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Name
Dr Staffan Roos
Position
Research Ecologist, BTO Scotland
Role
My current job is to analyse data on population trends of raptors, especially Peregrines, and arrival times of migratory birds. I am also developing research projects with particular focus on how birds are affected by human activities, such as urbanisation, wind farms and traffic noise.
Qualifications
MSc Uppsala University, Sweden, 1997. PhD Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, 2004
Research Interests / Responsibilities

Before joining the BTO I worked with farmland birds, trying to understand how the habitat selection of red-backed shrikes are affected by abundance of nest predating corvids, such as magpies, hooded crows and jays. During a postdoc period at Queen's University Belfast I worked with birds and bumblebees in urban environments. A specific focus was to analyse how public green space affect avian diversity in private gardens.

Other Information
I am training to become a bird ringer.
Selected Publications
  • Roos, S. 2006. Habitat selection and reproduction of red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio) in relation to abundance of potential avian nest predators. Proceedings of the symposium "Ecology and Conservation of Meadowbirds in Central Europe". Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 32: 167-173.
  • Roos, S. 2006. Faktablad: Lanius collurio– törnskata [Fact sheet: Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)]. Red List of Sweden, Swedish Threatened Species Unit, Uppsala.
  • Roos, S. and Pärt, T. 2004. Nest predators affect spatial dynamics of breeding red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio). Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 117-127.
  • Roos, S. 2004. Nest predation processes and Farmland Birds: Habitat selection and population dynamics of predators and prey. Department of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. Ph.D-thesis published in Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae – Silvestria 301.
  • Roos, S. 2002. Functional response, seasonal decline and landscape differences in nest predation risk. Oecologia 133: 608-615
  • Roos, S., Söderström, B, and Pärt, T. 1998. Avian nest predators affect the spatial distribution of red-backed shrikes Lanius collurio. Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, Republic of South Africa (eds.: N.J. Adams and R.H. Slotow). Ostrich 69: 225.
Contact Details
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Telephone:
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Postal address:		 staffan.roos@bto.org
01786 466 557
01786 466 561
BTO Scotland, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

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