Bending the curve: Simple but massive conservation action leads to landscape-scale recovery of amphibians.

ABSTRACT: Success stories are rare in conservation science, hindered also by the research-implementation gap, where scientific insights rarely inform practice and practical implementation is rarely evaluated scientifically. Amphibian population declines, driven by multiple stressors, are emblematic of the freshwater biodiversity crisis. Habitat creation is a straightforward conservation action that has been shown to locally benefit amphibians, as well as other taxa, but does it benefit entire amphibian communities at large spatial scales? Here, we evaluate a landscape-scale pond-construction program by fitting dynamic occupancy models to 20 y of monitoring data for 12 pond-breeding amphibian species in the Swiss state Aargau, a densely populated area of the Swiss lowlands with intensive land use. Af

SUBMITTER: Moor H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9586276 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature