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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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Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Gönner, J. von & Masson, T. & Köhler, S. & Fritsche, I. & Bonn, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen science has great potential to foster ecological knowledge, skills and collective action for biodiversity conservation. To date, however, ther...

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How to increase nature connectedness? Effectiveness and mechanisms of a gratitude journal intervention.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Samus, A. & Dickinson, K. J. M. & Freeman, C. & Heezik, Y. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Nature connectedness can promote pro-environmental behaviour and psychological well-being, but little is known about how nature connectedness can be s...

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Epizootiology of the seal disease in the eastern North Sea.

Published online: 06 Mar 1993

Authors: Heide-Jørgensen, M. P. & Härkönen, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The intensity of the 1988 outbreak of phocine distemper among harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, present in the vicinity of haul-out sites in the Kattegat...

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Modelling the effect of landscape heterogeneity on the efficacy of vaccination for wildlife infectious disease control.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Rees, E. E. & Pond, B. A. & Tinline, R. R. & Bélanger, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Zoonotic disease control presents significant costs and challenges in human and wildlife populations. Although spatial variability and temporal variab...

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Modelling the spatial dynamics of parapoxvirus disease in red and grey squirrels: a possible cause of the decline in the red squirrel in the UK?

Published online: 10 Apr 2002

Authors: Rushton, S. P. & Lurz, P. W. W. & Gurnell, J. & Fuller, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. A stochastic individual-based model for simulating the dynamics of an infectious disease in sympatric red and grey squirrel populations is describe...

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Valuing the cultural services from urban blue-space ecosystems in Japanese megacities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Jo, T. & Sato, M. & Minamoto, T. & Ushimaru, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The COVID-19 pandemic is an outstanding global threat for both human health and well-being. Under the pandemic, green spaces are known to mitigate the...

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The delivery of cultural ecosystem services in urban forests of different landscape features and land use contexts.

Published online: 07 Dec 2022

Authors: Wang Yuan & Niemelä, J. & Kotze, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Urban greenspace provides citizens with important cultural ecosystem services (CES). Identifying landscape features and land use contexts that facilit...

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Revised Disease Risk Analysis for the Conservation Translocation of the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) to England.

Published online: 12 Apr 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Common, S. & Sainsbury, A. W. & Donald, H.

Content type: Reports

In a disease risk analysis (DRA) on the conservation translocation of free-living beavers from either Norway or Great Britain, or those housed in eith...

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Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities.

Published online: 28 Oct 2021

Authors: Winch, K. & Stafford, R. & Gillingham, P. & Thorsen, E. & Diaz, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well-being while encouraging environmental stewar...

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