Tracking Progress Toward EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets: EU Policy Effects in Preserving its Common Farmland Birds

Tracking Progress Toward EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets: EU Policy Effects in Preserving its Common Farmland Birds. Gamero, A., Brotons, L., Brunner, A., Foppen, R., Fornasari, L., Gregory, R. D., Herrando, S., Hořák, D., Jiguet, F., Kmecl, P., Lehikoinen, A., Lindström, Å., Paquet, J., Reif, J., Sirkiä, P. M., Škorpilová, J., van Strien, A., Szép, T., Telenský, T., Teufelbauer, N., Trautmann, S., van Turnhout, C. A., Vermouzek, Z., Vikstrøm, T., & Voříšek, P. Conservation Letters, 10(4):394 – 401, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Cited by: 86; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access

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Maximizing the area under biodiversity-related conservation measures is a main target of the European Union (EU) Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. We analyzed whether agrienvironmental schemes (AES) within EU common agricultural policy, special protected areas for birds (SPAs), and Annex I designation within EU Birds Directive had an effect on bird population changes using monitoring data from 39 farmland bird species from 1981 to 2012 at EU scale. Populations of resident and short-distance migrants were larger with increasing SPAs and AES coverage, while Annex I species had higher population growth rates with increasing SPAs, indicating that SPAs may contribute to the protection of mainly target species and species spending most of their life cycle in the EU. Because farmland birds are in decline and the negative relationship of agricultural intensification with their population growth rates was evident during the implementation of AES and SPAs, EU policies seem to generally attenuate the declines of farmland bird populations, but not to reverse them. © 2016 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

@ARTICLE{Gamero2017394,
	author = {Gamero, Anna and Brotons, Lluís and Brunner, Ariel and Foppen, Ruud and Fornasari, Lorenzo and Gregory, Richard D. and Herrando, Sergi and Hořák, David and Jiguet, Frédéric and Kmecl, Primož and Lehikoinen, Aleksi and Lindström, Åke and Paquet, Jean-Yves and Reif, Jiří and Sirkiä, Päivi M. and Škorpilová, Jana and van Strien, Arco and Szép, Tibor and Telenský, Tomáš and Teufelbauer, Norbert and Trautmann, Sven and van Turnhout, Chris A.M. and Vermouzek, Zdeněk and Vikstrøm, Thomas and Voříšek, Petr},
	title = {Tracking Progress Toward EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets: EU Policy Effects in Preserving its Common Farmland Birds},
	year = {2017},
	journal = {Conservation Letters},
	volume = {10},
	number = {4},
	pages = {394 – 401},
	doi = {10.1111/conl.12292},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013001603&doi=10.1111%2fconl.12292&partnerID=40&md5=7ed7c56ffdf399b14ab67cda944685b4},
	affiliations = {Czech Society for Ornithology, Prague, 15000, Czech Republic; CEMFOR - CTFC, InForest Jru, Solsona, 25280, Spain; Catalan Ornithological Institute, Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08019, Spain; Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain; CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain; European Bird Census Council (EBCC), Germany; BirdLife Europe, Brussels, 1060, Belgium; Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands; Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6500, Netherlands; Coordinamento Nazionale MITO2000, LIPU BirdLife Italy, Parma, 43122, Italy; RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, The Lodge, Sandy, SG19 2DL, United Kingdom; Department of Ecology, Charles University in Prague, Prague, 12844, Czech Republic; UMR7204 CESCO, Sorbonne Universités-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, Paris, 75005, France; DOPPS BirdLife Slovenia, Ljubljana, 1001, Slovenia; The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland; Department of Biology, Biodiversity Unit, Lund University, Lund, 22362, Sweden; Natagora, Département Études, Namur, 5000, Belgium; Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Praha, 12801, Czech Republic; Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, 77146, Czech Republic; Statistics Netherlands, The Hague, 2492, Netherlands; University of Nyíregyháza, Nyíregyháza, 4400, Hungary; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, 60365, Czech Republic; BirdLife Österreich, Vienna, 1070, Austria; Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten, Münster, 48157, Germany; BirdLife Denmark (DOF), Copenhagen, 1620, Denmark},
	abstract = {Maximizing the area under biodiversity-related conservation measures is a main target of the European Union (EU) Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. We analyzed whether agrienvironmental schemes (AES) within EU common agricultural policy, special protected areas for birds (SPAs), and Annex I designation within EU Birds Directive had an effect on bird population changes using monitoring data from 39 farmland bird species from 1981 to 2012 at EU scale. Populations of resident and short-distance migrants were larger with increasing SPAs and AES coverage, while Annex I species had higher population growth rates with increasing SPAs, indicating that SPAs may contribute to the protection of mainly target species and species spending most of their life cycle in the EU. Because farmland birds are in decline and the negative relationship of agricultural intensification with their population growth rates was evident during the implementation of AES and SPAs, EU policies seem to generally attenuate the declines of farmland bird populations, but not to reverse them. © 2016 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.},
	author_keywords = {agricultural intensification; Agrienvironmental schemes; bird monitoring; birds directive; common agriculture policy; Natura 2000; SPA},
	correspondence_address = {A. Gamero; Czech Society for Ornithology, Prague, 15000, Czech Republic; email: gamero@birdlife.cz},
	publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
	issn = {1755263X},
	language = {English},
	abbrev_source_title = {Conserv. Lett.},
	type = {Letter},
	publication_stage = {Final},
	source = {Scopus},
	note = {Cited by: 86; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access}
}

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