Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: a case study on birds, plants and butterflies

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-46

  Loos, Jacqueline ^a   Hanspach, Jan ^a   von Wehrden, Henrik ^a   Beldean, Monica ^b   Moga, Cosmin Ioan ^c   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c Educational Ecological Association Ecotransilvania   (Romania)

Author keywords

Detectability; Hierarchical model; Landscape heterogeneity; Species distribution; Species richness; Statistical power; Study design

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIELD SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ROMANIA;

AVES; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 85027921578     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0786-3     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Akeroyd JR (2006) The historic countryside of the Saxon Villages of Southern Transylvania Fundatia Adept, Saschiz, Romania
2. Akeroyd JR, Page N (2011) Conservation of high nature value (HNV) grassland in a farmed landscape in Transylvania, Romania. Contrib Bot XLVI:57–71
3. Anderson MJ, Crist TO, Chase JM, Vellend M, Inouye BD, Freestone AL, Sanders NJ, Cornell HV, Comita LS, Davies KF, Harrison SP, Kraft NJB, Stegen JC, Swenson NG (2011) Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecol Lett 14(1):19–28
4. Baasch A, Tischew S, Bruelheide H (2010) How much effort is required for proper monitoring? Assessing the effects of different survey scenarios in a dry acidic grassland. J Veg Sci 21(5):876–887
5. Bailey LL, Hines JE, Nichols JD, MacKenzie DI (2007) Sampling design trade-offs in occupancy studies with imperfect detection: examples and software. Ecol Appl 17(1):281–290
6. Baur B, Cremene C, Groza G, Rakosy L, Schileyko AA, Baur A, Stoll P, Erhardt A (2006) Effects of abandonment of subalpine hay meadows on plant and invertebrate diversity in Transylvania, Romania. Biol Conserv 132(2):261–273
7. Benton TG, Vickery JA, Wilson JD (2003) Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key? Trends Ecol Evol 18(4):182–188
8. Bibby CJ (2000) Bird census techniques, 2nd edn. Academic Press, London
9. Bolker BM (2008) Ecological models and data in R. Princeton University Press, Princeton
10. Bouma J, Varallyay G, Batjes NH (1998) Principal land use changes anticipated in Europe. Agric Ecosyst Environ 67(2–3):103–119
11. Bried JT, Pellet J (2012) Optimal design of butterfly occupancy surveys and testing if occupancy converts to abundance for sparse populations. J Insect Conserv 16(4):489–499
12. Bried JT, Langwig KE, Dewan AA, Gifford NA (2011) Habitat associations and survey effort for shrubland birds in an urban pine barrens preserve. Landsc Urban Plan 99(3–4):218–225
13. Bried JT, Hager BJ, Hunt PD, Fox JN, Jensen HJ, Vowels KM (2012) Bias of reduced-effort community surveys for adult Odonata of lentic waters. Insect Conserv Divers 5(3):213–222. doi:10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00156.x
14. Dorazio RM, Royle JA (2005) Estimating size and composition of biological communities by modeling the occurrence of species. J Am Stat Assoc 100(470):389–398
15. Dorazio RM, Royle JA, Söderström B, Glimskär A (2006) Estimating species richness and accumulation by modeling species occurrence and detectability. Ecology 87(4):842–854
16. Dover JW, Warren MS, Shreeve TG (2011) 2010 and beyond for Lepidoptera. J Insect Conserv 15(1–2):1–3
17. Field SA, Tyre AJ, Possingham HP (2005) Optimizing allocation of monitoring effort under economic and observational constraints. J Wildlife Manage 69(2):473–482
18. Fischer J, Hartel T, Kuemmerle T (2012) Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes. Conserv Lett 5:167–175
19. Gaston KJ (2000) Global patterns in biodiversity. Nature 405(6783):220–227
