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Blaise Martay, Auteur ; David I. Leech, Auteur ; Chris R. Shortall, Auteur ; James R. Bell, Auteur ; Stephen J. Thackeray, Auteur ; Deborah L. Hemming, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurRecent insect abundance declines may have affected populations of insectivorous bird species but evidence for this is limited. Here, we use spatially overlapping 29-year time-series of aerial insect biomass and Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica numbe[...]Article
Blaise Martay, Auteur ; David I. Leech, Auteur ; Chris R. Shortall, Auteur ; James R. Bell, Auteur ; Stephen J. Thackeray, Auteur ; Deborah L. Hemming, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurRecent insect abundance declines may have affected populations of insectivorous bird species but evidence for this is limited. Here, we use spatially overlapping 29-year time-series of aerial insect biomass and Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica numbe[...]Article
Blaise Martay, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Sarah J. Harris, Auteur ; Simon Gillings, AuteurHabitat loss and climate change are key drivers of global biodiversity declines but their relative importance has rarely been examined. We attempted to attribute spatially divergent population trends of two Afro-Palaearctic migrant warbler speci[...]Ouvrage
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Elizabeth M. Humphreys, Auteur ; Niall H.K. Burton, Auteur ; Philip W. Atkinson, Auteur ; Chris Pollock, Auteur ; Gary D. Clewley, Auteur ; Daniel T. Johnston, Auteur ; Nina J. O’Hanlon, Auteur ; Dawn E. Balmer, Auteur ; Teresa M. Frost, Auteur ; Sarah J. Harris, Auteur ; Helen Baker, Auteur ; British Trust for Ornithology, Auteur | [S.l.] : British Trust for Ornithology | 2023The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) / British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) organised a virtual workshop to develop thinking to support ongoing efforts to manage the avian influenza outbreak and also to consider longer-term evidence req[...]Article
Riccardo Alba, Auteur ; Tim Kasoar, Auteur ; Dan Chamberlain, Auteur ; Graeme Buchanan, Auteur ; Des Thompson, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurMountain ecosystems have special significance for biodiversity and are vulnerable to climate and other environmental changes. However, few assessments of drivers of change have been conducted in these areas in comparison to other more accessible[...]Article
Szabolcs Nagy, Auteur ; Frank T. Breiner, Auteur ; Mira Anand, Auteur ; Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur ; Martina Flörke, Auteur ; Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Auteur ; Antoine Guisan, Auteur ; Lammert Hilarides, Auteur ; Victoria R. Jones, Auteur ; Mikhail Kalyakin, Auteur ; Bernhard Lehner, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Olga Voltzit, AuteurClimate change presents a particularly complex challenge in the context of flyway scale conservation of migratory bird species as it requires coordinated action by multiple countries along these species’ migratory routes. Coordinating conservati[...]Article
Simon Gillings, Auteur ; Dawn E. Balmer, Auteur ; Sarah J. Harris, Auteur ; Dario Massimino, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsule COVID-19 restrictions significantly biased BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey coverage across the UK allowing indicative trends to be produced for approximately one-third of species in England only.Aims To investigate the effect that COV[...]Article
Michael D. Morecroft, Auteur ; Simon Duffield, Auteur ; Mike Harley, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Nicola Stevens, Auteur ; Olly Watts, Auteur ; Jeanette Whitaker, AuteurAs more and more carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere, humans and the natural world are beset by the damaging consequences of a rapidly changing climate. Natural and seminatural ecosystems are likely to be the best starting place for im[...]Article
William J. Sutherland, Auteur ; Steven Broad, Auteur ; Stuart H.m. Butchart, Auteur ; Stewart J. Clarke, Auteur ; Alexandra M. Collins, Auteur ; Lynn V. Dicks, Auteur ; Helen Doran, Auteur ; Nafeesa Esmail, Auteur ; Erica Fleishman, Auteur ; Nicola Frost, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; David W. Gibbons, Auteur ; Alice C. Hughes, Auteur ; Zhigang Jiang, Auteur ; Ruth Kelman, Auteur ; Becky LeAnstey, Auteur ; Xavier le Roux, Auteur ; Fiona A. Lickorish, Auteur ; Kathryn A. Monk, Auteur ; Diana Mortimer, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Lloyd S. Peck, Auteur ; Nathalie Pettorelli, Auteur ; Jules Pretty, Auteur ; Colleen L. Seymour, Auteur ; Mark D. Spalding, Auteur ; Jonathan Wentworth, Auteur ; Nancy Ockendon, AuteurWe present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, but currently have low awareness within the co[...]Article
