| the anatomy of population change in a black grouse population 1992-2008. | we interrogate an 18-year-long dataset containing counts of displaying male black grouse tetrao tetrix and incidental counts of females within an 800-km(2) region of perthshire, scotland. we examine the trends in the population and investigate how different components of the population might act as signposts of different stages of overall population change. we found statistical evidence for a decline in black grouse numbers between 1992 and 2000, and then a recovery from 2002 to 2008, but little ... | 2012 | 21769631 |
| scenario-led habitat modelling of land use change impacts on key species. | accurate predictions of the impacts of future land use change on species of conservation concern can help to inform policy-makers and improve conservation measures. if predictions are spatially explicit, predicted consequences of likely land use changes could be accessible to land managers at a scale relevant to their working landscape. we introduce a method, based on open source software, which integrates habitat suitability modelling with scenario-building, and illustrate its use by investigat ... | 2015 | 26569604 |