dynamics. It stresses how urgent it is to preserve and restore dark areas to protect biodiversity from light pollution while working on light intensity and directivity where ALAN is needed.
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- Léa Mariton
- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de La Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France; Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 61 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de La Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
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- Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 61 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de La Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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Leroux C, Kerbiriou C, Le Viol I, Valet N, Barré K. Distance to hedgerows drives local repulsion and attraction of wind turbines on bats: Implications for spatial siting. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Camille Leroux
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
- Auddicé Biodiversité– ZAC du Chevalement Roost‐Warendin France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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- Auddicé Biodiversité– ZAC du Chevalement Roost‐Warendin France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Sorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine Concarneau France
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Barré K, Vernet A, Azam C, Le Viol I, Dumont A, Deana T, Vincent S, Challéat S, Kerbiriou C. Landscape composition drives the impacts of artificial light at night on insectivorous bats. Environ Pollut 2022; 292:118394. [PMID: 34687777 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
Among the most prevalent sources of biodiversity declines, Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) is an emerging threat to global biodiversity. Much knowledge has already been gained to reduce impacts. However, the spatial variation of ALAN effects on biodiversity in interaction with landscape composition remains little studied, though it is of the utmost importance to identify lightscapes most in need of action. Several studies have shown that, at local scale, tree cover can intensify positive or negative effects of ALAN on biodiversity, but none have - at landscape scale - studied a wider range of landscape compositions around lit sites. We hypothesized that the magnitude of ALAN effects will depend on landscape composition and species' tolerance to light. Taking the case of insectivorous bats because of their varying sensitivity to ALAN, we investigated the species-specific activity response to ALAN. Bat activity was recorded along a gradient of light radiance. We ensured a large variability in landscape composition around 253 sampling sites. Among the 13 bat taxa studied, radiance decreased the activity of two groups of the slow-flying gleaner guild (Myotis and Plecotus spp.) and one species of the aerial-hawking guild (Pipistrellus pipistrellus), and increased the activity of two species of the aerial-hawking guild (Pipistrellus kuhlii and Pipistrellus pygmaeus). Among these five effects, the magnitude of four of them was driven by landscape composition. For five other species, ALAN effects were only detectable in particular landscape compositions, making the main effect of radiance undetectable without account for interactions with landscape. Specifically, effects were strongest in non-urban habitats, for both guilds. Results highlight the importance to prioritize ALAN reduction efforts in non-urban habitats, and how important is to account for landscape composition when studying ALAN effects on bats to avoid missing effects.
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- Kévin Barré
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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- Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Maison de l'environnement, 14 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature, Musée de l'Homme, 17 Place Du Trocadéro, 75016, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France
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- Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Maison de l'environnement, 14 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Maison de l'environnement, 14 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007, Lyon, France
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- Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Maison de l'environnement, 14 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007, Lyon, France
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- UMR CNRS 5602 GÉODE, INÉE-CNRS 3 Rue Michel-Ange, 75016, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France; Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 Place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France
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Barré K, Kerbiriou C, Ing RK, Bas Y, Azam C, Le Viol I, Spoelstra K. Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night. Mov Ecol 2021; 9:3. [PMID: 33482918 PMCID: PMC7821510 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-00238-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Artificial light at night is recognized as an increasing threat to biodiversity. However, information on the way highly mobile taxa such as bats spatially respond to light is limited. Following the hypothesis of a behavioural adaptation to the perceived risks of predation, we hypothesised that bats should avoid lit areas by shifting their flight route to less exposed conditions. METHODS Using 3D acoustic localization at four experimentally illuminated sites, we studied how the distance to streetlights emitting white and red light affected the Probability of bats Flying Inside the Forest (PFIF) versus along the forest edge. RESULTS We show that open-, edge-, and narrow-space foraging bats strongly change flight patterns by increasing PFIF when getting closer to white and red streetlights placed in the forest edge. These behavioural changes occurred mainly on the streetlight side where light was directed. CONCLUSIONS The results show that bats cope with light exposure by actively seeking refuge in cluttered environment, potentially due to involved predation risks. This is a clear indication that bats make use of landscape structures when reacting to light, and shows the potential of vegetation and streetlight orientation in mitigating effects of light. The study nevertheless calls for preserving darkness as the most efficient way.
