James W. Pearce-Higgins

TL;DR: A Climate Sensitivity Profile approach is applied to 10,003 terrestrial and aquatic phenological data sets, spatially matched to temperature and precipitation data, to quantify variation in climate sensitivity and detected systematic variation in the direction and magnitude of phenological climate sensitivity.

TL;DR: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis investigating the frequency and importance of different mechanisms by which climate has impacted natural populations found significantly greater support for indirect, biotic mechanisms than direct, abiotic mechanisms as mediators of the impact of climate on populations.

TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the rapidly developing field of climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) and describe key concepts, terms, steps and considerations, and stress the importance of identifying the full range of pressures, impacts and their associated mechanisms that species face and using this as a basis for selecting the appropriate assessment approaches for quantifying vulnerability.

TL;DR: An empirical assessment of the role of PAs as targets for colonization during recent range expansions shows that a small subset of the landscape receives a high proportion of colonizations by range-expanding species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether there is reduced occurrence of breeding birds close to wind farm infrastructure (turbines, access tracks and overhead transmission lines) and found that birds are more likely to occur close to the turbines.