Selecting Indicator Species to Monitor Ecological Integrity: A Review

By V. Carignan, Marc-André Villard. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Community structure of epibenthic megafauna in the Chukchi Sea (2009, background): “…biomass, e.g. in the St. Lawrence Island polynya in the Bering Sea (Grebmeier et al. 2006b), distribution and/or biomass of either dominant taxa (Zhang & Tingwei 2003), commercially important taxa, particular ‘indicator species’ (Carignan & Villard 2002), or indices of diversity (Noss 1990).”
Ecologically justified charisma: preservation of top predators delivers biodiversity conservation (2006, background): “Even though flagship species can be used to raise funds spent on wider ecosystem-level targets (Caro & O’Doherty 1999; Carignan & Villard 2002), it has been claimed that the utilization of such species may divert a disproportionate amount of conservation action to a few glamorous species without…”
Are spiders reacting to local or landscape scale effects in Hungarian pastures (2008, background): “Samu and Szineta´r (2000) argued that rare species are especially suitable in showing the degree of ‘‘well being’’ of ecological systems, which can be termed ecological integrity ( Carignan and Villard, 2002; Hull et al., 2003).”
Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference. (2009, background): “Species of this kind are called ‘‘indicator species’’ by ecologists, and are used to monitor environmental changes and assess the impacts of disturbances on an ecosystem (Carignan and Villard 2002).”
Mitigating the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity: bats and their potential role as bioindicators (2015, background): “Frog, bat and dung beetle diversity in the cloud 729 forest and coffee agroecosystems of Veracruz, Mexico.”
How Many Animals Do We Want to Save? The Many Ways of Setting Population Target Levels for Conservation (2006, background): “Indicator species, like the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” inform us through their success or demise of the state of nature around them (Carignan and Villard 2002).”
Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes (2017, background): “The monitoring of responses to various environmental changes equires measures that match the habitat and degradation type n question (Carignan and Villard, 2002; Dale and Beyeler, 2001; ead and Andersen, 2000; Ricotta et al., 2015; Siddig et al., 2016). ifferent measures of ant diversity have been…”
Saproxylic beetles as indicator species for dead-wood amount and temperature in European beech forests (2012, neutral): “Being restricted to one or a few habitat types, they are better indicators than habitat generalists due to their greater susceptibility to environmental changes that can lead to local or regional extinction (Carignan and Villard, 2002).”
Mobilizing metaphors: the popular use of keystone, flagship and umbrella species concepts (2011, background): “Whilst such mammal-centric approaches emphasizing the ‘cute and cuddly’ have been criticized for not profiling biodiversity (Simberloff 1998; Carignan and Villard 2002; Caro et al. 2004), changes are difficult to bring about when reporters have to sell stories to a public that is interested in…”
Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites (2010, background): “Indicator species are species that, due to their niche preferences, can be used as ecological indicators of community types, habitat conditions, or environmental changes (McGeoch 1998, Carignan and Villard 2002, Niemi and McDonald 2004).”
Bryophytes as potential indicators of forest integrity (2007, neutral): “Carignan and Villard, 2002; Lindenmayer et al., 2002; Dale and Beyeler, 2001; Simberloff, 1999, 1998).”