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- Kévin Barré
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France.
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France.
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France
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- Institut Langevin, UMR 7587 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), 1 rue Jussieu, 75238, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Station de Biologie Marine, 1 place de la Croix, 29900, Concarneau, France
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), PO Box 50, 6700 AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Gaget E, Galewski T, Jiguet F, Guelmami A, Perennou C, Beltrame C, Le Viol I. Antagonistic effect of natural habitat conversion on community adjustment to climate warming in nonbreeding waterbirds. Conserv Biol 2020; 34:966-976. [PMID: 31868276 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Although the impacts of climate and land-use changes on biodiversity have been widely documented, their joint effects remain poorly understood. We evaluated how nonbreeding waterbird communities adjust to climate warming along a gradient of land-use change. Using midwinter waterbird counts (132 species) at 164 major nonbreeding sites in 22 Mediterranean countries, we assessed the changes in species composition from 1991 to 2010, relative to thermal niche position and breadth, in response to regional and local winter temperature anomalies and conversion of natural habitats. We observed a low-level, nonsignificant community adjustment to the temperature increase where natural habitat conversion occurred. At the sites affected by natural habitat conversion, the relative increase of warm-dwelling species in response to climate warming was 6 times lower and the relative species decline was 3 times higher than in the sites without natural habitat conversion. We found no evidence of community adjustment to climate warming when natural habitat conversion was >5% over 15 years. This strong negative effect suggests an antagonistic interaction between climate warming and habitat change. These results underline the importance of habitat conservation in community adjustment to climate warming.
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- Elie Gaget
- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, Arles, 13200, France
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-CESCO - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Universités, Station de biologie marine, 29900 Concarneau/43 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, Arles, 13200, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-CESCO - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Universités, Station de biologie marine, 29900 Concarneau/43 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, Arles, 13200, France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, Arles, 13200, France
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- Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes, Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, Arles, 13200, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-CESCO - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Universités, Station de biologie marine, 29900 Concarneau/43 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France
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Barré K, Le Viol I, Julliard R, Pauwels J, Newson SE, Julien J, Claireau F, Kerbiriou C, Bas Y. Accounting for automated identification errors in acoustic surveys. Methods Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Kévin Barré
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO)Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO)Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
- University of GreifswaldZoology Institute and Museum Greifswald Germany
- Naturalia EnvironnementSite Agroparc Avignon France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO)Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Concarneau France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueSorbonne Université Paris France
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE)UMR 5175CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul‐Valéry Montpellier – EPHE Montpellier France
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Barbaro L, Allan E, Ampoorter E, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, De Wandeler H, Kerbiriou C, Milligan HT, Vialatte A, Carnol M, Deconchat M, De Smedt P, Jactel H, Koricheva J, Le Viol I, Muys B, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, van der Plas F. Biotic predictors complement models of bat and bird responses to climate and tree diversity in European forests. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20182193. [PMID: 30963868 PMCID: PMC6367190 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Bats and birds are key providers of ecosystem services in forests. How climate and habitat jointly shape their communities is well studied, but whether biotic predictors from other trophic levels may improve bird and bat diversity models is less known, especially across large bioclimatic gradients. Here, we achieved multi-taxa surveys in 209 mature forests replicated in six European countries from Spain to Finland, to investigate the importance of biotic predictors (i.e. the abundance or activity of defoliating insects, spiders, earthworms and wild ungulates) for bat and bird taxonomic and functional diversity. We found that nine out of 12 bird and bat diversity metrics were best explained when biotic factors were added to models including climate and habitat variables, with a mean gain in explained variance of 38% for birds and 15% for bats. Tree functional diversity was the most important habitat predictor for birds, while bats responded more to understorey structure. The best biotic predictors for birds were spider abundance and defoliating insect activity, while only bat functional evenness responded positively to insect herbivory. Accounting for potential biotic interactions between bats, birds and other taxa of lower trophic levels will help to understand how environmental changes along large biogeographical gradients affect higher-level predator diversity in forest ecosystems.
