Diversity in Irish and British avifauna assemblages: What can variation in diversity profiles reveal about the forces that drive assemblage composition and structure?

Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region

This study builds on previous work as part of the ‘Polesia: wilderness without borders’ project, which developed methods to map and analyse fires using satellite imagery and other remote-sensing...

Promoting landscapes that are better for wildlife

One way to determine where habitat restoration might most usefully occur is to use computer models to predict how changing landscapes in particular areas might best benefit different wildlife groups....

Breeding periods of hedgerow-nesting birds in England

Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis

The impacts of farming activities on Europe’s breeding birds

Using the most comprehensive dataset of its kind, this study explores the drivers of population change in European birds.

Inconsistent relationships between area, heterogeneity and plant species richness in temperate farmed landscapes

Using satellite data to assess spatial drivers of bird diversity

How much agri-environment scheme is needed to help birds?

Can agri-environment schemes achieve positive outcomes for nature?

Rapid adaptive modelling for policy support towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Brexit and the livestock sector in Wales

Dynamic space use in Lesser Black-backed Gulls is driven by flooding

GPS tracking in Spain reveals that birds move between rice fields and landfill, leading to the possibility of contamination of land used for food production.

Spatial patterns of weed dispersal by wintering gulls within and beyond an agricultural landscape

The State of the UK's Birds 2020

Providing an annual overview of the status of the UK’s breeding and non-breeding bird species in the UK, this year’s report highlights the continuing poor fortunes of the UK’s woodland birds,...

Evaluating spatially explicit sharing‐sparing scenarios for multiple environmental outcomes

Do drones disturb wintering waterbirds?

Newly published research, carried out by staff at BTO Scotland, has investigated the response to wintering waterbirds to drones, and shown that they can be easily scared into flight by drone use.

Livestock grazing impacts components of the breeding productivity of a common upland insectivorous passerine: Results from a long‐term experiment

Configurational crop heterogeneity increases within‐field plant diversity

Optimising nature conservation outcomes for a given region‐wide level of food production

Seasonal benefits of farmland pond management for birds

Bird responses to housing development in intensively managed agricultural landscapes

Like in many countries, Britain faces the challenge of housing a growing population, but urban expansion to address this can lead to locally high rates of biodiversity loss, along with fragmentation...