| Titre : | Ibis : The International Journal of Avian Science 149 - NOV 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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P. M. Dolman, Auteur ;
S. A. Hinsley, Auteur ;
P. E. Bellamy, Auteur ;
K. Watts, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Habitat creation and management within wooded networks is a potentially effective strategy to reduce ecological isolation and the deleterious effects of fragmentation. However, questions remain over the relative advantages of different approache[...]
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D. I. Leech, Auteur ;
H. Q. P. Crick, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
There is now overwhelming evidence that an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere has caused global temperatures to increase by 0.6 degrees C since 1900 and further increases of between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees C [...]
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Robin M. A. Gill, Auteur ;
Robert J. Fuller, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The effects of deer in woodlands are known to result in habitat changes which can be detrimental to songbirds. In the first part of the paper we review the effects that deer may have on critical resources for woodland birds. The principal mechan[...]
Article
Frank R. Thompson, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Nest predation is an important factor in the ecology of passerines and can be a large source of mortality for birds. I provide an overview of factors affecting nest predation of passerines in North America with the goal that it may provide some [...]
Article
Richard D. Gregory, Auteur ;
Petr Vorisek, Auteur ;
Arco van Strien, Auteur ;
Adriaan W. Gmelig Meyling, Auteur ;
Frédéric Jiguet, Auteur ;
Lorenzo Fornasari, Auteur ;
Jiri Reif, Auteur ;
Przemek Chylarecki, Auteur ;
Ian J. Burfield, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
We explore population trends of widespread and common woodland birds using data from an extensive European network of ornithologists for the period 1980-2003. We show considerable differences exist in the European trends of species according to [...]
Article
R. J. Fuller, Auteur ;
K. W. Smith, Auteur ;
P. V. Grice, Auteur ;
F. A. Currie, Auteur ;
C. P. Quine, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
There is increasing evidence that changes in habitat structure in the form of reduced understorey and loss of open habitats, both probably a result of increases in shading and deer browsing, may be responsible for causing recent changes in the c[...]
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Tomasz Wesolowski, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
In this paper 1 argue that prehistoric British forests and their avifauna were similar to those persisting in a near-primeval condition in the Bialowieza Forest (Polish/Belarussian border). Therefore, observations in the Bialowieza Forest may se[...]
Article
R. H. W. Langston, Auteur ;
S. R. Wotton, Auteur ;
G. J. Conway, Auteur ;
L. J. Wright, Auteur ;
J. W. Mallord, Auteur ;
F. A. Currie, Auteur ;
A. L. Drewitt, Auteur ;
P. V. Grice, Auteur ;
D. G. Hoccom, Auteur ;
N. Symes, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus and Woodlark Lullula arborea are identified as species of conservation concern at both a UK and a European level on account of historical declines in their population sizes and ranges. The UK populations of bot[...]
Article
Robert J. Fuller, Auteur ;
Kevin J. Gaston, Auteur ;
Chris P. Quine, Auteur
Dans
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[...]
Article
Andrew N. Hoodless, Auteur ;
Graham J. M. Hirons, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Diet, feeding behaviour and habitat selection of breeding Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola were studied by radiotracking birds from March to July in two contrasting situations: a 171-ha lowland plantation of Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus, Bee[...]
Article
W. L. Mason, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The last half-century has been an era of historically unprecedented expansion in British forests, which now cover over 12% of the land surface. In the immediate post-War period, the forest composition was evenly divided between conifers and broa[...]
Article
Shelley A. Hinsley, Auteur ;
Jane E. Carpenter, Auteur ;
Richard K. Broughton, Auteur ;
Paul E. Bellamy, Auteur ;
Peter Rothery, Auteur ;
Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Chris M. Hewson, Auteur ;
Andrew G. Gosler, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The Marsh Tit Poecile palustris is a small, hole-nesting woodland passerine whose national population in the UK has declined by more than 50% in the last 25 years. To investigate possible causes for the species long-term decline, we examined hab[...]
Article
John J. Hopkins, Auteur ;
Keith J. Kirby, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Over the last 60 years Britain's broadleaved woodlands have undergone a complex pattern of ecological change. The total extent has expanded from c. 676 000 ha in 1947 to c. 904 000 ha in 2002, but there has also been significant turnover, with l[...]
Article
Teddy A. Wilkin, Auteur ;
Christopher M. Perrins, Auteur ;
Ben C. Sheldon, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Finding the most biologically meaningful scale at which to describe environmental variation is a persistent problem in ecology. Most studies of forest passerines are conducted at the scale of the habitat or woodland and do not account for enviro[...]
Article
Danaee K. Stevens, Auteur ;
Guy Q. A. Anderson, Auteur ;
Phil V. Grice, Auteur ;
Ken Norris, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The UK population of the Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata has declined markedly in the last 30 years but there have been few recent studies of the species. This study examined the relationship between nest success and the predominant habitat[...]
Article
Chris M. Hewson, Auteur ;
Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Jeremy A. Lindsell, Auteur ;
Richard M. Thewlis, Auteur ;
Simon Butler, Auteur ;
Ken Smith, Auteur ;
Robert J. Fuller, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
This paper presents estimated national and regional changes in numbers of breeding woodland birds in predominantly broadleaved woodland in Britain between the mid 1980s and 2003-04, derived from the Repeat Woodland Bird Survey (RWBS). A total of[...]
Article
Alex J. G. Lewis, Auteur ;
Arjun Amar, Auteur ;
Daniel Cordi-Piec, Auteur ;
Richard M. Thewlis, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The British Willow Tit Poecile montanus kleinschmidti underwent a decline of 85% between 1970 and 2003. The cause of this decline is unknown. However, several hypotheses have been put forward to account for it: competition from other tit species[...]
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Richard T. Holmes, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Effective conservation and management of migratory bird species requires an understanding of when and how their populations are limited and regulated. Since 1969, my colleagues and I have been studying migratory songbird populations in their bre[...]
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Niall H. K. Burton, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
The British Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis population has shown a marked decline in recent decades, together with a range contraction that has been most apparent in central and southeast England. In East Anglia, the species is now largely restricte[...]
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Ken W. Smith, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Dead wood is important for woodpeckers, providing foraging, roost and nest-sites. In this paper, data from long-term studies of woodpeckers and dead wood in oakwoods in southern England are used to examine the dead wood requirements of the three[...]
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Ron W. Summers, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
A study at Abernethy Forest, Scotland, examined stand selection by some of the birds of conservation concern that inhabit pinewoods. Abernethy Forest was ideally suited for the study because all four main stand types of forest development (stand[...]
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Christopher P. Quine, Auteur ;
Robert J. Fuller, Auteur ;
Ken W. Smith, Auteur ;
Philip V. Grice, Auteur
Dans
Ibis (149 NOV 2007)
Recent studies have suggested that the neglect of stand management is having a detrimental effect on the habitat of a number of woodland birds in Britain. The remedy, to reinstate active management, appears to run counter to a number of other co[...]
