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Priyadarshana TS, Martin EA, Sirami C, Woodcock BA, Goodale E, Martínez-Núñez C, Lee MB, Pagani-Núñez E, Raderschall CA, Brotons L, Rege A, Ouin A, Tscharntke T, Slade EM. Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta-analysis. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14412. [PMID: 38549269 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14412] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 03/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
Abstract
Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may support biodiversity within agroecosystems. These spatial heterogeneity effects can be partitioned into compositional (land-cover type diversity) and configurational heterogeneity (land-cover type arrangement), measured either for the crop mosaic or across the landscape for both crops and semi-natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of biodiversity to increases in these heterogeneity components across taxa and contexts. Our meta-analysis covering 6397 fields across 122 studies conducted in Asia, Europe, North and South America reveals consistently positive effects of crop and landscape heterogeneity, as well as compositional and configurational heterogeneity for plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, pollinator and predator biodiversity. Vertebrates and plants benefit more from landscape heterogeneity, while invertebrates derive similar benefits from both crop and landscape heterogeneity. Pollinators benefit more from configurational heterogeneity, but predators favour compositional heterogeneity. These positive effects are consistent for invertebrates and vertebrates in both tropical/subtropical and temperate agroecosystems, and in annual and perennial cropping systems, and at small to large spatial scales. Our results suggest that promoting increased landscape heterogeneity by diversifying crops and semi-natural habitats, as suggested in the current UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, is key for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.
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- Tharaka S Priyadarshana
- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore
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- Animal Ecology, Institute of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany
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- Université de Toulouse, INRAE, UMR Dynafor, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
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- Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana EBD (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science, School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Centre for Nature-Based Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore
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- Université de Toulouse, INRAE, UMR Dynafor, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Department of Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore
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Pla M, Burgas A, Carrion G, Hermoso V, Feliu P, Romero S, Casanovas P, Sainz de la Maza P, Arnau P, Pino J, Brotons L. Mapping drivers of change for biodiversity risk assessment to target conservation actions: Human frequentation in protected areas. Heliyon 2024; 10:e25312. [PMID: 38322964 PMCID: PMC10844254 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25312] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024] Open
Abstract
Mapping the drivers of change that pose negative pressures or threats to biodiversity can help to identify where biodiversity is most threatened and can be used to determine priority sites to target conservation actions. Overlapping drivers of change maps with distribution maps of sensitive species provides valuable information to identify where and when it would be better to target actions to minimize the risk. The overall aim of this study was to develop a methodology for the integration of risk mapping associated with high human frequentation to guide conservation actions in two case study: the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) and Posidonia meadows (Posidonia oceanica), both sensitive to human frequentation. To achieve this, we used two types of geolocated mobile phone information from the STRAVA platform: mapped paths and roads number of visitors at hourly precisions and a sporting activities heatmap representative of a wider period, together with species ecological information and complementary human frequentation data. The final, monthly risk maps identified the areas for Kentish plover with null, low, moderate, high, very high risk attributed to different aspects of the breeding biology of the species, nests, nestlings, and adults. The risk thresholds for nests are lower than for nestlings and adults, thought nestlings were generally less sensitive to human frequentation than adults. Visitors number ranges between 250 and 700 approximately suppose a moderate risk for the three assessed periods, and more than 1200 visitors appeared to prevent the nesting of the species completely. The final risk maps for Posidonia meadows determine the areas with low, moderate, hight and very high risk for human marine activities. Human frequentation values in this case study are scaled between 0 and 1, the results shows that values above 0.1 imply a high risk for the species. Both types of information can be used to target concrete, spatially explicit actions to minimize the risk caused by human frequentation. Furthermore, the first case study would allow to adapt the target actions to the species breeding phenology. The proposed risk assessment workflow is flexible and may be adjusted to match the available information and eventually could be adapted to other conservation objectives arising from different threats. In addition, data gathered from mobile mobility applications show great potential to accurately identify human frequentation, both spatially and temporally.
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- Magda Pla
- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), 25280 Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Natural Park, 17486 Castelló d'Empúries, Catalonia, Spain
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- Cap de Creus Natural Park, 17489 El Port de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, 41011 Sevilla, Spain
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- Cap de Creus Natural Park, 17489 El Port de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
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- Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Natural Park, 17486 Castelló d'Empúries, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, Catalan Government, 08038 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, Catalan Government, 08038 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE-UPC), 08860 Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), 25280 Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
- CSIC, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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Boetzl FA, Sponsler D, Albrecht M, Batáry P, Birkhofer K, Knapp M, Krauss J, Maas B, Martin EA, Sirami C, Sutter L, Bertrand C, Baillod AB, Bota G, Bretagnolle V, Brotons L, Frank T, Fusser M, Giralt D, González E, Hof AR, Luka H, Marrec R, Nash MA, Ng K, Plantegenest M, Poulin B, Siriwardena GM, Tscharntke T, Tschumi M, Vialatte A, Van Vooren L, Zubair-Anjum M, Entling MH, Steffan-Dewenter I, Schirmel J. Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20232383. [PMID: 38196355 PMCID: PMC10777163 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2383] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
Abstract
Natural pest and weed regulation are essential for agricultural production, but the spatial distribution of natural enemies within crop fields and its drivers are mostly unknown. Using 28 datasets comprising 1204 study sites across eight Western and Central European countries, we performed a quantitative synthesis of carabid richness, activity densities and functional traits in relation to field edges (i.e. distance functions). We show that distance functions of carabids strongly depend on carabid functional traits, crop type and, to a lesser extent, adjacent non-crop habitats. Richness of both carnivores and granivores, and activity densities of small and granivorous species decreased towards field interiors, whereas the densities of large species increased. We found strong distance decays in maize and vegetables whereas richness and densities remained more stable in cereals, oilseed crops and legumes. We conclude that carabid assemblages in agricultural landscapes are driven by the complex interplay of crop types, adjacent non-crop habitats and further landscape parameters with great potential for targeted agroecological management. In particular, our synthesis indicates that a higher edge-interior ratio can counter the distance decay of carabid richness per field and thus likely benefits natural pest and weed regulation, hence contributing to agricultural sustainability.
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- Fabian A. Boetzl
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074 Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074 Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zurich 8046, Switzerland
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- ‘Lendület’ Landscape and Conservation Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, 2163 Vácrátót, Alkotmány út 2-4, Hungary
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- Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus 03046, Germany
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha-Suchdol 165 00, Czech Republic
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074 Germany
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Division of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- UMR Dynafor, INRAE, Toulouse University, 31326 Castanet Tolosan, France
- LTSER Zone Atelier « PYRÉNÉES GARONNE », 31320 Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- Plant-Production Systems, Agroscope, Route des Eterpys 18, 1964 Conthey, Switzerland
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR EcoSys, 91120 Palaiseau, France
- INRAE, Institut Agro, ESA, UMR BAGAP, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 113, Postfach, Frick 5070, Switzerland
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program, Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Crtra. Sant Llorenç de Morunys, km 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain
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- CEBC, UMR 7372, CNRS & La Rochelle Université, 79360 Villiers-en-Bois, France
- LTSER ‘Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre’, CNRS, 79360 Villiers-en-Bois, France
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program, Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Crtra. Sant Llorenç de Morunys, km 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 1180, Austria
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- iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Ecosystem Analysis, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstrasse 7, Landau 76829, Germany
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- Landscape Dynamics and Biodiversity Program, Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Crtra. Sant Llorenç de Morunys, km 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha-Suchdol 165 00, Czech Republic
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Av. Velez Sarsfield 1611, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 113, Postfach, Frick 5070, Switzerland
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- Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN, UMR CNRS 7058), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, School of Life Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Tour du Valat Research Institute for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands, Le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, Zurich 8046, Switzerland
- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, CH-6204 Sempach, Switzerland
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- UMR Dynafor, INRAE, Toulouse University, 31326 Castanet Tolosan, France
- LTSER Zone Atelier « PYRÉNÉES GARONNE », 31320 Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Forest and Water Management, Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090 Gontrode, Belgium
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- Department of Zoology & Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Ecosystem Analysis, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstrasse 7, Landau 76829, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074 Germany
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- iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Ecosystem Analysis, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Fortstrasse 7, Landau 76829, Germany
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Howard C, Marjakangas EL, Morán-Ordóñez A, Milanesi P, Abuladze A, Aghababyan K, Ajder V, Arkumarev V, Balmer DE, Bauer HG, Beale CM, Bino T, Boyla KA, Burfield IJ, Burke B, Caffrey B, Chodkiewicz T, Del Moral JC, Mazal VD, Fernández N, Fornasari L, Gerlach B, Godinho C, Herrando S, Ieronymidou C, Johnston A, Jovicevic M, Kalyakin M, Keller V, Knaus P, Kotrošan D, Kuzmenko T, Leitão D, Lindström Å, Maxhuni Q, Mihelič T, Mikuska T, Molina B, Nagy K, Noble D, Øien IJ, Paquet JY, Pladevall C, Portolou D, Radišić D, Rajkov S, Rajković DZ, Raudonikis L, Sattler T, Saveljić D, Shimmings P, Sjenicic J, Šťastný K, Stoychev S, Strus I, Sudfeldt C, Sultanov E, Szép T, Teufelbauer N, Uzunova D, van Turnhout CAM, Velevski M, Vikstrøm T, Vintchevski A, Voltzit O, Voříšek P, Wilk T, Zurell D, Brotons L, Lehikoinen A, Willis SG. Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4304. [PMID: 37474503 PMCID: PMC10359363 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39093-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species' ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts alongside other putative drivers remains uncertain. Here, we use the changing distributions of 378 European breeding bird species over 30 years to explore the putative drivers of recent range dynamics, considering the effects of climate, land cover, other environmental variables, and species' traits on the probability of local colonisation and extinction. On average, species shifted their ranges by 2.4 km/year. These shifts, however, were significantly different from expectations due to changing climate and land cover. We found that local colonisation and extinction events were influenced primarily by initial climate conditions and by species' range traits. By contrast, changes in climate suitability over the period were less important. This highlights the limitations of using only climate and land cover when projecting future changes in species' ranges and emphasises the need for integrative, multi-predictor approaches for more robust forecasting.
