Towards cost-effective indicators to maintain Natura 2000 sites in favourable conservation status. Preliminary results from Cansiglio and New Forest

Abstract Pedersen, S. A., Fock, H., Krause, J., Pusch, C., Sell, A. L., Böttcher, U., Rogers, S. I., Sköld, M., Skov, H., Podolska, M., Piet, G. J., and Rice, J. C. 2009. Natura 2000 sites and fisheries in German offshore waters.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 155–169. The principal objective of sites selected as part of Natura 2000 is to achieve or maintain a favourable conservation status of habitats and species named in the EU Birds and Habitats directives. In the German exclusive economic zone, the habitat types protected by this legislation are sandbanks and reefs; protected species include marine mammals, seabirds, and specific migratory fish species. The ICES project Environmentally Sound Fishery Management in Protected Areas (EMPAS) aims to answer two questions: (i) To what extent do specific fishing activities significantly threaten attainment of the conservation objectives of the Natura 2000 sites? (ii) What management measures would reduce these conflicts and how effective would they be at helping to ensure the favourable condition of these sites? Assessments of fishing impacts on Natura 2000 sites require basic data on the conservation status of individual habitats and species, as well as data for fine-scale distributions of ongoing fishing activities. This paper describes and discusses the process used by the EMPAS project in developing fishery-management plans for each Natura 2000 site in German offshore waters.

Download Full-text

Identifying cost-effective indicators to assess the conservation status of forested habitats in Natura 2000 sites

Forest Ecology and Management ◽

10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.031 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 256 (4) ◽

pp. 815-826 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Elena Cantarello ◽

Adrian C. Newton

Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Natura 2000

Download Full-text

CONSERVATION STATUS OF PLANTS AND HABITATS UNDER TEN YEARS OPERATION PHASE OF A WIND FARM. CASE STUDY: SFANTA ELENA KARST PLATEAU, IRON GATES NATURAL PARK, ROMANIA

Contribuţii Botanice ◽

10.24193/contrib.bot.56.12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 129-147

Author(s):

Mihaela URZICEANU ◽

◽

Paulina ANASTASIU ◽

Ioana-Minodora SIRBU ◽

Tatiana Eugenia SESAN ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Wind Farm ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Floristic Composition ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Current Data ◽

Conservation Value ◽

Anthropogenic Pressures ◽

Natural Park ◽

Favourable Conservation Status

Located in the Iron Gates Natural Park, Romania, at the foot of the Locvei Mountains, the Sfanta Elena Karst Plateau is a very picturesque territory, characterized by a karst relief, covered by High Nature Value grasslands. In the last decade this territory has been subjected to increasing anthropogenic pressures, and specific concerns on biodiversity have been raised after the construction of a wind farm in 2011. Starting from a concern expressed by a scientist, our study aims to provide current data on plant species with conservation value and to assess the conservation status of orchid-rich grasslands around wind turbines after ten years of wind farm operation. During the operation period we identified 19 plant taxa with conservation value, eight of which which are orchid species. Four of them are new reports for this territory: Gymnadenia conopsea, Neotinea ustulata, Neottia nidus-avis and Orchis simia, as well other rare taxa such as Cirsium grecescui, Lathyrus sphaericus, Linum hologynum and Rumex thyrsiflorus, are mentioned for the first time. The orchid-rich grasslands in the wind farm area correspond to the Natura 2000 habitat 6210* whose structure and floristic composition are within the acceptable limits of Favourable conservation status. The conservation status of plant species is directly dependent on the quality of their habitat, as well as the variety of pressure and threat factors in the area.

Download Full-text

National Governance Approach for Agriculture Land in Natura 2000 Areas. Evidence from Plovdiv District, Bulgaria

Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca Horticulture ◽

10.15835/buasmvcn-hort:000318 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Yanka KAZAKOVA-MATEVA

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Farming Practices ◽

Member States ◽

Agriculture Land ◽

Land Owners ◽

Favourable Conservation Status ◽

National Governments

The designation and implementation of Natura 2000 sites faced many challenges across most of the member states in the EC. Some related to consultation and involvement of stakeholders, funding the conservation objectives and providing compensation to land owners, farmers and foresters for restrictions on their land use. The national governments adopted different approaches to address these issues. The aim of the paper is to assess the governance approach for agricultural land in Natura 2000 in Bulgaria with a focus on the contribution of the Natura 2000 compensatory payments. The results suggest that the measure is instrumental in mitigating farmers’ frustration and in providing support to them; although its contribution to the favourable conservation status is still uncertain. Another weakness is the lack of awareness on Natura 2000 location and restrictions as well as on nature-friendly farming practices among farmers.

