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Monitoring five decades of change in the UK’s rarest breeding birds through citizen science: the Rare Breeding Birds Panel
Author: Eaton, M. Stroud, D. Francis, I, Norman, D, Baker, H., Holling, M. King, A., Stanbury, A. & Balmer, D.
Published: 2023
A review of the work of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) on the 50th anniversary of when it was founded in 1973.
07.04.23
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The Rare Breeding Birds Panel: five decades of monitoring the UK’s rare breeding birds
Author: Stroud, D.A., Eaton, M.A., Francis, I.S, Baker, H., Holling, M., King, A., Norman, D., Stanbury, A.J. & Balmer, D.E.
Published: 2023
A look back on the work of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel over the five decades since it was founded in 1973.
07.04.23
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How important is it to standardise the measured mass of shorebirds weighed at varying intervals after capture?
Author: Clark, J.A., Gillings, S., Clark, N.A., Cole, K.B., Breese, G., Woods, J.L., Bellman, H.A. & Robinson, R.A.
Published: 2023
When ringing birds it is usually important to standardise measurements so that sources of error are minimised. For example, trainee ringers are taught how to measure wing lengths in the most repeatable fashion. Measuring bird weight is usually much more straightforward. One situation where this may not be the case is during canon netting when large numbers of birds can be caught at once, but are weighed gradually as the birds are processed, potentially leading to biases.
01.04.23
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Social media and deep learning reveal specific cultural preferences for biodiversity
Author: Havinga, I., Marcos, D., Bogaart, P., Massimino, D., Hein, L. & Tuia, D
Published: 2023
30.03.23
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A niche-based approach for evaluating the mechanisms of community stability in butterfly communities across three countries
Author: Evans, L.C., Melero, Y., Schmucki, S., Boersch-Supan, P.H., Brotons, L., Fontaine, C., Jiguet, F., Kuussaari, M., Massimino, D., Robinson, R.A., Roy, D.B., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Stefanescu, C., van Turnhout, C.A.M. & Oliver, T.H.
Published: 2023
The stability of ecological communities has important consequences for the functioning of ecosystems, and several different mechanisms have been linked to delivering that stability. It has been shown, for example, that the stability of the species’ populations present within the community, together with the degree of synchrony that exists between them, can influence overall community stability. Larger populations tend to be more stable than smaller populations because they typically have greater genetic diversity and more capacity to adjust to environmental changes through natural selection, while populations situated closer to the middle of their preferred environmental niche tend to be more stable than those located at the margins. This study sought to identify which of these mechanisms was more important.
16.03.23
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