Concurrent Butterfly, Bat and Small Mammal Monitoring Programmes Using Citizen Science in Catalonia (NE Spain): A Historical Review and Future Directions
| Autor: | Carles Flaquer, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Constantí Stefanescu, Lídia Freixas, Ferran Páramo, David López-Bosch, Alba Coronado, Ignasi Torre, Maria Mas, Andreu Ubach, Adrià López-Baucells, Sílvia Míguez, Joaquim Muñoz, Carme Bartrina, Carme Tuneu-Corral, Antoni Arrizabalaga |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Range (biology)
QH301-705.5 Population Biodiversity population trends biology.animal Citizen science Dormouse Biology (General) education Nature and Landscape Conservation Edible dormouse education.field_of_study Ecology biology species diversity business.industry Ecological Modeling Environmental resource management conservation biology.organism_classification Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Geography Habitat volunteers Butterfly bioindicators business sampling protocols |
| Zdroj: | Diversity, Vol 13, Iss 454, p 454 (2021) Diversity Volume 13 Issue 9 |
| ISSN: | 1424-2818 |
| Popis: | The Biodiversity and Bioindicators research group (BiBIO), based at the Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, has coordinated four long-term faunal monitoring programmes based on citizen science over more than two decades in Catalonia (NE Spain). We summarize the historical progress of these programmes, describing their main conservation outputs, the challenges overcome, and future directions. The Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (CBMS) consists of a network of nearly 200 recording sites where butterfly populations have been monitored through visual censuses along transects for nearly three decades. This programme provides accurate temporal and spatial changes in the abundance of butterflies and relates them to different environmental factors (e.g., habitat and weather conditions). The Bat Monitoring Programme has progressively evolved to include passive acoustic monitoring protocols, as well as bat box-, underground- and river-bat surveys, and community ecological indices have been developed to monitor bat responses at assemblage level to both landscape and climatic changes. The Monitoring of common small mammals in Spain (SEMICE), a common small mammal monitoring programme with almost 80 active live-trapping stations, provides information to estimate population trends and has underlined the relevance of small mammals as both prey (of several predators) and predators (of insect forest pests). The Dormouse Monitoring Programme represents the first monitoring programme in Europe using specific nest boxes for the edible dormouse, providing information about biological and demographic data of the species at the southern limit of its distribution range. The combination and complementarity of these monitoring programmes provide crucial data to land managers to improve the understanding of conservation needs and develop efficient protection laws. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|