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- Christine Howard
- Conservation Ecology Group, Department of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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- The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF), 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- Forest Science and Tecnology Centre (CTFC), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280, Sant Llorenç de Morunys, Spain
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204, Sempach, Switzerland
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave 3 / 5, Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia
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- BirdLinks Armenia (former TSE-Towards Sustainable Ecosystems) NGO, 87b Dimitrov, apt 14, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Leova, Republic of Moldova
- Moldova State University, A.Mateevici str. 60, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/BirdLife Bulgaria, Sofia 1111, Yavorov complex, bl. 71, en. 1, ap. 1, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Am Obstberg 1, 78315, Radolfzell, Germany
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- York Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of York, York, YO10 5NG, UK
- Department of Biology, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, Rr. "Vaso Pasha", Nd. 4, Apt. 3, 1004, Tirana, Albania
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- WWF Turkey, Büyük Postane Caddesi No: 19 Kat: 5, 34420, Bahçekapı-Fatih, İstanbul, Turkey
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK
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- BirdWatch Ireland, Unit 20, Block D, Bullford Business Campus, Kilcoole, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
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- BirdWatch Ireland, Unit 20, Block D, Bullford Business Campus, Kilcoole, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679, Warszawa, Poland
- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, Odrowąża 24, 05-270, Marki, Poland
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Melquiades Biencinto, 34, 28053, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Environment and Nature, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Radnicka cesta 80, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Inst. of Biology, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- DDA-Federation of German Avifaunists, An den Speichern 2, D-48157, Münster, Germany
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- MED-Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development; LabOr-Laboratório de Ornitologia Universidade de Évora Pólo da Mitra, Apartado 94, 7002-774, Évora, Portugal
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- Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF), 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, 08019, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str., 2, Moscow, 125009, Russia
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204, Sempach, Switzerland
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204, Sempach, Switzerland
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- Ornithological society "Naše ptice", Semira Frašte 6, 71 000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds, P.O. Box 33, Kyiv, 01103, Ukraine
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- Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Av. Almirante Gago Coutinho, 46A, 1700-031, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Kosovo Ornithological Society, Str. Hysni Gashi no. 28, Kalabri, 10 000, Prishtinë, Republic of Kosovo
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- DOPPS-BirdLife Slovenia, Tržaška c. 2, SI, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Croatian Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Gundulićeva 19a, HR-31000, Osijek, Croatia
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Melquiades Biencinto, 34, 28053, Madrid, Spain
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- MME BirdLife Hungary, 1121 Költő u. 21, Budapest, Hungary
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Andorra Research + Innovation, Av. Rocafort 21-23, AD600, Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra
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- Hellenic Ornithological Society / BirdLife Greece, Agiou Konstantinou 52, Athens, 10437, Greece
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- University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3, Novi Sad, 21000, Serbia
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- Center for Biodiversity Research, Maksima Gorkog 40/3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Center for Biodiversity Research, Maksima Gorkog 40/3, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Lithuanian Ornithological Society, Naugarduko st. 47-3, LT-03208, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204, Sempach, Switzerland
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- Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro, IV proleterske 19, 81000, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- BirdLife Norway. Sandgata 30b, NO-7012, Trondheim, Norway
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- Ornithological society "Naše ptice", Semira Frašte 6, 71 000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Society for Research and Protection of Biodiversity, Mladena Stojanovica 2, 78 000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Dept. of Ecology, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague 6-Suchdol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/BirdLife Bulgaria, Sofia 1111, Yavorov complex, bl. 71, en. 1, ap. 1, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Nature reserve "Roztochya", Sichovyh Striltsiv 7, 81070, Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine
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- DDA-Federation of German Avifaunists, An den Speichern 2, D-48157, Münster, Germany
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- Azerbaijan Ornithological Society, M. Mushfiq 4B, ap.60, Baku, AZ1004, Azerbaijan Republic
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- MME BirdLife Hungary, 1121 Költő u. 21, Budapest, Hungary
- University of Nyíregyháza, 4400 Sóstói út 31/b, Nyíregyháza, Hungary
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- Macedonian Ecological Society, Blvd. Boris Trajkovski Str. 7, 9a, Skopje, N, Macedonia
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- Sovon-Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Macedonian Ecological Society, Blvd. Boris Trajkovski Str. 7, 9a, Skopje, N, Macedonia
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- Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (DOF-BirdLife DK), Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str., 2, Moscow, 125009, Russia
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- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
- Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 15000, Prague 5, Czechia
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- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, Odrowąża 24, 05-270, Marki, Poland
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF), 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- Forest Science and Tecnology Centre (CTFC), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280, Sant Llorenç de Morunys, Spain
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
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- The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Atlas Steering Committee, European Bird Census Council, Na Bělidle 34, CZ-150 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Conservation Ecology Group, Department of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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Lecina-Diaz J, Chas-Amil ML, Aquilué N, Sil Â, Brotons L, Regos A, Touza J. Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies reduces suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires. J Environ Manage 2023; 337:117707. [PMID: 36989920 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117707] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
In southern Europe, land abandonment and an unbalanced investment toward fire suppression instead of prevention has gradually increased wildfire risk, which calls for a paradigm change in fire management policies. Here we combined scenario analysis, fire landscape modelling, and economic tools to identify which land-use policies would reduce the expected wildfire-related losses in the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve 'Gerês-Xurés' (Spain-Portugal). To do so, we applied the least-cost-plus-net-value-change approach and estimated net changes in wildfire damages based on their implications for the 2010-2050 period and five ecosystem services: agriculture, pasture, timber, recreation and climate regulation. Four land-use scenarios were considered: (1) Business as Usual (BAU); (2) fire-smart, fostering more fire-resistant (less flammable) and/or fire-resilient landscapes (fire-smart); (3) High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf), wherein the abandonment of extensive agriculture is reversed; and (4) a combination of HNVf and fire-smart. HNVf is the best scenario for suppression cost savings, but it generates the lowest net present value of societal benefits from climate regulation. In fact, the most efficient scenario with the lowest societal discounted net suppression costs and change on ecosystem services damages is the HNVf + fire-smart scenario, as it also generates suppression cost savings from agricultural expansion, and lead to a significant reduction in damages on timber and recreational benefits. Therefore, reverting land abandonment through recultivation and promoting fire-resistant tree species is the most efficient way to reduce wildfire hazard. In this sense, payments for ecosystem services should reward farmers and landowners for their role in wildfire prevention. This study improves the understanding of the financial and societal benefits derived from reducing fire suppression spending and ecosystem services damage by undertaking fire-smart land-use strategies, which can be essential to enhance local stakeholders' support for Payments of Ecosystem Services policies for wildfire prevention.
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- Judit Lecina-Diaz
- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany; 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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- Department of Quantitative Economics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Ctra. St. Llorenç de Morunys km 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain; Centre for Forest Research (CFR), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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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; CITAB - Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biológicas, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801, Portugal; CIMO - Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, 5300-253, Bragança, Portugal
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Ctra. St. Llorenç de Morunys km 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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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; Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Ctra. St. Llorenç de Morunys km 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain; Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Environment and Geography and York Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5NG, UK
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Marjakangas EL, Bosco L, Versluijs M, Xu Y, Santangeli A, Holopainen S, Mäkeläinen S, Herrando S, Keller V, Voříšek P, Brotons L, Johnston A, Princé K, Willis SG, Aghababyan K, Ajder V, Balmer DE, Bino T, Boyla KA, Chodkiewicz T, Del Moral JC, Mazal VD, Ferrarini A, Godinho C, Gustin M, Kalyakin M, Knaus P, Kuzmenko T, Lindström Å, Maxhuni Q, Molina B, Nagy K, Radišić D, Rajkov S, Rajković DZ, Raudoniki L, Sjeničić J, Stoychev S, Szép T, Teufelbauer N, Ursul S, van Turnhout CAM, Velevski M, Vikstrøm T, Wilk T, Voltzit O, Øien IJ, Sudfeldt C, Gerlach B, Lehikoinen A. Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities at a continental scale. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2213330120. [PMID: 37252949 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2213330120] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Species' range shifts and local extinctions caused by climate change lead to community composition changes. At large spatial scales, ecological barriers, such as biome boundaries, coastlines, and elevation, can influence a community's ability to shift in response to climate change. Yet, ecological barriers are rarely considered in climate change studies, potentially hindering predictions of biodiversity shifts. We used data from two consecutive European breeding bird atlases to calculate the geographic distance and direction between communities in the 1980s and their compositional best match in the 2010s and modeled their response to barriers. The ecological barriers affected both the distance and direction of bird community composition shifts, with coastlines and elevation having the strongest influence. Our results underscore the relevance of combining ecological barriers and community shift projections for identifying the forces hindering community adjustments under global change. Notably, due to (macro)ecological barriers, communities are not able to track their climatic niches, which may lead to drastic changes, and potential losses, in community compositions in the future.
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Population Ecology Group, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Consell Superior d'Investigacions Científiques and the University of the Balearic Islands, 07190 Esporles, Spain
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- European Bird Census Council, Beek-Ubbergen 6573, Netherlands
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- European Bird Census Council, Beek-Ubbergen 6573, Netherlands
- Swiss Ornithological Institute, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland
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- European Bird Census Council, Beek-Ubbergen 6573, Netherlands
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- Spanish National Research Council, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, 25280 Solsona, Spain
- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, United Kingdom
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- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 7204 Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Biosciences, Conservation Ecology Group, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Leova MD-6321, Republic of Moldova
- Institute of Ecology and Geography, Moldova State Universit, MD-2009 Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
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- British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 2PU, United Kingdom
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, Tirana 1004, Albania
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa 00-679, Poland
- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Institute for Environment and Nature, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Labor Laboratory of Ornithology, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland
- Poliskiy Nature Reserve, 11196 Ovruch, Ukraine
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- Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, Lund University, Lund SE-22362, Sweden
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- University of Gjakova "Fehmi Agani", 50 000 Gjakova, Kosova
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología/BirdLife, 28053 Madrid, Spain
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- Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület BirdLife Hungary, 1536 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Center for Biodiversity Research, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Society for Research and Protection of Biodiversity, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/BirdLife in Bulgaria, Sofia 1111, Bulgaria
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- University of Nyíregyháza, Nyíregyháza 4400, Hungary
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Leova MD-6321, Republic of Moldova
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, 6503 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Zoological Museum of Lomonosov, Moscow State University, Moscow 125009, Russia
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- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Dansk Ornitologisk Forening - BirdLife Denmark, 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten - Federation of German Avifaunists, D-48157, Münster, Germany
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten - Federation of German Avifaunists, D-48157, Münster, Germany
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- European Bird Census Council, Beek-Ubbergen 6573, Netherlands
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Evans LC, Melero Y, Schmucki R, Boersch-Supan PH, Brotons L, Fontaine C, Jiguet F, Kuussaari M, Massimino D, Robinson RA, Roy DB, Schweiger O, Settele J, Stefanescu C, van Turnhout CAM, Oliver TH. Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: Insights from a niche-based approach. Glob Chang Biol 2023; 29:3271-3284. [PMID: 36924241 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
Abstract
At large scales, the mechanisms underpinning stability in natural communities may vary in importance due to changes in species composition, mean abundance, and species richness. Here we link species characteristics (niche positions) and community characteristics (richness and abundance) to evaluate the importance of stability mechanisms in 156 butterfly communities monitored across three European countries and spanning five bioclimatic regions. We construct niche-based hierarchical structural Bayesian models to explain first differences in abundance, population stability, and species richness between the countries, and then explore how these factors impact community stability both directly and indirectly (via synchrony and population stability). Species richness was partially explained by the position of a site relative to the niches of the species pool, and species near the centre of their niche had higher average population stability. The differences in mean abundance, population stability, and species richness then influenced how much variation in community stability they explained across the countries. We found, using variance partitioning, that community stability in Finnish communities was most influenced by community abundance, whereas this aspect was unimportant in Spain with species synchrony explaining most variation; the UK was somewhat intermediate with both factors explaining variation. Across all countries, the diversity-stability relationship was indirect with species richness reducing synchrony which increased community stability, with no direct effects of species richness. Our results suggest that in natural communities, biogeographical variation observed in key drivers of stability, such as population abundance and species richness, leads to community stability being limited by different factors and that this can partially be explained due to the niche characteristics of the European butterfly assemblage.
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- Luke Christopher Evans
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biodiversity, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK
- Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
- InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, 25280, Spain
- CSIC, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, CESCO, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, UMR7204, CP135, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, CESCO, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, UMR7204, CP135, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Biodiversity Centre, Latokartanonkaari 11, FI-00790, Helsinki, Finland
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biodiversity, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
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- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Halle, Germany
- iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Halle, Germany
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- Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, Francesc Macià, 51, 08402, Granollers, Spain
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology & Ecophysiology, Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK
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Rigal S, Dakos V, Alonso H, Auniņš A, Benkő Z, Brotons L, Chodkiewicz T, Chylarecki P, de Carli E, Del Moral JC, Domşa C, Escandell V, Fontaine B, Foppen R, Gregory R, Harris S, Herrando S, Husby M, Ieronymidou C, Jiguet F, Kennedy J, Klvaňová A, Kmecl P, Kuczyński L, Kurlavičius P, Kålås JA, Lehikoinen A, Lindström Å, Lorrillière R, Moshøj C, Nellis R, Noble D, Eskildsen DP, Paquet JY, Pélissié M, Pladevall C, Portolou D, Reif J, Schmid H, Seaman B, Szabo ZD, Szép T, Florenzano GT, Teufelbauer N, Trautmann S, van Turnhout C, Vermouzek Z, Vikstrøm T, Voříšek P, Weiserbs A, Devictor V. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2216573120. [PMID: 37186854 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216573120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Declines in European bird populations are reported for decades but the direct effect of major anthropogenic pressures on such declines remains unquantified. Causal relationships between pressures and bird population responses are difficult to identify as pressures interact at different spatial scales and responses vary among species. Here, we uncover direct relationships between population time-series of 170 common bird species, monitored at more than 20,000 sites in 28 European countries, over 37 y, and four widespread anthropogenic pressures: agricultural intensification, change in forest cover, urbanisation and temperature change over the last decades. We quantify the influence of each pressure on population time-series and its importance relative to other pressures, and we identify traits of most affected species. We find that agricultural intensification, in particular pesticides and fertiliser use, is the main pressure for most bird population declines, especially for invertebrate feeders. Responses to changes in forest cover, urbanisation and temperature are more species-specific. Specifically, forest cover is associated with a positive effect and growing urbanisation with a negative effect on population dynamics, while temperature change has an effect on the dynamics of a large number of bird populations, the magnitude and direction of which depend on species' thermal preferences. Our results not only confirm the pervasive and strong effects of anthropogenic pressures on common breeding birds, but quantify the relative strength of these effects stressing the urgent need for transformative changes in the way of inhabiting the world in European countries, if bird populations shall have a chance of recovering.
