TY - JOUR
T1 - Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas
AU - Timmers, Robert
AU - van Kuijk, Marijke
AU - Verweij, Pita A.
AU - Ghazoul, Jaboury
AU - Hautier, Yann
AU - Laurance, William F.
AU - Arriaga-Weiss, Stefan L.
AU - Askins, Robert A.
AU - Battisti, Corrado
AU - Berg, Åke
AU - Daily, Gretchen C.
AU - Estades, Cristián F.
AU - Frank, Beatrice
AU - Kurosawa, Reiko
AU - Pojar, Rosamund A.
AU - Woinarski, John C.Z.
AU - Soons, Merel B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - For successful conservation of biodiversity, it is vital to know whether protected areas in increasingly fragmented landscapes effectively safeguard species. However, how large habitat fragments must be, and what level of protection is required to sustain species, remains poorly known. We compiled a global dataset on almost 2000 bird species in 741 forest fragments varying in size and protection status, and show that protection is associated with higher bird occurrence, especially for threatened species. Protection becomes increasingly effective with increasing size of forest fragments. For forest fragments >50 ha our results show that strict protection (International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN] categories I–IV) is strongly associated with higher bird occurrence, whereas fragments had to be at least 175 ha for moderate protection (IUCN categories V and VI) to have a positive effect. This meta-analysis quantifies the importance of fragment size, protection status, and their interaction for the conservation of bird species communities, and stresses that protection should not be limited to large pristine areas.
AB - For successful conservation of biodiversity, it is vital to know whether protected areas in increasingly fragmented landscapes effectively safeguard species. However, how large habitat fragments must be, and what level of protection is required to sustain species, remains poorly known. We compiled a global dataset on almost 2000 bird species in 741 forest fragments varying in size and protection status, and show that protection is associated with higher bird occurrence, especially for threatened species. Protection becomes increasingly effective with increasing size of forest fragments. For forest fragments >50 ha our results show that strict protection (International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN] categories I–IV) is strongly associated with higher bird occurrence, whereas fragments had to be at least 175 ha for moderate protection (IUCN categories V and VI) to have a positive effect. This meta-analysis quantifies the importance of fragment size, protection status, and their interaction for the conservation of bird species communities, and stresses that protection should not be limited to large pristine areas.
U2 - 10.1002/fee.2485
DO - 10.1002/fee.2485
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126859515
SN - 1540-9295
VL - 20
SP - 361
EP - 369
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
IS - 6
ER -