Breeding ground correlates of the distribution and decline of the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus at two spatial scales

Although we have lost over three-quarters of the UK Cuckoo population, we are unsure of the causes of this decline. Alongside this, the strong divide in northern and southern populations of Cuckoo and ...

Overcoming the challenges of public data archiving for citizen science biodiversity recording and monitoring schemes

Public data archiving (PDA), where data are made freely available on demand through recognised data repositories, is increasingly being required by funders and journals to promote ‘open data’. However ...

Species contributions to single biodiversity values under-estimate whole community contribution to a wider range of values to ...

A major task for decision makers is deciding how to consider the monetary, cultural and conservation values of biodiversity. Not all species contribute to any one value to the same degree, and there ...

One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe

We present the results of a process to attempt to identify 100 questions that, if answered, would make a substantial difference to terrestrial and marine landscape restoration in Europe. ...

Estimating mortality rates among passerines caught for ringing with mist nets using data from previously ringed birds.

The benefit of the information accrued when capturing wild animals for study needs to outweigh the potential risk to individuals that are caught. New BTO research, just published, assesses the ...

Rapid progression of ash dieback in the coppice of Bradfield Woods, Suffolk

Effects of winter food provisioning on the phenotypes of breeding blue tits

Our understanding of the impact of feeding wild birds is far from complete, but we are beginning to unravel the effects of providing foods at garden feeding stations. An important area of research has ...