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- Luc Barbaro
- Dynafor, INRA-INPT, University of Toulouse, Auzeville, France
- CESCO, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne-University, Paris, France
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- Plant Ecology Group, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Forest & Nature Laboratory, Department of Forest and Water Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- CESCO, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne-University, Paris, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University, London, Egham, Surrey, UK
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- Dynafor, INRA-INPT, University of Toulouse, Auzeville, France
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- Laboratory of Plant and Microbial Ecology, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
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- Dynafor, INRA-INPT, University of Toulouse, Auzeville, France
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- Forest & Nature Laboratory, Department of Forest and Water Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Biogeco, INRA, University of Bordeaux, Cestas, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University, London, Egham, Surrey, UK
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- CESCO, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne-University, Paris, France
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Laboratory, Department of Forest and Water Management, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity, and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany
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Dubs F, Vergnes A, Mirlicourtois E, Le Viol I, Kerbiriou C, Goulnik J, Belghali S, Bentze L, Barot S, Porcher E. Positive effects of wheat variety mixtures on aboveground arthropods are weak and variable. Basic Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2018.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Penone C, Kerbiriou C, Julien JF, Marmet J, Le Viol I. Body size information in large-scale acoustic bat databases. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5370. [PMID: 30155347 PMCID: PMC6110253 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Citizen monitoring programs using acoustic data have been useful for detecting population and community patterns. However, they have rarely been used to study broad scale patterns of species traits. We assessed the potential of acoustic data to detect broad scale patterns in body size. We compared geographical patterns in body size with acoustic signals in the bat species Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Given the correlation between body size and acoustic characteristics, we expected to see similar results when analyzing the relationships of body size and acoustic signals with climatic variables. Methods We assessed body size using forearm length measurements of 1,359 bats, captured by mist nets in France. For acoustic analyses, we used an extensive dataset collected through the French citizen bat survey. We isolated each bat echolocation call (n = 4,783) and performed automatic measures of signals, including the frequency of the flattest part of the calls (characteristic frequency). We then examined the relationship between forearm length, characteristic frequencies, and two components resulting from principal component analysis for geographic (latitude, longitude) and climatic variables. Results Forearm length was positively correlated with higher precipitation, lower seasonality, and lower temperatures. Lower characteristic frequencies (i.e., larger body size) were mostly related to lower temperatures and northern latitudes. While conducted on different datasets, the two analyses provided congruent results. Discussion Acoustic data from citizen science programs can thus be useful for the detection of large-scale patterns in body size. This first analysis offers a new perspective for the use of large acoustic databases to explore biological patterns and to address both theoretical and applied questions.
