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 July-August 2024.
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Birds
- Numbers, densities and distribution of mallards released for shooting in the UK over the last 20 years
- Behavioral Responses of Imidacloprid-Dosed Farmland Birds to a Simulated Predation Risk
- Supplementary bird feeding as an overlooked contribution to local phosphorus cycles
- Diversity in Irish and British avifauna assemblages: What can variation in diversity profiles reveal about the forces that drive assemblage composition and structure?
- Fine-Scale Spatial Variation in Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Diet in Southern England Revealed from Indirect Prey Sampling and Direct Stable Usotope Analysis
- “Not in the countryside please! Investigating UK residents’ perceptions of an introduced species, the ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri).
- Field calibration of two survey methods to assess productivity of a ground-nesting wader, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata.
Mammals
- Is the Iberian lynx a hunters’ ally? a case study from a reintroduced population in Portugal
- Missing carcasses, lost nutrients: Quantifying nutrient losses from deer culling practices in Scotland.
- Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas
- The distribution of mountain hares and the possible effects of woodland expansion using the Cairngorm National Park as a case study
Land management
- Limited spatial co-occurrence of wildfire and prescribed burning on moorlands in Scotland
- Using the Ecosystem Services assessment tool TESSA to balance the multiple landscape demands of increasing woodlands in a UK national park
- England’s statutory biodiversity metric enhances plant, but not bird nor butterfly, biodiversity
- Assessing the Landscape Recovery Scheme in the UK: a Q methodology study in Yorkshire, UK
- Woodland expansion and upland management strategy dilemmas for biodiversity and carbon storage in the Cairngorms National Park
Other topics
- Nature-based social prescribing programmes: opportunities, challenges, and facilitators for implementation
- Second generation anticoagulant rodenticide residues in red kites 2022
- Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in common buzzards: Impact of new rules for rodenticide use
- Exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides in steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii) and European polecat (Mustela putorius) in central Europe
- Wild game processors’ perceptions of chronic wasting disease risks in Michigan
