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

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F21%3AA2402JW4" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/21:A2402JW4 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • 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>

Alternative languages

  • 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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Ecological Indicators

  • ISSN

    1872-7034

  • e-ISSN

    1470-160X

  • Volume of the periodical

  • 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

  • UT code for WoS article

    000710621100005

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85117277601