All Outputs (11)

Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois (2020)
Journal Article
Chirichella, R., Stephens, P., Mason, T., & Apollonio, M. (2021). Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 85(1), 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21962

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)
Journal Article
Apollonio, M., Merli, E., Chirichella, R., Pokorny, B., Alagic, A., Flajsman, K., & Stephens, P. (2020). Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, Article 521767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.521767

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)
Journal Article
Howard, C., Stephens, P., Pearce-Higgins, J., Gregory, R., Butchart, S., & Willis, S. (2020). Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds. Diversity and Distributions, 26(11), 1442-1455. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13144

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)
Journal Article
Brooker, S. A., Stephens, P. A., Whittingham, M. J., & Willis, S. G. (2020). Automated detection and classification of birdsong: An ensemble approach. Ecological Indicators, 117, Article 106609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106609

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)
Journal Article
Ferretti, F., Lovari, S., Lucherini, M., Hayward, M., & Stephens, P. (2020). Only the largest terrestrial Carnivores increase their dietary breadth with increasing prey richness. Mammal Review, 50(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12197

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)
Journal Article
Hsing, P.-Y., Coghill, L., Ryder, J., Austin, M., Dooley, S., Ellison, A., Fenwick, C., Garland, M., Humphrey, P., Proudlock, H., Robson, A., Steer, C., Turnbull, L., Kent, V., Bradley, S., Hill, R., Ascroft, R., & Stephens, P. (2020). Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership. School science review, 101(376), 67-74

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)
Journal Article
Docherty, T., Hethcoat, M., MacTavish, L., MacTavish, D., Dell, S., Stephens, P., & Willis, S. (2020). Burning savanna for avian species richness and functional diversity. Ecological Applications, 30(4), Article e02091. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2091

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)
Journal Article
Dickinson, E., Stephens, P., Marks, N., Wilson, R., & Scantlebury, D. (2020). Best practice for collar deployment of tri-axial accelerometers on a terrestrial quadruped to provide accurate measurement of body acceleration. Animal Biotelemetry, 8, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-020-00198-9

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)
Journal Article
Howard, C., Flather, C., & Stephens, P. (2020). A global assessment of the drivers of threatened terrestrial species richness. Nature Communications, 11, Article 993. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14771-6

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)
Journal Article
Green, S., Rees, J., Stephens, P., Hill, R., & Giordano, A. (2020). Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence. Animals, 10(1), Article 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10010132

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)
Journal Article
Marion, S., Davies, A., Demšar, U., Irvine, R. J., Stephens, P. A., & Long, J. (2020). A systematic review of methods for studying the impacts of outdoor recreation on terrestrial wildlife. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22, Article e00917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00917

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.