Population Abundance and Ecosystem Service Provision: The Case of Birds

BioScience

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 264-272

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Cox, Daniel T C ^a   Canavelli, Sonia B ^b   García, Daniel ^c   Hughes, Baz ^d   Maas, Bea ^e   Martínez, Daniel ^c   Ogada, Darcy ^f   Inger, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem benefits; ecosystem disservices; functional relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045521697     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biy005     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. Anderson WB, Polis GA. 1999. Nutrient fluxes from water to land: Seabirds affect plant nutrient status on Gulf of California islands. Oecologia 118: 324-332.
2. Bauer S, Hoye BJ. 2014. Migratory animals couple biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Science 344 (art. 1242552).
3. Bird JA, Pettygrove GS, Eadie JM. 2000. The impact of waterfowl foraging on the decomposition of rice straw: Mutual benefits for rice growers and waterfowl. Journal of Applied Ecology 37: 728-741.
4. Booth JE, Gaston KJ, Evans KL, Armsworth PR. 2011. The value of species rarity in biodiversity recreation: A birdwatching example. Biological Conservation 144: 2728-2732.
5. Canavelli SB, Branch LC, Cavallero P, González C, Zaccagnini ME. 2014. Multi-level analysis of bird abundance and damage to crop fields. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 197: 128-136.
6. Cardinale BJ, et al. 2012. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486: 59-67.
7. Carlo TA, Garcia D, Martinez D, Gleditsch JM, Morales JM. 2013. Where do seeds go when they go far? Distance and directionality of avian seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecology 94: 301-307.
8. Carver E. 2013. Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis: Addendum to the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. US Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Economics.
9. Cocker M. 2014. Birds and People. Jonathan Cape.
10. Costello C, et al. 2016. Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 5125-5129.
11. Cox DTC, Gaston KJ. 2016. Urban bird feeding: Connecting people with nature. PLOS ONE 11 (art. e0158717).
12. Cox DTC, Plummer KE, Shanahan DF, Siriwardena GM, Fuller RA, Anderson K, Hancock S, Gaston KJ. 2017. Doses of neighborhood nature: The benefits for mental health of living with nature. BioScience 67: 147-155.
13. Crawford HS, Jennings DT. 1989. Predation by birds on spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana: Functional, numerical, and total responses. Ecology 70: 152-163.
14. Dallimer M, Irvine KN, Skinner AMJ, Davies ZG, Rouquette JR, Armsworth PR, Maltby L, Warren PH, Gaston KJ. 2012. Biodiversity and the feelgood factor: Understanding associations between self-reported human well-being and species richness. BioScience 62: 46-55.
15. Davies TW, Jenkins SR, Kingham R, Kenworthy J, Hawkins SJ, Hiddink JG. 2011. Dominance, biomass and extinction resistance determine the consequences of biodiversity loss for multiple coastal ecosystem processes. PLOS ONE 6 (art. e28362).
16. Denny M. 2014. Buzz Holling and the functional response. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 95: 200-203.
17. DeVault TL, Olson ZH, Beasley JC, Rhodes OE Jr. 2011. Mesopredators dominate competition for carrion in an agricultural landscape. Basic and Applied Ecology 12: 268-274.
18. Dirzo R, Young HS, Galetti M, Ceballos G, Isaac NJ, Collen B. 2014. Defaunation in the Anthropocene. Science 345: 401-406.
19. Evans KL, Warren PH, Gaston KJ. 2005. Species-energy relationships at the macroecological scale: A review of the mechanisms. Biological Reviews 80: 1-25.
20. Farwig N, Berens DG. 2012. Imagine a world without seed dispersers: A review of threats, consequences and future directions. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 109-115.
21. Fujita M, Koike F. 2009. Landscape effects on ecosystems: Birds as active vectors of nutrient transport to fragmented urban forests versus forestdominated landscapes. Ecosystems 12: 391-400.
22. Fuller RA, Irvine KN, Devine-Wright P, Warren PH, Gaston KJ. 2007. Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biology Letters 3: 390-394.
23. Gangoso L, Agudo R, Anadón JD, de la Riva M, Suleyman AS, Porter R, Donázar JA. 2013. Reinventing mutualism between humans and wild fauna: Insights from vultures as ecosystem services providers. Conservation Letters 6: 172-179.
24. Garcia D, Martinez M. 2012. Species richness matters for the quality of ecosystem services: A test using seed dispersal by frugivorous birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 3106-3113.
25. Garcia D, Zamora R, Amico GC. 2010. Birds as suppliers of seed dispersal in temperate ecosystems: Conservation guidelines from real-world landscapes. Conservation Biology 24: 1070-1079.
26. Gaston KJ. 1994. Rarity. Chapman and Hall.
27. -. 2003. The Structure and Dynamics of Geographic Ranges. Oxford University Press.
28. -. 2011. Common ecology. BioScience 61: 354-362.
29. González-Bergonzoni I, Johansen KL, Mosbech A, Landkildehus F, Jeppesen E, Davidson TA. 2017. Small birds, big effects: The little auk (Alle alle) transforms high Arctic ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284 (art. 20162572).
30. Hartig T, Mitchell R, de Vries S, Frumkin H. 2014. Nature and health. Annual Review of Public Health 35: 207-228.
31. Hayhow DB, et al. 2016. State of Nature. State of Nature Partnership
32. Hone J. 1994. Analysis of Vertebrate Pest Control. University of Cambridge Press.
33. Hooper DU, et al. 2005. Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: A consensus of current knowledge. Ecological Monographs 75: 3-35.
