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1. Birds and climate change
: impacts and conservation responses
by Pearce-Higgins, James W and Green, Rhys
2014, Ecology, biodiversiy, and conservation, ISBN 0521132193, xi, 467
From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on... 
Birds | Climatic factors | Conservation
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2. Full Text Amateur scientists: Citizen projects can minimize conflicts
by Pearce-Higgins, James W
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 09/2015, Volume 525, Issue 7570, p. 455
Animals | Motivation | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Science - manpower | Volunteers - psychology | Birds | United Kingdom | Data Collection | Conflict of Interest | Hobbies | Research Design | Communication in science | Management
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3. Full Text The Distribution of Breeding Birds around Upland Wind Farms
by James W. Pearce-Higgins and Leigh Stephen and Rowena H. W. Langston and Ian P. Bainbridge and Rhys Bullman
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 12/2009, Volume 46, Issue 6, pp. 1323 - 1331
1. There is an urgent need for climate change mitigation, of which the promotion of renewable energy, such as from wind farms, is an important component. Birds... 
Birds of prey | Highlands | Transmission lines | Aerial locomotion | Breeding | Wind farms | Birds | Anthropogenic Impacts | Applied ecology | Turbines | Aviculture | collision | renewable energy | displacement | upland birds | environmental impact assessment | climate change | Climate change | Environmental impact assessment | Renewable energy | Upland birds | Displacement | Collision | MORTALITY | POPULATION | TURBINES | MANAGEMENT | PLUVIALIS-APRICARIA | ABUNDANCE | RECREATIONAL DISTURBANCE | CONSERVATION | ECOLOGY | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | MOORLAND VEGETATION | COLLISION RISK | Hawks | Alternative energy sources | Global temperature changes | Analysis | Environmental impact analysis | Wind power | Buildings and facilities | Electric power transmission
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4. Full Text The consequences of land sparing for birds in the United Kingdom
by Lamb, Anthony and Finch, Tom and Pearce‐Higgins, James W and Ausden, Malcolm and Balmford, Andrew and Feniuk, Claire and Hirons, Graham and Massimino, Dario and Green, Rhys E and Villard, Marc‐André
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 08/2019, Volume 56, Issue 8, pp. 1870 - 1881
Land sparing has been proposed as a strategy to reconcile biodiversity conservation with agricultural production, with empirical studies on five continents... 
agriculture | conservation | biodiversity | agri‐environment | habitat restoration | food demand | land sparing | FOOD-PRODUCTION | MANAGEMENT | AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES | CLIMATE-CHANGE | agri-environment | AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION | FATE | STRATEGIES | LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | Birds | Ecological restoration | Bird populations | Biological diversity conservation | Bird impact | Habitats | Conservation | Woodlands | Agricultural land | Biodiversity | Food waste | Restoration | Agricultural production | Sustainability | Associated species | Population changes | Species | Food | Agricultural management | Wildlife conservation | Landscape | Animal products | Population decline | Sustainable yield | Biological diversity | Waste management | Bird strike tests | Environmental restoration | Food consumption | Farmlands | Population density | Land conservation
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5. Full Text Citizen projects can minimize conflicts
by Pearce-Higgins, JW
NATURE, ISSN 0028-0836, 09/2015, Volume 525, Issue 7570, pp. 455 - 455
MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
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6. Full Text Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation measures for European grassland‐breeding waders
by Franks, Samantha E and Roodbergen, Maja and Teunissen, Wolf and Carrington Cotton, Anne and Pearce‐Higgins, James W
Ecology and Evolution, ISSN 2045-7758, 11/2018, Volume 8, Issue 21, pp. 10555 - 10568
Farmland birds are among the most threatened bird species in Europe, largely as a result of agricultural intensification which has driven widespread... 
