Dr Patrick White P.White@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Patrick White P.White@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Prof Robert Briers R.Briers@napier.ac.uk
Professor
We were approached by Forestry Commission England (FCE) to consider addressing five key questions they had identified as being important in terms of impact of forestry on curlew over the next 5-10 years and beyond, in order to feed into FCE’s policy and management in relation to this species and the Curlew Recovery Partnership. Studies on breeding success of curlews themselves would require access to an extensive nest dataset and/or a substantial multi-year or multi-site nest study (potentially also including artificial nest experiments) which we do not feel is achievable in the timeframe although may be worth exploring in the future. However, given the key research questions (relating to woodland type, distance of woodland to breeding sites, topography and woodland extent/configuration respectively), and the rich datasets available on breeding curlew distributions and forest/landcover, there is a good scope to interlink these questions and look at curlew breeding distributions in relation to a range of landscape and forestry variables. This will not directly measure breeding success, but may help inform which habitat/forestry variables (and combinations thereof) appear to correlate positively or negatively with breeding populations and also may generate future testable hypotheses that could be tested in longer-term, or larger-scale projects.
Using our combined expertise in upland bird ecology and spatial statistical analysis, in this project we would take curlew breeding abundance or presence-absence data and carry out a spatial statistical analysis to look for apparent drivers of curlew breeding density or presence among a suite of forestry and landcover variables, at different spatial scales. Furthermore, depending on the time constraints of the analysis, the project could also contain a literature review of the effects of forestry on breeding waders to contribute towards question 4.
Status | Project Complete |
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Funder(s) | Forestry Commission England |
Value | £15,037.00 |
Project Dates | Mar 1, 2023 - Jun 1, 2023 |
Effects of aquatic noise on the European sea urchin Echinus esculentus in different temperature contexts May 1, 2017 - Feb 28, 2019
Experiment with single and combined noise and temperature stress treatments
Impacts of cliff-top walkers and boats on the nesting success of seabirds at St Abbs's Head, Scotland May 1, 2016 - Jul 31, 2024
Collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland, St Abb's Head to determine the impacts of cliff-top walkers and boats on the nesting success of seabirds at St Abbs's Head, Scotland
Continuous Monitoring of Marine Soundscapes: Assessing Anthropogenic Noise Near Breeding Seabird Colonies Jul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2019
Continuous Monitoring of Marine Soundscapes: Assessing Anthropogenic Noise Near Breeding Seabird Colonies
Methane-derived carbon in upland stream food webs Oct 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2024
The project is a SUPER-DTP funded PhD studentship. The work will focus on the understanding of the processes involved in, and the significance of, the incorporation of methane as a carbon source via methane-oxidising bacteria (MOB) into upland river...
Read More about Methane-derived carbon in upland stream food webs.
Quantifying AMR in the River Almond Catchment Area Sep 27, 2021 - Mar 26, 2025
Aim
To Quantifying AMR Pollution and identify the major sources of point and diffuse AMR pollution in the River Almond Catchment Area in order to provide a baseline for future risk assessment and intervention strategies.
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