Article
Environmental Studies
Sanna Makelainen, Aleksi Lehikoinen
Summary: The study found that in Finland, the number of nationally threatened breeding birds was significantly lower in implemented peat extraction projects, and the overall probability of project implementation was negatively associated with the year the EIA began. However, there are some limitations in terms of post-construction biodiversity monitoring in both project types.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
William J. McShea, Mei-Hsiu Hwang, Fang Liu, Sheng Li, Clayton Lamb, Bruce McLellan, Dana J. Morin, Karine Pigeon, Michael F. Proctor, Haydee Hernandez-Yanez, Taylor Frerichs, David L. Garshelis
Summary: Changes in species distribution can serve as an indicator of conservation status. However, modeling the distribution for some species is challenging due to low sampling levels and uncertain associations with landscape attributes. This is particularly true for Asian bears, which have generalist habitat requirements and are heavily poached. The current distribution maps for Asian bears are primarily based on expert opinion and may not accurately reflect the true distribution. This study suggests several actions to improve distribution mapping for bears and other species influenced by poorly measured metrics like poaching.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Thazin Htay, Thor Harald Ringsby, Eivin Roskaft, Peter Sjolte Ranke
Summary: Integrating agroecosystems as bird habitats is crucial for long-term conservation planning. Farming communities play a vital role in making agriculture compatible with conservation, as their acceptance and attitudes towards avian species greatly influence the adoption of bird-friendly agricultural practices and involvement in bird conservation initiatives.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ismael E. Ramirez, Charlotte E. Causton, George A. Gutierrez, Denis A. Mosquera, Paolo Piedrahita, George E. Heimpel
Summary: Quantitative food web analyses can provide insights into the specificity of consumers such as herbivores, parasites, and parasitoids. In this study, a novel in-field experimental food web approach was used to investigate the specificity of pupal parasitoids towards the neotropical bird parasite Philornis downsi. The results revealed strong compartmentalization within the guild of pupal fly parasitoids, with some species being highly specific to the genus Philornis.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michal Zmihorski, Dorota Kotowska, Ewa Zysk-Gorczynska
Summary: Bird collisions with windows are a major cause of human-induced mortality for this group of animals. Factors such as the proportion of forests and arable land nearby, proximity to rivers, and the presence of trees near buildings can influence the number of collisions. Additionally, increased window cleaning frequency may also lead to more collisions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Arjun Srivathsa, Ryan G. Rodrigues, Kok Ben Toh, Arun Zachariah, Ryan W. Taylor, Madan K. Oli, Uma Ramakrishnan
Summary: Accurate population counts of endangered species are crucial for conservation biology, but reliable density estimates are still unavailable for many species. This study successfully generated dhole density estimates by identifying individual dholes from genetic samples, providing important ecological information for the species' scientific management efforts.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Oliver C. Metcalf, Jos Barlow, Stuart Marsden, Nargila Gomes de Moura, Erika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Alexander C. Lees
Summary: The study shows that high temporal resolution sampling method outperforms low temporal resolution sampling in detecting avian diversity, with fewer false absences and more uncommon species detected.
REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Adam Patrick Dixon, Matthew E. Baker, Erle C. Ellis
Summary: Intensive agricultural landscapes pose challenges to increasing wildlife diversity, but recent advances in acoustic data collection and high-resolution habitat mapping have the potential to address this challenge. This study examined the relationship between habitat characteristics and avian biodiversity in intensive agricultural landscapes in Iowa. The results showed associations between noncrop vegetation and vocalizing bird richness, but challenges remain in promoting grassland birds in row crop landscapes.