population declines | conservation | agricultural intensification | agri‐environment schemes | interventions | site protection | meadow birds | farmland | shorebirds | reproductive success | agri-environment schemes | GODWIT LIMOSA-LIMOSA | PREDATOR CONTROL | LOWLAND FARMLAND BIRDS | NEST PREDATION | WET GRASSLANDS | LAPWING VANELLUS-VANELLUS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | REDSHANK TRINGA-TOTANUS | ENHANCING BIRD POPULATIONS | ECOLOGY | Productivity | Grasslands | Agricultural management | Population growth | Landscape | Breeding | Conservation | Birds | Agricultural land | Management | Biodiversity | Environmental management | Environmental impact | Population decline | Literature reviews | Demographics | Land management | Threatened species | Grassland management | Mowing | Arable land | Population | Farmlands | Species
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7. Full Text Climatic effects on breeding grounds are more important drivers of breeding phenology in migrant birds than carryover effects from wintering grounds
by Ockendon, Nancy and Leech, Dave and Pearce-Higgins, James W
Biology Letters, ISSN 1744-9561, 12/2013, Volume 9, Issue 6
Climate change | Carry-over effect | Migrant | Sub-Saharan Africa | Breeding success
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8. Full Text Site-based adaptation reduces the negative effects of weather upon a southern range margin Welsh black grouse Tetrao tetrix population that is vulnerable to climate change
by Pearce-Higgins, James W and Lindley, Patrick J and Johnstone, Ian G and Thorpe, Reg I and Douglas, David J.T and Grant, Murray C
Climatic Change, ISSN 0165-0009, 3/2019, Volume 153, Issue 1, pp. 253 - 265
Climate change is an increasing threat to global biodiversity. Whilst there is growing evidence about the potential effectiveness of some aspects of climate... 
Earth Sciences | Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts | Atmospheric Sciences | PROTECTED AREAS | BIODIVERSITY | PREDATION | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | BREEDING SUCCESS | MANAGEMENT | CONSERVATION | IMPACTS | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | ABUNDANCE | Environmental aspects | Climatic changes | Birds, Protection of | Wildlife management | Methods | Wildlife research | Productivity | Adaptations | Populations | Breeding | Rainfall | Vulnerability | Management | Biodiversity | Predator control | Resilience | Weather | Climate change | Weather effects | Rain | Predators | Breeding success | Chicks | Population | Habitat | Adaptation
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9. Multi-state, multi-stage modeling of nest-success suggests interaction between weather and land-use
by Mark W Miller and David I Leech and James W Pearce-Higgins and Robert A Robinson
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 01/2017, Volume 98, Issue 1, p. 175
  Many factors may affect daily nest survival. We present a novel multi-state, multi-stage model to estimate daily survival for each nest stage, daily hatching... 
Simulation | Habitats | Animal behavior | Birds | Predation
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10. Multi-state, multi-stage modeling of nest-success suggests interaction between weather and land-use
by Miller, Mark W and Leech, David I and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Robinson, Robert A
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 01/2017, Volume 98, Issue 1, pp. 175 - 175
Many factors may affect daily nest survival. We present a novel multi-state, multi-stage model to estimate daily survival for each nest stage, daily hatching... 
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11. Full Text Multi-state, multi-stage modeling of nest-success suggests interaction between weather and land-use
by Miller, Mark W and Leech, David I and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Robinson, Robert A
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 01/2017, Volume 98, Issue 1, p. 175
Environmental aspects | Sparrows | Finches | Behavior | Land use
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12. Full Text Overcoming the challenges of public data archiving for citizen science biodiversity recording and monitoring schemes
by Pearce-Higgins, James W and Baillie, Stephen R and Boughey, Katherine and Bourn, NA D and Foppen, R.P.B and Gillings, Simon and Gregory, Richard D and Hunt, Tom and Jiguet, Frederic and Lehikoinen, Aleksi
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 2018, Volume 2018, pp. 1 - 8
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13. Full Text Variation in ectoparasitic sheep tick Ixodes ricinus infestation on European Golden Plover chicks Pluvialis apricaria and implications for growth and survival
by Douglas, David J. T and Pearce-Higgins, James W
Bird Study, ISSN 0006-3657, 01/2019, Volume 66, Issue 1, pp. 92 - 102
Tick infestation increased with temperature and vegetation height, and was negatively correlated with Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria chick survival, but not... 
PREY ABUNDANCE | POPULATION | BREEDING SUCCESS | LOUPING-ILL VIRUS | INFECTIOUS-DISEASES | GROUSE | WILDLIFE | RELATIVE IMPORTANCE | ORNITHOLOGY | BIRDS | LAGOPUS-LAGOPUS-SCOTICUS
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14. Full Text Disentangling the relative importance of changes in climate and land-use intensity in driving recent bird population trends
by Eglington, Sarah M and Pearce-Higgins, James W
PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 03/2012, Volume 7, Issue 3, p. e30407
Threats to biodiversity resulting from habitat destruction and deterioration have been documented for many species, whilst climate change is regarded as... 
