Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review
Wading birds can be found breeding in a myriad of habitats and ecosystems across Europe that vary widely in their land-use intensity. Over the past few decades, wader breeding populations have declined steeply in habitats ranging from natural undisturbed ecosystems to intensively managed farmland. M...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:613d98ce285c4c4a85d16739d1fad176 2023-05-15T18:49:36+02:00 Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review Miguel Silva-Monteiro Hannes Pehlak Cornelis Fokker David Kingma David Kleijn 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01657 https://doaj.org/article/613d98ce285c4c4a85d16739d1fad176 EN eng Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989421002079 https://doaj.org/toc/2351-9894 2351-9894 doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01657 https://doaj.org/article/613d98ce285c4c4a85d16739d1fad176 Global Ecology and Conservation, Vol 28, Iss , Pp e01657- (2021) Wader Breeding densities Land-use intensity Habitat selection Agricultural activities Nest predation Ecology QH540-549.5 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01657 2022-12-31T13:04:38Z Wading birds can be found breeding in a myriad of habitats and ecosystems across Europe that vary widely in their land-use intensity. Over the past few decades, wader breeding populations have declined steeply in habitats ranging from natural undisturbed ecosystems to intensively managed farmland. Most conservation science has focused on factors determining local population size and trends which leave cross-continental patterns and the associated consequences for large-scale conservation strategies unexplored. Here, we review the key factors underlying population decline. We find land-use intensification in western Europe and mostly agricultural extensification and abandonment in northern, central and eastern Europe to be important drivers. Additionally, predation seems to have increased throughout the breeding range and across all habitats. Using collected breeding density data from published and grey literature, we explore habitat specificity of wader species and, of the most widely distributed species, how breeding densities change across a land-use intensity gradient. We found that two-thirds of all examined wader species have relatively narrow breeding habitat preferences, mostly in natural and undisturbed ecosystems, while the remaining species occurred in most or all habitats. The most widespread generalist species (black-tailed godwit, northern lapwing, common redshank, Eurasian oystercatcher, common snipe and ruff) demonstrated peak breeding densities at different positions along the land-use intensity gradient. To conserve both diverse wader communities and viable meta-populations of species, a diversity of habitats should be targeted ranging in land-use intensity from natural ecosystems to medium intensity farmland. Alongside, strategies should be designed to moderate predation of wader clutches and chicks. Article in Journal/Newspaper black-tailed godwit Ruff Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Global Ecology and Conservation 28 e01657 |
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Wading birds can be found breeding in a myriad of habitats and ecosystems across Europe that vary widely in their land-use intensity. Over the past few decades, wader breeding populations have declined steeply in habitats ranging from natural undisturbed ecosystems to intensively managed farmland. Most conservation science has focused on factors determining local population size and trends which leave cross-continental patterns and the associated consequences for large-scale conservation strategies unexplored. Here, we review the key factors underlying population decline. We find land-use intensification in western Europe and mostly agricultural extensification and abandonment in northern, central and eastern Europe to be important drivers. Additionally, predation seems to have increased throughout the breeding range and across all habitats. Using collected breeding density data from published and grey literature, we explore habitat specificity of wader species and, of the most widely distributed species, how breeding densities change across a land-use intensity gradient. We found that two-thirds of all examined wader species have relatively narrow breeding habitat preferences, mostly in natural and undisturbed ecosystems, while the remaining species occurred in most or all habitats. The most widespread generalist species (black-tailed godwit, northern lapwing, common redshank, Eurasian oystercatcher, common snipe and ruff) demonstrated peak breeding densities at different positions along the land-use intensity gradient. To conserve both diverse wader communities and viable meta-populations of species, a diversity of habitats should be targeted ranging in land-use intensity from natural ecosystems to medium intensity farmland. Alongside, strategies should be designed to moderate predation of wader clutches and chicks. |
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Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review |
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Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review |
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Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review |
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Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review |
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Habitats supporting wader communities in Europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: A review |
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habitats supporting wader communities in europe and relations between agricultural land use and breeding densities: a review |
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