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Influence of wind on kittiwake Rissa tridactyla flight and offshore wind turbine collision risk

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Published: 2024

Climate change presents a major threat to populations of seabirds such as the Kittiwake, a Red-listed species of conservation concern. However, one mitigation approach to climate change – exploiting renewable energy through offshore wind farms – itself poses a potential threat to Kittiwakes, partly due to collision risk with turbine blades.

09.09.24

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Treating gaps and biases in biodiversity data as a missing data problem

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Published: 2024

The value of data collected by volunteers is inestimable and they have been used in myriad ways to address many pressing conservation problems. One big benefit is that much more data can be collected than could ever be managed if only paid staff were relied upon. This means that the data gathered can cover much larger areas and be more representative of the country as a whole.

08.08.24

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Supplementary bird feeding as an overlooked contribution to local phosphorus cycles.

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Published: 2024

Putting out food for wild birds at garden feeding stations is a common practice, and one of a number of different forms of providing supplementary food to free-living birds. Another is the provision of grain and growers pellets by game managers to support Pheasants and other gamebirds post release. The act of putting out supplementary food may have wider effects on our ecosystems because of the nutrients present in the food, as this piece of research reveals.

07.08.24

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