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Catherine Collop, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Angus Garbutt, Auteur ; Michael G. Yates, Auteur ; Ed Rispin, Auteur ; Tina Yates, AuteurBirds’ responses to human disturbance are interesting due to their similarities to anti-predator behaviour, and understanding this behaviour has practical applications for conservation management by informing measures such as buffer zones to pro[...]
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Kevin A. Wood, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Terry Coombs, Auteur ; Claire Mcdonald, Auteur ; Francis Daunt, Auteur ; Matthew T. O'hare, AuteurCapsuleThe Mute Swan, a large generalist herbivore, showed patterns of habitat use influenced by social grouping and season. Territorial swans showed strong preferences for river and lake habitat in all seasons, while the non-territorial birds k[...]
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Kevin A. Wood, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Terry Coombs, Auteur ; Claire Mcdonald, Auteur ; Francis Daunt, Auteur ; Matthew T. O'hare, AuteurCapsuleThe Mute Swan, a large generalist herbivore, showed patterns of habitat use influenced by social grouping and season. Territorial swans showed strong preferences for river and lake habitat in all seasons, while the non-territorial birds k[...]
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David J. Baker, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; James M. Bullock, AuteurRecent population declines of seed-eating farmland birds have been associated with reduced overwinter survival due to reductions in food supply. An important component of predicting how food shortages will affect animal populations is to measure[...]
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Kevin A. Wood, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; John D. Goss-Custard, AuteurKleptoparasitism involves the theft of resources such as food items from one individual by another. Such food-stealing behaviour can have important consequences for birds, in terms of individual fitness and population sizes. In order to understa[...]
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Gregorio M. Toral, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Simone Santoro, Auteur ; Jordi Figuerola, AuteurArtificial wetlands provide alternative habitats for waterbirds. The Donana rice fields (SW Spain) are extensively used as a foraging site by the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus). The aim of this study was to develop an individual-based model [...]
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Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; John D. Goss-Custard, AuteurConservation objectives for non-breeding coastal birds (shorebirds and wildfowl) are determined from their population size at coastal sites. To advise coastal managers, models must predict quantitatively the effects of environmental change on po[...]
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Sarah E. A. Le V. Dit Durell, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Richard W. G. Caldow, Auteur ; Selwyn McGrorty, Auteur ; Andrew D. West, Auteur ; John Humphreys, AuteurAn individuals-based model, MORPH, was used to assess the quality of Poole Harbour, UK, for five overwintering shorebirds: dunlin Calidris alpina, redshank Tringa totanus, black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa, oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus an[...]
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Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Andrew D. West, Auteur ; Richard W. G. Caldow, Auteur ; Sarah E. A. Le V. Dit Durell, AuteurDans Ibis (149 MAR 2007)Assessments of whether disturbance is having a deleterious effect on populations have often measured behavioural responses to disturbance and assumed that populations with a larger behavioural response are more susceptible to disturbance. Howeve[...]
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Predicting the effect of invertebrate regime shifts on wading birds: Insights from Poole Harbour, UK
Katharine M. Bowgen, Auteur ; Richard A. Stillman, Auteur ; Roger J. H. Herbert, AuteurRegime shifts in benthic invertebrates within coastal ecosystems threaten the survival of wading birds (Charadrii). Predicting how invertebrate regime shifts will affect wading birds allows conservation management and mitigation measures to be i[...]