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- Stanislas Rigal
- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Montpellier 34095, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Montpellier 34095, France
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- Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds Sociedade, Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves (SPEA), Lisbon 700-031, Portugal
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Riga LV-1004, Latvia
- Latvian Ornithological Society, Riga LV-1050, Latvia
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- Romanian Ornithological Society/BirdLife Romania, Cluj-Napoca 030231, Romania
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona 25280, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
- Spanish National Research Council, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona 4-5 08019, Spain
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa 00-679, Poland
- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds, Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków (OTOP), Marki 05-270, Poland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa 00-679, Poland
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- Spanish Ornithological Society (Sociedad Española de Ornitología/BirdLife), Madrid 28053, Spain
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- Romanian Ornithological Society/BirdLife Romania, Cluj-Napoca 030231, Romania
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- Spanish Ornithological Society (Sociedad Española de Ornitología/BirdLife), Madrid 28053, Spain
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- Patrinat & UMR7204 Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), MNHN: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-CNRS-SU, Paris 75005, France
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- Sovon Dutch Center for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
- Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
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- The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Centre for Conservation Science, Sandy SG19 2DL, United Kingdom
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford IP24 2PU, United Kingdom
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona 4-5 08019, Spain
- European Bird Census Council, Nijmegen 6524, The Netherlands
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- Section of Science, Nord University, Levanger 8049, Norway
- BirdLife Norway, Trondheim 7012, Norway
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- Patrinat & UMR7204 Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), MNHN: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-CNRS-SU, Paris 75005, France
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- BirdWatch Ireland on behalf of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Kilcoole A63 RW83, Republic of Ireland
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- European Bird Census Council, Nijmegen 6524, The Netherlands
- Czech Society for Ornithology/BirdLife Czech Republic, Prague 150 00, Czech Republic
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- Društvo za opazovanje in proučevanje ptic Slovenije (DOPPS) BirdLife Slovenia, Ljubljana SI-1000, Slovenia
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- Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas 44248, Lithuania
- Lithuanian Ornithological Society (Lietuvos Ornitologų Draugija (LOD)), Vilnius LT-03208, Lithuania
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim 7485, Norway
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00100, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund 223 62, Sweden
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- Patrinat & UMR7204 Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), MNHN: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-CNRS-SU, Paris 75005, France
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- Danish Ornithological Society (DOF)/BirdLife Denmark, Copenhagen 1620, Denmark
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- Estonian Ornithological Society/Birdlife Estonia, Tartu 51005, Estonia
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- British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford IP24 2PU, United Kingdom
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Montpellier 34095, France
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- Andorran Research+Innovation, Sant Julià de Lòria AD500, Principality of Andorra
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- Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague 128 00, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc 779 00, Czech Republic
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach CH-6204, Switzerland
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- Romanian Ornithological Society/BirdLife Romania, Cluj-Napoca 030231, Romania
- Milvus Group Bird and Nature Protection Association, Tîrgu Mureş 540445, Romania
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- University of Nyíregyháza, Nyíregyháza 4400, Hungary
- Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület (MME))/BirdLife Hungary, Budapest 1121, Hungary
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten, Muenster D-48157, Germany
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- Sovon Dutch Center for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
- Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands
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- Czech Society for Ornithology/BirdLife Czech Republic, Prague 150 00, Czech Republic
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- Danish Ornithological Society (DOF)/BirdLife Denmark, Copenhagen 1620, Denmark
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- European Bird Census Council, Nijmegen 6524, The Netherlands
- Czech Society for Ornithology/BirdLife Czech Republic, Prague 150 00, Czech Republic
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Univ. de Montpellier, CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Montpellier 34095, France
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Matthews TJ, Wayman JP, Whittaker RJ, Cardoso P, Hume JP, Sayol F, Proios K, Martin TE, Baiser B, Borges PAV, Kubota Y, Dos Anjos L, Tobias JA, Soares FC, Si X, Ding P, Mendenhall CD, Sin YCK, Rheindt FE, Triantis KA, Guilhaumon F, Watson DM, Brotons L, Battisti C, Chu O, Rigal F. A global analysis of avian island diversity-area relationships in the Anthropocene. Ecol Lett 2023; 26:965-982. [PMID: 36988091 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14203] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
Abstract
Research on island species-area relationships (ISAR) has expanded to incorporate functional (IFDAR) and phylogenetic (IPDAR) diversity. However, relative to the ISAR, we know little about IFDARs and IPDARs, and lack synthetic global analyses of variation in form of these three categories of island diversity-area relationship (IDAR). Here, we undertake the first comparative evaluation of IDARs at the global scale using 51 avian archipelagic data sets representing true and habitat islands. Using null models, we explore how richness-corrected functional and phylogenetic diversity scale with island area. We also provide the largest global assessment of the impacts of species introductions and extinctions on the IDAR. Results show that increasing richness with area is the primary driver of the (non-richness corrected) IPDAR and IFDAR for many data sets. However, for several archipelagos, richness-corrected functional and phylogenetic diversity changes linearly with island area, suggesting that the dominant community assembly processes shift along the island area gradient. We also find that archipelagos with the steepest ISARs exhibit the biggest differences in slope between IDARs, indicating increased functional and phylogenetic redundancy on larger islands in these archipelagos. In several cases introduced species seem to have 're-calibrated' the IDARs such that they resemble the historic period prior to recent extinctions.
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- Thomas J Matthews
- GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group/CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute and Universidade dos Açores-Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal
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- GEES (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group/CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute and Universidade dos Açores-Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal
- Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe), Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
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- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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- Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- School of Natural Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
- Operation Wallacea, Spilsby, UK
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group/CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute and Universidade dos Açores-Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal
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- Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Animal and Plant Biology, Center for Biological Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Departamento de Biologia Animal & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Zhejiang Zhoushan Archipelago Observation and Research Station, Institute of Eco-Chongming, Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis & Protection, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- UMR ENTROPIE, IRD, Université de la Réunion, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, La Réunion, Saint-Denis, France
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- Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Albury, Australia
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- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- CTFC, Solsona, Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Torre Flavia LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Station, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Rome, Italy
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- cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group/CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute and Universidade dos Açores-Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal
- CNRS-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour - E2S UPPA, Institut Des Sciences Analytiques et de Physico Chimie pour L'environnement et les Matériaux UMR 5254, Pau, France
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Marjakangas E, Bosco L, Versluijs M, Xu Y, Santangeli A, Holopainen S, Mäkeläinen S, Herrando S, Keller V, Voříšek P, Brotons L, Johnston A, Princé K, Willis S, Aghababyan K, Ajder V, Balmer D, Bino T, Boyla KA, Chodkiewicz T, Moral JCD, Mazal VD, Ferrarini A, Godinho C, Gustin M, Knaus P, Kuzmenko T, Lindström Å, Maxhuni Q, Molina B, Nagy K, Radišić D, Rajkov S, Rajković DZ, Raudonikis L, Sjeničić J, Stoychev S, Szep T, Teufelbauer N, Ursul S, Turnhout CV, Velevski M, Vikstrøm T, Wilk T, Voltzit O, Øien IJ, Lehikoinen A, Mikhail Kalyakin7. Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities at a continental scale.. [DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1347347/v2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Species’ range shifts and local extinctions caused by climate change lead to community composition changes. At large spatial scales, ecological barriers, such as biome boundaries, coastlines, and elevation, can influence a community's ability to shift in response to climate change. Yet, ecological barriers are rarely considered in climate change studies, potentially hindering predictions of biodiversity shifts. We used data from two consecutive European breeding bird atlases to calculate the geographic distance and direction between communities in the 1980's and their compositional best match in the 2010’s and modeled their response to barriers. The ecological barriers affected both the distance and direction of bird community composition shifts, with coastlines and elevation having the strongest influence. Our results underscore the relevance of combining ecological barriers and community shift projections for identifying the forces hindering community adjustments under global change. Notably, due to (macro)ecological barriers, communities are not able to track their climatic niches, which may lead to drastic changes, and potential losses, in community compositions in the future.
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- European Bird Census Council/Czech Society for Ornithology, Czechia
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- CTFC, Solsona 25280, Spain; CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain; CSIC, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- CREEM, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- BirdLinks Armenia NGO, 87b Dimitrov, apt 14, Yerevan 0051 Armenia
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Republic of Moldova
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, St. "Vaso Pasha", Bld, 4/2, Apt. 3, Tirana 1004, Albania
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- KAB Ecology Co. Kocamansur Sk 115/8, Sisli, Istanbul 34381 Turkey
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- Museum & Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland; Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), Odrowaza 24, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Institute for Environment and Nature, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Croatia
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland
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- Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife Ukraine, P.O. Box 33, Kyiv, 01103, Ukraine
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- SEO/BirdLife. Calle Melquiades Biencinto, 34. 28053. Madrid (Spain)
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- MME BirdLife Hungary, H1121 Kolto u. 21 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
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- Center for Biodiversity Research (CBR), Maksima Gorkog 40, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Center for Biodiversity Research (CBR), Maksima Gorkog 40, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Society for research and protection of biodiversity, Brace Potkonjaka 16, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/BirdLife in Bulgaria, Sofia 1111, P.O. 50 Yavorov quarter, Bl. 71, Entr. 4, app. 1
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Republic of Moldova
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- Macedonian Ecological Society, Blvd. Boris Trajkovski 7 no 9A, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
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- DOF BirdLife Denmark, Vesterbrogade 140, 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark
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- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), Odrowaza 24, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Zoological museum of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Triviño M, Morán-Ordoñez A, Eyvindson K, Blattert C, Burgas D, Repo A, Pohjanmies T, Brotons L, Snäll T, Mönkkönen M. Future supply of boreal forest ecosystem services is driven by management rather than by climate change. Glob Chang Biol 2023; 29:1484-1500. [PMID: 36534408 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16566] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Forests provide a wide variety of ecosystem services (ES) to society. The boreal biome is experiencing the highest rates of warming on the planet and increasing demand for forest products. To foresee how to maximize the adaptation of boreal forests to future warmer conditions and growing demands of forest products, we need a better understanding of the relative importance of forest management and climate change on the supply of ecosystem services. Here, using Finland as a boreal forest case study, we assessed the potential supply of a wide range of ES (timber, bilberry, cowberry, mushrooms, carbon storage, scenic beauty, species habitat availability and deadwood) given seven management regimes and four climate change scenarios. We used the forest simulator SIMO to project forest dynamics for 100 years into the future (2016-2116) and estimate the potential supply of each service using published models. Then, we tested the relative importance of management and climate change as drivers of the future supply of these services using generalized linear mixed models. Our results show that the effects of management on the future supply of these ES were, on average, 11 times higher than the effects of climate change across all services, but greatly differed among them (from 0.53 to 24 times higher for timber and cowberry, respectively). Notably, the importance of these drivers substantially differed among biogeographical zones within the boreal biome. The effects of climate change were 1.6 times higher in northern Finland than in southern Finland, whereas the effects of management were the opposite-they were three times higher in the south compared to the north. We conclude that new guidelines for adapting forests to global change should account for regional differences and the variation in the effects of climate change and management on different forest ES.
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- María Triviño
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia CTCF, Solsona, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Forest Resources and Management, Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
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- Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia CTCF, Solsona, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- SLU Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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Canessa S, Salgado‐Rojas J, Villero D, Brotons L, Amat F, Guinart D, Solórzano S, López L, Comas X, Hermoso V. Designing an optimal large‐scale reintroduction plan for a critically endangered species. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14345] [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: 12/23/2022]
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- Stefano Canessa
- Division of Conservation Biology Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern Bern Switzerland
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- Department of Statistics and Operations Research Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona Lleida Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona Lleida Spain
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés Barcelona Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallés Barcelona Spain
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- Area d’Herpetologia, BiBIO, Museu de Granollers ‐ Ciencies Naturals Catalonia Spain
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- Servei de Gestió de Parcs Naturals. Diputació de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Servei de Gestió de Parcs Naturals. Diputació de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Servei de Gestió de Parcs Naturals. Diputació de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Servei de Gestió de Parcs Naturals. Diputació de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona Lleida Spain
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Mazziotta A, Lundström J, Forsell N, Moor H, Eggers J, Subramanian N, Aquilué N, Morán‐Ordóñez A, Brotons L, Snäll T. More future synergies and less trade-offs between forest ecosystem services with natural climate solutions instead of bioeconomy solutions. Glob Chang Biol 2022; 28:6333-6348. [PMID: 35949042 PMCID: PMC9805065 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16364] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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To reach the Paris Agreement, societies need to increase the global terrestrial carbon sink. There are many climate change mitigation solutions (CCMS) for forests, including increasing bioenergy, bioeconomy, and protection. Bioenergy and bioeconomy solutions use climate-smart, intensive management to generate high quantities of bioenergy and bioproducts. Protection of (semi-)natural forests is a major component of "natural climate solution" (NCS) since forests store carbon in standing biomass and soil. Furthermore, protected forests provide more habitat for biodiversity and non-wood ecosystem services (ES). We investigated the impacts of different CCMS and climate scenarios, jointly or in isolation, on future wood ES, non-wood ES, and regulating ES for a major wood provider for the international market. Specifically, we projected future ES given by three CCMS scenarios for Sweden 2020-2100. In the long term, fulfilling the increasing wood demand through bioenergy and bioeconomy solutions will decrease ES multifunctionality, but the increased stand age and wood stocks induced by rising greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations will partially offset these negative effects. Adopting bioenergy and bioeconomy solutions will have a greater negative impact on ES supply than adopting NCS. Bioenergy or bioeconomy solutions, as well as increasing GHG emissions, will reduce synergies and increase trade-offs in ES. NCS, by contrast, increases the supply of multiple ES in synergy, even transforming current ES trade-offs into future synergies. Moreover, NCS can be considered an adaptation measure to offset negative climate change effects on the future supplies of non-wood ES. In boreal countries around the world, forestry strategies that integrate NCS more deeply are crucial to ensure a synergistic supply of multiple ES.
