Search Results - "Stephens, Philip A."

A global assessment of the drivers of threatened terrestrial species richness by Howard, Christine, Flather, Curtis H., Stephens, Philip A.

“…High numbers of threatened species might be expected to occur where overall species richness is also high; however, this explains only a proportion of the…”
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Management by proxy? The use of indices in applied ecology by Stephens, Philip A., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Barlow, Jos, Whittingham, Mark J., Cadotte, Marc W.

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Making rewilding fit for policy by Pettorelli, Nathalie, Barlow, Jos, Stephens, Philip A., Durant, Sarah M., Connor, Ben, Schulte to Bühne, Henrike, Sandom, Christopher J., Wentworth, Jonathan, du Toit, Johan T.

“…1. Rewilding, here defined as "the reorganisation of biota and ecosystem processes to set an identified social-ecological system on a preferred trajectory,…”
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Land sparing, land sharing, and the fate of Africa’s lions by Stephens, Philip A.

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Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds by Howard, Christine, Stephens, Philip A., Pearce-Higgins, James W., Gregory, Richard D., Butchart, Stuart H.M., Willis, Stephen G.

“…Aim Global declines in the populations of migratory species have been attributed largely to climate change and anthropogenic habitat change. However, the…”
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Removing Human Bottlenecks in Bird Classification Using Camera Trap Images and Deep Learning by Chalmers, Carl, Fergus, Paul, Wich, Serge, Longmore, Steven N., Walsh, Naomi Davies, Stephens, Philip A., Sutherland, Chris, Matthews, Naomi, Mudde, Jens, Nuseibeh, Amira

“…Birds are important indicators for monitoring both biodiversity and habitat health; they also play a crucial role in ecosystem management. Declines in bird…”
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Improving species distribution models: the value of data on abundance by Howard, Christine, Stephens, Philip A., Pearce‐Higgins, James W., Gregory, Richard D., Willis, Stephen G., McPherson, Jana

“…Summary Species distribution models (SDMs) are important tools for forecasting the potential impacts of future environmental changes but debate remains over…”
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On the extinction of the single-authored paper: The causes and consequences of increasingly collaborative applied ecological research by Barlow, Jos, Stephens, Philip A., Bode, Michael, Cadotte, Marc W., Lucas, Kirsty, Newton, Erika, Nuñez, Martin A., Pettorelli, Nathalie

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Innovations in Camera Trapping Technology and Approaches: The Integration of Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence by Green, Siân E, Rees, Jonathan P, Stephens, Philip A, Hill, Russell A, Giordano, Anthony J

“…Camera trapping has become an increasingly reliable and mainstream tool for surveying a diversity of wildlife species. Concurrent with this has been an…”
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Capital and income breeding: the role of food supply by Stephens, Philip A, Houston, Alasdair I, Harding, Karin C, Boyd, Ian L, McNamara, John M

“…An aspect of life history that has seen increasing attention in recent years is that of strategies for financing the costs of offspring production. These…”
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Assessing the Performance of EU Nature Legislation in Protecting Target Bird Species in an Era of Climate Change by Sanderson, Fiona J, Robert G. Pople, Christina Ieronymidou, Ian J. Burfield, Richard D. Gregory, Stephen G. Willis, Christine Howard, Philip A. Stephens, Alison E. Beresford, Paul F. Donald

“…International legislation forms a cornerstone of conservation, yet its efficacy is rarely quantified. We assess whether species listed on Annex I of the…”
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Joint effects of weather and interspecific competition on foraging behavior and survival of a mountain herbivore by Ferretti, Francesco, Lovari, Sandro, Stephens, Philip A

“…Weather variations have the potential to influence species interactions, although effects on competitive interactions between species are poorly known. Both…”
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drivers of avian abundance: patterns in the relative importance of climate and land use by Howard, Christine, Stephens, Philip A, Pearce‐Higgins, James W, Gregory, Richard D, Willis, Stephen G

“…AIM: Climate and land use can have important effects on the local abundances of species, but few studies have investigated the relative impacts of these…”
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Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity by Blount, Jonathan D, Speed, Michael P, Ruxton, Graeme D, Stephens, Philip A

“…Many prey species use colourful ‘aposematic’ signalling to advertise the fact that they are toxic. Some recent studies have shown that the brightness of…”
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Evolution of trust and trustworthiness: social awareness favours personality differences by McNamara, John M, Stephens, Philip A, Dall, Sasha R.X, Houston, Alasdair I

“…Interest in the evolution and maintenance of personality is burgeoning. Individuals of diverse animal species differ in their aggressiveness, fearfulness,…”
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Prey selection by an apex predator: the importance of sampling uncertainty by Davis, Miranda L, Stephens, Philip A, Willis, Stephen G, Bassi, Elena, Marcon, Andrea, Donaggio, Emanuela, Capitani, Claudia, Apollonio, Marco

“…The impact of predation on prey populations has long been a focus of ecologists, but a firm understanding of the factors influencing prey selection, a key…”
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Camera trapping with photos and videos: implications for ecology and citizen science by Green, Sian E., Stephens, Philip A., Whittingham, Mark J., Hill, Russell A., Rowcliffe, Marcus, Sollmann, Rahel

“…Camera traps are increasingly used in wildlife monitoring and citizen science to address an array of ecological questions on a wide variety of species…”
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Host movement dominates the predicted effects of climate change on parasite transmission between wild and domestic mountain ungulates by Dickinson, Eleanor R, McFarland, Christopher, Toïgo, Carole, Michael Scantlebury, D, Stephens, Philip A, Marks, Nikki J, Morgan, Eric R

“…Climate change is shifting the transmission of parasites, which is determined by host density, ambient temperature and moisture. These shifts can lead to…”
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Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study by Mason, Samantha S., Hill, Russell A., Whittingham, Mark J., Cokill, Jim, Smith, Graham C., Stephens, Philip A., Rowcliffe, Marcus

“…Accurate and precise density estimates are crucial for effective species management and conservation. However, efficient monitoring of mammal densities over…”
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Estimating mesocarnivore abundance on commercial farmland using distance sampling with camera traps by McKaughan, Jamie E. T., Stephens, Philip A., Hill, Russell A.

“…Mesocarnivores are of particular interest in wildlife management. Their adaptability makes them a focus of public attention globally, as negative interactions…”
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