How can functional space for farmland birds best be studied? A comment on Butler and Norris (2013)

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Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects

Although climate change is altering species’ distributions and populations, it is unclear how these impacts occur. New research led by the BTO (in collaboration with scientists from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative), reviewed almost 150 published studies to show that the main impacts of climate change occur through altered interactions between species within an ecosystem, rather than direct responses to climate.

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Climate change and annual survival in a temperate passerine: partitioning seasonal effects and predicting future patterns

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Integrating demographic data: towards a framework for monitoring wildlife populations at large spatial scales

Identifying the drivers of population change is a key part of the conservation process, as it provides an evidence-based focus for conservation efforts. Recent research by the BTO has brought together data from several volunteer-based surveys to model the demographic drivers of population change for a suite of common bird species. This approach also delivers a powerful method that can be applied to rarer species, for which data are less readily available.

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Temporal validation plots: quantifying how well correlative species distribution models predict species' range changes over time

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