BSc Zoology (1st Class), Imperial College, London University 1973
PhD University of London (external). ‘Composition and structure of bird communities in Britain' 1987

Vice President, British Ornithologists' Union
Member of Forestry Commission's East of England Regional Advisory Committee
Honorary Professor in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

• Fuller, R.J. & Ausden, M. (in press) Birds and habitat change in Britain (Part 1): a review of losses and gains in the 20 th century. British Birds.
• Ausden, M. & Fuller, R.J. (in press) Birds and habitat change in Britain (Part 2): past and future conservation responses. British Birds .
• Firbank, L.G., Petit, S., Smart, S., Blain, A. & Fuller, R.J. (2008) Assessing the impacts of agricultural intensification on biodiversity: a British perspective. Phil.Trans.R.Soc.B . 363, 777-787.
• Fuller, R.J., Gaston, K.J. & Quine, C.P. (2007) Living on the edge: British and Irish woodland birds in a European context. Ibis 149 (Suppl.2), 53-63.
• Fuller, R.J., Smith, K.W., Grice, P.V., Currie, F.A. & Quine, C.P. (2007) Habitat change and woodland birds in Britain:implications for management and future research. Ibis 149 (Suppl.2), 261-268.
• Gill, R.M.A. & Fuller, R.J. (2007) The effects of deer browsing on woodland structure and songbirds in lowland Britain. Ibis 149 (Suppl.2), 119-127.
• Gillings, S., Fuller, R.J. & Sutherland, W.J. (2007) Winter field use and habitat selection by Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus on arable farmland. Ibis 149, 509-520.
• Fuller, R.J., Atkinson, P.W., Garnett, M.C., Conway, G.J., Bibby, C.J. & Johnstone, I.G. (2006) Breeding bird communities in the upland margins (ffridd) of Wales in the mid-1980s. Bird Study 53, 177-186.
• Hewson, C.M. & Fuller, R.J. (2006) Little evidence of temporal changes in edge-use by woodland birds in southern England. Bird Study 53, 323-327.
• Lavers, C., Mccullagh, M.J. & Fuller, R.J. (2005) Combining archive territory mapping data and aerial photography for the investigation of bird–habitat relationships: a case study from the Lincolnshire coast. Bird Study 52, 314-322.
• Atkinson, P.W., Fuller, R.J., Vickery, J.A., Conway, G., Tallowin, J.R.B., Smith, R.E.N., Haysom, K.A., Ings, T.C., Asteraki, E.J. & Brown, V.K. (2005) Influence of agricultural management, sward structure and food resources on grassland field use by birds in lowland England. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:932-942.
• Fuller, R.J., Noble, D.G., Smith, K.W. & Vanhinsbergh, D. (2005) Recent declines in populations of woodland birds in Britain: a review of possible causes. British Birds , 98,116-143.
• Fuller, R.J., Norton, L.R., Feber, R.E., Johnson, P.J., Chamberlain, D.E., Joys, A.C., Mathews, F, Stuart, R.C, Townsend, M.C., Manley, W.J., Wolfe, M.S., Macdonald, D.W., & Firbank, L.G. (2005) Benefits of organic farming to biodiversity vary among taxa. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.20050357
• Gillings, S., Fuller, R.J. & Sutherland, W.J. (2005) Diurnal studies do not predict nocturnal habitat choice and site selection of European Golden-Plovers ( Pluvialis apricaria ) and Northern Lapwings ( Vanellus vanellus ). Auk 122:1249-1260.
• Hewson, C.M., Fuller, R. J. & Day, C. (2005) An investigation of habitat occupancy by the nightingale Luscinia megarynchos with respect to population change at the edge of its range in England. Journal of Ornithology , 146, 244-248.
• Wilson, A.M., Fuller, R.J., Day, C. & Smith, G. (2005) Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos in scrub habitats in the southern fens of East Anglia, England: associations with soil type and vegetation structure. Ibis , 147, 498-511.
• Fuller, R.J., Hinsley, S.A. & Swetnam, R.D. (2004) The relevance of non-farmland habitats, uncropped areas and habitat diversity to the conservation of farmland birds. Ibis, 146, (suppl.) 22-31.
• Jackson, D.B., Fuller, R.J. & Campbell, S.T. (2004) Long-term population changes among breeding shorebirds in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in relation to introduced hedgehogs ( Erinaceus europaeus ). Biological Conservation , 117,151-166.
• Joys, A.C., Fuller, R.J. & Dolman, P.M. (2004) Influences of deer browsing, coppice history, and standard trees on the growth and development of vegetation structure in coppiced woods in lowland England. Forest Ecology and Management , 202, 23-37.
• Dolman, P. M. & Fuller, R.J. (2003) The processes of species colonisation in wooded landscapes: a review of principles. In: The Restoration of Wooded Landscapes . Pp. 25-36. Eds. Humphrey, J., Newton, A., Latham, J., Gray, H., Kirby, K., Poulsom, E. & Quine, C. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.
• Chamberlain, D.E. & Fuller, R.J. (2001) Contrasting patterns of change in the distribution and abundance of farmland birds in relation to farming system in lowland Britain. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10, 399-409 .
• Fuller, R.J. (2001) Responses of woodland birds to increasing numbers of deer: a review of evidence and mechanisms. Forestry 74, 290-298.
• Fuller, R.J. & Gill, R.M.A. (2001) Ecological impacts of increasing numbers of deer in British woodland. Forestry 74, 193-298.
• Chamberlain, D.E., Fuller, R.J., Bunce, R.G.H. Duckworth, J.C. & Shrubb, M. (2000). Changes in the abundance of farmland birds in relation to the timing of agricultural intensification in England and Wales. Journal of Applied Ecology , 37, 771-788.