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Stefan Kahl, Connor M. Wood, Maximilian Eibl, Holger Klinck
Summary: Recent advances in deep artificial neural networks have revolutionized the field of bird sound recognition, with models like BirdNET able to accurately identify 984 North American and European bird species. Task-specific model designs and training regimes play a crucial role in audio event recognition, while high temporal resolution of input spectrograms improves classification performance for bird sounds.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Thomas A. A. Prowse, Patrick J. O'Connor, Stuart J. Collard, Kristian J. Peters, Hugh P. Possingham
Summary: Long-term biodiversity monitoring programs are important for understanding species trajectories and environmental change. However, optimizing monitoring designs is crucial to maximize efficiency and balance ecological and economic benefits. The study found that reducing monitoring effort may compromise trend detection for rare or difficult-to-observe species, highlighting the need to consider social and political sustainability of such programs in the future.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Paula Suarez-Bregua, Miguel Alvarez-Gonzalez, Kim M. Parsons, Josep Rotllant, Graham J. Pierce, Camilo Saavedra
Summary: Monitoring marine mammal populations is crucial for assessing their status. Traditional methods have limitations, while environmental DNA (eDNA) offers a cost-effective and sensitive tool to monitor marine mammals, especially for rare, elusive, or threatened species.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Nicolas Grondard, Erik Kleyheeg, Lars Hein, Lenny G. J. Van Bussel
Summary: The effectiveness of agri-environmental measures (AEMs) in protecting farmland biodiversity is questioned. This study assesses the effects of two AEMs, bird plots and field margins, on the abundance of seven cropland bird species in the Netherlands. Field margins have a positive effect on several bird species, while bird plots have a positive effect on skylarks and total bird abundance. However, some bird species do not benefit from these measures possibly due to unsuitable vegetation. Landscape factors have contrasting effects on different species, highlighting the need for fine-scale spatial targeting of measures based on species habitat requirements. The spatial concentration of other AEM plots has a negative effect for only two species, suggesting that the type of measures and landscape are more important than their spatial concentration.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ornithology
Ken Norris, Alexander L. Bond, Joanna H. Cooper, Mark P. Adams, Hein van Grouw, Judith White, Martin Stervander, Douglas G. D. Russell, Simon P. Loader
Summary: The study of wild birds is crucial for understanding and addressing environmental changes. However, the role of avian collections in environmental change research is limited by the availability of data. This article discusses how avian collections can be unlocked to enable research on environmental change, and highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with this. The authors propose a blueprint for addressing these challenges, including improving data-sharing and advocating for digitization at scale. The Natural History Museum, UK, is committed to unlocking their avian collections but requires support from the research community.
Article
Ecology
Masoud Yousefi, Saeed Mohammadi, Anooshe Kafash
Summary: This study modeled the global habitat suitability of bearded vultures using a maximum entropy approach, 10,585 distribution records, and 10 environmental variables. The results showed that topographic diversity is the most important predictor of the species distribution. Only 16.26% of the species' suitable habitats are protected. Therefore, it is necessary to include the areas with the highest suitability for conservation in the network of protected areas.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Kaede Miyata, Yasuaki Inoue, Yuto Amano, Tohru Nishioka, Masayuki Yamane, Takamitsu Kawaguchi, Osamu Morita, Hiroshi Honda
Summary: This study found that there are sufficient amounts of eRNA in water samples from rivers in Japan to support ecological surveys based on eRNA, with higher correlation and positive predictivity compared to eDNA.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Fisheries
Miguel Costa Leal, Rui Jorge Miranda Rocha, Rui Rosa, Ricardo Calado
REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE
(2018)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carolina Madeira, Miguel C. Leal, Mario S. Diniz, Henrique N. Cabral, Catarina Vinagre
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2018)
Review
Ecology
Christine Ferrier-Pages, Miguel Costa Leal
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Carolina Madeira, Vanessa Mendonca, Miguel C. Leal, Mario S. Diniz, Henrique N. Cabral, Augusto A. V. Flores, Catarina Vinagre
