Long-term variations in waterfowl populations in Loch Leven:
identifying discontinuities between local and national trends
Carss, D.; Spears, B.M.; Quinn, L.; Cooper, R.. 2012 Long-term
variations in waterfowl populations in Loch Leven: identifying
discontinuities between local and national trends.
Hydrobiologia, 681 (1). 85-104. 10.1007/s10750-011-0927-6Full
text not available from this repository. Loch Leven has been
designated as a UK Ramsar Site (1976), a Site of Special
Scientific Interest (1985) and a Special Protection Area (2000)
due to its importance as a site for overwintering waterfowl.
However, no comprehensive assessment of trends in waterfowl at
the local versus national scale has been conducted at the site.
Coherence between trends in 5-year mean species abundance for
Loch Leven and Underhill Indexing Method values for Scotland (or
GB in the case of geese) were assessed using principal
components analysis for ten study species between 1968 and 2006.
Five species showed trends at Loch Leven that