Quantifying the long-term decline of the West European hedgehog in England by subsampling citizen-science datasets

Anouschka R. Hof1,2, P. W. Bright1
1Shooters’ Lea Farm, Hodge Lane, Chesterfield, UK
2Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Tóm tắt

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Battersby J (2005) UK mammals: species status and population trends. JNCC/Tracking Mammals Partnership, Peterborough

Bird TJ, Bates AE, Lefcheck JS, Hill NA, Thomson RJ, Edgar GJ, Stuart-Smith RD, Wotherspoon S, Krkosek M, Stuart-Smith JF (2014) Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets. Biol Conserv 173:144–154

Brown JH (1984) On the relationship between abundance and distribution of species. Am Nat 124:255–279

Cameron SA, Lozier JD, Strange JP, Koch JB, Cordes N, Solter LF, Griswold TL (2011) Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees. Proc Natl Acad Sci 108:662–667

Davey PA, Aebischer NJ (2006) Participation of the national gamebag census in the mammal surveillance network. JNCC, Peterborough

Devictor V, Whittaker RJ, Beltrame C (2010) Beyond scarcity: citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography. Divers Distrib 16:354–362

Dickinson JL, Zuckerberg B, Bonter DN (2010) Citizen science as an ecological research tool: challenges and benefits. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 41:149–172

Eaton MA, Brown AF, Noble DG, Musgrove AJ, Hearn R, Aebischer NJ, Gibbons DW, Evans A, Gregory RD (2009) Birds of Conservation Concern 3: the population status of birds in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man British Birds 102. BTO, Thetford

Engemann K, Enquist BJ, Sandel B, Boyle B, Jørgensen PM, Morueta‐Holme N, Peet RK, Violle C, Svenning JC (2015) Limited sampling hampers “big data” estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecol Evol 5:807–820

Fewster RM, Buckland ST, Siriwardena GM, Baillie SR, Wilson JD (2000) Analysis of population trends for farmland birds using generalized additive models. Ecology 81:1970–1984

Gaston KJ, Blackburn TM, Greenwood JJD, Gregory RD, Quinn RM, Lawton JH (2000) Abundance–occupancy relationships. J Appl Ecol 37:39–59

Hof AR (2009) A study of the current status of the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), and its decline in Great Britain since 1960. Dissertation, Royal Holloway University of London

Hof AR, Bright PW (2009) The value of green-spaces in built-up areas for western hedgehogs. Lutra 52:69–82

Hof AR, Bright PW (2010) The value of agri‐environment schemes for macro‐invertebrate feeders: hedgehogs on arable farms in Britain. Anim Conserv 13:467–473

Hof AR, Bright PW (2012) Factors affecting hedgehog presence on farmland as assessed by a questionnaire survey. Acta Theriol 57:79–88

Hof AR, Snellenberg J, Bright PW (2012) Food or fear? Predation risk mediates edge refuging in an insectivorous mammal. Anim Behav 83:1099–1107

Holsbeek L, Rodts J, Muyldermans S (1999) Hedgehog and other animal traffic victims in Belgium: results of a countrywide survey. Lutra 42:111–119

Huijser MP, Berger PJM (2000) The effect of roads and traffic on hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) populations. Biol Conserv 95:111–116

IUCN (2012) IUCN red list categories and criteria: version 31. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge

JNCC (2010) UK Priority Species data collation Erinaceus europaeus version 2 updated on 15/12/2010 UK priority species. JNCC, Peterborough

Kéry M, Royle JA, Schmid H, Schaub M, Volet B, Häfliger G, Zbinden N (2010) Site-occupancy distribution modeling to correct population‐trend estimates derived from opportunistic observations. Conserv Biol 24:1388–1397

Krange M (2015) Change in the occurrence of the West European Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) in western Sweden during 1950–2010. Dissertation, Karlstad University

Lawton JH (1993) Range, population abundance and conservation. Trends Ecol Evol 8:409–413

MacKenzie D, Kendall W (2002) How should detection probability be incorporated into estimates of relative abundance? Ecology 83:2387–2393

MacKenzie DI, Nichols J, Royle J, Pollock K, Bailey L, Hines J (2006) Occupancy estimation and modeling - inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence. Elsevier, Amsterdam

Mazerolle MJ, Bailey LL, Kendall WL, Royle AJ, Converse SJ, Nichols JD (2007) Making great leaps forward: accounting for detectability in herpetological field studies. J Herpetol 41:672–689

Miller-Rushing A, Primack R, Bonney R (2012) The history of public participation in ecological research. Front Ecol Environ 10:285–290

MTUK (2005) Mammals on roads survey- an outline of 2004’s results. Mammals Trust UK, London

Nichols JD, Hines JE, Sauer JR, Fallon FW, Fallon JE, Heglund PJ (2000) A double-observer approach for estimating detection probability and abundance from point counts. Auk 117:393–408

Parrott D, Etherington TR, Dendy J (2014) A geographically extensive survey of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in England. Eur J Wildl Res 60:399–403

R Development Core Team (2014) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna

Roos S, Johnston A, Noble D (2012) UK hedgehog datasets and their potential for long-term monitoring. The British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford

Shaffer HB, Fisher RN, Davidson C (1998) The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines. Trends Ecol Evol 13:27–30

Snäll T, Kindvall O, Nilsson J, Part T (2011) Evaluating citizen-based presence data for bird monitoring. Biol Conserv 144:804–810

Telfer MG, Preston CD, Rothery P (2002) A general method for measuring relative change in range size from biological atlas data. Biol Conserv 107:99–109

Thomas JA, Telfer MG, Roy DB, Preston CD, Greenwood JJD, Asher J, Fox R, Clarke RT, Lawton JH (2004) Comparative losses of British butterflies, birds, and plants and the global extinction crisis. Science 303:1879–1881

Trewby ID, Young R, McDonald RA et al (2014) Impacts of removing badgers on localised counts of hedgehogs. PLoS One 9, e95477

Van Swaay CA, Nowicki P, Settele J, Van Strien AJ (2008) Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives. Biodivers Conserv 17:3455–3469

Warren MS, Hill JK, Thomas JA, Asher J, Fox R, Huntley B, Roy DB, Telfer MG, Jeffcoate S, Harding P, Jeffcoate G, Willis SG, Greatorex-Davies JN, Moss D, Thomas CD (2001) Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change. Nature 414:65–69