Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands : Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Morelli, Federico. (Editor ), Tryjanowski, Piotr. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
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  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1.1. Decline of the biodiversity in agro ecosystems in the last decades (Morelli, Tryjanowski)
  • 1.2. Differences between Western and Eastern Europe agriculture – the role of history (Tryjanowski)
  • 1.3. Conservation tools
  • 1.4. A systematic literature review of HNV farmland and requirements for future researches: there is a long way ahead (Benedetti)
  • 1.5. The HNV as support for biodiversity (Morelli)
  • 2. Methodology and tools for study and monitoring HNV.-2.1. Identifying HNV areas using Geographic Information Systems – GIS
  • 2.2. Suitable frameworks to monitoring the HNV farmland using bird species.-2.3. Different ways to study the biodiversity: from species richness to the role of species in the community and functional diversity approach (Morelli) .-2.4. The concept of bioindicators (focal species, umbrella species, etc.) (Morelli) .-2.5. Species Distribution Models develop and assessment (Morelli)
  • 3. Case studies
  • 3.1. Case study in farmlands from Central Italy (Morelli, Jerzak, Tryjanowski
  • 3.2. Case study in Montado system from Portugal (Catarino, Godinho, Pereira, Luís, Rabaça)
  • 4. Discussion and final considerations
  • 4.1. Models issues and limitations (the alternative of multi-model inference (MMI) approach when working on models with many covariates, etc.) (Morelli, Tryjanowski)
  • 4.2. Transferability or adaptability of models? (Morelli, Tryjanowski)
  • 4.3. Potentialities related to the use of few common species as indicators for monitoring programs: citizen science approach (Benedetti)
  • 4.4. Conservation guidelines and final suggestions (Tryjanowski, Morelli). .