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Virtual Issue: Conserving European biodiversity: lessons from the science-policy interface

Edited by: Philip E. Hulme
JUNE 2010

To celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity, the Journal of Applied Ecology is launching a virtual issue on the management of biodiversity to coincide with the Green Week conference. Twenty of the most influential papers that bridge the policy-science divide relating to biodiversity published by the Journal of Applied Ecology over the last five years have been brought together in a single issue.

These papers have a largely European focus and in many cases reflect the important role of European Union funding in bringing together researchers from across the region to work on shared issues relating to biodiversity management. Although perhaps not widely regarded as a global biodiversity hotspot, Europe has been the platform for several pioneering projects that have bridged the cultural, political and environmental diversity of the region to provide new insights into managing biodiversity.

These articles should help inform the ever diverse set of biodiversity stakeholders on the path to be taken by EU policies on biodiversity and nature policies post-2010 as well as the economic dimension of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Read the full introduction to this Virtual Issue.

Invasives | Climate | Ecosystems | EU | Freshwater

Addressing the threat of invasive species

Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy
Hulme, P. E., Bacher, S., Kenis, M., Klotz, S., Kuhn, I., Minchin, D., et al. (2008)

Habitat invasions by alien plants: a quantitative comparison among Mediterranean, subcontinental and oceanic regions of Europe
Chytry, M., Maskell, L. C., Pino, J., Pysek, P., Vila, M., Font, X., et al. (2008)

Eight years of entomological surveillance in Italy show no evidence of Culicoides imicola geographical range expansion
Conte, A., Gilbert, M., & Goffredo, M. (2009)

Can commercially imported bumble bees out-compete their native conspecifics?
Ings, T. C., Ward, N. L., & Chittka, L. (2006)

Opportunities to adapting to future climate change

Climate change: the science and the policy
King, D. (2005)

Minimal effects of wind turbines on the distribution of wintering farmland birds
Devereux, C. L., Denny, M. J. H., & Whittingham, M. J. (2008)

Marine renewable energy: potential benefits to biodiversity? An urgent call for research
Inger, R., Attrill, M. J., Bearhop, S., Broderick, A. C., Grecian, W. J., Hodgson, D. J., et al. (2009)

Adapting landscapes to climate change: examples of climate-proof ecosystem networks and priority adaptation zones
Vos, C. C., Berry, P., Opdam, P., Baveco, H., Nijhof, B., O'Hanley, J., et al. (2008)

Maintaining ecosystem services in Europe

Priority research areas for ecosystem services in a changing world
Nicholson E, Mace GM, Armsworth PR, et al. (2009)

Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities
Anderson, B. J., Armsworth, P. R., Eigenbrod, F., Thomas, C. D., Gillings, S., Heinemeyer, A., et al. (2009).

Oilseed rape crops distort plant-pollinator interactions
Diekotter T, Kadoya T, Peter F, et al. (2010)

Fishing impacts on the marine inorganic carbon cycle
Jennings S, Wilson RW (2009)

Impact of EU agri-environment schemes

Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan-European study
Billeter, R., Liira, J., Bailey, D., Bugter, R., Arens, P., Augenstein, I., et al. (2008)

Mammals and agri-environment schemes: hare haven or pest paradise?
Reid, N., McDonald, R. A., & Montgomery, W. I. (2007)

Valuing nature-conservation interests on agricultural floodplains
Rouquette, J. R., Posthumus, H., Gowing, D. J. G., Tucker, G., Dawson, Q. L., Hess, T. M., et al. (2009)

Will agri-environment schemes deliver substantial biodiversity gain, and if not why not?
Whittingham, M. J. (2007)

Managing freshwater biodiversity

The use of large wood in stream restoration: experiences from 50 projects in Germany and Austria
Kail, J., Hering, D., Muhar, S., Gerhard, M., & Preis, S. (2007)

Assessing the ecological status of candidate reference lakes in Ireland using palaeolimnology
Leira, M., Jordan, P., Taylor, D., Dalton, C., Bennion, H., Rose, N., et al. (2006)

Assessing river biotic condition at a continental scale: a European approach using functional metrics and fish assemblages
Pont, D., Hugueny, B., Beier, U., Goffaux, D., Melcher, A., Noble, R., et al. (2006)

Lake restoration: successes, failures and long-term effects
Sondergaard, M., Jeppesen, E., Lauridsen, T. L., Skov, C., Van Nes, E. H., Roijackers, R., et al. (2007)