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Overview

Åke Berg is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research predominantly falls within Environmental Science, with specific focus on several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics centered on ecological and environmental dynamics. Key themes in their research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Forest Management and Policy, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Environmental Conservation and Management.

Recent scholarly publications highlight Åke Berg's contributions to conservation and ecological assessments. These include:

  • Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Improving scientific rigour in conservation evaluations and a plea deal for transparency on potential biases (2020), published in Conservation Letters
  • Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success (2021), published in Biological Conservation
  • Quantifying effects of wetland restorations on bird communities in agricultural landscapes (2022), published in Biological Conservation
  • Cannot see the diversity for all the species: Evaluating inclusion criteria for local species lists when using abundant citizen science data (2020), published in Ecology and Evolution

Åke Berg has published notably in the following venues:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Conservation Letters
  • Ecology and Evolution

Their frequent collaborators include Debora Arlt, Jonas Knape, Michał Żmihorski, Tomas Pärt, and Ineta Kačergytė.

Best Publications

  • Threatened Plant, Animal, and Fungus Species in Swedish Forests: Distribution and Habitat Associations

    Åke Berg;Beng Ehnström;Lena Gustafsson;Tomas Hallingbäck

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Hatching Success of Lapwings on Farmland: Differences between Habitats and Colonies of Different Sizes

    Ake Berg;Thore Lindberg;Karl Gunnar Kallebrink

  • A landscape perspective on conservation of semi-natural grasslands

    Regina Lindborg;Jan Bengtsson;Åke Berg;Sara A.O. Cousins

  • Changes in local species richness of farmland birds in relation to land-use changes and landscape structure

    Johan Wretenberg;Tomas Pärt;Åke Berg

  • Threat Levels and Threats to Red-Listed Species in Swedish Forests

    Åke Berg;Bengt Ehnström;Lena Gustafsson;Tomas Hallingbäck

  • Habitat preferences of red-listed fungi and bryophytes in woodland key habitats in southern Sweden – analyses of data from a national survey

    Åke Berg;Ulf Gärdenfors;Tomas Hallingbäck;Mikael Norén

  • Abundance of breeding farmland birds on arable and set‐aside fields at forest edges

    Åke Berg;Tomas Pärt

  • Composition and diversity of bird communities in Swedish farmland-forest mosaic landscapes

    Åke Berg

  • Breeding birds in short-rotation coppices on farmland in central Sweden—the importance of Salix height and adjacent habitats

    Åke Berg

  • Butterfly distribution and abundance is affected by variation in the Swedish forest-farmland landscape

    Åke Berg;Karin Ahrné;Erik Öckinger;Roger Svensson

  • Diversity and abundance of birds in relation to forest fragmentation, habitat quality and heterogeneity

    Åke Berg

  • Factors affecting nest‐site choice and reproductive success of Curlews Numenius arquata on farmland

    Åke Berg

  • Common and rare Swedish vertebrates - distribution and habitat preferences

    Åke Berg;Martin Tjernberg

  • Uncultivated plants and livelihood support –a case study from the Chepang people of Nepal

    Kamal Aryal;Åke Berg;Britta Ogle

  • Sensitivity of binomial N-mixture models to overdispersion: The importance of assessing model fit

    Jonas Knape;Debora Arlt;Frédéric Barraquand;Åke Berg

  • Bird diversity relates to agri-environment schemes at local and landscape level in intensive farmland

    Matthew Hiron;Åke Berg;Sönke Eggers;Jonas Josefsson

  • Power-line corridors as source habitat for butterflies in forest landscapes

    Åke Berg;Karl-Olof Bergman;Jörgen Wissman;Michał Żmihorski;Michał Żmihorski

  • Effects of water level and grassland management on alpha and beta diversity of birds in restored wetlands

    Michał Żmihorski;Tomas Pärt;Tomas Gustafson;Åke Berg

  • Habitat selection and reproductive success of Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana on farmland in central Sweden – the importance of habitat heterogeneity

    Åke Berg

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Pärt
Tomas Pärt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Mats Jonsell
Mats Jonsell Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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