Professor Applied Ecology - Dir. Centre Environment &. Society - @BNAscience Hon Fellow - Assoc Editor @Ecol_Evol - BTO C Permit (w'fowl) - views my own
University of Essex
Joined September 2014
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What do you know about the productivity and harvest of wild waterfowl? The biology of it is in some ways poorly known in Europe - but we can look at the USA first to see what they have found #ducks #conservation #utilitarian #thread (Credit: I.Acarpentier) /1
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New publication on wild bird hunting with @ecoevoenviro and others. We evaluated evidence for ecological impacts of recreational hunting (mortality and disturbance) in protected areas - making recommendations for evidence-led regulation
Report link:
publications.naturalengland.…
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Unbelievable, Sir David Attenborough is 100 tomorrow!
It was my great honour to present him with the Peter Scott Memorial Award at 2007 BNA Encaenia, a specially commissioned carving. David in robes of an Hon Fellow of the British Naturalists' Association
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What are the ecological effects of releasing and managing mallard ducks for hunting?
Our new OA paper with @ecoevoenviro authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
What did we find? A short 🧵
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🍣 🇮🇸 This is an indoor salmon farm in Iceland. A tank the size of x1.5 Olympic swimming pool.
It contains 60,000 adult salmon.
Indoor salmon farming is championed as the future. Better for fish & the environment.
I investigated these claims for Sunday Times Magazine…🧵1/6
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Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?si=EzeR…
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🔮 How can monitoring data help predict the future of our environment?
Watch our #UKTEPoP Autumn Festival session with experts from JNCC, @UK_CEH and @_BTO on the power of prediction.
📺 youtu.be/KXY2-hdZ49M?si=7sRB…
#Conservation #Data #Prediction #TogetherForNature
Researchers and students from UK, Ireland and Canada unable to access @eduroam in @UniAveiro #Portugal - last 3 days and no solution 🙄 #poor
Sure we need housing, and for sure sometimes we make too much of protecting wheat fields....but this feels a bit icky
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At British Naturalists' Association Encaenia on 13th Sept at @NHM_London, BNA Chmn Steve Rutherford with 3 Hon Fellows LtoR Dr Chris Gibson @chrismothman1 Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM & Neil Garrick-Maidment @seahorsetrust. Amazing naturalists!
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Should White-tailed eagles be reintroduced to Cumbria?
Research by the Cumbrian White-Tailed Eagle Project shows Cumbria holds suitable habitat for the bird of prey – now it’s time to hear from you.
smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEques…
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Be careful what you wish for...
Trophy hunting ban campaigns are riddled with misinformation- wildlife deserves an evidence based approach. Here, I put the case forward on BBC Inside Science
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hb9…
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This is a handful of the most interesting facts from the latest episode of the podcast about the impacts of beavers on salmonids, featuring Dr. Rob Needham's groundbreaking research on fish passage through beaver dams.
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ALT A beaver dam constructed from intricately woven sticks and branches spans across a small stream in a lush woodland setting. The dam creates a small pond on one side whilst allowing water to flow through on the other. Tall grasses and sedges grow around the water's edge, with dense green vegetation and trees creating a natural canopy overhead. The engineering shows the characteristic beaver construction technique of tightly packed timber creating an effective water barrier.
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Our review 📃 'Recent evidence on the effectiveness of European PAs for species conservation in the face of climate change' - shows understanding is relatively patchy & incomplete - but their value to species conservation under climate warming indisputable link.springer.com/article/10…
Some spin from @fieldsportstv - shame given the broad collaborative authorship - note the key take home is the knowledge gaps (i.e. corvids likely an effect on hedgerow species, largely missing from the data set) - if anyone wants a chat with no spin - speak to @PaulDolman3
Sheep and deer kill more groundnesting chicks than magpies and grey squirrels.
That’s the conclusion of research by the British Trust for Ornithology.
Watch in full: youtu.be/ryxmCVRyVrw
#fieldsports
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How robust is current hunting bag data, and can we rely on it to manage sustainable harvest of UK waterbirds?
For most species, it's pretty good, but released mallard🦆🦆can confuse the picture
Recent collaboration with @ecoevoenviro and Matt Ellis of @BASCnews
New report published today reviews whether current data collection on hunting bags can reliably determine whether shooting of legally-huntable waterbird species is sustainable in the UK bit.ly/45gaCkT
This evidence will support the UK's obligation towards @unep_aewa
ALT Images shows a grassy lake with many waterbirds
Led by @pec_exeter with @MathewBEllis and myself - new #evidence review for @JNCC_UK of availability of #data and reliability of #models to asses #sustainability of #waterbird harvest by recreational #hunting in the United Kingdom #policy #wildlife #people
New report published today reviews whether current data collection on hunting bags can reliably determine whether shooting of legally-huntable waterbird species is sustainable in the UK bit.ly/45gaCkT
This evidence will support the UK's obligation towards @unep_aewa
ALT Images shows a grassy lake with many waterbirds