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- Caterina Penone
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France.,Marine Station, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Concarneau, France
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Marine Station, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Concarneau, France.,CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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Barré K, Le Viol I, Julliard R, Chiron F, Kerbiriou C. Tillage and herbicide reduction mitigate the gap between conventional and organic farming effects on foraging activity of insectivorous bats. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:1496-1506. [PMID: 29435227 PMCID: PMC5792571 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The increased use of pesticides and tillage intensification is known to negatively affect biodiversity. Changes in these agricultural practices such as herbicide and tillage reduction have variable effects among taxa, especially at the top of the trophic network including insectivorous bats. Very few studies compared the effects of agricultural practices on such taxa, and overall, only as a comparison of conventional versus organic farming without accurately accounting for underlying practices, especially in conventional where many alternatives exist. Divergent results founded in these previous studies could be driven by this lack of clarification about some unconsidered practices inside both conventional and organic systems. We simultaneously compared, over whole nights, bat activity on contiguous wheat fields of one organic and three conventional farming systems located in an intensive agricultural landscape. The studied organic fields (OT) used tillage (i.e., inversion of soil) without chemical inputs. In studied conventional fields, differences consisted of the following: tillage using few herbicides (T), conservation tillage (i.e., no inversion of soil) using few herbicides (CT), and conservation tillage using more herbicide (CTH), to control weeds. Using 64 recording sites (OT = 12; T = 21; CT = 13; CTH = 18), we sampled several sites per system placed inside the fields each night. We showed that bat activity was always higher in OT than in T systems for two (Pipistrellus kuhlii and Pipistrellus pipistrellus) of three species and for one (Pipistrellus spp.) of two genera, as well as greater species richness. The same results were found for the CT versus T system comparison. CTH system showed higher activity than T for only one genus (Pipistrellus spp.). We did not detect any differences between OT and CT systems, and CT showed higher activity than CTH system for only one species (Pipistrellus kuhlii). Activity in OT of Pipistrellus spp. was overall 3.6 and 9.3 times higher than CTH and T systems, respectively, and 6.9 times higher in CT than T systems. Our results highlight an important benefit of organic farming and contrasted effects in conventional farming. That there were no differences detected between the organic and one conventional system is a major result. This demonstrates that even if organic farming is presently difficult to implement and requires a change of economic context for farmers, considerable and easy improvements in conventional farming are attainable, while maintaining yields and approaching the ecological benefits of organic methods.
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- Kévin Barré
- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la ConservationMuséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7204 MNHN‐CNRS‐UPMCParisFrance
- AgrosolutionsParisFrance
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la ConservationMuséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7204 MNHN‐CNRS‐UPMCParisFrance
- Station de biologie marineMuséum National d'Histoire NaturellePlace de la croixConcarneauFrance
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la ConservationMuséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7204 MNHN‐CNRS‐UPMCParisFrance
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, AgroParisTechCNRS, Université Paris‐Sud, Université Paris‐SaclayOrsayFrance
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la ConservationMuséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR 7204 MNHN‐CNRS‐UPMCParisFrance
- Station de biologie marineMuséum National d'Histoire NaturellePlace de la croixConcarneauFrance
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- Christian Kerbiriou
- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Ringgold standard institution - Station de Biologie Marine de Concarneau, Place de la croix, 29900 Concarneau, France
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation - UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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Fontaine B, Bergerot B, Le Viol I, Julliard R. Impact of urbanization and gardening practices on common butterfly communities in France. Ecol Evol 2016; 6:8174-8180. [PMID: 27878086 PMCID: PMC5108268 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2015] [Revised: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We investigated the interacting impacts of urban landscape and gardening practices on the species richness and total abundance of communities of common butterfly communities across France, using data from a nationwide monitoring scheme. We show that urbanization has a strong negative impact on butterfly richness and abundance but that at a local scale, such impact could be mitigated by gardening practices favoring nectar offer. We found few interactions among these landscape and local scale effects, indicating that butterfly‐friendly gardening practices are efficient whatever the level of surrounding urbanization. We further highlight that species being the most negatively affected by urbanization are the most sensitive to gardening practices: Garden management can thus partly counterbalance the deleterious effect of urbanization for butterfly communities. This holds a strong message for park managers and private gardeners, as gardens may act as potential refuge for butterflies when the overall landscape is largely unsuitable.