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- Adriano Mazziotta
- Swedish Species Information CentreSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)UppsalaSweden
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)HelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Forest Resource ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)UmeåSweden
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)LaxenburgAustria
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- Swedish Species Information CentreSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)UppsalaSweden
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSLBirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Department of Forest Resource ManagementSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)UmeåSweden
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- Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSouthern Swedish Forest Research CentreAlnarpSweden
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- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)SolsonaSpain
- Centre d' Étude de la Forêt (CEF)Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)MontréalQuebecCanada
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- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)SolsonaSpain
- Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF)Cerdanyola del VallesSpain
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- Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)SolsonaSpain
- Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF)Cerdanyola del VallesSpain
- CSICCerdanyola del VallesSpain
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- Swedish Species Information CentreSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)UppsalaSweden
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Manzano R, Bota G, Brotons L, Soto-Largo E, Pérez-Granados C. Low-cost open-source recorders and ready-to-use machine learning approaches provide effective monitoring of threatened species. ECOL INFORM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Marjakangas E, Bosco L, Versluijs M, Xu Y, Santangeli A, Holopainen S, Mäkeläinen S, Herrando S, Keller V, Voříšek P, Brotons L, Johnston A, Princé K, Willis S, Aghababyan K, Ajder V, Balmer D, Bino T, Boyla KA, Chodkiewicz T, Moral JCD, Mazal VD, Ferrarini A, Godinho C, Gustin M, Knaus P, Kuzmenko T, Lindström Å, Maxhuni Q, Molina B, Nagy K, Radišić D, Rajkov S, Rajković DZ, Raudonikis L, Sjeničić J, Stoychev S, Szep T, Teufelbauer N, Ursul S, Turnhout CV, Velevski M, Vikstrøm T, Wilk T, Voltzit O, Øien IJ, Lehikoinen A, Mikhail Kalyakin7. Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities.. [DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1347347/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Species’ range shifts and local extinctions caused by global change lead to community composition changes. At large spatial scales, ecological barriers, such as biome boundaries, coastlines, elevation, and temperature gradients, can influence a community's ability to shift. Yet, ecological barriers are rarely considered in global change studies, potentially hindering predictions of biodiversity shifts. We used data from two consecutive European breeding bird atlases to calculate the geographic distance and direction between communities in the 1980's and their nearest compositional equivalent in the 2010’s and modelled their response to barriers. The ecological barriers affected both the distance and direction of bird community composition shifts, with coasts and elevation having the strongest influence. Combining ecological barriers and community shift projections can identify ecological corridors that facilitate shifts of species and communities under global change.
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- European Bird Census Council/Czech Society for Ornithology, Czechia
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- CTFC, Solsona 25280, Spain; CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain; CSIC, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- CREEM, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- BirdLinks Armenia NGO, 87b Dimitrov, apt 14, Yerevan 0051 Armenia
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Republic of Moldova
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
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- Albanian Ornithological Society, St. "Vaso Pasha", Bld, 4/2, Apt. 3, Tirana 1004, Albania
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- KAB Ecology Co. Kocamansur Sk 115/8, Sisli, Istanbul 34381 Turkey
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- Museum & Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland; Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), Odrowaza 24, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Institute for Environment and Nature, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Croatia
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland
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- Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds, BirdLife Ukraine, P.O. Box 33, Kyiv, 01103, Ukraine
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- SEO/BirdLife. Calle Melquiades Biencinto, 34. 28053. Madrid (Spain)
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- MME BirdLife Hungary, H1121 Kolto u. 21 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
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- Center for Biodiversity Research (CBR), Maksima Gorkog 40, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Center for Biodiversity Research (CBR), Maksima Gorkog 40, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Society for research and protection of biodiversity, Brace Potkonjaka 16, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/BirdLife in Bulgaria, Sofia 1111, P.O. 50 Yavorov quarter, Bl. 71, Entr. 4, app. 1
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- Society for Birds and Nature Protection, Republic of Moldova
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- Macedonian Ecological Society, Blvd. Boris Trajkovski 7 no 9A, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
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- DOF BirdLife Denmark, Vesterbrogade 140, 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark
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- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), Odrowaza 24, 05-270 Marki, Poland
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- Zoological museum of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Canelles Q, Aquilué N, Brotons L. Anticipating B. sempervirens viability in front of C. perspectalis outbreaks, fire, and drought disturbances. Sci Total Environ 2022; 810:151331. [PMID: 34757099 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151331] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Forest ecosystems face an increasing pressure of insect pest outbreaks due to changes in land-use, new climatic conditions, and the arrival of new invasive alien species. Also, insect outbreaks may interact with other shifting disturbances such as fire and drought, that eventually may boost the impacts of pests on forest ecosystems. In the case of alien species, the lack of long-term data and their rapid spread challenges their study and require appropriate new management strategies to cope with them. Here we studied the case of boxwoods (Buxus sempervirens) in Southern Pyrenees under the pressure of the invasive insect box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis), fire, and drought events. We projected the future of boxwoods through the development of a spatially explicit simulation model and its implementation under different climatic and ecological scenarios. The results showed an initial boxwood decline due to C. perspectalis fast spread but a later stabilization of the population resulting from a fluctuating dynamic. Climate change is expected to reduce overall insect habitat suitability and future negative impacts on boxwoods. Furthermore, boxwood drought-induced mortality and burning will increase under new climatic conditions. Interaction between drought and insect pest conditioning regeneration after defoliation were negligible in our analyses. Boxwood decline was anticipated to be more notorious in locations under 800 m a.s.l. and in habitats where the species dominates the forest understory, while boxwood in open shrub forest types typical of higher elevations will be less endangered. Our results provide valuable information for boxwood and C. perspectalis management in a context of joint disturbance impacts and contribute to a better identification of the role of forest disturbances and their interactions.
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- Quim Canelles
- InForest Jru (CREAF-CTFC), Crta. de Sant Llorenç de Morunys, Km. 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain.
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- InForest Jru (CREAF-CTFC), Crta. de Sant Llorenç de Morunys, Km. 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain; Centre for Forest Research (CFR), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
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- InForest Jru (CREAF-CTFC), Crta. de Sant Llorenç de Morunys, Km. 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain; CREAF, Campus de Bellaterra (UAB), Edifici C, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; CSIC, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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Nimmo DG, Andersen AN, Archibald S, Boer MM, Brotons L, Parr CL, Tingley MW. Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13482] [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: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Dale G. Nimmo
- Gulbali Institute, School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences Charles Sturt University Albury New South Wales Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods Charles Darwin University Ellengown Drive Brinkin Northern Territory Australia
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- Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Richmond New South Wales Australia
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- CTFC Solsona Spain
- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
- CSIC Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
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- School of Environmental Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool UK
- Department of Zoology & Entomology University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Wits South Africa
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California – Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA
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Soultan A, Pavón-Jordán D, Bradter U, Sandercock BK, Hochachka WM, Johnston A, Brommer J, Gaget E, Keller V, Knaus P, Aghababyan K, Maxhuni Q, Vintchevski A, Nagy K, Raudonikis L, Balmer D, Noble D, Leitão D, Øien IJ, Shimmings P, Sultanov E, Caffrey B, Boyla K, Radišić D, Lindström Å, Velevski M, Pladevall C, Brotons L, Karel Š, Rajković DZ, Chodkiewicz T, Wilk T, Szép T, van Turnhout C, Foppen R, Burfield I, Vikstrøm T, Mazal VD, Eaton M, Vorisek P, Lehikoinen A, Herrando S, Kuzmenko T, Bauer HG, Kalyakin MV, Voltzit OV, Sjeničić J, Pärt T. The future distribution of wetland birds breeding in Europe validated against observed changes in distribution. Environ Res Lett 2022; 17:024025. [DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4ebe] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Wetland bird species have been declining in population size worldwide as climate warming and land-use change affect their suitable habitats. We used species distribution models (SDMs) to predict changes in range dynamics for 64 non-passerine wetland birds breeding in Europe, including range size, position of centroid, and margins. We fitted the SDMs with data collected for the first European Breeding Bird Atlas and climate and land-use data to predict distributional changes over a century (the 1970s–2070s). The predicted annual changes were then compared to observed annual changes in range size and range centroid over a time period of 30 years using data from the second European Breeding Bird Atlas. Our models successfully predicted ca. 75% of the 64 bird species to contract their breeding range in the future, while the remaining species (mostly southerly breeding species) were predicted to expand their breeding ranges northward. The northern margins of southerly species and southern margins of northerly species, both, predicted to shift northward. Predicted changes in range size and shifts in range centroids were broadly positively associated with the observed changes, although some species deviated markedly from the predictions. The predicted average shift in core distributions was ca. 5 km yr−1 towards the north (5% northeast, 45% north, and 40% northwest), compared to a slower observed average shift of ca. 3.9 km yr−1. Predicted changes in range centroids were generally larger than observed changes, which suggests that bird distribution changes may lag behind environmental changes leading to ‘climate debt’. We suggest that predictions of SDMs should be viewed as qualitative rather than quantitative outcomes, indicating that care should be taken concerning single species. Still, our results highlight the urgent need for management actions such as wetland creation and restoration to improve wetland birds’ resilience to the expected environmental changes in the future.
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Morrison CA, Auniņš A, Benkő Z, Brotons L, Chodkiewicz T, Chylarecki P, Escandell V, Eskildsen DP, Gamero A, Herrando S, Jiguet F, Kålås JA, Kamp J, Klvaňová A, Kmecl P, Lehikoinen A, Lindström Å, Moshøj C, Noble DG, Øien IJ, Paquet JY, Reif J, Sattler T, Seaman BS, Teufelbauer N, Trautmann S, van Turnhout CAM, Vořišek P, Butler SJ. Bird population declines and species turnover are changing the acoustic properties of spring soundscapes. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6217. [PMID: 34728617 PMCID: PMC8564540 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26488-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Natural sounds, and bird song in particular, play a key role in building and maintaining our connection with nature, but widespread declines in bird populations mean that the acoustic properties of natural soundscapes may be changing. Using data-driven reconstructions of soundscapes in lieu of historical recordings, here we quantify changes in soundscape characteristics at more than 200,000 sites across North America and Europe. We integrate citizen science bird monitoring data with recordings of individual species to reveal a pervasive loss of acoustic diversity and intensity of soundscapes across both continents over the past 25 years, driven by changes in species richness and abundance. These results suggest that one of the fundamental pathways through which humans engage with nature is in chronic decline, with potentially widespread implications for human health and well-being.
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- C A Morrison
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
- Latvian Ornithological Society, Skolas iela 3, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
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- Romanian Ornithological Society/BirdLife Romania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, 25280, Spain
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679, Warszawa, Poland
- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), ul. Odrowaza 24, 05-270, Marki, Poland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679, Warszawa, Poland
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Madrid, Spain
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- Dansk Ornitologisk Forening, BirdLife Denmark, Vesterbrogade 138-140, DK-1620, København V, Denmark
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- European Bird Census Council-Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 15000, Prague 5, Czechia
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
- European Bird Census Council-Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, 08019, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, UMR7204 MNHN-CNRS-SU, Paris, France
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685, Torgarden, NO-7485, Trondheim, Norway
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- University of Göttingen, Department of Conservation Science, Bürgerstr. 50, 37073, Göttingen, Germany
- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA), An den Speichern 2, 48157, Münster, Germany
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- European Bird Census Council-Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 15000, Prague 5, Czechia
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- DOPPS - BirdLife Slovenia, Tržaška cesta 2, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 17, Helsinki, Finland
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- Biodiversity Unit, Department of Biology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S-223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Dansk Ornitologisk Forening, BirdLife Denmark, Vesterbrogade 138-140, DK-1620, København V, Denmark
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- British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK
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- NOF-BirdLife Norway, Sandgata 30 B, NO-7012, Trondheim, Norway
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- Natagora, Département Études, Traverse des Muses 1, B-5000, Namur, Belgium
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- Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czechia
- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 17 Listopadu 50, 771 43, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204, Sempach, Switzerland
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- BirdLife Österreich, Museumsplatz 1/10/8, A-1070, Wien, Austria
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- BirdLife Österreich, Museumsplatz 1/10/8, A-1070, Wien, Austria
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA), An den Speichern 2, 48157, Münster, Germany
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, P.O. Box 6521, 6503 GA, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- European Bird Census Council-Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 15000, Prague 5, Czechia
- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 17 Listopadu 50, 771 43, Olomouc, Czechia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
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Morán-Ordóñez A, Ramsauer J, Coll L, Brotons L, Ameztegui A. Ecosystem services provision by Mediterranean forests will be compromised above 2℃ warming. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:4210-4222. [PMID: 34231282 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 02/16/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Forests provide a wide range of provisioning, regulating and cultural services of great value to societies across the Mediterranean basin. In this study, we reviewed the scientific literature of the last 30 years to quantify the magnitude of projected changes in ecosystem services provision by Mediterranean forests under IPCC climate change scenarios. We classified the scenarios according to the temperature threshold of 2℃ set by the Paris Agreement (below or above). The review of 78 studies shows that climate change will lead to a general reduction in the provision of regulating services (e.g. carbon storage, regulation of freshwater quantity and quality) and a general increase in the number of fires, burnt areas and generally, an increase in climate-related forest hazards (median + 62% by 2100). Studies using scenarios above the 2℃ threshold projected significantly more negative changes in regulating services than studies using scenarios below this threshold. Main projected trend changes on material services (e.g. wood products), were less clear and depended on (i) whether or not the studies considered the interaction between the rise in temperatures and other drivers (e.g. forest management, CO2 fertilization) and (ii) differences in productivity responses across the tree species evaluated. Overall, the reviewed studies projected significant reductions in range extent and habitat suitability for the most drought-sensitive forest species (e.g. -88% Fagus sylvatica), while the amount of habitat available for more drought-tolerant species will remain stable or increase; however, the magnitude of projected change for these more xeric species was limited when high-end extreme climatic scenarios were considered (above Paris Agreement). Our review highlights the benefits that climate change mitigation (to keep global mean temperature increase <2℃) can bring in terms of service provision and conservation of Mediterranean forests.
