Making the most of birds as environmental indicators

Ostrich

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-88

  Bibby, Colin J ^a  

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033096391     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00306525.1999.9639752     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Anon. 1995. Biodiversity: the UK Action Plan. London: HMSO.
2. Anon. 1997. Biodiversity et dconomie agraire: Recherche m£thodologique pour la quantification et la remuneration d’un produit intentionnel en mati&re de conservation de la biodiversity. Brussels: Institut Royal des Sciences Natur- elles de Belgique.
3. Bibby, C.J., Burgess, N. & Hill, D.A. 1992. Bird Census Techniques. London: Academic Press.
4. Bibby, C J. 1994. Recent past and future extinctions in birds. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 344: 35-40.
5. Collar, N.J. & Andrew, A. 1988. Birds to watch: the ICBP world check-list of threatened birds. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation (Techn. Publ. 8).
6. Collar, N J, Crosby, M.C. & Stattersfield, A J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2: The World List of Threatened Birds. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
7. Collar, N J, Gonzaga, L.P, Krabbe, N., Madrono Nieto, A., Naranjo, L.G., Parker, T.A. & Wege, D.C. 1992. Threatened birds of the Americas: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation.
8. Collar, N J. & Stuart, S.N. 1985. Threatened birds of Africa and related islands: the ICBP/IUCN Red Data book. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation and International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
9. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. 1998. Sustainability counts: consultation paper on a set of ‘headline’ indicators of sustainable development. London: DETR.
10. European Environment Agency. 1998. Europe’s Environment: the Second Assessment. Luxembourg and Oxford: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities and Elsevier Science Ltd.
11. Furness, R.W. & Greenwood, J.J.D. (eds) 1993. Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change. London: Chapman & Hall.
12. Gibbons, D.W., Hill, D.A. & Sutherland, W J. 1996a. Birds. In: Sutherland, W.J. (ed.) Ecological Census Techniques a handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 227-259.
13. Gibbons, D.W., Avery, M.I. & Brown, A.F. 1996b. Population trends of breeding birds in the United Kingdom since 1800. British Birds 89: 291-305.
14. Gilbert, G., Gibbons, D.W. & Evans, J. 1998. Bird Monitoring Methods. Sandy: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
15. Green, R.E. & Hirons, G.J.M. 1991. The relevance of population studies to the conservation of threatened birds. In: Perrins, C.M., Lebreton J.-D. & Hirons G. J. M. (eds) Bird Population Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 594-633.
16. Greenwood, J.J.D. 1996. Basic techniques. In: Sutherland, W.J. (ed.) Ecological Census Techniques a handbook. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press: 11-110.
17. Gregory, R.D. & Baillie, S.R. in press. Survey design and sampling strategies for breeding bird monitoring. Proceedings of the 13th International conference of the European Bird Census Council, Estonia 1995.
18. Gregory, R.D., Baillie, S.R. & Bashford, R.I. in press. Monitoring breeding birds in the United Kingdom. Proceedings of the 13th International conference of the European Bird Census Council, Estonia 1995.
19. Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M. (eds) 1997. The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: their distribution and abundance. London: T. & A.D. Poyscr.
20. Hammond, A., Adriaanse A., Rodenburg E., Bryant D. & Woodward R. 1995. Environmental Indicators: A Systematic Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Environmental Policy Performance in the Context of Sustainable Development. Washington DC: World Resources Institute.
21. Harrison, J.A., Allen, D.G., Underhill, L.G., Herremans, M., Tree, A.J., Parker, V. & Brown, C J. 1997. Ihe Atlas of Southern African Birds. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.
22. Howard, P.C., Viskanic, P., Davenport, T.R.B., Kigenyi, F.W., Baltzer, M., Dickinson, C.J., Lwanga, J.S., Matthews, R.A. & Balmford, A. 1998. Complementarity and the use of indicator groups for reserve selection in Uganda. Nature 394: 472-475.
23. ICBP 1992. Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation. Cambridge, UK: International Council for Bird Preservation.
24. INTERAISE 1996. World Directory of Country Environmental Studies: an Annotated Bibliography of Natural Resource Profiles, Plans, and Strategics. Washington DC: World Resources Institute.
25. IUCN/SSC 1994. IUCN Red List Categories. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission.
26. IUCN 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
