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 August 2020.
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Birds
- Revisiting an old question: Which predators eat eggs of ground-nesting birds in farmland landscapes?
- European bird declines: Do we need to rethink approaches to the management of abundant generalist predators?
- Anti-predator function of not covering eggs in the initial phase of nesting in Grey Partridge Perdix perdix: a field experiment
- Interspecific competition between two partridges in farmland landscapes.
- Direct evidence of poison-driven widespread population decline in a wild vertebrate
- Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
- Variation in abundances of common bird species associated with roads
- High prevalence of the neonicotinoid clothianidin in liver and plasma samples collected from gamebirds during autumn sowing
- Monitoring the world’s bird populations with community science data
- Mate fidelity improves survival and breeding propensity of a long-lived bird
- Winter feeding influences the cost of living in boreal passerines
Mammals
- Deer damage: A review of repellents to reduce impacts worldwide
- Tuning oral-bait delivery strategies for red deer in Mediterranean ecosystems
- Dear deer? Maybe for now. People’s perception on red deer (Cervus elaphus) populations in Portugal
- Accumulation of diastereomers of anticoagulant rodenticides in wild boar from suburban areas: Implications for human consumers
- European rabbit hunting: Management changes and inertia in the governance system in a period of population fluctuations
- Surveillance and habitat diversity affect European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) density in protected breeding areas
- Population and distribution of beavers Castor fiber and Castor canadensis in Eurasia
- Human impact overrides bioclimatic drivers of red fox home range size globally
Dogs
- Behavior test for seven-week old puppies (Canis familiaris): Inter-rater reliability and factors associated with test performance
- Efficacy of Dog Training With and Without Remote Electronic Collars vs. a Focus on Positive Reinforcement
- Short-term imepitoin treatment reduces stress level in dogs with generalized anxiety disorder
Land Management
Other topics
- The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country
- Moving from intentions to actions for collecting hunting bag statistics at the European scale: some methodological insights
- Killing with kindness: when hunters want to let you know they care
- An evaluation of bird and bat mortality at wind turbines in the Northeastern United States
- Factors affecting carcass detection at wind farms using dogs and human searchers
- Assessing Geoavailability of Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Lead and Cadmium in Polluted Soils Using Short Sequential Extraction Scheme
- Investigating the implications of shifting baseline syndrome on conservation
- Tourist intentions to donate to non-lethal feral cat management at a potential natural World Heritage site in Japan