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The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities (2021)
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Citizen science schemes enable ecological data collection over very large spatial and temporal scales, producing datasets of high value for both pure and applied research. However, the accuracy of citizen science data is often questioned, owing to is... Read More about The Verification of Ecological Citizen Science Data: Current Approaches and Future Possibilities.

Impacts of invasive plants on animal behaviour (2021)
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Using indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status (2021)
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Assessments of conservation status are typically based on short-term extinction risk, but the value of indicators that compare the current state of species (e.g., abundance or distribution) to potential baselines is increasingly recognised. The use o... Read More about Using indices of species’ potential range to inform conservation status.

How international journals can support ecology from the Global South (2021)
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Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois (2020)
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Global climate change can affect animal ecology in numerous ways, but researchers usually emphasize undesirable consequences. Temperature increases, for instance, can induce direct physiological costs and indirect effects via mismatches in resource n... Read More about Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois.

Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species (2020)
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The capital and income breeding concept links energy resources used during reproduction to the timing of their acquisition. During reproduction, capital breeders rely on resources gained previously and accumulated for reproductive investment. By cont... Read More about Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species.

Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds (2020)
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Aim: Global declines in the populations of migratory species have been attributed largely to climate change and anthropogenic habitat change. However, the relative contribution of these factors on species’ breeding and non‐breeding ranges is unclear.... Read More about Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds.

Automated detection and classification of birdsong: An ensemble approach (2020)
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The avian dawn chorus presents a challenging opportunity to test autonomous recording units (ARUs) and associated recogniser software in the types of complex acoustic environments frequently encountered in the natural world. To date, extracting infor... Read More about Automated detection and classification of birdsong: An ensemble approach.

Only the largest terrestrial Carnivores increase their dietary breadth with increasing prey richness (2020)
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1. Animals should adapt their foraging habits, changing their dietary breadth in response to variation in the richness and availability of food resources. Understanding how species modify their dietary breadth according to variation in resource richn... Read More about Only the largest terrestrial Carnivores increase their dietary breadth with increasing prey richness.

Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership (2020)
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Started in north-east England in 2015, MammalWeb aims to improve our knowledge of British mammals through the use of motion-sensing camera traps. Fundamental to the project is the involvement of local communities and individuals who act as citizen sc... Read More about Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership.

Burning savanna for avian species richness and functional diversity (2020)
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Prescribed fire is used throughout fire‐prone landscapes to conserve biodiversity. Current best practice in managing savanna systems advocates methods based on the assumption that increased fire‐mediated landscape heterogeneity (pyrodiversity) will p... Read More about Burning savanna for avian species richness and functional diversity.

Best practice for collar deployment of tri-axial accelerometers on a terrestrial quadruped to provide accurate measurement of body acceleration (2020)
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Background: Tri-axial accelerometers are frequently deployed on terrestrial quadrupedal mammals using collars, because they are easy to fit and are thought to have minimal impact on the subject. Collar-attached devices are not fixed to the body and c... Read More about Best practice for collar deployment of tri-axial accelerometers on a terrestrial quadruped to provide accurate measurement of body acceleration.

A global assessment of the drivers of threatened terrestrial species richness (2020)
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High numbers of threatened species might be expected to occur where overall species richness is also high; however, this explains only a proportion of the global variation in threatened species richness. Understanding why many areas have more or fewe... Read More about A global assessment of the drivers of threatened terrestrial species richness.

Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence (2020)
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Camera trapping has become an increasingly reliable and mainstream tool for surveying a diversity of wildlife species. Concurrent with this has been an increasing effort to involve the wider public in the research process, in an approach known as ‘ci... Read More about Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence.

A systematic review of methods for studying the impacts of outdoor recreation on terrestrial wildlife (2020)
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Outdoor recreation is a known source of disturbance to many wildlife populations. We systematically reviewed 126 relevant papers that study the impact of outdoor recreation on wildlife, focusing on terrestrial wildlife (birds excluded) to assess the... Read More about A systematic review of methods for studying the impacts of outdoor recreation on terrestrial wildlife.

Population responses of bird populations to climate change on two continents vary with species’ ecological traits but not with direction of change in climate suitability (2019)
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Climate change is a major global threat to biodiversity with widespread impacts on ecological communities. Evidence for beneficial impacts on populations is perceived to be stronger and more plentiful than that for negative impacts, but few studies h... Read More about Population responses of bird populations to climate change on two continents vary with species’ ecological traits but not with direction of change in climate suitability.

Assessing the uneven global distribution of readership, submissions and publications in applied ecology: Obvious problems without obvious solutions (2019)
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What do Colombia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea have in common? Not only are they among the most biodiverse countries in the world, they also face a suite of environmental problems relating to land‐use intensification, climate change, and wildlife... Read More about Assessing the uneven global distribution of readership, submissions and publications in applied ecology: Obvious problems without obvious solutions.

The limits to population density in birds and mammals (2019)
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We address two fundamental ecological questions: what are the limits to animal population density and what determines those limits? We develop simple alternative models to predict population limits in relation to body mass. A model assuming that with... Read More about The limits to population density in birds and mammals.

What drives at-risk species richness? Environmental factors are more influential than anthropogenic factors or biological traits (2018)
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Species at risk of extinction are not uniformly distributed in space. Concentrations of threatened species may occur where threatening processes are intense, in refuges from those processes, or in areas of high species diversity. However, there have... Read More about What drives at-risk species richness? Environmental factors are more influential than anthropogenic factors or biological traits.

Ecology: Luck, Scarcity and the Fate of Populations (2018)
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An animal’s choice of diet plays a large part in determining whether it will find food during a period of searching. This has profound implications for the likelihood of reproductive success or starvation and many other important questions in ecology... Read More about Ecology: Luck, Scarcity and the Fate of Populations.