Opportunity or orientation?
Lin, B.B, Fuller, R.A., Bush, R., Gaston, K.J. & Shanahan, D.F. 2014. Opportunity or orientation?: Who uses urban parks and why. PLoS One 9, e87422. There is growing recognition that…
Read moreFlickering of the light
Inger, R., Bennie, J., Davies, T.W. & Gaston, K.J. 2014. Potential biological and ecological effects of flickering artificial light. PLoS One 9, e98631. Organisms have evolved under stable natural lighting…
Read moreFinding carbon in city soils
Edmondson, J.L., Davies, Z.G., McCormack, S.A., Gaston, K.J. & Leake, J.R. 2014. Land-cover effects on soil organic carbon stocks in a European city. Science of the Total Environment 472, 444-453.…
Read moreValuing the natural world
Dallimer, M., Tinch, D., Hanley, N., Irvine, K.N., Rouquette, J.R., Warren, P.H., Maltby, L., Gaston, K.J. & Armsworth, P.R. 2014. Quantifying preferences for the natural world using monetary and non-monetary…
Read moreLimits on urban squirrels
Bonnington, C., Gaston, K.J. & Evans, K.L. 2014. Squirrels in suburbia: influence of urbanisation on occurrence and distribution of a common exotic mammal. Urban Ecosystems 17, 533-546. Urbanisation is widely…
Read moreSquirrels on the feeders
Bonnington, C., Gaston, K.J. & Evans, K.L. 2014. Assessing the potential for Grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis to compete with birds at supplementary feeding stations. Ibis 156, 220-226. Supplementary feeding of…
Read moreBrightening and darkening of Europe
Bennie, J., Davies, T., Duffy, J., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2014. Contrasting trends in light pollution across Europe. Scientific Reports 4, 3789. Since the 1970s nighttime satellite images of…
Read moreVertebrates and protected areas
Cantú-Salazar, L., Orme, C.D.L., Rasmussen, P.C., Blackburn, T.M. & Gaston, K.J. 2013. The performance of the global protected area system in capturing vertebrate geographic ranges. Biodiversity and Conservation 22, 1033-1047. Given the…
Read moreUnmanned aerial vehicles
Anderson, K. & Gaston, K.J. 2013. Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 11, 138-146. Ecologists require spatially explicit data to relate structure to function. To…
Read moreAltering light cycles
Davies, T.W., Bennie, J., Inger, R., & Gaston, K.J. 2013. Artificial light alters natural regimes of night-time sky brightness. Scientific Reports 3, 1722. Artificial light is globally one of the most widely…
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