ECCB 2018: Recent submissions
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Ranking Natura 2000 habitats and Natura 2000 areas for nature
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)We ranked 1 541 Finnish Natura 2000 areas and their 69 different habitat types for ecological restoration and nature management based on their potential for cost-effective ecosystem improvement. We did it by Zonation ... -
Direct and indirect impacts of climate change and land use change over biodiversity: a case of study with the brown bear in Europe
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Climate and land use changes are the main drivers of biodiversity loss and species distribution range contractions. Previous studies have primarily explored the direct effects of these drivers on biodiversity while ignoring ... -
Planet fever call’s for ecosystem indicator of wellbeing. The Madeira island case-study
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Life on Earth rises and evolves predominantly through the thermodynamic imperative of maximizing the dissipation of solar photon flux. Evolution and natural succession promotes the creation of biological structures and ... -
Finnish fungal atlas as a conservation and education tool
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Fungi are a challenging organism group to study and often amateurs need extensive help to be able to correctly identify their fungal collections. Fungi could be used for an example as indicators of environmental changes ... -
Population genetic assessment of the brown bear across Northern Europe - National and transboundary perspectives and challenges
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Nowadays the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Northern Europe is distributed from Russia to Scandinavia in the west. Refuge areas in which some brown bears survived, and immigration of bears from Russia, were assumed to be the ... -
Hydrology LIFE - conservation of peatlands and small water bodies in Finland
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Wetlands are biodiversity hotspots and provide many globally important ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and control of water circulation. However, they are badly degraded by human land-use and are, therefore, ... -
Microclimatic buffering of plant responses to macroclimate warming in temperate forests
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Global temperatures are rising. Temperature data derived from weather stations are used in order to assess and predict the impact of temperature changes on species, whereas the microclimate is often ignored. However, such ... -
Projecting impacts of global land-use scenarios on biodiversity change across scales and species groups.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Habitat destruction via land-use change is considered to be a primary driver for both biodiversity and ecosystems changes. As the pressure on land use is expected to increase in the future, there is an urgent need to develop ... -
Conservation Costs of Retention Forestry and Optimal Habitat Network Selection in Southwestern Germany
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Promoting the maintenance of biodiversity in managed forests should take into account economic efficiency of conservation plans. Therefore, novel economic valuation schemes must be developed in order to support conservation ... -
Assessing the dynamics of High Nature Value farmlands in space and time
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Despite agriculture being a dominant form of land management and a major driver of global change, the pivotal role of low-intensity farming systems for the conservation of agrobiodiversity and the wider provision of ecosystem ... -
Conservation needs to integrate fire management into an adaptive planning perspective to leverage wildfire suppression co-benefits for bird conservation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Protected areas (PAs) play a key role in safeguarding biodiversity worldwide. However, their future role can be seriously compromised in dynamic socio-ecological systems due to their limited ability to incorporate the ... -
Journecology - Engaging media for worldwide scientific research
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)At each moment, the world is more connected than it has ever been before, and the power of social media can give people global presence whilst staying within their bedrooms. With the ever-tightening grip of climate change, ... -
Using Social Assessment as basis for promoting an Integrated Participatory Management Approach at Liberia’s oldest Protected Area
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Containing 1,804 km2 of lowland tropical rainforest, Sapo National Park (SNP) is Liberia’s largest and oldest protected area (PA). It holds many threatened and endemic species including some of the largest populations in ... -
Ecological solidarity and Marine spatial planning: a creative link to make?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Marine environments are subject to growing pressures such as traffic, increasing demand changing land-use of coastal areas, seabed exploitation, dredging or mining, fishing, tourism, and development of renewable energies, ... -
Uncovering Illegal Wildlife Trade on Social Media: Automatic Data Collection, Deep Learning Filters and Identification
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Illegal wildlife trade is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity conservation, as many species, including iconic species such as rhinoceros and elephant taxa, are targeted for their meat, trophies and other body parts. ... -
How much it costs? Economics of staying near protected area of people around Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, Central India
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Economics is an integral part of conservation as it plays an important role in determining people’s attitude towards wildlife. Out of 1.3 billion people in India, approximately 400 million live near forested areas with ... -
Common birds during winter in the face of urbanization, foraging ecology questioned thanks to an original citizen science scheme (BirdLab)
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Supplementary feeding of birds during the winter is a widespread phenomenon in temperate countries. While such practice can boost individuals' winter survival, not all species are likely to use bird feeders. We were ... -
Does EU matter for Conservation? The Birds and Habitats directives from a Nordic perspective
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The EU Birds and Habitats directives (and the associated Natura 2000 network) has recently been evaluated within the so called "Fitness Check" (EC 2016). This has resulted in a new Action Plan aiming to "rapidly improve ... -
Practical application of disturbance based management in the forest company SCA in the northern part of Sweden.
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The forest owned by SCA is situated in the northern part of Sweden within the boreal zone. This session will describe how natural disturbance is emulated within practical forest management today and also present a historical ... -
Towards a Michelin Guide for wading birds: food availability of wetlands in a migration bottleneck in western Greece
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)To fuel their flights, wading birds rely on abundant and high-quality food supply along their migratory route. The time spent in flight in fact represents only a small part of the migration period when compared to the time ...