David J. T. Douglas, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsuleTick infestation increased with temperature and vegetation height, and was negatively correlated with Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chick survival, but not growth rates.AimsTo examine the factors associated with tick loads on Golden P[...]Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Alexander L. Bond, Auteur ; Nicola J. Crockford, Auteur ; Johannes Kamp, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Geoff M. Hilton, AuteurThe breeding areas of the Critically Endangered Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris are all but unknown, with the only well-substantiated breeding records being from the Omsk province, western Siberia. The identification of any remaining[...]Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; David J.T. Douglas, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, AuteurDans Ibis (159(4) 2017)UK moorlands are semi-natural habitats managed for a mix of livestock, game shooting and forestry, among other activities. An assessment of the importance of characteristics that correlate with moorland bird populations of high conservation impo[...]Article
Samantha E. Franks, Auteur ; David J. T. Douglas, Auteur ; Simon Gillings, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurAcross Britain, breeding Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata are less numerous and have shown greater population declines in areas with more arable farming, woodland cover and higher generalist predator abundance.Aims: We present the first national[...]Article
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Daniel J. Brown, Auteur ; David J. T. Douglas, Auteur ; José A. Alves, Auteur ; Mariagrazia Bellio, Auteur ; Pierrick Bocher, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Rob P. Clay, Auteur ; Jesse Conklin, Auteur ; Nicola Crockford, Auteur ; Peter Dann, Auteur ; Jaanus Elts, Auteur ; Christian Friis, Auteur ; Richard A. Fuller, Auteur ; Jennifer A. Gill, Auteur ; Ken Gosbell, Auteur ; James A. Johnson, Auteur ; Rocio Marquez-Ferrando, Auteur ; José A. Masero, Auteur ; David S. Melville, Auteur ; Spike Millington, Auteur ; Clive Minton, Auteur ; Taej Mundkur, Auteur ; Erica Nol, Auteur ; Hannes Pehlak, Auteur ; Theunis Piersma, Auteur ; Frédéric Robin, Auteur ; Danny I. Rogers, Auteur ; Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Auteur ; Nathan R. Senner, Auteur ; Junid N. Shah, Auteur ; Rob D. Sheldon, Auteur ; Sergej A. Soloviev, Auteur ; Pavel S. Tomkovich, Auteur ; Yvonne I. Verkuil, AuteurSummary The Numeniini is a tribe of 13 wader species (Scolopacidae, Charadriiformes) of which seven are Near Threatened or globally threatened, including two Critically Endangered. To help inform conservation management and policy responses, we [...]Article
Martin J. P. Sullivan, Auteur ; Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurGeneralist species are becoming increasingly dominant in European bird communities. This has been taken as evidence of biotic homogenization, whereby generalist ‘winners’ systematically replace specialist ‘losers’. We test this pattern by relati[...]Article
Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; Nick J. Moran, Auteur ; Andy J. Musgrove, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Simon Gillings, Auteur ; Philip W. Atkinson, Auteur ; Ryan Miller, Auteur ; Mark J. Grantham, Auteur ; Stephen R. Baillie, AuteurThe timing of migration is one of the key life-history parameters of migratory birds. It is expected to be under strong selection, to be sensitive to changing environmental conditions and to have implications for population dynamics. However, mo[...]Article
Negative impact of wind energy development on a breeding shorebird assessed with a BACI study design
Alex Sansom, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; David J. T. Douglas, AuteurPrevious studies have shown negative associations between wind energy development and breeding birds, including species of conservation concern. However, the magnitude and causes of such associations remain uncertain, pending detailed ‘before-af[...]Article
The role of habitat change in driving Black Grouse Tetrao tetrix population declines across Scotland
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Lucy J. Wright, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, Auteur ; David J. T. Douglas, AuteurCapsule Black Grouse declines across Scotland were greatest on less heterogeneous moorland, at low to intermediate altitudes and, more weakly, around post-thicket woodland.Aims To examine correlates of change in abundance of Black Grouse across [...]Article
Dario Massimino, Auteur ; Alison Johnston, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsule Abundance monitoring data suggest that the short-term response of breeding birds to recent warming in Great Britain has been range expansion, caused by poleward shifts of leading range margins and no significant shifts of trailing range [...]Article
Dario Massimino, Auteur ; Alison Johnston, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsule Abundance monitoring data suggest that the short-term response of breeding birds to recent warming in Great Britain has been range expansion, caused by poleward shifts of leading range margins and no significant shifts of trailing range [...]Article
