Steve P. Rushton

TL;DR: The interaction between the statistical properties of the network and the results of epidemic spread provides a useful tool for assessing the risk of disease spread in more realistic networks.

TL;DR: Analysis of the incidence of disease and changes in distribution of the two species in Cumbria, from 1993 to 2003 and the predictions of an individual-based (IB) spatially explicit disease model simulating the dynamics of both squirrel species and SQPV in the landscape show grey squirrels increased whilst red squirrels declined.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the cascade involving top predators, mesopredators and their prey can determine large-scale biomass distribution patterns and regional ecosystem structures and fulfils a critical prediction of EEH.

TL;DR: The extinction of water vole on the River Windrush became more likely as habitat fragmentation and mink predation increased, and it is deduced that the importance of demography in determining population persistence will depend on the level of fragmentation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalised linear model was proposed to predict red squirrel density based on forest size, composition and the presence or absence of a Norway spruce cone crop, and forest management recommendations for a red squirrel conservation area in Kielder Forest were made.