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- Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez
- Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Valles, Catalonia, Spain
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- Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
- European Wilderness Society, Tamsweg, Austria
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Engineering (EAGROF), University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
- Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Valles, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Engineering (EAGROF), University of Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
- Joint Research Unit CTFC-AGROTECNIO-CERCA, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
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Hermoso V, Regos A, Morán-Ordóñez A, Duane A, Brotons L. Tree planting: A double-edged sword to fight climate change in an era of megafires. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:3001-3003. [PMID: 33797836 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Climate regulation strategies based on forest restoration could pose an increase in fire risk, especially under drier and warmer conditions over large regions of Europe, impacting climate, the environment and human health. Climate-smarter options, such as wetlands restoration or recovery of grassland, that provide similar benefits for climate but also develop less flammable landscape is a more suitable option for these regions in Europe and elsewhere facing similar challenges.
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- Virgilio Hermoso
- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona, Spain
- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, Australia
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Vairão, Portugal
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona, Spain
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- Centre de Ciència i Tecnología Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona, Spain
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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Canelles Q, Bassols E, Vayreda J, Brotons L. Predicting the potential distribution and forest impact of the invasive species Cydalima perspectalis in Europe. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:5713-5727. [PMID: 34026042 PMCID: PMC8131781 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Invasive species have considerably increased in recent decades due to direct and indirect effects of ever-increasing international trade rates and new climate conditions derived from global change. We need to better understand how the dynamics of early species invasions develop and how these result in impacts on the invaded ecosystems. Here we studied the distribution and severe defoliation processes of the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis W.), a tree defoliator insect native to Asia and invasive in Europe since 2007, through the combination of species distribution models based on climate and landscape composition information. The results showed that the combination of data from the native and the invaded areas was the most effective methodology for the appropriate invasive species modeling. The species was not influenced by overall landscape factors, but only by the presence of its host plant, dispersal capacity, and climate suitability. Such climate suitability was described by low precipitation seasonality and minimum annual temperatures around 0°C, defining a continentality effect throughout the territory. We emphasize the need of studying distribution and severe defoliation processes separately because we identified that climate suitability was slightly involved in limiting species spread processes but strongly constrained ecosystem impact in terms of defoliation before the species reaches equilibrium with the new environment. New studies on habitat recovery after disturbance, ecological consequences of such impact, and community dynamics in a context of climate change are required for a better understanding of this invasive species.
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- Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la GarrotxaOlotSpain
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- InForestJru (CREAF‐CTFC)SolsonaSpain
- CREAFCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
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- InForestJru (CREAF‐CTFC)SolsonaSpain
- CREAFCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
- CSICCerdanyola del VallèsSpain
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Biodiversity is threatened by the growth of urban areas. However, it is still poorly understood how animals can cope with and adapt to these rapid and dramatic transformations of natural environments. The COVID-19 pandemic provides us with a unique opportunity to unveil the mechanisms involved in this process. Lockdown measures imposed in most countries are causing an unprecedented reduction of human activities, giving us an experimental setting to assess the effects of our lifestyle on biodiversity. We studied the birds' response to the population lockdown by using more than 126 000 bird records collected by a citizen science project in northeastern Spain. We compared the occurrence and detectability of birds during the spring 2020 lockdown with baseline data from previous years in the same urban areas and dates. We found that birds did not increase their probability of occurrence in urban areas during the lockdown, refuting the hypothesis that nature has recovered its space in human-emptied urban areas. However, we found an increase in bird detectability, especially during early morning, suggesting a rapid change in the birds' daily routines in response to quieter and less crowded cities. Therefore, urban birds show high behavioural plasticity to rapidly adjust to novel environmental conditions, such as those imposed by the COVID-19.
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- Oscar Gordo
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, ES-08019 Barcelona, Spain
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- InForest Joint Research Unit (CTFC-CREAF), ES-25280 Solsona, Spain
- Centre of Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, ES-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, ES-08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, ES-08019 Barcelona, Spain
- Centre of Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, ES-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Driscoll DA, Armenteras D, Bennett AF, Brotons L, Clarke MF, Doherty TS, Haslem A, Kelly LT, Sato CF, Sitters H, Aquilué N, Bell K, Chadid M, Duane A, Meza-Elizalde MC, Giljohann KM, González TM, Jambhekar R, Lazzari J, Morán-Ordóñez A, Wevill T. How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2021; 96:976-998. [PMID: 33561321 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter 'fragmentation') and altered fire regimes are important threats to biodiversity, but their interactions have not been systematically evaluated across the globe. In this comprehensive synthesis, including 162 papers which provided 274 cases, we offer a framework for understanding how fire interacts with fragmentation. Fire and fragmentation interact in three main ways: (i) fire influences fragmentation (59% of 274 cases), where fire either destroys and fragments habitat or creates and connects habitat; (ii) fragmentation influences fire (25% of cases) where, after habitat is reduced in area and fragmented, fire in the landscape is subsequently altered because people suppress or ignite fires, or there is increased edge flammability or increased obstruction to fire spread; and (iii) where the two do not influence each other, but fire interacts with fragmentation to affect responses like species richness, abundance and extinction risk (16% of cases). Where fire and fragmentation do influence each other, feedback loops are possible that can lead to ecosystem conversion (e.g. forest to grassland). This is a well-documented threat in the tropics but with potential also to be important elsewhere. Fire interacts with fragmentation through scale-specific mechanisms: fire creates edges and drives edge effects; fire alters patch quality; and fire alters landscape-scale connectivity. We found only 12 cases in which studies reported the four essential strata for testing a full interaction, which were fragmented and unfragmented landscapes that both span contrasting fire histories, such as recently burnt and long unburnt vegetation. Simulation and empirical studies show that fire and fragmentation can interact synergistically, multiplicatively, antagonistically or additively. These cases highlight a key reason why understanding interactions is so important: when fire and fragmentation act together they can cause local extinctions, even when their separate effects are neutral. Whether fire-fragmentation interactions benefit or disadvantage species is often determined by the species' preferred successional stage. Adding fire to landscapes generally benefits early-successional plant and animal species, whereas it is detrimental to late-successional species. However, when fire interacts with fragmentation, the direction of effect of fire on a species could be reversed from the effect expected by successional preferences. Adding fire to fragmented landscapes can be detrimental for species that would normally co-exist with fire, because species may no longer be able to disperse to their preferred successional stage. Further, animals may be attracted to particular successional stages leading to unexpected responses to fragmentation, such as higher abundance in more isolated unburnt patches. Growing human populations and increasing resource consumption suggest that fragmentation trends will worsen over coming years. Combined with increasing alteration of fire regimes due to climate change and human-caused ignitions, interactions of fire with fragmentation are likely to become more common. Our new framework paves the way for developing a better understanding of how fire interacts with fragmentation, and for conserving biodiversity in the face of these emerging challenges.
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- Don A Driscoll
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas ECOLMOD, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Edificio 421, Oficina 223, Cra. 30 # 45-03, Bogotá, 111321, Colombia
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- Research Centre for Future Landscapes, Department Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain.,CREAF, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain.,CSIC, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain
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- Research Centre for Future Landscapes, Department Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- Research Centre for Future Landscapes, Department Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, 4 Water Street, Creswick, VIC, 3363, Australia
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas ECOLMOD, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Edificio 421, Oficina 223, Cra. 30 # 45-03, Bogotá, 111321, Colombia
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas ECOLMOD, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Edificio 421, Oficina 223, Cra. 30 # 45-03, Bogotá, 111321, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas ECOLMOD, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Edificio 421, Oficina 223, Cra. 30 # 45-03, Bogotá, 111321, Colombia
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- Azim Premji University, PES Campus, Pixel Park, B Block, Hosur Road, beside NICE Road, Electronic City, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560100, India
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Building 141, Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, Solsona, 25280, Spain
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
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Campos JC, Bernhardt J, Aquilué N, Brotons L, Domínguez J, Lomba Â, Marcos B, Martínez-Freiría F, Moreira F, Pais S, Honrado JP, Regos A. Using fire to enhance rewilding when agricultural policies fail. Sci Total Environ 2021; 755:142897. [PMID: 33348480 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Rewilding has been proposed as an opportunity for biodiversity conservation in abandoned landscapes. However, rewilding is challenged by the increasing fire risk associated with more flammable landscapes, and the loss of open-habitat specialist species. Contrastingly, supporting High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf) has been also highlighted as a valuable option, but the effective implementation of agricultural policies often fails leading to uncertain scenarios wherein the effects of wildfire management remain largely unexplored. Herein, we simulated fire-landscape dynamics to evaluate how fire suppression scenarios affect fire regime and biodiversity (102 species of vertebrates) under rewilding and HNVf policies in the future (2050), in a transnational biosphere reserve (Gerês-Xurés Mountains, Portugal-Spain). Rewilding and HNVf scenarios were modulated by three different levels of fire suppression effectiveness. Then, we quantified scenario effects on fire regime (burned and suppressed areas) and biodiversity (habitat suitability change for 2050). Simulations confirm HNVf as a long-term opportunity for fire suppression (up to 30,000 ha of additional suppressed areas between 2031 and 2050 in comparison to rewilding scenario) and for conservation (benefiting around 60% of species). Rewilding benefits some species (20%), including critically endangered, vulnerable and endemic taxa, while several species (33%) also profit from open habitats created by fire. Although HNVf remains the best scenario, rewilding reinforced by low fire suppression management may provide a nature-based solution when societal support through agricultural policies fails.
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- João C Campos
- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
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- Universität Leipzig, Ritterstraße 30, 36 04109 Leipzig, Germany
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- Centre d'Étude de la Forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada; InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain.
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- InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km. 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain; CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; CSIC, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, S/N, Edifício FC4, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, S/N, Edifício FC4, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; proMetheus, Research Unit in Materials, Energy and Environment for Sustainability, Instituto Politécnico of Viana do Castelo, 4990-706 Ponte de Lima, Portugal
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, S/N, Edifício FC4, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
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- InBIO/CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, n° 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Lehikoinen A, Lindström Å, Santangeli A, Sirkiä PM, Brotons L, Devictor V, Elts J, Foppen RPB, Heldbjerg H, Herrando S, Herremans M, Hudson MAR, Jiguet F, Johnston A, Lorrilliere R, Marjakangas EL, Michel NL, Moshøj CM, Nellis R, Paquet JY, Smith AC, Szép T, van Turnhout C. Wintering bird communities are tracking climate change faster than breeding communities. J Anim Ecol 2021; 90:1085-1095. [PMID: 33496011 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Global climate change is driving species' distributions towards the poles and mountain tops during both non-breeding and breeding seasons, leading to changes in the composition of natural communities. However, the degree of season differences in climate-driven community shifts has not been thoroughly investigated at large spatial scales. We compared the rates of change in the community composition during both winter (non-breeding season) and summer (breeding) and their relation to temperature changes. Based on continental-scale data from Europe and North America, we examined changes in bird community composition using the community temperature index (CTI) approach and compared the changes with observed regional temperature changes during 1980-2016. CTI increased faster in winter than in summer. This seasonal discrepancy is probably because individuals are less site-faithful in winter, and can more readily shift their wintering sites in response to weather in comparison to the breeding season. Regional long-term changes in community composition were positively associated with regional temperature changes during both seasons, but the pattern was only significant during summer due to high annual variability in winter communities. Annual changes in community composition were positively associated with the annual temperature changes during both seasons. Our results were broadly consistent across continents, suggesting some climate-driven restructuring in both European and North American avian communities. Because community composition has changed much faster during the winter than during the breeding season, it is important to increase our knowledge about climate-driven impacts during the less-studied non-breeding season.
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- Aleksi Lehikoinen
- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, Spain.,CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Estonian Ornithological Society, Tartu, Estonia
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Department of Animal Ecology & Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,European Bird Census Council, GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roende, Denmark.,DOF-BirdLife Denmark, Copenhagen V, Denmark
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- UMR7204 Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR 7204), MNHN CNRS Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.,Conservation Science Group, Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- UMR7204 Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR 7204), MNHN CNRS Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.,Lab of Ecologie, Systematique & Evolution, UMR CNRS 8079, University Paris-Sud, Paris, France
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- Birdlife Estonia/Estonian Ornithological Society, Tartu, Estonia
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- Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- University of Nyíregyháza, Nyíregyháza, Hungary.,MME/BirdLife Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands.,Department of Animal Ecology & Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Kelly LT, Giljohann KM, Duane A, Aquilué N, Archibald S, Batllori E, Bennett AF, Buckland ST, Canelles Q, Clarke MF, Fortin MJ, Hermoso V, Herrando S, Keane RE, Lake FK, McCarthy MA, Morán-Ordóñez A, Parr CL, Pausas JG, Penman TD, Regos A, Rumpff L, Santos JL, Smith AL, Syphard AD, Tingley MW, Brotons L. Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Science 2021; 370:370/6519/eabb0355. [PMID: 33214246 DOI: 10.1126/science.abb0355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Fire has been a source of global biodiversity for millions of years. However, interactions with anthropogenic drivers such as climate change, land use, and invasive species are changing the nature of fire activity and its impacts. We review how such changes are threatening species with extinction and transforming terrestrial ecosystems. Conservation of Earth's biological diversity will be achieved only by recognizing and responding to the critical role of fire. In the Anthropocene, this requires that conservation planning explicitly includes the combined effects of human activities and fire regimes. Improved forecasts for biodiversity must also integrate the connections among people, fire, and ecosystems. Such integration provides an opportunity for new actions that could revolutionize how society sustains biodiversity in a time of changing fire activity.
