Baie de Seine

Baie de Seine

Baie de Seine

Bird species included in model

Dunlin (Calidris alpina), Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata), Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Environmental issues simulated

Port development. Mitigation for habitat area and habitat availability time.

Recommendations from modelling

Port development can reduce shorebird survival, but mitigatation by reducing disturbance and habitat creation can offset this. 

More information

dit Durell, S.E.A.L.V., Stillman, R.A., Triplet, P., Aulert, C., dit Biot, D.O., Bouchet, A., Duhamel, S., Mayot, S. and Goss-Custard, J.D., 2005. Modelling the efficacy of proposed mitigation areas for shorebirds: a case study on the Seine estuary, France. Biological Conservation, 123(1): 67-77.

Funding

 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Bassin d’Arcachon to Danish Wadden Sea

Bassin d’Arcachon to Danish Wadden Sea

Bassin d’Arcachon to Danish Wadden Sea

Multi-site model

Bassin d’Arcachon, French West Coast, Golfe du Morbihan, English South Coast, Thames Estuaries, Essex Estuaries, Dutch Wadden Sea, West German Wadden Sea, North German Wadden Sea, Danish Wadden Sea

Bird species included in model

Dark-bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla bernicla)

Environmental issues simulated

Changes in land use, fungal infection, human recreation and hunting changing habitat area and availability time

Recommendations from modelling

Loss of terrestrial habitat has greater impact on brent goose than loss of intertidal habitat. Presence of hunting, through disturbance, reduces brent goose mass gain rate.

More information

Stillman, R.A., Caldow, R.W.G., le V. dit Durell, S.E.A., West, A.D., McGrorty, S., Goss-Custard, J.D., Pérez-Hurtado, A., Castro, M., Estrella, S., Masero, J.A., Rodríguez-Pascual, F.H., Triplet, P., Loquet, N., Desprez, M., Fritz, H., Clausen, P., Ebbinge, B., Norris, K. and Mattison, E., 2005. Coastal bird diversity. Maintaining migratory coastal bird diversity: management through individual-based predictive population modelling. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset.

Funding

European Commission EVK2-2000-00612

Camargue

Camargue

Camargue

Bird species included in model

Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Environmental issues simulated

Salina (salt pan) water level management affecting habitat area

Recommendations from modelling

56% of the total area of saltpans are required to fulfill the energy requirements of breeding Flamingo.

More information

Deville, A.-S., 2013. Besoins énergétiques et distribution spatiale du Flamant rose (Phoenicopterus roseus) dans les salins de Camargue, conséquences de la reconversion du site pour la conservation de l’espèce (Energetic needs and spatial distribution of the Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), salt pans reconversion consequences for the conservation of the species). PhD thesis, Universite Montpellier II.

Funding

MAVA Foundation, Single Inter-ministerial Fund

Cardiff Bay

Cardiff Bay

Cardiff Bay

Bird species included in model

Common redshank (Tringa totanus)

Environmental issues simulated

Barrage result in a change of habitat area and availability time, and food density / quality. Mitigation through new lagoon.

Recommendations from modelling

Habitat loss reduces redshank survival, but mitigation by creation of higher shore level habitat of 10% of area lost can offset this.

More information

Goss-Custard, J. D., Burton, N. H. K., Clark, N. A., Ferns, P. N., McGrorty, S., Reading, C. J., Rehfisch, M. M., Stillman, R. A., Townend, I., West, A. D. & Worral, D. H. (2006) Test of a behaviour-based individual-based model: increased winter mortality in a shorebird following habitat loss. Ecological Applications, 16, 2215-2222.

Funding

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Colne Estuary

Colne Estuary

Colne Estuary

Bird species included in model

Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), Common redshank (Tringa totanus), Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata), Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Environmental issues simulated

Pacific oyster reef development and removal, changing habitat area and food density / quality

Recommendations from modelling

Pacific oyster reefs can provide important feeding habitat for shorebirds, especially in sites with lower food availablity in other habitats.

More information

Herbert, R.J.H., Davies, C.J., Bowgen, K.M., Hatton, J. and Stillman, R.A., 2018. The importance of nonnative Pacific oyster reefs as supplementary feeding areas for coastal birds on estuary mudflats. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 28(6): 1294-1307.

Funding

Natural England