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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Nonprofit•Sandy, United Kingdom•
About: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a nonprofit organization based out in Sandy, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Biodiversity. The organization has 670 authors who have published 1425 publications receiving 88006 citations. The organization is also known as: RSPB & Plumage League.
Topics: Population, Biodiversity, Threatened species, Habitat, Foraging
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TL;DR: Rates of extraction in Papua New Guinea versus rates of production demonstrate that long-beaked echidna, tree-kangaroos and cuscus are likely to be hunted unsustainably, and the high intrinsic rate of increase of bandicoots means that they can potentially provide a sustainable source of protein, in preference to scarcer and intrinsically slower breeding species.
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TL;DR: Winter cereal, treated with the neonicotinoid clothianidin, is used as a test system to examine patterns of exposure in farmland birds during a typical sowing period, and the widespread availability of seeds at the soil surface was identified as a primary source of exposure.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the foraging areas of breeding flamingos using the resightings of 283 breeding birds marked with dye at the colony in 1987 and 1989, two years with contrasting hydrological conditions.
Abstract: Flamingos forage in both commercial salt pans and natural marshes and lagoons along the French Mediterranean coast. In order to assess the impact of changes in management of commercial salt pans and hydrological fluctuations on this flagship species, we evaluated the foraging areas of breeding flamingos using the resightings of 283 breeding flamingos marked with dye at the colony in 1987 and 1989, two years with contrasting hydrological conditions. Teams of observers searched all suitable habitats within 80 km of the colony during the four days following marking and recorded presence of off-duty flamingos. About one-third of the birds were found within 10 km of the colony, but some were seen up to 70 km away. About 24–54% of the birds were found in permanent brackish lagoons and 18–60% in the salt pans, the two most important habitats. In 1989, a dry year with lower water levels in the natural wetlands, the proportion of breeding flamingos using salt pans was twice as high [53%, range (47–60%)] as in 1987 [26%, range (18–29%)], this habitat thus acting as a refuge. Most of the feeding areas shown to be important for flamingos breeding in the Camargue are thus susceptible to variations according to rainfall and to transformations or drying out if the salt pans are abandoned. Our results provide essential benchmarks to reconsider the conservation of this flagship species when management of commercial salt pans changes.
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TL;DR: The use of islands and rafts by different breeding species is dependent upon their vegetation cover and geographical location as discussed by the authors, and the composition of the bird assemblage breeding on well-vegetated islands and reefs in Britain (up to 20 species) is less influenced by geographical location.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Balmford | 91 | 290 | 33359 |
| Rhys E. Green | 78 | 285 | 30428 |
| Richard D. Gregory | 61 | 165 | 18428 |
| Richard Evans | 48 | 306 | 10513 |
| Rafael Mateo | 46 | 238 | 7091 |
| Deborah J. Pain | 46 | 99 | 6717 |
| Jeremy D. Wilson | 45 | 123 | 12587 |
| Les G. Underhill | 45 | 233 | 8217 |
| Richard B. Bradbury | 42 | 113 | 8062 |
| Paul F. Donald | 41 | 117 | 11153 |
| James W. Pearce-Higgins | 40 | 144 | 5623 |
| Jörn P. W. Scharlemann | 40 | 84 | 16393 |
| Juliet A. Vickery | 39 | 116 | 8494 |
| Mark A. Taggart | 38 | 111 | 3703 |
| Patrick W Thompson | 38 | 144 | 6379 |