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Selective harvesting of large mammals: how often does it result in directional selection?

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Mysterud, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Harvesting of large mammals is usually not random, and directional selection has been identified as the main cause of rapid evolution. However, select...

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Identifying land management approaches which deliver for both people and nature.

Published online: 26 Feb 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Balfour, N. J. & Durrant, R. & Ely, A. & Sandom, C. J.

Content type: Blog

This paper presents the results of studies conducted to identify management strategies to help inform how ecosystems should be restored in areas of hi...

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Individual study: effect of varying coppice height on tree survival and ground flora in Brasenose Wood, Oxfordshire, UK.

Published online: 12 Sep 2018

Authors: Wright, I. R. & Bartel, T. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Coppicing is a commonly used management intervention to increase structural diversity in woodlands, but coppiced trees are vulnerable to browsing by d...

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Diagnosis of the bushmeat trade in the cities of Colombia.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Quiceno-M, M. P. & Vliet, N. van & Moreno, J. & Cruz-A, D.

Content type: Bulletin

Most of the available literature on the bushmeat trade in South America focuses on the Amazonia, probably because the bushmeat trade in other ecosyste...

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Biodiversity targets and whole biodiversity assemblage monitoring for SSSI: Exploring the potential for 'Regional Biodiversity Targets' and 'Whole biodiversity assemblage monitoring for Sites of Special Scientific Interest' in England.

Published online: 19 Oct 2023

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Galbraith, C. & Stroud, D.

Content type: Reports

This short report describes the development of an approach to create regional biodiversity targets and how to develop monitoring of the whole biodiver...

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NatureScot Research Report 1283 - Disturbance Distances Review: An updated literature review of disturbance distances of selected bird species.

Published online: 23 Oct 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Goodship, N. M. & Furness, R. W.

Content type: Reports

This report provides an account for the distances at which disturbance could be caused by human related activities to a number of protected UK bird sp...

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NatureScot Research Report 1274 - Survey of the Tayside Area Beaver Population 2020-2021.

Published online: 08 Sep 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Campbell-Palmer, R. & Puttock, A. & Needham, R. N. & Wilson, K. & Graham, H. & Brazier, R. E.

Content type: Reports

This study provides details of the latest survey on Beaver population carried out from late 2020 to early 2021 in areas that encompassed all the river...

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NatureScot Research Report 1273 - Development of Marine Bird Sensitivity Assessments of FeAST.

Published online: 08 Sep 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Rogerson, K. & Sinclair, R. & Tyler, G. & St John Glew, K. & Seeney, A. & Coppack, T. & Jervis, L.

Content type: Reports

This publication reports on the results of the NatureScot project that made a sensitivity assessment for 36 marine bird species across 36 discrete hum...

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Overcoming biodiversity blindness: secondary data in primary citizen science observations.

Published online: 06 May 2024

Authors: Pernat, N. & Canavan, S. & Golivets, M. & Hillaert, J. & Itescu, Y. & Jarić, I. & Mann, H. M. R. & Pipek, P. & Preda, C. & Richardson, D. M. & Teixeira, H. & Vaz, A. S. & Groom, Q.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

In the face of the global biodiversity crisis, collecting comprehensive data and making the best use of existing data are becoming increasingly import...

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Response to 'improving abundance estimation by combining capture-recapture and presence-absence data: example with a large carnivore'.

Published online: 28 Aug 2024

Authors: Thomas, J. H. W. & Bonner, S. J. & Cowen, L. L. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

A key area of research in ecological statistics involves combining data sources from multiple streams to improve population estimates. One such model ...

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