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- Luke T Kelly
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain.,Centre d'Étude de la Forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Natural Resources and the Environment, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa
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- CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous, University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, Centre for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LZ, UK
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, Centre for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA 94710, USA
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Centre for African Ecology, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Department of Earth, Ocean & Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), 46113 Montcada, Valencia, Spain
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Fisica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,CIBIO/InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, ECOCHANGE Group, Vairão, Portugal
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland, Gatton 4343, Australia.,Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Vertus Wildfire, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA.,San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.,Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain.,CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous, University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.,Spanish Research Council (CSIC), 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Carabassa V, Montero P, Crespo M, Padró JC, Pons X, Balagué J, Brotons L, Alcañiz JM. Unmanned aerial system protocol for quarry restoration and mineral extraction monitoring. J Environ Manage 2020; 270:110717. [PMID: 32721284 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110717] [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: 01/30/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Mining is an important activity of the primary sector with strong economic and environmental impacts. All over the world, governments have made efforts to regulate mine restoration by monitoring and assessing the evolution of mined sites. Our work aims to synthesize various remote sensing applications into a single workflow in order to obtain cartographic products using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), not only for mine restoration management, but also as a way of monitoring mining activity as a whole. The workflow performs image processing and terrain analysis calculations, which conduct a supervised classification of the land cover. The resulting mapping products include orthoimagery, Digital Surface Models (DSM), land cover maps, volume variation calculations, dust deposition, detection of erosion problems, and drainage network evaluation maps. The data obtained from red-green-blue (RGB) sensors has a spatial resolution of 4-10 cm, providing information that allows the characterization of land covers with an overall accuracy of 91%. In comparison, if using multispectral sensors with the same flight conditions than RGB, image spatial resolution diminishes and land cover characterization accuracy drops to 81%. The resulting digital maps can be fully integrated into Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allowing the quantification of environmental features and spatial changes. Our study provides the basis for creating a large-scale, replicable and ready-to-use workflow suited for monitoring the exploitation of minerals and mine restoration using RGB imagery obtained through drones.
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- Vicenç Carabassa
- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain.
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain; Grumets Research Group, Dep. Geografia, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain; Grumets Research Group, Dep. Geografia, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grumets Research Group, Dep. Geografia, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grumets Research Group, Dep. Geografia, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Unitat Mixta InForest (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, 25280, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain; Unitat Mixta InForest (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, 25280, Spain; CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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Otero I, Farrell KN, Pueyo S, Kallis G, Kehoe L, Haberl H, Plutzar C, Hobson P, García‐Márquez J, Rodríguez‐Labajos B, Martin J, Erb K, Schindler S, Nielsen J, Skorin T, Settele J, Essl F, Gómez‐Baggethun E, Brotons L, Rabitsch W, Schneider F, Pe'er G. Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth. Conserv Lett 2020; 13:e12713. [PMID: 32999687 PMCID: PMC7507775 DOI: 10.1111/conl.12713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence-synthesized in this paper-shows that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a review of international biodiversity and sustainability policies shows that the majority advocate economic growth. Since improvements in resource use efficiency have so far not allowed for absolute global reductions in resource use and pollution, we question the support for economic growth in these policies, where inadequate attention is paid to the question of how growth can be decoupled from biodiversity loss. Drawing on the literature about alternatives to economic growth, we explore this contradiction and suggest ways forward to halt global biodiversity decline. These include policy proposals to move beyond the growth paradigm while enhancing overall prosperity, which can be implemented by combining top-down and bottom-up governance across scales. Finally, we call the attention of researchers and policy makers to two immediate steps: acknowledge the conflict between economic growth and biodiversity conservation in future policies; and explore socioeconomic trajectories beyond economic growth in the next generation of biodiversity scenarios.
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Aquilué N, Filotas É, Craven D, Fortin MJ, Brotons L, Messier C. Evaluating forest resilience to global threats using functional response traits and network properties. Ecol Appl 2020; 30:e02095. [PMID: 32080941 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Ecosystem functions provided by forests are threatened by direct and indirect effects of global change drivers such as climate warming land-use change, biological invasions, and shifting natural disturbance regimes. To develop resilience-based forest management, new tools and methods are needed to quantitatively estimate forest resilience to management and future natural disturbances. We propose a multidimensional evaluation of ecological resilience based on species functional response traits (e.g., functional response diversity and functional redundancy) and network properties of forested patches (e.g., connectivity, modularity, and centrality). Using a fragmented rural landscape in temperate south-eastern Canada as a reference landscape, we apply our multidimensional approach to evaluate two alternative management strategies at three levels of intensity: (1) functional enrichment of current forest patches and (2) multi-species plantations in previously non-forested patches. Within each management strategy, planted species are selected to maximize functional diversity, drought tolerance, or pest resistance. We further compare how ecological resilience under these alternative management strategies responds to three simulated disturbances: drought, pest outbreak, and timber harvesting. We found that both management strategies enhance resilience at the landscape scale by increasing functional response diversity and connectivity. Specifically, when the less functionally diverse patches are prioritized for management, functional enrichment is more effective than the establishment of new multi-species plantations in increasing resilience. In addition, randomly allocated multi-species plantations increased connectivity more than those allocated in riparian areas. Our results show that across various management strategies, planting species to enhance biodiversity led to the highest increase in functional response diversity while planting pest-resistant species led to the highest increase in landscape connectivity. Planting biodiversity-enhancing species (i.e., species that maximize functional diversity) mitigated drought effects equally well as planting with drought-tolerant species. Our multidimensional approach facilitates the characterization at the landscape scale of forest resilience to disturbances using both functional diversity and network properties while accounting for the importance of response traits to future disturbances. The simulation approach we used can be applied to forest landscapes across different biomes for the evaluation and comparison of forest management initiatives to enhance resilience.
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- Núria Aquilué
- CEF, Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre d'étude de la forêt, uqam Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, Canada
- InForest Joint Research Unit, CTFC, Solsona, Catalunya, Spain
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- Département Science et Technologie, TELUQ, le 5800 St Denis, 5800 St Denis St, Montreal, Quebec, H2S 3L4, Canada
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- Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Universidad Mayor, José Toribio Medina 29, Santiago, H83P+PF, Chile
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 27 King's College Cir, Toronto, Ontario, M5S, Canada
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- InForest Joint Research Unit, CTFC, Solsona, Catalunya, Spain
- CREAF, Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain
- CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
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- CEF, Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre d'étude de la forêt, uqam Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, Canada
- ISFORT, Université du Québec en Outaouais, 58 Rue Principale, Ripon, Quebec, J0V 1V0, Canada
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Pellissier V, Schmucki R, Pe'er G, Aunins A, Brereton TM, Brotons L, Carnicer J, Chodkiewicz T, Chylarecki P, Del Moral JC, Escandell V, Evans D, Foppen R, Harpke A, Heliölä J, Herrando S, Kuussaari M, Kühn E, Lehikoinen A, Lindström Å, Moshøj CM, Musche M, Noble D, Oliver TH, Reif J, Richard D, Roy DB, Schweiger O, Settele J, Stefanescu C, Teufelbauer N, Touroult J, Trautmann S, van Strien AJ, van Swaay CAM, van Turnhout C, Vermouzek Z, Voříšek P, Jiguet F, Julliard R. Effects of Natura 2000 on nontarget bird and butterfly species based on citizen science data. Conserv Biol 2020; 34:666-676. [PMID: 31701577 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The European Union's Natura 2000 (N2000) is among the largest international networks of protected areas. One of its aims is to secure the status of a predetermined set of (targeted) bird and butterfly species. However, nontarget species may also benefit from N2000. We evaluated how the terrestrial component of this network affects the abundance of nontargeted, more common bird and butterfly species based on data from long-term volunteer-based monitoring programs in 9602 sites for birds and 2001 sites for butterflies. In almost half of the 155 bird species assessed, and particularly among woodland specialists, abundance increased (slope estimates ranged from 0.101 [SD 0.042] to 3.51 [SD 1.30]) as the proportion of landscape covered by N2000 sites increased. This positive relationship existed for 27 of the 104 butterfly species (estimates ranged from 0.382 [SD 0.163] to 4.28 [SD 0.768]), although most butterflies were generalists. For most species, when land-cover covariates were accounted for these positive relationships were not evident, meaning land cover may be a determinant of positive effects of the N2000 network. The increase in abundance as N2000 coverage increased correlated with the specialization index for birds, but not for butterflies. Although the N2000 network supports high abundance of a large spectrum of species, the low number of specialist butterflies with a positive association with the N2000 network shows the need to improve the habitat quality of N2000 sites that could harbor open-land butterfly specialists. For a better understanding of the processes involved, we advocate for standardized collection of data at N2000 sites.
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- V Pellissier
- Sorbonne Université, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, UMR7204-CESCO, 43 rue Buffon, CP 135, Paris, 75005, France
- Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK 8000, Denmark
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- Sorbonne Université, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, UMR7204-CESCO, 43 rue Buffon, CP 135, Paris, 75005, France
- Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité, Immeuble Henri Poincaré, Domaine du Petit Arbois, Avenue Louis Philibert, Aix-en-Provence, 13857, France
- NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8EF, U.K
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
- Department Economics and Department Ecosystem Services, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstr. 15, Leipzig, 04318, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia
- Latvian Ornithological Society, Skolas iela 3, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
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- Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QP, U.K
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- CSIC-CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08019, Spain
- InForest JRU (CEMFOR-CTFC), Solsona, Catalonia, 25280, Spain
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- CSIC-CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, 08028, Spain
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, Warszawa, 00-679, Poland
- Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP), ul. Odrowaza 24, Marki, 05-270, Poland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, Warszawa, 00-679, Poland
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Melquíades Biencinto 34 ES-28053, Madrid, Spain
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- Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), Melquíades Biencinto 34 ES-28053, Madrid, Spain
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- European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity, 57 rue Cuvier, Paris, 75005, France
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, PO Box 6521, Nijmegen, 6503 GA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, Halle/Saale, 06120, Germany
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 140, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08019, Spain
- InForest JRU (CEMFOR-CTFC), Solsona, Catalonia, 25280, Spain
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 140, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
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- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, Halle/Saale, 06120, Germany
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 17, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, Lund University, Ecology Building, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden
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- DOF-BirdLife Denmark, Vesterbrogade 140, Copenhagen V, DK-1620, Denmark
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- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, Halle/Saale, 06120, Germany
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- BTO, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, U.K
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- School of Biological Sciences, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AS, U.K
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- Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, 17. listopadu 50, Olomouc, 771 43, Czech Republic
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- European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity, 57 rue Cuvier, Paris, 75005, France
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- NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8EF, U.K
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- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, Halle/Saale, 06120, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
- Department of Community Ecology, UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, Halle/Saale, 06120, Germany
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- CSIC-CREAF, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers, Francesc Macià 51, Granollers, Catalonia, 08402, Spain
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- BirdLife Austria, Museumplatz 1/10/8, Wien, A-1070, Austria
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- UMS 2006 PatriNat AFB, CNRS, MNHN; CP41, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Paris, 75005, France
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- DDA, An den Speichern 6, Münster, 48157, Germany
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- Dutch Butterfly Conservation and Butterfly Conservation Europe, P.O. Box 506 NL 6700 AM, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, PO Box 6521, Nijmegen, 6503 GA, The Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology & Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, Nijmegen, 6500 GL, The Netherlands
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- Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 252/34, Prague, CZ-150 00, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, 17. listopadu 50, Olomouc, 771 43, Czech Republic
- Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 252/34, Prague, CZ-150 00, Czech Republic
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- Sorbonne Université, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, UMR7204-CESCO, 43 rue Buffon, CP 135, Paris, 75005, France
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- Sorbonne Université, MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, UMR7204-CESCO, 43 rue Buffon, CP 135, Paris, 75005, France
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Duane A, Aquilué N, Canelles Q, Morán-Ordoñez A, De Cáceres M, Brotons L. Adapting prescribed burns to future climate change in Mediterranean landscapes. Sci Total Environ 2019; 677:68-83. [PMID: 31051384 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Fire regimes are shifting or are expected to do so under global change. Current fire suppression is not able to control all wildfires, and its capability to do so might be compromised under harsher climate conditions. Alternative fire management strategies may allow to counteract predicted fire trends, but we lack quantitative tools to evaluate their potential effectiveness at the landscape scale. Here, we sought to quantify changes in fire regimes induced after the implementation of different fire management strategies. We developed and applied a new version of the model MEDFIRE in Catalonia (Mediterranean region of ~32,000 km2 in NE Spain). We first projected burnt area from 2016 to 2100 resulting from climate change under the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario of HadGEM-CC model and under current fire suppression levels. We then evaluated the impacts of four fire management strategies: 'Let it burn', fixed effort of prescribed burning with two different spatial allocations, and adaptive prescribed burning dynamically adjusting efforts according to recent past fires. Results predicted the emergence of novel climates associated with similar barometric configurations to current conditions but with higher temperatures (i.e. hot wind events). These novel climates led to an increase in burnt area, which was partially counteracted by negative fire-vegetation feedbacks. All prescribed burning scenarios decreased the amount of high-intensity fires and extreme fire events. The 'Let it burn' strategy, although less costly, was not able to reduce the extent of high-intensity fires. The adaptive prescribed burning scenario resulted in the most cost-efficient strategy. Our results provide quantitative evidence of fire management effectiveness, and bring to light key insights that could guide the design of fire policies fit for future novel climate conditions. We propose adaptive landscape management focused on the reduction of fire negative impacts rather than on the elimination of this disturbance from the system.