FARMLAND BIRDS | BIODIVERSITY | IMPACT | CONSERVATION | WEATHER | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HABITAT | AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION | GLOBAL CHANGE | ENGLAND | EXTINCTION | Temperature | Agriculture - trends | Species Specificity | Crops, Agricultural - growth & development | Birds - classification | United Kingdom | Biodiversity | Weather | Algorithms | Animals | Climate Change | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Population Density | Birds - growth & development | Seasons | Population Dynamics | Bird populations | Global temperature changes | Analysis | Land use | Population growth | Birds | Agricultural land | Population decline | Climate change | Animal behavior | Annual variations | Environmental degradation | Trends | Species
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15. Full Text Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels
by Thackeray, Stephen J and Henrys, Peter A and Hemming, Deborah and Bell, James R and Botham, Marc S and Burthe, Sarah and Helaouet, Pierre and Johns, David G and Jones, Ian D and Leech, David I and MacKay, Eleanor B and Massimino, Dario and Atkinson, Sian and Bacon, Philip J and Brereton, Tom M and Carvalho, Laurence and Clutton-Brock, Tim H and Duck, Callan and Edwards, Martin and Elliott, J. Malcolm and Hall, Stephen J. G and Harrington, Richard and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Høye, Toke T and Kruuk, Loeske E. B and Pemberton, Josephine M and Sparks, Tim H and Thompson, Paul M and White, Ian and Winfield, Ian J and Wanless, Sarah
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 2016, Volume 535, Issue 7611, pp. 241 - 245
Differences in phenological responses to climate change among species can desynchronise ecological interactions and thereby threaten ecosystem function. To... 
SPRING PHYTOPLANKTON | RESPONSES | MISMATCH | BIRD | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | STREAM | CONSTRAINTS | SHIFTS | TRENDS | FRESH-WATER | Climate | Temperature | Datasets as Topic | Species Specificity | United Kingdom | Forecasting | Aquatic Organisms | Rain | Animals | Time Factors | Ecosystem | Seasons | Climate Change - statistics & numerical data | Climate sensitivity | Ecosystems | Trophic levels | Phenetics | Analysis | Biology | Identification and classification | Datasets | Climate change | Taxonomy | Phenology | Ecology | Environmental impact
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16. Full Text The potential breeding range of Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris identified from stable-isotope analysis
by Buchanan, Graeme M and Bond, Alexander L and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Hilton, Geoff M and Crockford, Nicola J and Kamp, Johannes
Bird Conservation International, ISSN 0959-2709, 06/2018, Volume 28, Issue 2, pp. 228 - 237
The breeding areas of the Critically Endangered Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris are all but unknown, with the only well-substantiated breeding... 
HYDROGEN | WILDLIFE | ORIGINS | ORNITHOLOGY | Nesting | Breeding | Breeding sites | Conservation | Steppes | Data processing | Museums | Calibration | Population decline | Animal feathers | Endangered & extinct species | Hydrologic data | Historical account | Historic buildings & sites | Stable isotopes | Skin | Species | Isotopes
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17. Full Text Population decline is linked to migration route in the Common Cuckoo
by Hewson, Chris M and Thorup, Kasper and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Atkinson, Philip W
Nature Communications, ISSN 2041-1723, 07/2016, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 12296
Migratory species are in rapid decline globally. Although most mortality in long-distance migrant birds is thought to occur during migration, evidence of... 
SONGBIRD | CLIMATE-CHANGE | GEOLOCATORS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | BIRDS | TRACKING | Africa, Northern | Breeding - statistics & numerical data | Geographic Information Systems | Animals | Time Factors | Population Dynamics - statistics & numerical data | Animal Migration | Male | United Kingdom | Conservation of Natural Resources | Desert Climate - adverse effects | Birds - physiology
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18. Full Text Monitoring landscape-scale environmental changes with citizen scientists: Twenty years of land use change in Great Britain
by Martay, Blaise and Pearce-Higgins, James W and Harris, Sarah J and Gillings, Simon
Journal for Nature Conservation, ISSN 1617-1381, 07/2018, Volume 44, pp. 33 - 42
Citizen science is increasingly recognised as one of the most cost-effective means of achieving large-scale and long-term biodiversity monitoring. Here we... 
Citizen science | Land cover | Land use | Monitoring | MANAGEMENT | SHEEP | FORESTS | DEER | BIRD POPULATIONS | COVER CHANGE | ECOLOGY | SCIENCE | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | Usage | Birds | Livestock | Scientists | Livestock farms | Data entry
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