Top predators as biodiversity indicators: A meta‐analysis

H Natsukawa, F Sergio - Ecology Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying efficient biodiversity indicators is a key pillar of the global conservation strategy.
Top predators have been proposed as reliable biodiversity signposts, but their role is …

[PDF][PDF] Home range size, habitat use, activity patterns and hunting behaviour of urban-breeding Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentilis

C Rutz - ARDEA-WAGENINGEN-, 2006 - researchgate.net
The Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis typically prefers woodland habitat for nesting and
hunting. In recent decades, however, the species has started colonising urban environments …

Raptors as surrogates of biodiversity along a landscape gradient

D Burgas, P Byholm, T Parkkima - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
With biodiversity facing threats, there is a need to improve reserve selection procedures.
However, detailed information about different biodiversity measures (eg species richness) at …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated exposure assessment of northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) nestlings to legacy and emerging organic pollutants using non-destructive samples

N Briels, LN Torgersen, JM Castaño-Ortiz… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present study, concentrations of legacy and emerging contaminants were determined
in three non-destructive matrices (plasma, preen oil and body feathers) of northern goshawk …

Black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) population status, reasons for decline and potential conservation measures from Western and Central Europe to Fennoscandia: a …

L Hambálková, J Cukor, K Brynychová… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The long-term decline of the black grouse population throughout Europe is influenced by
many factors that affect populations differently depending on the distribution range, from …

Competitive exclusion within the predator community influences the distribution of a threatened prey species

P Byholm, D Burgas, T Virtanen, J Valkama - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
While much effort has been made to quantify how landscape composition influences the
distribution of species, the possibility that geographical differences in species interactions …

Trace element concentrations in feathers and blood of Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) nestlings from Norway and Spain

KJ Dolan, TM Ciesielski, S Lierhagen, I Eulaers… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on trace element pollution in the terrestrial environment and its biota is
limited compared to the marine environment. In the present study, we collected body …

Habitat effects on the breeding performance of three forest-dwelling hawks

H Björklund, J Valkama, E Tomppo, T Laaksonen - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Habitat loss causes population declines, but the mechanisms are rarely known. In the
European Boreal Zone, loss of old forest due to intensive forestry is suspected to cause …

Decline of flying and red squirrels in boreal forests revealed by long‐term diet analyses of avian predators

V Selonen, P Sulkava, R Sulkava… - Animal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of species requires knowledge on population changes in time, but achieving
such data in proper spatio‐temporal scales can often be difficult for rare and vulnerable …

The ghost of the hawk: Top predator shaping bird communities in space and time

D Burgas, O Ovaskainen, FG Blanchet… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the wide recognition that strongly interacting species can influence distributions of
other species, species interactions are often disregarded when assessing or projecting …