connectivity Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Scattering genes in Xantus’s Hummingbird

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-11-15T10:10:44+00:0016 Nov 2023|bird movements, connectivity, dispersal, DNA sequencing, gene flow, Genetics, hummingbirds, population structure|

Genetic analyses reveal female-mediated gene flow from north to south.

Doves of a feather flock together

By Will Smith|2023-04-12T10:20:50+00:0013 Apr 2023|bird assemblages, citizen science, colouration, connectivity, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, fieldwork, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, island birds, plumage, population structure, range expansion|

Can we distinguish Rock Doves from feral pigeons using plumage?

Network analysis for trans-boundary conservation

By Joshua Nightingale|2023-04-07T16:42:45+00:0010 Apr 2023|bio-logging, bird communities, bird movements, bird-human interactions, connectivity, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat degradation, migrant, movements, noise pollution, shorebirds, urbanization, waders, waterbirds, wetlands|

Incorporating information about bird movements in Environmental Impact Assessments

How informative are migratory connectivity metrics?

By Stephen Vickers|2021-05-27T17:25:55+00:0031 May 2021|connectivity, Conservation, migrant, Migration, migratory connectivity, populations|

Mechanisms of potential biases, and how we can limit them

Fragmentation in Florida

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:47:39+00:0013 Feb 2020|connectivity, forest birds, Genetics, population structure|

How does habitat loss influence the genetic structure of the Brown-headed Nuthatch?

The march of the triffids

By T. R. Shankar Raman|2021-11-16T13:30:11+00:008 Aug 2016|agriculture, biodiversity, bird communities, connectivity, Conservation, forest birds, habitat, land management, land use, tropical birds|

Shifting agriculture supports more rainforest birds than oil palm or teak monocultures.

Migratory connectivity in European Rollers

By Tom Finch (he/him)|2021-12-02T11:06:19+00:0012 Oct 2015|connectivity, Conservation, distribution, geolocator, Migration, mortality, News, Science, tracking|

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