Publications

GBFS News 2011 - Issue 03

After 41 winters, the GBFS continues to produce fascinating new results. More birds than ever are tucking into the bird foods that we provide, highlighting the growing importance of gardens within our wider living landscape

01.09.11

Newsletters GBFS News

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A Field Guide to Monitoring Nests

Written and illustrated by experts, this guide contains a wealth of information for 145 British and Irish species, together with introductory sections on nest-monitoring techniques, nest identification, legislation, the BTO Nest Record Scheme and nest-finding skills. It is intended as an aid to those involved in monitoring nests for research and conservation purposes. This book is now out of print. We are looking into a new publication.

31.07.11

Books and guides

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Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization

Pressure on ecosystems to provide various different and often conflicting services is immense and likely to increase. The impacts and success of conservation prioritization will be enhanced if the needs of competing land uses are recognized at the planning stage. We develop such methods and illustrate them with data about competing land uses in Great Britain, with the aim of developing a conservation priority ranking that balances between needs of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, agricultural value, and urban development potential. While both carbon stocks and biodiversity are desirable features from the point of view of conservation, they compete with the needs of agriculture and urban development. In Britain the greatest conflicts exist between biodiversity and urban areas, while the largest carbon stocks occur mostly in Scotland in areas with low agricultural or urban pressure. In our application, we were able successfully to balance the spatial allocation of alternative land uses so that conflicts between them were much smaller than had they been developed separately. The proposed methods and software, Zonation, are applicable to structurally similar prioritization problems globally.

01.07.11

Papers

Waterbirds in the UK 2009/10

Waterbirds in the UK presents the summarised results of the annual WeBS report, and full data available via the WeBS Report Online. It provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the current status and distribution of waterbirds in the UK for those interested in the conservation of the populations of these species and the wetland sites they use.

01.07.11

Reports Waterbirds in the UK

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