34. Houger C, Colding J, Soderqvist T. 2006. Economic valuation of a seed dispersal service in the Stockholm National Urban Park, Sweden. Ecological Economics 59: 364-374.
35. Inger R, Gregory R, Duffy JP, Stott I, Vorisek P, Gaston KJ. 2015. Common European birds are declining rapidly whilst less abundant species' numbers are rising. Ecology Letters 18: 28-36.
36. Inger R, Per E, Cox DTC, Gaston KJ. 2016. Key role of ecosystem functioning of scavengers reliant on a single common species. Scientific Reports 6 (art. 29641).
37. Jackson AL, Ruxton DG, Houston DC. 2008. The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: A modelling study. Biology Letters 4: 311-313.
38. Juniper T. 2002. Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird. Fourth Estate.
39. Kaplan R. 2001. The nature of the view from home: Psychological benefits. Environment and Behavior 33: 507-542.
40. Keniger LE, Gaston KJ, Irvine KN, Fuller RA. 2013. What are the benefits of interacting with nature? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 10: 913-935.
41. Kitchell JF, Schindler DE, Herwig BR, Post DM, Olson MH. 1999. Nutrient cycling at the landscape scale: The role of diel foraging migrations by geese at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. Limnology Oceanography 44: 828-836.
42. Lindeboom HJ. 1984. The nitrogen pathway in a penguin rookery. Ecology 65: 269-277.
43. Maas B, Clough Y, Tscharntke T. 2013. Bats and birds increase crop yield in tropical agroforestry landscapes. Ecology Letters 16: 1480-1487.
44. Maas B, Tscharntke T, Saleh S, Putra DD, Clough Y. 2015. Avian species identity drives predation success in tropical cacao agroforestry. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 735-743.
45. Maas B, et al. 2016. Bird and bat predation services in tropical forests and agroforestry landscapes. Biological Reviews 91: 1081-1101.
46. Markandya A, Taylor T, Longo A, Murty MN, Murty S, Dhavala K. 2008. Counting the cost of vulture decline: An appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India. Ecological Economics 67: 194-204.
47. Marquis RJ, Whelan CJ. 1994. Insectivorous birds increase growth of white oak through consumption of leaf-chewing insects. Ecology 75: 2007-2014.
48. Martinez D, Garcia D. 2017. Role of avian seed dispersers in tree recruitment in woodland pastures. Ecosystems 20: 616-629.
49. Mols CMM, Visser ME. 2007. Great tits (Parus major) reduce caterpillar damage in commercial apple orchards. PLOS ONE 2 (art. e202).
50. Naeem S. 1998. Species redundancy and ecosystem reliability. Conservation Biology 12: 39-45.
51. Naidoo R, Fisher B, Manica A, Balmford A. 2016. Estimating economic losses to tourism in Africa from the illegal killing of elephants. Nature Communications 7 (art. 13379).
52. Overdyck E, Clarkson BD, Laughlin DC, Gemmill CEC. 2013. Testing broadcast seeking methods to restore urban forests in the presence of seed predators. Restoration Ecology 21: 396-423.
53. Pejchar L, Pringle RM, Ranganathan J, Zook JR, Duran G, Oviedo F, Daily GC. 2008. Birds as agents of seed dispersal in a human dominated landscape in southern Costa Rica. Biological Conservation 141: 536-544.
54. Polis GA, Hurd SD. 1996. Linking marine and terrestrial food webs: Allochthonous input from the ocean supports high secondary productivity on small islands and coastal land communities. American Naturalist 147: 396-423.
55. Ricketts TH, Watson KB, Koh I, Ellis AM, Nicholson CC, Posner S, Richardson LL, Sonter LJ. 2016. Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services. Nature Communications 7 (art. 13106).
56. Rock P. 2005. Urban gulls: Problems and solutions. British Birds 98: 338-355.
57. Sekercioglu CH. 2002. Impacts of birdwatching on human and avian communities. Environmental Conservation 29: 282-289.
58. -. 2006. Increasing awareness of avian ecological function. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 464-471.
59. Sekercioglu CH, Wenny DG, Whelan CJ, eds. 2016. Why Birds Matter: Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services. University of Chicago Press.
60. Shanahan DF, Fuller RA, Bush R, Lin BB, Gaston KJ. 2015. The health benefits of urban nature: How much do we need? BioScience 65: 476-485
61. Shwartz A, Turbe A, Simon L, Julliard R. 2014. Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment. Biological Conservation 171: 82-90.
62. Socolar JB, Gilroy JJ, Kunin WE, Edwards DP. 2016. How should betadiversity inform biodiversity conservation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 67-80.
63. Sturges W, Holmes RT, Likens GE. 1974. The role of birds in nutrient cycling in a northern hardwoods ecosystem. Ecology 55: 149-155.
64. Swinnerton K. 2001. Ecology and conservation of the pink pigeon Columba mayeri on Mauritius. Dodo 37 (art. 99).
65. Tremblay A, Mineau P, Stewart RK. 2001. Effects of bird predation on some pest insect populations in corn. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 83: 143-152.
66. Van Bael SA, Philpott SM, Greenberg R, Bichier P, Barber NA, Mooney KA, Gruner DS. 2008. Birds as predators in tropical agroforestry systems. Ecology 89: 928-934.
67. Whelan CJ, Wenny DG, Marquis RJ. 2008. Ecosystem services provided by birds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134: 25-60.
68. Wilson EE, Wolkovich EM. 2011. Scavenging: How carnivores and carrion structure communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 129-135.
69. Winfree R, Fox JW, Williams NM, Reilly JR, Cariveau DP. 2015. Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. Ecology Letters 18: 626-635.
70. [WWF] World Wide Fund for Nature. 2016. Living Planet Report: Risk and Resilience in a New Era. WWF.
71. Young HS, McCauley DJ, Galetti M, Dirzo R. 2016. Patterns, causes, and consequences of anthropocene defaunation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 47: 333-358.