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Jaime M. Anaya-Rojas, Rebecca J. Best, Franziska S. Brunner, Christophe Eizaguirre, Miguel Costa Leal, Carlos J. Melian, Ole Seehausen, Blake Matthews
Article
Fisheries
Fernando de O. Roberti Filho, Joao Fernando Albers Koch, Christian Wallace, Miguel Costa Leal
AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Asano Ishikawa, Naoki Kabeya, Koki Ikeya, Ryo Kakioka, Jennifer N. Cech, Naoki Osada, Miguel C. Leal, Jun Inoue, Manabu Kume, Atsushi Toyoda, Ayumi Tezuka, Atsushi J. Nagano, Yo Y. Yamasaki, Yuto Suzuki, Tomoyuki Kokita, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kay Lucek, David Marques, Yusuke Takehana, Kiyoshi Naruse, Seiichi Mori, Oscar Monroig, Nemiah Ladd, Carsten J. Schubert, Blake Matthews, Catherine L. Peichel, Ole Seehausen, Goro Yoshizaki, Jun Kitano
Editorial Material
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Helena Vieira, Miguel Costa Leal, Ricardo Calado
TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Diana Madeira, Joana Andrade, Miguel C. Leal, Violeta Ferreira, Rui J. M. Rocha, Rui Rosa, Ricardo Calado
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Miguel C. Leal, Jaime M. Anaya-Rojas, Murray H. G. Munro, John W. Blunt, Carlos J. Melian, Ricardo Calado, Moritz D. Lurig
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2020)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Christine Ferrier-Pages, Miguel C. Leal, Ricardo Calado, Dominik W. Schmid, Frederic Bertucci, David Lecchini, Denis Allemand
Summary: This review discusses the impact of underwater noise on coral reef organisms, with a focus on how different factors influence the sensitivity of organisms to noise. It highlights the need for measures from governments, the shipping industry and individual users to address global noise emission on coral reefs and emphasizes the importance of policies and research in managing this issue.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Cornelia W. Twining, Joey R. Bernhardt, Alison M. Derry, Cameron M. Hudson, Asano Ishikawa, Naoki Kabeya, Martin J. Kainz, Jun Kitano, Carmen Kowarik, Sarah Nemiah Ladd, Miguel C. Leal, Kristin Scharnweber, Jeremy R. Shipley, Blake Matthews
Summary: The nutritional diversity of resources can impact the adaptive evolution of consumer metabolism and diversification. Omega-3 fatty acids have a significant influence on consumer fitness. Consumers can evolve in response to resource quality variations and genetic mechanisms underpinning consumer adaptation to fatty acid distributions are important for understanding evolutionary diversification.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carolina Madeira, Diana Madeira, Nemiah Ladd, Carsten J. Schubert, Mario S. Diniz, Catarina Vinagre, Miguel C. Leal
Summary: Climate warming is causing the rapid expansion of ocean warm pools, trapping sedentary coral reef inhabitants in high temperature regimes; using clownfish as a model organism, this study found that lipid storage capacity, fatty acid profiles, and lipid metabolic pathways were not affected by elevated temperatures, suggesting that stability in these aspects may be an important thermal adaptation feature for fish in warming environments.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Ricardo Calado, Vasco C. Mota, Diana Madeira, Miguel C. Leal
Summary: Atlantic salmon farming is a global commodity, but climate change is leading to negative impacts on the species due to fluctuations in seawater temperature. Producers can address this challenge through biotechnology and genetic diversity of wild populations.
Article
Ecology
Ana Teresa Marques, Luis Palma, Rui Lourenco, Rogerio Cangarato, Alexandre Leitao, Miguel Mascarenhas, Joao Tiago Tavares, Ricardo Tome, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja
Summary: This study investigates population- and individual-level responses of Bonelli's eagles to power lines. The results show that eagles are attracted to power lines at the population level, while individual responses vary and are influenced by the characteristics of the power grid.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Alfonso Balmori
Summary: This article discusses the potential negative effects of radio tagging on wild animals. While it is a valuable technique for gathering information, it is important to be aware of and study the possible issues it may cause to ensure the well-being of the animals.
JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
(2024)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
D. F. Castillo, N. C. Caruso
Summary: Understanding the distribution and ecological niche of hog-nosed skunks is crucial for their conservation. This study used species occurrence records and environmental variables to estimate suitable areas and key factors influencing their distribution. The results showed that temperature and tree presence are important variables. Additionally, areas of high habitat suitability for hog-nosed skunks are underrepresented in protected areas.
JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
(2024)