2020 GWCT scientific publications

Scientific publications

by staff of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2020

© GWCT Arroyo, B, Souchay, G & Aebischer, NJ (2020) Red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa. In: Keller, V, Herrando, S, Voríšek, P, Franch, M, Kipson, M, Milanesi, P, Martí, D, Anton, M, Klvanová, A, Kalyakin, MV, Bauer H-G & Foppen RPB (eds). European Breeding Bird Atlas 2: Distribution, Abundance and Change: 76-77. European Bird Census Council & Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Baines, D, Newborn, D & Richardson, M (2020) Correlates of pathological lesions associated with respiratory cryptosporidiosis prevalence in shot red grouse Lagopus scotica from moors in northern England. Avian Pathology, 49: 74-79.

Bates, LJ, Pope, TW & Holland, JM (2020) Can a PCR assay of aphids caught in-crop on yellow sticky traps inform field level barley yellow dwarf virus risk assessment? Annals of Applied Biology, 177: 178-183.

Buner, FD & Gottschalk, E (2020) Grey partridge Perdix perdix. In: Keller, V, Herrando, S, Voríšek, P, Franch, M, Kipson, M, Milanesi, P, Martí, D, Anton, M, Klvanová, A, Kalyakin, MV, Bauer, H-G. & Foppen, RPB (eds). European Breeding Bird Atlas 2: Distribution, abundance and change: 84-85. European Bird Census Council & Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Cabodevilla, X, Aebischer, NJ, Mougeot, F, Morales, MB & Arroyo, BE (2020) Are population changes of endangered little bustards associated with releases of red-legged partridges for hunting? A large-scale study from central Spain. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 66 (30): 1-10.

Cole, LJ, Kleijn, D, Dicks, LV, Stout, JC, Potts, SG, Albrecht, M, Balzan, MV, Bartomeus, I, Bebeli, PJ, Bevk, D, Biesmeijer, JC, Chlebo, R, Dautartè, A, Emmanouil, N, Hartfield, C, Holland, JM, Holzschuh, A, Knoben, NTJ, Kovács-Hostyánski, A, Mandelik, Y, Panou, H, Paxton, RJ, Petanidou, T, Pinheiro de Carvalho, MAA, Rundlöf, M, Sarthou, J-P, Stavrinides, MC, Suso, MJ, Szentgyörgyi, H, Vaissière, BE, Varnava, A, Vilà, M, Zemeckis, R & Scheper, J (2020) A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57: 681-694. Dobson, ADM, Milner-Gulland, EJ, Aebischer, NJ, Beale, CM, Brozovic, R, Coals, P, Critchlow, R, Dancer, A, Greve, M, Hinsley, A, Ibbett, H, Johnston, A, Kuiper, T, Le Comber, S, Mahood, SP, Moore, JF, Nilsen, EB, Pocock, MJO, Quinn, A, Travers, H, Wilfred, P, Wright, J & Keane, A (2020) Making messy data work for conservation. One Earth, 2: 455-465.

Ewald, JA, Sotherton, NW & Aebischer, NJ (2020) Invertebrate trends in an arable environment: long-term changes from the Sussex Study in southern England. In: Hurford, C, Wilson, PJ & Storkey, J (eds) The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe – a Nature Conservation Review: 157-172. Springer, London.

Ewald JA, Sotherton NW & Aebischer NJ (2020) Research into practice: gray partridge (Perdix perdix) restoration in southern England. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:517500. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.517500 1-13.

Fletcher, K & Baines, D (2020) Observations on breeding and dispersal by capercaillie in Strathspey. Scottish Birds, 40: 27-34.

Gillson, JP, Maxwell, DL, Gregory, SD, Posen, PE, Riley, WD, Picken, JL & Assunção, MGL (2020) Can aspects of the discharge regime associated with juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and trout (S. trutta L.) densities be identified using historical monitoring data from five UK rivers? Fisheries Management and Ecology, 27: 567-579.

Gregory, SD, Bewes, VE, Davey, AJH, Roberts, DE, Gough, P & Davidson, IC (2020) Environmental conditions modify densitydependent salmonid recruitment: insights into the 2016 recruitment crash in Wales. Freshwater Biology, 65: 2135-2153.

Hayward, N, Parish, DMB, & Smith, AA (2020) Quail Coturnix coturnix numbers and habitat use on an Angus farm, 1985-2017. Scottish Birds, 40: 232-237.

Hesford, N, Baines, D, Smith, AA & Ewald, JA (2020) Distribution of mountain hares Lepus timidus in Scotland in 2016/2017 and changes relative to earlier surveys in 1995/1996 and 2006/2007. Wildlife Biology, 40: 313-326.

Holland, JM, Sutter, L, Albrecht, M, Jeanneret, P, Pfister, SC, Schirmel, J, Entling, MH, Kaasik, R, Kovács, G, Veromann, E, Bartual, AM, Marini, S, Moonen, A-C, Szalai, M, Helsen, H, Winkler, K, Lof, ME, van der Werf, W, McHugh, NM, Smith, BM, Wallis, DW & Cresswell, JE (2020) Moderate pollination limitations in some entomophilous crops of Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 302(107002): 1-5.

