
It is BTO’s policy to make public the results of our research. Our aim is to publish as much as possible of our work in the peer reviewed scientific literature. Many results are also published in our BTO Research Report series.
2015.
Climate-driven changes in winter abundance of a migratory waterbird in relation to EU protected areas.
Diversity and Distributions
21 (part 5)
: 571-582
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12300)
2015.
Climate-induced changes in river flow regimes will alter future bird distributions.
Ecosphere
6
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00245.1)
2015.
Comparison of breeding bird assemblages in conifer plantations managed by continuous cover forestry and clearfelling.
Forest Ecology and Management
344
: 20-29
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.017)
2015.
Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes: a collaborative assessment of priorities.
Journal of Applied Ecology
52 (part 3)
: 686-695
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12423)
2015.
Directionality of recent bird distribution shifts and climate change in Great Britain.
Global Change Biology
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12823)
2015.
Drivers of climate change impacts on bird communities.
Journal of Animal Ecology
84 (part 4)
British Ecological Society
: 943-954
Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12364)
2015.
Evidence for the buffer effect operating in multiple species at a national scale.
Biology Letters
11 (part 1)
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0930)
2015.
Flexibility in the timing of post-breeding moult in passerines in the UK.
Ibis
157 (part 2)
: 340-350
Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12234)
2015.
Hatching success in Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus - an island case study of the effects of egg and nest site quality.
Seabirds
28
: 1-16
2015.
Home-range size and habitat use of European Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus nesting in a complex plantation-forest landscape.
Ibis
157 (part 2)
: 260-272
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12251)
2015.
Latitudinal gradients in the productivity of European migrant warblers have not shifted northwards during a period of climate change.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
24
: 427-436
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/geb.12267)
2015.
Modelling the abundance and distribution of marine birds accounting for uncertain species identification.
Journal of Applied Ecology
52 (part 1)
: 150-160
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12364)
2015.
Multi-species spatially-explicit indicators reveal spatially structured trends in bird communities.
Ecological Indicators
58
Elsevier
: 277-285
Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.06.001)
2015.
Quantifying the risk of introduction of West Nile Virus into Great Britain by migrating passerine birds.
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12310)
2015.
Raptors in Scotland – a methodology for developing trends and indicators.
SNH Commissioned Report
542
Scottish Natural Heritage
2015.
Season-long consequences of shifts in timing of breeding for productivity in Willow Warblers, Phylloscopus trochilus.
Bird Study
62 (part 2)
: 161-169
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2015.1006575)
2015.
The effectiveness of protected areas in the conservation of species with changing geographical ranges.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
115 (part 3)
: 707-717
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/bij.12506)
2015.
The impact of changing habitat availability on population trends of woodland birds associated with early successional plantation woodland.
Bird Study
62 (part 1)
: 39-55
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.998622)
2014.
A global assessment of the conservation status of the nominate subspecies of Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus ostralegus).
International Wader Studies
20
: 47-61
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2014.
Can management improve the value of shade plantations for the endemic species of São Tomé Island?.
Biotropica
46
: 238-244
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/btp.12092)
2014.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences
281
2014.
<p>Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity in Great Britain</p>
.
Global Change Biology
20 (part 12)
: 3 859-3 871
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12603)
2014.
A trial of three harness attachment methods and their suitability for long-term use on Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Great Skuas.
Ringing & Migration
29 (part 2)
: 65-76
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2014.995546)
2014.
Achieving production and conservation simultaneously in tropical agricultural landscapes.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
192
: 130-134
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.04.011)
2014.
Assessing trends in biodiversity over space and time using the example of British breeding birds.
Journal of Applied Ecology
51 (part 6)
: 1 650-1 660
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12316)
2014.
Balancing food production and biodiversity Conservation in arable landscapes: lessons from the Farm4bio experiment..
26 (part 4)
: 252-256
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2014.
Can site and landscape-scale environmental attributes buffer bird populations against weather events?.
Ecography
37 (part 9)
: 872-882
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00575)
2014.
Carry-over effects from passage regions are more important than breeding climate in determining the breeding phenology and performance of three avian migrants of conservation concern.
Biodiversity and Conservation
23 (part 10)
: 2 427-2 444
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0731-5)
2014.
Changes in breeding wader assemblages, vegetation and land use within machair environments over three decades.
Bird Study
61 (part 3)
: 287-300
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.917604)
2014.
Climate change and annual survival in a temperate passerine: partitioning seasonal effects and predicting future patterns.
Oikos
123
: 389-400
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00620.x)
2014.
Conservation management of moorland: a case study of the effectiveness of a combined suite of management prescriptions which aim to enhance breeding bird populations.
Bird Study
61 (part 1)
: 56-72
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.876615)
2014.
Defining the key wintering habitats in the Sahel for declining African-Eurasian migrants using expert assessment.
Bird Conservation International
24 (part 4)
: 477-491
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1017/S0959270913000531)
2014.
Directionality of recent bird distribution shifts and climate change in Great Britain.
Global Change Biology
Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12823)
2014.
Epidemiological Evidence That Garden Birds Are a Source of Human Salmonellosis in England and Wales.
PLOS ONE
5 (part 8)
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088968)
2014.
Estimates and correlates of bird and bat mortality at small wind turbine sites.
Biodiversity and Conservation
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0826-z)
2014.
Evidence for contrasting causes of population change in two closely related, sympatric breeding species the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra and Stonechat Saxicola torquata in Britain.
Bird Study
61 (part 4)
: 553-565
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.962482)
2014.
Exclusion of deer affects responses of birds to woodland regeneration in winter and summer.
Ibis
156 (part 1)
: 116-131
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12096)
2014.
Forty years of distribution change in the uplands: insights from atlases.
Book title: Ecology and conservation of birds in upland and alpine habitats: Proceedings of the BOU Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 1-3 April 2014
BOU
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2014.
GB Non-native Species Information Portal: documenting the arrival of non-native species in Britain.
Biological Invasions
16 (part 12)
: 2 495-2 505
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0687-0)
2014.
Generating population estimates for common and widespread breeding birds in Ireland.
Bird Study
61 (part 1)
: 82-90
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2013.868401)
2014.
Grazing and moorland birds.
Book title: Ecology and conservation of birds in upland and alpine habitats: Proceedings of the BOU Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 1-3 April 2014
BOU
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2014.
Great skua (Stercorarius skua) movements at sea in relation to marine renewable energy developments.
Marine Environmental Research
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.09.003)
2014.
How can functional space for farmland birds best be studied? A comment on Butler and Norris (2013).
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
192
: 8-11
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.03.032)
2014.
Impacts of drainage and climate change on keystone insects and upland breeding birds.
Book title: Ecology and conservation of birds in upland and alpine habitats: Proceedings of the BOU Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 1-3 April 2014
BOU
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2014.
Improving species distribution models: the value of data on abundance.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
5 (part 6)
: 506-513
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12184)
2014.
Indicators of seabird reproductive performance demonstrate the impact of commercial fisheries on seabird populations in the North Sea.
Ecological Indicators
38
: 1-11
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.10.027)
2014.
Integrating demographic data: towards a framework for monitoring wildlife populations at large spatial scales.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
5 (part 12)
: 1 361-1 372
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12204)
2014.
Introducing the R-package 'birdring'.
Ringing & Migration
29 (part 1)
: 51-61
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Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/03078698.2014.933053)
2014.
Landscape transition through natural processes: implications for biodiversity of tree regeneration on moorland.
Book title: Ecology and conservation of birds in upland and alpine habitats: Proceedings of the BOU Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 1-3 April 2014
BOU
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