20. Guillera-Arroita G, Lahoz-Monfort JJ (2012) Designing studies to detect differences in species occupancy: power analysis under imperfect detection. Methods Ecol Evol 3(5):860–869
21. Guillera-Arroita G, Ridout MS, Morgan BJT (2010) Design of occupancy studies with imperfect detection. Methods Ecol Evol 1(2):131–139
22. Guillera-Arroita G, Morgan BJ, Ridout MS, Linkie M (2011) Species occupancy modeling for detection data collected along a transect. J Agric Biol Environ Stat 16(3):301–317
23. Kéry M, Royle JA (2009) Inference about species richness and community structure using species-specific occupancy models in the National Swiss Breeding Bird Survey MHB. In: Thomson DL, Cooch EG, Conroy MJ (eds) Modeling demographic processes in marked populations, environmental and ecological statistics 3. Springer, New York, pp 639–656
24. Kéry M, Schaub M (2012) Bayesian population analysis using WinBUGS a hierarchical perspective, 1st edn. Academic Press, Boston
25. Kessler M, Abrahamczyk S, Bos M, Buchori D, Putra DD, Gradstein SR, Hohn P, Kluge J, Orend F, Pitopang R, Saleh S, Schulze CH, Sporn SG, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tjitrosoedirdjo S, Tscharntke T (2009) Alpha and beta diversity of plants and animals along a tropical land-use gradient. Ecol Appl 19(8):2142–2156
26. Klimek S, Richter A, Hofmann M, Isselstein J (2007) Plant species richness and composition in managed grasslands: the relative importance of field management and environmental factors. Biol Conserv 134(4):559–570
27. Kuemmerle T, Muller D, Griffiths P, Rusu M (2008) Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism. Reg Environ Chang 9(1):1–12. doi:10.1007/s10113-008-0050-z
28. Lafranchis T (2004) Butterflies of Europe. Diatheo, Paris
29. Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Guillera-Arroita G, Wintle BA (2013) Imperfect detection impacts the performance of species distribution models. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 23(4):504–515. doi:10.1111/geb.12138
30. Legg CJ, Nagy L (2006) Why most conservation monitoring is, but need not be, a waste of time. J Environ Manage 78(2):194–199
31. Lobo JM, Jimenez-Valverde A, Hortal J (2010) The uncertain nature of absences and their importance in species distribution modelling. Ecography 33(1):103–114
32. MacKenzie DI, Royle JA (2005) Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort. J Appl Ecol 42(6):1105–1114
33. MacKenzie DI, Nichols JD, Lachman GB, Droege S, Royle JA, Langtimm CA (2002) Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one. Ecology 83(8):2248–2255. doi:10.2307/3072056
34. Mouysset L, Doyen L, Jiguet F (2012) Different policy scenarios to promote various targets of biodiversity. Ecol Ind 14(1):209–221
35. Page N, Bălan A, Popa SHR, Rákosy L, Sutcliffe L (2012) România/Romania. In: Oppermann R, Beaufoy GJ (eds) High nature value farming in Europe. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher, pp 346–358
36. Pellet J (2008) Seasonal variation in detectability of butterflies surveyed with Pollard walks. J Insect Conserv 12(2):155–162
37. Peres-Neto PR, Jackson DA (2001) How well do multivariate data sets match? The advantages of a Procrustean superimposition approach over the Mantel test. Oecologia 129(2):169–178
38. Pollard E, Yates TJ (1993) Monitoring butterflies for ecology and conservation: the British butterfly monitoring scheme, vol 1., Conservation biology seriesChapman & Hall, London
39. Rakosy L (2005) U.E- şi legislaţie pentru protecţia lepidopterelor din România. Buletin de Informare Entomologică 16:89–96
40. Rands MRW, Adams WM, Bennun L, Butchart SHM, Clements A, Coomes D, Entwistle A, Hodge I, Kapos V, Scharlemann JPW, Sutherland WJ, Vira B (2010) Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010. Science 329(5997):1298–1303
