TY - BOOK TI - Conservation science in the RSPB 2005 U1 - KUŞ 598 PY - 2005///] CY - Sandy PB - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds KW - Birds KW - Bird refuges KW - Nature conservation KW - BirdLife International N1 - Pdf version; https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/Images/con_sci_05_tcm9-133150.pdf N2 - Conservation science in the RSPB 1
Introduction 2
Funding 4
Partnerships 5
The application of science: a case study – the bittern story 8
Monitoring and indicators 12
The 2003–04 capercaillie survey 13
Corncrake population trends 15
The 2002 chough census 17
The non-avian biodiversity of RSPB nature reserves 20
Spotted eagles in Belarus 22
The ecology of threatened species 24
Re-establishing stinking hawk’s-beard 25
Conservation of farmland reed buntings 26
Tree sparrow ecology 28
Predicting the impacts of climate change on golden plovers 30
Forest fragmentation and the Ibadan malimbe 32
Conservation of Asia’s critically endangered vultures 34
The global distribution of albatrosses and petrels 36
Ecological process and issues research 38
The avoidance of woodland close to tracks by capercaillie 39
Using fire for pine forest regeneration 41
Avermectins and dung insects 43
Monitoring the Arable Stewardship Pilot Scheme 45
Hope Farm 47
Cats and collars: reducing predation rates 49
Lead poisoning in birds of prey 51
Biodiversity representation in Uganda’s Important Bird Areas (IBAs) 52
The bird communities of oil palm and rubber plantations in Thailand 54
Farming and the fate of wild nature 56
PhD training 58
Publications 60
Publications in scientific journals, proceedings and books 61
Reports, theses and other publications 68
The RSPB’s scientific projects 70 ER -