TY - BOOK
T1 - Analysis and prioritization of future efforts for Danish biodiversity
T2 - with particular regard to Nature Agency lands
AU - Buchwald, Erik
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - It has been widely documented that biodiversity both globally and in Denmark is in decline and that many species are threatened with extinction. Analyses in 2011-2013 of the status of Danish biodiversity and of the recent efforts to help it pointed out the need for a more focused approach to management and conservation, targeted more at threatened species, and recognizing that forests are of major importance for a very large proportion of the threatened species. A large part of the analyses were based on 10 x 10 km grid cell data for Denmark and thus difficult to apply in practical management. The aim of this Industrial-PhD-project was to investigate and analyze, where and how a more specific and effective effort can be done to achieve the political 2020-targets about halting the decline in biodiversity – especially on the c. 5% of Denmark managed by the Nature Agency. First of all I delimited the more than one thousand species of animals, plants and fungi that influence whether Denmark can reach the EU and UN biodiversity targets for 2020 (chapter 3). I then compiled and quality checked data on the occurrences of these species 1991-2015 and analyzed to which extent each species occurred in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) or in other types of nature protected areas (chapter 1). Using the optimization program Marxan with zones I studied how species could be protected better in a cost-effective way, and related the results to the government´s "Nature-package" decision from May 2016. It determined that 10,000 ha of new untouched forests and 3,300 ha of new forests protected as "other biodiversity forests" shall be designated on Danish Nature Agency lands (chapter 2 and 4). Results and data were supplied to the Nature Agency as soon as available in the project.The analyses in chapter 4 thereby became a significant part of the basis for the proposal including more than 13,300 ha of new protected biodiversity forests, which the Nature Agency publicly announced on February 2nd 2018 as implementation of the "Nature-package" decision. Unrelated to the original PhD plan, I was invited to contribute to a study "Where are Europe´s last primary forests". To my joy the authors had chosen definitions and terminology published by me in 2005 as the most appropriate for the study (Appendix I). Similarly I co-authored an article on the development in number of breeding bird species in Denmark since 1800 (Appendix II) and was invited to write a piece on my PhD project to a thematic journal issue on Biodiversity and Forest (Appendix III)
AB - It has been widely documented that biodiversity both globally and in Denmark is in decline and that many species are threatened with extinction. Analyses in 2011-2013 of the status of Danish biodiversity and of the recent efforts to help it pointed out the need for a more focused approach to management and conservation, targeted more at threatened species, and recognizing that forests are of major importance for a very large proportion of the threatened species. A large part of the analyses were based on 10 x 10 km grid cell data for Denmark and thus difficult to apply in practical management. The aim of this Industrial-PhD-project was to investigate and analyze, where and how a more specific and effective effort can be done to achieve the political 2020-targets about halting the decline in biodiversity – especially on the c. 5% of Denmark managed by the Nature Agency. First of all I delimited the more than one thousand species of animals, plants and fungi that influence whether Denmark can reach the EU and UN biodiversity targets for 2020 (chapter 3). I then compiled and quality checked data on the occurrences of these species 1991-2015 and analyzed to which extent each species occurred in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) or in other types of nature protected areas (chapter 1). Using the optimization program Marxan with zones I studied how species could be protected better in a cost-effective way, and related the results to the government´s "Nature-package" decision from May 2016. It determined that 10,000 ha of new untouched forests and 3,300 ha of new forests protected as "other biodiversity forests" shall be designated on Danish Nature Agency lands (chapter 2 and 4). Results and data were supplied to the Nature Agency as soon as available in the project.The analyses in chapter 4 thereby became a significant part of the basis for the proposal including more than 13,300 ha of new protected biodiversity forests, which the Nature Agency publicly announced on February 2nd 2018 as implementation of the "Nature-package" decision. Unrelated to the original PhD plan, I was invited to contribute to a study "Where are Europe´s last primary forests". To my joy the authors had chosen definitions and terminology published by me in 2005 as the most appropriate for the study (Appendix I). Similarly I co-authored an article on the development in number of breeding bird species in Denmark since 1800 (Appendix II) and was invited to write a piece on my PhD project to a thematic journal issue on Biodiversity and Forest (Appendix III)
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M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Analysis and prioritization of future efforts for Danish biodiversity
PB - Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
ER -