Carles Carboneras

• PhD
• Researcher at Spanish National Research Council

Effective prevention and control of invasive species generally relies on a comprehensive, coherent and representative list of species that enables resources to be used optimally. European Union (EU) Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive alien species (IAS) aims to control or eradicate priority species, and to manage pathways to prevent the introduction...

With a decline exceeding 30% over three generations, the once-common European Turtle-dove is now considered globally threatened by IUCN. As a legal game species in 10 European countries, the recent International Single Species Action Plan for this species highlighted the need to carry out an assessment of the sustainability of current levels of hun...

The European Turtle Dove (turtle dove) is globally threatened after undergoing a sustained and generalised decline across its breeding range, with habitat loss suggested as the main driver. Here, we reviewed the scientific literature on habitat associations across its European breeding range, in relation to distribution, breeding numbers, nesting s...

Empirical data are essential to assess the outcomes of management decisions in the context of adaptive management. We used flyway‐level population indices of a declining game bird to assess population changes after introducing hunting management measures as part of the European Union (EU)‐wide Adaptive Harvest Management mechanism (AHMM). In one fl...

The European turtle-dove (Streptopelia turtur) breeds across most of Europe, except the extreme north; and within the European Union (EU), only Ireland and Sweden do not have breeding populations. The breeding range extends east into China, and south into northern Africa. Birds migrate to sub-Saharan Africa to overwinter, using at least three route...

In Europe, many bird populations have undergone strong declines over the last decades. The European Turtle Dove is an iconic declining bird species that can be legally hunted in ten EU countries, with hundreds of thousands of birds being harvested annually in western Europe alone. The European Union urgently required from these member states to tac...

On 15 September 2021 , during one of the experimen tal bottom trawls, ca rried out at a speed of 3.5 knot, SGB noticed a medium-sized dark petrel. It was feeding on discards from the fishing operation in the company of Northern Fulmars, Sooty Shearwaters, Great Shearwaters, Northern Gannets and Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus. SGB identified...

The 2018 International Species Action Plan for European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur aims to halt and revert the species’ widespread decline. One of its core priorities is to improve habitat management, and urges competent authorities to identify and designate Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs) for dedi-cated management. However, high-resolution...

The 2018 International Species Action Plan for European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur aims to halt and revert the species' widespread decline. One of its core priorities is to improve habitat management and urges competent authorities to identify and designate Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs) for dedicated management. However, high-resolution d...

The European Turtle Dove (turtle dove) is a globally threatened species that is undergoing a sustained and generalised decline across its breeding range, with habitat deterioration and loss suggested as the main driver. Here, we review the scientific literature on habitat associations across the European breeding range, in relation to turtle dove d...