Alison Johnston, Auteur ; Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; Kate Risely, Auteur ; Andy J. Musgrove, Auteur ; Dario Massimino, Auteur ; Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsule Heterogeneous detectability amongst species may impact multi-species bird surveys and if not accounted for, may bias community level conclusions. Estimates of detectability were produced for 195 UK bird species, and detectability was sig[...]Article
Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; Dario Massimino, Auteur ; Alison Johnston, Auteur ; Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsuleAccounting for changes in detectability over time which could invalidate population trends for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK, resulted in little change in trends for the majority of species considered. AimsTo examine whet[...]Article
David J. T. Douglas, Auteur ; Paul E. Bellamy, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurCapsule No evidence for sustained declines in abundance or re-distribution of two key upland bird species on a wind farm site in the first three years of operation. Aims To describe changes in the abundance and distribution of birds on an upland[...]Article
Arjun Amar, Auteur ; Murray Grant, Auteur ; Graeme Buchanan, Auteur ; Innes Sim, Auteur ; Jared Wilson, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Steve Redpath, AuteurCapsule Declines of upland waders were associated with habitat cover, forest edge exposure, grouse moor management intensity and crow abundance. Aims To explore whether changes in the abundance of five wader species in the uplands correlate with[...]Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, Auteur ; Roy A. Sanderson, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurArticle
Innes M. W. Sim, Auteur ; Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; M. de L. Brooke, AuteurRing Ouzel Turdus torquatus breeding site occupancy in the Moorfoot Hills, southeast Scotland, was determined during the periods 1952-85 and 1998-2000, and sites were classed as either occupied or deserted during the latter period. Site occupanc[...]Article
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, AuteurCapsule Variations in the composition, structure and heterogeneity of moorland vegetation are shown to affect the abundance of eight of nine moorland bird species, with implications for grazing management. Aims To determine how variation in vege[...]Article
Philip J. Harrison, Auteur ; Stephen T. Buckland, Auteur ; Yuan Yuan, Auteur ; David A. Elston, Auteur ; Mark J. Brewer, Auteur ; Alison Johnston, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurPartitioning biodiversity change spatially and temporally is required for effective management, both to determine whether action is required and whether it should be applied at a regional level or tar[...]
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Colin M. Beale, Auteur ; Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ; Innes M. W. Sim, Auteur ; Graham W. Rebecca, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, AuteurClimate change is already affecting biodiversity, but the number of species for which reliable models relate weather and climate to demographic parameters is low. We modelled the effect of temperature and rainfall on the breeding success and ter[...]Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Murray C. Grant, Auteur ; Roy A. Sanderson, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, AuteurWe reviewed the literature to determine the importance of invertebrates for moorland-breeding birds and considered our findings with respect to the conservation of such species in the UK. The diets of many moorland birds consist predominantly of[...]Article
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Leigh Stephen, Auteur ; Rowena H. W. Langston, Auteur ; Ian P. Bainbridge, Auteur ; Rhys Bullman, AuteurP>1. There is an urgent need for climate change mitigation, of which the promotion of renewable energy, such as from wind farms, is an important component. Birds are expected to be sensitive to wind farms, although effects vary between sites and[...]Article
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Sarah M. Eglington, Auteur ; Blaise Martay, Auteur ; Dan E. Chamberlain, Auteur1. Climate change is reported to have caused widespread changes to species' populations and ecological communities. Warming has been associated with population declines in long-distance migrants and habitat specialists, and increases in southerl[...]Article
Richard B. Bradbury, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Simon R. Wotton, Auteur ; Greg J. Conway, Auteur ; Phil V. Grice, AuteurThe Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata has recently expanded its range northwards and upwards in the UK, consistent with the hypothesis that this cold-sensitive species has responded to a warming climate. We interrogated distribution data, collected[...]Article
A recent study of the dispersal of wader species using ringing data from the Wash, modelled the movements of three estuarine species. Using similar methods, the movements of Turnstone Arenaria interpres along the North Wales coast are modelled t[...]