@article{ef24cfa77f0847ff8f4117cc0be0bb48,
title = "Covariation in population trends and demography reveals targets for conservation action",
abstract = "Wildlife conservation policies directed at common and widespread, but declining, species are difficult to design and implement effectively, as multiple environmental changes are likely to contribute to population declines. Conservation actions ultimately aim to influence demographic rates, but targeting actions towards feasible improvements in these is challenging in widespread species with ranges that encompass a wide range of environmental conditions. Across Europe, sharp declines in the abundance of migratory landbirds have driven international calls for action, but actions that could feasibly contribute to population recovery have yet to be identified. Targeted actions to improve conditions on poor-quality sites could be an effective approach, but only if local conditions consistently influence local demography and hence population trends. Using long-term measures of abundance and demography of breeding birds at survey sites across Europe, we show that co69 occurring species with differing migration behaviours have similar directions of local population trends and magnitudes of productivity, but not survival rates. Targeted actions to boost local productivity within Europe, alongside large-scale (non-targeted) environmental protection across non-breeding ranges, could therefore help address the urgent need to halt migrant landbird declines. Such demographic routes to recovery are likely to be increasingly needed to address global wildlife declines",
keywords = "conservation, demography, migration, population trends, productivity",
author = "Morrison, {Catriona A.} and Butler, {Simon J.} and Robinson, {Robert A.} and Clark, {Jacquie A.} and Juan Arizaga and Ainars Aurin and Oriol Balt{\`a} and Jaroslav Cep{\'a}k and Tomasz Chodkiewicz and Virginia Escandell and Foppen, {Ruud P. B.} and Gregory, {Richard D.} and Magne Husby and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Jiguet and {Atle Kalas}, John and Aleksi Lehikoinen and Ake Lindstrom and Mosh{\o}j, {Charlotte M.} and K{\'a}roly Nagy and {Leal Nebot}, Arantza and Markus Piha and Jiri Reif and Thomas Sattler and Jana Skorpliova and Tibor Sz{\'e}p and Norbert Teufelbauer and Kasper Thorup and {van Turnhout}, Chris and Thomas Wenninger and Gill, {Jennifer A.}",
year = "2021",
month = mar,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1098/rspb.2020.2955",
language = "English",
volume = "288",
journal = "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences",
issn = "0962-8452",
publisher = "The Royal Society",
number = "1946",
}