Are birds reliable indicators of most valuable natural areas? Evaluation of special protection areas in the context of habitat protection

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21009638" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21009638</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108298" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108298</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are birds reliable indicators of most valuable natural areas? Evaluation of special protection areas in the context of habitat protection

Original language description

Territorial protection of nature in any country is limited by various factors and therefore it is necessary to carefully select protected areas. Currently, they are often selected according to particular indicator taxa because of the simplicity and applicability of this approach. For example, Natura 2000 Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in EU are established to protect selected species of birds. We asked how well do SPAs cover valuable natural habitats, i.e., whether the areas selected for the protection of birds are also important for the conservation of natural habitats. We focused on the Czech Republic because detailed data on habitat composition are available for the whole country. Although SPAs covered only 9% of the whole country they contained disproportionately high part of the whole area of preserved natural habitats (36%). This was because 64% of SPAs area was covered by natural habitats compared to only 11% in the rest of the country. However, the importance of SPAs for different habitats and their formation groups varied significantly. Further, we found a positive relationship between habitat rareness and the proportion of rare habitats within SPAs. Despite their relatively small overall area SPAs host disproportionally large areas of natural habitats in the Czech Republic. This pattern suggests that birds are reliable indicators for territorial protection. SPAs thus show large importance for habitat conservation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ecological Indicators

ISSN

1872-7034

e-ISSN

1470-160X

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000710621100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117277601