*THREAD* This #RSPBScieConf19 session thread focuses on @Natures_Voice's priority work "Saving species" in the UK and further afield…
#ornithology #conservationscience
#ornithology #conservationscience
@Natures_Voice What's the best way to select species for habitat specific indicators? PhD student @enya_oreilly describes a quantitative method combining a species’ relative habitat use with a niche-based selection framework to develop regional indicators for EU forests @ueaceec @biouea #PECBMS
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea Next, Nick Wilkinson on Twite. Population recovery in South Pennines will likely require improvements in productivity & first-year survival. Findings include the use of bracken for nesting, one of the two main habitat types, may represent an ecological trap #RSPBScieConf2019
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland Now @piedflynet shows us where UK breeding whinchat spend our winter, revealing a loop migration, weak #MigConnectivity and that a few move location mid-winter @_BTO #RSPBScieConf19 #ornithology
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO Up next @Phil_I_Stein tells us how dotterels breeding in the UK have declined & shifted their range uphill. Climatic changes & nitrogen deposition account for between-year and between-site variation in abundance but cannot explain the longer-term decline #RSPBScieConf19
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot Here's @drredshank - reducing predation in the wild remains a key challenge but rearing & releasing godwits for @projectgodwit has increased productivity, breeding populations & recruitment to new & old sites => more godwits breeding on the Ouse now than in last 20yrs 📈
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot @drredshank @projectgodwit @juliet_vickery stands in for PhD student @JooLGuilherme1 (CEFE-CNRS @Inspire4Nature): "Can we identify regional 'hotspots' along migration corridors and African wintering grounds where Palaearctic migratory birds congregate if we collate tracking data from >40 landbird species?"
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot @drredshank @projectgodwit @juliet_vickery @JooLGuilherme1 @Inspire4Nature @BirdLife_News @FC_UL Next, Dr John Mallord & Susana Requena on the Turtle-dove - a globally-threatened species with a >30% population decline across Europe since 2000. Targeting effective conservation measures requires a better understanding of migratory movements and habitat use @SaveTurtleDoves
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot @drredshank @projectgodwit @juliet_vickery @JooLGuilherme1 @Inspire4Nature @BirdLife_News @FC_UL @SaveTurtleDoves More on Turtle Doves now from PhD student Lara Moreno Zarate: Official government hunting bag statistics under-estimate true hunting losses of turtle doves in Spain, and policy mechanisms that might limit hunting are ineffective. #RSPBScieConf19 #ornithology
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot @drredshank @projectgodwit @juliet_vickery @JooLGuilherme1 @Inspire4Nature @BirdLife_News @FC_UL @SaveTurtleDoves Next, Simon Wotton & @DrRJefferson on the ongoing efforts to save the critically endangered Liben Lark - the species survives on the Liben Plain despite the failure of some recent initiatives #RSPBScieConf19 #ornithology
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea @NaturalEngland @piedflynet @_BTO @Phil_I_Stein @aberdeenuni @nature_scot @drredshank @projectgodwit @juliet_vickery @JooLGuilherme1 @Inspire4Nature @BirdLife_News @FC_UL @SaveTurtleDoves @DrRJefferson @Darwin_Defra @SOS_Sahel @BirdLifeAfrica And finally... @SteffOpp: Tristan Albatross breeding success on @GoughIsland is consistently too low due to predation by invasive mice: goughisland.com #RSPBScieConf19 #ornithology