Download Full-text

Management Decisions Support System for Rhodeus Amarus (Bloch, 1782) Species Populations in Oltul Mijlociu – Cibin – Hârtibaciu Natura 2000 Site (Romania)

Management of Sustainable Development ◽

10.1515/msd-2015-0005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 35-47

Author(s):

Doru Bănăduc ◽

Ioana-Cristina Cismaș ◽

Teodora Trichkova ◽

Angela Curtean–Bănăduc

Keyword(s):

Business Processes ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Chemical Pollution ◽

Natural Rate ◽

Favourable Conservation Status ◽

Technical Modifications ◽

Suitable Habitats ◽

Natura 2000 Site ◽

Liquid Flows

Abstract The main threats to the Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782) populations in the Natura 2000 site Oltul Mijlociu - Cibin - Hârtibaciu are the hydro technical modifications of the riverbeds, chemical pollution and poachery. ADONIS:CE is used in general for modeling business processes, but here was used in ecology/biology domain. The authors obtained a Rhodeus amarus model which included all the habitat species requirements, the indicators that provide favourable conservation status and the existing threats and pressures. The maintaining of the minor riverbed morphodynamics is very important - the meanders presence is very important for the local molluscs which are living in the inner U shape parts of the river. The places, where the sediments (sand, mud) are relatively stable, provide suitable habitats for molluscs important for the breeding of Rhodeus amarus. The maintaining of the actual regimes of liquid flows and oxygenation, and the avoidance of increasing of the sediments deposition rate in the water are necessary also for those molluscs species presence conservation. The extraction of sediments in these rivers should be made in correspondence with their natural rate of refilling and at sites at a distance of minimum five kilometres from each other.

Download Full-text

Zingel zingel (Linnaeus, 1766) On Site Management Decisions Support System - Study Case

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research ◽

10.1515/trser-2015-0023 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 139-150

Author(s):

Doru Bănăduc ◽

Cristina-Ioana Cismaş ◽

Angela Curtean-Bănăduc

Keyword(s):

Fish Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Management Model ◽

Management Systems ◽

Site Management ◽

System Study ◽

Numerous Species ◽

Favourable Conservation Status ◽

Study Case

Abstract The ADONIS:CE was utilised here, in the biology/ecology domain, to produce a framework management model of Zingel zingel fish species based on this species’ identified needs, regarding: the habitat, the indicators which reveal the favourable conservation status and the proper measures, and the identified pressures and threats on this fish species. If these suggested management elements will not be implemented in ROSCI0132, the presence of the Zingel zingel species will be endangered in the next one or two decades. Such management systems, based on: the site, the habitats and on numerous species should be implemented in the conservative interest Natura 2000 case of ROSCI0132.

Download Full-text

Occurrence of the Green Shield-Moss Buxbaumia viridis (Moug.) Brid. in the Bieszczady Mountains of Poland

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12030374 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 374

Author(s):

Piotr Brewczyński ◽

Kamil Grałek ◽

Piotr Bilański

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Large Scale ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Field Work ◽

Managed Forests ◽

Moss Species ◽

Microhabitat Preferences ◽

Natura 2000 Site ◽

Forest District

The small-sized gametophytes and sporophytes of the green shield-moss Buxbaumia viridis (Moug.) Brid. make it difficult to study. However, in Europe, there has been increasing interest in this species in the past few years, mostly as a result of the implementation of the Natura 2000 network. In Poland, B. viridis has only been reported in isolated studies that have been limited in terms of area and the number of participating workers. One of the Polish regions where B. viridis was recently recorded is the Bieszczady Mountains, but there have been no large-scale surveys of that region to date. The objective of the current work was to describe the B. viridis population in the Bieszczady Mountains in terms of its spatial distribution and abundance, investigate its selected microhabitat preferences, and evaluate the conservation status of this moss species within the Natura 2000 site Bieszczady PLC180001. The studied region encompassed 93,490.44 ha, including 69,056.23 ha of managed forests and 24,434.21 ha of forests belonging to the Bieszczady National Park. A preliminary survey was conducted in the Cisna Forest District (forest area of 19,555.82 ha) on 15–17 November 2017, while the main survey was performed in selected forest subcompartments of four forest districts—Baligród, Komańcza, Lutowiska, and Stuposiany—as well as the Bieszczady National Park from 5 to 16 November 2018. The field work consisted of searching for B. viridis sporophytes and setae and recording selected population and locality characteristics. The study led to the discovery of 353 new B. viridis localities in 202 study areas, with 9197 diploid individuals (sporophytes or setae only) growing in 545 microhabitats. The number of B. viridis localities discovered in the Bieszczady Mountains during 17 days of survey in 2017 and 2018 was two times higher than the combined number of localities previously found in Poland over more than 150 years (159 localities). Additionally, the number of sporophytes and setae identified was two times greater than their overall number in previous records. In addition, this study provides information about selected microhabitat preferences and the conservation status of this moss in the Bieszczady Natura 2000 site.

