The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation

Loss of biodiversity is a pressing global issue, hence it is vital to facilitate informed and effective conservation. As conservation mainly operates at the level of habitats, aiming for species of conservation interest, conservation and management require adequate ecological knowledge of prioritize...

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Published in:Global Ecology and Conservation
Main Authors: Tingstad, Lise, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Felde, Vivian Astrup, Juslén, Aino, Hyvärinen, Esko, Dahlberg, Anders
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1956/19328
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00410
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spelling ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:1956/19328 2023-05-15T16:11:41+02:00 The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation Tingstad, Lise Grytnes, John-Arvid Felde, Vivian Astrup Juslén, Aino Hyvärinen, Esko Dahlberg, Anders 2018-09-14T09:16:58Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1956/19328 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00410 eng eng Elsevier urn:issn:2351-9894 http://hdl.handle.net/1956/19328 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00410 cristin:1605240 Attribution CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright 2018 The Author(s) Global Ecology and Conservation Peer reviewed Journal article 2018 ftunivbergen https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00410 2023-03-14T17:41:03Z Loss of biodiversity is a pressing global issue, hence it is vital to facilitate informed and effective conservation. As conservation mainly operates at the level of habitats, aiming for species of conservation interest, conservation and management require adequate ecological knowledge of prioritized species for the geographic and environmental setting considered. Our aim was to investigate if ecological documentation in national Red Lists could be combined and used to identify important forest habitats and ecological variables for red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia, and whether this knowledge could be arranged at different geographical scales and for various selections of species of conservation interest. We compiled the national Red Lists of Finland, Norway and Sweden and extracted ecological information for all red-listed forest species (n = 4830). We used a principal component analysis to investigate variation in distribution of species and their habitat associations and taxonomical groups, and to group species of similar associations. We further used the listed species in Sweden as an example, and compared the proportions of species associated to the ecological variables dead wood, living trees or merely the “forest floor and understory” a) at larger and smaller scale (Fennoscandia – county in Sweden), b) in regions with contrasting biomes (nemoral and boreal), and c) in two more limited selections of species of conservation interest; Fennoscandian and globally red-listed species also red-listed in Sweden. Ecological information could be extracted for 96% of the species, albeit with a low resolution; i.e. overall forest habitats, associated tree species, lifeforms and six other ecological variables selected based on their frequent appearance in the Red List documentation. Using this information, we identified five large-scale patterns for Fennoscandian red-listed species; the majority of red-listed species is associated with coniferous forest. The number of red-listed species associated with specific ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia Fennoscandian University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Norway Global Ecology and Conservation 15 e00410
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description Loss of biodiversity is a pressing global issue, hence it is vital to facilitate informed and effective conservation. As conservation mainly operates at the level of habitats, aiming for species of conservation interest, conservation and management require adequate ecological knowledge of prioritized species for the geographic and environmental setting considered. Our aim was to investigate if ecological documentation in national Red Lists could be combined and used to identify important forest habitats and ecological variables for red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia, and whether this knowledge could be arranged at different geographical scales and for various selections of species of conservation interest. We compiled the national Red Lists of Finland, Norway and Sweden and extracted ecological information for all red-listed forest species (n = 4830). We used a principal component analysis to investigate variation in distribution of species and their habitat associations and taxonomical groups, and to group species of similar associations. We further used the listed species in Sweden as an example, and compared the proportions of species associated to the ecological variables dead wood, living trees or merely the “forest floor and understory” a) at larger and smaller scale (Fennoscandia – county in Sweden), b) in regions with contrasting biomes (nemoral and boreal), and c) in two more limited selections of species of conservation interest; Fennoscandian and globally red-listed species also red-listed in Sweden. Ecological information could be extracted for 96% of the species, albeit with a low resolution; i.e. overall forest habitats, associated tree species, lifeforms and six other ecological variables selected based on their frequent appearance in the Red List documentation. Using this information, we identified five large-scale patterns for Fennoscandian red-listed species; the majority of red-listed species is associated with coniferous forest. The number of red-listed species associated with specific ...
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author Tingstad, Lise
Grytnes, John-Arvid
Felde, Vivian Astrup
Juslén, Aino
Hyvärinen, Esko
Dahlberg, Anders
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Grytnes, John-Arvid
Felde, Vivian Astrup
Juslén, Aino
Hyvärinen, Esko
Dahlberg, Anders
The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
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Grytnes, John-Arvid
Felde, Vivian Astrup
Juslén, Aino
Hyvärinen, Esko
Dahlberg, Anders
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title The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
title_short The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
title_full The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
title_fullStr The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
title_full_unstemmed The potential to use documentation in national Red Lists to characterize red-listed forest species in Fennoscandia and to guide conservation
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