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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-09-2017
DOI: 10.1002/AQC.2826
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 11-01-2017
Abstract: Historical species records offer an excellent opportunity to test the predictive ability of range forecasts under climate change, but researchers often consider that historical records are scarce and unreliable, besides the datasets collected by renowned naturalists. Here, we demonstrate the relevance of bio ersity records developed through citizen-science initiatives generated outside the natural sciences academia. We used a Spanish geographical dictionary from the mid-nineteenth century to compile over 10 000 freshwater fish records, including almost 4 000 brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) citations, and constructed a historical presence–absence dataset covering over 2 000 10 × 10 km cells, which is comparable to present-day data. There has been a clear reduction in trout range in the past 150 years, coinciding with a generalized warming. We show that current trout distribution can be accurately predicted based on historical records and past and present values of three air temperature variables. The models indicate a consistent decline of average suitability of around 25% between 1850s and 2000s, which is expected to surpass 40% by the 2050s. We stress the largely unexplored potential of historical species records from non-academic sources to open new pathways for long-term global change science.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2015.07.023
Abstract: Freshwater ecosystems and bio ersity are among the most threatened at global scale, but efforts for their conservation have been mostly peripheral to terrestrial conservation. For ex le, Natura 2000, the world's largest network of protected areas, fails to cover adequately the distribution of rare and endangered aquatic species, and lacks of appropriate spatial design to make conservation for freshwater bio ersity effective. Here, we develop a framework to identify a complementary set of priority areas and enhance the conservation opportunities of Natura 2000 for freshwater bio ersity, using the Iberian Peninsula as a case study. We use a systematic planning approach to identify a minimum set of additional areas that would help i) adequately represent all freshwater fish, hibians and aquatic reptiles at three different target levels, ii) account for key ecological processes derived from riverscape connectivity, and iii) minimize the impact of threats, both within protected areas and propagated from upstream unprotected areas. Addressing all these goals would need an increase in area between 7 and 46%, depending on the conservation target used and strength of connectivity required. These new priority areas correspond to subcatchments inhabited by endangered and range restricted species, as well as additional subcatchments required to improve connectivity among existing protected areas and to increase protection against upstream threats. Our study should help guide future revisions of the design of Natura 2000, while providing a framework to address deficiencies in reserve networks for adequately protecting freshwater bio ersity elsewhere.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-12-2014
DOI: 10.1111/FWB.12519
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/DDI.12454
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.118
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-11-2020
Abstract: Connectivity plays a key role in bio ersity conservation as it sustains ecological processes, such as migrations, important for the maintenance of populations. Connectivity is especially relevant for species that rely on different realms during their life cycle or use different realms daily or seasonally (multi‐realm species). However, efforts to address conservation across multiple realms have focused on identifying priority areas for conservation in a single realm (mostly marine) while accounting for threats propagating from other realms or single species needs. Here, we demonstrate how to identify priority areas for conservation across three different realms (freshwater–terrestrial, estuary and marine) for multiple species, including some multi‐realm species, that inhabit or move across the three realms, using the Tagus River (Western Iberian Peninsula), its estuary and nearby marine area as a case study. We integrated multiple types of connectivity in the selection of priority areas for conservation, each of them customised to depict important drivers of movement within each realm and across realms: longitudinal connectivity along rivers or multidimensional connectivity in the estuary and marine realms, guided by currents and depth similarity, respectively. We compared the allocation of priority areas and spatial connectivity achieved under three scenarios: no‐connectivity, within‐realm and cross‐realm connectivity scenarios. There were differences in the spatial allocation of priority areas across scenarios. The most remarkable difference laid on the connectivity achieved under each scenario, which experienced a threefold increase when considering connectivity across realms, compared to solutions that considered only connectivity within each realm independently. This improvement in connectivity was especially marked for species that occur across different realms. There were, however, trade‐offs between this improvement in connectivity and the increase in the number of planning units selected, especially in the estuary. Synthesis and applications . Addressing connectivity across realms deserves special attention when planning for the conservation of multi‐realm species to ensure the adequacy of conservation recommendations to respond to the needs of multi‐realm species. Given the potential trade‐offs between enhanced cross‐realm connectivity and total area needed or internal within‐realm connectivity, consideration of cross‐realm connectivity must be cautiously evaluated and integrated in multi‐realm conservation plans.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-01-2023
DOI: 10.1111/JBI.14565
Abstract: Freshwater mussels are among the most threatened taxa in the world, partially due to the dependence on fish hosts to complete their life cycle. Knowledge about the role of environmental and biotic drivers in determining mussels' distribution is currently lacking. We aimed to assess the role of environmental and biotic drivers in determining the distribution of mussels and their fish hosts and to test if co‐occurrence patterns were able to identify mussel‐host interactions. Douro River basin (Iberian Peninsula). Four freshwater mussels and ten fish hosts. Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) were fitted to presence‐absence records for mussel and fish assemblages. Variance partitioning among environmental variables and latent variables was conducted to determine the environmental versus biotic drivers of species distributions. Resulting matrices of pairwise species co‐occurrences were used to identify co‐occurrence patterns. The distribution of host generalist mussel species was mainly explained by environmental variables related to climate and topography. The distribution of the host specialist Margaritifera margaritifera was mainly explained by land use. Strong positive correlations between mussels and the most relevant fish hosts were consistently captured by JSDMs. Co‐occurrence patterns were mainly explained by residual factors, indicating the potential role of biotic interactions. Biotic interactions were expected to play an important role in explaining mussels' distribution, but the contribution of this factor was only meaningful for the host specialist M. margaritifera . Correlations between mussels and suitable hosts allowed to infer important fish hosts for freshwater mussels in the Douro River basin from distributional data alone. By finding similarities between the ecological requirements of co‐occurring species, conservation measures can be oriented towards several species, which brings a more holistic perspective to the protection of bio ersity.
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