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- Andrea Duane
- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; Centre for Forest Research (CFR), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada.
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (InForest -CTFC-CREAF), Carretera vella de Sant Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Lleida, Spain; CREAF, Edifici C. Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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Marull J, Herrando S, Brotons L, Melero Y, Pino J, Cattaneo C, Pons M, Llobet J, Tello E. Building on Margalef: Testing the links between landscape structure, energy and information flows driven by farming and biodiversity. Sci Total Environ 2019; 674:603-614. [PMID: 31026792 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The aim of this paper is to test two methodologies, applicable to different spatial scales (from regional to local), to predict the capacity of agroecosystems to provide habitats for the species richness of butterflies and birds, based on the ways their socio-metabolic flows change the ecological functionality of bio-cultural landscapes. First, we use the more general Intermediate Disturbance-Complexity (IDC) model to assess how different levels of human appropriation of photosynthetic production affect the landscape functional structure that hosts biodiversity. Second, we apply a more detailed Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) model that focusses on the energy storage carried out by the internal biomass loops, and the energy information held in the network of energy flows driven by farmers, in order to correlate both (the energy reinvested and redistributed) with the energy imprinted in the landscape patterns and processes that sustain biodiversity. The results obtained after applying both models in the province and the metropolitan region of Barcelona support the Margalef's energy-information-structure hypothesis by showing positive relations between butterflies' species richness, IDC and ELIA, and between birds' species richness and energy information. Our findings support the view that strong relationships between farming energy flows, agroecosystem functioning and biodiversity can be detected, and highlight the importance of farmers' knowledge and labour to maintain bio-cultural landscapes.
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- Joan Marull
- IERMB, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 08019 Barcelona, Spain; CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 08019 Barcelona, Spain; CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280 Solsona, Spain; Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, RG6 6AS, UK
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- CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Studies, Masaryk University, Jostova 10, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
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- IERMB, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- IERMB, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Department of Economic History and Institutions, Barcelona University, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Aquilué N, Fortin MJ, Messier C, Brotons L. The Potential of Agricultural Conversion to Shape Forest Fire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes. Ecosystems 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00385-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Herrando S, Titeux N, Brotons L, Anton M, Ubach A, Villero D, García-Barros E, Munguira ML, Godinho C, Stefanescu C. Contrasting impacts of precipitation on Mediterranean birds and butterflies. Sci Rep 2019; 9:5680. [PMID: 30952919 PMCID: PMC6450943 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42171-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The climatic preferences of the species determine to a large extent their response to climate change. Temperature preferences have been shown to play a key role in driving trends in animal populations. However, the relative importance of temperature and precipitation preferences is still poorly understood, particularly in systems where ecological processes are strongly constrained by the amount and timing of rainfall. In this study, we estimated the role played by temperature and precipitation preferences in determining population trends for birds and butterflies in a Mediterranean area. Trends were derived from long-term biodiversity monitoring data and temperature and precipitation preferences were estimated from species distribution data at three different geographical scales. We show that population trends were first and foremost related to precipitation preferences both in birds and in butterflies. Temperature preferences had a weaker effect on population trends, and were significant only in birds. The effect of precipitation on population trends operated in opposite directions in the two groups of species: butterfly species from arid environments and bird species from humid habitats are decreasing most. Our results indicate that, although commonly neglected, water availability is likely an important driver of animal population change in the Mediterranean region, with highly contrasting impacts among taxonomical groups.
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- Sergi Herrando
- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, 08019, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. .,CREAF, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.,Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle, Germany.,InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, 08019, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,CREAF, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain.,CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Plaça Leonardo da Vinci 4-5, 08019, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Museum of Natural Sciences of Granollers, Francesc Macià 51, 08402, Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
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- InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Crta. Antiga St Llorenç de Morunys km 2, 25280, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Departamento de Biología, c/Darwin 2, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Departamento de Biología, c/Darwin 2, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- ICAAM (Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas) - LabOr (Laboratório de Ornitologia), Universidade de Évora. Pólo da Mitra, Apartado 94, 7002-774, Évora, Portugal
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- CREAF, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,Museum of Natural Sciences of Granollers, Francesc Macià 51, 08402, Granollers, Catalonia, Spain
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Padró JC, Carabassa V, Balagué J, Brotons L, Alcañiz JM, Pons X. Monitoring opencast mine restorations using Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) imagery. Sci Total Environ 2019; 657:1602-1614. [PMID: 30677925 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Revised: 11/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Open-pit mine is still an unavoidable activity but can become unsustainable without the restoration of degraded sites. Monitoring the restoration after extractive activities is a legal requirement for mine companies and public administrations in many countries, involving financial provisions for environmental liabilities. The objective of this contribution is to present a rigorous, low-cost and easy-to-use application of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for supporting opencast mining and restoration monitoring, complementing the inspections with very high (<10 cm) spatial resolution multispectral imagery, and improving any restoration documentation with detailed land cover maps. The potential of UAS as a tool to control restoration works is presented in a calcareous quarry that has undergone different post-mining restoration actions in the last 20 years, representing 4 reclaimed stages. We used a small (<2 kg) drone equipped with a multispectral sensor, along with field spectroradiometer measurements that were used to radiometrically correct the UAS sensor data. Imagery was processed with photogrammetric and Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems software, resulting in spectral information, vegetation and soil indices, structural information and land cover maps. Spectral data and land cover classification, which were validated through ground-truth plots, aided in the detection and quantification of mine waste dumping, bare soil and other land cover extension. Moreover, plant formations and vegetation development were evaluated, allowing a quantitative, but at the same time visual and intuitive comparison with the surrounding reference systems. The protocol resulting from this research constitutes a pipeline solution intended for the implementation by public administrations and privates companies for precisely evaluating restoration dynamics in an expedient manner at a very affordable budget. Furthermore, the proposed solution prevents subjective interpretations by providing objective data, which integrate new technologies at the service of scientists, environmental managers and decision makers.
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- Joan-Cristian Padró
- Grumets Research Group, Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Geografia Office B1092, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Edifici C, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Ctra Sant Llorenç km 2, 24280 Solsona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Ctra Sant Llorenç km 2, 24280 Solsona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
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- Grumets Research Group, Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Geografia Office B1094, Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain.
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Lehikoinen A, Brotons L, Calladine J, Campedelli T, Escandell V, Flousek J, Grueneberg C, Haas F, Harris S, Herrando S, Husby M, Jiguet F, Kålås JA, Lindström Å, Lorrillière R, Molina B, Pladevall C, Calvi G, Sattler T, Schmid H, Sirkiä PM, Teufelbauer N, Trautmann S. Declining population trends of European mountain birds. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:577-588. [PMID: 30548389 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [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: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Mountain areas often hold special species communities, and they are high on the list of conservation concern. Global warming and changes in human land use, such as grazing pressure and afforestation, have been suggested to be major threats for biodiversity in the mountain areas, affecting species abundance and causing distribution shifts towards mountaintops. Population shifts towards poles and mountaintops have been documented in several areas, indicating that climate change is one of the key drivers of species' distribution changes. Despite the high conservation concern, relatively little is known about the population trends of species in mountain areas due to low accessibility and difficult working conditions. Thanks to the recent improvement of bird monitoring schemes around Europe, we can here report a first account of population trends of 44 bird species from four major European mountain regions: Fennoscandia, UK upland, south-western (Iberia) and south-central mountains (Alps), covering 12 countries. Overall, the mountain bird species declined significantly (-7%) during 2002-2014, which is similar to the declining rate in common birds in Europe during the same period. Mountain specialists showed a significant -10% decline in population numbers. The slope for mountain generalists was also negative, but not significantly so. The slopes of specialists and generalists did not differ from each other. Fennoscandian and Iberian populations were on average declining, while in United Kingdom and Alps, trends were nonsignificant. Temperature change or migratory behaviour was not significantly associated with regional population trends of species. Alpine habitats are highly vulnerable to climate change, and this is certainly one of the main drivers of mountain bird population trends. However, observed declines can also be partly linked with local land use practices. More efforts should be undertaken to identify the causes of decline and to increase conservation efforts for these populations.
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- Aleksi Lehikoinen
- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, Spain
- CREAF, Bellaterra, Spain
- CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain
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- British Trust for Ornithology (Scotland), University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
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- Estudio y seguimiento de aves/SEO/BirdLife, C/Melquíades Biencinto, Madrid, Spain
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- Krkonose National Park, Vrchlabi, Czech Republic
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) e.V., Geschäftsstelle, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- The British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Norfolk, UK
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- Catalan Ornithological Institute. Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Section of Science, Nord University, Levanger, Norway
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO UMR 7204, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO UMR 7204, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
- Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8079 Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Orsay, France
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- Estudio y seguimiento de aves/SEO/BirdLife, C/Melquíades Biencinto, Madrid, Spain
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- Snow and Mountain Research Center of Andorra (CENMA) - Andorran Research Institute (IEA), Sant Julià de Lòria, Principality of Andorra
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- Italian Common Breeding Bird monitoring programme, Parma, Italy
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- Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) e.V., Geschäftsstelle, Münster, Germany
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Peterson AT, Anderson RP, Beger M, Bolliger J, Brotons L, Burridge CP, Cobos ME, Cuervo-Robayo AP, Di Minin E, Diez J, Elith J, Embling CB, Escobar LE, Essl F, Feeley KJ, Hawkes L, Jiménez-García D, Jimenez L, Green DM, Knop E, Kühn I, Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Lira-Noriega A, Lobo JM, Loyola R, Mac Nally R, Machado-Stredel F, Martínez-Meyer E, McCarthy M, Merow C, Nori J, Nuñez-Penichet C, Osorio-Olvera L, Pyšek P, Rejmánek M, Ricciardi A, Robertson M, Rojas Soto O, Romero-Alvarez D, Roura-Pascual N, Santini L, Schoeman DS, Schröder B, Soberon J, Strubbe D, Thuiller W, Traveset A, Treml EA, Václavík T, Varela S, Watson JEM, Wiersma Y, Wintle B, Yanez-Arenas C, Zurell D. Open access solutions for biodiversity journals: Do not replace one problem with another. DIVERS DISTRIB 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- A. Townsend Peterson
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- City College of New York and Graduate Center; City University of New York; New York New York
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- School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Department of Geosciences and Geography; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
- School of Life Sciences; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Durban South Africa
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- University of Melbourne; Parkville Victoria Australia
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation; Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia
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- Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University Vienna; Vienna Austria
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences; University of Exeter; Penryn UK
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- Centro de Agroecología y Ambiente-ICUAP; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla; Puebla Mexico
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Redpath Museum; McGill University; Montreal Quebec Canada
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- University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Halle Germany
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- University of Canberra; Bruce Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba Argentina
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad en el Sureste AC; Tabasco Mexico
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences; Prague Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science; Charles University; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Departament de Ciències Ambientals; Universitat de Girona; Girona Catalonia Spain
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- Technische Universität Braunschweig; Braunschweig Germany
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- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas
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- Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB); Mallorca Spain
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- Université Grenoble Alpes; Grenoble France
- CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc; Chambéry France
- LECA-Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpes; Gières France
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland; Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Wildlife Conservation Society; Bronx New York
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- Department of Biology; Memorial University; St. John's NL Canada
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- University of Melbourne; Parkville Victoria Australia
- University of Queensland; St Lucia Queensland Australia
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- Laboratorio de Biología de la Conservación, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Yucatán, Facultad de Ciencias-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Mérida Yucatán México
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Hass AL, Kormann UG, Tscharntke T, Clough Y, Baillod AB, Sirami C, Fahrig L, Martin JL, Baudry J, Bertrand C, Bosch J, Brotons L, Burel F, Georges R, Giralt D, Marcos-García MÁ, Ricarte A, Siriwardena G, Batáry P. Landscape configurational heterogeneity by small-scale agriculture, not crop diversity, maintains pollinators and plant reproduction in western Europe. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 285:rspb.2017.2242. [PMID: 29445017 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Agricultural intensification is one of the main causes for the current biodiversity crisis. While reversing habitat loss on agricultural land is challenging, increasing the farmland configurational heterogeneity (higher field border density) and farmland compositional heterogeneity (higher crop diversity) has been proposed to counteract some habitat loss. Here, we tested whether increased farmland configurational and compositional heterogeneity promote wild pollinators and plant reproduction in 229 landscapes located in four major western European agricultural regions. High-field border density consistently increased wild bee abundance and seed set of radish (Raphanus sativus), probably through enhanced connectivity. In particular, we demonstrate the importance of crop-crop borders for pollinator movement as an additional experiment showed higher transfer of a pollen analogue along crop-crop borders than across fields or along semi-natural crop borders. By contrast, high crop diversity reduced bee abundance, probably due to an increase of crop types with particularly intensive management. This highlights the importance of crop identity when higher crop diversity is promoted. Our results show that small-scale agricultural systems can boost pollinators and plant reproduction. Agri-environmental policies should therefore aim to halt and reverse the current trend of increasing field sizes and to reduce the amount of crop types with particularly intensive management.
