dc.creator | Bernardo Madrid, Rubén | es |
dc.creator | Vera, Pablo | es |
dc.creator | Gallardo, Belinda | es |
dc.creator | Vilà, Montserrat | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-30T09:04:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-30T09:04:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bernardo Madrid, R., Vera, P., Gallardo, B. y Vilà Planella, M. (2022). Stopping Winter Flooding of Rice Fields to Control Invasive Snails Has no Effect on Waterbird Abundance at the Landscape Scale. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 688325. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2296-701X | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/136526 | |
dc.description.abstract | The invasive apple snail (Pomacea maculata) appeared in 2010 in the Ebro Delta Natural
Park, an important area for rice production and waterbird conservation in the eastern
Mediterranean. To control crop damage, farmers stopped flooding their rice fields in
winter, an agri-environmental scheme (AES) applied for more than 20 years in some
European and American regions to favor flora and fauna from wetlands, including
wintering waterbirds. Thus, apple snail control is controversial because of its potential
side effects on international waterbird conservation efforts. Despite the fact that 10 years
have passed since the first flooding limitations, and the alarms raised by the managers of
the Natural Park, the side effects of apple snail management on waterbird conservation
have not been evaluated. Here we fill this gap by analyzing a 35-year time series to
assess whether abundance trends of 27 waterbird species, from five functional groups,
decreased in the Ebro Delta after stopping winter flooding. We considered the effects of
confounding local factors by also assessing trend changes in l’Albufera, a similar nearby
not invaded wetland where flooding has not been interrupted. In addition, as a control
of the positive effect of winter flooding, we also assessed whether abundance trends
increased in both wetlands after applying this AES winter flooding. Our results showed
complex and decoupled trend changes across species and geographical areas, without
statistical evidences, in general or for any particular functional group, on the positive
effect of winter flooding in both wetlands neither on the negative effect of its cessation
in Ebro Delta. These results suggest the safety of this apple snail control in terms of
waterbird abundance at a landscape scale. In addition, these results question, at least
in two important wintering areas in Europe, the attractor role associated with the flooding
agri-environmental scheme applied for decades | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PCI2018-092939, PCI2018-092986, MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE) | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.format.extent | 12 p. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 688325. | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | gri-environmental schemes | es |
dc.subject | Ebro Delta | es |
dc.subject | invasive species management | es |
dc.subject | Pomacea maculate | es |
dc.subject | side effects | es |
dc.subject | wetlands | es |
dc.subject | biological invasion | es |
dc.subject | decision making | es |
dc.title | Stopping Winter Flooding of Rice Fields to Control Invasive Snails Has no Effect on Waterbird Abundance at the Landscape Scale | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología | es |
dc.relation.projectID | PCI2018-092939, PCI2018-092986 | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.688325 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fevo.2021.688325 | es |
dc.journaltitle | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | es |
dc.publication.volumen | 9 | es |
dc.publication.endPage | 688325 | es |
dc.contributor.funder | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICIN). España | es |