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- Benoît Fontaine
- Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle UMR 7204 - Conservation des espèces, suivi et restauration des populations, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation Paris France
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- Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle UMR 7204 - Conservation des espèces, suivi et restauration des populations, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation Paris France
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- Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle UMR 7204 - Conservation des espèces, suivi et restauration des populations, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation Paris France
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Dupont H, Gourmelon F, Rouan M, Le Viol I, Kerbiriou C. The contribution of agent-based simulations to conservation management on a Natura 2000 site. J Environ Manage 2016; 168:27-35. [PMID: 26696603 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.11.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The conservation of biodiversity today must include the participation and support of local stakeholders. Natura 2000 can be considered as a conservation system that, in its application in most EU countries, relies on the participation of local stakeholders. Our study proposes a scientific method for participatory modelling, with the aim of contributing to the conservation management of habitats and species at a Natura 2000 site (Crozon Peninsula, Bretagne, France) that is representative of in landuse changes in coastal areas. We make use of companion modelling and its associated tools (scenario-planning, GIS, multi-agent modelling and simulations) to consider possible futures through the co-construction of management scenarios and the understanding of their consequences on different indicators of biodiversity status (habitats, avifauna, flora). The maintenance of human activities as they have been carried out since the creation of the Natura 2000s zone allows the biodiversity values to remain stable. Extensive agricultural activities have been shown to be essential to this maintenance, whereas management sustained by the multiplication of conservation actions brings about variable results according to the indicators. None of the scenarios has a positive incidence on the set of indicators. However, an understanding of the modelling system and the results of the simulations allow for the refining of the selection of conservation actions in relation to the species to be preserved.
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- Hélène Dupont
- LETG (UMR 6554 CNRS-Géomer), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (OSU UMS 3113 CNRS), Université de Brest, UEB, rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280 Plouzané, France; CESCO (UMR 7204 UPMC CNRS MNHN), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- LETG (UMR 6554 CNRS-Géomer), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (OSU UMS 3113 CNRS), Université de Brest, UEB, rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- LETG (UMR 6554 CNRS-Géomer), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (OSU UMS 3113 CNRS), Université de Brest, UEB, rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- CESCO (UMR 7204 UPMC CNRS MNHN), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- CESCO (UMR 7204 UPMC CNRS MNHN), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
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Azam C, Kerbiriou C, Vernet A, Julien JF, Bas Y, Plichard L, Maratrat J, Le Viol I. Is part-night lighting an effective measure to limit the impacts of artificial lighting on bats? Glob Chang Biol 2015; 21:4333-4341. [PMID: 26179558 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 12/26/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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As light pollution is currently considered to be a major threat to biodiversity, different lighting management options are being explored to mitigate the impact of artificial lighting on wildlife. Although part-night lighting schemes have been adopted by many local authorities across Europe to reduce the carbon footprint and save energy, their effects on biodiversity are unknown. Through a paired, in situ experiment, we compared the activity levels of 8 bat species under unlit, part-night, and full-night lighting treatments in a rural area located 60 km south of Paris, France. We selected 36 study locations composed of 1 lit site and a paired unlit control site; 24 of these sites were located in areas subject to part-night lighting schemes, and 12 sites were in areas under standard, full-night lighting. There was significantly more activity on part-night lighting sites compared to full-night lighting sites for the late-emerging, light-sensitive Plecotus spp., and a similar pattern was observable for Myotis spp., although not significant. In contrast, part-night lighting did not influence the activity of early emerging bat species around streetlights, except for Pipistrellus pipistrellus for which there was significantly less activity on part-night lighting sites than on full-night lighting sites. Overall, no significant difference in activity between part- and full-night lighting sites were observed in 5 of the 8 species studied, suggesting that current part-night lighting schemes fail to encompass the range of activity of most bat species. We recommend that such schemes start earlier at night to effectively mitigate the adverse effects of artificial lighting on light-sensitive species, particularly along ecological corridors that are especially important to the persistence of biodiversity in urban landscapes.
