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Intensified human use of land and seas has reduced biodiversity in more than 90 percent of Europe; eroding habitats increasingly threaten birds. Nearly 40 percent of Europe's bird species have small, localized, or declining populations. <p>With contributions from nearly two hundred experts from all parts of Europe, this book offers a new approach to bird conservation, concentrating not on specific sites but on ways to conserve widespread species and their habitats on a continental scale. The contributors identify broad conservation objectives for the eight most important types of bird habitat in Europe: temperate and boreal forests; Mediterranean forests, shrublands, and rocky habitats; tundra, mires, and moorland; lowland heath; inland wetlands; coastal; marine; and agricultural. Including background information on the ecology and uses of each habitat type, the authors discuss the importance of its features for key bird species as well as the human activities that threaten its viability.</p> <p>In Europe as in most of the world, conserving biodiversity outside protected areas remains a low priority Quantifying the cumulative effects of current threats to birds, the authors call fo

Author

Graham M Tucker; Michael I Evans; BirdLife International

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560984481

Subjects

Economics, Science, Nature