Holland, JM, Jeanneret, P, Moonen, A-C, van der Werf, W, Rossing, WAH, Antichi, D, Entling, MH, Giffard, B, Helsen, H, Szalai, M, Rega, C, Gilbert, C & Veromann, E (2020) Approaches to identify the value of semi-natural habitats for conservation biological control. Insects, 11 (195): 1-11.

Hoodless, A, Heward, CJ & Williams, O (2020) Migration and movements of woodcock wintering in Britain & Ireland. British Birds, 113: 256-278.

Ludwig, SC, Aebischer, NJ, Richardson, M, Roos, S, Thompson, DBA, Wilson, JD & Baines, D (2020) Differential responses of heather and red grouse to long-term spatiotemporal variation in sheep grazing. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29: 2689-2710.

Ludwig, SC, Roos, S & Baines, D (2020) Fluctuations in field vole abundance indirectly influence red grouse productivity via a shared predator guild. Wildlife Biology, 2020 (wlb.00642): 1-11.

Ludwig, SC, Roos, S, Rollie, CJ & Baines, D (2020) Long-term changes in the abundance and breeding success of raptors and ravens in periods of varying management of a Scottish grouse moor. Avian Conservation & Ecology, 15 (21): 1-17.

Marsh, JE, Lauridsen, RB, Gregory, SD, Beaumont, WRC,

Scott, LJ, Kratina, P & Jones, JI (2020) Above parr: lowland river habitat characteristics associated with higher juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) densities. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 291: 542-556.

McHugh, NM, Moreby, SJ, Lof, ME, van der Werf, W & Holland, JM (2020) The contribution of semi-natural habitats to biological control is dependent on sentinel prey type. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57: 914-925.

Newey, S, Potts, JM, Aebischer, NJ, Wilson, MW & Newson, SE (2020) Designing a monitoring scheme for mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in Scotland. Research Report No. 1076. Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness.

Nichols, RN, Holland, JM & Goulson, D (2020) Methods for creating bare ground on farmland in Hampshire, UK, and their effectiveness at recruiting ground-nesting solitary bees. Conservation Evidence, 17: 15-18.

Nyqvist, MJ, Cucherousset, J, Gozlan, RE, Beaumont, WRC & Britton, JR (2020) Dispersal strategies of juvenile pike (Esox lucius L.): Influences and consequences for body size, somatic growth and trophic position. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 29: 377-383. Picken, JL (2020) The effects of low summer discharge on salmonid ecosystems. Unpublished PhD thesis. Queen Mary University, London.

Pottier, G, Beaumont, WRC, Marchand, F, Le Bail, P-Y, Azam, D, Rives, J, Vigouroux, R & Roussel, J-M (2020) Electrofishing in streams of low water conductivity but high biodiversity value: challenges, limits and perspectives. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 27: 52-63.

Sage, RB, Hoodless, AN, Woodburn, MIA, Draycott,

RAH, Madden, JR & Sotherton, NW (2020) Summary review and synthesis – Effects on habitats and wildlife of the release and management of pheasants and red-legged partridges on UK lowland shoots. Wildlife Biology, 2020(wlb.00766): 1-12.

Simmons, OM, Britton, JR, Gillingham, PK & Gregory, SD (2020) Influence of environmental and biological factors on the over-winter growth rate of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar parr in a UK chalk stream. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 29: 665-678.

Smith BM, Aebischer NJ, Ewald J, Moreby S, Potter C

& Holland JM (2020) The potential of arable weeds to reverse invertebrate declines and associated ecosystem services in cereal crops. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 3 (118): 1-13.

Sotherton, NW, Aebischer, NJ & Ewald, JA (2020) The conservation of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) on farmland in southern England. In: Hurford, C, Wilson, PJ & Storkey, J (eds) The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe – a Nature Conservation Review: 279-290. Springer, London.

Stoate, C & Wilson, P (2020) Historical and ecological background to the arable habitats of Europe. In: Hurford, C, Wilson, P & Storkey, J (eds) The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe – a Nature Conservation Review: 3-13. Springer, London.

Villamizar, ML, Stoate, C, Biggs, J, Morris, C, Szczur, J & Brown, CD (2020) Comparison of technical and systems-based approaches to managing pesticide contamination in surface water catchments. Journal of Environmental Management, 260 (110027): 1-10.

Warren, P, Land, C, Hesford, N & Baines D (2020) Conserving black grouse Lyrurus tetrix in southern Scotland: evidence for the need to retain large contiguous moorland habitat within a forest-moorland landscape. Bird Study, DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2020.1726875.

Williams, P, Biggs, J, Stoate, C, Szczur, J, Brown, C & Bonney, S (2020) Nature based measures increase freshwater biodiversity in agricultural catchments. Biological Conservation, 244 (108515): 1-14.

Woodward, ID, Aebischer, NJ, Burnell, D, Eaton, MA, Frost, T, Hall, C, Stroud, DA & Noble, DG (2020) Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom. British Birds, 113: 69-104.