Use of distance sampling to improve estimates of national population sizes for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK

By Stuart E. Newson, K. Evans, D. Noble, J. Greenwood, Kevin J. Gaston. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology

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BirdTrends 2014: trends in numbers, breeding success and survival for UK breeding birds (2014, background): “…Long-term trend: UK, England: rapid increase Population size: 1.4 (1.2-1.5) million pairs in 2009 (APEP13: distance sampling estimate for 2006 (Newson et al. 2008) updated using BBS trend) Jackdaws have increased in abundance since the 1960s (Gregory & Marchant 1996), and more recent BBS data…”
Rise of the generalists: evidence for climate driven homogenization in avian communities (2012, methodology): “For each species, we fitted half-normal distributions to data 133 from the first two distance bands only (see Newson et al., 2008) using the Mark-Recapture 134 Distance Sampling (MRDS) package (Thomas et al., 2010) for R (R Development Core Team, 135 2009).”
Recent population declines in Afro‐Palaearctic migratory birds: the influence of breeding and non‐breeding seasons (2013, background): “The BBS is organized by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and jointly funded by the BTO, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (on behalf of the Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside, the Countryside Council for Wales, Natural England and Scottish Natural Heritage) and the Roya”
The geometric mean of relative abundance indices : a biodiversity measure with a difference (2011, methodology): “We consider data from the British Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) for the years 1994–2008 (Newson et al. 2005, 2008, Freeman et al. 2007).”
Distance sampling and the challenge of monitoring butterfly populations (2011, unknown): “The published literature contains few applications of distance sampling to butterflies (Brown & Boyce 1998) and none in the context of validating monitoring data (see Newson et al. 2008 for an application to bird monitoring).”
Modelling changes in species’ abundance in response to projected climate change (2012, methodology): “…Sitta europaea visit + cloud + wind 0.340 (0.014) Green woodpecker, Picus viridis wind + rain 0.630 (0.039) and those derived using methods in Newson et al. (2008), with the latter also highlighting significant variation between years for meadow pipit, Eurasian nuthatch and green woodpecker.”
Integrating demographic data: towards a framework for monitoring wildlife populations at large spatial scales (2014, methodology): “…from two large-scale surveys that collect counts of breeding birds, the Common Birds Census (CBC, 1964–2000) and the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS, 1994–2011); the former was based on a territory mapping protocol, while the latter is a distance-based line transect survey (Newson et al. 2008, 2013).”