Spatial gradients in country-level population trends of European birds
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<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/ddi.12945" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/ddi.12945</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12945" target="_blank" >10.1111/ddi.12945</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spatial gradients in country-level population trends of European birds
Original language description
Aim Population trends reflect influence of environmental drivers acting upon species' population dynamics. As the strength of this influence may change predictably in space, we test multiple hypotheses about spatial gradients in the effects of environmental drivers on bird population trends across the continent. Location Europe. Methods We used country-level population trends for 249 bird species in 32 European countries. For each species, we expressed values of 12 traits which mirror the influence of major environmental drivers: climate change, land-use change and change in environmental legislation. We related these traits to population trends using generalized additive mixed models and tested for the presence of spatial gradients by including the interaction of countries' geographic position with four of these traits for which we hypothesized spatial patterns in relationships to trends. Results Species listed for the longest time under Annex I of the EU's Birds Directive had increasingly positive trends towards the north-west, but an indication of the opposite pattern was found for shorter-listed species. Cold-adapted species had increasingly negative trends towards the North and especially the north-west, whereas the trends of the warm-adapted species were generally positive and increased in northern direction. Spatial gradients in trends were weaker for the habitat niche position with forest species having positive trends in North-Eastern Europe and open-habitat species having negative trends in the Westernmost edge of the continent. Main conclusions The influence of all major hypothesized drivers varies across Europe. Climate change impacts are probably most detrimental in North-Western Europe for the Arctic and upland birds, whereas the warm-adapted species may benefit from these changes at the same time. The differences in the enforcement of environmental legislation among countries are a likely driver of the spatial patterns for the Annex I species, whereas the unification of land-use intensity may be the cause of relatively weak patterns in the habitat niche effects.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
ISSN
1366-9516
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1527-1536
UT code for WoS article
000477165900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85069937959