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- Clémentine Azam
- National Museum of Natural History, 55 rue Buffon, Center for Ecology and Conservation Science, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France
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- National Museum of Natural History, 55 rue Buffon, Center for Ecology and Conservation Science, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France
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- Parc Naturel Régional du Gâtinais Français, Maison du Parc 20 boulevard du Maréchal Lyautey, 91490, Milly-la-Forêt, France
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- National Museum of Natural History, 55 rue Buffon, Center for Ecology and Conservation Science, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France
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- National Museum of Natural History, 55 rue Buffon, Center for Ecology and Conservation Science, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France
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- Parc Naturel Régional du Gâtinais Français, Maison du Parc 20 boulevard du Maréchal Lyautey, 91490, Milly-la-Forêt, France
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- Parc Naturel Régional du Gâtinais Français, Maison du Parc 20 boulevard du Maréchal Lyautey, 91490, Milly-la-Forêt, France
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- National Museum of Natural History, 55 rue Buffon, Center for Ecology and Conservation Science, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 75005, Paris, France
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Desjonquères C, Rybak F, Depraetere M, Gasc A, Le Viol I, Pavoine S, Sueur J. First description of underwater acoustic diversity in three temperate ponds. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1393. [PMID: 26587351 PMCID: PMC4647551 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The past decade has produced an increased ecological interest in sonic environments, or soundscapes. However, despite this rise in interest and technological improvements that allow for long-term acoustic surveys in various environments, some habitats' soundscapes remain to be explored. Ponds, and more generally freshwater habitats, are one of these acoustically unexplored environments. Here we undertook the first long term acoustic monitoring of three temperate ponds in France. By aural and visual inspection of a selection of recordings, we identified 48 different sound types, and according to the rarefaction curves we calculated, more sound types are likely present in one of the three ponds. The richness of sound types varied significantly across ponds. Surprisingly, there was no pond-to-pond daily consistency of sound type richness variation; each pond had its own daily patterns of activity. We also explored the possibility of using six acoustic diversity indices to conduct rapid biodiversity assessments in temperate ponds. We found that all indices were sensitive to the background noise as estimated through correlations with the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, we determined that the AR index could be a good candidate to measure acoustic diversities using partial correlations with the SNR as a control variable. Yet, research is still required to automatically compute the SNR in order to apply this index on a large data set of recordings. The results showed that these three temperate ponds host a high level of acoustic diversity in which the soundscapes were variable not only between but also within the ponds. The sources producing this diversity of sounds and the drivers of difference in daily song type richness variation both require further investigation. Such research would yield insights into the biodiversity and ecology of temperate ponds.
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- Camille Desjonquères
- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France ; Université Paris-Sud, Neuroscience Paris-Saclay Institute , UMR 9197, Orsay , France
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- Université Paris-Sud, Neuroscience Paris-Saclay Institute , UMR 9197, Orsay , France
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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- Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR7204), Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC , Paris , France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR7204), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle , Paris , France ; Mathematical Ecology Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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Redon (de) L, Le Viol I, Jiguet F, Machon N, Scher O, Kerbiriou C. Road network in an agrarian landscape: Potential habitat, corridor or barrier for small mammals? Acta Oecologica 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Arthur L, Lemaire M, Dufrêne L, Viol IL, Julien JF, Kerbiriou C. Understanding Bat-Habitat Associations and the Effects of Monitoring on Long-Term Roost Success using a Volunteer Dataset. Acta Chiropterologica 2014. [DOI: 10.3161/150811014x687350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Penone C, Le Viol I, Pellissier V, Julien JF, Bas Y, Kerbiriou C. Use of large-scale acoustic monitoring to assess anthropogenic pressures on Orthoptera communities. Conserv Biol 2013; 27:979-987. [PMID: 23692213 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 12/19/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Biodiversity monitoring at large spatial and temporal scales is greatly needed in the context of global changes. Although insects are a species-rich group and are important for ecosystem functioning, they have been largely neglected in conservation studies and policies, mainly due to technical and methodological constraints. Sound detection, a nondestructive method, is easily applied within a citizen-science framework and could be an interesting solution for insect monitoring. However, it has not yet been tested at a large scale. We assessed the value of a citizen-science program in which Orthoptera species (Tettigoniidae) were monitored acoustically along roads. We used Bayesian model-averaging analyses to test whether we could detect widely known patterns of anthropogenic effects on insects, such as the negative effects of urbanization or intensive agriculture on Orthoptera populations and communities. We also examined site-abundance correlations between years and estimated the biases in species detection to evaluate and improve the protocol. Urbanization and intensive agricultural landscapes negatively affected Orthoptera species richness, diversity, and abundance. This finding is consistent with results of previous studies of Orthoptera, vertebrates, carabids, and butterflies. The average mass of communities decreased as urbanization increased. The dispersal ability of communities increased as the percentage of agricultural land and, to a lesser extent, urban area increased. Despite changes in abundances over time, we found significant correlations between yearly abundances. We identified biases linked to the protocol (e.g., car speed or temperature) that can be accounted for ease in analyses. We argue that acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera along roads offers several advantages for assessing Orthoptera biodiversity at large spatial and temporal extents, particularly in a citizen science framework.
