All publications for Simon Gillings
2016.
Earth Observation Data Integration Pilot Project 5 - Developing community and crowd-sourced validation of 'Living Maps'.
Research Report no. 682.
British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford
382pp
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2015.
Current status and recent trend of the Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola as a breeding bird in Britain.
Bird Study
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2015.1092497)
2015.
The Breeding Bird Survey 2014.
Research Report no. 673.
ISBN: 978-1-908581-56-3
24pp
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2015.
Geographical range margins of many taxonomic groups continue to shift polewards.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
115 (part 3)
: 586-597
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/bij.12574)
2015.
Breeding season habitat associations and population declines of British Hawfinches Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
Bird Study
62 (part 3)
: 348-357
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2015.1046368)
2015.
A novel citizen science approach for large-scale standardised monitoring of bat activity and distribution, evaluated in eastern England.
Biological Conservation
191
: 38-49
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.009)
2015.
The impact of changing habitat availability on population trends of woodland birds associated with early successional plantation woodland.
Bird Study
62 (part 1)
: 39-55
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.998622)
2015.
Directionality of recent bird distribution shifts and climate change in Great Britain.
Global Change Biology
21
: 2 155-2 168
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12823)
2014.
Forty years of distribution change in the uplands: insights from atlases.
Book title: Ecology and conservation of birds in upland and alpine habitats: Proceedings of the BOU Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 1-3 April 2014
BOU
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2014.
Evidence for contrasting causes of population change in two closely related, sympatric breeding species the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra and Stonechat Saxicola torquata in Britain.
Bird Study
61 (part 4)
: 553-565
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.962482)
2014.
Can site and landscape-scale environmental attributes buffer bird populations against weather events?.
Ecography
37 (part 9)
: 872-882
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/ecog.00575)
2014.
Temporal validation plots: quantifying how well correlative species distribution models predict species' range changes over time.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
5
: 407-420
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12181)
2013.
Bird Atlas 2007-11: The Breeding and Wintering Birds of Britain and Ireland.
British Trust for Ornithology
ISBN: 978-1908581280
720pp
2013.
Setting the scene.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 18-30
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Online data capture and engagement.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 48-63
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Pattern and change in the British and Irish avifaunas over a 40-year period.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 115-147
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Data analysis and map production.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 66-87
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Interpretation of species accounts.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 149-156
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Survey methods and data sources.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 33-45
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Coverage and effort.
Book title: Bird Atlas 2007-11: the breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland
BTO Books, Thetford
: 90-113
ISBN: 978-1-908581-28-0
2013.
Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation.
Ecology Letters
16
: 39-47
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/ele.12054)
2012.
Results of a coordinated count of Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria in Europe during October 2008.
Wader Study Group Bulletin
119
: 125-128
2012.
Population density but not stability can be predicted from species distribution models.
Journal of Applied Ecology
49 (part 3)
: 581-590
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02138.x)
2012.
Climatic associations of British species distributions show good transferability in time but low predictive accuracy for range change.
PLOS ONE
7 (part 7)
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040212)
2011.
Spatial covariation between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem services.
Ecological Applications
21
: 2 034-2 048
2011.
Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization.
Ecological Applications
21
: 1 419-1 426
2011.
Bird Atlas 2007-11: Measuring Change in Bird Distribution and Abundance.
Book title: The Changing Nature of Scotland.
The Stationery Office, Scotland, Edinburgh
: 67-72
2010.
Resource availability and the persistence of seed-eating bird populations in agricultural landscapes : a mechanistic modelling approach.
Journal of Applied Ecology
47
: 67-75
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01750.x)
2010.
Representation of ecosystem services by tiered conservation strategies.
Conservation Letters
3
: 184-191
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00102.x)
2010.
Error propagation associated with benefits transfer based mapping of ecosystems.
Biological Conservation
143
: 2 487-2 493
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.06.015)
2010.
The impact of proxy-based methods on mapping the distribution of ecosystem services.
Journal of Applied Ecology
: 377-385
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01777.x)
2010.
Assessing the implications of the loss of set-aside for farmland birds.
Ibis
152
: 713-723
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01058.x)
2010.
Bird Atlas 2007-11: measuring change in bird distribution and abundance.
Book title: The Changing Nature of Scotland
The Stationery Office, Edinburgh
ISBN: 9.78E+12
2009.
Spatial covariance between biodiversity and other ecosystem service priorities.
Journal of Applied Ecology
46
: 888-896
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01666.x)
2009.
Using distribution models to test alternative hypotheses about a species' environmental limits and recovery prospects.
Biological Conservation
142
: 488-499
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.036)
2009.
Surrogacy and persistence in reserve selection: landscape prioritization for multiple taxa in Britain.
Journal of Applied Ecology
46
: 82-91
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01598.x)
2009.
How many Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus winter in Great Britain? Results from a large-scale survey in 2006/07.
Wader Study Group Bulletin
116
: 21-28
Link to publication
2009.
Staging behavior in Red Knot Calidris canutus in Delaware Bay: implications for monitoring mass and population size.
Auk
126
: 54-63
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1525/auk.2009.06247)
2009.
The potential implications for birds of reform of the sugar beet industry in England.
Research Report no. 527.
ISBN: 978-1-906204-56-3
48pp
£5.00
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2009.
Effects of Horseshoe Crab harvest in Delaware Bay on Red Knots: are harvest restrictions working?.
Bioscience
59
: 153-164
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.21)
2008.
Designing a winter bird atlas field methodology: issues of time and space in sampling and interactions with habitat.
Journal of Ornithology
149
: 345-355
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0286-x)
2008.
Distribution and abundance of birds and their habitats within the lowland farmland of Britain in winter.
Bird Study
55
: 8-22
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1080/00063650809461500)
2007.
Towards developing thresholds for waterbirds that take into account turnover.
Research Report no. 463.
ISBN: 978-1-906204-22-8
30pp
£2.50
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2007.
Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time- and condition-dependent.
Journal of Applied Ecology
44
: 885-895
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01308.x)
2007.
Bird distributions relative to remotely sensed habitats in Great Britain: towards a framework for national modelling.
Journal of Environmental Management
84
: 586-605
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.07.001)
2007.
Comparative diurnal and nocturnal diet and foraging in Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus wintering on arable farmland.
Ardea
95
: 243-257
Link to publication
2007.
Winter field use and habitat selection by Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus on arable farmland.
Ibis
149
: 509-520
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2007.00677.x)
2007.
Winter Farmland Bird Survey.
Research Report no. 494.
ISBN: 978-1-906204-31-0
158pp
£15.00
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