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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, Foraging, Habitat
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a global analysis, intersecting Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs), to which restricted-range bird species are endemic, with fine-scale data of agricultural extent and human population density and test: (a) how well variation in land use mapped at 0.5degrees x 0. 5degrees resolution predicts spatial variation in threat status of species and (b) how the predictive power compares with that of human density mapped at the same resolution.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether fire could be a useful management tool to improve the rate of regeneration of Scots pine on moorland, and found that burning significantly reduced predation by mammals and invertebrates.
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TL;DR: Gough Island’s formerly abundant petrel populations are greatly threatened by the impact of predatory house mice which can only be halted by the eradication of this species from the island.
Abstract: The predatory behaviour of introduced house mice Mus musculus at Gough Island is known to impact on albatross and petrels, resulting in the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena and Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta being listed as “Critically Endangered” and “Endangered”, respectively. Although predation has been documented for two burrowing petrels and one albatross species, the impact of house mice on other burrowing petrels on Gough Island is unknown. We report burrow occupancy and breeding success of Atlantic Petrels, Soft-plumaged Petrels Pterodroma mollis, Broad-billed Prions Pachyptila vittata, Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea and Great Shearwaters Puffinus gravis. With the exception of the Great Shearwater, breeding parameters of burrowing petrels at Gough Island were very poor, with low burrow occupancy (range 4–42%) and low breeding success (0–44%) for four species, and high rates of chick mortality in Atlantic Petrel burrows. Breeding success decreased with mass, suggesting that smaller species are hardest hit, and winter-breeding species had lower breeding success than summer breeders. The results indicate that introduced house mice are having a detrimental impact on a wider range of species than previously recorded and are likely to be causing population declines among most burrowing petrels on Gough Island. The very low values of burrow occupancy recorded for Soft-plumaged Petrels and Broad-billed Prions and greatly reduced abundance of burrowing petrels in comparison to earlier decades indicate that Gough Island’s formerly abundant petrel populations are greatly threatened by the impact of predatory house mice which can only be halted by the eradication of this species from the island.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors influencing the number of nightjars on 36 heathland sites (referred to as patches) in Dorset, England using novel spatial integration of existing datasets.
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TL;DR: Consistent with the low to medium levels of contaminants found in Dipper eggs, there was only slight evidence of any toxic effects, including moderate shell thinning in relation to increasing DDE, and some evidence that contaminants had contributed to egg failure.
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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 |