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Isles of Scilly Eelgrass Bed Voluntary Monitoring Programme - 2021 Annual Survey.

Published online: 27 May 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Bull, J. & Kenyon, E.

Content type: Reports

This report present novel data from an ongoing, spatially replicated, annual study of a comparatively un-impacted, temperate eelgrass habitat, based a...

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Optimizing ecological surveys for conservation.

Published online: 06 Jul 2023

Authors: Hanson, J. O. & McCune, J. L. & Chadès, I. & Proctor, C. A. & Hudgins, E. J. & Bennett, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conservation decisions must be made with limited funding and incomplete information. Ecological surveys can help reduce uncertainty and, in turn, pote...

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Non-invasive mark-resight surveys for brown bears: incorporating spatial information to improve landscape-scale monitoring of density and distribution.

Published online: 24 Nov 2023

Authors: Schmidt, J. H. & Deacy, W. W. & Hughes, L. J. & Schertz, D. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Effective wildlife monitoring and management are reliant on unbiased estimators of population parameters. Most standard survey approaches ignore spati...

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Is the density of redshank Tringa totanus nesting on saltmarshes in Great Britain declining due to changes in grazing management?

Published online: 24 Feb 1999

Authors: Norris, K. & Brindley, E. & Cook, T. & Babbs, S. & Brown, C. F. & Yaxley, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Salt marsh habitats support about 50% of the population of redshank breeding in Britain. Between 1985 and 1996, breeding densities declined by 23%. Th...

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North Thames Estuary and Marshes - LTC4 area Terrestrial Invertebrate Survey.

Published online: 20 Jun 2023

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Goddard, D.

Content type: Reports

This document presents the results of a survey conducted on terrestrial invertebrates. The purpose of this survey was to fulfill a request made by Nat...

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Assessment of wild living beaver populations on the River Exe and River Taw.

Published online: 14 Jun 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Campbell-Palmer, R. & Puttock, A. & Needham, R. & Holden, M. & Brazier, R.

Content type: Reports

Following increasing reports of wild beavers (Castor fiber) in both the River Exe and River Taw catchments, Devon, UK, Natural England commissioned a ...

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Monitoring public engagement with nature using Google Trends.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Phillips, B. B. & Burgess, K. & Willis, C. & Gaston, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

How humans interact with nature affects the health of both people and ecosystems. Yet, long-term data on nature engagement are scarce because traditio...

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Rigorous gharial population estimation in the Chambal: implications for conservation and management of a globally threatened crocodilian.

Published online: 10 Oct 2012

Authors: Tarun Nair & Thorbjarnarson, J. B. & Aust, P. & Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

India's Chambal River hosts the largest population of the critically endangered gharial. Boat-based daylight surveys to date only provide indices of r...

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Edna surveys to detect species at very low densities: a case study of European carp eradication in Tasmania, Australia.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Furlan, E. M. & Gleeson, D. & Wisniewski, C. & Yick, J. & Duncan, R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Eradications of invasive species are usually expensive and difficult to conduct. Knowing when to declare an eradication successful requires distinguis...

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Forming a Young Advisory Group for Natural England's Children's People and Nature Survey (C'PaNS).

Published online: 01 Apr 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Satchwell, C. & Dodding, J. & Morocza, N. & Sharpe, D.

Content type: Reports

The Children's People and Nature Survey (CPaNS) is a social survey that collects information from children and young people (CYP) aged 8-15 years on t...

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