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Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ; Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; David Feige, Auteur ; Tom Cadwallender, Auteur ; Matthew Grainger, Auteur ; Nadheer Fazaa, Auteur ; Caroline Rhymer, Auteur ; Catherine Wilkinson, Auteur ; Pauline Lloyd, Auteur ; Ben Smurthwaite, Auteur ; Steve M. Percival, Auteur ; Tammy Morris-Hale, Auteur ; Clare Rawcliffe, Auteur ; Claire Dewson, Auteur ; Sarah Woods, Auteur ; Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ; Elizabeth Oughton, AuteurIn this reply, we confirm that the results of the original paper are robust and that our conclusions were correct: densities of Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres were lower on sites located further from undisturbed refuges. There are two point[...]
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Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ; Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; David Feige, Auteur ; Tom Cadwallender, Auteur ; Matthew Grainger, Auteur ; Nadheer Fazaa, Auteur ; Caroline Rhymer, Auteur ; Catherine Wilkinson, Auteur ; Pauline Lloyd, Auteur ; Ben Smurthwaite, Auteur ; Steve M. Percival, Auteur ; Tammy Morris-Hale, Auteur ; Clare Rawcliffe, Auteur ; Claire Dewson, Auteur ; Sarah Woods, Auteur ; Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ; Elizabeth Oughton, AuteurCapsule: Wintering Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres occur in higher densities and their populations decline less on, or close to, offshore refuges than on mainland sites subject to greater levels of human disturbance.Aim: To compare wintering[...]
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Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ; Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; David Feige, Auteur ; Tom Cadwallender, Auteur ; Matthew Grainger, Auteur ; Nadheer Fazaa, Auteur ; Caroline Rhymer, Auteur ; Catherine Wilkinson, Auteur ; Pauline Lloyd, Auteur ; Ben Smurthwaite, Auteur ; Steve M. Percival, Auteur ; Tammy Morris-Hale, Auteur ; Clare Rawcliffe, Auteur ; Claire Dewson, Auteur ; Sarah Woods, Auteur ; Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ; Elizabeth Oughton, AuteurCapsule: Wintering Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres occur in higher densities and their populations decline less on, or close to, offshore refuges than on mainland sites subject to greater levels of human disturbance.Aim: To compare wintering[...]
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Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Sonja C. Ludwig, Auteur ; Staffan Roos, Auteur ; David Baines, AuteurPredators will often respond to reductions in preferred prey by switching to alternative prey resources. However, this may not apply to all alternative prey groups in patchy landscapes. We investigated the demographic and aggregative numerical a[...]
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Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Sonja C. Ludwig, Auteur ; David Baines, AuteurCapsule: The winter diet of Common Buzzards Buteo buteo on a Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica moor was dominated by small mammals, whilst grouse were a minor prey item.Aims: To assess winter diet of Common Buzzards from pellets collected at ro[...]
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Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; David Baines, AuteurCapsule: Methods of assessing raptor diet carry significant inherent biases which can vary over time.Aims: To compare methods of assessing Common Buzzard Buteo buteo diet composition and assess how any differences vary between years.Methods: Die[...]
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Jonathon C. Dunn, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Richard J. Cuthbert, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Philip J. K. Mcgowan, AuteurThe Critically Endangered Himalayan Quail Ophrysia superciliosa has not been reliably recorded since 1876. Recent searches of historical sites have failed to detect the species, but we estimate an extinction year of 2023 giving us reason to beli[...]
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Caroline M. Rhymer, Auteur ; Claire L. Devereux, Auteur ; Matthew J. H. Denny, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurCapsule Tipulidae larvae are a key resource for adult Starlings provisioning their young on lowland farmland. Aims (i) To describe Starling nestling diet on lowland farmland. (ii) To examine the effects of brood size variation and nestling age o[...]
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Carly T. Peggie, Auteur ; Claudia M. Garratt, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurCapsule Beneficial effects of cutting grass are relatively short-lived for a range of bird species. Aims To investigate how cutting affects a range of birds occurring on farmland, how long these effects last, and whether there is any effect of t[...]
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Carly T. Peggie, Auteur ; Claudia M. Garratt, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurCapsule Beneficial effects of cutting grass are relatively short-lived for a range of bird species. Aims To investigate how cutting affects a range of birds occurring on farmland, how long these effects last, and whether there is any effect of t[...]
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Claudia M. Garratt, Auteur ; Martin Hughes, Auteur ; Giselle Eagle, Auteur ; Tanya Fowler, Auteur ; Philip V. Grice, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurCapsule Breeding Common Kestrels prefer to forage over recently cut grass than all other habitat types on farmland. Aims To identify foraging habitat and prey of Common Kestrels during the breeding season. Methods We observed seven pairs of Comm[...]
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Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; John Richard Krebs, Auteur ; Ruth D. Swetnam, Auteur ; Richard M. Thewlis, Auteur ; Jeremy D. Wilson, Auteur ; Robert P. Freckleton, AuteurDans Bird Study (56 2009)Capsule Territory distribution for ten species was most strongly positively influenced by the presence of hedges and woodland edge. Aims To describe and rank the importance of different habitat predictors on the distribution of bird territories.[...]
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Can ecosystem services be integrated with conservation? A case study of breeding waders on grassland
Caroline M. Rhymer, Auteur ; Robert A. Robinson, Auteur ; Jennifer Smart, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurWe review published studies to show that changes in soil moisture levels have significant impacts on a range of wading bird species that use UK lowland grassland, including wet grassland, and obtain their food predominantly by probing the soil. [...]
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E. J. Milner-Gulland, Auteur ; Jos Barlow, Auteur ; Marc Cadotte, Auteur ; Philip Hulme, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur
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Bradley F. Blackwell, Auteur ; Thomas W. Seamans, Auteur ; Paige M. Schmidt, Auteur ; Travis L. DeVault, Auteur ; Jerrold L. Belant, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; James A. Martin, Auteur ; Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Auteur
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P>1. European agri-environment schemes (AESs) have so far delivered only moderate biodiversity gains. However, recent work has demonstrated that under a range of circumstances AESs can return substantial benefit both to biodiversity and ecosyste[...]
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Claire L. Devereux, Auteur ; Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Auteur ; John Richard Krebs, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurDans Ibis (150 AUG 2008)Animals should adapt their escape behaviour to both physical and social surroundings in order to maximize their probability of survival. Cover can be both obstructive, reducing the visibility of the surroundings and hindering escape, and protect[...]
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Eduardo Garcia-Del-Rey, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurFarmland birds within arable land are of conservation concern in Europe, but little is known about their ecology in the oceanic islands of the Mediterranean Basin (Macaronesia). We report here that, during two consecutive winters and within the [...]
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Katherine A. Jones, Auteur ; John Richard Krebs, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, AuteurFood abundance is an important determinant in habitat and patch selection but food accessibility and detectability is less often considered. Foraging on more cryptic seeds may increase predation risk by increasing the length of head down periods[...]
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John L. Quinn, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Simon J. Butler, Auteur ; Will Cresswell, AuteurBackground noise should in theory hinder detection of auditory cues associated with approaching danger. We tested whether foraging chaffinches Fringilla coelebs responded to background noise by increasing vigilance, and examined whether this was[...]
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Jonathon C. Dunn, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; R. Will Stein, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Philip J. K. Mcgowan, AuteurInternational targets have committed governments to expanding the global protected area (PA) network to 17% of the terrestrial surface by 2020. Optimising PA placement in the landscape is challenging due to a poor knowledge of biodiversity distr[...]
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Ross Mcgregor, Auteur ; Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ; Will Cresswell, Auteur
