Evaluating the Connectivity of a Protected Areas' Network under the Prism of Global Change: The Efficiency of the European Natura 2000 Network for Four Birds of Prey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Papanikolaou, Alexandra D ^a   Barbet Massin, Morgane ^b   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^c,f   Jiguet, Frédéric ^d   Schmeller, Dirk S ^e   Pantis, John D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^f University of Western Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; AQUILA POMARINA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GYPS FULVUS; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; NONHUMAN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RAPTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875112083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059640     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Moffett A, Sarkar S, (2006) Incorporating multiple criteria into the design of conservation area networks: a minireview with recommendations. Diversity and Distributions 12: 125-137.
2. Jetz W, Wilcove DS, Dobson AP, (2007) Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birds. Plos Biology 5: 1211-1219.
3. Klausmeyer KR, Shaw MR, (2009) Climate Change, Habitat Loss, Protected Areas and the Climate Adaptation Potential of Species in Mediterranean Ecosystems Worldwide. Plos One 4(7): e6392 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006392.
4. Araujo MB, Alagador D, Cabeza M, Nogues-Bravo D, Thuiller W, (2011) Climate change threatens European conservation areas. Ecology Letters 14: 484-492.
5. Sala OE, Chapin FS, Armesto JJ, Berlow E, Bloomfield J, et al. (2000) Biodiversity- Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287: 1770-1774.
6. Pimm SL, Raven P, (2000) Biodiversity- Extinction by numbers. Nature 403: 843-845.
7. Thomas CD, Cameron A, Green RE, Bakkenes M, Beaumont LJ, et al. (2004) Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427: 145-148.
8. Coetzee BWT, Robertson MP, Erasmus BFN, van Rensburg BJ, Thuiller W, (2009) Ensemble models predict Important Bird Areas in southern Africa will become less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 701-710.
9. Hole DG, Willis SG, Pain DJ, Fishpool LD, Butchart SHM, et al. (2009) Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network. Ecology Letters 12: 420-431.
10. Peters RL, Myers JP, (1991) Preserving biodiversity in a changing climate. Issues in Science and Technology 8: 66-72.
11. Araujo MB, Cabeza M, Thuiller W, Hannah L, Williams PH, (2004) Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve-selection methods. Global Change Biology 10: 1618-1626.
12. Hannah L, Midgley G, Andelman S, Araujo M, Hughes G, et al. (2007) Protected area needs in a changing climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 131-138.
13. Marini MA, Barbet-Massin M, Lopes LE, Jiguet F, (2009) Major current and future gaps of Brazilian reserves to protect Neotropical savanna birds. Biological Conservation 142: 3039-3050.
14. Crooks KR, Sanjayan M (2006) Connectivity Conservation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 726 p.
15. Heller NE, Zavaleta ES, (2009) Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations. Biological Conservation 142: 14-32.
16. Minor ES, Lookingbill TR, (2010) A Multiscale Network Analysis of Protected-Area Connectivity for Mammals in the United States. Conservation Biology 24: 1549-1558.
17. Diamond SE, Frame AM, Martin RA, Buckley LB, (2011) Species' traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies. Ecology 92: 1005-1012.
18. Barbet-Massin M, Thuiller W, Jiguet F, (2012) The fate of European breeding birds under climate, land-use and dispersal scenarios. Global Change Biology 18: 881-890.
19. Araujo MB, Luoto M, (2007) The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species distributions under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 743-753.
20. Heikkinen RK, Luoto M, Araujo MB, Virkkala R, Thuiller W, et al. (2006) Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change. Progress in Physical Geography 30: 751-777.
21. Barbet-Massin M, Jiguet F (2011) Back from a Predicted Climatic Extinction of an Island Endemic: A Future for the Corsican Nuthatch. Plos One 6.
22. European Environment Agency (2011) European protected areas - Natura 2000 interactive map. Avalable: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/natura-1. Accessed 2012 Sep 28.
23. Evans D, (2012) Building the European Union's Natura 2000 network. Nature Conservation 1: 11-26.
24. European Environment Agency (2009) Conservation status of habitat types and species (Article 17, Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC). Available: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/article-17-database-habitats-directive-92-43-eec. Accessed 2012 Sep 28.
25. Urban D, Keitt T, (2001) Landscape connectivity: A graph-theoretic perspective. Ecology 82: 1205-1218.
26. Sutherland GD, Harestad AS, Price K, Lertzman KP (2000) Scaling of natal dispersal distances in terrestrial birds and mammals. Conservation Ecology 4.
27. Albert R, Barabasi AL, (2002) Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Reviews of Modern Physics 74: 47-97.
28. Barabasi AL, Bonabeau E, (2003) Scale-free networks. Scientific American 288: 60-69.
29. Albert R, Jeong H, Barabasi AL, (2000) Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature 406: 378-382.
30. Minor ES, Urban DL, (2008) A graph-theory framework for evaluating landscape connectivity and conservation planning. Conservation Biology 22: 297-307.
31. Bodin O, Norberg J, (2007) A network approach for analyzing spatially structured populations in fragmented landscape. Landscape Ecology 22: 31-44.
32. Pascual-Hortal L, Saura S, (2006) Comparison and development of new graph-based landscape connectivity indices: towards the priorization of habitat patches and corridors for conservation. Landscape Ecology 21: 959-967.