41. Reed MS, Buenemann M, Atlhopheng J, Akhtar-Schuster M, Bachmann F, Bastin G, Bigas H, Chanda R, Dougill AJ, Essahli W, Evely AC, Fleskens L, Geeson N, Glass JH, Hessel R, Holden J, Ioris AAR, Kruger B, Liniger HP, Mphinyane W, Nainggolan D, Perkins J, Raymond CM, Ritsema CJ, Schwilch G, Sebego R, Seely M, Stringer LC, Thomas R, Twomlow S, Verzandvoort S (2011) Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: a methodological framework for knowledge management. Land Degrad Dev 22(2):261–271
42. Reynolds JH, Thompson WL, Russell B (2011) Planning for success: identifying effective and efficient survey designs for monitoring. Biol Conserv 144(5):1278–1284
43. Rosenstock SS, Anderson DR, Giesen KM, Leukering T, Carter MF (2002) Landbird counting techniques: current practices and an alternative. Auk 119(1):46–53
44. Royle JA, Nichols JD (2003) Estimating abundance from repeated presence-absence data or point counts. Ecology 84(3):777–790
45. Sala OE, Chapin FS, Armesto JJ, Berlow E, Bloomfield J, Dirzo R, Huber-Sanwald E, Huenneke LF, Jackson RB, Kinzig A, Leemans R, Lodge DM, Mooney HA, Oesterheld M, Poff NL, Sykes MT, Walker BH, Walker M, Wall DH (2000) Biodiversity—global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287(5459):1770–1774
46. Sewell D, Guillera-Arroita G, Griffiths RA, Beebee TJ (2012) When is a species declining? Optimizing survey effort to detect population changes in reptiles. PLoS ONE 7(8):e43387
47. Stauffer HB, Ralph CJ, Miller SL (2002) Incorporating detection uncertainty into presence-absence surveys for marbled murrelet. In: Scott JM, Heglund PJ, Morrison ML et al. (eds) Predicting species occurrences. Issues of Accuracy and Scale. Island Press, Washington D.C., pp 357–368
48. Stoate C, Baldi A, Beja P, Boatman ND, Herzon I, van Doorn A, de Snoo GR, Rakosy L, Ramwell C (2009) Ecological impacts of early 21st century agricultural change in Europe—a review. J Environ Manage 91(1):22–46
49. Stohlgren TJ, Chong GW, Kalkhan MA, Schell LD (1997) Rapid assessment of plant diversity patterns: a methodology for landscapes. Environ Monit Assess 48(1):25–43
50. Suarez-Seoane S, Osborne PE, Baudry J (2002) Responses of birds of different biogeographic origins and habitat requirements to agricultural land abandonment in northern Spain. Biol Conserv 105(3):333–344
51. Ter Braak CJF, Prentice IC (1988) A theory of gradient analysis. Adv Ecol Res 18:271–317
52. Tscharntke T, Klein AM, Kruess A, Steffan-Dewenter I, Thies C (2005) Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity—ecosystem service management. Ecol Lett 8(8):857–874
53. Tshikolovets VV (2003) Butterflies of Eastern Europe, Urals and Caucasus. An illustrated guide. Vadim V Tshikolovets, Kiev
54. Tylianakis JM, Klein A-M, Tscharntke T (2005) Spatiotemporal variation in the diversity of Hymenoptera across a tropical habitat gradient. Ecology 86(12):3296–3302
55. Tyre AJ, Tenhumberg B, Field SA, Niejalke D, Parris K, Possingham HP (2003) Improving precision and reducing bias in biological surveys: estimating false-negative error rates. Ecol Appl 13(6):1790–1801
56. Vellend M, Lilley PL, Starzomski BM (2008) Using subsets of species in biodiversity surveys. J Appl Ecol 45(1):161–169
57. Verhulst J, Baldi A, Kleijn D (2004) Relationship between land-use intensity and species richness and abundance of birds in Hungary. Agric Ecosyst Environ 104(3):465–473
58. Whittaker RH (1960) Vegetation of the Siskiyou mountains, Oregon and California. Ecol Monogr 30(2):279–338
59. Yoccoz NG, Nichols JD, Boulinier T (2001) Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time. Trends Ecol Evol 16(8):446–453
60. Zipkin EF, Dewan A, Royle JA (2009) Impacts of forest fragmentation on species richness: a hierarchical approach to community modelling. J Appl Ecol 46(4):815–822