Outputs (8)

Monitoring wader breeding productivity (2023)
Journal Article
Jarrett, D., Lehikoinen, A., & Willis, S. (2024). Monitoring wader breeding productivity. Ibis: International Journal of Avian Science, 166(3), 780-800. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13298

A robust understanding of the mechanisms driving demographic change in wild animal populations is fundamental to the delivery of effective conservation interventions. Demographic change can be driven by variation in adult survival, recruitment of juv... Read More about Monitoring wader breeding productivity.

Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change (2023)
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Howard, C., Mason, T. H. E., Baillie, S. R., Border, J., Hewson, C. M., Houston, A. I., Pearce‐Higgins, J. W., Bauer, S., Willis, S. G., & Stephens, P. A. (2023). Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change. Diversity and Distributions, 30(2), Article e13797. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13797

Many migratory species are declining due to global environmental change. Yet, their complex annual cycles make unravelling the impacts of potential drivers such as climate and land-use change on migrations a major challenge. Identifying where, when a... Read More about Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change.

Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability (2023)
Journal Article
Howard, C., Marjakangas, E., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Milanesi, P., Abuladze, A., Aghababyan, K., …Willis, S. G. (2023). Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 4304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39093-1

Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species’ ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts alongside other putative drivers remains uncertain. Here, we use the chang... Read More about Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability.

The phenology and clutch size of UK Blue Tits does not differ with woodland composition (2023)
Journal Article
Branston, C. J., Whittingham, M. J., Phillimore, A. B., Leech, D., & Willis, S. G. (online). The phenology and clutch size of UK Blue Tits does not differ with woodland composition. Ibis: International Journal of Avian Science, 166(2), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13248

The deciduous tree-herbivorous caterpillar-insectivorous bird food chain is a well-studied system for investigating the impacts of climate change across trophic levels. To date, across Europe, most attention has focused on the impacts of increasing s... Read More about The phenology and clutch size of UK Blue Tits does not differ with woodland composition.

Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities at a continental scale (2023)
Journal Article
Marjakangas, E., Bosco, L., Versluijs, M., Xu, Y., Santangeli, A., Holopainen, S., …Lehikoinen, A. (2023). Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities at a continental scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(23), Article 213330120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213330120

Species’ range shifts and local extinctions caused by climate change lead to community composition changes. At large spatial scales, ecological barriers, such as biome boundaries, coastlines, and elevation, can influence a community's ability to shif... Read More about Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities at a continental scale.

Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales (2023)
Journal Article
Gregory, R., Eaton, M. A., Burfield, I., Grice, P. V., Howard, C., Klvaňová, A., Stephens, P., Willis, S., Woodward, I. D., & Burns, F. (2023). Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1881), Article 20220198. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0198

Detecting biodiversity change and identifying its causes is challenging because biodiversity is multifaceted and temporal data often contain bias. Here, we model temporal change in species' abundance and biomass by using extensive data describing the... Read More about Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales.

Remote monitoring of short-term body mass variation in savanna ungulates (2023)
Journal Article
Fuentes-Allende, N., Stephens, P., MacTavish, L., MacTavish, D., & Willis, S. (online). Remote monitoring of short-term body mass variation in savanna ungulates. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 9(5), 707-723. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.338

Large herbivores in seasonal environments often experience mass variation due to temporal changes in the availability of critical resources like water and forage, as well as due to breeding events. Yet the documentation of mass variation in mammals o... Read More about Remote monitoring of short-term body mass variation in savanna ungulates.

dynamicSDM: An R package for species geographical distribution and abundance modelling at high spatiotemporal resolution (2023)
Journal Article
Dobson, R., Challinor, A. J., Cheke, R. A., Jennings, S., Willis, S. G., & Dallimer, M. (2023). dynamicSDM: An R package for species geographical distribution and abundance modelling at high spatiotemporal resolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(5), 1190-1199. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.14101

1. Species distribution models (SDM) are widely applied to understand changing species geographical distribution and abundance patterns. However, existing SDM tools are inherently static and inadequate for modelling species distributions that are dri... Read More about dynamicSDM: An R package for species geographical distribution and abundance modelling at high spatiotemporal resolution.