A5032243701- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
- Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
- Forest Management and Policy
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Fire effects on ecosystems
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
2013-2024
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
2020
Institute for Literature
2003-2018
University of Amsterdam
2011-2013
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
2009
Leiden University
1979-1990
Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands
1977-1982
Rijksmuseum
1979
Global Biodiversity Target Missed In 2002, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) committed to a significant reduction in rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. There has been widespread conjecture that this target not met. Butchart et al. (p. 1164 , published online 29 April) analyzed over 30 indicators developed within CBD's framework. These include condition or state (e.g., species numbers, population sizes), pressures deforestation), and responses maintain protected areas) were...
The global pledge to deliver 'a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010' is echoed a number regional and national level targets. There broad consensus, however, that absence conservation action, will continue be lost at unprecedented recent era. Remarkably, we lack basic system measure progress towards these targets and, particular, standard measures procedures construct assess summary statistics. Here, develop simple classification indicators assist their...
One consequence of climate change is an increasing mismatch between timing food requirements and availability. Such a primarily expected in avian long-distance migrants because their complex annual cycle, habitats with seasonal peak. Here we show that insectivorous migrant species The Netherlands declined strongly (1984–2004) forests, habitat characterized by short spring peak, but they did not decline less marshes. Also, within generalist species, populations more forests than...
Summary Policy‐makers increasingly demand robust measures of biodiversity change over short time periods. Long‐term monitoring schemes provide high‐quality data, often on an annual basis, but are taxonomically and geographically restricted. By contrast, opportunistic biological records relatively unstructured vast in quantity. Recently, these data have been applied to elaborate science policy questions, using a range methods. At present, we lack firm understanding which methods, if any,...
Summary Many publications documenting large‐scale trends in the distribution of species make use opportunistic citizen data, that is, observations collected without standardized field protocol and explicit sampling design. It is a challenge to achieve reliable estimates from them, because science data may suffer changes efforts over time (observation bias), incomplete selective recording by observers (reporting bias) geographical bias. These, addition detection bias, lead spurious trends. We...
World leaders have set global and regional targets to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, their relative success, or failure, in meeting these aims will be measured against a indicators. For such indicators effective, they need meet range practical scientific criteria. Their development is often driven pragmatically information available, One indicator that has proven highly effective influential Europe wild bird indicator. This based on composite population trends birds combined...
Rapid climatic change poses a threat to global biodiversity. There is extensive evidence that recent has affected animal and plant populations, but no indicators exist summarise impacts over many species large areas. We use data on long-term population trends of European birds develop such an indicator. find significant relationship between interspecific variation in trend the potential range extent late 20(th) 21(st) centuries, forecasted by envelope models. Our indicator measures...
Birds populations allied in abundance Changes climate can cause of species to decline, increase, or remain steady. Stephens et al. looked across common birds Europe and the United States. Despite many differences between two regions, expectations about how a might respond change did predict actual responses. Species predicted benefit from increasing temperatures, their associated effects, tended whereas those be negatively affected declined. Thus, even widely varying ecological conditions...
We explore population trends of widespread and common woodland birds using data from an extensive European network ornithologists for the period 1980–2003. show considerable differences exist in species according to broad habitat they occupy degree which specialize use. On average, forest are shallow decline at a scale; declined by 13%, specialists 18%, 1980 2003. In comparison, populations farmland have moderately, falling on average 28% These patterns contrast with that shown generalist...
Analyses of species' population losses typically show a dichotomy between strongly affected, rare, and localized species apparently unaffected, common, widespread species. We analyzed 16 years (1992-2007) butterfly transect count data from The Netherlands in reevaluation the trends Fifty-five percent (11 20 species) these suffered severe declines distribution abundance. Overall, cumulative abundance declined by around 30%. Some decline used to be omnipresent gardens parks, 2 were previously...
Summary 1. Trends of animal populations are great interest in ecology but cannot be directly observed owing to imperfect detection. Binomial mixture models use replicated counts estimate abundance, corrected for detection, demographically closed populations. Here, we extend these open and illustrate them using sand lizard Lacerta agilis from the national Dutch reptile monitoring scheme. 2. Our model requires multiple sites each several periods, within which population closure is assumed....
Abstract Temperate species are projected to experience the greatest temperature increases across a range of modelled climate change scenarios, and warming has been linked geographical population changes individual at such latitudes. However, beyond multiple modelling approaches, we lack empirical evidence contemporary impacts on populations in broad taxonomic groups continental scales. Identifying reliable predictors resilience or susceptibility is critical importance assessing potential...
IUCN Red Lists are recognized worldwide as powerful instruments for the conservation of species. Quantitative criteria to standardize approaches estimating population trends, geographic ranges and sizes have been developed at global sub-global levels. Little attention has given data needed estimate species trends range List assessments. Few regions collect monitoring in a structured way usually only limited number taxa. Therefore, opportunistic increasingly used sizes. Trend calculations use...
Abstract Maximizing the area under biodiversity‐related conservation measures is a main target of 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 Birds Directive had an effect on bird population changes using monitoring data from 39 farmland species 1981 2012 at scale. Populations resident short‐distance migrants were larger with...
Abstract Aim Poleward range shifts of species are among the most obvious effects climate change on biodiversity. As a consequence these shifts, communities predicted to become increasingly composed warm‐dwelling species, but this has only been studied for limited number taxa, mainly birds, butterflies and plants. groups may vary considerably in their adaptation change, it is desirable expand studies other groups, from different ecosystems. Freshwater macroinvertebrates, such as dragonflies...
Abstract Around fifteen thousand fieldworkers annually count breeding birds using standardized protocols in 28 European countries. The observations are collected by country-specific and protocols, validated, summarized finally used for the production of continent-wide annual long-term indices population size changes 170 species. Here, we present database provide a detailed summary methodology fieldwork calculation relative change estimates. We also brief overview how data research,...
Abstract Global and regional targets to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss bring with them need measure state nature how it is changing. A number different indicators have been developed in response here we consider bird population Europe. Birds are often used as surrogates for other elements because they so well known studied, not their unique intrinsic value environmental indicators. Yet, certain situations at particular scales, trends populations correlate those taxa making a valuable...
Species attributes are commonly used to infer impacts of environmental change on multiyear species trends, e.g. decadal changes in population size. However, by themselves limited value global attribution since they do not measure the changing environment. A broader foundation for attributing responses may be achieved complementing an attributes-based approach one estimating relationship between repeated measures organismal and over short time scales. To assess benefit this multiscale...
Summary The rapid expansion of systematic monitoring schemes necessitates robust methods to reliably assess species' status and trends. Insect poses a challenge where there are strong seasonal patterns, requiring repeated counts abundance. Butterfly ( BMS s) operate in an increasing number countries with broadly the same methodology, yet they differ their observation frequency used compute annual abundance indices. Using simulated observed data, we performed extensive comparison two...
We calculated a Living Planet Index (LPI) for the Netherlands, based on 361 animal species from seven taxonomic groups occurring in terrestrial and freshwater habitats. Our assessment is basically similar to global LPI, but latter includes vertebrate trends population abundance only. To achieve inferences biodiversity more generally, we added two insect (butterflies dragonflies) occupancy which had no available. According state of has slightly increased 1990 2014. However, large differences...