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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)
Journal Article
Mason, L. R., Green, R. E., Howard, C., Stephens, P. A., Willis, S. G., Aunins, A., Brotons, L., Chodkiewicz, T., Chylarecki, P., Escandell, V., Foppen, R. P., Herrando, S., Husby, M., Jiguet, F., Kålås, J. A., Lindström, Å., Massimino, D., Moshøj, C., Nellis, R., Paquet, J.-Y., …Gregory, R. D. (2019). 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. Climatic Change, 157(3-4), 337-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02549-9

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.

The influence of different aspects of grouse moorland management on nontarget bird assemblages (2019)
Journal Article
Littlewood, N. A., Mason, T. H., Hughes, M., Jacques, R., Whittingham, M. J., & Willis, S. G. (2019). The influence of different aspects of grouse moorland management on nontarget bird assemblages. Ecology and Evolution, 9(19), 11089-11101. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5613

Conflict between stakeholders with opposing interests can hamper biodiversity conservation. When conflicts become entrenched, evidence from applied ecology can reveal new ways forward for their management. In particular, where disagreement exists ove... Read More about The influence of different aspects of grouse moorland management on nontarget bird assemblages.

Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research (2019)
Journal Article
Bradfer‐Lawrence, T., Gardner, N., Bunnefeld, L., Bunnefeld, N., Willis, S. G., & Dent, D. H. (2019). Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(10), https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13254

The limits to population density in birds and mammals (2019)
Journal Article
Stephens, P., Vieira, M., Willis, S., & Carbone, C. (2019). The limits to population density in birds and mammals. Ecology Letters, 22(4), 654-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13227

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.