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Name
Dr Dan Chamberlain
Position
Senior Ecologist – Climate Change
Role
I am head of the Demography Unit within the Populations Research Department.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Environmental Biology, Oxford Polytechnic, 1987-1990.
DPhil Factors Affecting Reproductive Success in Rural Population of Blackbirds, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, 1990-94.
Research Interests/Responsibilities
I lead the BTO’s climate change research programme, with responsibility for co-ordinating climate research across the organisation and developing research proposals, often in collaboration with other organisations, within the broad theme of biodiversity impacts of climate change. I also have a number of subsidiary research interests, including impacts of agricultural management on bird populations and the ecology of birds in gardens and urban habitat.
Other Information

Deputy Editor of Ibis

Selected Publications
  • Robb, G.N., R.A. MacDonald, D.E. Chamberlain, S.J. Reynolds, T.J.E. Harrison & S. Bearhop (in press). Winter feeding of birds increases productivity in the subsequent breeding season. Biology Letters.
  • Robb, G.N., R.A. MacDonald, D.E. Chamberlain & S. Bearhop (in press). Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  • Shaw, L.M., D.E. Chamberlain & M. R. Evans (in press). The house sparrow Passer domesticus in urban areas: Reviewing a possible link between post-decline distribution and human socioeconomic status. Journal of Ornithology.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., M.P. Toms, R. Cleary-McHarg & A.N. Banks (in press). House sparrow (Passer domesticus) habitat use in urbanized landscapes. Journal of Ornithology.
  • Holland, J.H., J. Orson, W. Powell, J. Storkey & D.E. Chamberlain (2007). Managing uncropped land in order to enhance biodiversity benefits of the arable farmed landscape. Aspects of Applied Biology 81: 255-260.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., A.G. Gosler & D.E. Glue (2007). The effects of winter beechmast crop on bird occurrence in British gardens. Bird Study 54: 120-126.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., S. Gough, H. Vaughan, J.A. Vickery & G.F. Appleton (2007). Determinants of bird species richness in public green spaces. Bird Study 54: 87-97.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., M.R. Rehfisch, A.D. Fox, M. Desholm & S.J. Anthony (2006). The effect of avoidance rates on bird mortality predictions made by wind turbine collision risk models. Ibis 148 (Suppl. 1): 198-202.
  • Sutherland, W.J., Armstrong-Brown, S., Armsworth, P.R., Brereton, T.,  Brickland, J.,  Campbell, C.D., Chamberlain, et al. (2006). The identification of one hundred ecological questions of high policy relevance in the UK. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 617-627.
  • Fuller, R.J., L.R. Norton, R.E. Feber, P.J. Johnson, D.E. Chamberlain, A.C. Joys, F. Matthews, R.C. Stuart, M.C. Townsend, W.J. Manley, M.S. Wolfe, D.W MacDonald & L.G. Firbank (2005). Benefits of organic farming to biodiversity vary among taxa. Biology Letters 1: 431-434.
  • Cannon, A.R., D.E. Chamberlain, M.P. Toms, B.J. Hatchwell & K.J. Gaston (2005). Trends in the use of private gardens by wild birds 1995-2002. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 659-671.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., J.A. Vickery, D.E. Glue, R.A. Robinson, G.J. Conway, R.J.W. Woodburn & A.R. Cannon (2005). Annual and seasonal trends in the use of garden feeders by birds in winter. Ibis 147: 563-575.
  • Whittingham, M.J., R.D. Swetnam, J.D. Wilson, D.E. Chamberlain & R.P. Freckleton (2005). Habitat selection by yellowhammers Emberiza citrinella on lowland farmland at two spatial scales: implications for conservation management. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 270-280.
  • Berendse, F., D.E. Chamberlain, D. Kleijn & H. Schekkerman (2004). Declining biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes. Ambio 33: 499-502.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., A.R. Cannon & M.P. Toms (2004). Associations of garden birds with gradients in garden habitat and local habitat. Ecography 27: 598-600.
  • Chamberlain, D.E. & H.Q.P. Crick (2004). Temporal and spatial associations in aspects of reproductive performance of Lapwings Vanellus vanellus in the United Kingdom, 1962-1999. Ardea 91: 183-196.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., S. Gough, J.A. Vickery, L.G. Firbank, S. E. Petit, R. Pywell & R.B. Bradbury (2004). Rule-based predictive models are not cost-effective alternatives to bird monitoring on farmland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 101: 1-8.
  • Petit, S., D.E. Chamberlain, K. Haysom, R. Pywell, E. Warman, D. Allen & L.G. Firbank (2003). Knowledge-based models for predicting species occurrence in arable conditions. Ecography 26: 626-640.
  • Chamberlain, D.E. & A.M. Wilson (Eds) (2002). Avian Landscape Ecology: Pure and Applied Issues in the Large-Scale Ecology of Birds. Proceedings of the 2002 IALE(UK) Conference. IALE(UK).
  • Vanhinsbergh, D.P. & D.E. Chamberlain (2001). Habitat associations of breeding Meadow Pipits Anthus pratensis in the British uplands. Bird Study 48: 159-172.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., R.J. Fuller, D.G. Garthwaite & A.J. Impey (2001). A comparison of farmland bird density and species richness in lowland England between two periods of contrasting agricultural practice. Bird Study 48: 245-251.
  • Chamberlain, D.E. & R.J. Fuller (2001). Contrasting patterns of change in the distribution and abundance of farmland birds in relation to farming system in lowland Britain. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10: 399-410.
  • Fuller, R.J., D.E. Chamberlain, N.H.K. Burton & S.J. Gough (2001). Distributions of birds in lowland agricultural landscapes of England and Wales: how distinctive are bird communities of hedgerow and woodland? Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 84: 79-92.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., R.J. Fuller, R.G.H. Bunce, J.C. Duckworth & M. Shrubb (2000). Changes in the abundance of farmland birds in relation to the timing of agricultural intensification in England and Wales. Journal of Applied Ecology 37: 771-788.
  • Chamberlain, D.E. & G.M. Siriwardena (2000). The effects of agricultural intensification on skylarks Alauda arvensis: evidence from monitoring studies in Great Britain. Environmental Reviews 8: 95-113.
  • Chamberlain, D.E., J.A. Vickery & S. Gough (2000). Spatial and temporal distribution of breeding Skylarks Alauda arvensis in relation to crop type in periods of population increase and decrease. Ardea 88: 61-73.
  • Browne, S.J., J.A. Vickery & D.E. Chamberlain (2000). Densities and population estimates of breeding Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) in Britain in 1997. Bird Study 47: 52-65.
  • Chamberlain, D.E. & R.J. Fuller (2000). Local extinctions and changes in species richness of lowland farmland birds in England and Wales in relation to recent changes in agricultural land-use. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 78: 1-17.
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