Download Full-text

A community-based approach to evaluation of health outcomes and costs for telepsychiatry in a rural population: Preliminary results

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare ◽

10.1258/1357633001934492 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 6 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 155-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Craig Kennedy ◽

Peter Yellowlees

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Pilot Trial ◽

Public Mental Health ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Community Based ◽

Public And Private ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

The People

A pilot trial was established to support visiting psychiatric services and local public and private practitioners through the use of videoconferencing. The purpose of the trial was to determine whether people in the community received better health-care with telemedicine. A community-based approach was used to evaluate health outcomes, costs, utilization, accessibility, quality and needs for such services in a rural community in Queensland. Over a two-year period data were collected from 124 subjects who met the criteria of having a mental health problem or mental disorder. Nine further subjects refused to participate in the study. Only 32 subjects used videoconferencing to receive mental health services. Preliminary results did not show any significant improvements in wellbeing or quality of life, although the time span was relatively short. However, the results confirmed that the people were no worse off from a consumer or a practitioner perspective from using videoconferencing. Most consumers found that videoconferencing with a psychiatrist moderately or greatly helped them in managing their treatment, with 98% of them preferring to be offered videoconferencing in combination with local services. Overall, videoconferencing is a crucial part of enhancing psychiatry services in rural areas. However, it is not necessarily cost-effective for all consumers, general practitioners, psychiatrists, or the public mental health service.

Download Full-text

Economic consequences to society of pandemic H1N1 influenza 2009 – preliminary results for Sweden

Eurosurveillance ◽

10.2807/ese.14.37.19333-en ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (37) ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

L Brouwers ◽

B Cakici ◽

M Camitz ◽

A Tegnell ◽

M Boman

Keyword(s):

Cost Reduction ◽

Cost Effective ◽

H1n1 Influenza ◽

Economic Consequences ◽

Pandemic H1n1 ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

Pandemic H1n1 Influenza ◽

Swedish Society ◽

The Cost ◽

Death Cases

Experiments using a microsimulation platform show that vaccination against pandemic H1N1 influenza is highly cost-effective. Swedish society may reduce the costs of pandemic by about SEK 2.5 billion (approximately EUR 250 million) if at least 60 per cent of the population is vaccinated, even if costs related to death cases are excluded. The cost reduction primarily results from reduced absenteeism. These results are preliminary and based on comprehensive assumptions about the infectiousness and morbidity of the pandemic, which are uncertain in the current situation.

Download Full-text

Long-term monitoring for the surveillance of the conservation status of Tursiops truncatus in an EU Natura2000 site in the Mediterranean Sea. A pilot study in the Tuscan Archipelago

Mediterranean Marine Science ◽

10.12681/mms.24562 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

ANTONELLA ARCANGELI ◽

ROBERTO CROSTI ◽

ILARIA CAMPANA ◽

LARA CAROSSO ◽

MARTINA GREGORIETTI ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Bottlenose Dolphin ◽

Tursiops Truncatus ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Natura 2000 ◽

Research Network ◽

Habitats Directive ◽

Common Bottlenose Dolphin ◽

The Mediterranean

A pilot study, using the dataset from the research network ‘FLT Med Net’, which regularly monitors transborder regions in the Mediterranean Sea using ferries as platform for systematic surveys, was undertaken to assess common bottlenose dolphin range and population trends within the Natura 2000 EU marine site “Tutela del Tursiops truncatus”. The site was recently designated by the Tuscany Region (Italy) within the requirement of the EU Habitats Directive. In order to evaluate the conservation status of bottlenose dolphin according to the surveillance scheme of the Directive, two six-year periods (2007-2012; 2013-2018) were compared to assess trends in distribution-occurrence (range); Sightings Per Unit of Effort and Density (population). In total, 18146 NM were surveyed along two fixed transects, recording 90 sightings of Tursiops truncatus and a total of 268 specimens. Between the two periods, slight but not statistically significant differences were assessed, with decreasing trend in range and population of the species; no variation was detected in mean group sizes. Travelling was the most common behaviour, and juveniles were present in 20% of the sightings, concentrated during spring and summer. The consistent FLT Med Net dataset was found to be appropriate to evaluate important parameters for the assessment of trends in the conservation status of Tursiops truncatus at the Natura2000 site scale.

Download Full-text