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Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas
(Journal article, 2015)Cities are a key nexus of the relationship between people and nature and are huge centers of demand for ecosystem services and also generate extremely large environmental impacts. Current projections of rapid expansion of ... -
Benthic macroinvertebrates in lake ecological assessment: A review of methods, intercalibration and practical recommendations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Legislation in Europe has been adopted to determine and improve the ecological integrity of inland and coastal waters. Assessment is based on four biotic groups, including benthic macroinvertebrate communities. For lakes, ... -
Berry production drives bottom – up effects on body mass and reproductive success in an omnivore
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Obligate herbivores dominate studies of the eff ects of climate change on mammals, however there is limited empirical evidence for how changes in the abundance or quality of plant food aff ect mammalian omnivores. Omnivores ... -
Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Scenarios are important tools to facilitate the communication among scientists, practitioners, and decision-makers, and, thus to support policy and management decisions. The use of scenarios has an enormous potential ... -
Best practice—Is natural revegetation sufficient to achieve mitigation goals in road construction?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aims: The area influenced by road construction is large, and measures to re-establish vegetation in disturbed areas are routinely carried out to reduce impacts on biodiversity. However, goals of mitigation measures are ... -
Bias and precision of crowdsourced recreational activity data from Strava
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recreational activity is the single most valuable ecosystem service in many developed countries with a range of benefits for public health. Crowdsourced recreational activity data is increasingly being adopted in management ... -
Bias in estimates of electrofishing capture probability of juvenile Atlantic salmon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We evaluated the effect of the total number of passes used, and the application of block nets, on multi-pass electrofishing removal sampling for estimating juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) abundance and body size ... -
Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and management have transformed our understanding of ... -
Bigger, more diverse and better? Mapping structural diversity and its recreational value in urban green spaces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-07)Are bigger green spaces more diverse in terms of their natural and manmade elements? Does higher diversity mean they are more attractive to users and encourage more diversity of activities, and thereby provide a wider range ... -
Biocide Treatment of Invasive Signal Crayfish: Successes, Failures and Lessons Learned
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Signal crayfish, as an invasive alien species in Europe, have caused impacts on aquatic communities and losses of native crayfish. Eradication of recently established populations may be possible in small ponds (<2.5 ha) ... -
Biodiversity conservation in a post-COVID-19 economy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The impacts of the COVID- pandemic extend to global biodiversity and its conservation. Although shortterm beneficial or adverse impacts on biodiversity have been widely discussed, there is less attention to the likely ... -
Biodiversity may wax or wane depending on metrics or taxa
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Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a review of international biodiversity and ... -
Bioenergetic consequences of warming rivers to adult Atlantic salmon Salmo salar during their spawning migration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)1. Climate change poses a challenge to wild fishes, yet little is known about the behavioural use and metabolic consequences of thermally heterogeneous water encountered by wild salmon during their energetically demanding ... -
Biotic and abiotic determinants of the ascent behaviour of adult Atlantic salmon transiting passable waterfalls
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The spawning migration of Atlantic salmon has been characterized by tracking salmon carrying electronic tags as they ascend rivers, but still little is known about how natural obstacles such as waterfalls influence migratory ... -
Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptualmodels across ecosystems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as increasing dissimilarity over time. ... -
BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene
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Bird collisions with power lines: State of the art and priority areas for research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Transmission and distribution electricity grids are expanding rapidly worldwide, with significant negative impacts on biodiversity and, in particular, on birds. We performed a systematic review of the literature available ... -
Bird population declines and species turnover are changing the acoustic properties of spring soundscapes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Natural sounds, and bird song in particular, play a key role in building and maintaining our connection with nature, but widespread declines in bird populations mean that the acoustic properties of natural soundscapes may ... -
Birds of different feather flock together - genetic structure of Taiga Bean Goose in Central Scandinavia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)During their flightless summer moult, Taiga Bean Geese Anser fabalis fabalis gather at communal moulting sites. Individuals from the Nord-Trøndelag breeding area in Norway have been observed to join with local individuals ...