Developing indicators for European birds

By R. Gregory, A. V. van Strien, P. Voříšek, Adriaan W Gmelig Meyling, D. Noble, R. Foppen, D. Gibbons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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French citizens monitoring ordinary birds provide tools for conservation and ecological sciences (2012, background): “The Farmland Bird Index, obtained for common species (Gregory et al., 2005), has been adopted by the European Union (EU) as the structural indicator of sustainable development for biodiversity (Balmford et al.”
Contrasting trends of butterfly species preferring semi-natural grasslands, field margins and forest edges in northern Europe (2007, methodology): “For example, Gregory et al. (2005) found a difference between the population trends of European farmland and woodland birds.”
Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data (2014, background): “timely and robust estimates of status and trends, often on an annual basis (Gregory et al. 2005).”
Detecting bird sounds in a complex acoustic environment and application to bioacoustic monitoring (2010, background): “Due to the activity of birdwatchers, data regarding trends in population sizes for certain European bird species has been recorded and made available since 1980 (Gregory et al., 2005).”
Improving species distribution models: the value of data on abundance (2014, background): “Changes in abundance will be much more rapidly apparent, and hence more rapidly detected, than changes in presence–absence patterns across ranges (which are dependent upon colonization and extinction events) (Gregory et al. 2005).”
Measuring community responses to large‐scale disturbance in conservation biogeography (2009, methodology): “Second, we used an index based on multispecies population temporal trend widely used in national and supranational biodiversity assessment programs (e.g. farmland birds indicator, Gregory et al., 2005).”
Citizen Science as a Tool for Conservation in Residential Ecosystems (2007, background): “…in many areas, including population trends in wildlife (e.g., Hochachka et al. 1999, Hochachka and Dhondt 2000, Prysby and Oberhauser 2004, Cannon et al. 2005), avian life histories (e.g., Cooper et al. 2005), and management recommendations (e.g., Rosenberg et al. 1999, 2003, Gregory et al. 2005).”
Biotope Use and Trends of European Butterflies (2006, methodology): “However, pan-European data on the rate of decline of species are available for very few taxonomic groups, notably birds (Tucker andHeath 1994;EEA2004;EuropeanCommunities 2004; Gregory et al. 2005).”
Invasive alien goldenrods negatively affect grassland bird communities in Eastern Europe (2010, background): “Grasslands are the habitat of many endangered and declining bird species in the European farmland landscape (Gregory et al., 2005; Donald et al., 2006; Tryjanowski et al., 2009) which may suffer under the impact of alien goldenrod invasions.”
Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients (2012, background): “…from evolutionary trade-offs between a species’ ability to exploit a wide range of resources and the effectiveness with which it uses each of these, may provide indicators of species response to global changes in the environment (Gregory et al., 2005; Broennimann et al., 2006; Winck et al., 2007).”
Modelling changes in species’ abundance in response to projected climate change (2012, background): “However, it is population size and population trends that are most frequently used to assess the conservation status of species and determine priorities for action (Gregory et al., 2005; Eaton et al., 2009).”
Trend estimation in populations with imperfect detection (2009, background): “ing schemes (Balmford, Green & Jenkins 2003; Gregory et al. 2005).”
Smoothing and trend detection in waterbird monitoring data using structural time-series analysis and the Kalman filter (2007, methodology): “This is not only in the case of a census; TrendSpotter may also be helpful in assessing confidence limits of composite indices for species groups, a type of biodiversity indicator that is becoming increasingly popular (see, e.g. Gregory et al. 2005).”
Toward monitoring global biodiversity (2008, background): “There are approximately 1.75 million known species (Heywood & Watson 1995; Groombridge & Jenkins 2002), and 5–30 million or more that likely exist on the planet ( Erwin 1982; May 1992; Dirzo & Raven 2003; Mace et al. 2005).”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “Birds are useful biological indicators (Gregory et al. 2005), especially at the edges of urban areas, because they are ecologically versatile and can be monitored relatively easily and cheaply (Koskimies 1989).”
Integrating demographic data: towards a framework for monitoring wildlife populations at large spatial scales (2014, background): “Similar data are collected in many other countries (e.g. Spina 1999; Gregory et al. 2005; Saracco, DeSante & Kaschube 2008), but key features of the BTO’s programme are the volume of data collected (representing a combined effort equivalent to c. 1000 researcher-years per annum) and its integrated…”