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Alejandro Sánchez De Miguel, Auteur ; Jonathan Bennie, Auteur ; Emma Rosenfeld, Auteur ; Simon Dzurjak, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurThe global spread of artificial light is eroding the natural night-time environment. The estimation of the pattern and rate of growth of light pollution on multi-decadal scales has nonetheless proven challenging. Here we show that the power of g[...]
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William J. Sutherland, Auteur ; Steven Broad, Auteur ; Stuart H.m. Butchart, Auteur ; Stewart J. Clarke, Auteur ; Alexandra M. Collins, Auteur ; Lynn V. Dicks, Auteur ; Helen Doran, Auteur ; Nafeesa Esmail, Auteur ; Erica Fleishman, Auteur ; Nicola Frost, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; David W. Gibbons, Auteur ; Alice C. Hughes, Auteur ; Zhigang Jiang, Auteur ; Ruth Kelman, Auteur ; Becky LeAnstey, Auteur ; Xavier le Roux, Auteur ; Fiona A. Lickorish, Auteur ; Kathryn A. Monk, Auteur ; Diana Mortimer, Auteur ; James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ; Lloyd S. Peck, Auteur ; Nathalie Pettorelli, Auteur ; Jules Pretty, Auteur ; Colleen L. Seymour, Auteur ; Mark D. Spalding, Auteur ; Jonathan Wentworth, Auteur ; Nancy Ockendon, AuteurWe present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, but currently have low awareness within the co[...]
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Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Thomas W. Davies, Auteur ; Sophie L. Nedelec, Auteur ; Lauren A. Holt, AuteurThe use of artificial lighting to illuminate the night has provided substantial benefits to humankind. It has also disrupted natural daily, seasonal, and lunar light cycles as experienced by a diversity of organisms, and hence it has also altere[...]
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Richard Inger, Auteur ; Richard Gregory, Auteur ; James P. Duffy, Auteur ; Iain Stott, Auteur ; Petr Vorisek, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Jane Hill, AuteurBiodiversity is undergoing unprecedented global decline. Efforts to slow this rate have focused foremost on rarer species, which are at most risk of extinction. Less interest has been paid to more common species, despite their greater importance[...]
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Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; David I. Leech, Auteur ; Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Auteur ; Jeremy J. D. Greenwood, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurDans Bird Study (56 2009)Capsule Daylength, rather than latitude, was found to be an important determinant of variation in clutch size. Aims To describe the nature of spatial and temporal variation in clutch size, and explore the ecological correlates of these patterns.[...]
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Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; David I. Leech, Auteur ; Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Auteur ; Jeremy J. D. Greenwood, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurDans Bird Study (56 2009)Capsule Daylength, rather than latitude, was found to be an important determinant of variation in clutch size. Aims To describe the nature of spatial and temporal variation in clutch size, and explore the ecological correlates of these patterns.[...]
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Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Tim M. Blackburn, AuteurAttempts to assess the magnitude of global biodiversity have focused on estimating species richness. However, this is but one component of biodiversity, and others, such as numbers of individuals or biomass, are at least as poorly known and just[...]
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Clara Gaspar, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Paulo A. V. Borges, AuteurThis study evaluates the effectiveness of taxonomic, colonization and trophic groups of arthropods from native forests of the Azores archipelago as surrogates of the diversity of other arthropod groups and of the remaining arthropods. Consistenc[...]
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Colin Bonnington, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Karl L. Evans, AuteurSupplementary feeding of birds, particularly in urban areas, is often associated with increased population size and fecundity. In the UK, the non-native Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis is common in rural and urban habitats. It exploits supple[...]
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Isla S. Fishburn, Auteur ; Alison G. Boyer, Auteur ; Peter Kareiva, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Paul R. Armsworth, AuteurWhile numerous scientific publications have used biological data and sometimes decision theory to identify where conservation funds should be invested, studies that examine where money for conservation actually has been spent and how investment [...]
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Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Kevin Charman, Auteur ; Sarah F. Jackson, Auteur ; Paul R. Armsworth, Auteur ; Aletta Bonn, Auteur ; Robert A. Briers, Auteur ; Claire S. Q. Callaghan, Auteur ; Roger Catchpole, Auteur ; John Hopkins, Auteur ; William E. Kunin, Auteur ; Jim Latham, Auteur ; Paul Opdam, Auteur ; Rob Stoneman, Auteur ; David A. Stroud, Auteur ; Ros Tratt, AuteurGiven the importance placed on protected areas, determining their effectiveness in representing and maintaining biodiversity is a core issue in conservation biology. Nonetheless, frameworks identifying the breadth of issues associated with this [...]