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- Caterina Penone
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CERSP UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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Regnery B, Kerbiriou C, Julliard R, Vandevelde JC, Le Viol I, Burylo M, Couvet D. Sustain common species and ecosystem functions through biodiversity offsets: response to Pilgrimet al. Conserv Lett 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Baptiste Regnery
- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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- ‘Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations’; 55 Rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
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Le Viol I, Jiguet F, Brotons L, Herrando S, Lindström A, Pearce-Higgins JW, Reif J, Van Turnhout C, Devictor V. More and more generalists: two decades of changes in the European avifauna. Biol Lett 2012; 8:780-2. [PMID: 22809721 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Biotic homogenization (BH) is a process whereby some species (losers) are systematically replaced by others (winners). While this process has been related to the effects of anthropogenic activities, whether and how BH is occurring across regions and the role of native species as a driver of BH has hardly been investigated. Here, we examine the trend in the community specialization index (CSI) for 234 native species of breeding birds at 10,111 sites in six European countries from 1990 to 2008. Unlike many BH studies, CSI uses abundance information to estimate the balance between generalist and specialist species in local assemblages. We show that bird communities are more and more composed of native generalist species across regions, revealing a strong, ongoing BH process. Our result suggests a rapid and non-random change in community composition at a continental scale is occurring, most likely driven by anthropogenic activities.
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- Isabelle Le Viol
- National Museum of Natural History, UMR7204-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, 55 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
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Barnagaud JY, Devictor V, Jiguet F, Barbet-Massin M, Le Viol I, Archaux F. Relating habitat and climatic niches in birds. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32819. [PMID: 22427891 PMCID: PMC3299694 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Predicting species' responses to the combined effects of habitat and climate changes has become a major challenge in ecology and conservation biology. However, the effects of climatic and habitat gradients on species distributions have generally been considered separately. Here, we explore the relationships between the habitat and thermal dimensions of the ecological niche in European common birds. Using data from the French Breeding Bird Survey, a large-scale bird monitoring program, we correlated the habitat and thermal positions and breadths of 74 bird species, controlling for life history traits and phylogeny. We found that cold climate species tend to have niche positions in closed habitats, as expected by the conjunction of the biogeographic history of birds' habitats, and their current continent-scale gradients. We also report a positive correlation between thermal and habitat niche breadths, a pattern consistent with macroecological predictions concerning the processes shaping species' distributions. Our results suggest that the relationships between the climatic and habitat components of the niche have to be taken into account to understand and predict changes in species' distributions.
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Kerbiriou C, Le Viol I, Robert A, Porcher E, Gourmelon F, Julliard R. Tourism in protected areas can threaten wild populations: from individual response to population viability of the choughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. J Appl Ecol 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01646.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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