Demographic rates reveal the benefits of protected areas in a long-lived migratory bird
dc.contributor.author | Soriano-Redondo, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Inger, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Sherley, RB | |
dc.contributor.author | Rees, EC | |
dc.contributor.author | Abadi, F | |
dc.contributor.author | McElwaine, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Colhoun, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Einarsson, O | |
dc.contributor.author | Thorstensen, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Newth, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Brides, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Hodgson, DJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Bearhop, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-15T08:22:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-03-13 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-03-14T06:44:47Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent studies have suggested that protected areas often fail to conserve target species. However, the efficacy of terrestrial protected areas is difficult to measure, especially for highly vagile species like migratory birds that may move between protected and unprotected areas throughout their lives. Here, we use a 30-y dataset of detailed demographic data from a migratory waterbird, the Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), to assess the value of nature reserves (NRs). We assess how demographic rates vary at sites with varying levels of protection and how they are influenced by movements between sites. Swans had a lower breeding probability when wintering inside NRs than outside but better survival for all age classes, generating a 30-fold higher annual growth rate within NRs. There was also a net movement of individuals from NRs to non-NRs. By combining these demographic rates and estimates of movement (into and out of NRs) into population projection models, we show that the NRs should help to double the population of swans wintering in the United Kingdom by 2030. These results highlight the major effect that spatial management can have on species conservation, even when the areas protected are relatively small and only used during short periods of the life cycle. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Pew Charitable Trusts | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 120 (12), article e2212035120 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212035120 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/F021690/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | STATEMIG: GA 310820 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132688 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-1660-3706 (Inger, Richard) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-7367-9315 (Sherley, Richard B) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-4220-2076 (Hodgson, David J) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-5864-0129 (Bearhop, Stuart) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | National Academy of Sciences | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7454145 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://github.com/rbsherley/Swans | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Protected area | en_GB |
dc.subject | Demography | en_GB |
dc.subject | Migration | en_GB |
dc.title | Demographic rates reveal the benefits of protected areas in a long-lived migratory bird | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-15T08:22:44Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0027-8424 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from the National Academy of Sciences via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data, Materials, and Software Availability: All data and code needed to evaluate the conclusions in this paper are freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/rbsherley/Swans) and have been archived in a scientific repository, Zenodo, with the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7454145. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1091-6490 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-01-20 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-01-20 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-03-15T08:14:21Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-03-15T08:23:37Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-03-13 |
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