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      Challenges in quantifying the responses of Black-legged Kittiwake to habitat variables and local stressors due to individual variation

      Author: O’Hanlon, N.J., Thaxter, C.B., Clewley, G.D., Davies, J.G., Humphreys, E.M., Miller, P.I. Pollock, C.J., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Weston, E. & Cook, A.S.C.P.

      Published: 2024

      Seabird populations face many different challenges, from the impacts of a changing climate through to the risks posed by offshore wind farms. Understanding how environmental conditions influence seabird distributions at sea, and therefore interactions with potential threats, at the individual level, can help improve our understanding of the population-level impacts of these challenges.

      21.02.24

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      Species- or habitat- based assessments of vulnerability to climate change? Informing climate change adaptation in special protection areas for birds in England

      Author: Duffield, S.J., Morecroft, M.D., Pearce-Higgins, J.W. & Taylor, S.D.

      Published: 2024

      Protected areas are a key part of the nature conservation toolkit, as shown by recent BTO evidence. Climate change is also having an increasing impact on species. Those impacts will vary between species and habitats, with some likely to be at particularly high risk, and others having the potential to benefit from changing conditions. Protected areas can play a major part in helping protect species and habitats from detrimental climate change impacts, and to promote positive changes, such as providing areas of semi-natural habitat for range-expanding species to colonise. To guide what this means for particular sites, it is important to assess the likely future impacts of climate change on that site, for example by undertaking a climate vulnerability assessment.

      19.02.24

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      Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short-and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa

      Author: Montràs-Janer, T., Suggitt, A.J., Fox, R., Jönsson, M., Martay, B., Roy, D.B., Walker, K.J. & Auffret, A.G.

      Published: 2024

      Habitat loss and climate change are two major threats to birds and other species globally. To plan effective conservation, we need a good understanding of what is driving declines across different species. There are many examples of research that identifies whether population declines in vulnerable species are primarily driven by habitat change or climate change. However, how these two threats interact to drive biodiversity change is very poorly understood. Without this understanding, conservation measures run the risk of being ineffective, for example, by not planning for the impacts of climate change when deciding where to carry out habitat creation.

      12.02.24

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      Leakage of plastics and other debris from landfills to a highly protected lake by wintering gulls

      Author: Martín Vélez, V., Cano-Povedano, J., Cañuelo-Jurado, B., López-Calderón, C., Céspedes, V., Ros, M., Sánchez, M.I., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Müller, W., Thaxter, C.B., Camphuysen, C.J., Cózar & Green, A.J.

      Published: 2024

      Accumulation of plastic and waste contamination in the natural environment is a growing problem, but little is known of the role animals play in transporting plastics (a process known as ‘biovectoring’) particularly to inland waters and habitats. This study used diet sampling, population monitoring and GPS tracking data of Lesser Black-backed Gulls to monitor the transport of plastics and anthropogenic debris from landfills to an inland reservoir in Spain.

      28.01.24

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