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Morrison, Catriona A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4293-2717, Butler, Simon J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5111-5639, Robinson, Robert A., Clark, Jacquie A., Arizaga, Juan, Aurin, Ainars, Baltà, Oriol, Cepák, Jaroslav, Chodkiewicz, Tomasz, Escandell, Virginia, Foppen, Ruud P. B., Gregory, Richard D., Husby, Magne, Jiguet, Frédéric, Atle Kalas, John, Lehikoinen, Aleksi, Lindstrom, Ake, Moshøj, Charlotte M., Nagy, Károly, Leal Nebot, Arantza, Piha, Markus, Reif, Jiri, Sattler, Thomas, Skorpliova, Jana, Szép, Tibor, Teufelbauer, Norbert, Thorup, Kasper, van Turnhout, Chris, Wenninger, Thomas and Gill, Jennifer A.
(2021)
Covariation in population trends and demography reveals targets for conservation action.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1946).
ISSN 0962-8452
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Abstract
Wildlife conservation policies directed at common and widespread, but declining, species are difficult to design and implement effectively, as multiple environmental changes are likely to contribute to population declines. Conservation actions ultimately aim to influence demographic rates, but targeting actions towards feasible improvements in these is challenging in widespread species with ranges that encompass a wide range of environmental conditions. Across Europe, sharp declines in the abundance of migratory landbirds have driven international calls for action, but actions that could feasibly contribute to population recovery have yet to be identified. Targeted actions to improve conditions on poor-quality sites could be an effective approach, but only if local conditions consistently influence local demography and hence population trends. Using long-term measures of abundance and demography of breeding birds at survey sites across Europe, we show that co69 occurring species with differing migration behaviours have similar directions of local population trends and magnitudes of productivity, but not survival rates. Targeted actions to boost local productivity within Europe, alongside large-scale (non-targeted) environmental protection across non-breeding ranges, could therefore help address the urgent need to halt migrant landbird declines. Such demographic routes to recovery are likely to be increasingly needed to address global wildlife declines
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | conservation,demography,migration,population trends,productivity,biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),immunology and microbiology(all),environmental science(all),agricultural and biological sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2021 01:04 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2023 22:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79198 |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2020.2955 |
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