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| Name |
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| Dr Stephen R Baillie |
| Position |
| Director of Populations Research |
| Role |
| I am a member of senior management team in charge of the Populations
Research Department and also have directorial responsibility
for the BTO’s Information Systems work. |
| Qualifications |
BSc (Hons) Zoology, University of Aberdeen, 1972-1976
PhD Population dynamics of the Eider (Somateria mollissima)
in North-East Scotland, University of Aberdeen, 1976-1980 |
| Research Interests/Responsibilities |
| I lead the BTO’s Populations Research Department,
which undertakes long-term monitoring of the numbers and demography
of British bird populations. Our Integrated Population Monitoring
Programme combines results from censuses, nest recording and
ringing to raise alerts to population changes of conservation
concern and to elucidate their demographic and ecological causes.
My primary research interests are in temporal and spatial population
dynamics, particularly the estimation of demographic parameters
and the development of population models. I am also involved
in developing BTO research on bird migration. I am an author
of the Migration Atlas and led the Migration Watch
project. I lead the strategic development of the BTO’s
use of the Internet for the dissemination scientific results
(e.g. http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)
and for the collection of ornithological data (e.g. http://www.bto.org/birdtrack). |
| Other Information |
Honorary Reader in Biological Sciences at the
University of East Anglia
Chairman of EURING, the European Union for Bird Ringing
Member of the NERC Peer Review College
Chairman of the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey Steering
Group
Chairman of the BTO/RSPB/BWI BirdTrack Steering Group
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| Selected Publications |
- Robinson, R A, Baillie, S R & Crick, H Q P (in press)
Weather-dependent survival: implications of climate change
for passerine population processes. Ibis. Published article
online: 16-Jan-2007
doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00648.x
- Freeman, S.N., Noble, D.G., Newson, S.E. & Baillie,
S.R. (in press). Modelling population changes using data
from different surveys: the Common Birds Census and the
Breeding Bird Survey. Bird Study.
- Baillie, S.R., Balmer, D.E., Downie, I.S. & Wright,
K.H.M. (2006). Migration Watch – an Internet survey
to monitor spring migration in Britain and Ireland. Journal
of Ornithology, 147, 254-259.
- Newson, S.E., Woodburn, R.J.W., Noble, D.G., Baillie,
S.R. & Gregory, R. D. (2005). Evaluating the Breeding
Bird Survey for producing national population size and density
estimates. Bird Study, 52, 42-54.
- Baillie, S.R., Marchant, J.H., Crick, H.Q.P., Noble, D.G.,
Balmer, D.E., Beaven, L.P., Coombes, R.H., Downie, I.S.,
Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven, M.J., Robinson,
R.A. & Thewlis, R.M. (2005) Breeding Birds in the
Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2004.
BTO Research Report No. 385. British Trust for Ornithology,
Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)
- Baillie, S.R. & Doherty, P.F.Jr. (2004). Analysis
using large-scale ringing data. Animal Biodiversity
and Conservation, 27, 371-373.
- Siriwardena, G.M., Wernham, C.V. & Baillie, S.R. (2004).
Quantifying variation in migratory strategies using ring-recoveries.
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 27, 299-317.
- Peach, W.J. & Baillie, S.R. (2004). Estimating adult
survival rates from between-year recaptures in the British
Trust for Ornithology Constant Effort Sites Scheme. Studies
in Avian Biology, 29, 71-74.
- Robinson, R.A., Green, R.E., Baillie, S.R., Peach, W.J.
& Thomson, D.L. (2004). Demographic mechanisms of the
population decline of the song thrush Turdus philomelos
in Britain. Journal of Animal Ecology, 73, 670-682.
- Wernham, C.V., Toms, M.P., Marchant, J.H., Clark, J.A.,
Siriwardena, G.M. & Baillie, S.R. (eds.) (2002). The
Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland.
T. & A.D. Poyser, London.
- Baillie, S.R. (2001). The contribution of ringing to the
conservation and management of bird populations: a review.
Ardea, 89 (special issue), 167-184.
- Baillie, S.R., Sutherland, W.J., Freeman, S.N., Gregory,
R.D. & Paradis, E. (2000). Consequences of large-scale
processes for the conservation of bird populations. Journal
of Applied Ecology, 37 (supplement 1), 88-102.
- Fewster, R.M., Buckland, S.T., Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie,
S.R. & Wilson, J.D. (2000). Analysis of population trends
for farmland birds using generalized additive models. Ecology,
81, 1970-1984.
- Paradis, E., Baillie, S.R., Sutherland, W.J. & Gregory,
R.D. (2000). Spatial synchrony in populations of birds:
effects of habitat, population trend and spatial ecology.
Ecology, 81, 2112-2125.
- Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie, S.R., Crick, H.Q.P. &
Wilson, J.D. (2000). The importance of variation in the
nesting success of seed-eating birds in determining their
population trends on farmland. Journal of Applied Ecology,
37, 128-148.
- Paradis, E., Baillie, S.R., Sutherland, W.J. & Gregory,
R.D. (1999). Dispersal and spatial scale affect synchrony
in spatial population dynamics. Ecology Letters,
2, 114-120.
- Baillie, S.R. & North, P.M. (eds.) (1999). Large-scale
studies of marked birds. Proceedings of EURING 97 Conference.
Bird Study, 46 (supplement).
- Gregory, R.D. & Baillie, S.R. (1998). Large-scale
habitat use of a group of declining British birds. Journal
of Applied Ecology, 35, 785-799.
- Paradis, E., Baillie, S.R., Sutherland, W.J. & Gregory,
R.D. (1998). Patterns of natal and breeding dispersal in
birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 67, 518-536.
- Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie, S.R., Buckland, S.T., Fewster,
R.M., Marchant, J.H. & Wilson, J.D. (1998). Trends in
the abundance of farmland birds: a quantitative comparison
of smoothed Common Birds Census indices. Journal of
Applied Ecology, 35, 24-43.
- Baillie, S.R. (1995). Uses of ringing data for the conservation
and management of bird populations - a ringing scheme perspective.
Journal of Applied Statistics, 22, 967-987.
- Peach, W.J., Baillie, S.R. & Underhill, L.G. (1991).
Survival of British Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
in relation to west African rainfall. Ibis, 133,
300-305.
- Baillie, S.R. (1990). Integrated population monitoring
of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland. Ibis,
132, 151-166.
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