27. Lawton, J.H., Bignell, D.E., Bolton, B., Bloemers, G.F., Eggleton, P., Hammond, P.M., Hodda, M., Holt, R.D., Larsen, T.B., Mawdsley, N.A. & Stork, N.E. 1998. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest. Nature 391: 72-76.
28. Lawton, J.H. & May R.M. (eds) 1995. Extinction Rates. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
29. MacGillivray, A.(ed.) 1994. Environmental Measures: Indicators for the UK Environment. London: Environment Challenge Group.
30. McGeoch, M.A. 1998. The selection, testing and application of terrestrial insects as bioindicators. Biol. Rev. 78: 181-201.
31. Miller, K.R. & Lanou, S.M. 1995. National Biodiversity Planning: Guidelines Based on Early Experiences Around the World. Washington DC, Nairobi, Gland Switzerland: World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme and IUCN-Thc World Conservation Union.
32. OECD. 1993. OECD Core Set of Indicators for Environmental Performance Reviews; a synthesis report by the Group on the State of the Environment. Environmental monographs no 83, Paris: OECD.
33. OECD. 1996. Shaping the 21st Century: The Contribution of Development Co-operation. Paris: OECD.
34. Pimm, S.L. & Lawton, J.H. 1998. Planning for biodiversity. Science 279: 2068-2069.
35. Prendergast, J.R., Quinn, R.M., Lawton, J.H., Eversham, B.C. & Gibbons, D.W. 1993. Rare species, the coincidence of diversity hotspots and conservation strategies. Nature 365: 335-337
36. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 1997 The Biodiversity Agenda: Decisions from the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. New York and Geneva: United Nations.
37. Stattersfield, A.J., Crosby, M.C., Long, A.J. & Wege, D.C. 1998 Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation. Cambridge UK: BirdLife International.
38. Steadman, D.W. 1995. Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Science 267:1123-1131.
39. Ten Brink, B. 1997. Biodiversity indicators for integrated environmental assessments. Bilthoven, Netherlands: UNfcP/RIVM Technical Report series.
40. The World Bank. 1995. Monitoring Environmental Progress: a Report on Work in Progress. Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
41. The World Bank. 1997a. Expanding the Measure of Wealth. Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
42. The World Bank. 1997b. World Development Indicators. Washington DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.
43. Thirgood, S.J. & Heath, M.F. 1994. Global patterns of endemism and the conservation of biodiversity. In: Humphries, C.J. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (eds) Systematics and conservation evaluation. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 207-227.
44. Tucker, G.M., Heath, M.F., Tomialojc, L. & Grimmett, R.F.A. 1994. Birds in Europe: their conservation status. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
45. Tuxill, J. & Bright, C. 1998. Losing strands in the web of life. In: Lester R Brown et al. State of the World 1998. New York: W.W. Norton and Company
46. UK Biodiversity Group. 1998. Tranche 2 Action Plans. Volume 1 - vertebrates and vascular plants. Peterborough, UK: English Nature
47. Van Jaarsveld, A.S., Freitag, S., Chown, S.L., Muller, C., Koch S., Hull, H., Bellamy, C., Kruger, M., Endrody-Younga, S., Mansell, M.W. & Scholtz, C.H. 1998. Biodiversity assessment and conservation strategies. Science 279: 2106-2108.
48. Van Strien, A.J. 1997. Biodiversity declining in the Netherlands: an indicator to describe the changes in the number of wild species. Neth. Official Stat. - Winter: 45-49
49. Van Strien, A.J. in press. From monitoring data to policyrelevant summary statistics. Bird Numbers 1998. Where Monitoring and Ecological Research meet. Proceedings 14th international Conference of EBCC.
50. Williams P., Burgess, N., & Rahbek, C. in press. Hotspots of richness, hotspots of endemism, and complementary areas: their success in representing the diversity of sub- saharan mammals, their consequences for birds, and their application to large ‘flagship’ mammals for representing small mammals. In: Entwistle A. & Dunstone N. (eds) Has the Panda had its Day? Future Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Biodiversity. London: Chapman and Hall.
51. WWF/IUCN. 1994. Centres of Plant Diversity: a Guide and Strategy for their Conservation, 1: Europe, Africa, South West Asia and the Middle East. Cambridge, UK: World Wide Fund for Nature and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
52. WWF/TUCN. 1994-1995. Centres of Plant Diversity: a Guide and Strategy for their Conservation, 2: Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge, UK: World Wide Fund for Nature and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
53. WWF/IUCN. 1997. Centres of Plant Diversity: a Guide and Strategy for their Conservation, 3: North America, Middle America, South America, Caribbean Islands. Cambridge, UK: World Wide Fund for Nature and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
54. WWF. 1998. Living Planet Report 1998. Gland: WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature.