Declining population trends of European mountain birds
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 ab...
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afforestation agriculture alpine habitat common bird monitoring global warming land use changes loss of biodiversity mountains population trend upland LAND-USE CHANGE CLIMATE-CHANGE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION NITROGEN DEPOSITION GLOBAL CHANGE RANGE SHIFTS IMPACT INDICATORS ABUNDANCE PATTERNS 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 1172 Environmental sciences |
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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. Peer reviewed |
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Lehikoinen, Aleksi Brotons, Lluis Calladine, John Campedelli, Tommaso Escandell, Virginia Flousek, Jiri Grueneberg, Christoph Haas, Fredrik Harris, Sarah Herrando, Sergi Husby, Magne Jiguet, Frederic Kalas, John Atle Lindstrom, Ake Lorrilliere, Romain Molina, Blas Pladevall, Clara Calvi, Gianpiero Sattler, Thomas Schmid, Hans Sirkiä, Päivi M. Teufelbauer, Norbert Trautmann, Sven |
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Lehikoinen, Aleksi Brotons, Lluis Calladine, John Campedelli, Tommaso Escandell, Virginia Flousek, Jiri Grueneberg, Christoph Haas, Fredrik Harris, Sarah Herrando, Sergi Husby, Magne Jiguet, Frederic Kalas, John Atle Lindstrom, Ake Lorrilliere, Romain Molina, Blas Pladevall, Clara Calvi, Gianpiero Sattler, Thomas Schmid, Hans Sirkiä, Päivi M. Teufelbauer, Norbert Trautmann, Sven |
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Declining population trends of European mountain birds |
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Declining population trends of European mountain birds |
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Declining population trends of European mountain birds |
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Declining population trends of European mountain birds |
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/308050 2024-01-07T09:43:11+01:00 Declining population trends of European mountain birds Lehikoinen, Aleksi Brotons, Lluis Calladine, John Campedelli, Tommaso Escandell, Virginia Flousek, Jiri Grueneberg, Christoph Haas, Fredrik Harris, Sarah Herrando, Sergi Husby, Magne Jiguet, Frederic Kalas, John Atle Lindstrom, Ake Lorrilliere, Romain Molina, Blas Pladevall, Clara Calvi, Gianpiero Sattler, Thomas Schmid, Hans Sirkiä, Päivi M. Teufelbauer, Norbert Trautmann, Sven Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Zoology Finnish Museum of Natural History 2019-12-10T22:29:40Z 12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308050 eng eng Wiley 10.1111/gcb.14522 Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Finnish Ministry of Environment; Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies; The Norwegian Environment Agency; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Catalan government; Italian Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry Policies; Swedish Environmental Protection Agency; Climate and Environment Ministry; Rural Network; Academy of Finland, Grant/Award Number: 275606; BTO; Scottish Government; Scottish Natural Heritage; National Trust for Scotland; Scottish Ornithologists' Club; Scottish Mountaineering Trust; AEB Trust Lehikoinen , A , Brotons , L , Calladine , J , Campedelli , T , Escandell , V , Flousek , J , Grueneberg , C , Haas , F , Harris , S , Herrando , S , Husby , M , Jiguet , F , Kalas , J A , Lindstrom , A , Lorrilliere , R , Molina , B , Pladevall , C , Calvi , G , Sattler , T , Schmid , H , Sirkiä , P M , Teufelbauer , N & Trautmann , S 2019 , ' Declining population trends of European mountain birds ' , Global Change Biology , vol. 25 , no. 2 , pp. 577-588 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14522 ORCID: /0000-0002-1989-277X/work/54151248 ORCID: /0000-0003-0346-6298/work/65674396 85058213374 39403219-083a-40e1-a162-9f6d2467c0f1 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/308050 000456028900016 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess afforestation agriculture alpine habitat common bird monitoring global warming land use changes loss of biodiversity mountains population trend upland LAND-USE CHANGE CLIMATE-CHANGE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION NITROGEN DEPOSITION GLOBAL CHANGE RANGE SHIFTS IMPACT INDICATORS ABUNDANCE PATTERNS 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 1172 Environmental sciences Article acceptedVersion 2019 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:14:27Z 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. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia Fennoscandian HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Warming Land ENVELOPE(-52.000,-52.000,81.617,81.617) Global Change Biology 25 2 577 588 |