33. Bodin O, Saura S, (2010) Ranking individual habitat patches as connectivity providers: Integrating network analysis and patch removal experiments. Ecological Modelling 221: 2393-2405.
34. Saura S, Rubio L, (2010) A common currency for the different ways in which patches and links can contribute to habitat availability and connectivity in the landscape. Ecography 33: 523-537.
35. Saura S, Estreguil C, Mouton C, Rodriguez-Freire M, (2011) Network analysis to assess landscape connectivity trends: Application to European forests (1990-2000). Ecological Indicators 11: 407-416.
36. Saura S, Vogt P, Velazquez J, Hernando A, Tejera R, (2011) Key structural forest connectors can be identified by combining landscape spatial pattern and network analyses. Forest Ecology and Management 262: 150-160.
37. Saura S, Torne J, (2009) Conefor Sensinode 2.2: A software package for quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity. Environmental Modelling & Software 24: 135-139.
38. BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Aquila chrysaetos. Available: http://www.birdlife.org. Accessed 2012 Sep 27.
39. Lookingbill TR, Gardner RH, Ferrari JR, Keller CE, (2010) Combining a dispersal model with network theory to assess habitat connectivity. Ecological Applications 20: 427-441.
40. Melian CJ, Bascompte J, (2002) Complex networks: two ways to be robust? Ecology Letters 5: 705-708.
41. Moritz C, (1994) Defining Evolutionarily-Significant-Units for Conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 9: 373-375.
42. Mazaris AD, Kallimanis AS, Pantis JD, Hays GC (2013) Phenological response of sea turtles to environmental variation across a species' northern range. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 280.
43. Laita A, Monkkonen M, Kotiaho JS, (2010) Woodland key habitats evaluated as part of a functional reserve network. Biological Conservation 143: 1212-1227.
44. Kennedy CM, Marra PP, Fagan WF, Neel MC, (2010) Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica. Ecological Monographs 80: 651-669.
45. Galpern P, Manseau M, Fall A, (2011) Patch-based graphs of landscape connectivity: A guide to construction, analysis and application for conservation. Biological Conservation 144: 44-55.
46. Bode M, Burrage K, Possingham HP, (2008) Using complex network metrics to predict the persistence of metapopulations with asymmetric connectivity patterns. Ecological Modelling 214: 201-209.
47. Ray N, (2005) PATHMATRIX: a geographical information system tool to compute effective distances among samples. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 177-180.
48. Mcrae BH, Dickson BG, Keitt TH, Shah VB, (2008) Using Circuit Theory to Model Connectivity in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation. Ecology 89: 2712-2724.
49. Both C, Bouwhuis S, Lessells CM, Visser ME, (2006) Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird. Nature 441: 81-83.
50. Elorriaga J, Zuberogoitia I, Castillo I, Azkona A, Hidalgo S, et al. (2009) First Documented Case of Long-Distance, Dispersal in the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron Percnopterus). Journal of Raptor Research 43: 142-145.
51. Moilanen A, (2011) On the limitations of graph-theoretic connectivity in spatial ecology and conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 1543-1547.
52. Vasas V, Magura T, Jordan F, Tothmeresz B, (2009) Graph theory in action: evaluating planned highway tracks based on connectivity measures. Landscape Ecology 24: 581-586.
53. Ribeiro R, Carretero MA, Sillero N, Alarcos G, Ortiz-Santaliestra M, et al. (2011) The pond network: can structural connectivity reflect on (amphibian) biodiversity patterns? Landscape Ecology 26: 673-682.
54. Eros T, Olden JD, Schick RS, Schmera D, Fortin MJ, (2012) Characterizing connectivity relationships in freshwaters using patch-based graphs. Landscape Ecology 27: 303-317.
55. Li TA, Shilling F, Thorne J, Li FM, Schott H, et al. (2010) Fragmentation of China's landscape by roads and urban areas. Landscape Ecology 25: 839-853.
56. Gurrutxaga M, Rubio L, Saura S, (2011) Key connectors in protected forest area networks and the impact of highways: A transnational case study from the Cantabrian Range to the Western Alps (SW Europe). Landscape and Urban Planning 101: 310-320.
57. Williams P, Hannah L, Andelman S, Midgley G, Araujo M, et al. (2005) Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape proteaceae. Conservation Biology 19: 1063-1074.
58. DeFries R, Hansen A, Turner BL, Reid R, Liu JG, (2007) Land use change around protected areas: Management to balance human needs and ecological function. Ecological Applications 17: 1031-1038.
59. Joshi PK, Yadav K, Sinha VSP, (2011) Assessing impact of forest landscape dynamics on migratory corridors: a case study of two protected areas in Himalayan foothills. Biodiversity and Conservation 20: 3393-3411.
60. Scharlemann JPW, Green RE, Balmford A, (2004) Land-use trends in Endemic Bird Areas: global expansion of agriculture in areas of high conservation value. Global Change Biology 10: 2046-2051.
61. Joppa LN, Pfaff A, (2011) Global protected area impacts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 278: 1633-1638.
62. Fortuna MA, Gomez-Rodriguez C, Bascompte J, (2006) Spatial network structure and amphibian persistence in stochastic environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273: 1429-1434.
63. Gilarranz LJ, Bascompte J, (2012) Spatial network structure and metapopulation persistence. Journal of Theoretical Biology 297: 11-16.