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State of Nature report 2019
The current state of nature
2019 |
An overview of how the country’s wildlife is faring, looking back over nearly 50 years of monitoring to see how nature has changed.
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Seasonal benefits of farmland pond management for birds
2019 | Lewis-Phillips, J., Brooks, S.J., Sayer, C.D., McCrea, R., Siriwardena, G., Robson, H., Harrison A.L. & Axmacher, J.C. Bird Study
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Light stalks increase the precision and accuracy of non-breeding locations calculated from geolocator tags: a field test from a long-distance migrant
2019 | Blackburn, E., Burgess, M., Freeman, B., Risely, A., Izang, A., Ivande, S., Hewson C. & Cresswell, W. Bird Study
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Bats in urbanising landscapes: habitat selection and recommendations for a sustainable future
2019 | Gili, F., Newson, S.E., Gillings, S., Chamberlain, D.E. & Border, J.A. Biological Conservation
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Effects of Natura 2000 on nontarget bird and butterfly species based on citizen science data
2019 | Pellissier, V., Schmucki, R., Pe'er, G., Aunins, A., Brereton, T.M., Brotons, L., Carnicer, J., Chodkiewicz, T., Chylarecki, P., del Moral, J.C., Escandell, V., Evans, D., Foppen, R., Harpke, A., Heliölä, J., Herrando, S., Kuussaari, M., Kühn, E., Lehikoinen, A., Lindström, Å., Moshøj, C.M., Musche, M., Noble, D., Oliver, T.H., Reif, J., Richard, D., Roy, D.B., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Stefanescu, C., Teufelbauer, N., Touroult, J., Trautmann, S., van Strien, A.J., van Swaay, C.A.M., van Turnhout, C., Vermouzek, Z., Voříšek, P., Jiguet, F. &Julliard, R. Conservation Biology
Research Reports
Review of the migratory movements of Shelduck to inform understanding of potential interactions with the offshore wind farms in the southern North Sea
BTO Research Report 718
2019 | Green, R.M.W., Burton, N.H.K. & Cook, A.S.C.P.
Peer-reviewed papers
Robustness of simple avian population trend models for semi-structured citizen science data is species-dependent
2019 | Boersch-Supan, P.H., Trask, A.E. & Baillie, S.R. Biological Conservation
Citizen scientists are collecting opportunistic biodiversity records on unprecedented temporal and spatial scales, vastly outnumbering the records achievable from structured surveys.
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Data integration for large-scale models of species distributions
2019 | Isaac, N.J.B., Jarzyna, M.A., Keil, P., Dambly, L.I., Boersch-Supan, P.H., Browning, E., Freeman, S.N., Golding, N., Guillera-Arroita, G., Henrys, P.A., Jarvis, S., Lahoz-Monfort, J., Pagel, J., Pescott, O.L., Schmucki, R., Simmonds, E.G. & O’Hara, R.B. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Every year more and more people contribute records of the animals and plants they observe around them to citizen science schemes.
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A new framework of spatial targeting for single-species conservation planning
2019 | Burgess, M., Gregory, R., Wilson, J., Gillings, S., Evans, A., Chisholm, K., Southern, A. & Eaton, M. Landscape Ecology
BTO books and guides
Flowers of the Brecks Part 2: Wetland, Woodland & Farmland
2019 | Mike Crewe
Climatic and soil conditions in the Brecks are such that a particularly notable assemblage of plants is found locally.
BTO books and guides
Animals of the Brecks: Mammals, Reptiles & Amphibians
2019 | Mike Toms & Stuart Newson
Breckland hosts a broad range of mammal, reptile and amphibian species which, because of their often secretive nature, can be difficult to track down without some local knowledge.
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Assessing factors associated with changes in the numbers of birds visiting gardens in winter: Are predators partly to blame?
2019 | Swallow, B., Buckland, S.T., King, R & Toms, M.P. Ecology and Evolution
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Foraging ecology mediates response to ecological mismatch during migratory stopover
2019 | Tucker, A.M., McGowan, C.P., Catalano, M.J., DeRose‐Wilson, A., Robinson, R.A. & Zimmerman, J. Ecosphere
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Road exposure and the detectability of birds in field surveys
2019 | Cooke, S.C., Balmford, A., Johnston, A., Massimino, D., Newson, S.E. & Donald, P.F. Ibis
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Population responses of bird populations to climate change on two continents vary with species' ecological traits but not with direction of change in climate suitability
2019 | Mason, L.R., Green, R.E., Howard, C., Stephens, P.A., Willis, S.G., Aunins, A., Brotons, L., Chodkiewicz, T., Chylarecki, P., Escandell, V., Foppen, R.P.B., Herrando, S., Husby, M., Jiguet, F., Kålå, J.A., Lindström, Å., Massimino, D., Moshøj, C., Nellis, R., Paquet, J.-Y., Reif, J., Sirkiä, P.M., Szép, T., Tellini Florenzano, G., Teufelbauer, N., Trautmann, S., van Strien, A., van Turnhout, C.A.M., Voříšek, P. & Gregory, R.D. Climatic Change
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Wind‐associated detours promote seasonal migratory connectivity in a flapping flying long‐distance avian migrant
2019 | Norevik, G., Åkesson, S., Artois, T., Beenaerts, N., Conway, G., Cresswell, B., Evens, R., Henderson, I., Jiguet, F. & Hedenström, A. Journal of Animal Ecology
State of Nature Report
State of Nature report 2019
The current state of nature
2019 |
An overview of how the country’s wildlife is faring, looking back over nearly 50 years of monitoring to see how nature has changed.
Peer-reviewed papers
The influence of different aspects of grouse moorland management on nontarget bird assemblages
2019 | Littlewood, N.A, Mason, T.H.E., Hughes, M., Jacques, R., Whittingham, M.J. & Willis, S.G. Ecology and Evolution
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Contrasting population trends of Common Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across Europe
2019 | Heldbjerg, H., Fox, A.D., Lehikoinen, A., Sunde, P., Aunins, A., Balmer, D.E., Calvi, G., Chodkiewicz, T., Chylarecki, P., Escandell, V., Foppen, R., Gamero, A., Hristov, I., Husby, M., Jiguet, F., Kmecl, P., Kålås, J.A., Lewis, L.J., Lindström, Å., Moshøj, C., Nellis, R., Paquet, J-Y., Portolou, D., Ridzon, J., Schmid, H., Skorpilová, J., Szabó, Z.D., Szép, T., Teufelbauer, N., Trautmann, S., van Turnhout, C., Vermouzek, Z., Voríšek, P. & Weiserbs, A. Ornis Fennica
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Avian vulnerability to wind farm collision through the year: insights from Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Larus fuscus) tracked from multiple breeding colonies
2019 | Thaxter, C.B., Ross-Smith, V.H., Bouten, W., Clark, N.A., Conway, G.J., Masden, E.A., Clewley, G.D., Barber, L.J. & Burton, N.H.K. Journal of Applied Ecology
New BTO research has explored how vulnerable Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding in Britain are to collisions with wind turbines whilst on migration and during the winter months, as well as during the breeding season.
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One-third of English breeding bird species show evidence of population responses to climatic variables over 50 years
Population growth rates affected by climatic variables
2019 | Pearce-Higgins, J.W. & Crick, H.Q.P. Bird Study
Research by BTO and Natural England, suggests that climate change has had a detectable impact on a sizeable proportion of England’s avifauna over the last 50 years.
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