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- Annika L Hass
- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.,Forest Biodiversity Research Network, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.,Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive UMR 5175, CNRS-Université de Montpellier-Université Paul Valéry Montpellier-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.,UMR 1201 Dynafor, INRA-INP Toulouse-ENSAT, Toulouse, France
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- Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Laboratory, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive UMR 5175, CNRS-Université de Montpellier-Université Paul Valéry Montpellier-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UR 0980 SAD Paysage, INRA 65, Rennes Cedex, France.,UMR 6553 ECOBIO, CNRS, Rennes, France
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- CREAF, Bellaterra, Spain.,InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, Spain.,CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- CTFC (Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia), Solsona, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Investigación, CIBIO, Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto Universitario de Investigación, CIBIO, Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
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- Agroecology, Department of Crop Science, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.,GINOP Sustainable Ecosystems Group, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
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Regos A, Imbeau L, Desrochers M, Leduc A, Robert M, Jobin B, Brotons L, Drapeau P. Hindcasting the impacts of land-use changes on bird communities with species distribution models of Bird Atlas data. Ecol Appl 2018; 28:1867-1883. [PMID: 30055061 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/15/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Habitat loss and degradation induced by human development are among the major threats to biodiversity worldwide. In this study, we tested our ability to predict the response of bird communities (128 species) to land-use changes in southern Quebec (~483,100 km2 ) over the last 30 yr (between 1984-1989 and 2010-2014) by using species distribution models (299,302 occurrences in 30,408 locations) from a hindcasting perspective. Results were grouped by functional guilds to infer potential impacts on ecosystem services, and to relate model transferability (i.e., ability of our models to be generalized to other times and scales) to specific functional and life-history traits. Overall, our models were able to accurately predict, both in space and time, habitat suitability for 69% of species, especially for granivorous, nonmigrant, tree-nesting species, and species that are tied to agricultural areas under intensive use. These findings indicate that model transferability depends upon specific functional and life-history traits, providing further evidence that species' ecologies affect the ability of models to accurately predict bird distributions. Declining bird species were mostly short-distance migrants that were associated with open habitats (agricultural and nonproductive forest) with aerial insectivorous or granivorous diets, which may be related to agricultural intensification and land abandonment. Land-use changes were positive for some forest bird species that were mainly associated with mixed and deciduous forests, generalist diets and tree-nesting strategies. Yet cavity-nesting birds have suffered substantial reductions in their distributions, suggesting that cumulative effects of intensive logging and wildfires on mature forests pose a threat for forest-specialist species. Habitat suitability changes predicted by our coarse-scale species distribution models partially agreed with the long-term trends reported by the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Our findings confirm land-use change as a key driving force for shaping bird communities in southern Quebec, together with the need to explicitly incorporate it into global change scenarios that better inform decision-makers on conservation and management.
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- Adrián Regos
- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Fisica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO/InBIO), ECOCHANGE Group, Campus Agrario de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal
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- Centre d'étude de la forêt, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (IRF), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), 445 boulevard de l' Université, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, J9X 5E4, Canada
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- Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre d'étude de la forêt, 141 Avenue Président-Kennedy, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1Y4, Canada
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- Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre d'étude de la forêt, 141 Avenue Président-Kennedy, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1Y4, Canada
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- Service canadien de la faune, Environnement et changement climatique Canada, 801-1550, avenue d'Estimauville, Québec, Québec, G1J 0C3, Canada
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- Service canadien de la faune, Environnement et changement climatique Canada, 801-1550, avenue d'Estimauville, Québec, Québec, G1J 0C3, Canada
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC), InForest Joint Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain
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- Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre d'étude de la forêt, 141 Avenue Président-Kennedy, Montréal, Québec, H2X 1Y4, Canada
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Regos A, Hermoso V, D'Amen M, Guisan A, Brotons L. Trade-offs and synergies between bird conservation and wildfire suppression in the face of global change. J Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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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- Adrián Regos
- Departamento de Zooloxía; Xenética e Antropoloxía Fisica; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Santiago de Compostela Spain
- CIBIO/InBIO; Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources; ECOCHANGE Group; Vairão Portugal
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- CTFC-CREAF; InForest Joint Research Unit; CSIC-CTFC-CREAF; Solsona Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution; University of Lausanne; Lausanne Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution; University of Lausanne; Lausanne Switzerland
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics; Geopolis; University of Lausanne; Lausanne Switzerland
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- CTFC-CREAF; InForest Joint Research Unit; CSIC-CTFC-CREAF; Solsona Spain
- CREAF; Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- CSIC; Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
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Hermoso V, Villero D, Clavero M, Brotons L. Spatial prioritisation of EU's LIFE-Nature programme to strengthen the conservation impact of Natura 2000. J Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Virgilio Hermoso
- Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CEMFOR - CTFC); Solsona Spain
- Australian Rivers Institute; Griffith University; Nathan Qld Australia
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- Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CEMFOR - CTFC); Solsona Spain
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- Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CEMFOR - CTFC); Solsona Spain
- CREAF; Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- CSIC; Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
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- L T Kelly
- School of BioSciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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- InForest JRU (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona 25280, Spain.,CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain.,CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
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Titeux N, Maes D, Van Daele T, Onkelinx T, Heikkinen RK, Romo H, García-Barros E, Munguira ML, Thuiller W, van Swaay CAM, Schweiger O, Settele J, Harpke A, Wiemers M, Brotons L, Luoto M. The need for large-scale distribution data to estimate regional changes in species richness under future climate change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- Nicolas Titeux
- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC); InForest Joint Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF); Solsona,Catalonia Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- UFZ; Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Halle Germany
- iDiv; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO); Brussels Belgium
- Butterfly Conservation Europe; Wageningen the Netherlands
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO); Brussels Belgium
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO); Brussels Belgium
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- Finnish Environment Institute; Natural Environment Centre; Helsinki Finland
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- Departamento de Biología; Edificio de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biología; Edificio de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Butterfly Conservation Europe; Wageningen the Netherlands
- Departamento de Biología; Edificio de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- CNRS; Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA); University of Grenoble Alpes; Grenoble France
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- Butterfly Conservation Europe; Wageningen the Netherlands
- Dutch Butterfly Conservation; Wageningen the Netherlands
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- UFZ; Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Halle Germany
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- UFZ; Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Halle Germany
- iDiv; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
- Butterfly Conservation Europe; Wageningen the Netherlands
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- UFZ; Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Halle Germany
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- UFZ; Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Halle Germany
- Butterfly Conservation Europe; Wageningen the Netherlands
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC); InForest Joint Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF); Solsona,Catalonia Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
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- Department of Geosciences and Geography; University of Helsinki; Helsinki Finland
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Titeux N, Henle K, Mihoub JB, Regos A, Geijzendorffer IR, Cramer W, Verburg PH, Brotons L. Global scenarios for biodiversity need to better integrate climate and land use change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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- Nicolas Titeux
- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC); InForest Joint Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF); Solsona Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Department of Community Ecology; Halle Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Department of Conservation Biology; Leipzig Germany
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Department of Conservation Biology; Leipzig Germany
- Sorbonne Universités; Université Pierre et Marie Curie; CESCO; UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC; Paris France
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- Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO/InBIO); Predictive Ecology Group; Campus Agrario de Vairão; Vairão Portugal
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Departmento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antrolopoxía Fisica; Santiago de Compostela Spain
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- Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE); Aix Marseille Université; CNRS; IRD; Avignon Université; Bâtiment Villemin; Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée; Aix-en-Provence France
- Tour du Valat; Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands; Arles France
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- Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE); Aix Marseille Université; CNRS; IRD; Avignon Université; Bâtiment Villemin; Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée; Aix-en-Provence France
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- VU University Amsterdam; Department of Earth Sciences; Amsterdam The Netherlands
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CEMFOR-CTFC); InForest Joint Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF); Solsona Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Cerdanyola del Vallés Spain
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Batllori E, De Cáceres M, Brotons L, Ackerly DD, Moritz MA, Lloret F. Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- Enric Batllori
- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès; 08193 Barcelona Spain
- CTFC; Ctra. St Llorenç de Morunys km 2 25280 Solsona Spain
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- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès; 08193 Barcelona Spain
- CTFC; Ctra. St Llorenç de Morunys km 2 25280 Solsona Spain
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- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès; 08193 Barcelona Spain
- InForest Joint Research Unit (CTFC-CEMFOR); 25280 Solsona Spain
- CSIC; 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Jepson Herbarium; University of California Berkeley; Berkeley California 94720 USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; University of California Berkeley; Berkeley California 94720 USA
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- CREAF Cerdanyola del Vallès; 08193 Barcelona Spain
- Unitat d'Ecologia; Department Biologia Animal; Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia; Universitat Autònoma Barcelona; Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193 Barcelona Spain
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Kelly LT, Brotons L, McCarthy MA. Putting pyrodiversity to work for animal conservation. Conserv Biol 2017; 31:952-955. [PMID: 28339129 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Revised: 09/15/2016] [Accepted: 10/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Luke T Kelly
- School of BioSciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3125, Australia
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- InForest Joint Research Unit, Centre for Mediterranean Forest Research - Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, 25280, Solsona, Spain
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- School of BioSciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3125, Australia
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Gamero A, Brotons L, Brunner A, Foppen R, Fornasari L, Gregory RD, Herrando S, Hořák D, Jiguet F, Kmecl P, Lehikoinen A, Lindström Å, Paquet J, Reif J, Sirkiä PM, Škorpilová J, Strien A, Szép T, Telenský T, Teufelbauer N, Trautmann S, Turnhout CA, Vermouzek Z, Vikstrøm T, Voříšek P. Tracking Progress Toward EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets: EU Policy Effects in Preserving its Common Farmland Birds. Conserv Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [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)
- Anna Gamero
- Czech Society for Ornithology 15000 Prague Czech Republic
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- CEMFOR ‐ CTFCInForest Jru 25280 Solsona Spain
- Catalan Ornithological InstituteNatural History Museum of Barcelona 08019 Barcelona Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals 08193 Bellaterra Spain
- CSIC 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
- European Bird Census Council (EBCC)
| | | | - Ruud Foppen
- European Bird Census Council (EBCC)
- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology 6503 Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland ResearchRadboud University 6500 Nijmegen The Netherlands
| | - Lorenzo Fornasari
- Coordinamento Nazionale MITO2000LIPU BirdLife Italy 43122 Parma Italy
| | | | - Sergi Herrando
- Catalan Ornithological InstituteNatural History Museum of Barcelona 08019 Barcelona Spain
- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals 08193 Bellaterra Spain
| | - David Hořák
- Department of EcologyCharles University in Prague 12844 Prague Czech Republic
| | - Frédéric Jiguet
- UMR7204 CESCOSorbonne Universités‐MNHN‐CNRS‐UPMC 75005 Paris France
| | | | - Aleksi Lehikoinen
- The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Helsinki 00014 Helsinki Finland
| | - Åke Lindström
- Department of Biology, Biodiversity UnitLund University 22362 Lund Sweden
| | | | - Jiří Reif
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of ScienceCharles University in Prague 12801 Praha Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of SciencePalacký University 77146 Olomouc Czech Republic
| | - Päivi M. Sirkiä
- The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Helsinki 00014 Helsinki Finland
| | | | - Arco Strien
- Statistics Netherlands 2492 The Hague The Netherlands
| | - Tibor Szép
- University of Nyíregyháza 4400 Nyíregyháza Hungary
| | - Tomáš Telenský
- Czech Society for Ornithology 15000 Prague Czech Republic
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of ScienceCharles University in Prague 12801 Praha Czech Republic
- Institute of Vertebrate BiologyAcademy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 60365 Brno Czech Republic
| | | | - Sven Trautmann
- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten 48157 Münster Germany
| | - Chris A.M. Turnhout
- Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology 6503 Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland ResearchRadboud University 6500 Nijmegen The Netherlands
| | | | | | - Petr Voříšek
- Czech Society for Ornithology 15000 Prague Czech Republic
- European Bird Census Council (EBCC)
- Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of SciencePalacký University 77146 Olomouc Czech Republic
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