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Science matters
BASC monitors scientific journals, environmental, policy and political alerts for the results of studies of relevance to shooting and conservation. Below are links to a selection of papers published in September-October 2024.
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Birds
- Review of Management Prescriptions for Black Grouse Tetrao tetrix in Britain: An update and revision including monitoring
- The Characteristics and Variation of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Home Range.
- Bird assemblage changes on peatland affected by large-scale non-native afforestation in the Flow Country (Scotland)
- On the tail of two species: The changing place of the peregrine falcon in society
- The decline of ground nesting birds in Europe: Do we need to manage predation in addition to habitat?
- Contrasting effects of shooting disturbance on the movement and behavior of sympatric wildfowl species
- Disentangling ground-nest predation rates through an artificial nests experiment in an area with western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) presence: martens are the key
- Differential responses to weather and land-cover conditions explain spatial variation in winter abundance trends in a migratory bird of conservation concern.
- Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry
Mammals
- Hunting bag statistics of wild mammals in Portugal (1989–2022): on the need to improve data report and compilation
- Are Eurasian badgers responsible for lamb predation? An investigation using farmer interviews, post-mortem examination and molecular tools
- Cryptosporidium spp. in German wildlife: Detection, regional occurrence and diversity in wild boar, roe, red and fallow deer
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Alternative Management Strategies for Red Deer in Denmark
- Estimating the seroprevalence of tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) infection in a wild deer population in southwest England – Preprint
- Evaluating camera-based methods for estimating badger (Meles meles) density: Implications for wildlife management.
- Antler size in red deer: declining selection and increasing genetic variance with age, but little senescence
- Evidence of anthropogenic subsidisation of red foxes in a national park important for breeding wading birds
Land management
- Land-cover gradients determine alternate drivers of mammalian species richness in fragmented landscapes
- Impact of habitat management of small game species on bird communities in French Mediterranean scrubland.
- Forest land use change effects on biodiversity ecosystem services and human well-being: A systematic analysis
- Opportunities for achieving landscape scale conservation in England
- The contingent impact of wind farms on game mammal density demonstrated in a large-scale analysis of hunting bag data in Poland
- An optical satellite-based analysis of phenology and post-fire vegetation recovery in UK upland moorlands
- Impacts of forest extent, configuration and landscape context on presence of declining breeding Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata and implications for planning new woodland
Other topics
- Development of a cost-efficient automated wildlife camera network in a European Natura 2000 site
- Updating Swedish hunting harvest estimates of open season game based on new methods and documented data
- Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodidae) ticks and tick-borne pathogen prevalence on the Isle of Wight – an island perspective in southern England
- How can bottom-up citizen science restore public trust in environmental governance and sciences? Recommendations from three case studies
- Efficacy of non-lead ammunition distribution programs to offset fatalities of golden eagles in southeast Wyoming
- Assessing in-field pesticide effects under European regulation and its implications for biodiversity: a workshop report
- Prediction of sound around shooting ranges. INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
- Immunological and Pathogenic Differences of Two Experimental Bluetongue Virus Serotype Infections Evaluated in Two Disparate Host Species
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