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Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Sarah E. Jackson, Auteur ; Lisette Cantu-Salazar, Auteur ; Gabriela Cruz-Pinon, AuteurProtected areas are a cornerstone of local, regional, and global strategies for the conservation of biodiversity. However, the ecological performance of these areas, both in terms of the representation and the maintenance of key biodiversity fea[...]
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Felix Eigenbrod, Auteur ; Paul R. Armsworth, Auteur ; Barbara J. Anderson, Auteur ; Andreas Heinemeyer, Auteur ; Simon Gillings, Auteur ; David B. Roy, Auteur ; Chris D. Thomas, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurAn increasing number of studies are taking the important first step in global efforts to conserve key ecosystem services by mapping their spatial distributions. However, a lack of primary data for most services in most places has largely forced [...]
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America P. Duran, Auteur ; Jason Rauch, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurThe global protected area (PA) system has a key role to play in biological conservation, and it is thus vital to understand the factors that are likely to limit this potential. Attention to date has focused foremost on the consequences of biases[...]
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Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurUrbanization is increasing across the globe and there is growing interest in urban ecology and a recognition that developed areas may be important for conservation. We review the factors influencing urban avian assemblages, focusing on habitat t[...]
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Lorenzo Marini, Auteur ; Paolo Fontana, Auteur ; Sebastian Klimek, Auteur ; Andrea Battisti, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurSince the second half of the 20th century, the intensification of land-use practices and the associated decline in semi-natural habitats have been the major drivers of farmland biodiversity loss. In many marginal agricultural systems, a structur[...]
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Robert J. Fuller, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Chris P. Quine, AuteurDans Ibis (149 NOV 2007)This paper reviews broad geographical patterns in the species composition of breeding woodland bird communities from Ireland to eastern Europe and outlines how processes affecting woodland birds in Britain and Ireland may differ from those opera[...]
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Zoe G. Davies, Auteur ; Richard A. Fuller, Auteur ; Alison Loram, Auteur ; Katherine N. Irvine, Auteur ; Victoria Sims, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurThe human population is increasingly disconnected from nature due to urbanisation. To counteract this phenomenon, the UK government has been actively promoting wildlife gardening. However, the extent to which such activities are conducted and th[...]
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Josephine E. Booth, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Paul R. Armsworth, AuteurProtected areas have a central role to play in educating people about biodiversity and nature conservation. However, there is little evidence regarding how effective public education efforts related to protected areas have been. We used on-site [...]
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Sarah F. Jackson, Auteur ; Kevin Walker, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurThe establishment and maintenance of a system of protected areas is central to regional and global strategies for the conservation of biodiversity. The current global trend towards human population growth and widespread environmental degradation[...]
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Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; David Storch, Auteur ; Jeremy J. D. Greenwood, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur1. The spatial scale of analysis may influence the nature, strength and underlying drivers of macroecological patterns, one of the most frequently discussed of which is the relationship between species richness and environmental energy availabil[...]
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J. Orestes Cerdeira, Auteur ; Leonor S. Pinto, Auteur ; Mar Cabeza, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurSystematic conservation planning applications based solely on the presence/absence of a large number of species are not sufficient to guarantee their persistence in highly fragmented landscapes. Recent developments have thus incorporated much de[...]
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Willem F. de Boer, Auteur ; Frank van Langevelde, Auteur ; Herbert H. T. Prins, Auteur ; Peter C. de Ruiter, Auteur ; Julian Blanc, Auteur ; Marc J. P. Vis, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Iain Douglas Hamilton, AuteurThe densities and survival of many wild animals are presently at risk. Crucial for improving conservation actions is an understanding on a large scale of the relative importance of human and ecological factors in determining the distribution and[...]
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Richard M. Smith, Auteur ; Ken Thompson, Auteur ; Philip H. Warren, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, AuteurPrivate, residential gardens form a substantial proportion of the undeveloped land in urban areas. Evaluating them role in supporting biodiversity is crucial to (i) predicting which plant and animal species can persist in towns and cities, (ii) [...]
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Masashi Soga, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Tomoyo F. Koyanagi, Auteur ; Kiyo Kurisu, Auteur ; Keisuke Hanaki, AuteurToday's children have less direct contact with nature than ever before, resulting in an "extinction of experience". Research has suggested that such loss of daily interactions decreases people's appreciation of the natural world, but this remain[...]
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Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ; Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; David G. Noble, Auteur ; Jeremy J. D. Greenwood, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur1. Population estimates are of fundamental importance for setting conservation priorities and for numerous aspects of conservation biology. 2. Distance sampling, which takes undetected individuals into account, is one of the most widely used met[...]
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Josephine E. Booth, Auteur ; Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ; Karl L. Evans, Auteur ; Paul R. Armsworth, AuteurWildlife viewing recreation offers conservationists opportunities for education and generating revenue but can also have detrimental ecological impacts. To manage these opportunities and impacts effectively, a better understanding is needed of w[...]
