The Lodge

About: The Lodge is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Biodiversity. The organization has 258 authors who have published 394 publications receiving 17100 citations.

The local impacts of World Bank development projects near sites of conservation significance.

Abstract: We evaluated the local impacts of World Bank development projects on sites of recognized conservation significance (Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas [IBAs]) using tree cover change data and in situ state, pressure, and response monitoring data. IBAs adjacent to World Bank project locations and a matched set of IBAs distant from World Bank project locations had similar rates of tree loss and similar in situ measurements of conservation outcomes. Thus, we did not detect any significant net negative impacts of World Bank projects on tree cover or conservation outcomes. These results are encouraging because 89% of World Bank projects that are close to IBAs are environmentally sensitive projects (so-called Category A and Category B projects) subjected to the organization’s most stringent safeguards. However, the limitations of our evaluation design do not allow us to rule out the possibility that World Bank projects had positive or negative effects that were undetectable.

The impact of changing habitat availability on population trends of woodland birds associated with early successional plantation woodland

Abstract: Capsule Trends in young woodland availability influenced population trends and abundance of Tree Pipit and Lesser Redpoll, but not 10-km square occupancyAims To investigate whether changes in availability of young woodland could have driven population change, and trends in abundance and occupancy, of declining Tree Pipit and Lesser Redpoll populations in BritainMethods Modelling approaches used annual population indices and woodland planting statistics Abundance and occupancy change between two bird atlases were examined in relation to changes in woodland availability from two woodland inventoriesResults English declines were strongly associated with decreases in young coniferous woodland availability and less strongly with increases in young broadleaved woodland Abundance was related to the area of young woodland in corresponding 10-km squares Young woodland availability declined between forest inventories and species occupancy maintained in 10-km squares with more young woodland; however squares t