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Using butterfly survey data to model habitat associations in urban developments
Author: Cooper, J.E.J., Plummer, K.E., Middlebrook, I. & Siriwardena, G.M.
Published: 2024
The UK government has pledged to build much-needed new housing that also honours a legal requirement to improve biodiversity. Currently, this is often achieved by compensatory measures ‘off-site’, but BTO research is investigating how biodiversity improvements could be integrated into new developments instead.
25.01.24
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Avian responses to climate extremes: insights into abundance curves and species sensitivity using the UK Breeding Bird Survey
Author: Tirozzi, P., Massimino, D. & Bani, L.
Published: 2024
Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, not only because of increasing temperatures, but also because of more frequent and more severe extreme weather, so we need to understand how species may be affected by this. The study looks at the effects of climate extremes on British bird populations and contributes to understanding how the impacts of climate change on biodiversity can be mitigated.
24.01.24
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Behavioural responses of Sandwich terns following the construction of offshore wind farms
Author: Thaxter, C.B., Green, R.M.W., Collier, M.P., Taylor, R.C., Middelveld, R.P., Scragg, E.S., Wright, L.J., Cook, A.S.C.P. & Fijn, R.C.
Published: 2024
GPS tracking sheds light on the ‘barrier effects’ of offshore wind farms, where renewable energy developments may act as obstacles that impede the movements of seabirds to and from their colonies during the breeding season, or on migration.
17.01.24
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Natural body size variation in seabirds provides a fundamental challenge for flight height determination by single-camera photgrammetry. A comment on Humphries et al. 2023
Author: Boersch-Supan, P.H., Brighton, C.H., Thaxter, C.B. & Cook, A.S.C.P.
Published: 2024
Determining flight heights for seabirds is a crucial prerequisite for understanding collision risks associated with offshore wind farms, but obtaining these can be challenging. This comment addresses concerns over the workflow proposed by Humphries et al. (2023).
15.01.24
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Extended molt phenology models improve inferences about molt duration and timing
Author: Boersch-Supan, P.H., Hanmer, H.J. & Robinson, R.A.
Published: 2024
Moult is an essential but understudied life-history event in birds, and one that is difficult to study with current statistical approaches. This paper presents an extended modelling framework that should remove barriers to modelling the phenology of moult.
14.01.24
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